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- A Farewell to Arms - Love and
John Stubbs' essay is an examination of the defense which he believes Henry and Catherine use to protect themselves from the discovery of their insignificance and "powerlessness...in a world indifferent to their well being..." He asserts that "role-playing" by the...
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Carson McCuller's story 'A Domestic Dilemma' depicts a family torn by both compassion and suffering. Martin, a loving and understanding husband must deal with his family's problems. Martin's wife, Emily, distraught by her new environment, initiates her family's...
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Norman Mclean's A River Runs Through It explores many feelings and experiences of one 'turn of the century' family in Missoula, Montana. In both the movie, directed by Robert Redford, and the original work of fiction we follow the Mcleans through their joys and...
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By: John Christo
"A Raisin in the Sun" "A Raisin in the Sun" 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...
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Religion is an important and recurring theme in James Joyce's Young Man. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus both matures and progressively becomes more individualistic as he grows. Though reared in a Catholic school,...
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A Separate Peace Topic A
The theme suggested in the closing paragraph of the novel A Separate Peace 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...
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Herman Melville's Billy Budd is a story about true goodness. It entails the conflict of good and evil, but more than that it portrays innocence in its? most purest form.
Innocence is an exploitable commodity. While this is universally recognized, there are many different ways...
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Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes Basil's life change drastically by having him paint a portrait of Dorian Gray and express too much of himself in it, which, in Wilde's mind, is a troublesome obstacle to circumvent. Wilde believes that the...
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John Knowles uses the literary element of symbolism in his novel, A Separate Peace. Gene, a student at the Devon Prep School in New Hampshire, tries to understand the love, hate, and jealousy that he feels for his roommate Phineas, nicknamed "Finny." Knowles uses...
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In "A New England Nun", Mary E. Wilkins Freeman depicts the life of the classic New England spinster. The image of a spinster is of an old maid; a woman never married waiting for a man. The woman waiting to be married is restricted in her life. She does chores and...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is an appropriate name for the book. It's about 7 years of Frances Nolan's life. The book's title is highly symbolical and took me several passes through it before I understood it completely. In the beginning of the book the author talks about...
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Irony: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected results. Huh? Well take the short story 'Lady with a Dog' written by Anton Chekhov as an example. First let's get a look at our main characters, Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, and...
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`ever`. How far and in what ways does Keats communicate this belief in his odes.
Emotion was the key element of any Romantic poet, the intensity of which is present in all of Keats poems. Keats openly expressed feelings ignoring...
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is a terrific book. I enjoyed reading this book very much. The non-stop action kept
me reading for hours.
One of the best features of the book is how it was written.The point of view changes every
chapter.For example...
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In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, the characters created contribute to the plot revolving around the French Revolution. Each character portrays a role that ultimately intertwines with the plot. Dickens does a very good job in creating a habit, trait...
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A Separate Peace
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John Knowles
A Separate Peace was written by active author John Knowles from his real experiences and personal struggles. Knowles attended Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive New Hampshire prep school, for two summer sessions in 1943 and 1944. This...
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The story ulkner in my opinion was a very interesting story. The story was about a old and troubled woman named Emily Grierson who because of her father's death had become one of the towns obligation's and also one of it's problems....
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- A tale of two cities - l0ve an
Love and hate are both emotions that are used in our attempt to express ourselves to certain people. Like it or not, although hate is more sinister of the two, without hate, the scales would be upset. We cannot always get the best of everything. However, in the...
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William Faulker's " A Rose for Emily" tells the story of a young
woman who is violated by her father's strict mentality. After being the only
man in her life Emily's father dies and she finds it hard to let go. Emily
was raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil...
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- A tale of two cities - critica
A Tale of Two Cities - Critical Analysis
In 1859, Charles Dickens wrote the book A Tale of Two Cities. In A Tale, Dickens writes about the French Revolution, and relates the events in the lives of two families, one French and one English. In addition to...
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Opening a Window
.D. Forster explores the struggle between the expectations of a conventional lady of the British upper class and pursuing the heart. Miss Lucy Honeychurch must choose between class concerns and personal desires....
