The Faint Essays

  • Racism In High School-Personal Narrative

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    The summer rays beating down on the sun dried grass, the faint ring of the tune of an ice cream truck is fading as it gets farther and farther away from our car. Mom and Dad are playing the license plate game in the front seat while I pull my white beaten up earbuds out of my pocket. As I am skipping through my playlist, I hear a quick scream that is soon cut off by a crash then everything fades. That is a day I will never forget, I can still remember every detail, being carried away by the paramedics

  • Zenovius Treat: A Narrative Fiction

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    Zenovius woke up, back in bed. He quickly sat up and looked at where his clothes were, everything seemed to be in order. He sighed and got up, getting dressed. Looking his coat over, he was a little shocked to find all his weapons missing, but before he could fully inspect the situation, a horde of mangled blood-soaked arms burst forth from the coat, startling Zenovius, causing him to fling the coat across the room and recoil, tripping over his bed then quickly transitioning his blunder into a somersault

  • Racism In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

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    William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” critiques the American South Describing Emily’s vibrant life full of hope and buoyancy, later shrouded into the profound mystery, Faulkner emphasizes her denial to accept the concept of death. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” takes place in the South during the transitional time period from the racial discrimination to the core political change of racial equality. Starting from the description of her death, “A Rose for Emily” tells the story about the lady

  • The Handmaid's Tale: A Short Story

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    Nobody move, nobody spoke, they all simply stared. I tried to move, but sitting up alone was taking all my strength. I was a monster to them. Everyone had seen my power. I was done here; they’d never let me stay. A firm steady clap echoed through the ravine. A hushed whispered spread as people moved out of the way of the cloaked man. He continued to clap with a smile showing on his half hooded face. “My, my,” he said lightly. “My sparrow has sprouted his first wings.” He lowered his hood, revealing

  • How Did Mary Warren Contribute To The Hysteria In The Crucible

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    Mary Warren comes to the court in an attempt to explain that she and the other girls had made false accusations, which were based on their fear and mass hysteria. It started with wanting to get out of trouble for dancing and conjuring spells, but continued because their fear of retribution from Abigail. Danforth is also caught up in her act, with just a few screams to make him believe that he is witnessing witchcraft. Mary believed she had seen spirits earlier because she was caught up in the

  • Macromolecules Lab Report

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    Introduction The purpose of this lab is to use control variables to help identify different macromolecules. Biological systems are made up of these four major macromolecules: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. Carbohydrates are sugar molecules (monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides) which make them the most abundant macromolecule on the earth. Lipids (oils and fats, phospholipids and steroids) are insoluble in water and perform many functions such as energy source,

  • Personal Narrative: I Was Out Of School

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    grade, I was out of school for a week because of sickness. As usual, is always a cold, fever, and bad sore throat. After I get sick, I always faint because of dehydration. My mom, as always, ask me if I feel like I am going to faint and most of the time is a “yes”. At that time, before I passed out, I told her “no” that I did not feel like I was going to faint because I did not feel dizzy. My mom never really know what I am feeling because sometimes things change with my answer I give her. I woke up

  • Examples Of Mary Warren In The Crucible

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    In The Crucible, I believe that Mary Warren could have ended the mass hysteria in Salem by telling the truth to Danforth, pretending to faint in court, and not cracking under peer pressure. In The Crucible Act 3 Mary confesses to Judge Danforth, that she and the girls were all lying about witches hurting them and seeing Satin. Hathorne asks Mary to pretend to faint to prove that spirits did

  • Humphry Clinker: Character Analysis

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    She’s coming from a scandal at her boarding school, and is considered to be the most inexperienced of the group. Her sensibility is much more emotion driven, as is usually attributed to women. Lydia faints in Hot Wells while she and her uncle are entertaining a man who reveals himself to be her suitor Wilson. Her letter declares “I was so surprised, and so frightened that I fainted away” the emotion of her suitor finding her despite the overwhelming

  • How Is Mary Warren Presented In The Crucible

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    Mary of murder. Since Hale is known as an expert on the supernatural, he has the authority to accuse Mary of attempted murder through supernatural means. We are also shown an example of Mary crumbling under pressure in act three after Mary fails to faint in court; Abigail and a group of girls pretend to be bewitched by Mary to turn the court against her. Abigail proceeds to say “Oh, Mary, this is a black art to change shape” (1005 & 1006) and “Mary, please don’t hurt me” ( Miller 1016 and 1017) After

