... in the collection of books he wrote called "the synagogue". The purpose of the volumes were to revive geometry and restore it to a level of significance, usually by providing further explanations or supplements to the works of previous geometers. The knowledge of some mathematicians was only a result from his citation. "The Synagogue" consisted of 7 books although the first 2 books are missing ... . P.Guldin (1577 - 1643). His theorem was that the volume of revolution = area bounded by curve x distance traveled by the center of gravity In Book VIII Pappus deals with mechanics. We quote P...

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... other and will do almost anything for each other. "Lennie crawled slowly and cautiously around the fire until he was close to George." This quote shows how Lennie was attached to George and could not bare to leave him. It also displays Lennie's loyalty and trust for George and his childlike behaviour ... . Another quote, which shows George's deep concern, is "George said, "I want you to stay with me, Lennie"." I personally find these quotes effective as they display ... me for pullin" him out. Clean forgot I told him to jump in"." This quotation serves to accentuate the trust Lennie has ...

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... with a totalitarian rule over every person. Rand used many significant quotes that help prove the author's points about government, religion, and life in general. The first quote of the entire book is also one of the most important, "It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think the words no others ... and transgression because she believes that every man is his own god; therefore, there is no sin but against other men and himself. The first quote foreshadows the struggle Equality is going to have with himself as well as the society around him. Since Equality wants always to know more...

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... Erich Maria Remarque. Within this book it is shown many times how a situation in the story relates to this quote. One situation in All Quiet on the Western Front that can directly relate to this quote is how all the soldiers of the war regardless of side, are fighting for another persons" cause. Many times ... shows that the soldiers of war symbolize pawns. Both pawns and soldiers of war are used to get rid of another persons" problem. This relates to the quote by showing that the soldiers who fought in this story only did so because of a promise they had made to defend and support thei...

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... !"" (26) Cleary Macbeth is distraught. His guilt is interfering with his sense of hearing. The fact that he killed someone is causing him to hallucinate. Another quote that uses imagery is used in the banquet scene. Macbeth sees Banquos ghost in his chair. He says, "Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake ... . The theme of guilt consumes people can be also be seen in this play through the use of metaphors. After Macbeth killed the king he said this quote: "Will all great Neptune's ocean this blood clean from my hand." (27) Macbeth means he wishes that he had never killed the king. Anoth...

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... put it in your own words. Usually, the words you use to paraphrase make the message of the speaker more simply understood. Paraphrase these quotes 1. Quote about Higgins, page 34: "He is, in fact, but for his years and size, rather like a very impetuous baby "taking notice" eagerly ... stormy petulance when anything goes wrong."" "His manners vary from cheerful bullying when in a good mood and when something is wrong he is impatient- 3. Quote about Liza, page 36: "The pathos of this deplorable figure, with its innocent vanity and consequential air, touches Pickering."" "The sympathy of th...

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... course he was killed and that was the end of it." "I don't know." "Oh, yes," she said. "That's the end of it" (Pg. 19) This quote shows that Catherine knows that death is the end of all things. She started to believe in this idea when her fiancée died. The ... "You're lying to me." "Yes." "It's all right. Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do. Were they pretty?" (Pg. 104) This quote shows that both Frederick and Catherine are using their love affair to keep their minds off distractions in their lives. For Frederick it is the war, which he believes, has ... nothing to...

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... . One quotation from this book is "It will simply try to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by war."" This quote is important because it shows how the experience of war kills the soldiers' innocence and essentially kills them inside. Another ... quote is "I have remade his bed fourteen times in one morning."" This quote shows the harsh treatment toward the soldiers by Corporal Himmelstoss. A third quote is "I put my hand to my eyes, it is so fantastic, am I child?- This quote is ver6 important because it shows the loss of innocen...

