... merely of some kinds of state-mandated purpose, rather than as the more radical critique of end-driven societies that I am proposing it is. A clue to what is qualitatively distinct about Ahab's purposefulness, however, can be found in Starbuck's objections to dedicating the Pequod's voyage to Moby-Dick's demise. In a way typical of him, Starbuck disparages Ahab's proposed quest by complaining ... a means to his own ends-quite conventionally domestic ones, if we give weight to his wistful imagination of his homecoming, of "my Mary" and the boy's face at the window "the boy's hand on the ...

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... the boy's name is "Blivet," a term for "ten pounds of sh*t in a five-pound sack." Blevins is a walking contradiction, many aspects of whom eventually lead to more hazard. Confronted with the quintessential Scylla and Charybdis enigma - to help Blevins or send him packing - John and Rawlins arrive at a consensus to accept Blevins into their troupe, which leads to further discoveries about the ... reclaim his gun, a venture which had facilitated the deaths of three men, a crime he paid for with his life. Even through Rawlins" continuous insinuations about abandoning Rawlins, John inexorab...

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... biological and evolutionary psychologists , social constructivists believe that "gender" is not necessarily determined by our sex, rather it is a socially constructed set of ideas about what it is to be male or female and then taken on and acted upon in order to fully belong to that group which we naturally belong. Social ... whether we are male or female, before the birth older siblings may be asked whether they want a brother or sister, there are either boy or girl birth cards, many people delay buying many clothes until they know the sex or buy and make clothes they feel neutral and c...

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... felony and expelled from school.    In an article similarly discussing the improper implementation of zero tolerance policies, Decker (2005) tells the story of a third-grade boy from Green Bay, Wisconsin. The young boy was suspended for wearing a small key chain that contained a one-inch plastic replica of a gun. School officials emphasized "the importance of safety," in ... the school environment and reducing violence; however, these asserted claims remain unsubstantiated by sufficient statistical evidence. The enactment of Zero-Tolerance Policies was primarily influenced by strong ass...

• Word Count: 4044
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... resembles "unshaped sound" (95). Her inability to define the voice and attach a form to it is frustrating, as this description, for all its many words, tells us nothing about the voice in the end other than that it is unclear. Indeed, when the voice is described a final time two pages later, it remains "a strange, vague murmur, which might ... perceives to be "betwitched", becoming fearful that she has "summoned up an evil spirit" (49)-yet we quickly discover that it is simply a sweet little urchin boy wanting to buy gingerbread. However, later in the novel after Hepzibah discovers Judg...

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Throughout Joyce's short story of a nameless adolescent boy, the recurring theme of colour and darkness is one of several literary devices deployed in the narrative to engage the reader in understanding the transformation which the protagonist is experiencing. ... his frustrating delay to get to Araby. Being smitten with his friend's sister at the beginning of the story, he is completely consumed by "her image" after speaking with her about the upcoming bazaar: "The light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there and, falling, lit u...

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... identity that they are interacting with is manufactured. Moreover, any individual could be, for example, a male heterosexual in real life but may interact in a net community as a single female, a teenage boy in another, or even a homosexual male in another (Lewis 2002). Masquerading with a fabricated identity can give individuals the ability to discard, in cyberspace at least, the burdens that marginalise them ... withdrawn and depressive." As people retreat into, and find comfort in, cyber communities, a debate remains as to whether that spells the end of traditional interpersonal comm...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... one of the most important films of Italian neorealism. Through a simple story (a man with his son searches his stolen bicycle, extremely important for his survival) the film became a parable about the difficulties and the problems which afflicted Italy during the post-war period. In this essay I will analyse all the characteristics that make Bicycles Thieves a realistic film, and all the ... the historic events. I personally believe that Antonio Ricci's sequences are an "excuse " to show the public different realities: in this manner Bicycle Thieves becomes a movie about family, about wo...

• Word Count: 1552
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• Grade Level: Graduate