...Character Analysis Essay for Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol "Greed, Ebenezer Scrooge, wealth. Feel them. Know them. Yours was as heavy as this I wear seven years ago, and you have labored to build it since," wailed Jacob Marley in Frederick Gaines's adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (396). Burdened by his greedy life, Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased business partner, is forced to wander the spirit world with no sense of peace. He warns Scrooge to change his selfish ways to avoid the same miserable fate. Marley's ominous warning sets in motion three life-altering journey through time for Scrooge with the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come. Ebenezer Scrooge, originally a greedy and heartless character, changes drastically after his ghostly experiences influence him to become a generous and caring man by the end of the story. In Scene I of "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge is a bitter and self-centered man. For instance, Scrooge's own nephew, Fred, asked Scrooge if he would join Fred and his family for dinner. Scrooge coldly denied Fred's invitation by saying "Nephew, keep Christmas in your own way…"(390)....
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...Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer born on March 20, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mark had enjoyed photography as a child and her very first camera was a Kodak Brownie. She attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where she studied painting and art history. However, because Mark did not want to be confined in a studio, she chose to study photography at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. After finishing her schooling, Mark received a Fullbright scholarship and traveled to Turkey, Europe and the Middle East to take photographs. When she returned to the U.S. in 1966, Mark settled in New York City. Mark first won attention with a photograph in a photo-essay contest in Look magazine of heroin addicts in London. After this, she landed more magazine assignments and even worked on film sets as a still photographer. One film Mark captured in still photography was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, starring Jack Nicholson. To continue her traveling experience, Mark also took several trips to India and the Middle East to photograph the many subcultures of the area. While she was there, Mark spent time with Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic humanitarian worker, in Calcutta (Figure 1). During these trips, Mark created a photo series on Indian circuses. Included in this series is a photograph of a monkey trainer’s daughter, Figure 2, in New Delhi, India. The most gripping photos by Mark are said to be included in her...
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...her daily routine was of two hours to get to class… It was freezing that she thought that she was in the process of becoming Elsa… But, that wasn’t the only thoughts she had. She also, was thinking of an essay she must write for her class of creative writing which was “ Course goals.” Although it may seem an easy essay to write, she had a hard time writing it. She started the essay earlier to avoid procrastination, nothing came to her mind to write… Her mind was like a hurricane in the most arduous tropical times, taking all her time and energy thinking of her past. Searching how to write poetic, reading essays, reading articles but nothing worked. That day when the essay was due, that day when she was in the process of becoming Elsa, she had an idea of what creativity for her may be and what to write in her essay....
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...Ellie Austin 0536816 # 6 Dear Lawrence Weschler, Your essay, Vermeer in Bosnia, I have found to be fascinating. Recently, while at the Frick Collection, I had taken yet another look at Vermeer and found myself viewing the paintings in the light of Vermeer in Bosnia. The Europe of Vermeer’s youth was as scarred, scary and violent as Bosnia during the Balkan war. There is a strikingly unexpected connection between the high art and the horrors of war crimes. I can certainly relate to the ideas and experiences of Vermeer in Bosnia. In the 1990s, I had worked in various war zones, including Bosnia, first as a media stringer, later as a security contractor. When I realized that the toxic environment was becoming addictive, a distraction and a substitute for something else, a normal way of life, perhaps, and after getting into a serious legal trouble in Saudi Arabia, I had quit working the hot spots for good, as I then thought. On September 11, 2001, a warm sunny day, when I was at all looking for trouble, all the troubles had found me at the World Trade Center, of all places. My last brush with a dangerous adventure had come at on the New Year Eve of 2003, outside the restaurant Nabil in Karrada, an upscale restaurant in Iraq. I was watching the perimeter as a security contractor, when the restaurant bas car-bombed with high explosives, destroying two square blocks of buildings and killing or injuring everyone within the...
