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…have gone to seed. The inhabitants can hardly be said to live a conscious life of their own" (366). In one town Huck alights upon, a self-righteous man, Colonel Sherburn, murders the town drunk. The outraged village swarms Sherburn's home, threatening…

…to wait eagerly for the next one. The characters Captain Shotover, a white-bearded retired sea captain, the master of Heartbreak House. He is 88 years old, rather eccentric and represents England's past glory. He presides over a household of characters…

…on her dulcimer . Yet another paradox is his description of the "Through caverns measureless to man/Down to a sunless sea" . How can a sea be sunless? It may be underground or it may be that the sea is in the surroundings of the measureless caverns of his…

…nothing but sea water, and injected with tuberculosis, all in the name of science. If we fail to remember the Holocaust, we fail to remember the suffering and loss of over six million people. "Take heed...lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen…

…,                  Whips out his rapier, cries "A rat, a rat,"                  And in this brainish apprehension kills                  The unseen good old man. This incident shows Hamlet's wanting others to think that he is truly mad…

…of this crowd an imposing man who was no stranger to 'white people's quarrels.' His name was Crispus Attucks, and he was a Massachusetts native who had escaped from slavery ans sailed the seas. Tall, brawny, with a look that 'was enough to terrify any person…

…in these movies, these “average men” were the ones who committed the greatest acts of bravery. In conducting my interview, I realized that this depiction was not far off the mark. The subject of my interview was a man by the name of Richard Albert Lockyer. He…

…and the Shah fled from the country. From then on the rule of Islamic fundamentalist Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini he made Iran an Islamic country. Many people under the old Shah were arrested, tried and executed. In January of 1980, a new man was elected. His name…

…men “not to yield”, but to rebel and never conform to society. This poem was Ulysses’ rebellion against conformity. He was a man who traveled the seas and had new adventures every day. Ulysses feels that if he were to give that up, his life would have…

…emotion into his speech. He says "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ ayes; Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet," (I, i, 188-191) The emotion put…