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is a Western/Adventure story. A Western is a story that revolves primarily in the late 19th century in the American Old West. An adventure novel is an exciting story involving risk and physical danger as a part of the main storyline. Charlie and Eli...
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- The story is about two young lovers, Ronnie and Sabra, who are running away from Sabras? father, a very reach & powerful man, because she has got into pregnancy, and her father won't let her keep the baby.
Tiel, a news reporter, is going out to look for information about them.
In her way she...
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- Chealse Benoit
11/17/19
Professor Zanger
Soc- 100
Reaction Paper 4
Inequality: Economy
Below are some examples or important aspects of the story nickel and dimed that I would like to point out greatly demonstrates or depicts the inequality in a society's economic distribution.
oo Author goes...
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- Name of the book: "Percy Jackson and the lightning thief"
Name of the author: Rick Riordan
Setting (where and when the story takes place): the story takes place in new York mainly in his half-blood camp, at the beginning of summer just after his sixth-grade year.
The main characters in the...
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- Beatriz, la poluci?n
Mario Benedetti
Dijo el t?o Rolando que esta ciudad se est? poniendo imbancable de tanta poluci?n que tiene. Yo no dije nada para no quedar como burra, pero de toda la frase s?lo entend? la palabra ciudad. Despu's fui al diccionario y busqu? la...
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- David Copperfield Chapter 1Summary & Analysis
Summary
David announces his intention to relate his life story, saying that the narrative itself will ultimately show whether he is the "hero of [his] own life." He begins with his birth, which took place in his family home ("the Rookery") in...
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- Mark, Jerome, and Sal were some of the people Jennings knew during this time that influenced him most. Mark influences Jennings in two ways. Mark tells Jennings that ?There are no friends in here.? (p.24) Marks explains to Jennings ?Well it's a rule. Not a home rule like when to sit or when to eat,...
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- Learning from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. (Albert Einstein) This quote means that as human beings we are supposed to question everything, its in our nature to question everything. To be human means to have dreams, emotions, and hope....
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- George Orwell's Animal Farm is an allegorical novel of the coming of the Soviet Union. It fables the revolution of animals living on farm fluctuation for complete equality. Detailed are the conniving political tactics and tyrannical govern of Napoleon, a pig characterizing Joseph Stalin. In...
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- Imagine that you were living in Maycomb County, Alabama during the time of To Kill a Mockingbird and there were different gender roles such as The Southern Gentleman and The Southern Lady and Belle. In my opinion, Atticus represents the ideal Southern Gentleman. Also Miss Maudie represents the...
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- Of Mice and Men Creative Assignment #11
The theme of isolation was very important in the novel. I think that Crooks, Curley's Wife and Candy illustrated this theme a lot.
I think that Crooks experienced the most loneliness in the novel mainly because he was black. He illustrates his loneliness by...
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The main characters:
steve Jackson- private detective
Ann
Doctor summers
Sergeant Todd
Short summary:
Steve Jackson was a private detective in Los Angeles. In this summer he didn't have much work.
One morning a woman came into his office, she looked for her brother and...
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- Atticus, Scout says, is somewhat older than most of the other fathers in Maycomb. His relatively advanced age often embarrasses his children?he wears glasses and reads, for instance, instead of hunting and fishing like the other men in town. This is significant because it gives background facts...
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- Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Peter and the Starcatcher Reflection
10 April 2017
Going into this event, I did not know what to expect. While I knew that it had something to do with Peter Pan and I was familiar with that story from previous classes, I did know how it would relate....
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- 1839, June 11th
So, here I am alone as Adam but this is no Garden of Eden. Perhaps I can call myself free but my condition is uncertain. I have little shelter, less food, no income, no friends, and no safety. I may be recaptured at any moment. If I am captured my condition will be worse than...
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- Escuela Normal de Sinaloa.
Asignatura: Gesti?n escolar.
Alumno: Pablo No? L?pez Camacho.
Profesora titular de la asignatura: Marco Antonio Ram?rez Quistian.
Grupo: 3-Ingl's
Lugar: Culiac?n, Sinaloa.
Fecha: Lunes 20 de Junio del 2016.
El liderazgo docente en la construcci?n de la cultura escolar...
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- Book review
Jaspreet Sandhu 21/5/15
Wonder by R.J Palacio
Vocab:
Inkling: a slight suggestion or vague understanding.
Retrospect: contemplation of things past.
Stringent: demanding strict attention to rules.
Immaculate: completely neat and clean.
Diorama: a picture representing a...
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- The significance of the title of the book 'To Kill A mockingbird' is shown in the book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is a symbol that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because all it does is make people happy. The mockingbirds in the book are; Tom Robinson, Boo Radley and Dolphus Raymond, they...
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- In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale suffers the most pain and guilt throughout the novel. This pain and guilt is caused by his sin - he committed adultery with his lover, Hester Prynne. He suffers more than other characters because he is in...
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- Themes of chapter 7
On the hottest day of the summer, Daisy invites Nick and Gatsby to lunch with her, Tom, and Jordan. At one point, while Tom is out of the room, Daisy kisses Gatsby on the lips and says she loves him. But the next instant the nurse leads in her young daughter, Pammy. Daisy...
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- Breanna Dean
ENGL 1302-41801
K. Buck
3 October, 2014
Quiz # 4: The Negligence of Insanity
The lieutenant is the only one of the shipwrecked men who can maintain hope and continue his journey to find the Sun Dome. The Lieutenant quotes "Haven't slept in four weeks. Tried, but couldn't. Sleep here"...
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Does Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy's attitude give another way to see himself to other people in Jane Austen's book ? According to the mini-series of 1995 (based on Jane Austen's book ) in the scene when the Bennets were invited...
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- Jem thought he was being responsible during the tire incident because he took care of Scout. When Jem, Scout, and Dill are playing in the yard one day, Scout decides she wants to be pushed in the tire. As Scout and Dill are arguing over who will go first, Jem arbitrates, and awards Scout with the...
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In the novel, Of Mice and Men Steinbeck brings up the ideas of dreams and whether they are helpful or harmful, throughout the book he introduces a worker with a mental disability, Lennie, and a hardworking African American man, Crooks. Steinbeck suggests, through the...
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- Kabanata I
ANG SULIRANIN AT KALIGIRAN NITO
Marami-rami na ring pag-aaral ang ginawa tungkol sa pangangatawan at kalusugan ng isang tao. Hanggang ngayon ay may isinasagawa pa ring pag-aaral. Karamihan na rin sa mga nagpapatuloy ng mga ito ay ang mga...
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- Dear Sylvia Rozines,
In the past week or so, I had the imponderable pleasure of reading your book Yellow Star. I personally am not a huge fan of the topic of terrorism against the Jews, whether it's the concentration camps or the ghettos, but your book changed that. Reading Yellow Star was such a...
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- Character Analysis:
Iff may be described as a benevolent, compassionate and cantankerous character although; he is significant in the book because he is very responsible, helpful and reliable. For example, "pick a bird" (Rushdie 63) Iff says to Haroun as creates Butt the Hoopoe to assist him. Iff...
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- In chapter 7, Maria Teresa narrates this chapter using her new journal that Minerva brought her. She talks about her father's death and how she keeping having these troubling dreams. In her dream she finds herself looking into her father's coffin and finding a wedding dress inside of the coffin....
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- Jonathan Bonilla
1/21/14
Per.8
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was a person that everyone admired. They were happy for him, respected him, and expected great things from him. however, was not happy with himself. He thought that no one in his village has reached enlightenment because he...
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1.In Alexander's early life he was only trained to become a great leader & king.
A.He showed his talent for leadership by quieting the resitive cities of Greece.
B.Alexander was taught to expend Macedonian rule.
C. He mostly spent childhood watching his father...
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- is a complex story dedicated to a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, in her attempts to throw a party and her constant filtering thoughts about others, society and her life choices. There are many layered themes and motifs, notably including time and the use of flowers and trees,...
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- ""
Summary
was born was born on the 17th of August 1761, his family had lived in poverty, he was brought up in a small village/town of Paulerspury in Northampton. William had an interested in different things one of which was historical events and science, his hobbies...
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B. Thesis: "Katniss's feelings for Gale and for Peeta both stem from an impulse to survive. However, when her survival is no longer threatened, Katniss's feelings for Gale remain strong while her feelings for Peeta begin to dissolve."
Quote 1 - "Gale...
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- nas:
The story starts as Jonas, a twelve- year-old boy, who is waiting for his life assignment. When he is given his assignment, he is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory. As the Receiver he has to get every memory from all over the world from the old Receiver he calls .
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The...
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- Annie Mayhan
Mrs. Alvarez
Block D
January 10, 2012
Essay
Chapters four through six provide certain individuals who show foolishness and ignorance thorough their actions. The new judge of the town refuses to give Huck to a better owner even though he...
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- Introduction:
State the topic: In Death of a Salesman, the American Dream is shown to be corrupted. Willy Loman, the protagonist of the play, is shown to have an exceptionally difficult time with his American Dream, which is to see his kids do better than him.
Paragraph 1:
Talk about Willy's...
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- Throughout many coming of age novels, the protagonist experiences several psychological problems, and these are evidently present in The Catcher in the Rye's main character, . At the beginning of the novel it is apparent to the reader that Holden is not an average 17 year old boy,...
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The book "" by George Orwell is a book that was very complex and informing. The novel mimicked the Russian Revolution. The farm animals portray people of power and common people like those of the revolution.
Questions that were answered while reading the analysis were...
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- In the novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph and Jack are two characters with similar beliefs but are unable to develop a true friendship due to their differences which only allows for a rivalry between each other. Both boys assert their authoritarian qualities when in a position of...
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- One may find Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn an extremely independent child for a young boy of fourteen years old. He is first abandoned by his father and then forced to go out on his own. When he grows totally accustomed to his own way of life, the Widow Douglas adopts him exposing him to the strong...
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- THEME
EXAMPLES
Superstitions:
In chapter 4 Huck talks about spilling salt at breakfast. He tries to throw it over his shoulder to keep the bad luck away but Miss Watson is there and wouldn't let him.
In chapter 5 Jim is telling Huck how it is bad luck to touch a snakeskin with your hands.
Jim...
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- The conch symbolizes order and power. Ralph and Piggy discover the conch shell on the beach at the start of the novel and use it to summon the boys together after the crash separates them. Used in this capacity, the conch shell becomes a powerful symbol of civilization and order in the novel. The...
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- The is one of Alfred Hitchcock's finest works. It's a diabolically wonderful contribution to the world of film. While it may not meet today's ridiculous horror standards, I consider The utterly terrifying.
The plot is very simple, almost silly: begin attacking the small town of...
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- ANIMAL FARM
In the beginning of animal farm, Old Major calls a meeting in the big barn. He tells the animals of a wish he has had. His wish was that all the animals live together and for there to be no humans to control them. All the animals seemed to like old Majors idea. A couple of days later...
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- Sylvia Plath has become the darling of those very ladies' magazines that she satirized so mercilessly in , critics have begun to question her claims to literary eminence. Irving Howe, for example, in ["Sylvia Plath: A Partial Disagreement"], a recent reconsideration of Sylvia Plath's...
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- Book Report
by Mark Twain
About the book
This book is an adventure novel about boyhood and boy's adventures growing up in a small 19th century town.
Tom Sawyer is a playful boy who is around the age of 10. He has a brother whom name is Sid and he has 2 best friends:...
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- Within the first two chapters you are introduced to the green light, the Valley of Ashes, and the billboard from which the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg watch over New York. Within the , symbolism plays key roles in the characters actions, emotions, and dreams. The was written by...
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by Paul Volponi
Exposition: New York , Rucker's Park.
Main Characters: Stove ' J.R.'S Father, Wise, Athletic, and is the referee for the championship game of the tournament.
Mackey ('Hold The Mustard ') - Best friends with J.R. , He plays on the Greenbacks , Good...
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- The deterioration of Old South was begun when the death of Miss Emily's father and Colonel Sartoris which represent the old generation. After years and years, the new generation (New South) begun to arise and replaced the Old South. However, Emily was trapped between two generations because she...
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- Cuento de Augusto Monterroso que narra las vicisitudes de un gringo empobrecido que termin' viviendo en una tribu del Amazona. El cuento narrado con sarcasmo e iron'a, cuenta como el pobre anda en harapos, sucio al grado de ser apedreado por los ni'os que lo ve'an deambular por la...
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- The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald has many different types of Characters. They all bring a different outlook to the book. Their personalities affect the book in good and bad ways. The Character that stood out to me the most is Daisy. Daisies personality to me is the best because in the book...
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- This is my favorite Jack London novel. It is a straightforward story of action and adventure but is also a book that, when peeled back, has a lot to say about the basic nature of man.
The protagonist, Humphrey Van Weyden, is the ultimate moral/altruistic man. But, he is also an inexperienced man,...
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- The from 1894 is a collection of Rudyard Kipling's stories that give moral lessons through the personification of animals. The most famous of the stories are the three detailing the adventures of Mowgli, the abandoned "man cub" who is raised by wolves in the Indian...
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- In a Pair of Silk Stockings Mrs. Sommers suddenly found herself as the unexpected possessor of a small fortune. She thought for a long time what to do with the money, she set up her mind to spend it wisely, and she wanted to buy something nice for her children but ended up spending it on...
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- Throughout the book "The Sacrilege," Caesar evolved from a political
nothing, to a political mastermind. It is easy to see his progress through the
eyes of a character by the name of Decius. He helps use to realize that Caesar
wanted three main things in this scheme. He desired money, some...
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- The linguistic criticism of Nineteen Eighty-Four has focused primarily on Newspeak as a language (Flammia 1987: 28-33, Harris 1987: 113-119) and on Orwell's ideas about the relationship between language and thought (Kress and Hodge 1979: 144-150). It has largely ignored, however, the literary...
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- Jimmy Dorn
Ms. Heerema
English 8-6
13 Febuary, 2012
The Call of the Wild
Chapter 6 "For the Love of a Man"
1. There is a total change in the setting in this chapter. Buck was physically hurt when he was with Hal, Charles, and Mercedes. But since he's been with John Thornton, he heals and is...