  • Why Does Proctor Use Coercive Power In The Crucible

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    pretense, Hathorne questions “Then can she pretend to faint now?” (Miller 3.736). At this moment Mary has the potential to stop Abigail, for if she faints she can prove she and the girls were previously faking. But Mary admits “I have no sense of it now”, which leads to her credibility diminishing (Miller 3.750). The power Proctor placed in her hands granted her the opportunity to defeat Abigail, but Mary doesn’t effectively use it to faint and instead weakens under the court's questioning. Abigail

  • John Proctor's Irony In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

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    John Proctor's Irony is crazy. Danforth learns that the girls danced in the woods. Hathorne questions Mary Warren and asks her to pretend to faint. When she cannot, he insists that she is lying now she cannot faint as she claims to have done before. Danforth asks Abigail if she could have imagined the spirits. Abigail denies such a possibility. Suddenly the girl's claim that Mary Warren is sending out her spirit against them. Proctor calls Abigail a whore and says to the court about their affair

  • Paper Chromatography Lab Report

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    Question: Describe what happened to the original spot of plant pigment extract? The spot traveled from the faint line on at the tip of the chromatography paper and it then created bands of colors. The original color of the plant extract was a black color and the once it was immersed in developer four it then started to travel up the paper strip. How do your Rf values compare with those of your classmates? They were similar but some were different due to errors in the experiment. List some other

  • Examples Of Mary Warren In The Crucible

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    that her and the girls had been faking everything. Judge Hathorne ordered Mary to faint like she had in the court when “spirits” had been flying around. If she could faint, it would prove that she had been lying about the witchcraft. Hathorne voices that “there are no spirits attacking you… let you turn yourself cold now, let you pretend you are attacked now, let you faint” (Miller 1203). Mary simply could not faint, and at this point the other girls had been summoned. As the questioning began, Abigail

  • Moonlight Shadow Literary Analysis

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    In the second half of the novel, “Moonlight Shadow”, the theme of death and loneliness continues. For example, Satsuki jogged to the river where she and Hitoshi hung out, when she meets a woman named Urara. Urara tells Satsuki to come back to the river on a certain day because she will have “a vision...something that happens only once every hundred years or so.” On the appointed day, Satsuki returned to the river and witnessed an unbelievable vision: “There was HItoshi. Across the river, if this

  • How Does Golding Use Simon As A Christ Figure In Lord Of The Flies

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    the other boys. This is important because Simon is the only one that faints and is made fun of because he faints. Subsequently, Simon is shy and is laughed at when he speaks "Simon's effort fell about in ruins; the laughter beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenseless to his seat." Simon is shy Unlike all the other biggens Simon is shy and cannot speak up when he is chosen to speak. Simon being shy and the only one who faints makes him weird to everyone making him the pariah of the boys on the

  • Anxiety In Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

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    Anxiety is another recurring theme in The Metamorphosis. Mrs. Samsa, Gregor’s mother, is a prime example of this. After Gregor’s mother discovers her son has transformed into a bug, she has a hard time staying conscious long enough to even look at him. When Gregor first emerges from his room, she immediately begins screaming and then collapses into the arms of her husband. “‘Help, for God’s sake, help!’ She held her head bowed down, as if she wanted to view Gregor better, but ran senselessly...At

  • Anna Garcia Autopsy Summary

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    Anna Garcia’s Autopsy report The propse of we doing autopsy report in Anna Garcia’s case is to find the injuries on Anna Garcia and think base on this autopy report.What cause she died.So overall the evidence the autopsy report we have 1 think from Anna Garcia’s Autopsy, I believe that Anna Garcia died from oxygen deprivatian and trama to head. The manner of death in natural cause. Anna Garcia’s first injuris from the Autpsy is blunt trama to the head, the wound is indicative of fall

  • He Didnt Hear The Bullets Leaving The Chamber Literary Devices

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    “He didn't hear the bullets leaving the chamber. Like lyrics suddenly dropped from the soundtrack, then the treble faded out. All that was left was bass: bodies thudding to the floor.” (Mustafah, 141) The literary devices are a simile, when comparing the bullets leaving the chamber to the end of song, a metaphor, when comparing bodies thudding to the bass of the song, and imagery, when describing the gun and bodies dropping to create an image in the reader's mind. I think that this author used these

  • Compare And Contrast House Taken Over And Fall Of The House Of Usher

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    Fear is always something that attracts several people maybe it’s because in that moment when you’re watching a scary movie or even reading a spooky story you just forget about the problems you actually have. Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over” and Edgar Allen Poe’s ““Fall of the House Of Usher”” are stories that give you that sensation however these stories are two different literary genres. “House Taken Over” emphasis on magical realism which is when author combine two contrasting elements such