Serrusalmus is a short story written by Lesley Glaister. It was published in Contexts in 1992. The themes in the story are fear‚ revenge and love. Through the whole story Marjorie fears the world‚ other people and especially Mick. The fear controls her life and makes her stay inside her apartment most of the time. At the end of the story Marjorie does no longer fear Mick and that gives her an opportunity to take revenge on him with help from her fish. After taking revenge on Mick she feels satisfied. The person
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Holes essay‚ A good novel consists of exciting characters‚ an interesting setting‚ plot and story line‚ but most importantly a good novel conveys certain ideas about different messages the author is trying to get across‚ Louis Satcher in the novel holes does exactly this. Throughout the novel Satcher is constantly conveying the message of racial tolerance and intolerance‚ perseverance and has used clever techniques such as linking references from the past with the present to create an interesting
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Nick and Marjorie row past the ruins of Hortons Bay‚ a lumbering town the two used to know so well. Seeing all that is left are the limestone foundations of the mill‚ Marjorie tells Nick “There’s our old ruin… Nick said nothing.” (32). In this quote‚ it is not about what was said but more about what wasn’t said. Nick’s silence and terse responses stem from his subtle feelings of nostalgia and anxiety for the impending break up between him and Marjorie. On the other hand‚ Marjorie shows how
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From the point of view of farmers‚ minorities and labor‚ were the 1920’s the “Golden Twenties” as often portrayed? BY: ROBERT TANNER U.S. History 101.5 Jim Blackwood 11/25/2009 Bibliography Allen‚ Frederick L. Only Yesterday: An informal history of the 1920s. New York: Harper and Brothers‚ 1931. Drowne‚ Kathleen‚ and Huber‚ Patrick. The 1920’s. Connecticut: Greenwood Press‚ 2004. Irving L. Bernstein. The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker 1920-1933
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is visiting her cousin Marjorie for a couple of weeks. Marjorie has many friends‚ and socializes with her peers very well. On the other hand Marjorie’s cousin‚ Bernice‚ is the complete opposite. Bernice is quiet‚ doesn’t know anyone in town and is very awkward when others attempt to socialize with her. Although Marjorie tries to convince her friends to dance with Bernice at parties‚ no one really wants to be around Bernice. Throughout the story we see how Bernice and Marjorie first get along but like
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Blake Frazier Writing 100 Forrgette September 25‚ 2014 ! ! At first glance when you look at a Gadsden flag you see the bright yellow color and the bold statement “Don ’t Tread On Me” along with a rattlesnake above it. But what does these’s words mean. The Don’t Tread On Me slogan‚ is a slogan for every American. The Gadsden’s flag got its name from Colonel Christopher Gadsden who was an American patriot. He led Sons of Liberty in South Carolina starting in 1765. For those who are not
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Young Love Fails in Hemingway’s “The End of Something” There is a lot of speculation about what causes the end of the relationship between Nick Adams and Marjorie in Hemingway’s early story of young love‚ “The End of Something.” Indeed‚ there does seem to be some vagueness in the narrative as to the reason for the breakup: Nick says when Marjorie asks what the trouble is: “’I don’t know.’” Even the title suggests this vagueness. Freudian theories abound‚ however: some suspect impotence; homoeroticism
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not afraid of Virginia Woolf -- of the‚ ‘crisis’ in the humanities by Anne E. Fernald‚ The Crisis in the Humanities and the Corporate Attack on the University by P. Winston Fettner and College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one by Hunter Rawlings‚ I began to understand more about other perspectives of college that have broadened my understanding of higher education. Some of the main advantages for teaching Humanities in higher education is that it leads
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Symbolism and Character Analysis in “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” The short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" was based‚ by Fitzgerald’s own account‚ on his letter to his sister‚ the story itself is "virtually a handbook of advice on how to become a successful “flapper". Fitzgerald "borrowed his major elements and themes‚ which we can see from the symbolism and characters in the novel‚ from Little Women and turned them "upside down in a Jazz Age revision."1‚ showing the changing social mores of Fitzgerald’s
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gun‚ and the boy on the horse‚ which is pretty violent for a “13-15 year old. An act of violence in All the Pretty Horses occurs when Rawlings is stabbed the morning after he and John Grady talk to Perez for the first time. Rawlins is stabbed by a man with an “Italian switchblade‚” passing it across Rawlings’ shirt three times. This erupts into a fight as Rawlings leaps “three times backward with his shoulders hunched and his arms out flung like a man refereeing his own bloodletting” (188-189). The
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