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- The novel Sister Carrie seems to be the platform from which Dreiser
explores his unconventional views of the genders. In the world of Sister
Carrie, it would seem that the role of women as trusting, caring creatures,
and men as scheming victimizers is reversed; it is Carrie that uses the men
around...
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- The Webster's New World Dictionary defines "folie a deux" as "A condition in which symptoms of a mental disorder, such as delusive beliefs or ideas, occur simultaneously in two individuals who share a close relationship or association." (231) In Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" this concept of...
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- Part I In the book , there are many characters. The major character is Jurgis Rudkus. The book revolves around his life in Packingtown. Jurgis is originally from Lithuania. When we first meet him he appears as very large and powerful. He has a wife, Ona Lukoszaite, and a son named Antanas. Mike...
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- written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story with a lot of depth about women rights. The story also brings to light depression and loneliness found within women. Everyone deals with things differently and this story is the narrators why of showing how she personally...
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- Symbolism- "The Chrysanthemums
John Steinbecks' "The Chrysanthemums" is a story that utilizes symbolism on many levels. Most of all, I believe in the character of Elisa Adams. Elisa and her garden seem to be considered one. Because of all of her hard labor and love the Chrysanthemums flourish. The...
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- Thesis: Ernest Hemingway has been known for his use of symbolism throughout his novels. In order to portray certain character traits, Hemingway creates imagry which helps enhance the readers understanding of the characters. In Ernest Hemingway's, The Old Man and the Sea, he uses religious...
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- emphasizes the importance of fighting for one's beliefs. Henry Fonda's character is singled out because he has the courage to trust his instinct regarding the innocence of the boy on trial. The other men simply wanted to agree and escape the stuffy room; they did not truly care about...
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- April 7[th] 2021
The Maze Runner - James Dashner
Story main characters
Thomas - The main character of the story. He is the last boy but not the last person to enter the Glade. Chuck describes him as about 16 years old, of average height, and brown-haired. He saves Alby when he is about to...
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- Summary
So begins Victor's tale, which he starts just before his own birth. His father, Alphonse , was a hard-working public figure who did not marry until late in life.
Alphonse had a close friend in a Mr. Beaufort, who had moved from Geneva to Lucerne in order to seek refuge from...
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- is written by Edward Albee in New York in 1958. When Albee finishes writing the play in two weeks, he passes from publisher to publisher, director to director but no one is interested in his play. Albee thought that the play was really bad ' it did not match with people's taste. There...
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? Is it for the Father, or for the Son, or, as Edmund Gosse tells us, for the public, so they can have a record of life in a rigidly religious family? Edmund begins his book by telling you that it is a historical record, an important chronicle that is to be used, basically as a reference for a...
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- Wise Guy - Nicholas Pileggi
Wise Guy is a True Crime book and has 256 pages. The book was released by the publisher Simon & Schuster in 1985, and the author is Nicholas Pileggi. The book is based on a true story.
Adaption
In 1990, the director Martin Scorsese adapted the book Wise Guy and made...
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- In '' a novel written by Arthur Miller, it insinuated a critical theme involving Hysteria demonstrating how going on a delirious frenzy can rip apart a community. The girls from the novel all show behavior exhibiting overwhelming fear towards the town and their accusation to innocent...
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- Imagine a place where there is no color, no choice; a place where individuality and freedom has been traded for sameness and security. Louis Lowery has created such a place in the novel The Giver. This place, or rather community, is presumed to be in the future and is supposed to be a kind of...
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- Outline for essay over Things Fall Apart
Thesis: Achebe defines Things Falls Apart as a tragedy through Okonkwo, who is a tragic hero, and by the pity and fear aroused in the reader.
A. Author's last name and Book title
B. Aristotle's definition of tragedy
C. Function of a tragedy, according to...
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1. The name of the book: THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL ' ANNA FRANK
2. The name of the author: Cherry Gilchrest
3. The kind of a story is it adventure story but it is all true.
4.
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL ' ANNE FRANK is actually, the real diary of Anne Frank (who we, in...
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- All children have a special place, whether chosen by a conscious decision or not this is a place where one can go to sort their thoughts. Nature can often provide comfort by providing a nurturing surrounding where a child is forced to look within and choices can be made untainted by society. Mark...
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Interview with Kate
We all know sisters Kate and Anna. Kate has had leukemia since she was a baby. Her parents gave birth to Anna through artificial insemination so that she would be an ideal donor to her sister Kate. One day Kate's systems crash, and she needs a kidney...
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- Righteous Among the Nations - project
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Teacher : Natasha Timmer
Submitted by: Talia Elbaz
Date: 15.11.2020
Grade: 11[th] 7
Person's...
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- This paper is an essay on Antigone. The story Antigone is a great Greek tragedy. Sophocles, an ancient Greek playwright, is the author of the story. It is a great story. It is known throughout the world. This essay is going to trace the character of Antigone through the beginning, middle, and...
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- Unoka
He is Okonkwo's father.
"Unoka was like that in his last days. His love of talk had grown with age and sickness. It tried Okonkwo's patience beyond words"(Achebe 25)
"Unoka was never happy when it came to wars. He was in fact a coward and could not bear the sight of blood. And so he...
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- Novel Analysis of The Oedipus Trilogy
Oedipus Rex, or Oedipus Tyrannus as it is in Latin, could be what we call today a Freudian work of literature. The Oedipus Trilogy was originally written by Sophocles and is meant to be told in a story-telling fashion. But this Grecian tragedy was revised and...
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- ? Seeking Friendship?
A novel by John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, unfolds the journey of two men named George and Lennie. They arrive on a farm to work and along the way they run into many characters: Crooks, Curley's wife and Candy. In the novel the characters all show a sign of alienation and...
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By Paul Theroux
About the book:
In the book is told about Allie Fox, a very smart and brilliant, but hate the modern world. His children had no computer or TV and they did not go to school. He hates his boss because all he cares about is how to make money, not the future.
One...
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- A Sheikh and his council talk about Suleiman pbuh and how he would like the Jinn's in a bottle that he has trapped.
Beforeheading out the sheikh was advised to speak with an old man who knew exactly where the bottles lie and the old man advised the sheikh telling him his journey would be...
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In the United States of America the government really likes its citizens to think that since we live in the most powerful country in the world we have all of our own internal problems solved. But that is not the case, not at all. In the US there are millions of...
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- Silent Spring - How Rachel Carson Changed the World
On September 27, 1962 Rachel Carson released her sixth book, Silent Spring. On publication day, the advance sales of Silent Spring totaled 40,000 copies and another 150 copies were sent to the Book of the Month Club (Frontline: Fooling With...
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- Juror eight is the only one who sees both sides and perspectives of the story. He never yells and gets mad. He stays calm through the entire trial, even when proving his points. Juror 8 is calm, collective, and is a man who sees all sides of the story. He always tells the truth and would be the...
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- by George Orwell
George Orwell's novel does an excellent job of drawing
parallels from the situation leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917.
is a satire that uses its characters to symbolize leaders of
the Russian Revolution. The animals of "Manor Farm", the setting of this
novel, which...
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- , written by Timothy Findley, is a story about World War I, and consists of many shocking images passed over to the reader. Findley accomplishes to pull the reader into the narrative itself, so that the reader manages to feel an impact upon him/her-self about what is read. If it was not for...
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- One of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country's richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while East...
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- Steinbeck clearly shows George's authority over Lennie. This is indicated when they are sitting around the pool at the beginning of chapter one. he watched George's actions closely and is quick to imitate him. He looks up to george for guidance and copies his behavior.
Although, George refers to...
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- In this paper I will try to explain to you why Deborah Bronski had
an affair with Christopher de Monti when she knew it was wrong. Deborah
and Christopher are both characters in the book Mila 18 by Leon Uris.
In Deborah's childhood there were some reasons that could have
caused her to have an...
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- The Call of the Wild by Jack London shows the effect that the environment can have on ones reactions. The main character is a dog named Buck who changes through the course of the novel in reaction to his environment. The harshness of the climate and the weather contribute to Buck's...
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- In the story "The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas" Ursula Le Guin used a child as a psychomyth. The use of a child is a very potent choice because of a child's innocence, and how we value it as adults. This scapegoat is being used not just to keep the town good and pure, but, more symbolically...
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- In an attempt to challenge societal values, youth cultures, in the form
of rebellion, act and dress radically and form groups in protest. These
dissident actions against the structure of existing society promotes the
beginning of new small groups which reflect their own rules, structures,
class,...
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Every now and then I have to write down everything we discussed in order to figure out exactly what we said. Last Friday we listed several people, places, and symbols that contributed to the theme of materialism in The Great Gatsby. Here is what we...
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- In the past, critics have ad moralized and/or brutalized every writer they could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his/her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cather's novel,...
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- Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God shows the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. Janie is raised by her Grandmother and spends her life traveling with different men until she finally comes home. Robert E. Hemenway says about the book, ?Their Eyes Were Watching...
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- was fact. Upton Sinclair visited Chicago in November 1904 to do
research for the book. Sinclair lived in a neighborhood called
Packingtown for seven weeks. While in Packingtown, Sinclair
interviewed workers, lawyers, doctors, saloonkeepers, and social workers.
The book deals with the greed and...
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- In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around
a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge his or her
innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the opportunity to
express how he or she truly feels, otherwise the emotions are bottled up
until they...
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- George Orwell uses a vast array of symbols in his epic novel Nineteen Eighty Four to develop the major themes and to convey them to the readers. The symbols that are used in the novel are Big Brother, Paperweight, St' Clements Church, Telescreens, The place where there is no darkness, The singing...
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- UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARAN' Curitiba, 8 de outubro de 1996 Curso: Letras -
Ingl's / Noturno Disciplina: Literatura Norte Americana I Aluno: Anderson Jos'
Nogueira
TASK: To write a summary theme of Poe's "The Cask Of
Amontillado"
One of the main themes of Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask...
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- A Deeper Look into Sexuality of Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and its
Reading over this excellent story once more, I am again filled with
the same emotion (if it can be called that) that I experienced when first
reading it. Steinbeck planned for that. In a letter to George Albee in
1933,...
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- In "Macbeth" William Shakespeare employs his skills in imagery and symbolism. The landscape of "Macbeth" reveals the contours of the title character's psychological turmoil. Churning with self-doubt about his determination, his ability to connect word and act, and his sexual potency, Macbeth is a...
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- Ik ga mijn presentatie houden over Hersenschimmen van Bernlef en Gewiste Sporen van Annelies Nolet. Van deze boeken zal ik het thema, Dementie, vergelijken. Ik heb mijn vergelijking in drie onderdelen verdeeld. Ten eerste Hoe komt de dementie tot uiting in het boek en ook zal ik kijken hoe de...
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- Women in literature are often portrayed in a position that is dominated by men, especially in the nineteenth century, women were repressed and controlled by their husbands as well as other male influences. In "The Yellow Wall-Paper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator is oppressed and...
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- ANIMAL FARM
George Orwell's novel 'Animal Farm' is a satire of the Russian revolution in which Orwell positions his audience to see the revolution as a failure
'Animal Farm' can be viewed as an allegory using animals on a farm to illustrate the corrupt leadership of Russia's new government after...
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- Niccol' Machiavelli's is a blunt political pamphlet concerning the various kinds of principalities, military affairs, the qualities of a Prince, and Machiavelli's views on Italy's political status during the Renaissance. Machiavelli uses many specific examples throughout the text both ancient and...
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- The freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question about man's free will and the ability to choose one's destiny, good or evil. "If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a...
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- The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, took place during World War I. The novel focuses on six men who are involved in the war. The main character is Paul B@umer, a nineteen-year-old who was drafted into the war. At this point in time, going to war was not a...
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- According to popular culture, specifically through the use of such magazines as Glamour and Cosmopolitan, the woman of the twentieth century can still be defined by her sexual identity, although perhaps in different terms than were used when Chaucer first wrote the Canterbury Tales. "Today's...
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- The theme suggested in the closing paragraph of the novel is that people create their own enemy and then they defend themselves laboriously and obsessively against their imaginary enemy. They develop a particular frame of mind in
order to allay the fear that arises while facing their nonexistent...
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- Heathcliff cried vehemently, "I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" Emily Bront' distorts many common elements in Wuthering Heights to enhance the quality of her book. One of the distortions is Heathcliff's undying love for Catherine Earnshaw. Also, Bront' perverts the...
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- The short story and the movie planet of the apes were both futuristic stories. They also both showed the evil sides of today's man and the chaos and mass destruction that we are capable of accomplishing. They portrayed today's man as selfish, violent, and full of hate and rage. was written...
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- The Main theme in this book is prejudice. You will learn about
segregation and how unfair it was.
To Kill A Mocking Bird deals with many primal and basic lessons in human
nature. The book exposes many issues that affect most people throughout their
lives. Scout, the main character was one of the...
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- The definition of Utopia is "no place." A Utopia is an ideal society in which the social, political, and economic evils afflicting human kind have been wiped out. This is an idea displayed in communist governments. In the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell Old Major's ideas of a Utopia are...
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- "Killing for Sport" by Joseph Wood Krutch is an opinionated work on
the subject of hunting for sport. He uses rational appeals to press the
point of the sportsman as having less to gain out of the killing than the
liar, the thief, or the murderer. Joseph's primary aim is to persuade the
reader to...
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Margot Macomber is guilty of murdering Francis Macomber. The death of Francis Macomber is in fact on purpose. 'Mrs. Macomber, in the car, had shot at the buffalo with the 6.5 Manlicher as it seemed about to gore Macomber and had hit her husband about two inches up and a little...
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- Innocence betrayed as telekinetic forces work upon a child is portrayed in the novel Carrie, which was written by Stephen King. Stephen King is noted for his use of the supernatural and the innocent.
The theme of innocence betrayed is at the heart of
Carrie..... throughout his fiction, the...
