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    some wine, knowing that it will knock out the cyclops in order for them to escape (“The Cyclops”.…

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    Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio exhibits a similarity between two socioeconomic classes by giving a positive connotation to both city-life and country living. First, Winesburg, Ohio gives a positive outlook on city life outside the town of Winesburg. George Willard’s father, Tom Willard, stresses to his son the idea of venturing into the city for a fruitful life. Tom Willard says to George “You’re Tom Willard’s son and you’ll wake up” (Anderson 29). Tom wants his son to thrive, so Tom sees…

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    's like ones for family, friends, and significant others. You get a strong attachment to them. Love is intensified feeling one could have for anything. You can love places and inanimate objects. Like my love for music intensified over the years, to escape reality. To be classified as good music it needs to say something. The songwriter can not just keep repeating the same words again to a catchy beat, unlike today music. The song needs to be written to tell something whether it 's about how…

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    Cool Hand Luke

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    Luke is left smiling in a crucifixion pose”. He then, as a last reach for God, does the unthinkable once more, and attempts to escape. As a final similarity to take into consideration one can discover that each of the character both have this “failure to communicate” within their stay. An example of this can be seen in Cool Hand Luke where he is very determined to escape; this is seen in Andy as well. They also each have these problems of communication with each of their wardens. Luke having the…

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    Lida’s positivity helps her get through the few years she spent at the work camp. On the page 17 the text states “I shuddered. For each bug i squished, a hundred would escape. Could I find beauty in this situation? This shows that Lida tried to stay positive even in the worst situations. She knew the only way to survive in a situation like she was then was to be optimistic and find the bright side in things. On page 121 the text states “Was there any beauty here? I began to sing Mama’s favorite…

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    ranch where they work, near Soledad, California. In his novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses the characters Candy, Curley’s wife, and Crooks to show that people will go to extreme measures to escape loneliness. First, Steinbeck uses Candy to show how people will go to extreme measures to escape loneliness. Candy is a very old man with one hand. Candy’s only friend is a dog, who is very handicap. Candy works as a janitor on the ranch where the story takes place. Candy, along with most of…

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    two films are truly quite different. Between the films there are a few basic elements that contribute to the theme, such as; the crimes that the protagonists Edmond Dantès and Andy Dufresne are imprisoned for, what the two men wish to do when they escape prison, and the life that they lead after they gain their liberty. At the beginning of CMC, with his ship’s captain in need of a physician, Edmond Dantès journeys to the Italian island of Elba where Napoleon Bonaparte…

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    Slave Trade Downfall

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    African Americans. Because at first they had originally targeted the Native Americans. But many of them escaped and others resisted. They were able to escape because they had already knew the land, so they knew the best ways to escape from the white man. So white people had to fan out and find someone who they could get labor off of without fear of escape. The only downfall is that they would have to travel far and wide to foreign continents. So eventually they found Africans who often viewed…

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    In James Tiptree, Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” as well as Greg Egan’s “Learning To Be Me,” the ways in which identity can change along with the how bodies are perceived or not are emphasized. The contrast between the two stories lies in their differences as sub-genres, as Tiptree writes about feminist science fiction and Egan focuses on cyberpunk. Even the ways in which the two main characters are developed in relation to their bodies seem completely unrelated, and yet by comparing them,…

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    Glass Menagerie Symbolism

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    represented as in a story. In the play, Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, there are three characters: Tom, Amanda and Laura. Each of them have their own objects that symbolizes them as the play goes on. Throughout the play, Tom has been wanting to escape from home and be away from the family. Laura is a shy girl, and her mother, Amanda, has been seeking for a gentleman caller for her, but doesn’t work because she’s fragile like glass. Because each symbol in the story shows what they…

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