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...[pic] Place that I feel comfortable. Crystal Kim Ethan Johnson Writing Studio: Intensive 02/ 18/ 09 On February 6th, I decided to go to a Japanese Café called Genki Living. I woke up late and did not feel like eating a lot, so I got ready to go to Genki living. The Café is about 8 minutes away from my house. It was kind of cold when I came out from my house, so I went back home and grabbed my purple jacket. It was around 7:30 at night when I came out from house and got into my car. As I turned my car on, I heard a song called ‘Take a bow’ by Rihanna. I started singing along to the song and started heading towards the café. I asked one of my friends to meet me there. As I drove along the Michillinda Street I passed by a few cars and met up with Huntington drive. I stopped on the red light and was thinking about what to get when I got to Genki living. After I stopped at a red light I turned right onto Baldwin Street. As I got onto Baldwin Street I passed through so many bright vivid lights of many restaurants. After passing by the bright beam lights of the cars I got to small plaza. I crammed my car into a small parking space and got off from the car. When I got out from car I was welcomed with a bright red, white, and green neon sign. There are many restaurants surrounding the cafe. Few Chinese restaurants and yogurt shops are surrounding the Genki living. As I got to the entrance and through the glass walls I found my friend sitting under a tree that is inside the café...
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...ust after noon on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, I was preparing to leave my downtown Denver office for a meeting when I noticed the red message light flashing on my phone. I worked for the state of Colorado, administering training programs for people with disabilities; my meeting was about student scholarships, and I figured the message might be a last-minute cancellation. But it was my husband, calling from his home office. His voice was breathless and ragged, and his words stopped my heart. "Susan—this is an emergency! Call me back immediately!" The level of pain in his voice could mean only one thing: Something had happened to one of our sons. In the seconds that passed as I picked up the phone and dialed our house, panic swelled within me; it felt as though millions of tiny needles were pricking my skin. My heart pounded in my ears. My hands began shaking. I tried to orient myself. One of my boys was at school and the other was at work. It was the lunch hour. Had there been a car accident? When my husband picked up the phone, he shouted, "Listen to the television!"—then held out the receiver so I could hear. I couldn't understand the words being broadcast, but the fact that whatever had happened was big enough to be on TV filled me with terror. Were we at war? Was our country under nuclear attack? "What's happening?" I shrieked. He came back on the line and poured out what he'd just learned during a distraught call from a close friend of our 17-year-old son, Dylan: There...
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...Charles Rasmussen PSCI 6311 October 15, 2015 Essay Outline: Bibliographic Essay on Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert W. Calvert: The Rise and Career of Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert W. Calvert: From the Position of Associate Justice (1950-1961) to Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice from (1961-1972) Primary Thesis: Judge Calvert moved up the judicial ladder by adhering literally to the letter of the law in basing his decisions. Did his poor orphaned state raised background and have a direct effect on sensational rise to the highest position in the Texas judicial system. The effects of electing judges in Texas resulted in putting judges on the benches with no prior judicial experience, during the 50’s through the early 70’s basically family men or local politicians. I currently have read the State Bar of Texas: APPELLATE SECTION (concerning Judge Calvert’s Career) I currently have read article in: The Appellate Advocate, State Bar of Texas Section “Render unto Judge Calvert…Correct Appellate Vol. 20, No.3 Spring 2008 I have his Book: “Here Comes the Judge” From State Home to State House. By Joseph M. Roy: 1977 PoliticTexas: Austin Statesman American Inns of Court: Chief Justice Robert W. Calvert Home School Coalition of Texas: Shelby Sharpe, Lead Attorney appointed by Chief Justice Robert W Calvert in the Landmark case of (Leeper v Arlington class action suit. The Court ruled that Home schooling in Texas was legal and Texas Supreme Court Confirmed the Appellate...
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...paragraph is a series of sentences that are organized and coherent, and are all related to a single topic. Almost every piece of writing you do that is longer than a few sentences should be organized into paragraphs. This is because paragraphs show a reader where the subdivisions of an essay begin and end, and thus help the reader see the organization of the essay and grasp its main points. Paragraphs can contain many different kinds of information. A paragraph could contain a series of brief examples or a single long illustration of a general point. It might describe a place, character, or process; narrate a series of events; compare or contrast two or more things; classify items into categories; or describe causes and effects. Regardless of the kind of information they contain, all paragraphs share certain characteristics. One of the most important of these is a topic sentence. TOPIC SENTENCES A well-organized paragraph supports or develops a single controlling idea, which is expressed in a sentence called the topic sentence. A topic sentence has several important functions: it substantiates or supports an essay’s thesis statement; it unifies the content of a paragraph and directs the order of the sentences; and it advises the reader of the subject to be discussed and how the paragraph will discuss it. Readers generally look to the first few sentences in a paragraph to determine the subject and perspective of the paragraph. That’s why it’s often best to put the topic...