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... that is felt with two humans. To me this is they type of passion that people cannot describe but only really feel. I think this quote shows the deep desire well. A strong feeling of intense emotion. Even though the quote is short it almost tells a story for the reader. The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations was my next source. This book guided ... my to a quote of a Swiss psychologist named Carl Gustav Jung. He said, "A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them" ( ). This quote I found very interesting. It is one that I had to sit ...

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... kids get to know him, they find out that he is a good, sweet person who drinks coca-cola all the time, not alcohol. One quote that shows this is, "Scout, it's nothing but Coca-Cola."(200) Another quote is, "You just pretend you're half-? I beg your pardon, sir."(200) They do not think that people should hate him just because of ... could see the whole neighborhood from the porch, so wherever Scout and her brother were, he could see them. She understood him after seeing the world from his perspective. One quote which shows this theme is, "You never really understand a person until you co...

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... of this ugly wall-paper is only a glimpse of what is to come. As the narrator's mind continues to wander uncontrollably, she leads us to this next quote, which moves us further into her disturbed mind. "He says no one but myself can help me out of it, that I must use my will and ... of herself as getting better in her mind and body, for the sake of other people, rather than herself. Her use of the word "I" in this quote does not become an act of assertion, but rather of compliance determined by John's authority. The narrator doubts that she will ever recover mentally, and although John ....

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... made the supreme sacrifice for their country, but the loved ones left behind continued to suffer the rest of their lives"(p.268). I selected this quote because it shows the vast number of people that WWII has effected. Fred said that trying to console Paul's mother about his death was one ... thing Paul's parents were. "Try as I might, I could never control my reflexes and keep them from reacting to those sounds"(p.270). I selected this quote because it shows how WWII had mentally effected Fred. The condition Fred acquired during his wartime experiences can be identified as "shell shock."...

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... attack from Grendel's mother. Seamus describes it, "blood was spilled," and the king "mourned under morning." Another theme was Light vs. Dark. A direct quote was "at daybreak, with the sun's first light, they saw how well he had worked." This is reference to how well Grendel had "worked" the ... examples of light include, "the world's candle lit," and "earth's lamp light." These both talking about the sun. Now on to dark. A direct quote for dark is "I swam in the blackness of night, hunting monsters out of the ocean, and killing them one by one." This is just an example ... of savage...

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... Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse till he that died to-day, This must be so."" (1.2.90-109) This quote shows how Hamlet's uncle wants to open his arms with a kind of fatherly love, yet he criticizes his grief by calling him obsequious, unmanly, stubborn, ... and peace, That inward breaks, and shows no cause without Why the man dies.""I humbly thank you, sir- (4.4.26-30). In this quote, Hamlet does not understand why would anyone sacrifice so many soldiers for a mere strip of land. What he later determines is that this is Fortinbras ... also the fate of ...

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... "It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings." Through this quote, James shows his belief that even if placed in a bad environment, a person should overcome its effects. In Native Son, by Richard Wright, the protagonist Bigger Thomas ... cut the green cloth on the table with long sweeping strokes of his arm. He never took his eye's from Doc's face" (42). As this quote shows, Bigger once again transfers and hides his fear into anger and violence. After leaving the billiards room he...

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... someone such as Phoebe. On page 67, he says, "You should see her. You never saw a little kid so pretty and smart in your whole life. She's really smart" This quote shows that he thinks very highly of Phoebe and respects the fact that she is smart. On the same page he goes on to describe Phoebe. "But you ought to ... behind her ears. She has nice, pretty little ears. In the wintertime, it's pretty long, thought. Sometimes my mother braids it and sometimes she doesn't. It's really nice, though." This quote shows that Holden pays a lot of close attention to Phoebe and the way her hair look...

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... a while he had gotten to be use to them and how they lived their lives. "Oh, dear Lord, what am I going to do about this vicarage?"(Craven, 38) in this quote he shows that even though he is not in church or near his homeland that he can still find his faith and manage to find God when in need. Also ... the people are getting used to him. " As my people have always lived. They will live on fish, and clams, and seaweed. Later they will pick berries."(73) In this quote someone is explaining that they are living as they have always lived and that they don't need him to change that. That he ...

