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    for Rose’s family, but also for Rose. A common obstacle for the family is getting Rose proper care; this is difficult because the family could not find long term insurance or doctor. In “ Silver Water”, Amy Bloom makes a point about how mental illness is treated; the specific point she makes is that mental illness is not taken as seriously as it should be. This is shown through how difficult it is for Rose to receive proper treatment. One of the first examples of mistreatment is that in “Silver Water”

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    When Aylmer finds a suitable wife that he would fancy for himself, the scientist notices that his wife had a birthmark on her face that represented a tiny hand print. This birthmark actually makes Aylmer becomes obsessive about the mark itself to the point of confronting Aylmer’s wife. Aylmer eventually convinces the woman about experimentation towards her face and the experiment works but the wife had succumbed towards a fatal side effect which was death. Ending the story with a dreadful lesson, “If

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    argument on the point the author is trying to make. Some people believe that happiness is a right and is supposed to be given out, or is required to be provided by the government, like a right. In all reality that is true, but to an extent, we do have a right to

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    Society is buying objects we do not need, with the money we do not have, to impress people that do not matter. The American Dream is developing into a more materialistic world, a dream in which the dream keeps getting larger and greedier. Materialism is the tendency to think material objects are more important than people; a desire for money over ethics. Today, life shows us that people have a desire for newest, thinnest, updated—most expensive smartphone or the more expensive lavish materials.

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    Throughout the novel, The House on Mango Street Esperanza's negative outlook on herself and her life slowly improves as she realizes she has a bigger place outside of Mango Street and that her lasting impact can help influence the lives of others who cannot as easily escape as she. In the chapter, The House on Mango Street, Esperanza has a very negative and unsatisfied outlook on her life, mainly centered around her house. She wishes and dreams for a life in which she can live without feeling ashamed

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    It’s mid-July and I am determined to experience something completely new and get out of my comfort zone one more time while I’m on vacation, and although up to this point I have gone out more that I should’ve and met new people that I would’ve never have talked to in my life, I’m glad I was able to do so. But that not the point of this story, let me get back on track. Many people don’t know that I have a cousin that is a year younger and looks exactly like me, it is kind of surreal to even look

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    let this behaviour slip despite complaints from the other workers of the office. Secondly during the story there is a point when the Lawyer realizes Bartleby has been squatting at his firm. He again chooses not to punish or scold, but rather offer him a place to live. And for some reason Bartleby again says no. Lastly we get to the point of Bartleby being placed in jail. At this point most people’s sympathies might have gone out the window, but The Lawyer is no ordinary man in this aspect. He still

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    I can recall as a kid continually asking myself the "why" questions of life. What is the motivation behind life? What are we doing here? What is the reason for life? Why influence certain things to happen? What's more, is there truly a Divine being? I had constantly hushed up about these questions and in the long run, drove them insane through and through. I was brought up in a Christian family and you have simply been unallowed to make inquiries of that nature and uncertainty. The world is how it

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    him in remembrance. They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime” (pg. 108). After this con, Dimmesdale became consumed with guilt to the point of punishing himself by starving, and whipping himself. Whereas Tom spends most of his days chasing the little mouse, Jerry, trying to catch him, and then

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    Sherry points out that in exploring the answers to these questions, one must point out that Shelley had no education whatsoever despite the fact that she managed to read a lot of books and writings that were available at that particular time. Sherry Gin in her thesis therefore points out that she was going to try to establish the connection between what Mary Shelley wrote in Frankenstein and the

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