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I can post powerpoints in two forms- as a Google document, giving you the link, or I can simply take the screenshots and post them here. For now, I will do both until I have a preference.
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Lord Of The Flies Essay (About Piggy)
In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the character Piggy was the most intelligent and most valuable boy on the island. He did not fall into the same hot-headedness of the group because he was so excluded for being fat and having glasses. He just wanted to get off the island, and his priority was getting rescued, which many kids on the island forgot. He was not there to have fun; he was there because he had to be, and he had to survive using his intellect.
            Piggy’s glasses were a contributing factor to why Piggy was so valuable. In the very beginning, the boys used Piggy’s glasses to start their signal fire on top of the mountains, “A fire burned on the rock and fat dripped from the roasting pig-meat into invisible flames” and they had delicious-cooked food and warmth from their fire (Golding 148). They passed time and somewhat had fun by building a fire, “And the small boys who had reached the top came sliding too till everyone but Piggy was busy” until it became too much of a burden (Golding 39). They kept busy and averted their minds off of the problem: rescue. Fire-building had become a distraction. The fire made most of the group feel safer, “There was something good about a fire. Something overwhelmingly good,” especially the younger ones (Golding 163). The fire comforted them because it has been there the whole time they have been on the island, and it is something Jack did not have when he split. Without the signal fire in the first place, they never would have been found from it burning the whole island down and producing a wild amount of smoke to see.
            For Piggy, the conch was what mattered most [besides rescue] and he tried hard to keep it that way. He only talked when he had the conch to try to set an example for others, and Piggy “was standing cradling the great cream shell and the shouting died down” to make it seem as though the conch is all-powerful (Golding 33). He acted like the conch was valuable and to be respected. Jack had Piggy’s glasses and the rest of the group, but not the conch. It was his downfall when speaking; “You haven’t got the conch!” which was said by Piggy while everyone was getting irrational (Golding 91). He illustrates how the conch still gives them the upper hand over Jack. Piggy talks sense into Ralph, “‘Come away, there’s going to be trouble. And we’ve had our meat’” when things get too treacherous (Golding 151). Piggy tries to reason with Ralph near the end that they should back off of Jack’s dangerous ‘tribe.’ He knows when enough is enough. Piggy tries to stick next to Ralph throughout their entire duration on the island. He respects Ralph and thinks he is best suited to be the leader.
            Piggy kept the group organized to the most extent and in touch with reality. In the beginning, he yelled at Jack for his insane love for hunting, “You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home” and pushed truth into view (Golding 70). The reality of Jack’s actions are pushed into his face. Piggy’s death made Ralph see that it was all real. Ralph knew things were getting out of hand by then. His only companion had been Piggy, and without Piggy, Ralph could not decide what to do, since Piggy was the second opinion. Piggy also enlightened the group with the harsh news that the kids refused to see, that “Perhaps they knew were we was going to; and perhaps not. But they don’t know where we are ‘cos we never got there,” about their status to others (Golding 34). Piggy made sense and logic out of his state, proving his intelligence. He was an organized person from the start; when the kids first met up, he was the one counting and taking names maturely.
            There were many differences between every kid on the island, and if Piggy was not there, everyone would have been savages quicker than before. No rash decision would have been made. Piggy was the peacekeeper, and the most important kid on the island. 
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Influential Men Essay
The men that were in Janie’s life were Logan Killicks, Joe Stark, and Tea Cake. All three had different personality traits. Logan and Joe had something in common. Tea Cake was her only real love. Janie thought that Tea Cake was after her money, but it turns out that all three men were surprisingly not interested in that. They all wanted to make Janie into something different. Logan was looking for a wife to take care of the house. Joe was looking for a trophy wife. Tea Cake was looking for a wife to love. All three have affected Janie tremendously.