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- The book ALIVE, by Piers Paul Read identified many possible themes, although I do think there are two that stand out. These two themes are survival and cooperation. Survival plays a major throughout the entire story. The most gruesome part in the story occurred when the remaining 28 passengers of...
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- o Manzanar
The book, Farewell to Manzanar was the story of a young Japanese girl coming of age in the interment camp located in Owens Valley, California. Less than two months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which stated that the War...
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- The ninth commandment tells man not to give false witness.(Exodus 20:16)
Nathaniel Hawthorn and Charles Dickens in their novels The Scarlet Letter and A
Tale of Two Cities, respectively, both use punishment for deception as a
recurring theme. Although they do so to different degrees and in...
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- A Raisin in the Sun deals with many issues but none more than
prejudices the act of pre judging something. The Caucasian or white
population in the story were one of the prejudice groups. They try to
strong arm the Youngers out of there neighborhood. Walter is also
constantly talking about how the...
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- Have ever met someone who is self-centered and haughty it disgusts you? It's interesting to think about the way they may turn out in the future. Judy Jones is an example of such a person. Because she knows she has good looks, and is extremely popular, it boasts her ego to unbelievable hights....
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- * Personal life:
* About middle - aged
* Runs a messenger service called " The Beck and Call Company"- Page 4
* As head of his own company, he isn't used to the resistance he is getting from the group
* Had an unhappy childhood and unhappy family, hasn't seen his son for 2 years after his...
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- Through Hawthorne, the book The Scarlet Letter is written about love, sin, and most of all morals. Hawthorne creates many different perspectives on characters and their views. His vivid descriptions of the main trio of characters allow the reader to make there own decisions on who is morally...
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- opens in a technically advanced future world. In the beginning of this book, we see the Director of World Hatcheries lead the new hatchery students on a tour of a Conditioning Center in London where babies are produced in bottles and pre-sorted to determine which class level they will be born into....
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- Beowulf is an Epic Poem that was written in the late Tenth-Century, at the kingdom of the West Saxons. Most of the history on the poem Beowulf was brought down in flames. This book consists of 63 pages, and the two main characters are Beowulf, a young man; and Grendal, a furious dragon. In the...
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- Velocity Explanation
In Dean Koontz's book Velocity, Koontz places various philosophical statements throughout the story, to elucidate our main characters thoughts. The first quote comes from the mid-beginning of the book were Billy the main character, is describing his view on friendship. "Every...
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- takes place in the mid-seventeenth century Boston, which had a small population by English standards, and a large one by colonial measures. The town, based on historical records, had a very devout puritan population. These people formed their lives about the church, which also was the government....
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- was a boy, not one of the sort that you read about in good books,
but a little devil, never malicious and always at some trick, and in the course
of years he engaged in a multitude, all of which are here recorded in Twain's
style. He had special aversions for church, Sunday school, pious people,...
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- In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, we are presented with a dystopian vision of the future. Orwell's book follows the life of Winston Smith, a citizen of Airstrip 1, formerly Britain and part of the nation of Oceania. The country is governed by Ingsoc, the English Socialists, a...
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Geoffrey Chaucer once said, ' The guilty think all talk is of themselves.' In the case of Hester Prynne, a character in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is true. Hester Prynne is a middle-aged woman who has committed a sin in the Puritan society and is punished by the...
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- Jean Rhys' short story "I Used to Live Here Once" is the definition of a short story. The story is a mere one and a half pages in length. Jean Rhys, the author, has incorporated many different ideas and concepts into these few pages. The story is about a woman who is on somewhat of a journey. ...
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- is a very prominent piece of literature in which it is known for its lack of motivation to be instructed in student's curriculum. In the novel of written by the legendary Mark Twain, takes place along the Mississippi river,...
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- Huckleberry Finn separates himself from the society he grew up in by running away, traveling down the river and spending time with a runaway slave. The morals of society do not sit well with him, although he believes that he should follow society's rules anyway. His feelings for Jim send his mind...
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- The two books Lord Of The Flies and Hatchet entail essential information about how to keep yourself alive if that unfortunate situation came about. William Golding, the author of Lord Of The Flies, writes about a plane crash on a deserted island. All of the adults have been killed and for as much...
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- Simon
Simon is a character who represents peace and tranquillity and positivity. He is very in-tune with the island, and often experiences extraordinary sensations when listening to its sounds. He loves the nature of the island. He is very positive about the future. He also has an extreme aversion...
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- 's walking in the snow, looking at the blood and trail. He
came across a grave. He followed the signs across the creek. He picked up
the pieces of a root and rubbed in his hand. He went to the creek to drink
some water. He observed a unique salamander on the stones. He picked it up
to examine...
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- A hero is defined as a person noted for feats of courage or
nobility of purpose. The character of Jim in Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain certainly fits that description. He risked his life in order to free
himself from slavery, and in doing so, helps Huck to realize that he has
worth. Huck becomes...
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- Although it is hard to read Dante's triple rhyme, I am thrilled by the 's ambiguity and allegoric power. It is really 'a three-dimensional art.' Just like Picasso in his paintings, Dante makes me think about the meaning of the situations and their implications. Moreover, it is as visual as...
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- The debate over who is the tragic hero in
continue on to this day. The belief that is the hero
is a strong one. There are many critics who believe,
however, that Creon, the Ruler of Thebes, is the true
protagonist. I have made my own judgments also, based on
what I have researched of this work by...
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- There is one question about The Turn of the Screw that has never and probably will never be answered to everyone's total satisfaction. Is it a ghost story or is it a psychiatric case history? The story which for years was presumed by most to just be a mere ghost story has in later years, after...
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- Death of American Dream In ??
Francis Key Scott Fitzgerald ?? is one of the greatest revolutions in American literary history. It depth-ness still fascinates the literary experts and readers alike. The book examines several contemporary themes during the turn of the century one of them is the...
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- Doesn't it always seem as though rich and famous people, such as actors and actresses, are larger-than-life and virtually impossible to touch, almost as if they were a fantasy? In , set in two tremendously wealthy communities, East Egg and West Egg, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby as a...
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- "" "" was written by Lorraine Hansberry. It has won her an award in 1959, at age 29, the youngest American, the fifth woman, and the black playwright to win the Best Play of the Year Award of the New York Drama Critics. This book of the play has been put in its entire form. The original play did...
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- The main characters, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and the Puritan society represented by the townspeople, all sinned. The story is a study of the effects of sin on the hearts and minds of Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Sin strengthens Hester, humanizes Dimmesdale,...
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- The society in Fahrenheit 451 was very different than society today
and may be looked at as completely imaginary. Actually, when today's
society is compared with the societies both in Fahrenheit 451 and in the
past, we are indeed headed that way. The society in Fahrenheit 451 seemed
overall...
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- In John Cheever's short story, 'The Swimmer', themes of loss and social status are developed throughout the story. The main character, Neddy Merrill, portrays the idea of a journey. Cheever compares and contrasts Merrill's beliefs about his own life in both the realms of reality and fantasy...
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- by Francine Pascal by Francine Pascal is a story about Angel Desmond who is at the racetrack and has gambled away all of his money. His girlfriend Tia Ramirez and her friend Conner McDermott are looking for him. They find him at the racetrack and Tia gets very angry with...
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- The Presence of Pride in Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'
In Miller's 'The Crucible' the pride of the people of Salem leads to a massacre of innocent lives. Pride is delight or elation arising from some act, possession, or relationship. One of the main characters, John Proctor, has pride in his...
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- This book is fictional, yet based on fact. It is an entertaining mystery by Candace
Robb. When Candace Robb was a child she loved books. She promised herself
that she would read all the books on the shelves of a library. She never did it, but
still read lots of books throughout her life. Her...
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- Wuthering Heights: Use of Atmospheric Conditions to Emphasize Events and
Highlight the Mood of the Characters
In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront' makes use of atmospheric
conditions to emphasize events and highlight the mood of the characters in
the story. The Yorkshire moors are known for their...
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- It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim
In the story 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison there is the story of Sethe
and her daughter 'Beloved.' Sethe is a proud and beautiful woman who
escaped from slavery, yet is haunted by its heritage. She must deal with
this haunted...
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- The State of Oceania was a place where society was controlled by
the government especially the lower class. Since the lower class didn't
really have a life and weren't educated, the government knew it would be
very easy to control them in three distinct but powerful ways. The Inner
Party which is...
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In the novel 'Of Mice and Men' (John Stienbeck) a mentally challenged
man, Lenny, loses his innocence when he accidentally breaks a woman's neck.
In the novel 'Flowers for Algernon' (Daniel Keyes) another mentally
challenged man, Charlie, loses his innocence when, through the aid of...
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- recounts an epic three-day struggle between a strongly willed fisherman and a giant marlin said to be the largest catch of his long career. Santiago, the fisherman, has lost his luck and has gone eighty-four days without catching any fish. His young apprentice, Manolin, was...
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- Thesis Statement: Steinbeck uses Lennie, George and other workers in the ranch to explore the aspects of loneliness and friendship in Of Mice and Men.
In Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie's vision is of a place of their own, where they can live and have rabbits and can be protected from hurt. As...
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- In the novel Jane Eyre social class was expressed through out the story in many different ways. When Jane first began to realize the effects of her class structure she was at Gateshead Hall and was being abused by John Reed. He allowed himself to tell Jane that 'she is a dependent; an orphan with...
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- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley is a complex novel that was written during the age of Romanticism. It contains many typical themes of a common Romantic novel such as dark laboratories, the moon, and a monster. Many lessons are set into this novel, including how society acts towards the...
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- Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were perfect. They were innocent and
ignorant, yet perfect, so they were allowed to abide in the presence of God.
Once they partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil,
however, they immediately became unclean as well as mortal. In ,...
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- In literature, a single theme that recurs throughout a novel or play can lend to the overall flow and meaning of the written work. An image that seems to be prevalent in 'The Flies,' by Jean-Paul Sartre is the idea of authority. The idea of authority is manipulated by Sartre in various ways so...
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- is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922.
The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the "roaring"...
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- Two authors best who typify a Romantic style of writing are Edgar
Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both authors identify their characters
through the use of creative symbolism, colorful metaphors, and the use of
the supernatural in their works. Like many authors of the seventeenth
century Poe...
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- How would you like to be accused of a crime and then be disenfranchised because of your race? Well this is what happened to Mark Charles Parker because he allegedly raped June Walters a pregnant white woman on February 23 1959. In Howard Smead's historical nonfiction book he describes one of the...
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- Suppression of Pride
In a state of martial law one individual does not have much to say.
This statement holds true in the novel, "No One Writes to the Colonel," by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The author discusses the political climate of one
man, the Colonel, who after fighting to create the government...
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- Title of Paper : Things Fall Apart
In the novel, Things Fall Apart, the families play different roles than those of today's families. The men, women, and children all had various chores and activities that people do not do today. The main character, Okonkwo, was the leading male of his household. ...
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- A major theme in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
is that solitary confinement and exclusion from the public results in
insanity. The use of imagery and setting helps illustrate this theme
throughout the story.
The unnamed protagonist in this story suffers from a nervous
disorder...
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- then to Oxford. He was a brilliant man, and became a succesful writer of short stories in
the twenties and thirties. He also wrote essays and novels, like ''. The
first novels he wrote were comments on the young generation, with no goal whatsoever,
that lived after WW I. Before he became the writer...
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- Thomas Cahill opens his story describing Rome's fall, 'For as the Roman
Empire fell, as all through Europe matted, unwashed barbarians descended on the
Roman cities, looting artifacts and burning books, the Irish who were just
learning to read and write, took up the just labor of copying all of...
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- The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, an adventure and
suspense story, is written in 1857. The story sets on an deserted Pacific
coral island. A group of school boys are marooned on this island after a
plane crash on a trip to Australia.
The story begins with a large number of...
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- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave was written by Frederick Douglass himself. He was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Maryland in approximately 1817. He has, "'no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it" (47). He became...
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- In Geoffrey Chacer's The Canterbury Tales we are introduced to 29
people who are going on a pilgrimage to St. Thomas a Becket in Canterbury.
Each person is represented to fit a unique type of behavior as shown by
people during the medieval ages. My attention was drawn to the Wife of
Bath through...
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- Animal Farm and Russian Revolution have many similarities. In an allegory characters and events lead a dual life. I am going to tell you about the similarities between the characters. I'm also going to tell about the themes of the book Animal Farm. My third thing im going to talk about is the life...
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- , the mountain of the fire lizard, has been ruled by warrior badger Lords for ages. The mountain stands on the seashore, a fired sentinel guarding the coast against cruel searat invasions. Nevertheless, when Fherago the Assassin comes from inland and decides to take over the mountain, it's all Lord...
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- A character analysis is usually based on one character, however in this case there are two. I say this because they are both one. Sound confusing? It should, I had to read lines over and over just to understand it. You see its quite simple, there is one Dr. Jekyll and he is a typical nice doctor....
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- Lord David Cecil suggests that the theme of Wuthering Heights, by Emily
Bronte, is a universe of opposing forces-storm and calm. Wuthering Heights, the land of storm, is a sturdy house that is set up high on the windy moors, belonging to the Earnshaw family. The house is highly charged with...
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- Who else from any Jewish - American authors can translate Yeddish for the American readers so colorfully and honestly? Who else can represent the reality of Jewish life with love and light irony? This is Bernard Malamud, who was born in family of Russian - Jewish immigrants. He found his...
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- In the Novel The Great Gatsby, not many people really knew the man known as Jay Gatsby. When he was rich and powerful, he was the man you "want to know." But when he was dead, life went on without him. It seemed as if nobody cared that he was the man behind the parties and all the good times. He...
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- In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the madness of the Salem witch trials is explored in great detail. There are many theories as to why the witch trials came about, the most popular of which is the girls' suppressed childhoods. However, there were other factors as well, such as Abigail Williams'...
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- Stephen King's The Shining is a story about a family, the Torrances who stay at Overlook Hotel for the winter season. The father, Jack Torrance takes his family (wife, Wendy and son, Danny) up to this remote hotel to work as a caretaker for the off season. Jack is a recovering alcoholic who was...