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Homer's The Odyssey introduces us to a wide variety of characters. Two of the younger characters in The Odyssey are Telemachos, the son of Odysseus, and Nausikaa, the daughter of King Alkinoos. Both Telemachos and Nausikaa are taken to be approximately of the same...
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By: JulietteTishberg
A TALE OF TWO CITIES Through the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the author displays many different themes. I am going to focus on the Changing Views in a .. All through the book, Charles Dicken's portrayal of...
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The Tatler and the Spectator
During the early part of the 1700's Joseph Addison, the Tatler and Sir Richard Steele, the Spectator, came together to write "The Tatler and the Spectator". Through their hardships of life they came about understanding what others were...
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A Tale of Two Cities
This paper is a literary analysis over the book A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens. It contains information about the author, plot, and characters in the story. Devices and styles used to complete the book are also in this paper.
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"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place?
Earnest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" The main focus of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is on the pain of old age suffered by a man that we meet in a cafe late one night. Hemingway contrasts light and dark to show the...
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- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charach
In society today, all people determine their lifestyle, personality and overall character by
both positive and negative traits that they hold. Sydney Carton in Charles Dickens' A Tale
of Two Cities was a drunken lawyer who had an extremely low self- esteem. He...
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By: Anonymous
1) Title of Book: The Electric Kool-Aid 2) Author: Tom Wolfe 3) The grounds on which Thomas Wolfe created this documentation of the Merry Pranksters is that he attempts to re-create both the mental and physical atmosphere of their adventure and exploration...
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- A Streetcar Named Desire - Sym
Tennessee Williams was once quoted as saying "Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama...the purest language of plays" . This is clearly evident in A Streetcar Named Desire, one of Williams's many plays. In analyzing the main character of the story,...
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Eudora Welty's ?A Worn Path? is a story that emphasizes the natural symbolism of the surroundings. The main character in the story, Phoenix Jackson, is an old black woman who seeks out to find medicine for her sick nephew. This story contains a motif, which is the continuous...
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What is a classic? One definition given by the dictionary is: having lasting significance or worth; enduring. When examined closely we can discover what makes the novel unique and memorable. There are many important messages in Harper Lee's To Kill A...
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Ged goes though many struggles in the book ?A Wizard of Eathsea.? The book follows him though the many stages in his life, he learns many lessons and goes though numerous trials and tribulations. All these things help him through his own personal battle of life, his inner...
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- A Streetcar Named Desire - Com
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...
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By: Anonymous
After The bomb By: Raymund Pestalitz 'Y Setting In this story they had been using the following places. '' Bunker - it is a small room underground, out side the house which is use for any emergency. It just happened that Philip was in the room and playing with...
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A Circular Life(When The Legends Die)
When the Legends Die, by Hal Borland, is a novel in which traces the life of Tom Black Bull from a young Indian boy to an older, mature adult. Thus meaning When the Legends Die is a bildungsroman. A bildungsroman is...
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"A Bronx Tale" is a film directed by Robert Di Nero about a boy named Cologero (an Italian white male) and his life as he grows up in a town occupied by the mob. Colegero had two strong adult influences in his life. They were his father, Lorenzo, and a mob leader named...
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A Catcher In The Rye
This novel is a first person narrative novel. The main character Holden Caulfield tells the novel. The first few chapters are about how the private school he attended ?Gave him the axe.? for not applying himself in his classes after several...
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By: Keisha Luby
For too many years, African Americans have lived without knowing the people who have influenced their way of life. We walk around without taking the time to appreciate the people that have allowed us to go to these black colleges and universities,...
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After reading Arthur Miller's play "A view from the bridge," I am convinced that the most striking character is Marco. He is an Italian immigrant that moved illegally to the United States with his brother Rodolpho to work as longshoremen, since at the time (the...
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In plays, as in real life, individuals? actions can change the course of events in theirs, as well as, other individuals? lives. In both Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story, the lovers were forced to take their own lives or be killed because of fate and the...
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- A Tale of two cities - Two Cit
Two Cities
Jarvis Lorry, an employee of Tellson's Bank, was sent to find Dr. Manette, an unjustly
imprisoned physician, in Paris and bring him back to England. Lucie, Manette's daughter
who thought that he was dead, accompanied Mr. Lorry. Upon arriving at...