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...the Tennessee Mountains was to be a great adventure for my family, but with all of the problems that we would encounter; it turned out to be something that we wanted to forget. We were moving to the mountains to start a family adventure. We were looking forward to being able to see the seasons change with the vivid fall colors and seeing snow for the first time. My son was thrilled about living in the woods and being able to see the wildlife, such as deer, come into our backyard. We just knew we were going to enjoy living in a small town where everyone knows everyone. The town was so small, that it only had 600 residents. This was going to be a new experience to build our new home ourselves, with the help of a contractor. Right from the very beginning we started having problems; we couldn’t seem to get anyone who wanted to work with us. There were so many things to have done that we didn’t even know where to start first. We had to have the land cleared, have a septic system installed, to build a 20 x 20 metal garage and have a well dug. By now with the weather getting colder our tiny camper wasn’t sufficient for the winter, so we decided to order a manufactured home. Since it was starting to get cold we moved into the 20 x 20 garage, where we had a wood burning stove. In November 1996, with winter coming we ordered a manufactured home. Needless to say it was a really cold winter that year and our home was not delivered until February 1997. It was really hard to...
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...threat towards the freedom of others. The fact that it leads to high crime rates doesn't help. For some reason, Americans often seem to associate "Freedom" with guns and most Westerners don't understand that. Freedom of Religion is VERY different among "free" countries. Issues linked to Religion are also treated very differently. "Red Rover", the American Bill of Rights is far, really far from being alone. For example, the slightly older French "Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" is generally considered as the reference for Human Rights. As for the religious aspect of the American Bill or Rights, claiming it's a good thing is a matter of personnal opinion. That and its lack of universalism (it's only about American citizens) are probably the reason the "French" Bill of Rights is considered the reference. You (like other answerers) also seem to think that Democracy (and everything it implies politcally) is an American invention and that it only exists in the US, which is very, very much wrong ! You already knew money can't buy love — but it turns out it can't buy happiness either. The real key to finding happiness is personal autonomy and freedom, which, in many cases, can be the result of having a sufficient amount of money. This is good news for...
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...“The Gift of the Magi” – Deciphering the Theme Scott Cole ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Professor Patricia Vineski 6 Oct 2013 The theme of a story, as I’ve learned, is much more than what happened; this is the plot. Instead, the theme is much more; it “tells you what the story is about” (Clugston, 2010, para. 7.1). In order to decipher what the theme is, our text tells us to ask the question “how” a few different ways in order to come to a final conclusion. “How does the writer use setting to narrow the underlying idea? How do characters make particular aspects of the underlying idea clear? How does conflict reveal the strength or worth of the underlying idea?” (Clugston, 2010, para. 7.1). So, throughout this essay, I will be asking these questions, in order to come to a final conclusion as to what the theme of “The Gift of the Magi” really is. I will also discuss the plot, as well as some symbolism in the story that expands on the theme of the story. The plot, for The Gift of the Magi, is a short story about a couple, housed in a tiny apartment, living paycheck to paycheck. Christmas is just a few days away, and the Della, whom is the wife in the story, is struggling to find the perfect gift for her husband. Finally, after searching all over town, she comes across a fancy watch chain that is $20, and decides she must have it; the dilemma is she only has $1.87 to spend. After careful thought, she decides she will cut off her long, beautiful hair...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay on Short Stories Dragons, witches, princesses and knights. These are the imaginary friends in so many children's lives. For young adults, those fairy tail characters give way to darker characters and more realistic situations. However, what do they all have in common? They live in short stories. Two short stories that are interesting are "Indian Education" by Sherman Alexie and "Thank you Ma'am" by Langston Hughes. "Indian Education" is about a boy who learned a lot from everything that happened in his life. "Thank you Ma'am" is about a boy who makes a mistake and in the end he learns from it. While there are some obvious similarities, both authors approach these stories, specifically the characters, tone and point of view, in different ways. The main characters of both stories are similar because they both brave. When the Indian boy was in the first grade, he punched a kid in the face for being mean to him. "Held his head against the snow, and punched him." The Indian boy was only in the first grade and he punched someone. He was standing up for himself. Also, when the Indian boy was in the fifth grade, he started playing basketball. "I picked up the basketball for the first...
