The author condenses two years of living into one entire year in the book to show the unimportance of calendar time and call for attention of the significance of the symbolic time. ... It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. ... Walden as a story ends with the last chapter, but it will be continually passed down one generation after another as intellectual philosophy about the human society ...

• Word Count: 1286
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Entertainment Weekly also agrees about the picture of Los Angeles,"The opening shot is a hellishly beautiful vision of the twenty-first century Los Angeles, casting druggy, hypnotic spells." ... The last replicant left living, Roy Batty has the chance to kill Deckard, hanging from a roof by two fingers, but Batty decides to spare his life pulling Deckard to safety. ... There is no plausible way for geneticists to be as advanced as the movie shows in 2019. ...

• Word Count: 1353
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Robinson shows merely how Cory appears to the outside world. This is actually the sole driving force of Cory: he wants to be society's picture of the perfect man. ... This explains the positive imagery juxtaposed to the telling of his death contained in the last two verses on the poem "And Richard Cory, one calm summer night/ Went home and put a bullet through his head."" ... The speaker utilizes the words "imperially," "crown" and "king" to show that Cory is looked upon highly as far above the common folk, which intensifies his state of aloneness and feelings of loneliness, since nob...

• Word Count: 1536
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Bible says that the Holy Grail was the cup that Jesus drank from at the last supper. ... Life isn't a 1001 piece puzzle with each piece interlocking to make a beautiful picture. ... Say you have a cancer test done, it shows that you have cancer, now what do you do? ... On March 5th she was at a craft show in our city when she began feeling ill. ...

• Word Count: 1708
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School