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Examine The Nature of Prejudice in ?Of Mice and Men? and ?The Withered Arm?
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California. ?Of Mice and Men? is also set in Salinas, California, USA, during the depression of America. This was a time of unemployment and economic...
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Bilbo's Transformation in the Novel The Hobbit
Some people say that people never change, while others believe that if given the chance, they will. In this case, J.R.R. Tolkien gives the character Bilbo Baggins the chance to change dramatically in his book...
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Comparing Catcher in the Rye and Pygmalion and the Themes They Represent
In J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield, muses at one point on the possibility of escaping from the world of confusion and ?phonies? while...
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Two Cities
Jarvis Lorry, an employee of Tellson's Bank, was sent to find Dr. Manette, an unjustly
imprisoned physician, in Paris and bring him back to England. Lucie, Manette's daughter
who thought that he was dead, accompanied Mr. Lorry. Upon arriving at...
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- Big Two-Hearted River - Part I
Sudden, Unexpected Interjection
"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." At one point in his short story, "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II", Hemingway's character Nick speaks in the first person. Why he adopts, for one line...
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"A Clockwork Orange" is a very different movie. It has everything a movie should have, but the plot is quite disturbing, especially for the time it came out. I have personally watched this film several times to find the meaning, and every time I watch it I come up with a...
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- A Tale of Two Cities - Syndney
Sydney Carton dies on the guillotine to spare Charles Darnay. How
you interpret Carton's sacrifice- positively or negatively- will
affect your judgment of his character, and of Dickens' entire work.
Some readers take the positive view that Carton's act is a...
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Biblical Symbolism in John Steinbeck's work East of Eden
John Steinbeck is considered to be one of the most talented American writers of all time. Most of his works are regarded highly by critics and celebrated as magnificent forms of twentieth-century...
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Biblical and Mythological Allusions In Hermon Melville's ?Moby Dick?
?An allusion is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.? (Thompson 1155). Writers often use biblical and mythological allusions to which their...
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Social Criticism in A Doll's House
In A Doll's House, Ibsen as he often does, criticizes society and the ways of life in that time. Ibsen shows this in Torvold's overwhelming power and control over Nora. This is also seen in the way that Women are weakened by society. Lastly...
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Billy Budd, a 19th century novel written by Herman Melville, involves three main characters: Billy Budd, John Claggart and Captain Vere. Throughout the first nineteen chapters, Melville portrays each character with distinct personality, in which case Billy Budd is represented as the...
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- A Tale of Two Cities - Charact
In the 16th century Charles Dickens wrote the unforgettable novel A Tale of Two Cities. In it he created two of the most remarkable fictional characters of all time. One is the bloodthirsty Madame Defarge, and the other is the selfless Sydney Carton. Madame Defarge...
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- Billy Budd - Individualism
There is much to be said about individualism. Feelings of freedom and endless possibilities for individual growth are presented throughout these two novels. Although being an individual has its high points, it is not always the road to take. Billy Budd and Ignatius...
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A Clockwork Orange
Many of us like to think that humanity as a whole is progressing to a better future where we will live united and in peace with one another. Nevertheless, there are those among us that do not share these beliefs. In A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony...
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- Billy Budd - Criminal Without
How would you feel if you were told you cheated on a test, that you really did not, by a teacher who hated you, and will be expelled because of it?
Herman Melville's Billy Budd relates an allegory of the righteous versus the reprobate by symbolizing Billy Budd,...
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"A Doll's House" introduced woman as having her own purposes and goals. The heroine, Nora Helmer, progresses during the course of the play eventually to realize that she must discontinue the role of a doll and seek out her individuality.
In Act I, there are many clues that...
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Herman Mellville's Billy Budd is and extremely divisive novel when one considers the dissension it has generated. The criticism has essentially focused around the argument of acceptance vs. resistance. On the one hand we can read the story as accepting the hanging of d as the...
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Banned for social reasons in many conditions and in many school systems, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange first seems to pierce the mind with its bizarre linguistic orgy of debauchery, brutality, and sex, and for some, refuses to affect them above the level of...
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By: Guy C. Vignola III
Billy Bathgate is an important American novel in it's portrayal of one young man's evolution from boyhood to maturity. The novel is about a fifteen year old boy that gets taken under the wing of Dutch Schultz, a 1930's gangster trying to...