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...On Pale Green Walls English Essay Every action we do often has a deeper meaning. If we hit someone, it is most likely because we are mad at them. If we kiss someone, it is maybe an act of love, or just physical attraction. When children do something, it is noticed very by the world around, because it might say something about the development of their personality and who they will grow up to be. They act on their feelings, emotions and thoughts. On Pale Green Walls is a short story written by Clare Wigfall in 2007. The short story takes place around christmas time in an unknown city, where a little girl named violet lives with her family. I believe the main themes in this short story to be: love, hate, jealousy, acceptance, fascination and despair. We are through the text following the life of Violet and her first meeting and impression of one specific woman. “I remember the first time i saw her. […] She stood higher than the rest of us, surrounded be candles”. In this quotation Violets first meeting with the women is described, but also the fact that it is no ordinary woman. The little girl has gotten a fascination of the Virgin Mary. The first glance she laid on her was probably a statue standing in the city to celebrate christmas. She is after this moment upsets with the Virgin Mary, and notices her everywhere she goes. It is in the following quotation told, that the are pictures of the virgin many places that she’s been before, for example and described...
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...Romeo’s reaction to this is that he thinks that is the end of the world as he will never be able to see Juliet, his one true love, and the recently married couple will have a very distant relationship. So throughout this essay I will discuss what the consequences of conflict are in Act 3 Scene 1. The atmosphere at the beginning of the scene is quite happy and jolly but Benvolio is worried that there may be a meeting of Capulet’s and Montague’s following the challenge sent by Tybalt to Romeo. ‘By my heel, I care not.’ This shows us that Mercutio doesn’t care if the Capulet’s are hear or not as he is ready to and in a happy mood which is expressed through the use of the word ‘care’. Making us as an audience feel protected and appreciated because Tybalt has challenged Romeo to a duel but due to Mercutio’s arrogance we know that Romeo and us will be protected and care for by Mercutio if Tybalt is beating and nearly killing Romeo in this fight. How does Tybalt react to Romeo’s offer of peace? Describe Tybalt’s mood as the scene develops. How does Mercutio react to Tybalt’s attack on Romeo? Mercutio curses both the Montague’s and Capulet’s when he is about to die as he was only trying to protect his friend and got killed in doing so. ‘A plague a both houses’. When Mercutio uses the word ‘plague’ we as an audience associate it as an ugly noun causing pain, suffering and death but it shows us the horrors of this feud between these two families and...
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...What does the architecture of Lord Burlington owe to political concerns? It is said that from 1721 onwards Lord Burlington began erecting one important building after another. In order to determine what the architecture of Lord Burlington owes to political concerns it is necessary to briefly examine both the political situation in the early 1700s and Burlington’s political stance. Lastly, in order to draw a conclusion as to how much of Lord Burlington’s architecture owes to political concerns, an analysis of Chiswick House and its political representation is particularly essential. Thus this essay will be roughly divided into two parts: the first being a brief narrative of the political life and situation of Lord Burlington, followed by a system of analysis and conclusion. The latter will focus specifically on the Chiswick House and what symbols there exist that may help us to examine the impact of politics on Lord Burlington’s architecture. Lord Burlington, though being a man of arts and beauty, was hardly politically inactive. Up until 1932 he was said to have been a supporter of the Whig administration. He became a supporter of the new Hanoverian king, George I in 1715 and that same year he was appointed Lord Treasurer of Ireland, lieutenant of the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire and Vice-Admiral of the County of York. By 1721 Burlington became a supporter of Sir Robert Walpole and was a close friend of the Prince of Wales. When in 1727 the Prince succeeded as George...
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