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  • Hills like White Elephants

    Hills like White Elephants

    Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway (1899 ~ 1961) Summary The setting of the story is in Ebro River Valley in Spain. An American man and a girl are having a conversation while they are waiting for the train at the bar in train station. The two are apparently a couple. They drink beer and liquor called Anis del Toro while waiting. They seem to be arguing about doing something and that is why they

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Hills like White Elephants

    Hills like White Elephants

    The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain, made of strings of bamboo beads, hung across the open door into the bar, to keep out flies. The American and the girl

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Anna
  • Hills like White Elephants

    Hills like White Elephants

    The story "Hills Like White Elephants" written by Ernest Hemingway tells of a dysfunctional couple on the verge of making a life altering decision. Hemingway provides no direct insight about the character's circumstances; only through the use of symbolism within their dialogue is the true meaning portrayed. There is a theme of arrogance and irresponsibility present throughout the duration of the story. The setting is crucial for the reader to be able to understand

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Hills like White Elephants

    Hills like White Elephants

    The story “Hills Like White Elephants” is about a couple who discuss an abortion. The American in the story addresses it as a “simple operation,” (487) while Jig seems to feel it is the wrong choice. I feel the man is encouraging her to have the abortion done in his own selfish way. I feel the American is being very selfish and thinking what a simple operation it would be. He tells Jig, “It’s

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Max
  • Hills like White Elephants

    Hills like White Elephants

    THE EXPECTATION THAT SOCIETY HAS PLACED ON PEOPLE CREATES A FEELING OF ALIENATION AND IS EXHIBITED IN THE POEMS “THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN,” “ELEANOR RIGBY,” “DOLOR,” “RICHARD CORY.” Our peers in society has created an unspoken standard that people are judged by and expected to follow and for the people who can not live within those standards they have a hard time associating with friends, family, co-workers, and themselves. In A.H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen” the

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Hills like White Elephants

    Hills like White Elephants

    1) I have chosen to discuss the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Both have many significant similarities and differences. I would like to compare some important points in four common categories. I will compare and contrast the geography and its impact, the political structure of each society, the importance of their existing class structures and finally the role of women in these dynamic civilizations. Mesopotamia and Egypt were both in flood basins of major rivers.

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    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: jay
  • Hills like White Elephants

    Hills like White Elephants

    Crack a Bottle Everyone has a different way of dealing with their conflicts in life. Some look to find pleasure in certain hobbies they enjoy, such as reading or exercising. Unfortunately, some people deal with their problems negatively. Some might turn to drugs, violence or alcohol. In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” Hemingway uses alcohol as a motif throughout the story to represent the complications in the two protagonists’ relationship. Early on in “Hills

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    Submitted: May 7, 2017 By: Chayden Sovocool
  • Hills like White Elephants - Symbolism

    Hills like White Elephants - Symbolism

    Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" relies on symbolism to carry the theme of either choosing to live selfishly and dealing with the results, or choosing a more difficult and selfless path and reveling in the rewards. The symbolic materials and the symbolic characters aid the reader's understanding of the subtle theme of this story. The hills symbolize two different decisions that the pregnant girl in our story is faced with. Both hills

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Janna
  • Hills like White Elephants - Symbolism

    Hills like White Elephants - Symbolism

    Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" relies on symbolism to carry the theme of either choosing to live selfishly and dealing with the results, or choosing a more difficult and selfless path and reveling in the rewards. The symbolic materials and the symbolic characters aid the reader's understanding of the subtle theme of this story. The hills symbolize two different decisions that the pregnant girl in our story is faced with. Both hills

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    Essay Length: 337 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: regina
  • Hills like White Elephants - Symbolism

    Hills like White Elephants - Symbolism

    well there are two sides to the station. on one side it is fertile. full of trees, fields of grain, a river and mountains. this means that this is one choice that she has which would be the beutiful one to have but it will be difficult( meaning the mountains) unlike the dry side, there are no trees and no shade with hills implying, simple yet dull life She is probably being sarcastic because she

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Vika
  • Hills like White Elephants - Symbolism

    Hills like White Elephants - Symbolism

    1. The story is narrated in the third person point of view. Aside from dialogue, the story does not use “I.” Instead, it uses his name, or refers to the character as “him” or “he.” 2. The story starts off as third person objective. It’s first told as how someone would observe from afar. The narrator makes assumptions, such as in the first paragraph of part one, “It did not appear to be the duty

