Presentation John Bunyan - The Pilgrim’s progress I searched for information about the book the Pilgrims progress in the Grangerford’s house. First I will explain what an allegory is. Secondly I will tell what Pilgrim’s progress is about and why it is an allegory and lastly I will explain why I think the mentioning of the book Pilgrim’s progress has to do with satirizing the Grangerfords. An allegory is an extended metaphor which conveys its hidden message through symbolic figures. It has a
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Ode to John Keats At an early age‚ John Keats experienced a tough life that was surrounded by death. Not only did he lose his mother‚ father‚ and half of his siblings when he was young‚ but he was exposed to death and illness when he was a teenager working as an apprentice surgeon. He soon became a Romantic poet with an obsession with death‚ which can be seen in his poems throughout his life‚ particularly in his famous “Great Odes”. Between the spring and autumn of 1819‚ Keats wrote six odes
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A & P: Coming of Age John Updike’s A & P takes place in a small New England town north of Boston in 1961. The story’s main charter is Sammy a soon to be 19 year old checker at the local grocery store. He will be our narrator for the store giving us views of the town‚ patrons and the A & P especially. Sammy is frustrated with his boring minuscule life and seeks the excitement and freedoms he feels the three teenage female shoppers of the local A& P display. His unconscious decision to rebel
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“The Flea” by John Donne‚ written in the 17th century and first published in 1633 is a poem about persuasion‚ in that the narrator is trying to convince his partner to have sex with him. It isn’t a love poem‚ neither is it particularly crude or sexual. Donne manipulates the imagery of the flea into a conceit‚ in that the speaker is metaphorically using it as a persuasive tool in his bid to form a sexual union with the female. This in conjunction with the rhythm and rhyme scheme really puts emphasis
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John Locke was a philosopher and supporter of The Enlightenment whose philosophies served a crucial role in its formation‚ these ideologies fall into three major branches: epistemology‚ political philosophy‚ and religious toleration. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that revolved around the use of reason and progress from the Scientific Revolution to address human problems. Epistemology supported inductive reasoning‚ a form of thinking in which one takes specific details and uses them to
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The Pearl By: John Steinbeck In this novel‚ The Pearl‚ a pearl diver in the Gulf of Mexico named Kino finds the “Pearl of the World‚” one of the largest pearls this town has ever seen. Kino‚ his wife Juana‚ and his baby boy Coyotito have to leave town and go to the capital of Mexico to sell their pearl. They could not find any pearl dealers to buy their pearl because all the dealers thought the pearl had no value. Some of the town’s people were trying to steel the pearl so Kino and his family
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values into children in an entertaining way. The stories “Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault” and “Little Red Cap” by the Brothers Grimm tell the same fairy tale to convey similar messages of young girls listening to their elders and not trusting all strangers. This is done through fairly tale conventions like plot structure‚ icons‚ themes of innocence‚ and gender roles. Both of the stories follow similar plot structure in that Little Red runs into the wolf and goes through the forest. Also
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Little bo peep has lost her sheep ‚ and doesn’t know where to find them; leave them. Alone‚ and then they will come home ‚ wagging their behind them . This was the only thing the police had to help find little bo peep’s sheep. It’s been two days since the kidnapping and the police don’t even have a single lead. Little bo peep is losing her patience and is about to take things into her own hands. So another day went by and still nothing from the police. So as usual she decided to go to the crime
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JOHN DALTON Five main points of Dalton’s atomic theory 1. Elements are made of extremely small particles called atoms. 2. Atoms of a given element are identical in size‚ mass‚ and other properties; atoms of different elements differ in size‚ mass‚ and other properties. 3. Atoms cannot be subdivided‚ created‚ or destroyed. 4. Atoms of different elements combine in simple whole-number ratios to form chemical compounds. 5. In chemical reactions‚ atoms are combined‚ separated‚ or
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In The Pearl‚ John Steinbeck describes pearl diving consisting of two ropes tied one to a stone and the other to a basket. The basket remained in the canoe while the rock went down under and lead him to the bottom of the water. "Kino had two ropes‚ one tied to a heavy stone and one to a basket. He stripped off his shirt and trousers and laid his hat in the bottom of the canoe. The water was oily smooth. He took his rock in one hand and his basket in the other‚ and he slipped feet first over the
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