Son‚ Father and the Penny Pete is a naive protagonist in the story “Penny in the Dust” by Ernest Buckler. When Pete was being imaginative playing with the penny in the dust‚ he lost the penny‚ and he had to get his father to help him find it. Pete’s father asked Pete why he was hiding‚ Pete said "“I wasn’t hiding‚ father‚” I said‚ “honest – I was – I was burying my penny and making out I was digging up treasure. I was making out I was finding gold. I didn’t know what to do when I lost it‚ I just
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Discuss the significance of binary oppositions in Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain” A. Farahnak Looking at Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”‚ we can find obvious binary oppositions lying in its different layers. Under the concept gender‚ we can see the man/woman binary opposition from the beginning of the story. When at first we are introduced to the American couple‚ they are confined in their hotel room because of the rain. Later in the story the man is depicted as negligent to his wife’s constant
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Joelle Cancelliere 10/20/12 According to Sigmund Freud in Civilization and its Discontents the main function of society is to restrain our sexual aggressive impulses. These aggressive impulses are controlled through the super-ego‚ which is often referred to as our body’s “watchdog.” The super-ego regulates these impulses of the ego in the form of a "conscience" which imposes a sense of guilt and need for self-punishment. Freud goes even further by saying that our culture‚ in order
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Some Notes on “The Custom House” Novel vs. Romance: A novel is concerned with characters and events. It may contain symbols‚ but these are of secondary concern. A romance‚ on the other hand‚ may have events and characters‚ but the real focus is on the ideas and the symbolism that shape the book. These are inextricable from the story itself. The characters and events in a romance are only there to get across these larger ideas and the symbolism—and usually these are intended to lead the reader
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Zizek: Risk Society “So‚ instead of celebrating the new freedoms and responsibilities brought about by the ‘second modernity’‚ it is much more crucial to focus on what remains the same in this global fluidity and reflexivity‚ on what serves as the very motor of this fluidity: the inexorable logic of capital. The spectral presence of Capital is the figure of the big Other which not only remains operative when all the traditional embodiments of the symbolic big Other disintegrate‚ but even directly
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Deconstructionism I Derrida: takes an ethical turn in looking at literature. He critiques to a small extent Levi-Strauss’ theory. He writes in a difficult style on purpose. In Deconstructionism it tries to deconstruct the grounds whereby we suppose our thinning can be derived from one or another definite concepts. Derrida is not a literary theorist. We cant discriminate against genre. There is discourse. There is a field of text that there are always differences but no discernible classification
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In her book‚ "The Author To Her Book"‚ Anne Bradstreet conveys the deep and intricate demeanor of the author towards her work. Bradstreet uses a controlling metaphor of a child and its mother to describe all of these feelings towards one of her other pieces. To do this‚ she incorporates many figurative language devices within the controlling metaphor to help bring her point across to the minds of the readers. They include diction‚ imagery‚ and irony. In order to present the controlling metaphor
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If I had to pick only two icons from the past‚ my first choice would be Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft. I chose these two people because of their opposing views regarding what roles men and women should play in society. Rousseau and Wollstonecraft were products of their environments‚ but they gathered an absolute completely opposite view on personal enrichment. They both believed that man and woman had a significant role in life but to a different degree. I would ask both guest to
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He Garfunkeled Your Mother: A Psychoanalytic Reading of The Graduate The 1967 film‚ The Graduate‚ staring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft contains a plethora of human idiosyncrasies that would be of the utmost interest to the psychoanalytic minds of both Freud and Lacan. For this reading‚ I will focus on the theories of both Freud and Lacan in accordance with textual evidence to prove that Benjamin Braddock never achieves happiness in the end of the film‚ but has only just prolonged his quest
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Famous Thinkers Paper Stuart Mackey PHL 458 November 5‚ 2012 Lia Leon Margolin Famous Thinkers Paper In today’s society‚ kids are faced with many distractions‚ such as partying and having fun‚ which can prevent them from learning about history’s great thinkers. Great thinkers have been around for thousands of years. They range from Confucius (551-471 BC) and Plato (428 to c. 348 BC) to more modern great thinkers of Bill Gates (1955-present) and Richard Rorty (1931-2007). According to "Do
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