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    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Steve
  • Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

    Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

    “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, is a story that takes place at a train station in Spain, where an American man and a girl, whom he calls Jig, drink beer while waiting for a train to Madrid. As the man and girl are enjoying their beers, the girl begins to express how the line of hills in the distance looks like white elephants.” They don’t really look like white elephants. I just

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Monika
  • Hilter and Mussolini

    Hilter and Mussolini

    hilter and mussolini The Rise to Power: A Comparison of Hitler and Mussolini Hitler and Mussolini achieved absolute political and social power through the manipulation of the people of their countries and circumstantial events at the time of their ascent. Mussolini rose to total dictatorship more than ten years before Hitler's first failed attempt to 'conquer' the failing Weimar Republic government and both achieved this total rise in power in very similar ways such as

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    Submitted: April 20, 2011 By: 8765
  • Him

    Him

    There was a beer can in his hand as he sat on the couch. My brother and I were watching television. We were only around the age of five or six. I remember asking him what I was going to look like when I grew up. I don’t know how I remember that, but I do. He responded with “you’re going to be tall, with blond hair and green eyes. You are going to be

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Himadri

    Himadri

    Assignment Questions 1. LG Electronics a. Do a SWOT analysis of Korean electronics industry during the formative years? How did firms leverage these advantages to enter developed country markets? b. Do an analysis of the strategies adopted by LG? Did it have specific strategies for emerging markets? Trace the common elements of LG's strategy in BRIC countries. c. What critical points of learning can be inferred from LG's success in the emerging markets? 2. Does

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    Submitted: April 18, 2011 By: himadribarah
  • Hindutva

    Hindutva

    The ideology of Hindutva is becoming popular because there is a growing realization that everything else that has been tried to inculcate a national spirit, has failed to yield the desired results. Many people previously opposed to Hindutva have embraced the ideology, as they believe that the solutions to the country's problems can be found within it. At the mass level, with the work done by many individuals and organizations, the acceptance has been a

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    Essay Length: 389 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Hints to Young Wives

    Hints to Young Wives

    Referring to “Hints to Young Wives” by Fanny Fern This piece reminded me of the advice someone gave me once, “Never love anyone more than they love you.” When things were good, they were never good enough. When they are bad, it’s your fault. Relationships are a negotiation, not just a compromise. The negotiations begin with the first hello. The cement for the relationship starts drying within the first two weeks. Boundaries and rules are

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Hip Hop Isamerica

    Hip Hop Isamerica

    Hip Hop / Rap as the music is called in essence focuses on the depression and good feelings and times of urban America. It also engages racism, sexism, violence, materialism, and aggression that blacks have towards each other and other races. Hip Hop now in it’s present form is a business an commercial industry that makes billions of dollars every day and employs convicts, drug dealers, even children. Although it’s America’s most profitable profession it

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    Submitted: May 14, 2010 By: David
  • Hip Hop Music Should Be Heavily Censored Here on Out

    Hip Hop Music Should Be Heavily Censored Here on Out

    Hip Hop Music Should Be Heavily Censored Here On Out Hip hop music is a way that a person can express themselves. Over the years hip hop music has created many opportunities for individuals to make money. Hip hop music has many people that likes and dislike the language usage. Hip hop music should be heavily censored because of the language used in the records, disrespecting of a culture and the misrepresentation of themselves and

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    Essay Length: 503 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Vika
  • Hired Man

    Hired Man

    Death of a Hired Man is one of Frost's longer works. All but a few lines are dialog between Mary and her husband Warren about Silas, an old itenerant worker who comes to their farm when he needs money. Only this time Mary senses that there is something different. Silas looks old and unwell, and is rambling on about things that happened on the farm years before. She's pleading with Warren to let Silas stay

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike
  • Hiroshima Essay

    Hiroshima Essay

    The most significant theme in John Hersey’s book “Hiroshima” are the long- term effects of war, confusion about what happened, long term mental and physical scars, short term mental and physical scars, and people being killed. The confusing things after the A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima where that the city had been wiped out, all means of communication where gone, all the roads and street signes where wiped out, destroyed or blocked by collapsed buildings

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    Essay Length: 640 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: July
  • Hispanic American Diversity

    Hispanic American Diversity

    Every Hispanic in our Nation has had on going problems with their race, background, culture, and language. Even if they are American Citizens, they are known as “immigrants” just because they are Hispanic. America does not see Hispanics in their groups of culture diversity they only see them as Hispanics, but that is not the case there are groups of Hispanics as there are groups of Americans. Mexican Americans have always been known as “Mexicans”.

