The play As You Like It, was written about 600 years ago by William Shakespeare, yet the morals of this poem are still discussed today. ... "My father charged you in his will to give me good education," he stormed at his eldest brother Oliver, "but you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities!" ... "Ten days," he told her, "If you outstay the time, you die." ... They talked and in the end Rosalind decided to test Orlando and said that "he" would like to meet the young man who "haunts the forest abuses our young plants with carving "Rosalind" ...

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Do you like to drive fast? Every Saturday night my brothers and I like to go street racing. It is a hobby for us; some people like to collect things; we like to build up our cars and race them. ... When I say races you might think I am talking about a track you go and run your car. ... You pay twenty dollars to race but in a day you can only get two or three races. ...

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For Romeo and Juliet, there is Friar Lawrence, Julius Caesar there is Casca, and for As You Like It there is Touchstone. ... In the play As You Like It, Shakespeare creates the character Touchstone and uses his quick wit and playful attitude to add an additional amount of comedy. ... Once William says no, Touchstone replies wittingly, "For all you writers do consent/that ipse is "he." Now you are not ipse for I am he. ... Jaques looks up to Touchstone and wants to be like him saying, "O, that I were a fool! ...

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Both Shakespeare's comedic play As You Like It and Ken Kesey's post-modernist novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," portrays the transformation of its characters throughout the texts, via a close examination of the gradual evolution of character that occurs within the protagonists of each text. ... This can be seen in Shakespeare's, "As You Like It," which explores the growth of characters throughout their journeys through an examination of personal adversity. ... Conversely, Shakespeare's, "As You Like It," explores the notion of the transformation of identity as ...

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Lennie is a huge bear-like man with a mind of a small child. ... He even said " You got no right to come in my room". ... I think she does this so as not to frighten her off, because is she gets onto him, Lennie's child-like mind might not no what to do, and he might panic. ...

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Money would write this off as Brenda being a tomboy and trying to act like her brother, which would happen a lot when you had twins. ... David best sums up what he felt when he said " you know generally what a guy is like, and you know generally what a girl is like. And everyone is telling you that you are a girl. But you say to yourself, I don't feel like a girl. ... He thought his experiment worked; it wasn't the way you were born but the way you were brought up. ...

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A girl like me can't have an eating disorder. ... It didn't matter how much I tried to talk myself out of it I knew that if you starve yourself you will lose weight, it as fact that everyone knows. I became very isolated because of this and didn't felt like going to school. ... In the end you will always be too much of something for someone, too fat, too quiet, too edgy. If you round out your corners you'll lose your edge. ...

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"If you are ugly-repulsive you can not be completely happy" I do agree that good birth and beauty are important components to happiness. ... I would have a much more free time and I would be able to meet more people than the regular person because I wouldn't have to worry about things like a job and future. ... I also thing that people like that always had to live with that question deep down inside of them, which in my opinion prevent them in some way of having a happy relationship. ... Having the money you can find a true friend; however, there are much greater chances th...

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But I don't want you to do it if you don't really want to." ... "But I don't want anybody but you" It's really wrong of him to make a comment like that. ... " I love you now, you know I love you" It seems like he's saying whatever it takes for her to agree to have an abortion... " if I say things like white elephants and from essaybank.co.uk you"ll like it?" ... I love it now but I can't think about it, you know how I get when I worry" When she asks him questions like that he doesn't sound very reassuring, he attempts to change the subject. ...

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Have you ever heard the saying, "You are who you"re friends are. ... She's right; you are who your friends are. ... In a way I have always been like that. ... They weren't really cool; they were more like me. ... The kids in the family were a lot like me and did a lot of the things that I did. ...

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In Joyce Carol Oates" short story, "Where are you going, Where have you been?" ... Connie's mother would act as if she liked her sister better. Connie tried hard to look her best and get her mothers approval but she would find her mother asking, "Why don"t you keep your room clean like your sister? ... You don"t see your sister using that junk?" ... "Where are you going Where have you been" is a descriptive story that reads like a movie in your head. ...

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But I don't want you to do it if you don't really want to." ... "But I don't want anybody but you" It's really wrong of him to make a comment like that. ... " I love you now, you know I love you" It seems like he's saying whatever it takes for her to agree to have an abortion... I love it now but I can't think about it, you know how I get when I worry" When she asks him questions like that he doesn't sound very reassuring, he attempts to change the subject. ... The story Hills like white elephants is based on a decision that must be m...