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- Mystery Book of the Century with 1000 characters
?By the Pricking of My Thumbs? by Agatha Christie is a wonderful story with kidnappings, a series of murders, a painting with a story to tell, and two sly detectives. The book is set in 1940-1960 England. The plot winds, twists, and turns...
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- N. Scott Momaday divides his book The Way to Rainy Mountain in an
interesting manner. The book is divided into three chapters, each of which
contains a dozen or so numbered sections, each of which is divided into three
parts. The first part of each numbered section tends to be a legend or a...
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- was a very compelling and well-written novel. This book
has a very intriguing plot, from the mysterious Jay Gatsby to the gruesome
murder at the climatic ending. There is a multitude of deep characters you
will run into through out this novel like Nick Carraway and his presumed love
Miss Jordan...
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- When writing the novel , John Steinbeck made many themes clear to his readers. Some of these themes were good statements to live by, and others weren't. Most of these themes were about people's social lives, because that was what a good part of the book was about. They addressed friendship,...
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- The book the hiding place is about love forgiveness mostly but there is also hatred racism violence there is the hatred of the Jews and most people hated the Germans the racism was mainly to the Jews and they were not included in most thing such as a non-Jew may not go to a Jewish doctor or Jewish...
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- Before Bilbo Baggins meets Thorin, he was a tiny and modest
creature living as an ordinary hobbit, in his average hobbit hole. Thorin,
who plays the role of a guardian angel in this story, watches over Bilbo as
he seeks to complete his journey . The series of events that Bilbo has to
face on this...
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- Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson, is a truthful tale about
a post World War II trial in which a Japanese-American fisherman, the first
American citizen in his lineage, is accused of killing a well known
American fisherman. The accused is Kabuo Miyomoto; dead is Carl Heine Jr.
The book...
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- I am very educated, yet at the same time, not too familiar with the
prejudice that takes place in the novel The Color Purple, by Alice Walker.
First of all, this book mainly focuses on prejudice toward black
women in the early 1900's. Although blacks were free and women had a little
more power than...
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- In Shakespeare's play The Tempest, the cast of characters are squeezed into some archetypal roles. Prospero is our noble hero, Miranda is the beautiful maiden, Antonio is the closest thing we have to a villain. It's our temptation as readers to categorize these characters as roles and not as...
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- Paul Edgecombe was not just 'the good guy' of the story. He was not just the 'white' of black and white, as some of King's novels contain. He was not perfect, he had his faults, but he was someone who almost everyone respected, including the prisoners. He cared about his job and did it well. ...
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- Society often works against itself in one way or another. In
reading Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka one could presume the work to be a
social criticism. Throughout this story Kafka shows how society can be
split into different sections, with Gregor representing the working man at
the time, and his...
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- Characters, items, and events found in George Orwells book, Animal Farm, can be compared to similar characters, items, and events found in Marxism and the 1917 Russian Revolution. This comparison will be shown by using the symbolism that is in the book with similarities found in the Russian...
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- What if the animals ran the world? George Orwell tried to answer this question on a smaller scale in his 1945 novel, Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a satire on Stalinism and the Russian revolution. Orwell wrote this novel at a time when communism was on the rise and Joseph Stalin ruled with an iron...
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- The ability to bring the dead back to life would seem to be every scientist's ideal dream, but Victor 's reanimated creature becomes a living nightmare. This creature, whom Victor gives life to, brings nothing but death and despair, yet the blame should not fall entirely on the...
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- was written in 1781. It was the story
of the struggle to gain power over the throne of England between a father
and his son. King George was a very controlling man and liked to have
complete control over everything he dealt with. King George and his wife
had a good relationship, but he did not...
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- Chapter twelve should not be excluded from the book. It tied together her two relationships and discussed how everyone felt.
It was about the perception of Tea Cake and all the gossip that was among the town. Everyone was complaining that Tea Cake was not the right person for Janie. The reason...
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- is written by Elizabeth Gilbert. The publishing company of this book is Penguin. It was published in January of 2007 in New York.
Elizabeth Gilbert was about thirty and she started going through a midlife crisis. She had a husband, a house, and a successful career. But she was...
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- reader to share the experience of the main character?
Patrick Suskind's use of visual imagery captures the audiences? sense of smell by dragging the reader into this world of hideous stench. Perfume is unique as it creates a reality by ?painting a picture? in the mind of the reader through the...
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Kelly Gonzalez
Mr. Ashworth
English II CP-OS101/07
March 28, 2011
Many years have gone by since the Russian Revolution, yet metaphorically it's spoken about. The Russian Revolution was a war in which the development of soviet communism took place. There were many types of judgment...
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- This novel written originally by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and
translated by Walter Kaufmann. There are 201 pages in this novel.. This book
is a poem divided into two parts and has many adventures in it. The point of
view is from the writer of the play, 3rd person narration. The theme of...
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- Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter deals with many themes, the most powerful being punishment. In this novel, Hester Prynne becomes a highly respected person in a Puritan society by overcoming one of the harshest punishments, the scarlet letter. This object on "her bosom"; however, does the exact...
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At the beginning of Eudora Welthy's "A Worn Path", there was not much reason given for such an old lady being out in the middle of the woods during the middle of winter. It was only towards the end of the story that we find out why she is making this long journey. When we find out that she has...
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- The title of the novel The Catcher In The Rye, by JD Salinger, has a
substantial connection to the story. This title greatly explains the main
character, Holden Caulfield, and his feelings towards life and human nature. In
society he has found enormous corruption, vulgarity, harm and havoc. He...
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- In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the character of Daisy
Buchanan has many instances where her life and love of herself, money, and
materialism come into play. Daisy is constantly portrayed as someone who is only
happy when things are being given to her and circumstances are going as she...
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- The Canterbury Tales is about an unrelated group of twenty-nine pilgrims traveling together on a pilgrimage. One of the major aspects of the journey is the unique diversity of the characters. There are knights, nuns, monks, lower-class tradesman and single women. One of the characteristics that...
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- The tales of Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is a wide known
story. For more then two and a half centuries, Gulliver's Travels has
been read by children for pleasure. Terry Gilliam's 'The Adventures of
Baron Munchausen' is much the same. It can be compared to Gulliver's
Travels in many...
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- Repressing Challenges to Order
The rigid structure of society reinforces order and promotes conformity of all classes, but an individual contradicting established customs poses a threat. Shirley Jackson, the author of The Lottery, conveys that rebellious impulses of humans are repressed by society...
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- "Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?" I asked. Her reply, as it
seems to be for a lot of minority groups, is, "Neither, I'm Chinese-
American." So, besides her American accent and a hyphenated ending on her
answer to the SAT questionnaire about her ethnic background, what's the
difference?...
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- There were two migrant workers name George and Lennie. They have been let off a bus miles away from the California farm where they are due to start work. George is a small dark man with sharp strong features. Lennie his companion, is his opposite, a giant of a man with a shapeless face. Overcome...
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- Rosemary Well's When No One Was Looking is a suspenseful story of a
girl's ambition, friendship, and love of tennis, that takes her to the top.
Although she is not beautiful, rich, or good in school, fourteen year old Kathy
Bardy has a natural talent for tennis. One day, Kathy loses a match...
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- All children have a special place, whether chosen by a conscious
decision or not this is a place where one can go to sort their thoughts.
Nature can often provide comfort by providing a nurturing surrounding where
a child is forced to look within and choices can be made untainted by
society. Mark...
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- When thinking of progress, most people think of advances in the
scientific fields, believing that most discoveries and technologies are
beneficial to society. Are these advances as beneficial as most people think?
In the novel Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley, warns readers...
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- Whether you are of the opinion that love is a wonderful thing, love knows no boundaries, or love is blind, one fact remains constant: Love is like a snowflake'no two are ever exactly alike. In Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, the heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, has the luck (or...
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- The Lost World by Michael Crichton is a great science fiction novel
about a group of scientists of different fields that go on an expedition to an
island to bring back a rich and stubborn scientist from a test expedition that
he cared about more than his life.
The "lost world" is an island off the...
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- Courage in Individuals in "On Being Seventeen", "The Most Dangerous Game" and
In my eyes it is a good thing. It can make hard times easier and easy
times easier. Courage is overcoming a fear for a worthwhile purpose, such as
jumping in front of a train to save someone. I will be defining the...
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- Throughout mid-September, the police investigated the scenes of the two crimes and sites where bloodstains had been spotted. Without fingerprinting or blood typing to aid in a forensic investigation, the officers came up with pathetically little
On September 27th the police received a wake-up...
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- Ava has spent the last 10 years living in Atlanta. When she discovers she's infected with HIV, she sells her hairdressing business and heads back to her childhood home of Idlewild, Michigan, to spend the summer with her recently widowed sister before moving on to San Francisco. Once there, however,...
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- The book , The Dubliners by James Joyce, is a series of short
stories that together unfold different stories of life and death . The
first three stories, The Sisters, An Encounter, and Araby are said to be
about the moments of growth and of realizations of the boy-narrators. The
three of...
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- Seldom does a one work of literature change a society or start it
down the road to cataclysmic conflict. One such catalytic work is Harriet
Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). It is considered by many, one
the most influential American works of fiction ever published. Uncle Tom's
Cabin...
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- The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a wonderful model to show that rich people do not live the great 'life' that most people assume they do. Throughout the novel, many of the characters possess a good fortune and live rather extravagant lives. On the contrary, many times drinking,...
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- ?Henry James was born at two Washington Place in New York City on April 15,1843. He was the second son to Henry James, Sr., an independently wealthy intellectual, and Mary Robertson James. From 1843 to 1845, James took his first trip to Europe. He lived in New York City with his family at 58...
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- Canyons by Gary Paulsen is a book written about a young boy who finds a
skull on a camping trip and it seems to give him mental messages about
where he should go and what he should do. It all starts when Brannon goes
on a camping trip with his mom and her boyfriend. Brannon is having a bad
time...
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- Loneliness is one of the main emotions Of Mice and Men. Lenny must have
been lonely and George too. When we meet them in Of Mice and Men they already
know each other and George has already saved Lenny from getting into trouble.
Candy was lonely too because he has his dog that he couldn't bear to...
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- What is a leader's perfect idea of good disciple? The follower
should be one who is faithful. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, Boxer is
a very devoted follower. This is in part to the fact that he is somewhat
of a greenhorn. The pupil should also be a very diligent worker. Boxer
also exhibits...
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- Jane Eyre takes the idea of a fairy tale a step further by adding
psychological aspects to the story.
Jane did the right thing in regards to marrying Mr. Rochester because "what
is [considered] morally wrong cannot be psychologically right." In other
words, Jane's moral values told her what Mr....
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- Huckleberry Finn, the main character, learns he must grow up fast if he
wants to survive life. Huck Finn has a drunkard as a father, a hogshead as a
home, and a mother (dead ) of which he never knew. He is a congenital liar, a
thief, and someone who has no respect for the rules of society. He will...
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- A Woman Mourned by Daughters', by Adrienne Rich, is a very descriptive
poem in which two women are speaking to their dead mother. There are several
parts to this poem starting from the when the mother dies, and moving gradually
backward to when the daughters were young girls.
It begins with the...
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- Morality is a very controversial issue. That is one of the reasons what
people are interested in reading about it. Morality can lead to many questions
essentially it can lead to the question between right and wrong. In The Great
Gatsby Nick Carraway is faced with a constant struggle between...
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- Write about , showing both how he
attempts to individualise them, and how he uses them to present his view of
the world
The fallen angels are Satan's minions and the voices by which
Milton may express a variety of opinions and views, showing the diversity
and intricacies of Hell, and the immorality...
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- When Bernard Shaw was writing 'Arms and the Man' in 1893-1894, Romantic ideals concerning love and war were still widely accepted and considered normal; an attitude that did not change, even with Bernard Shaw's efforts to the contrary, until the dreadful losses of the First World War. Shaw, a...
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- A group of boys has been dropped on a tropical island somewhere in
the Pacific Ocean, their plane having been shot down. A nuclear war has
taken place; civilization has been destroyed.
Ralph, a strong and likable blond, delights in the fact that there
are "no grownups" around to supervise them. The...
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- Peace only comes at the price of great struggle and sacrifice for most people. In essence, it only comes when you have defeated the enemy, or the enemy has defeated you. John Knowles was able to capture the subtle goal and essence of his novel by titling it A Separate Peace. A Separate Peace is a...
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- In many novels in J.D. Salinger's library of books, there is a recurring
theme of the loss of innocence of children, the falling and the confusions of
childhood, and many other ideas that apply to the ideas of adolescence and the
life of the average teenager growing up. Many of his themes occur in...
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- BOOK I
J.R.R Tolkien
As the story begins we find the lovable Bilbo Baggins having his
going away birthday party. He would leave his precious magic ring behind
him and leave for Alderaun. 17 years would pass and the ring remains
under the safe-keep of Bilbo's nephew, Frodo Baggins. Gandalf ...
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- This novel was written by Paul Volponi, published in 2007, and is a must read. It takes place in the summer time in New York. The book is told all at a championship game, The Rucker Park Basketball Tournament, and gives flashbacks of events and memories of the various characters.
Mackey, the...
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- Themes and Symbols in the Novel
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28. She was a caring person yet very curt, she wrote in one of her poems, ?There is only one kind of love?love?, (Lee, Love in Other Words, article) which showed one of her better qualities. She told it like it was and didn't let...
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- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane traces the effects of
war on a Union soldier, Henry Fleming, from his dreams of soldiering,
to his actual enlistment, and through several battles of the Civil War. Henry Fleming was not happy with his boring life on the farm. He
wanted to become a hero...
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- The book Mary Reilly is the sequel to the famous The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a stark, ingeniously woven, engaging novel. That tells the disturbing tale of the dual personality of Dr. Jekyll, a physician. A...
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- The book tells of Holden Caulfield's insight about
life and the world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about
people and leads the reader on a 5 day visit into his mind. Holden,
throughout the book, made other people feel inferior to his own. I can
relate to this because although I...
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- The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goals. This dream is different for different people, but in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness...
