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Atticus Finch Quote 1 “Atticus, you must be wrong…. ” “How’s that? ” “Well, most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong…. ” (11. 54-56) If there’s one thing that we learned from jeggings, Uggs, and chain wallets, it’s that the majority isn’t always right. But Atticus doesn’t need anyone to teach him…

According to Dante’s God in The Inferno, the creation of eternal torment for earthly crimes is driven by justice, power, love, and intellect. In Canto III, Ciardi summarizes Dante’s Hell as a place where the punishment is symbolic retribution, meaning that the sinners are punished in a way that matches their sins. This suggests that…

Grandmother’s Victory was written by Maya Angelou. This story was about Maya Angelou as a young girl who lived in the state of Arkansas with her grandmother, whom she called “Mama”, in the 1940’s. Maya’s grandmother was a very clean God fearing woman. She taught her grandchildren to be clean, religious, respectful, and God fearing…

This sonnet is the narrative a poet proclaiming the magnificence of his muse and his talentless use of her. The first line reads: “Whist I alone did call upon thy aid”, “Aid” here can take on several meanings for example: “help” or “a loan. ” One definition that Shakespeare is noted as having coined according…

The opening lines of “My Last Duchess” by Browning establish the Duke of Ferrara as the speaker who will recount the tale of his deceased wife to the Count’s emissary. This form of dramatic monologue allows for a merging of Browning’s identity with that of the character, enabling a dominant perspective from the first-person narration…

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two novels, “Of Mice and Men” and “The Pearl”, both by the American author John Steinbeck. I also will be considering how Steinbeck has interwoven the social and political concerns of that time. John Ernst Steinbeck was born on February 27th 1902 in Salinas, California. He…

“As iron sharpens iron, a friend sharpens a friend.” Friends are an important part of life. Friends are useful to help one get through the hardships of life. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, we see the small (but present) friendship of Biff and Bernard. Biff is a football superstar, with scholarships lined up…

An example Of this is in Act 1 Scene 1 when Romeo says ‘Well, in that hit you miss, she’ll not be hit, With cupids arrow, she hath Diana wit’ We have all been in that situation where you have a crush on someone and they don’t like you back. The audience and people in…

Pointless Violence Under a Veil of Tradition in “The Lottery”: A Discovery Via the Tools of Irony and Symbolism Within the Framework of Formalism The approach to literary criticism known as Formalism focuses on the literary text itself as the source for meaning, and deems the text as the only context a critic should turn…

In 21 Century, most of people think that having freedom is natural; marriage of course is a happy moment in their lives. Also in many counties men and women’s status are nearly equal now. No matter you ate a man or a woman, as long as you have the ability, you can become a boss…