Logan Killicks was Janie’s first husband. He was chosen by Nanny, and they got married even though Janie didn’t love him. She thought that she would fall in love with him after they were married. Logan influenced Janie by showing her how love doesn’t just come from marriage. “…she went to Logan Killicks and his often-mentioned sixty acres.” (Hurstion 21) Logan’s motivation was just to have a wife that cleaned and cooked and helped him do the basics of living on his farmland, as quoted, his “sixty acres.” There was no love, and further into their marriage, he stopped treating her so nice. Janie wanted to find new, real love, and she realized it was going to be much harder than she had thought and hoped for.
Joe Starks met Janie as Logan was out buying a mule. A man walked by, who looked out of place. “It was a cityfied, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn’t belong in these parts.” (Hurston 27) She immediately took an interest in him, as he was well-dressed and stuck out from the normal folks that lived in her town. She ran away from Logan with Joe Starks, and married him. He bought her many new clothes and built the new town, Eatonville, from ground up with his money. She had figured she loved him. But as time went on, the love didn’t burn stronger; it died down. He became a mayor, and she was just eye candy. Janie became a possession to him, and she didn’t like that. After his death, she wore mourning clothes, but she didn’t grieve. She learned from Joe, that true love was still near to impossible to find.
They say that the third time’s a charm, and in this case, it is. Janie met Tea Cake, who became her third husband after Joe died. “Those full, lazy eyes with the lashes curling sharply away like drawn scimitars. The lean, over-padded shoulders and narrow waist.” (Hurston 96) Janie had obviously fallen head over heels for Tea Cake, and every one of his traits. Tea Cake treated Janie like she was the only women he’ll ever love. They did everything together, and the love was shown in every way possible. He wasn’t just a husband to Janie, he was her love. She had finally found true love, with Tea Cake. He impacted her greatly, by showing all the magic of love. After his death, she was destroyed. His death affected her way more than Joe’s death had. She had loved him, and she lost him, proving that the world was not always so nice.
All three of the men in Janie’s life showed her a form of care, but not love. She went on a long trip, searching for a spark. Logan, Joe, and Tea Cake all changed the way she looked at things, in a good way, and in a bad way. They were all nice to her, and all sometimes [or many times] mean to her. Without them, she wouldn’t have grown as much as she did when she returned back home. She went on a long adventure that started and ended at the same place, and she is bound to remember all three of the men who are now gone from her life. 
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Macbeth Motif Essay
In Macbeth, (I was told) that one of the motifs in the play is disease. Although it was hard to find examples due to Shakespeare’s use of language that I don’t understand, you had to make guesses about whether he was talking about a sickness or disease. Due to the lack of information and questions on the directions, it is hard to decide how to go about this essay.
                I will start by insisting that the most visible disease I could make out was the disease that Lady Macbeth was struck with. Although there is no specific name to it, one can notice the symptoms of her mental disease. The Doctor says, “Unnatural deeds/Do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds/To their deaf pillows with discharge their secrets.” (Macbeth 76) Obviously, you can see that the doctor is describing the symptoms of whatever Lady Macbeth has. She sleepwalks, and has an “infected mind.” He says that “unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.” The unnatural deed that is spoken of was the murder of Duncan. Therefore, she went insane due to this horrid act she committed.
                Throughout the entire play, hints of an illness were mentioned in a line of dialogue, but not very many. “Or have we eaten on the insane root/That takes the reason prisoner?” That line was spoken by Banquo, who was asking if they have gone mad, which is an illness of the mind. The Witches had said while they were casting a spell, “Swelt’red venom sleeping got.” As you can see on the translation, it means that venom is sweated out while sleeping. I don’t know about you, but I would reflect that it is not normal to sweat out venom. A hospital would be the place I would spend the next three weeks if venom spilled out of my pores.
                Taking note that in the older times, doctors were undoubtedly not able to track down diseases since they didn’t have all the records and technologies that we did now, no diseases were specifically revealed in the book. A disease back then was like a death sentences, since there were pretty much no cures. However, all the indications of a sickness were visible, and played a large role in Macbeth. Without the mental illness that seemed to cast itself over Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, the storyline would’ve played out quite differently. The characters were not complete without their missing sanity.
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