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- The main character of this book is a St. Bernard and Scotch Shepherd mix, named Buck. As I read the book, I found out that Buck can be very loyal and trustworthy to his master, if his master is loyal to him. Also, at times I found that Buck could turn into an enraged beast very easily.
At home,...
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- The Irony Of was written by Joseph Conrad in 1900. 's tale is a lesson in life. It includes many key literary aspects; the main one, nevertheless, would be irony. With parts of the story exhibiting heroic redemption and others cowardice and shortcomings, it shows the vast conflicts that take...
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- Magical realism is a type of story that seems realistic but the author brings in some fantasy. In Laura Esquivel's For Water Like Chocolate and Gabriel Marquez' The Handsomest Drowned Man magical realism plays a huge role. They both have very realistic plots, but there is a twist of illusion in...
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- Albert Camus? novel, The Stranger, examines what happens to a passive man when mixed in a murder. During the trial of the main character, Meursault, the prosecutor examines Meursault's normal behavior as callous and cold. In order for the prosecutor to have a case in the reader's mind, Camus must...
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- Solomon Gursky Was Here is an epic novel spanning nearly a century and a
half, from the mid 1800's to 1980's. It is the story of the obsession of
Moses Berger, a Rhodes scholar turned alcoholic, with Solomon Gursky, the
charismatic son of a poor immigrant. Solomon, with his brother Bernard...
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- Shakespeare's classic play MacBeth is the story of a young and ambitious noble, MacBeth and his wife, Lady MacBeth living in 11th century Scotland. When MacBeth is told by three witches that he will become King of Scotland, his mind begins to wander. He considers killing the current king, Duncan,...
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- These chapters mark several milestones in Huck's development, as he acts on his conscience for the first time and takes concrete steps to thwart the schemes of the duke and the King. Although Huck has shown an increasing maturity and sense of morality as the novel has progressed, he has been...
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- In the book, , C.S. Lewis defined Edmund as a dynamic character. He changed tremendously throughout the book. At first, Edmund was selfish, greedy, spiteful, deceitful, and dishonest. However, toward the end he changed and was no longer self-centered and he was quiet.
In the beginning Edmund...
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- Aristotle first discovered the idea of the tragic man and recorded it in The Elements of Drama. Although the characteristics that he drafted were based from his experience with the Greek theater, the tragic man exists in multiple forms of art and literature. For example, many scholars consider...
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- During his lifetime, Charles Dickens is known to have written several books.
Although each book is different, they also share many similarities. Two of his
books, Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, are representatives of the many
kinds of differences and similarities found within his...
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- Tennessee Williams was once quoted as saying that "symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama...the purest language of plays" (Adler 30). This is clearly evident in Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. As with any of his major characters, any analysis of Blanche DuBois much consist of a...
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- A group of young boys stranded on a deserted island does not leave
much room for the development of a society. William Golding managed to not
only form a society among these boys, but also to develop it and eventually
break it down as well, all within a few short pages of The Lord of...
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- The epic poem Beowulf describes the most heroic man of the
Anglo-Saxon times. The hero, Beowulf, is a seemingly invincible
person with all the extraordinary traits required of a hero. He is able to
use his super-human physical strength and courage to put his people
before himself. His leadership...
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- Prejudice is a common problem during the early quarter of the
twentieth century. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird this problem is
evident in Maycomb. Boo Radley, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson are all
victims of prejudice, and all three characters are plagued by this. It
affects them all...
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- In the New Testament, are the allegorical figures of the sixth chapter of the Book of Revalation. These four agents of destruction are generally understood to symbolize power or conquest, violence or war, poverty or famine, and death. The first appears on a white horse, the second on a red horse,...
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- In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the antagonist and protagonist changes throughout the course of the plot. In the earlier part of the novel nature is the protagonist and man is the antagonist, but as the plot progresses nature is forced to protect herself by becoming the antagonist and...
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- The thoughts and actions of Alex in the novel, A Clockwork Orange are both alike and different from the character Jack in Lord of he Flies. Alex a young man at the age of fifteen is a bane on society. Rape, violence, and Beethoven are his main joys. Jack is a choirboy on a deserted island. ...
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- When the first settlers came to America many years ago, they found freedom and opportunity. With hard work and determination an average man or woman could be prosperous. This concept was not only revolutionary in theory, but has proven to be true for many successful individuals. This idea has...
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- The entire opening chapter of The Return of the Native is devoted to a lengthy description of Egdon Heath, the setting of the novel. The heath must be significant in terms of the themes and the continue progress of the novel. The author of the novel, Thomas Hardy, made the heath so significant to...
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- In life we experience many transitions that are part of the making of who we are. These transitions occur in the environment that surrounds us and can have profound impacts on the moulding of who a person is, the choices he/she will make and what that person has potential of becoming in the future....
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- In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne's scarlet
token liberates her more than it punishes her. First of all, Hester's soul is
freed by her admission of her crime; by enduring her earthly punishment, Hester
is assured of a place in the heavens. Also, though her appearance is...
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- Racialism--a doctrine or teaching, without scientific support, that
claims to find racial differences in character, intelligence, etc., that
asserts the superiority of one race over another or others. Throughout
time, conflicts between contrasting races and cultures have been apparent.
From the...
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- One of Shelley's dominant themes is the obligation to one's own creation. When Victor's lack of judgment leads him to create a misshapen being, his self-loathing for the results of his act quickly become hatred for the monster. After the creature's birth, "I issued into the streets, pacing them...
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- A Flower Frozen In Time: A Rose For Emily
William Faulkners story A Rose For Emily, is a tragic story about a young lady by the name of Miss Emily Grierson. Emily came from a well to do family, that had allot of history in the town they lived in. The Grierson's were so powerful, that they did not...
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- The novels, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, all contained evidence of internal and external forces that affected the manner in which the characters' lives were lived. The influences of family,...
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- Through out The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the differences between Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn become quite evident. The two boys are almost opposites, Tom a romantic and Huck a realist. Tom is a boy with a wild imagination who likes to pretend and play games of adventure...
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- , by Henry Fielding is a novel that is identical to a soap opera. This book deals with everything from treachery to lust to deceit. He writes about a man and woman's love for one another and that nothing can stand in their way. Class separates them and they will not let that stop them. 'Acquired a...
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- dman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story of Young Goodman Brown is a reflection of the Puritan faith as well as man's conflict between good and evil. This analysis will emphasize on the theme of Young Goodman Brown as well Hawthorne's usage of symbolism and allegories throughout the...
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- A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway is a story of Love, war and one
Man's pursuit of finding his own personal code in order to make a separate
peace. Fredrick Henry is an American who serves as a lieutenant in the
Italian army to a group of ambulance drivers. Hemingway portrays
Frederick as...
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- The classic " A Separate Peace" is a challenging novel that everyone should read. Upon completing this novel I pondered many questions in my mind. I certainly was not ready for the harsh realities that were given in this story. My measly 15 years of life hadn't prepared me for the lessons I...
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- Kate Chopin's ?? perceives this
seemingly normal middle-class family with an extensive
amount of colorful irony. Louise Mallard is a housewife who
tries to lead the most standard life possible with her
all-powerful husband.The many years of marriage has brought
the feeling of emptiness and vacancy...
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- This story is about a women that asks for Shelock Holmes help because she belives that she is going to die like her sister that died two years before. She belives that her sister was either frightened to death or killed by gipsies. Because when this woman Helen found her sister the last words the...
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'There are too many people, and too few human beings.' (Robert Zend) Even though there are many people on this planet, there are very few civilized people. Most of them are naturally savaged. In the book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, boys are stranded on an...
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- Have you ever felt that the people you love are perfect, and then
came to realize they are not? In the realistic fiction novel Babyface by
Norma Fox Mazer, Toni Chessmore thinks her life is perfect. She has great
friends, loving parents and lots of good luck. People even call her Toni-
Luck. But...
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- The loss of innocence in life is an inevitable process. Losing one's innocence comes merely by growing up. The philosophy of the loss of one's innocence is a definite theme in the book . This theme is displayed throughout the entire story and plot of the novel. There is loss of innocence all around...
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- Society is not as innocent to a child as it may appear to be. In fact,
when one really understands the society in which he lives he is no longer a
child. This is much the same case as found in To Kill A Mockingbird, by
Leigh Harper. Although Jem, being a child at the beginning of the novel,...
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- The themes of this novel strongly portray the issues of our present day society. These themes include struggle for existence, social oppression, money and possessions, free will versus determinism, wholeness, man as a part of nature and obsession. All of these themes can be related to in today's...
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- The stories of Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo reveal some of Amy Tan's main themes in the novel. One important theme is that we must get to know and understand our parents in order to fully understand ourselves. June spends the first half of her life believing that she is a disappointment to her mother...
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- In Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry the Logans family is
faced with many different hardships, some more serious than other . The main
character Cassie lives with her Mom, Dad, Grandmother and three brothers. The
book mainly revolves around Cassie and the events that happen to her...
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- I think that today's society is a "half version" of George Owell's novel,
, in some ways it is similar and in others, uniquely different. The closest
we come today to a "Big Brother" is the mob. The people are also controlled by
watchful security cameras and subliminal messages. However, something...
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- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Is Stephen Dedalus Really James
The main debate that all critics had over this novel was whether or
not Stephen Dedalus was, in fact, James Joyce. Maurice Beebe feels that
Joyce, when creating Stephen, used some of his own characteristics but also
tried to...
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- Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsden's series
consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and
The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven young people are thrown into the
middle of a violent war zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and
Corrie set out...
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- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D Salinger, depicts how a lonely
teenager, Holden Caulfield, deals with alcohol, sex, and violence.
Teenagers must also deal with these problems daily.
Alcohol is very predominate throughout the novel The Catcher in the
Rye. Alcoholic beverages are a readily available,...
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- John Steinbeck has a unique ability to portray characters wholly through the smallest of details. Steinbeck was born in Salema, California in 1902 and held many different working class jobs. In these jobs he encountered many different types of people that later became the basis of a lot of...
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- In "The Clerks Tale" and "The Wife of Bath Tale" from Geoffrey
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, characters are demanding, powerful and
manipulating in order to gain obedience from others. From all of The
Canterbury Tales, "The Clerks Tale" and "The Wife of Baths Tale" are the
two most similar...
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- Voltaire's Candide is the story of an innocent man's experiences in a mad and evil world, his struggle to survive in that world, and his need to ultimately come to terms with it. All people experience the turmoil of life and must overcome obstacles, both natural and man-made, in order to eventually...
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- Society's Standards In the late 1800's, as well as the early 1900's, women felt discriminated against by men and by society in general. Men generally held discriminatory and stereotypical views of women. Women had no control over themselves and were perceived to be nothing more than property to...
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- There are many ways people view art. To an observer it may be perceived as inventive, searching, disturbing, or self-expressive. Art not only phases the way people think and understand but it may also affect a lifestyle. Plato creates a new consciousness, a way of living in uniformation;...
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- In the book by Gary Paulsen, the main character Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old boy from Hampton, New York. Brian's parents just got a divorce. Brian is on his way to visit his father in Canada when the pilot has a heart attack. Brian manages to crash the plane in a lake in the Canadian...
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- In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel This Side of Paradise, Amory Blaine
searches for his identity by "mirroring" people he admires. However, these
"mirrors" actually block him from finding his true self. He falls in love with
women whose personalities intrigue him; he mimics the actions of men he...
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- : The Place of Sugar in Modern History Some of the most brilliant minds have made many unorthodox suggestions. This is the case with Sidney Mintz's thesis in : The Place of Modern History. Mintz's suggestions that industrial capitalism originated in the Caribbean sugar plantations may seem to...
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- El Cid is an epic tale that twlls of legendary warriors and kings. It
was written about the year eleven hundred and has unkown author. The
story centers on Ruy Diaz, more commonly known as El Cid. El Cid losses his
king's respect and admiration. Exactly why El Cid lost the king's favor is
nor...
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- Summer of the monkeys is about a boy named Jay Berry, his dog rowdy,
his sister Daisy, mama and papa.
Mama's milk cow jumped the fence and went down in the bottoms. Jay
Berry went to find her. When found her her milk bag was so full of milk
that she could berly move, so he decided to go on the game...
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- Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel about a
young boy's coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800's. The main character,
Huckleberry Finn, spends much time in the novel floating down the Mississippi
River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim. Before he does so,...
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- CHEKHOV'S THE MASTER Anton Chekhov is a master at showing aspects of real life; how fed up people are, how it really is without the everyday pleasantries, and how exploitable people are by one another. Chekhov uses these three aspects with great mastery to show his form of real life in his...
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- No one has a perfect life. Everyone has conflicts that they must face sooner or later. The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can differ as much as the people themselves. Some insist on ignoring the problem as long as possible, while some attack the problem to get it out of the...
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- The moral ambiguity of the universe is prevalent throughout Melville's Moby Dick. None of the characters represent pure evil or pure goodness. Even Melville's description of Ahab, whom he repeatedly refers to "monomaniacal," suggesting an amorality or psychosis, is given a chance to be seen as a...
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- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is set in a fantasy world that has
differences, as well as similarities, to our own world. The author has
created the novel's world, Middle Earth, not only by using imagination, but
by also adding details from the modern world. Realistic elements in the
book enable...
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- Our world is brought of many races and even though there is not much racism in our country as before unfortunately there are still times when people face discrimination. However, discrimination is only in the eyes of people who want to live in this lifestyle because believe you me if people really...
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- On page 132 we read "Everything that was not suffered to the end and
finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone." What does
this mean in regards to Siddhartha and any other of the characters in Hesse's
story? Do you agree with this statement? Explain.
This quote is taken...
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- Erich Remarque's is not about men, but of German soldiers and their hardships during World War I and how their attitudes changed throughout the war. ?We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war?(p.88). This novel portrays the overwhelming effects and power war has to deteriorate the...
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- Thomas Hardy is probably known as a novelist, which is how he established himself from 1871 to 1896. He is associated with the English county of Dorset, which he fictionalized into "Wessex". He wrote Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, and Jude the Obscure, for example. But...
