The book called "the secret life of bees" is a novel about women working and living together to promote the sense of unity and spirituality for women. ... A major symbol in the novel is the bees. The bees represent emotions and other representations of life. ... It is unclear what the full meaning of the bees is; yet it is possible to assume that in another sense their actions (their life and their proceedings while the characters tended to them) follow the outline of the story itself. ... In this novel, female power played an important role as it drove the main characters to accept an...

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In 1886 Little Lord Fauntleroy, the book that transformed Burnett's life, was published. ... Over the course of her life, Burnett wrote more than forty books, for both adults and children. ... CHARACTERS Mary Lennox - Once of the novel's two protagonists, Mary Lennox is a ten-year-old girl who, after the death of her parents in India, is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire, England. ... She begins the book as its central characters, but is later displaced by Colin. ... Although he is rather rough, Ben's essential kindness is fundamental to his character. ...

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He was so absorbed in the lies and the money that wrapped up his life that he never really got a true view of reality. ... She was obsessed with the money, becoming the only thing that was important to her. ... (pg 21) She finds it more important for a girl to be pretty and careless rather than being concerned with the things going on. ... So just like the flower that is innocent on the outside and rich in pollen (value to the bees) on the inside, Daisy is innocent on the outside and deep down only concerned with money. ... Everyone came to him to tell him their little secrets which help...

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There are many important differences between the two novels. ... Besides the genre of the book another similarity is the nature of the characters in each book. ... The Savage and Helmhoz in Brave New World are also similar to Winston because they are outcasts, important characters that make an impact of their society because of the way it is. ... In 1984 the hypocrisy is not brought to as great of a level as that, because people have to live a standard way of life, and cant form their own opinos because of the fear of beeing caught. ... Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning against the results of...

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Love plays a very important role in Hurston's "Their Eyes were watching God". Hurston's best novel describes the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. ... Each marriage helps Janie finds her own wishes and goals in life. Janie gets her definition of love from "nature," when she witnesses the "marriage" between the pear tree and the bee. ... He is secretly jealous of other men touching or even looking at it. ...

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Some claims have been made that more than six hundred new religions have bee created or imported here in the last few decades. ... Totalistic cults also force members to give up independent ways of thinking and activities; all life is directed along the lines of the cult. ... Cults are dynamic and can change their character over time, which means that these classifications are not concrete. ... They make an individual feel accepted by the group and also important within the cult. ... The third aspect of cults that is important to fully understand them are the rituals that take place within cul...

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The next plot takes place when the child grows up, and Death shows him the secret of the herb. ... He feels he should confront them because his values and his position are very important to him. ... Characterization is very important to every story. ... In "Godfather Death," all the characters are flat characters. ... The Queen is a flat character. ...

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This is because the central character Jeff is confined to his wheelchair watching the people in the windows across the courtyard similar to the cinemagoer that is confined to their seat with the sole purpose to gaze upon the screen that tells the story of other peoples" lives. ... However, as well as the historical information of 1950s American society, it is also important to acknowledge the role and influence of Paramount on its productions in the 1950s. ... Elise Lemire's discussion of Rear Window also exposes how Jeff's pleasure that he gets from secretly watching his neighbour...

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For example, the bee's knees (excellent person or thing); razzle-dazzle (daft); half-inch means pinch (because it rhymes between inch and pinch); tealeaf refers to thieves; north and south refers to mouth (because it rhymes between south and mouth) etc. ... Poop =nincompoop; Biz = business; nuke = nuclear weapon; G-man is the shortening of Government-man, it often refers to the secret service in federal investigation office, also refers to garbage workers, for G also is the shortening of Garbage, it is kidding to name garbage workers as G-man. ... (9) The pressure ladies half-succes...

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It is Hobbes' proposition that even though individuals may differ in the strengths of their various natural powers, all people are naturally equal, because even the weakest is capable of killing the strongest by some means: "Nature hath made men so equal, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there bee found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind then another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit, to which another may not pretend, a...

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Numerous problems present themselves in reconstructing the life of women in ancient Greece. ... Reading the plays of the classical playwrights give us evidence of women as strong, central characters in Greek tragedies and epics. ... There is good evidence to indicate that priestesses were more important than priests on Crete. ... Females participated in various religious rituals involving dancing and sacrifices, both important components of religious activities in later Greek history. ... Homer's works became the Greek "bible", outlining for the Greeks their heroic past, and ho...

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Specifically, surveyed adolescents in Liana Clark's article "Beyond The Birds & The Bees: Talking To Teens About Sex" in Patient Care, say they want to know more about how to prevent AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (47%), how to use birth control (32%), where to get birth control (28%), and how girls get pregnant (22%). ... Having a child to care for at such a young age is likely to ruin the life of, or at least terminate the hopes of, any teenage girl. ...

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Afterlife: In general, Native religions have no precise belief about life after death. ... Others believe that nothing definitely can be known about one's fate after this life. ... The goal is to receive a vision that will guide his development for the rest of his life. ... Now visualize an opening into the earth that you remember from sometime in your life. ...

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Miss Maudie is one of the book's strongest female characters and one of the few residents of Maycomb who shares Atticus' sense of justice. ... Whereas Aunt Alexandra will provide guidance regarding the correct behavior for ladies, Miss Maudie will provide a stronger role model, as she understands the tomboy aspect of Scout's character. ...

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