“The Harp”‚ main Character Analysis. The main character in the story “The Harp” by Carol shield is undergoing her personal struggle of feeling isolated in her society‚ while trying to recover from an injury in the hospital. The main character was struck in the leg by a falling harp and was laying in the alone in the hospital. Despite feeling sad about sad about her injury‚ she seems just as upset about not being invited to the party that was cause of her injury. “weeping from the shock and the pain
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The question is really asking which line in A Christmas Carol supports the quote "’I wish‚’ Scrooge muttered‚ putting his hand in his pocket‚ and looking about him‚ after drying his eyes with his cuff: ’but it’s too late now.’" Choice (1) is not the correct answer choice. The quote from Choice (1) was said by the Ghost of Christmas Past. The Spirit was showing Scrooge all the Christmases he has celebrated earlier in his life. However‚ the quote mentioned in the question implies that Scrooge is regretting
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Coketown‚ and particularly of the Gradgrind family. Thomas Gradgrind brings up his children according to the strict precepts of
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Self-discovery in James Joyce ’s The Dead Self-discovery in James Joyce ’s The Dead خمــــــــــــــيس خلــــــــــــــف محمــــــــــــــد. م.م قدـم االنكليـي/ كليـة التربيـة/جامعة تكريت ن ن Abstract "The Dead" is the last‚ longest and most famous story of James Joyce ’s Dubliners. This study deals with the processes of self-realization of Gabriel Conroy‚ the protagonist of this story‚ who is a pompous master of ceremonies at the Christmas party of his old aunts. A number
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Spyridakis Fall 2013 REQUIRED READINGS J. Oates‚ Babylon N. K. Sanders‚ ed.‚ The Epic of Gilgamesh J. A. Wilson‚ The Culture of Ancient Egypt H. M. Orlinsky‚ Ancient Israel Before the midterm‚ read relevant chapters on the main Mesopotamian cultures in Oates ’ Babylon as well as the Sanders and Wilson books. Orlinsky ’s Ancient Israel should be read in the second part of the course‚ along with relevant materials on Persia in Oates ’ Babylon. These readings supplement the lectures
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“Mankind is my business!” said the ghost of Jacob Marley. Error and redemption was a main theme expressed by Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol. Through Scrooge‚ Charles Dickens portrayed the redemption of a miserly moneylender in an attempt to revive the Christmas Spirit. Through the Christmas Carol‚ Dickens clearly expressed the idea that humankind should be everyone’s business‚ and that those without the Christmas Spirit should recognize their errors and achieve redemption. In the Story‚ Ebenezer
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James Joyce reveals in “The Dead” a number of inner conflicts in the character of Gabriel. He makes it clear to the reader of Gabriel’s challenges of man v. self through techniques such as the motif of time and symbolism. The number uses the motif of time to describe Gabriel’s inner character. Joyce mentions how Gabriel has a feeling of not being as sympathetic as what he thinks he should be. “He wondered at his riot of emotions of an hour before‚” shows how Gabriel reflects on who he is and who
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places throughout Scrooges childhood like the schoolhouse and the Fizziwig’s place where Scrooge was an apprentice‚ this is where a Christmas party took place and he met the one love of his life. Then it skips to Scrooge’s love of his life when she is married and they speaks about Scrooge and how he is now in a world of his money. Also it shows the exchange‚ homeless people under a bridge‚ and a cemetery. 2.) The four main characters in the book are Ebenezer Scrooge‚ Tiny Tim‚ Bob Cratchit‚ and Ebenezer
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NOSTALGIA BY CAROL ANN DUFFY Linda Wang When we were younger we might have been homesick at school camps or sleepovers at someone that is not family. But we were lucky for the next day we would return to our family’s embrace but there are people out in the world that suffer from nostalgia for years and decades before being able to see their hometown again. In Nostalgia by Carol Ann Duffy‚ the mercenaries‚ strong brave men‚ described in the poem are tormented by the same feeling of nostalgia. In
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CAROL GILLIGAN’S THEORY Carol Gilligan introduced new‚ profound ideas about gender roles and moral development. She described how both genders use different methods when making moral decisions and explains that men and women think differently. Men tend to rely on what is right by the law‚ whereas women make decisions by using their emotions. Females are more eager to please the people around them in their adolescent years and want to fit in‚ and because of society women change their behaviour as
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