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- Al Joad is a fairly skinny guy of medium built who starts out being
a cocky, self-conceited character. His only justifiable reason for acting
cocky is that his brother, Tom, killed a man and went to jail. Al respects
his brother and thinks of him as a man for having killed another man. The
fact...
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- In "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream," the author Didion uses fiery
imagery to parallel the San Bernardino Valley to hell.' It is a place where the
"hills blaze up spontaneously," and "every voice seems a scream." (p.3)' Didions
hellish descriptions of the geography reflect the culture of San...
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T.S. Eliot's "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" depicts the complexity of the modern age. Eliot, himself justified the complexity by arguing that the poet, who is to serve as the interpreter and critic of a complex age, must write complex poetry. And certainly we would all agree that the...
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- Symbols Imagine a bunch of young children's lives changed by being trapped on a island with no civilization around. William Golding shows how terrifying it can be in , the novel that brings symbolism above all to the emotions of all that read it. The symbols that bring out the meaning the best are...
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- The remains of Paul Baumer's company had moved behind the German front lines for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. After Behm became Paul's first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the older generation bitterly, particularly Kantorek, the teacher who convinced Paul and his classmates to join...
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- In the fascinating story about two best friends who struggle together with a situation called a conflict occurs. One day they go to jump off the branch over into a river for fun when Gene did something to make Finny (actually Phineas) fall and hurt himself badly and in the end, it ended up...
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- The book I chose to review was Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings. The
world in which the story takes place is ruled by seven gods. At the
beginning of time the people of the world live in harmony under the seven
gods. Most of the gods choose groups of peoples to worship them, all but
Aldur have...
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- In his book The Periodic Kingdom, P.W. Atkins takes a different approach to trying to explain the periodic table to the common reader. He compares the periodic table to a kingdom and then uses other analogies and similes to explain different aspects of the table.
When you first open the book and...
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- Fahrenheit 451?The Temperature at Which Books Burn
Fahrenheit 451 portrays censorship in the future through the fictional story of one man, Guy Montag, who undergoes an ?awakening? by realizing the significance of his actions and the need to express the ideas that were bring oppressed by the future...
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- What is change? Webster's Second Collegiate Dictionary, defines
change as to cause to become different; alter; transform; convert. Many
things, people, and world events are able to change. Peace may be present
for years and shattered by a disagreement over religion, or shift of
political power....
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- II.A.Discuss the protagonist of Lord of the Flies in terms of flatness or roundness. What purposes are served by his flatness, if any? Discuss any two minor characters in similar terms. For each, justify the degree of flatness or roundness in terms of the character's contribution to Lord of the...
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- Part 15 of Machiavelli's The Prince, entitled Of the Things for
Which Men, and Especially Princes, Are Praised or Blamed, states that, in
order for a man to maintain control of a government and better that
territory, he must engage in certain actions that may be deemed immoral
by the public he...
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- In the course of Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sethe undergoes a journey from a woman whose only identity is drawn from the fact that she is a mother, to the beginnings of identifying herself as a human being. To Sethe, the future was a matter of 'keeping the past at bay.' She is a frustrated woman who...
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- "?Races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth." These powerful last words of the novel ring true. The book demonstrates through many examples that human beings cannot exist in isolation. People must be interdependent in order for the race to...
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- The Adventures of Huck Finn Satire
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written in the vernacular form by Mark Twain, captures many examples of satire throughout the book. Satire is the technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution, with the intention to inspire...
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- Community - Parable of the Sower
"In Christ, we who are many form one body and each member belongs to all the others" (Romans 12.5). The bible directly describes and defines community; it is human's innate need to bond together, providing the basis of a community. In a religious sense, a community...
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- The novel Candide by Voltaire is a great peice of satire that
makes fun of the way people in medievil times thought. The book is about a
man, Candide, and his misfortunes. Throughout the book Candide has
countless things go wrong in order to show that this is not "the best of
all possible...
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- Charles Dickens' novel, Hard Times, is a story of two struggles--the
struggle of fact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It
takes place in Coketown, and industrial-age English city. The novel is divided
into two sections. One deals with the struggle of upper class members...
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- The image of the green light in the novel Great Gatsby, by F. Scott
Fitzgerald, is a significant symbol which reflects Gatsby's dream and other
aspects beyond Gatsby's longing. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald uses many
other images or symbols. At first, it may seem very basic, but when the
symbol...
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- Twain uses symbolism to create a certain effect in Huckleberry Finn. Diction, organization, details, and his personal point of view hides all aspects of symbolism in the novel. Twain uses many types of style analysis to connect things from word choice to the way the story flows. In this way, the...
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- No one has a perfect life. Throughout one's life there are many obstacles. Depending on how one chooses to deal with such obstacles, their affect can range from strikingly nocuous, to unexpectedly beneficial. In some situations, however, these obstacles are so overwhelming that one cannot help...
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- Incestuous Lesbian Love in Rosetti's "Goblin Market"
Christina Rosetti's "Goblin Market" hints incestuous lesbian love as an alternative to a heterogeneous relationship. "Goblin Market" is about a woman's [Laura] attempt to create a perfect, true love relationship with a man which ends with her...
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- The protagonist, Holden Caulfield, interacts with many people throughout J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, but probably none have as much impact on him as certain members of his immediate family. The ways Holden acts around or reacts to the various members of his family give the reader...
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- First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has consistently been Jane
Austen's most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel rural society
of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual
enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet (whose liveliness and quick wit...
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- A comparison of life in London, Air Strip One (or Great Britain) in the George Orwell novel '1984' and Waknuk, Canada in the John Wyndham novel 'The Crysalids.'
Waknuk is a society living after a nuclear attack. The people of Air Strip One (or Britain) in 1984 live in a dictatorship controlled by...
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- In Albert Camus's novel "The Stranger" the sun that sits in the sky could be the major influence on some of the actions meursault makes, almost like another character. Meursault loves the sun. But the sun is also lethal. At the moment of his crime the great cymbals of the sun beat on his head. As...
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- There is much controversy on why F. Scott Fitzgerald chose his masterpiece to be title The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald chose The Great Gatsby as the title to show the duality of how the central character of Jay Gatsby is great in trying determinedly to achieve his goal of Daisy, but how his...
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- The story takes place on an island somewhere in the ocean. The island is described by the author as tropical and boat shaped. Along the coast there are sandy beaches followed by a variety of vegetation and "creepers". There are also the orchards, which rise up to the treeless and rocky and rugged...
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- Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his psuedonym George Orwell, is an
English author commonly known to write about political issues. Orwell has been
highly acclaimed and criticized for his novels, including one of his most
famous, Animal Farm. In a satirical form, George Orwell uses personified...
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- It is the complexity of the main characters and their interactions that make A Streetcar Named Desire such a successful and challenging play.
The play A Streetcar Named Desire made playwright Tennessee William's name and has deservedly since had over half a century of success. This remarkable...
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- in the Internet The 2000 Presidential Elections are upon us and who do we turn to for information regarding the candidates? What issues will be the hot topics for the election race? For that matter, what will be the hot topics in the media for next week? Just as this paper must be structured,...
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- One of the most significant writers of the romantic period in American
literature was Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne wrote stories that opposed the
ideas of Transcendentalism. Since he had ancestors of Puritan belief, Hawthorne
wrote many stories about Puritan New England. His most famous story...
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- The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle The book I read was The Adventures of Dr. Dolittle. The author has an excellent writing style and the book is laid out in an easy to read format. Their were four main characters in this book: Dr. John Dolittle, Stubbins, Dab-Dab, and Polynesia. Dr. John Dolittle is...
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- The title of the novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, is pretty much
self explanatory. An Englishman, Phileas Fogg, places a wager that he can
circumnavigate the world in 80 days. The events that occur throughout the novel
describe his journey around the world.
Phileas Fogg, the protagonist,...
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- In the novel, Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden, has very definite views on sexuality, aggression, and death. He is ambivalent towards sex, loathsome of aggression, and fearsome of death. It's this triangle of sin that demonstrates the conflict occurring within Holden's inner...
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- When reading Ray Bradbury's description of the future in Fahrenheit 451, it would be very easy for many people to laugh at his predictions. Being written in the early 1950's it is very understandable that Bradbury's vision of the future may have been very distorted. Fahrenheit 451 did prove to be a...
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- The novel Jackaroo tells the mysterious adventures of an
Innkeeper's daughter and the interactions with her family during a
medieval-like time period, where the common people of the land were ruled
by Lords and Earls. In the story, the Innkeeper's daughter Gwyn, along
with her brother Tad, play a...
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- Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day is about the struggles one man, Mr. Stevens, has with relationships with his father, Miss Kenton and his employer, but the struggle he focuses on the most is to be a 'great butler.' He pushes himself physically to work as hard as he can, as well as mentally to...
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- Struggling through such things as the depression, the Dust Bowl summers,
and trying to provide for their own families, which included finding somewhere
to travel to where life would be safe. Such is the story of the Joads. The
Joads were the main family in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, a...
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- This is the fourth book in OUP's "Essential Writings" series that I happen to be revieweing. The first three were on Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, and Sri Auorbindo, respectively. It certainly looks as if the series is shaping up well, despite the inevitable unevenness in editorial inputs...
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- In recent years, there has been increasing discussion of the seemingly racist ideas expressed by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In some cases, the novel has been banned by public school systems and even censored by public libraries. Along with the excessive use of the word,...
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- Shakespeare's Hamlet revolves around the title character's undeniable obligation to immediately avenge his father's death by killing Claudius. Yet much time elapses before Hamlet finally does slay his evil uncle, leading to a fundamental question: what causes the hero to delay before eventually...
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- Click Here For Research Papers Online! English Old Man and the Sea This part of the story has to do with Santiago against nature and the sea. In this part of the story, he goes out and fights nature in the form of terrible forces and dangerous creatures, among them, a marlin, sharks and hunger. He...
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- Ceremony is the story about Tayo, A Native American World War II
Veteran, and his struggle to find himself. He struggles to adapt to a world
where his people have to fight between the what "whites" say is the true
path, and what his culture says the right path. Ceremony displays Tayo's
struggle by...
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- There are many downfalls that may happen when one has the desire to
be wealthy. This concept is shown in Guy de Maupassant's "The Jewels."
Maupassant shows the consequences of this desire by developing characters
with lives affected by wealth, by using symbolism and conflicts that
represent these...
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- Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's series The Vampire Chronicles
are books about vampires. The way the two authors write about the vampires'
powers, the way they live and how they are created and destroyed prove that
two books about the same subject can be different in many ways. It also
shows...
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- I am slow to understand the deep grievances of women. They complain that men have kept all the joys and privileges of the earth for themselves. What joys? What privileges? 'The right to go eight hours a day, five days a week, twelve months a year, for thirty to forty years to a steel mill or...
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- "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having
done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning (FK 1). " In his book
entitled "The Trial," Franz Kafka introduces the reader to the main
character and presents a major theme in the novel with this sentence. ...
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- NICK CARRAWAY has a special place in this novel. He is not just one character among several, it is through his eyes and ears that we form our opinions of the other characters.
Often, readers of this novel confuse Nick's stance towards those characters and the world he describes with those of F....
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- Bang! Gatsby's dead! George Wilson shot Gatsby! However, who is
morally responsible for killing Gatsby? The obvious answer would be George
since he pulled the trigger. However, it is clear, if for no other reason
than for the unimportance of George in the book, that others were also
partly...
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- Fitzgerald's Masterpiece
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is an enchanting novel, which tells an exquisite story through various techniques characteristic of a gifted author. The story has elements of deceit, high hopes, fallen dreams, and false intentions which make it thrilling to read....
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- Life leads many to learn and experience new things that may not affect life but that may impact it a lot. Such things teach us to value life and its experiences. I t helps us to realize life does have its hardships. This is called Life's Lessons. In Bambara's The Lesson, Mrs. Moore teaches the...
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- George Orwell's novel Animal Farm does an excellent job of drawing parallels from the situation leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Animal Farm is a satire that uses its characters to symbolize leaders of the Russian Revolution. The animals of "Manor Farm", the setting of this novel,...
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- Philosophies in Voltaire's Candide
Voltaire's Candide is a novel with many philosophical ideas about life. Through Candide's journeys and interaction with different cultures throughout the book, we the reader find that Voltaire is describing his ideas or outlooks on life. In the novel, Voltaire...
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- The Wall by Sarte, manifest several complex existential themes such
as self-deception and meaninglessness, through the first-person perspective
of the main character's, Pablo Ibbieta, confrontation with death. Pablo
Ibbieta is portrayed as a common POW who is forced into a situation where
he not...
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- Heart of Darkness centers on Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, a reportedly idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job with the Company piloting a steamship in the Belgian Congo. Marlow encounters widespread idiocy and absurd inefficiency...
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- The word ?kind? can be defined as 'sympathetic and generous? or ?natural, following one's nature.? The term mercy combines these ideas into a fitting idea in the play. Mercy can be defined as ?kind and considerate treatment that you show someone, especially when you forgive them or do not punish...
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- In this novel by Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway brings
about the evolution of Frederick Henry being converted into a code hero in
realistic ways. Frederick Henry achieved the six code hero characteristics
by the end of the novel with the help of Catherine, a code hero herself.
All the...
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- For centuries, Americans have gone west in search of what is called 'The American Dream'. And still, writers try to portray the American dream in their work. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie, two Californian ranch laborers, are in search of their dream which is to own a...
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- Le Connaissance Nouveau de L'Ingenu Francios-Marie Arouet's, assuming the pen-name of Voltaire, L'Ingenu is a satirical story that begins in 1689 when a ship of English merchants are coming to France to trade. This is when is first introduced. The French are most intrigued by his appearance....
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- The scenes and characters in The Scarlet Letter amplify the Biblical Significance in that God's place is not only in the church but in the government as well. This creates a closed society based on strict principles and morals. In that, conviction lies not in breaking the laws, but in breaking the...
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- One often reads a book or watches a movie and finds a specific meaning behind the whole story, a moral. After watching American Beauty it is easy to see a resemblance in the characters to that of Paradise Lost. In this way you could say that by reading Paradise Lost the characters in American...