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After reading ?A Doll's House? by Hendrik Ibsen. I can conclude that there is both a parallel and a contrast structure in the characters of Mrs. Linde and Nora.
A contrasting difference in the characters, are shown not in the characters themselves, but the role that they play...
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Black Boy
From the early days of Richard's childhood, Richard was always alienated from his environment. Even though he tried to distance himself from the prejudice all around him, the white people still tried to turn him into the stereotypical southern black person. ...
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When I was assigned this topic to write about, I immediately thought of Eros. The ancient Greek word that describes the romantic side of love. Philos and Agape are really more spiritual in nature, but Eros, now that's a physical love. I envision Eros as the sweaty...
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A literary Analysis of Jack London three most recognized works, Sea Wolf; The Call of the Wild; and White Fang.
Jack London lived a full life, even though he died at the young age of forty. In his life time he experienced many things, and I believe that...
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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...
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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...
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By: Phuc Tran
TITLE: AUTHOR: Richard Wright INTRODUCTION OF AUTHOR: Richard Wright was born in Natchez, Mississippi. When he was six years old, his father, Nathan Wright deserted the family for whatever reason. His mother, Ella, became the breadwinner of the family....
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Dreaming The Impossible Dream:
of F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby, in The
Great Gatsby
Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald, born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul,
Minnesota, is seen today as one of the true great American...
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Helmer is a successful bank lawyer in the drama ?A Doll House? written by Henrik Ibsen. His wife's name is Nora. She is a housewife with three children and gets help raising them from her maid Helen. Nora and Helmer are both busy people within their lives. Little do they...
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Running along the same lines as a daytime soap opera, Margaret Drabble's A Natural Curiosity provides pertinent information about life in Northam, England, a small, quaint town just outside of London, during the mid to late 1900's. Drabble narrates the novel in...
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Billy Budd
By: Herman Mellville
Herman Melville's Billy Budd is a classic tale of innocence and evil. The main force of innocence is constantly attacked by the force of evil until the innocence falters. Through the use of many literary devices, Melville shows how sometimes...
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Jay Gatsby believes he can buy happiness; and this is exhibited through his house, his clothes, and through Daisy. He owns a large portion of finances due to some mysterious source of wealth, and he uses this mystery source to buy his house, his clothes,and Daisy,...
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Herman Melville describes the three main characters whose names are Claggert, Captain Vere, and Billy Budd. Movies give the audience a 'summary? of the character's personalities while books tend to elaborate the details of the characters. Even though Claggert, Vere and Budd's...
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In the novel, Earth, author Jules Verne tells the fictitious story of three men and their adventures as they descend into the depths of the earth. The leading character in this expedition is a fifty-year-old German professor named...
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Children believe what their parents tell them but as they get older they start to question that which used to be unquestionable. Bless Me, Ultima is a novel by Rudolfo Anaya about a young Chicano boy, Antonio Juan Marez y Luna, who is growing up and seeing the world for how...
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Point of View in Grendel and Beowulf
Contrasting points of view in Grendel and Beowulf significantly alter the reader's perception of religion, good and evil, and the character Grendel. John Gardner's book, Grendel, is written in first person. The book...
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When my parents first told me that it would be a good idea for me to read Tuesdays With Morrie, my perception of the memoir was that it was an account of an old man dying. This did not seem, to me, to be the most interesting topic to read about. I reluctantly...
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William Blake was a social critic of his time yet his criticism also reflects society of our own time as well. He mainly communicates humanitarian concerns through his ?Songs of Innocence and Experience? which express two opposite states of the human soul,...
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Joel Chandler Harris' stories are so impressive because of the way he presents them and because of their humorous wisdom. Unlike many stories about black culture, Harris' stories were taken from blacks that he had actually known. Moreover, stories such as "How Mr....
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What is the value of skin color? In the biological point of view, it is worth nothing. In the social point of view, it represents community standings, dignity, confidence or something people have never imagined. In the story Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin, a white...
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King Lear, by William Shakespeare, is a tragic tale of filial conflict, personal transformation, and loss. The story revolves around the King who foolishly alienates his only truly devoted daughter and realizes too late the true nature of his other two daughters. A major...
