BROTHER IN THE LAND Character Sketch of Rhodes In the play script “Brother in the Land” by Robert Swindells and adapted by Joe Standerline‚ Rhodes is portrayed as a sadistic P.E. teacher who is an active member of the MASADA and participates voluntarily in tasks which are set up‚ in order to overthrow the Civil Defense Team. Unfortunately at the end he turns out to be a selfish person who deceives the MASADA. Rhodes proves to be a good strategist as he prepares the students and tells them about
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ABSENT STUDENTS FALL BEHIND By Patricia Hawke We all know how important it is not to miss class. Missing one class in junior high or high school can create hardships for the students in future classes‚ as depending on what was taught that day could really make a student fall behind if they missed the information. At most schools‚ there is no limit to the amount of days you can miss in a semester‚ as long as you make up the work from when you are absent‚ and pass your tests‚ you will
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future‚" (Perrine 147) Yeats uses rhetorical figures in each of the sonnet ’s three stanzas. The figures in the first stanza create tension and portray the event. All definitions for the rhetorical figures mentioned in this essay are derived from Lanham ’s A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. Yeats opens with an example of brachylogia‚ brevity of speech. His elliptical fragment‚ "A sudden blow‚" recreates the stunning impact and tension of the assault. The poet uses alliteration in the form of
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McMurphy as a Christ Figure Christ comes from the name Yahweh which means God’s salvation and rescuer. Ken Kesey creates a character in his novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ that represents a figure like Christ that rescues and saves the patients at the ward. Randall Patrick McMurphy‚ the protagonist in the novel‚ takes on the role as the rescuer and saver. The novel mirrors Christ’s life through McMurphy’s life at the ward. There are four main events in the novel that allude to the story
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In 1775 people feared that America would never gain its independence from Britain and Patrick Henry changed that. Patrick Henry wanted to convince the congress to raise a militia to fight back the British. To do so Patrick Henry used Pathos in his speech “To the Virginia Convention” and was able to persuade his audience into raising a militia. It was important to persuade the colonist to raise a militia because it made people motivated to fight the British. Pathos was used incredibly well in order
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“picaresque” in Literature wasn’t created until in the early 19th century‚ when the novel Lazarillo de Tormes wtitten by an anonymous writer because of its heretical content was published in 1553 and became popular right then. Most picaresque novels incorporate several defining characteristics according to Thrall and Hibbard on their book A Handbook to Literature. Such characteristics are the following: The chief figure is drawn from a low social level‚ is of loose character‚ and‚ if employed at all
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Keyiona Cobb Freshman Comp 200-320 February 16‚ 2015 Disney Princesses “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect” is an article by Stephanie Hanes which touches on the princess phenomenon many young girls are obsessed with. Stephanie Hanes concludes that the Disney Princess craze is linked to self-objectification and the growing sexualization of young girls. Although she provided numerous facts the argument was unsuccessful because it was weak and confusing. Her own personal opinion
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For many girls‚ Little Women is a reading experience so stirring and lasting in impact that as adults they name their baby daughters after the characters. When they judge their daughters old enough‚ they press the book on their little Megs‚ Josephines‚ Beths‚ and Amys; often it is the same copy they read with their mothers‚ sometimes the one their mothers read with their grandmothers‚ occasionally an early or original edition that represents continuity through a hundred or more years. Louisa May
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THE NOVEL IN AFRICA John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African essayist‚ novelist ‚ linguist‚ literary critic and translator. He has also won the Noble prize in the Literature category. The following lecture ‘The Novel in Africa’ was given by him in the University of California in Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities. This lecture is a fictionalized creation of J.M .Coetzee‚ which upholds his belief that‚ “…a true sense in which writing is dialogic; a matter of awakening counter voices in
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THE LITTLE PRINCE: FREE ONLINE STUDY GUIDE / LITERARY ANALYSIS CONFLICT Protagonist The protagonist of the short novel is the Little Prince. He is a simple‚ yet mystical‚ creature from asteroid B-612. One day a seed arrives on his planet and blooms into a beautiful flower. Though the flower is lovely‚ it is vain and irritates the Prince. Finally he leaves his planet‚ to escape the flower. After visiting several asteroids‚ the Little Prince reaches Earth‚ where he meets the narrator in the
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