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- In her book, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen makes many
arguments about how men and women act and what they want to hear in
conversation. These examples help the reader grasp Tannen's ideas and
arguments and make the book more interesting and easier to relate to. In
order to support her...
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- In The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the book's narrator
and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He does not think
much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in
relationships or during emotional times. He displays an...
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- The Great Depression was a time of hardship for everybody especially ranch workers. It prevented people from living the life they desired. Many people lived in poverty bartering between jobs. Eventually people, like Lennie and George, began searching for jobs in California, in fact '[t]housands...
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- Two of the most well known black writers that were for the abolishnist movement in America were Frederik Douglass and Phillis Wheatley. At a time when a literate Negro would have only existed in a nightmare and when even the majority of the white women in the country were illiterate, these two...
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- The Prince, written by Niccolo Machiavelli, is one of the first examinations of politics and science from a purely scientific and rational perspective. Machiavelli theorizes that the state is only created if the people cooperate and work to maintain it. The state is also one of man's greatest...
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- I read Michael Crichton's The Lost World. In the following paragraphs, I will
not only explain the book, but also give my critique of it. I will also give a
paragraph that was probably the best paragraph in the book, in my opinion.
The book starts out with Ian Malcolm, a mathematician who had...
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- Set in 19th century France, Victor Hugo's historical novel, Les
Miserables, portrays the protagonist, Jean Valjean, in his struggle with
his past. Even in the face of societal condemnation, he sacrifices himself
repeatedly for his loved ones as well for his moral and political
convictions. ...
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- Physical and emotional pain is what the tattered solider illustrates in
the book. The tattered solider pain comes from all of the horrible things
associated with war. Him going crazy brings emotional pain and the
physical pain is brought on by the endurances of war. "There was a
tattered man,...
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- Although their are many themes incorporated into the novella ' Billy Budd' written by Herman Melville on main theme stays consistent throughout the novella, the theme of good versus evil. In this theme Melville focuses on two main characters Billy Budd and John Claggart. Billy Budd is used in this...
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- Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres tells a dark tale of a corrupt
patriarchal society which operates through concealment. It is a story in
which the characters attempt to manipulate one another through the secrets
they possess and the subsequent revelation of those secrets. In her novel,
Smiley gives...
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- This tale documents how a twist of fate can alter one's life. It begins with Edward Tudor (Prince, by birth) and Tom Canty (Pauper) switching clothes one day and, in turn, accidentally switching lives. The Prince must now endure the slums of the country in which his father rules. He is beaten,...
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- Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat' is a perverse grotesque short story. What makes this tale so horrific is how Poe has created an unreliable, and nameless, narrator to tell this story. Telling this story from the first person point of view intensifies the shock and horror, which stops short of ...
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It's been five years since I left that dreaded island. Although I don't think of it as much anymore there are still times that the thoughts and images of my days on that island and those creatures cross my mind.
One day while sitting by the sea as I so often do, I found myself wondering about...
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- In the novel , by George Eliot, the characters are in a search for happiness. One character named Godfrey Cass is disappointed in his search when relying on wealth and luck, instead of love, does not lead him to happiness. Another character, , looks first to a pile of gold that only consumes his...
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- Of all the novels that Jane Austen has written, critics consider Pride
and Prejudice to be the most comical. Humor can be found everywhere in the book;
in it's character descriptions, imagery, but mostly in it's conversations
between characters. Her novels were not only her way of entertaining...
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- Behind every great painting, symphony, piece of literature, or other artwork there hides a powerful emotion that fuels the artist from start to completion. When we look at a painting, we are not just seeing colored pigment suspended in oil on a stretched canvas, we are taking a close look into the...
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- Many Authors use different techniques in their wittings. Samuel Beckett uses allusions and references to characters to help the reader understand what the characters represent. In his drama Waiting for Godot, Beckett's two main characters, Estragon and Vladimir, are symbolized as man. Separate...
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- Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel during the time of the debates that lead
to the Civil War and near the time of the Compromise of 1850. The book provides
a defiant protest against the social and political conditions of that era. The
division between the northern industrial states and the...
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- The metaphor that Charlie is Algernon, is valid. This can be proven by examining the following: Charlie and Algernon, are both used as objects in an experiment, both bear similar impediments to being successful in their goals, and neither Charlie nor Algernon is able to escape his fate.
First,...
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- Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" contains a display of the challenges faced by four China-born women and their Americanized daughters. The relationship between these women and their American daughters show the struggle of how loving intentions can be misinterpreted.
This is the case for...
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- Plato's 'Myth of the Cave' and Carver's Cathedral provide insight into parallel words. The protagonists in each story are trapped in a world of ignorance because each is comfortable in the dark, and fearful of what knowledge a light might bring. They are reluctant to venture into unfamiliar...
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- Writers of books try to relate the attitude of the characters to some part of life. Every book has a main character that represents the normal person, usually a person that the writer would like to be like, this character goes through some tough times and some fun times that makes you wish that...
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- 1.The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
2.The setting of this book is an attic of a building in Amsterdam during
the time period of 1942 to 1944.
3.The historical period of this book is World War II.
4.Anne Frank was a young girl who is the author of this popular diary. She
was thought of by...
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- Throughout literature, relationships can often be found between the author
of a story and the story that he writes. In Geoffrey Chaucer's frame story,
Canterbury Tales, many of the characters make this idea evident with the
tales that they tell. A distinct relationship can be made between...
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- The 1953 premiere of confirmed Arthur Miller's reputation as one of America's most important and serious playwrights. The drama is a historical play of 17th century colonial America and a parable about the communist witch hunts in the United States of the 1950s. The events which surround...
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- William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is a novel about how the conflicting agendas within a family tear it apart. Every member of the family is to a degree responsible for what goes wrong, but none more than Anse. Anse's laziness and selfishness are the underlying factors to every disaster in the book....
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- Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter deals with many themes, the most
powerful being punishment. In this novel, Hester Prynne becomes a highly
respected person in a Puritan society by overcoming one of the harshest
punishments, the scarlet letter. This object on "her bosom"; however, does
the exact...
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- Journal I
If I were among the boys on the island I would vote for Piggy as leader.
Although he is not one of the bigger boys, and seems to be put down all the
time, I think that he is the smartest. He would be able to think of ways to
be saved.
The problem with having Piggy chosen as leader is...
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- In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the first person narration
is critical in helping the reader to know and understand the main character,
Holden Caulfield. Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a
significant period of his life, three days and nights on his own in New York
City....
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- The book I have chosen to read for this review is one entitled
"SIX YEARS IN HELL." It is a book written by one Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen in a
first person manor. He was a military pilot who flew over Vietnam and was
captured and taken as a POW. This book covers his time in the military...
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- We would like to think that everything in life is capable, or beyond the
brink of reaching perfection. It would be an absolute dream to look upon each
day with a positive outlook. We try to establish our lives to the point where
this perfection may come true at times, although, it most likely...
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- Dear Elie,
We both know that the holocaust of the Jews was an extraordinary
event in the Jews' lives. Such a mass destruction will never be forgotten
by anyone. Families were torn apart and rarely you would come by a friend
or a relative. You and your father were very fortunate to have...
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- Louis Tanner of Destroying Angel and Rick Deckard of Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep: Importance to the Thematic Development of "moral men in immortal
worlds" and Body Mind Invasion
How would you feel if you found out you where making love to any android?
Shocked I hope. In this essay l will...
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- Prejudice has caused the pain and suffering of others for many
centuries. Some examples of this include the Holocaust and slavery in the
United States. In to Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee racism was the
cause of much agony to the blacks of a segregated South. Along with blacks,
other groups...
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- An answer to the discussion question of whether or not there is a
defined border culture would need a great number of years in field research, but
we can also observe a few of the characteristics of such border culture just by
looking at scholastic essays and books related to the topic. Within...
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- "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story about one clergyman's alienation due to his outward dressing. Reverend Hooper was a well-respected preacher who got along well with the townspeople until one day when he appeared wearing a black veil over his face that consisted "of two...
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- Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is the story of two
simple farm hands, Lennie Small, who incidentally, really isn't very small, and
his better half, George Milton, on their quest to have "a place of their own,"
with plenty of furry bunnies, of course. Sound strange? Read on to get...
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- Within the book The Beauty Myth, written by Naomi Wolf, there are many ways in which images of beauty are shown to be used against women. Ways in which a woman's physical appearance affect her life are depicted in many ways throughout the book. The ways in which the beauty of women are defined...
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- In one of the greatest works of the Twentieth Century, "The Great Gatsby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald, there are many dynamic and round characters which greatly add to the story's theme. One character, Daisy Fay Buchannon, is made essential by way of her relation to the theme. With her...
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- In Franz Kafka's , Gregor Samsa is alienated long before his transformation into a dung-beetle, the job that gave him no satisfaction and the family that exploited him kept him isolated from himself and society. Kafka uses Gregor to exorcize his opinions against the capitalist society that would...
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- Over the years religion has had an extensive influence on many significant stipulations. However, one of the most essential obstacles, in which religion arises, is the internal battle of self-knowledge within an individual. From the novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, the main character,...
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- A Friar is defined as a man who is a member of any various monastic orders of the Roman Catholic Church. He was jolly and merry and wore a long hanging hood that was attached to his cape. His voice was gay and sturdy and his eyes twinkled like stars. His neck was whiter than a lily flower but...
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- In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the river plays many roles and holds a prominent theme throughout much of the story. Huck and Jim seem to be happiest and most at peace when on the river. Although probably not to the point of having its own personality, the river has a deeper...
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- Night has fallen. Bombs are placed in the worlds largest building. A man rants about how the first step to take towards eternal life is death; while he shoves the barrel of a gun into the mouth of his best friend. " We won't really die." Tyler says. "This isn't really death, we'll be legends.". But...
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- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane traces the effects of war on
a Union soldier, Henry Fleming, from his dreams of soldiering, to his
actual enlistment, and through several battles of the Civil War.
Henry Fleming was not happy with his boring life on the farm. He
wanted to become a hero...
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- Getting over a traumatic experience can be troubling to anyone, especially when the experience deals with a close family member or friend. Whether the problem is your parents beating you, the fact that you don't have any friends, or even if you just feel unloved in your life, the product can be...
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- What is change? Webster's Second Collegiate Dictionary, defines change
as to cause to become different; alter; transform; convert. Many things, people,
and world events are able to change. Peace may be present for years and
shattered by a disagreement over religion, or shift of political...
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- Honest, patriotic, heroic and virtuous are words which, unfortunately, come to many people's mind whenever the subject of the military and its personnel comes up. Venerable generals, courageous colonels, and laudable lieutenants receive heroes' welcomes as they return from war to their respective...
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- In Wuthering Heights, there are two main characters that have many
things that are different about them and their attitudes toward others.
Edgar Linton and Heathcliff are very diverse opposing forces in the book,
they despise each other because they are total opposites and in search of
the same...
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- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a roller coaster ride through the mind of an angry, frustrated and confused teenager named Holden Caulfield. After getting expelled from Pencey, Holden takes a trip to New York City where Holden keeps asking the cab drivers where all the ducks in the...
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- Mark Jason S. So March 1999
Each and every action the children performed in school and in any place is a reflection of the quality of life they have in their own homes. Parents have a responsibility of taking...
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- Toni Morisson's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who reside in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s (where Morrison herself was born). This family consists of the mother Pauline, the father Cholly, the son Sammy, and the daughter Pecola. The novel's focal point is the...
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- The first half of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles started out with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson trying to identify a cane they had found. They easily find out the man is a doctor and all of a sudden he appears at the doorsteps of their house. His name is Dr. Mortimer and he...
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- Critics usually describe Hemingway's style as simple, spare, and journalistic.
These are all good words; they all apply. Perhaps because of his training as a
newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the declarative, subject-verb-object
sentence. His writing has been likened to a boxer's...
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- Brave New World: ?Oh, my God, my God!?
In 1932, Aldous Huxley first published the novel, Brave New World. During this time, the ideas that Huxley explored in his novel were not a reality, but merely science-fiction entertainment. Brave New World confronts ideas of totalitarianism, artificial...
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- The symbolism in the novel Ethan Frome is an aspect of the story that allows the reader to identify with the characters, their feelings, their surroundings, and the conflicts they face both in the outside world and within themselves. This tragic book tells the story of yet another forbidden pair...
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- Children all over the world hold many of the same characteristics. Most children are good at heart, but at times seem like little mischievous devils. Children enjoy having fun and causing trouble but under some supervision can be obedient little boys and girls. Everybody, at one time in their...
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- The two main characters in 1984 are Winston Smith and Julia. Winston has his
beliefs. It is very hard to make him believe in someone else's ideas or lies.
He is a little paranoid about people watching him. In the story 1984, people can
be watched through TVs (telescreens). Because of this...
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- It is quite simple for one to present, in detail that Brian O'Connals understanding of birth and death develop throughout the novel, Who Has Seen the Wind. During the novel, Brian O'Connal develops an understanding of birth and death as he matures. The birth of Forbsie's pigeons and his rabbits...
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- Economics is a way of life: The Lottery is not
A lottery is something that many people would be very excited to win. Most people think of a huge cash reward for winning a lottery. The thought of millions of dollars being awarded just because they picked your name is very exciting. In most cases,...
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- In comparing and contrasting the Arthurian Legends and J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Fellowship of the Ring, it is almost like two with many of the similarities coming from the customs of the Middle Ages. A look at the make up of the groups involved, the moral code, the protagonist, the antagonist,...
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- Setting is simply defined as the time and area in which a story is to unfold. In "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," setting performs such a huge part that it is also the title of the story. Throughout "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," setting plays a large role in character development, realization, and...
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- , she would have left Dublin and followed her love to Buenos Ayres. In the story Eveline by James Joyce, Eveline decided to stay in Dublin because she was afraid of change. Eveline felt she should fulfill her mother's dying wish by staying with her family, whatever the circumstances might be. This...
