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    James Joyce Short Story Comparison The Little Cloud (pg. 71-88) Counterparts by James Joyce (pg. 89-102) Whether it is in reality or a novel‚ it is very common that when people are unsatisfied with their lives‚ they tend to take their anger out on those around them. This is just a typical emotional response for many people. In both Counterparts and The Little Cloud by James Joyce the main male protagonists‚ in their stage in life‚ are depressed

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    Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens Essay topics: 1. Scrooge is motivated by more than just greed in A Christmas Carol. Discuss 2. Scrooge’s nephew is Dickens model for how we should conduct ourselves according to the true spirit of Christmas. Do you agree? 3. Tiny Tim is the main catalyst for Scrooge’s change in A Christmas Carol. Do you agree? 4. The main theme of A Christmas Carol is Ignorance. Discuss 5. Scrooge doesn’t care about the poor in A Christmas Carol because he

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    James Joyce James Joyce was born on February 2‚ 1882. He was born in Dublin‚ Ireland. James Joyce’s parents were‚ Mary Jane Joyce and John Joyce. His family was a mid-class family‚ his dad had many different unsuccessful jobs and his mother was an extremely talented piano player. His best subjects in school throughout his whole life were philosophy and languages. In college many of his school papers were published in newspapers and magazines.When James graduated school in 1902 he left Ireland

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    THE SISTERS A young boy‚ who lives with his uncle and aunt‚ is concerned about a man who has had his third stroke. He passes by this paralyzed man’s window every day watching for the candles that will signify his death. The boy thinks over the word "paralysis" in his mind and ponders on its strange sound: "I said softly to myself paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears”. One night at dinner a friend named old Cotter visits the family.  Old Cotter has come to the house to share the

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    Tabresha Simmons 10/01/2013 Analyzing essay Who is the writer? Joyce Alcantara is a defender of the law that states “you have to be 21 years of age to drink”. Alcantara background affects her argument because she knows victims of underage drinking and she has witnessed the outcome of it personally. Alcantara preconception is about lowering the drinking age is obviously a negative one due to the immaturity of her fellow peers. What’s the deal? Alcantara directly states her purpose by laying

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    The story‚ Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol‚ is a story told in a third person perspective‚ regarding Connie‚ a 15-year-old. She and her mother have not at all gotten along. Her mother consistently compares her with her sister‚ and her father barely ever speaks with his daughters. One night‚ Connie and her best friend go to a shopping plaza. As instantly the adult is out of sight they cross the highway into a drive-in restaurant and stay on the restaurant’s counter. Thereafter

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    Donna Campbell Professor Bernhardt English Composition II 18 February 2013 Dreams of Love In the short stories Eveline and Araby‚ James Joyce uses an optimistic reality created by dreams to show the separate‚ but similar fates of two people experiencing their first love. Both characters dream of how their life will change when united with their objects of affection. They idolize their crush’s and experience confusion and difficult decisions in pursuing their relationships. These stories give

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    April 13‚ 2013 “The Realization” James Joyce wrote various stories one which was Araby and the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In both stories the main character experiences an epiphany. In Araby the young boy realizes he is only in love with Mangan’s sister because of her image and not her personality as he knows nothing of it. In the preceding story‚ Stephen Dedalus questions whether to become a priest‚ but decides on writing upon observing a beautiful woman in the water. Both

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    A Christmas Carol Practise Essay Topic = “Scrooge’s real problem is that he has no sense of responsibility to others; he is happy to remain in his insular world Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol‚ presents to the reader‚ the transformation of a self-centred miserable old man‚ Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge‚ drastically transforms from the protagonist of his society‚ to a man who realises that life isn’t just about himself and money‚ other people are important and being kind and caring and helping others

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    Very often when a popular novel published it is turned into a movie a little later. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a very popular original story about a man named Scrooge who is flooded with greed. It’s around Christmas time and Scrooge is told by the spirit of his old partner‚ Jacob Marley‚ that he will be visited by three ghosts. These ghosts are the Ghosts of Christmas Past‚ Present‚ and Yet to Come. They all show him different events of his life to try and change him‚ some good and some

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