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    John Proctor and Hester Prynne Similarities In The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible Hester Prynne and John Proctor are similar in their actions to retain their idea of justice stated by their ethics and feelings. Both Hester and Proctor alike tried to restrain the dreadful deeds from progressing any further. Hester admitted that what she committed was wrong and accepted the punishment of being banished from the community of Puritans. However‚ she made the mistake of promising Roger Chillingworth

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    Both characters within the two stories exhibit different characters that overall lead them back to the same theme. Sammies exhibits normal characteristic of teens during the early 60’s. With social division among the working‚ and upper class many teens within the work class found themselves dreaming of other alternatives. Sammie is given the chance to decide between continuing his work at A&P‚ or possibly receiving attention from Queenie and her friends. Reacting to the girls Sammie states‚ “but

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    Catholic Church. During this time‚ “the invention of printing with movable type helped spread the Protestant message” (Text‚ 458). The movement created different types of Christians. Luther’s model of Christian life based on faith alone introduced John Calvin’s model of predestination. Both Protestant reformers believed that the word of God was the key to the life of a Christian‚ but St. Ignatius believed otherwise. He believed in the idea that faith and religious actions together were the key to

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    In the movie Wit‚ English literary scholar Vivian Bearing has spent years translating and interpreting the poetry of John Donne. Unfortunately‚ she is a person who has cultivated her intellect at the expense of her heart. Both colleagues and students view Bearing as a chilly and unfriendly person lost in her private world of words and mysterious thoughts. At the age of 48‚ she is diagnosed with stage-four metastatic ovarian cancer. Dr. Kelekian wants her to take eight high-dose experimental chemotherapy

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    to those of mice‚ which explains the title. Robert Burns’ poem‚ "To a Mouse" also can help to clarify the title. It contains the quotation: "The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men‚ Gang aft agley" ("often go awry"). In fact‚ this quote is the reason John Steinbeck chose Of Mice and Men as the title. There is more that Burns poem has in common with Of Mice and Men aside from the relation between the title and the quote. The two works both include relationships between humans and animals. In To a Mouse

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    with what they know‚ the answers they get‚ and they know that all questions cannot be answered. In William Blake’s "The Tyger" and "The Lamb‚" nature is discussed in two opposing forms‚ where the question of who created the creatures is asked. In John Keats’ "Ode to a Nightingale‚" different questions are asked‚ but in the same nature as those in Blake’s poems. The three poems are all similar in discussing nature; however there are differences in the negative capability of them. In both "The

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    Why do young people get involved in crime? I think people get involved in crime because they might get bored as the environment they live in has no clubs‚ parks etc. Even though the crime rates have dropped lately there are still loads of different crimes happening around us e.g. tax dodging‚ fraud and assault. I think to lower the crime rates in Scotland we need more activities for younger people in the community. If we just have some more sport clubs and youth clubs. A youth in the Scotland

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    Gatsby Analytical Essay F. Scott Fitzgerald presents many themes in this novel‚ The Great Gatsby. One of the themes is that a person’s lies and deceitful actions expose each person’s disposition. This theme is developed throughout the book by Fitzgerald implementing deceptive natures of characters in the time period 1920’s. The motif of cheating represents the shallow quality of the character’s lives‚ indicating the emptiness of the American Dream. The first reference demonstrating the link between

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    you have seen poets writing about feelings in an artistic and effective way. John Donne indeed uses poetry as a vehicle for expressing emotions towards a variety of subject matter‚ however particularly with reference to his lover‚ to God and to death. Donne documents his confidence in his emotions towards his lover in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”. Moreover ‚ post his wife’s death‚ in “Holy Sonnet X” Donne cements his assuredness of emotions toward death in verse. Conversely to Donne’s

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    As the perspicacious Pierre Berton once said‚ “Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom‚ and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.” Joanne Hyppolite‚ the author of the story “Dyaspora‚” faces racism first-hand as she grows up Haitian American. Using second-person point of view‚ she encourages the reader to put themselves in the author’s shoes. Consequently‚ the author’s repetitive use of the word “you” helps the reader to assimilate

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