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- Living in a genetically perfect world is not necessarily a great achievement to mankind. It makes one think, "where do you draw the line in the advancement of eugenics?" Both worlds, the Brave New one and Gattaca, are alternative futures (clearly dystopic), written and shown in a believable way...
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- Sometimes mankind has to ask the question 'what is it that makes up the
actions and determines the type of interaction that we display when around
other people?' Notes to Myself is the contemporary world's way of questioning
the value of putting on facades. The novel also questions things we know...
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- The by Stephen Crane traces the effects of war on a Union soldier, Henry Fleming, from his dreams of soldiering, to his actual enlistment, and through several battles of the Civil War. Henry Fleming was not happy with his boring life on the farm. He wanted to become a hero in war and have girls...
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- Born: 1 November 1500, Florence
Died: 14 February 1571, Florence
BENVENUTO CELLINI was one of the most larger-than-life figures of the Italian Renaissance. A celebrated sculptor, goldsmith, author and soldier, but also a hooligan and even a killer. The son of a musician and builder of musical...
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- Willie Stark is the most powerful, the most dominating character in the novel, and it seems to be, primarily, his story that Jack Burden tells. Willie's character goes through many changes, his beliefs change etc., as his political career progresses. Willie's success and ultimate loss of power can...
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- This is my summary of the book, 1984. Many major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how the earth has changed, into 3 main continents. we are also introduced to the main character and how he fits into the new world. Also we are shown how the computer age has taken over...
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- Comparison of the Role of Women
?A woman is very unpredictable. She is romantic, sensitive and caring; however, underneath she is convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.?
-Erin Perrizn (1963 -)
One would automatically assume that the female character in a heroic story takes the preconceived role of...
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- To Kill a Mockingbird was written in 1960 by Harper Lee. Lee is a native of Alabama. This book reflects some of the attitudes and actions that still take place today. I took into consideration the fact that I am an African-American living in the South that does not know a whole lot about my...
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- During the late 1800's and early 1900's hundreds of thousands of
European immigrants migrated to the United States of America. They had
aspirations of success, prosperity and their own conception of the American
Dream. The majority of the immigrants believed that their lives would
completely...
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- Al Joad is a fairly skinny guy of medium built who starts out being a
cocky, self-conceited character. His only justifiable reason for acting cocky
is that his brother, Tom, killed a man and went to jail. Al respects his brother
and thinks of him as a man for having killed another man. The fact...
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- Dreaming The Impossible Dream:
of F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby, in The
Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald, born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul,
Minnesota, is seen today as one of the true great American novelists.
Although he lived a life filled with alcoholism, despair, and lost-love, he...
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- In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, suffering is an integral part of every character's role. However, the message that Dostoevsky wants to present with the main character, Raskolnikov, is not one of the Christian idea of salvation through suffering. Rather, it appears to me, as...
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- When I first started reading the book I thought its only purpose was to
talk about the political system in England. But after some pages I found
that there could be a deeper message concealed, between the lines somewhere.
The book is divided into four minor novels. The first is about...
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- Throughout Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness the importance
of restraint is greatly stressed. This being the restraint to remain human
and maintain sanity. In Heart of Darkness, Marlow was able to remain his
restriant despite how difficult it was for him. He was always surrounded
by...
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- Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is the tale of Charlie Marlow, a sailor whose journey is through the African Congo in search of ivory; however, the story is told on a boat at the mouth of the Thames River. The protagonist in Heart of Darkness not only tells the story of his journey through the...
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- Medea and Hedda Gabbler are two different plays, yet both have very similar motives in the end. Both women seek to control the destiny of the men in their lives. The reasons are not by the decision of either women, but by the hands of Fate, something out of their control. Both women are...
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- A running theme in Lord of the Flies is that man is savage at heart, always
ultimately reverting back to an evil and primitive nature. The cycle of man's
rise to power, or righteousness, and his inevitable fall from grace is an
important point that book proves again and again, often comparing man...
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- For generations marriage has been accepted as a bond between two
people. However, the ideals involved in marriage differ by the individuals
involved. The book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
clearly demonstrates these differences. In the book a girl by the name
Janie is...
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- THEME: There is nothing we can do which will separate us from God's compassion
and love
I certify that I am the author of this work and that any assistance I received
in its preparation is fully acknowledged.
PART I
The book was written between 790 and 710 BC by the prophet .
The...
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- It's hard to be a poor teenager and to have the responsibility to care a family. Neil Simon, a playwright who describes his rough times and his sense of duty. His understanding family, and the constant responsibility of keeping his family together during hard times helped Neil Simon to create his...
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- Some people dream about having an ability to communicate through mental
telepathy. Some even claimed to have this ability but it played an
important role in the novel The Chrysalids. The author created an
interesting environment. There was no communication and the only people
who could...
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- Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, is of the struggles of a firefighter, Guy Montag. This novel takes place during the future in Elm City where all houses are fireproof, people drive jet cars, and firefighters burn books instead of extinguishing them! Montag was pushed by his curiosity to...
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- It has been said about V.S. Naipaul's novel Miguel Street that "One of
the recurrent themes... is the ideal of manliness" (Kelly 19). To help put into
focus what manliness is, it is important to establish a definition for
masculinity as well as its opposite, femininity. Masculinity is defined...
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- Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the story of a single
character, a timid, middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to
himself. The epigraph, a dramatic speech taken from Dante's "Inferno,"
provides a key to...
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- Frankenstein, A Creature of Society.
When Cindy Porter was twenty five, a single mother, and living in the projects of Philadelphia she wrote a novel. Her novel was a story about a teenage boy who had grown up in poverty. The boy's daily confrontations with the hardships of his own life proved...
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- Important Places/Dates of event: April,1914- Narodna Obrandna recieves paper that says that Francis Ferdinand will be coming to Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 Sarajevo-June28, 1914- Francis Ferdinand and Sofia Chotek are assassinated July 23- Austria sends ultimatum to Serbian leaders July 28-Austria...
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- The Tale of the Sangreal' demonstrates the use of symbolism in several different aspects. The story uses colors, numbers, plants, animals, and weapons to symbolize many different ideas and people. The understanding of the symbolism used in 'The Tale of the Sangreal' is essential to the...
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- In these two literary works, Voltaire's ?Candide? and Alexander Popes ?A Modest Proposal? They use satire in a different way. One to entertain the upper class and the other to show us the harsh realities of the world.
Swift's "A Modest Proposal" In his lengthy literary career, Jonathan Swift...
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- It's a child not a choice, a famous bumper sticker that voices the opinion of people who oppose abortion. In the book Social and Personal Ethics, John T. Noonan Jr., a law professor at University of California Berkeley, and Mary Anne Warren, a philosophy professor at San Francisco State University...
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- This is a book report about the book A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley wrote this book, the grade level is 7.7 and it is worth twenty-seven points. This book is about three sisters who are each trying to be given a third of the farm corporation set up by their father. The aging father is trying to...
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- I don't know anything that mars literature so much as too much truth- Mark Twain
An honest and realistic view of southern life was what Mark Twain had in mind when writing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Satiric as this view may have been, it was by no means prejudiced (against blacks). By...
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- ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
The idea of people making wrong actions and having to pay for them afterwards is not new. The Christian religion centers itself around the confession of sins done by men or women. Luckily, they have the power to repent and do penance to receive God's forgiveness. ...
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- For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!' This is quote taken from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel . This quote relates to the theme of the novel, which is the interpretation of both the past and the present. It is said that the past shapes the...
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- The Mill on the Floss is a book written by George Eliot, whose real name
is Mary Anne (later Marian) Evans. There is a great deal of autobiography in
this book. The facts of Mary Anne's life do not match Maggie Tulliver, but
there is an obvious reflection of her own life.
Book One: Chapter1-13
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- In Aphra Behn's Oroonoko the author bestows on the protagonist, Oroonoko, many qualities of heroism and nobility. It might seem that some of these qualities are overly embellished and not realistic. Others might argue that this description is deserved.
Aphra Behn seems to want to pay Oroonoko the...
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- Jack Merridew is a symbol for savagery. From the very beginning, he seems to harbor emotions of anger and savagery. At first, he is the leader of his choir group, who become hunters as the book progresses. Finally, his savage personality and ability to tell people what they want to hear, allows...
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- , written by Christopher, is the story of a man that represents the common human dissatisfaction with being human. He sells his soul to the devil for what he believes to be limitless power, with full logical knowledge as to the consequences of such a transaction. He knows the stakes of his gamble...
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- For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled
and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These
authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life
to be like at some future time.
One such author, Ray Bradbury, utilized this...
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- Lord of the Flies: Our Society Suppresses the Evil That Is Presented In All
In this novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding shows how our
society suppresses the evil that is presented in all of us. Throughout
this adventure Jack changes from a well mannered choir bo, who was scared
to kill a pig,...
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- The passage Shadows of Tender Fury by Subcommander Marcos of the
Zapatista Army explains that the people of Chiapas are currently facing a period
of revolution. The Zapatista army (consisting of Chiapian campesinos) has risen
to combat the intolerant system of oppression by the Mexican government...
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- The book Grapes of Wrath tells about the dust Bowl people's troubles they
had coming to California. It tell about the Joad's trip from Oklahoma to
California. There are twelve people in the Joad family. The one person that
stood out the most between thee family was Ma. Ma's great strength, and...
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- more about it than she knows.
One point I found interesting is that she sees a woman behind bars
trying to get out in the pattern of the wallpaper. This might be the only thing
in this story that made sense to me. The pattern with the woman seems to be
related to the way she is being treated by...
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- The important conflict in The Red Badge of Courage is Henry Flemings fear about how he will perform in his first battle. There are three people who expressed their ideas abou their fears before the first skirmish. They are Henry Fleming, Tom Wilson, and Jim Conklin.
Henry is worried about how he...
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- CHARACTERIZATION
The main characters of Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov are, as
the title suggests, the members of the Karamazov "family," if it can indeed be
called such. The only things that the members of this family share are a name
and the "Karamazov curse," a legacy of base...
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- In Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, the gender roles of three women are significant to the development of Tayo as being half-white and half-Indian. These three women are Tayo's birth mother, Auntie, and Old Grandma. His mother left him when he was four years old and that began his sense of...
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- Kurt Vennegut states that not everyone is equal in his story, '
Harrison Bergeron.' The point he tries to get across to people is that it
is human nature to have individuality.
He explains this story by using satire. By using this, he mocks the
stupidity of the empire and their choices of life. He...
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- It is amazing when people are faced with failure, how they can turn it
around to create success from that failure. In both short stories "The
Lamp At Noon" and "The Blue Kimono", George, Marthe and Ellen showed some
type of failure. Then, turning it around and making a success out of it.
...
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- With a seemingly effortless style Eudora Welty demonstrates her gift of perception and imagery in the short story, "The Worn Path". Her ability to capture visual images and transform them into words on a piece of paper is nothing short of extraordinary. In this short story, Ms. Welty presents us...
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- William Shakespeare began writing tragedies because he believed the plots used by other English writers were lacking artistic purpose and form. He used the fall of a notable person as the main focus of his tragedies (Tragic Hero) developed through the characterization of his pivotal characters...
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- The first time I read "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen, the emotions it provoked made a tight ball of fear and guild appear in my stomach, I broke out in a sweat and my heart began beating triple time. There were so many similarities between the mother's story and my memories of the last six...
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- Who is the real hero of the novel Nick or Gatsby ? discuss
In the novel the great Gatsby we can look at two people as the heros, but they are both heros in a different manner . Nick could be seen as a hero because of the way he struggled to help Gatsby realize his dream and the other hero is...
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- Many authors utilize loaded language to try and convey another possible meaning behind the story. However, it is often neglected and the reader never comes to such a realization. But it is quite clear through Joseph Conrad's choice of words, that there is a suggestion of an allusionary meaning,...
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- "Ideas play a part in any revolution, conflicting ideas is main reason why
Revolutions happens. " This is the platform that George Orwell used in his book
" Animal Farm". The political allegory in the story is mocking the Revolution
that changed "Russia" into the "USSR". This was the workings of...
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- Tom Sawyer is a boy who is full of adventures. In his world there is an
adventure around every corner. Some of his adventures have lead him into
some bad situations but with his good heart and bright mind he has gotten
out of them. Tom lives with his aunt Polly, his cousin Mary and his...
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- How does an author's personal history or cultural background influence what he or she writes about? Are history and literature related?
I believe that many authors a very influenced by their own background and the subjects they write about. Authors write about what is familiar. Authors write...
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- In Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve commit the first sin, and from this point on, all other sins are mere copies of this. Alexander Pope uses this to his benefit when he depicts the crime in The Rape of the Lock. By alluding to Milton's work, Pope is able to comically refer to the cutting of a lock...
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- Jerome David Salinger, born in New York City on January 1, 1919, may not
have written many novels in which he is recognized for. Although ,he did
write one novel, which brought him fame. In many of Salinger's short
stories and especially his most well-known novel he writes about how the
main...
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- The main character in the novel is in some ways like myself. Mr. Shizuma is a
person that is intrigued by many things and likes to see what reaction people
have from any action. Throughout the novel he feels the need to go to different
parts of the city and surrounding communities in order to see...
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- The Scarlet Letter is a book of much symbolism. One of the most complex
and misunderstood symbols in the book is Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne.
Pearl, throughout the story, develops into a dynamic symbol - one that is
always changing. In the following essay, I will explore some of the...
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- In Silas Marner by George Eliot, she wrote of Silas Marner's different changes of love. In the beginning of the book, he focused his love on the lady who had captured his heart but then it turned to money. As the story ends, he found true love in his daughter Eppie. She greatly displayed how...
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- Wuthering Heights, written in Gothic style by Emily Bronte, has a somber tone, dark and evil themes. One of the major themes is tyranny. Tyranny, meaning oppressive power, which it contributes to Gothic style. Tyranny is uniquely used because all of the oppressors are aware of its use and yet...
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- One of the most important things an individual can do in his or her life is come to an understanding of God. It takes some people all of their lives to figure out whether they even believe in a God, never mind which one. Imagine how difficult it would be for someone to portray God as a character...