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- A Farewell to Arms - Response
A Farewell to Arms [If The Sun Also Rises was one of the best books I have ever read, then A Farewell to Arms is Truth. I simply cannot believe that these books existed so long without my knowledge of how grand they are. I consider myself to read constantly, more...
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Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
In the book Black like me John Howard Griffin points out that the Negro doesn't understand the white any more than the white understands the Negro. Specific examples of the book show that both colors were racist to each other.
The...
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A "Goodman" Is Hard To Find I had never really analyzed any work of literature before this class. I read books and stories for fun but never to analyze them. I now understand that in any piece of literature there is always a background or hidden agenda that the author...
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Analysis of - Guests of the Sheik
Elizabeth Fernea entered El Nahra, Iraq as an innocent bystander. However, through her stay in the small Muslim village, she gained cultural insight to be passed on about not only El Nahra, but all foreign culture. As Fernea...
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Black Boy By Richard Wright
At Richards' grandmother's house. He sets some curtains on fire, which leads to the house catching on fire. The family moves to Memphis. Richard hangs a cat after his father tells him to (sarcastically) Richard's mother punishes him. At...
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To teach or not to teach? This is the question that is presently on many administrators' minds about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. For those who read the book without grasping the important concepts that Mark Twain gets across "in between the...
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The Symbolism of Blood in Macbeth
The Symbol of Blood in Macbeth Blood is known to represent most often injury and death, but also life. Blood is an essential part of life, and without blood, we could not live. This is common knowledge, and because of this, when Shakespeare...
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The character Ophelia in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet plays a very interesting and important role in the elaboration of the plot. In the beginning, she starts off in a healthy state of mind, in love with her boyfriend Hamlet, yet controlled by her father in...
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The In the , the author Virgil outlines the significance of authority by reiterating the need for Aeneas to fulfill his destiny in relation to pietas, devotion to family and country, as the central Roman virtue in the underworld. Virgil successfully uses the underworld to...
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An Analysis of Hamlet's ?antic disposition?
Is Hamlet mad? A close analysis of the play reveals that Hamlet is straightforward and sane. His actions and thoughts are a logical response to the situation in which he finds himself. However, he assumes...
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In her short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find? Flannery O'Connor seems to portray a feeling that society as she saw it was drastically changing for the worse. O'Connor's obvious displeasure with society at the time is most likely a result of her Catholic religion...
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This is a
critique of the book, , by Michael
Ignatieff. This paper will explain the subject of the book and
its relevance, discuss Michael Ignatieff's methods and
conclusions on the subject and finally include a personal
critique of the book by the...
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I think that Flannery O?Connor's short story ?A Good Man is Hard to Find? is written partially in order to ?convert? people who have not yet fully accepted the Christian faith. O?Conner, herself being a strong believer in Christianity, probably thought that writing...
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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 Blood...
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The short story ?The Storm? by Kate Chopin, deals with the subject of adultery. The story takes place in the early 1900's. There are two main characters, Calixta (the wife) and Alcee (the former lover). Alcee must take refuge from a passing storm in Calixta's house, while...
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Bringing it all together
The Epilogue of the Tempest by William Shakespeare is an excellent -- if not the best -- example of Shakespeare's brilliance. In 20 lines Shakespeare is able to write an excellent ending to his play, while speaking through his characters...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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...
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A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Do you agree that Farewell to Arms is as successful in the portrayal of fear and suffering as when he writes of courage and comradeship?
The four themes of fear, suffering, courage and comradeship are prominent issues which are raised in the...
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I don't recall if Gutman said it in the movie about the Falcon being coated by lacquer to obfuscate that it's really made of gold and jewels. I think it was implied that nothing is what they really seem to be. This is what I believe Dashiell Hammett was trying to...
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The Theme of
In the tragedy King Lear, the term blindness has an entirely different meaning. It is not a physical flaw, but the inability of the characters to use their thoughts and emotions to see a person for whom they truly are. They can...
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Marlow's contemplation during his journey through the Congo
In one of his novels, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad depicts the tale of a man who reflects upon the meaning of life as well as all of its intricasies and implications. Indeed, Marlow, the main...
