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    Pride And Prejudice Motif

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    Pride and Prejudice Motif Essay In her novel Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen uses various characters in her novel to convey her message of the injustices and bias that were experienced during the early 19th century in society. Throughout the novel‚ Austen shows how destructive the mindset of a prejudiced person can truly be. Austen conveys her message through the novel’s protagonists‚ Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. In the opening pages of the book‚ the residents of Longbourn are all attending a ball‚

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    Farewell to Arms Motifs

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    The “War to end all Wars”‚ eradicated millions of innocent‚ vexed souls and desecrated the survivors morally. In the novel A Farewell to Arms‚ Ernest Hemmingway elaborately illustrates his motifs to create deep meaning and intricate ideas for Frederick Henry. Hemmingway uses recurring symbols known as motifs‚ including rain and snow‚ masculinity‚ and Catherine’s hair to accentuate symbolic ideas and realistic perspectives about WWI. Rain represents the disintegration of happiness‚ whereas snow exhibits

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    Catcher In the Rye Motif

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    inevitability of them to come back to face you will always be there‚ as the main character of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield‚ experiences. The book narrates Holden’s venture into New York City after being kicked out of school for the third time after his brother’s death. Drinking‚ smoking‚ and other self-destructive behaviors largely constitute most of Holden’s time spent over the course of these three days. Salinger uses the motif of avoidance to illustrate that teenagers

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    Saving Water

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    practice is running the clothes washer and dish washer only when full. This concept may seem extremely appealing to members of a household but the actual idea of practicing the method might turned out to be unrealistic. In order to make this water saving practice effective‚ one person should begin the trend of implying the practice in their daily life‚ demonstrating to the people surrounding him/her it’s not difficult to become a guardian of this crucial element. The conception on how the problem

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    Saving Water

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    Ajmain Mahbub Professor Hall Philosophy 101 8/4/2014 Saving Water Water is a natural resource that many take for granted; yet it is one we are quick to mourn when it is not present when we need it‚ such as for drinking‚ or when a disaster occurs that thrusts its vulnerability to the forefront of our daily news. Twenty years from now‚ will you have abundant‚ clean water? Unfortunately‚ the answer may be no‚ unless you want to buy water at $3 per gallon. People are already starting to conserve water

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    Motifs In Creation Myths

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    In every creation myth there are motifs. Motifs are things that are repeated from one creation to another generally speaking it’s something happening in one myth also happening in many other myths. All motifs are all equally important to their myths but there are three that stand out to me as important that I am prepared to tell you about. Those three are destruction‚ multiple attempts‚ and organic material. When I say destruction that means of course something being destroyed but the reason for

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    Motifs In The Kite Runner

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    Sacrifice Forgiveness/redemption The Kite Runner is a rattling good novel with full of interesting turning point and one major climax. It is written by Khaled Hosseini and published in 2003 May 29th. Readers could learn varies moral values from themes‚ motifs‚ and symbols in the novel. The Kite Runner story portrayed a personal history of Afghanistan‚ a country that is divided between political chaos and religious The Kite Runner is an epic story with a personal history of what the people of Afghanistan

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    Robe Motif In Macbeth

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    From Macbeth’s question to Ross‚ "Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" (1.3.108)‚ to Angus’s observation that Macbeth’s robe "hang[s] loose about him‚ like a giant’s robe / upon a dwarfish thief" (5.2.20-22)‚ William Shakespeare adds this "robe motif" purposely in his Tragedy of Macbeth play‚ in order to reflect Macbeth’s tragic decisions. Falling from "valiant‚ worthy‚ and noble thane" (1.2) to "hell hound" (5.8.3) due to his "vaulting ambition" (2.7.27)‚ Macbeth tries to blame others for his

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    Saving Whiteclay

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    Saving Whiteclay Dude‚ lets walk to the liquor store and get some beer. The town of Whiteclay borders the Pine Ridge Reservation‚ and in just walking distance are four local off-sale beer retailers. Whiteclay is known for the huge amount of sale of alcohol. In 2009 between the four liquor stores they have sold approximately 191‚649 cases of beer according to the Nebraska Liquor Commission (Nebraska). Frank LaMere (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) has been advocating stopping the sale of alcohol in

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    The Sun Motif The sun‚ warm and beautiful‚ is a necessity of all life force on earth. In contrast to the sun warmth and beauty‚ Albert Camus uses the sun as the motivation of the main character Meursault’s actions in The Stranger. The sun is a complex symbol which has several meanings in the novel. From the day of Maman’s funeral to the day of his death‚ the sun keeps repeating again and again throughout the novel‚ and it is a distraction to the main character Meursault. The sun is a symbol of

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