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Marriage Is Like A Prison Marriage is like a prison. ... Love is a rush of emotions that are felt about a person, just like the rush of emotions one feels before a crime is committed. ... Things once enjoyed, like spending time with the girls or going to clubs and parties, no longer exist. ... You now have an obligation to the your spouse, and life revolves around both of you as a unit, instead of you alone. ... Like prison, marriage takes away time, patience, and independence. ...

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In "Hills like White Elephants- the author does not actually say in the text what is happening. ... The title "Hills like White Elephants- can tell you something if you think about symbols and the meaning of them. ... On one side there is no shade, no trees, only hills, which are white, like elephants. ... The title of this novel "Hills like White Elephants- symbolize her pregnancy where the hills symbolize her belly and the white elephant symbolize something that a person normally does not want (You can buy a white elephant in a market place). ... When you read the story the symbols are ve...

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I felt like I was locked in a W.W.E. wrestling ring with no way out. ... You a fag? ... This hit my like a ton of bricks. ... I felt like any minute I would melt into a puddle on the floor. ... I would not handle my own mother speaking to me like I was the trash on the bottom of her shoe. ...

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Hills Like White Elephants reflects the power of men over women. ... 'And you think then we'll be all right and be happy' 'And you really want to?' ... 'But I don't want anybody but you. ... He tells her he will love her and everything will be like they used to. ... I wouldn't have you do it if you didn't want to. ...

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Her mother does not like her playing football and wants her to be like her; into shopping and boys. Moreover she wants her to be more like her. ... You can tell this clearly by all the comments the mother makes. ... This is where you see the most drastic change in the movie. You see her mother changing from not approving of Jules playing football and dressing like a tomboy to, giving her a jersey and sending her to America to play football. ...

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"You've got to realize that I don't want you to do it if you don't want to. ... Inability to communicate makes two loving people feel and act like strangers. ... The conversation between the man and woman is much like the train tracks, running parallel, yet never meeting. ... - and the American replies Jig "I love you. You know I love you-, but it's clear that these two people are not acting as a loving couple. ...

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Dear Brian, I know your birthday is coming soon.I will not say "Happy birthday",because I hope we will talk still then.But I know you will probably have a party.You are 14 years old,now.Well,I want to tell you some ideas for a party.I don't know how parties are in U.S.A., but I know how they are here,in Romania.I hope you will like my ideas. ... There are big parties when children celebrate their 14th anniversary.They invite many people,the closest friends,their family and they have special parties.They dance,they play games, they have competitions and they can cele...

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"Black Like Me"- the story of a white that chooses to alter his skin color in order to find out what it is like to be a black person. ... "Once again a "hate stare" drew my attention like a magnet. ... You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. ... I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?"" ... From the moment you read the first page you know basically what the story is going to be about. ...

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I find this odd, simply because English is our language and it truly amazes me how someone could be brilliant in math and science but when they open their mouth, they sound like idiots because they don't know the proper way to speak. ... If you use improper English, you will most likely come off as unintelligent, even if you were the one who found the cure for cancer. ...

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You looked at me, dead in the eyes, like you could look through my body and into my soul. ... You act recklessly, living life like there is no tomorrow. ... You like to lie down on the grass and stare at the night sky. ... You said that that you were falling, just like the raindrops from the sky. ... And I told you that you were beautiful, like I always did. ...

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As I read over Ernest Hemingway's short story, Hills Like White Elephants, there is one powerful theme that clearly stands out. ... The man then goes on to say, "And if I do it you"ll be happy and things will be like they were and you"ll love me?" The woman then replies, "I love you now. You know I love you." ... The woman comments on the hill looking like white elephants. ...

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Connie, the main character of the story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?... Connie fit into the stereo typical role of a teenage girl, like most of them do. ... The emotions before the encounter were usually child-like and immature. ... Joyce Carol Oates describes Connie from there different points in the story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?. ... Connie had to finally stop acting like just a girl and start acting like the young women she had always wanted to be. ...

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Where has the common saying, "the older you get, the wiser you get" gone? It's more like wise is the synonym for old, isn't it? ... Remember how you avoided doing things that might make you make a fool out of yourself? ... You make mistakes, and you learn from them, so you don't make the same mistakes again. ... The older you get, the wiser you get. ...

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