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By: Anonymous
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell George Orwell's novel Farm does an excellent job of drawing parallels from the situation leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Farm is a satire that uses its characters to symbolize leaders of the Russian Revolution. The...
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Animalism Vs. Marxism Characters, items, and events found
in George Orwells book, , 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...
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When the topic of dictators is brought up who comes to mind? Most anyone will say . Why was he so cruel? What drove his hatred for the Jews? Why did he want a so-called 'perfect' race? Well the answer to all these questions might be answered from Hitler's childhood....
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Although the book, A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway was not the type of book that had an exciting page-turning story, it can nevertheless be called a classic. A classic has been defined as ?a book that lasts through generations because of its universality of...
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SUMMARY
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at
all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly
worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the
miserable Irish childhood, and worse...
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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 Bless Me, Ultima. This theme is displayed throughout the entire story and plot of the novel....
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I recently read a mystery book by the name of "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie. I read this book because I have read other books by Agatha Christie that were pretty well written. Ten people are invited to an island, called "Indian Island",by letters...
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By: fred
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...
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In the novel, A Lesson Before Dying, By Ernest Gaines, the main character, Grant Wiggins gives a man meaning in his last days alive. Wiggins gives him a book to write his thoughts in, and helps him to realize that he is not a ?hog.? He shows him that he is...
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By: Megan Mason
is probably the most tolerant religion in the world, as its teachings can coexist with any other religions. has a very long existence and history, starting in about 565 B.C. with the birth of Siddhartha Gautama. The religion...
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Book Analysis: Uncle Tom's Cabin
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, which surprises many of her readers. Stowe writes so passionately about slavery that it seems that she must have been raised in the South. Stowe was born...
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"Look out Below!" - Craaack! About 15 Men and women turn their glances toward the sky, and see a large, perhaps 100 feet, tree falling to the ground. As the tree hits the solid earth, everything grows very quiet. All look at the lumberjack, who killed this tree, and find him...
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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...
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A lack of Respect
?To Build a Fire? by Jack London is a short story about a man traveling along the Yukon River in the bitter winter weather. While warned against traveling alone in the frigid cold, he ventures out to meet his companions at a remote camp many miles away,...
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs is the story of one family's struggle to survive in the pre-World War II age of the "Great Depression". This was a time of great hardship where pain and suffering were eminent. In this play, Neil Simon gives us a...
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In her story, "Boys and Girls," Alice Munro depicts the hardships and successes of the rite of passage into adulthood through her portrayal of a young narrator and her brother. Through the narrator, the subject of the profound unfairness of sex-role stereotyping, and...
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Mary Emeny's poem, 'Barbed Wire,' depicts war as a negative force, destroying every decent aspect of human existence. Written during the Vietnam War, the work displays Emeny's negative views on war. In one way or another everyone experiences and identifies with the...
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A Journey into the Heart of Darkness
The white man is evil, or so says Joseph Conrad in his novel Heart of Darkness, which describes the colonial transformation of the symbolically angelic African wilderness into an evil haven for the white man. The novel...
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A Bright Lie Shining: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan has used this novel to tell the story of the Vietnam conflict utilizing the perspective of one of its most respected characters. This is the story of John P. Vann who first came to...
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In Lewis Carroll's novel , Alice is curious, well-
mannered, and confused while she tries to find her way out of Wonderland.
Alice meets many unique and weird creatures which eventually help her
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Babbitt vs. The Hobbit
Sinclair Lewis? character of George Babbitt is similar to J.R.R Tolkien's character of Bilbo Baggins, but they are also very different. These two characters are alike in two different ways: in personality and the heroic journey. However, on...
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A Homicide for Emily
?A Rose for Emily? is a short intriguing story written by William Faulkner. This is because the way Emily's character is portrayed, the mysterious death of Homer Barron, and the way Faulkner uses the narrator to tell the story.
Emily is...
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By: Aaron
Aaron Weiss Breaking Society's Rules American literature often examines people and motives. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, and in Arthur Miller's dramatic classic, The Crucible, people and motives often depict patterns of Puritans...
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Did you read and enjoy Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books as a child? Or better still, did you have someone read them to you? Perhaps you discovered them as an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven't discovered them at all! Those who have journeyed...
