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    An Essay on the Pearl.

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    The Pearl Essay Do you ever feel like you cannot do anything about something? Well‚ that is what Kino felt like in ‘The Pearl’ when the doctor would not help him with Coyotito’s scorpion sting. Different people have both positive and negative impacts on different communities. The doctor has both positive and negative impacts on Kino’s family. In addition to that‚ the doctor has a negative impact on the villagers. The doctor has a servant as well and the doctor has a bit of a negative impact

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    The Pearl Materialism

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    in the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Kino constantly is willing to do anything to protect his pearl‚ even if that means harming his own wife and baby and killing and or stabbing six people. Other people will try to harm Kino too‚ like the doctor‚ attackers and other selfish greedy people. Juana‚ Kino’s wife‚ tried to throw away the pearl‚ but Kino punched and kicked her. He also stabbed three people that tried to take his pearl. Another thing is that he killed three pearl trackers with a rifle

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    Pearl Harbor

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    Pearl Harbor During the early 19th century‚ Pearl Harbor was not used for large ships due to its shallow entrance. The interest of United States in the Hawaiian Islands followed its whaling and trading ships in the Pacific. As early as 1820‚ an "Agent of the United States for Commerce and Seamen" was appointed to look after American business in the Port of Honolulu. These commercial ties to the American continent were accompanied by the work of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign

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    mother‚ a pearl diver‚ and his younger brother‚ Hiroshi. He and his mother support the family because Shinji’s father had died in World War II after the fishing boat he was on was strafed by an American bomber. However‚ the family lives a somewhat peaceful life and Shinji is content to be a fisherman along with his master‚ Jukichi Oyama‚ and another apprentice‚ Ryuji. Things change when Terukichi Miyata‚ after the death of his son‚ decides to bring back the daughter he adopted away to pearl divers

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    Steinbeck's The Pearl

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    In Stenibeck’s The Pearl‚ Kino is faced with multiple struggles. Steinbeck presents one struggle in particular that is shown throughout the novella. Steinbeck introduces the struggle of social inequality. This struggle leads Kino on an adventure full of many other smaller struggles. He presents this struggle throughout the story through symbolism‚ Kino’s village‚ Kino’s interactions with other characters‚ and makes it obvious that the struggle still exists in today’s world. Steinbeck uses symbolism

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    string of pearls

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    STRING OF PEARLS Introduction String of pearls is the name given to strategic encirclement of India by China in Indian Ocean WHICH comprises a chain of Chinese facilities‚ commercial or military‚ along its sea lanes of communication‚ extending from the Chinese mainland to Africa. This runs through many choke points like Strait of Mandeb‚ Strait of Hormuz and Strait of Malacca. The term was first used in US DoD report. But China insists that its strategy is entirely peaceful;

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    The Pearl-Setting

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    The Pearl: Setting Over the course of John Steinbeck’s The Pearl‚ the description of the setting changes dramatically over the course of the novel. The protagonist of the story‚ Kino‚ was a simple and happy man‚ in the beginning. He is a member of a tribe‚ at the out skirts of his town. In the town‚ there lives Spaniards who are much wealthier then him. Out through the story‚ he seems to be possessing greed in his soul. As this happens‚ the setting of the book changes as mirrored in Kino’s character

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    The Symbol of Pearl

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    In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Pearl‚ is the human symbol of the sin of adultery in the fact that she leads her mother‚ Hester Prynne‚ and Arthur Dimmesdale to accept and admit to their sin. Pearl is the beautiful daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. She is the living symbol of the scarlet letter and has unique traits that make her sometimes appear as a demon. Her love for nature and freedom‚ her spirit‚ her wildness‚ her loneliness and separation from the world‚ her curiosity‚ and her

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    Pearls of Wisdom

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    Pearls of Wisdom: the Unusual Pearl of Hester Prynne Pearl is described as a perfect specimen of a child: her liveliness‚ coordination‚ and ideal shape make her “worthy to have been brought forth in Eden” (59). Pearl captivates the eyes of spectators with her pale radiance‚ and embodies the innocence of a “peasant-baby” along with the regality of a princess. She has a tempestuous and unpredictable temper‚ and seems to be imbued with gloom. Even as an infant‚ Pearl possesses a “peculiar look

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    migratory workers. John Steinbeck wrote The Pearl during the time in which he was at the height of his fame. He had completed The Grapes of Wrath‚ for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was renowned and reviled as a subversive‚ unpatriotic man who threatened the national interest through the socialist themes of his novels. This view of Steinbeck was inconsistent with his soft-spoken nature‚ but by 1944‚ when Steinbeck began to write The Pearl‚ Steinbeck had come to reconcile this aspect

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