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... doth shine; But there's but one in all doth hold his place. Julius Caesar was a very arrogant man, and William Shakespear did an excellent job by portraying this in the quote above. He illustrated that if HE could pray to move, that prayers would move HIM. Using such a highly respected action as praying in relationship to Caesar himself, that makes Caesar ... that he is totally lying at this point, and just trying to boost his self-image. Caesar changed his mind in this quote from earlier when he was not going to go to the Capitol. The final part of his quote, regarding the sky being pa...

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... help to others shows how important he actually is. " One day she's going to leave you for good." In this quote Sam is trying to help Willie see the importance of his women, and why he should not hit her. This quote shows Sam's importance to Willy's life. Without Sam, Willy would beat his dance partner/girlfriend everytime she made a mistake in ... , Sam helps him solve all his problems and helps him with his homework. " Would I be stretching poetic license a little too far if I called your ballroom championship a cultural event?" In this quote Hally is trying to write a five hundred-word...

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... temples. Any visible expression of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers" (515). Crane compares man to nature in the sense that man is inferior to nature. In this quote, the author states that nature controls the destiny. Since the sea is unpredictable and always changes, it is impossible to say what the outcome is going to be. "If I am ... established on the seas. No one said that it was so. No one mentioned it. But it dwelt in the boat, and each man felt it warm him" (507). The quote is saying that despite all the hardships of their situation, they were still bonded together ...

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... puzzling it out then do not say you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this because I want to be a man." This quote is from a letter that Dostoevsky sent to his brother at the age of eighteen. The quote shows the mindset of the author. This mystery is what Crime and Punishment is about. Dostoevsky reveals this mystery through guilt. He shows ... bring confession. Knowledge of crime or bad deeds lead to guilt. " I was not delirious, I knew what I was doing," he cried straining. "I was quite myself do you hear?" (Dostoevsky 310) This quote shows that Raskolnikov knew what he was ...

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... Santiago is at sea and hooks the fish, he feels he needs the energy and strength of the young boy to catch the marlin. He reflects on this in the quote, "But you haven't got the boy he thought. You have only yourself, and you had better work back to the last line now, in the dark, and cut it and ... hook up the two reserve coils." This quote is symbolic of making do with what life presents to man. Many times in life help is not always available to relieve amounts of work or pain when striving for ... is mine? Mine I must improvise because of his great size. If he will jump I can kill h...

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... , and her son's death and still manages to keep her family together. She gets through the tough times by trying to stay positive. You can see her goodness in this quote, "Florentine realized that between Daniel's wish and the shiny flute there would always be her mother's good intention-an intention repressed" (120). Rose-Anna's only desire is to help her ... all. This makes her the bad aspect of and independent woman because she uses Emmanuel's love for to solve her own problems. She realizes Emmanuel's love for her in this quote, "Then his gaze fell on her and his face brightened. Jean...

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... like ants- (18). Here, Conrad is giving us more insight into Marlow's character. The natives are being described here as "ants- which shows Marlow's "relation- with them, per se. This quote shows us how Marlow dehumanizes the natives by calling them ants more insight into his character. He also reveals that he views the natives on a different level than himself, as ... limbs were like knots in a rope, each had an iron color on his neck and all were connected with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking (19). Again, this quote reinforces the way that Marlow sees th...

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... strength of as a person through this. "Kelly been given a choice to either go with her mother or stay with her father and she had chosen to stay". (pg 102) This quote shows that Kelly did not want to live with her mother but she wanted to stay with her father instead and take care of him as he needed it. The ... either further out, in big houses with gardens and swimming pools, or nearby in large renovated Victorian terraces with high ceilings, elegant furniture and real paintings on walls". (pg 4) This quote shows that Kelly's house wasn't as big as her friends who have houses that hav...

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