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In the realm of critical thinking, Abelard undoubtedly ranked highly in his day. He was an expert dialectician, philosopher and theologian, and as a result led a movement towards individual thinking. He traveled a lonely path of individuality, and when his ideas...
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In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, we find a group of British boys stranded on a tropical island while the rest of the world is at war. Their plane has been shot down and they find themselves without adults to tell them how to act. As they struggle to survive, they...
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Throughout my life I have read many novels. This book was very interesting. This is a compelling account of the turbulence that inflamed Kenya in the 1950s and its impact on people's lives. A brand new perspective upon the emancipation of so-called Third World...
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In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, we find a group of British boys stranded on a tropical island while the rest of the world is at war. Their plane has been shot down and they find themselves without adults to tell them how to act. As they struggle to survive,...
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Michael Crichton
For unknown reasons, the almost flawless N-22 Norton aircraft suffers severe turbulence during TPA flight 545. As a result of three fatalities and fifty-six injuries, a spiral of investigations, terrible apprehensions, and horrible threats plague the...
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By: Mickey Mantle
_ Willy Loman - Jay Gatsby: The Pursuit of the American Dream Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, and Arthur Miller, author of Death of a Salesman, both tell the stories of men in the costly pursuit of the American dream. As a result...
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One of the basic assumptions underlying any detective novel is a sense of social order. The novelist assumes that the reader agrees that killing people is wrong; it does not matter if the victims are exemplary citizens or odious individuals, it is the mere act of snuffing out...
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BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
PLANET OF THE APES
COMPARITIVE ESSAY
The short story by the waters of Babylon 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...
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By: Trevor
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...
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There is no doubt that Eustacia Vie is the Heroine of the tragedy "Return of the native". Without the majestic air that Miss Vie adds to the novel we are left with a typical period soap drama. Eustacia vie is on more then one occasion compared to classical...
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is a compilation of accounts covering a period in American history which should be remembered with shame by all descendants of the Europeans who settled this land.
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English Literature
Book Review
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...
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A Medieval Contest
In comparing and contrasting the Arthurian Legends and J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Fellowship of the Ring, it is almost like a medieval contest between the two with many of the similarities coming from the customs of the Middle Ages. A look...
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The Spider Web of Life
Throughout the novel, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, the characters are constantly feeling the effects of their action later in the book. Every one of their sinister, sketchy actions were dealt with again later in the book and...
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George Orwell's novel Burmese Days is set in 1920's Burma under British colonialism. It focuses on the imperialism of the British and its effects on the relationships between the British, the British and Indians, and between the Indians themselves. The novel concentrates on the...
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Everyday Use
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker is a short story about how people get caught up in the superficial value of material things, and the jealousy this desire causes. In this short story Dee, the eldest daughter, was always ashamed by the way she lived during her...
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A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons, written by Robert Bolt, is a very well known, famous play. The main character of this play, Sir Thomas More, is probably why this play is so widely known. Sir Thomas More is more than a main character, but instead a hero...
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Trapped in the Web
In the novel, All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren, the characters live out the consequences of decisions made in their pasts. Each character deals with the past in a different way. It costs some relationships. It costs some their careers. It...
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Candide on the surface is a witty, gelastic story. However when inspected deeper it is a philippic writing against people of an uneducated status. Candid is an archetype of these idiocracies, for he lacks reason and has optimism that is truely irking, believing that...
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People identify themselves by their colour, culture, language or religion. The identity goes back to generations and it doesn't start or change within the individual. It is an evolutionary process where each person brings upon some changes. This is best described in...
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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...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
One of the best war novels that is read by thousands of
high school students each year is Erich Maria Remarque's All
Quiet on the Western Front. This story depicts the life as a
solider in the German Army fighting...
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Everyday Use
Dee stands out from her family in views of their heritage
In Alice Walker's short story, "Everyday Use" she discuss the life of an African American family of a mother and her two daughters. The mother has a tremendous amount of love for both of her...
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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...
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Mary Higgins Clark started her writing career writing suspense stories and she hasn't changed very much since then. All her books are very interesting to read and they will always keep your attention to the end.
All Around the Town was one of the stories...
