A Vanished People One of history’s greatest ironies concerns the American treatment of Indians‚ particularly those who once inhabited the New English Colonies. While Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower depicts these Native Americans as essential to both the Pilgrims and Colonist’s survivals‚ it also fails to elaborate on how utterly meaningless the role of these people became over the course of two centuries. What was once a large‚ prosperous nation of self-sufficient individuals became a mere smudge
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In "Roger Malvin’s Burial‚" Hawthorne presents the story of a man who lies to his wife about how he helped her father in his dying days. The young man‚ Reuben Bourne‚ and his girlfriend’s father‚ Roger Malvin‚ have been left wounded by a battle. After journeying for three days‚ Roger can no longer go on. Despite his request to Reuben that he should go home to his daughter‚ Dorcas‚ Reuben refuses and wants to stay by Roger’s side until he dies. However‚ Reuben decides that he can try to save Roger
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Moral values are the fundamental core of the human being‚ affecting nearly every aspect of life. Too often‚ parents of students attempt to shelter their children from being exposed to morals that contradict those of their family. Although the content of the book raised questions and concerns regarding ethical principles‚ The Scarlet Letter should not be banned from high school curricula as it promotes critical thinking and thoughtful classroom discussion on current societal views of moral values
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Nathaniel Khan’s documentary My Architect - a film about discovering who his father‚ Louis Khan‚ was as an individual - shined a lit into his father’s mysterious personal world. Throughout his journey we learn about his father’s upbringing and crucial moments of his adult life as well as the characteristics that defined him. From watching Nathaniel’s documentary‚ I was able to contrast‚ Louis Khan from I. M. Pei as an architect.; Louis’s designs for his buildings were dissimilar‚ he did not have
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Hermen Higgins was playing in his room with his best friend‚ Avery Owens‚ when the two boys decided to play spies. The boys slowly and quietly crept down the staircase and peeked around the wall where they heard Hermen’s parents‚ Herman and Hermione Higgins. "Where is he going to go?" Hermen heard his mother whisper. "I haven’t thought that far ahead. Any suggestions as to where to send him? An orphanage perhaps?" Mr. Higgins said sarcastically‚ but Hermen was only seven years old and did not understand
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2. The scarlet letter is clearly a symbol throughout the text‚ but its meaning grows and changes continually from its first appearance in chapter two‚ to its last at the end of the story. Explain how it changes. Support your explanations with specific references to the text. In the Scarlet Letter‚ Hester was marked with a red ‘A’ on her dress. At first‚ this meant that she had committed adultery. This ‘A’ separated her from the rest of the community in Boston because they knew what she had done
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The Empathetic‚ the Evil‚ the Cowardly‚ and the Perceptive In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ the four main characters develop unique personalities and character traits. Hester‚ the mother of Pearl‚ is kindhearted and comes to realize her own worth. Chillingworth is evil and selfish. He looks for the flaws in others and uses those weaknesses to hurt them. Dimmesdale is timid and cowardly. While he means well‚ he does more harm than good and leaves Hester to clean up his mess. Pearl is the
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This title serves to describe and state what the first chapter is about. These pages give an insight into the narrator’s life‚ which is similar to that of Hawthorne‚ and the custom house in which he works in and made a crucial discovery in. The narrator is setting the scene through the discovery of the scarlet letter. In conjunction with the discovery of the scarlet letter the narrator also found a scroll from which parts of his story came‚ and in this discovery he states that this is a partly fictional
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The weird ethical hazard to Hester in her loneliness was that it gave her moreover small chance for demonstrative interaction with other people. Hawthorne forced the readers to ponder that how a woman committing adultery is a major offence in a hypocritical society. Hawthorne symbolized Hester as an agent and a rebel who violates laws as Tony Tanner offered a likely justification by saying that: “the adulteress represents a violation of social contract and the harmonic interrelation of clearly defined
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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the relationship between Hester and the community parallels the symbolic metamorphosis of Hester’s scarlet letter. The Puritan society alienates and isolates Hester; her initial relationship with the community was despondent and detached. This averse relationship between the society and Hester was personified through the creation of the scarlet letter. Hawthorne establishes a direct correlation between the significance of the scarlet letter and the relationship
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