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    Essay Length: 494 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Historical and Social Background

    Historical and Social Background

    The Victorian Age – 1837-1901 -expansion of Empire -India, Burma, Africa, Australia, Canada, South Africa -industrialization - Machinery, steam Engine Farm→ Factory- urbanization Rural ↓ urban Daily life in the UK was better Class system: Working class House of Commons Middle Class→ Factory owner"new money" Upper class→ noble –old money House of Lords Reforms: Shorter working Working day was limited to ten hours a day and 60 hours a week Emerging Democracy More people

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    Essay Length: 308 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: hagi
  • Historical Factors in Year of Wonders

    Historical Factors in Year of Wonders

    Historical Factors in Year of Wonders The novel of the Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks, can be looked at as a comparison of the contemporary events that society is affected by today. The thought of AIDS, Ebola, or the threat of biological warfare frightens society today. By reading this novel about past catastrophic events it can become a psychological way to deal with the dangers we now face in the present. “The term plague

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    Essay Length: 1,469 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Historical Macbeth Compared to Shakespeare's Macbeth

    Historical Macbeth Compared to Shakespeare's Macbeth

    Historical MacBeth compared to Shakespeare's MacBeth Although most of Shakespeare's play " MacBeth " is not historically accurate, MacBeth's life is the subject of the tragedy. There are characters and events that are based on true events and real persons but, Shakespeare's "MacBeth " differs significantly from history's MacBeth. The first example of a difference between the Shakespeare "MacBeth" and historical MacBeth is the death of Duncan I. In Shakespeare's " MacBeth ", Duncan

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    Essay Length: 461 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Kevin
  • History

    History

    In this project we explore the intersections of women's agency and discourses of health and disease. The project developed out of a written 'conversation' between us, scribbled on Heather's notebook during Emily Martin's lecture one evening. It was prompted by a previous lecture, and an exchange in that day's tutorial. In this written dialogue, we questioned the 'healthy-sick' dichotomy. A few days later, we decided to find out what other women felt about this, and

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    Essay Length: 418 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 31, 2010 By: Yan
  • History in the Making

    History in the Making

    Outline Thesis: Symbolism such as certain objects, their front yard, and the different characters, are all used to represent the main theme that heritage is something to always be proud of. 1. Objects a. Quilts i. Historical African-American woman ii. Family heritage iii. Changing of lifestyles b. Sunglasses 1. The front yard a. Life’s simplicity b. Plainness of the Yard 2. The Characters a. Maggie i. Tradition b. Mama/Mrs. Johnson i. Her narrating ii. Her

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    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: Janna
  • History of Accounting and Its Importance

    History of Accounting and Its Importance

    History of Accounting and Its Importance On September 28, 1998, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Arthur Levitt sounded the call to arms in the financial community. Levitt asked for, immediate and coordinated action… to assure credibility and transparency of financial reporting. Levitt's speech emphasized the importance of clear financial reporting to those gathered at New York University. Reporting which has bowed to the pressures and tricks of earnings management. Levitt specifically

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    Essay Length: 2,174 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Tommy
  • History of Detective Fiction

    History of Detective Fiction

    History of Detective Fiction When I came to your class I had little knowledge of what detective fiction was, I knew it dealt with mystery, but never knew the real meaning of it. Thanks to you and your assignment, now I know. According to Wikipedia.org detective fiction is, “A branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually by murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur”. It is closely related

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    Essay Length: 351 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Stenly
  • History of English Sports

    History of English Sports

    History of English Sports Sports are a favorite pastime of everybody. Through out history, sports have been a predominate part of each individual culture. English sports have arguably had the greatest impact of the sports played in the world today. Almost all of the sports we have come to know and love today have their origins in England. Though English sports are not played by everyone, they have left a lasting legacy on the world

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    Essay Length: 1,749 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Jon
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