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Ethan Frome Essay
Compare and Contrast the characters of Mattie and Zeena
In the novel Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, the characters of Mattie
Silver and Zeena Frome are dissimilar in many ways. Mattie is a compassionate,
lively, outgoing woman who...
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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...
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The story centers around a young soldier named Paul in some unnamed regiment in the German army. They fight the Allied forces of the United States of America and Europe, plus their friends. The story is about how Paul and the other soldiers with him, who are also...
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In the world today, there are many forms of societal differences that hold people back from their dreams and desires. The two novels, Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton and Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, both accurately portray those exact...
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- Call of the Wild - Character S
Throughout the novel The Call of the Wild, we follow a dog named Buck through his journey through the Klondike. We experience a transformation in him, as he adapts to the cold, harsh land where he is forced to toil in the snow, just to help men find a shiny metal....
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Ambition in Macbeth
In Macbeth, a play set in Scotland, William Shakespeare wrote a tragedy of a man's ambition. In the play, Macbeth is described as a man who has ambitions of becoming king. After the first part of the prophecy by the witches whom he has met...
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Explication of "Dulce et Decorum Est"
In Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen explores the harsh conditions and realities of war. The burdens of war and the overwhelming weariness faced by soldiers are described in the first ten lines of the poem. Many soldiers in...
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Canterbury Tales In discussing Chaucer's collection of stories called The Canterbury Tales, an interesting picture or illustration of the Medieval Christian Church is presented. However, while people demanded more voice in the affairs of government, the church became...
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By: Erick
Beowulf was written in England sometime in the 8th century. Beowulf was written in a time when Christianity was becoming a major religion and Paganism was still widely practiced. Beowulf was originally probably a folklore legend told in early Celtic and...
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The Nurse is Capulets servant, and she is a very good servant as she tries her hardest to please the Capulets and Juliet at the same time. She is also a very important character in the play and in the Capulets lives. Through out the play The Nurse is Juliet's...
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As part of the summer reading assignment this year, I read the book Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this documentary-style book, he told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor, rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City....
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Stephen King always impregnates his books with wonderfully detailed drama, horror, mystery and sometimes romance, creating a book that is a terrific example of his best writing techniques combined. The main character, Mike Noonan, is an acclaimed writer who recently lost his wife...
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By: Joe Clark
By John Steinbeck In , John Steinbeck describes the unholy community of 1920s Monterey, California. is a street that depends on canning sardines. It is where all the outcasts of society reside. Steinbeck himself, in the first...
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Beloved
In regards to the novel Beloved Toni Morrison says, ?[The novel] can't be driven by slavery. It has to be the interior life of some people, a small group of people, and everything that they do is impacted on by the horror of slavery, but they are also people.? Critics...
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As Aldous Huxley wrote the novel Brave New World, he combined the horrific future blight found in other dystopias with the ever-present flaws of a suppressed feudalistic society. This combination created a revolutionary vision of what an early twentieth century world...
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A report I had to do on Plato's . Plato
was born 427 B.C. and died 347 B.C. He was a pupil
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In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck describes the unholy community of 1920s Monterey, California. Cannery Row is a street that depends on canning sardines. It is where all the outcasts of society reside. Steinbeck himself, in the...
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Beloved. Who or what is Beloved? Many people think that Beloved is the Devil or a
savior. Others just take her at face value as Sethe's dead child come back to haunt her. I
believe that all of these ideas come close to her identity, but they are still not completely
right....
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Heathcliff - His Own Worst Enemy
Heathcliff, one of the central character of Wuthering Heights, evolves from an empathetic, innocent victim to a self-centered vindictive individual. This transformation is slow and develops in three distinctive parts. First,...
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Beauty and the Beauty in the Beast
Once upon a time'
The classic opener for any fairy tale, which is no different in the case of Beauty and the Beast. Fairy tales were meant to teach our children life lessons that society, at the time, deems important to learn. They...
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By: Nancy
Richard Nixon's first term as president was always be connected with the Watergate scandal and the President investigations. This scandal has been etched in the minds of millions and is still being recalled today when faced with the present day scandal of our...
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Throughout the novel, , Voltaire repeatedly exploits the nature of humans to consider other's situations and lifestyles to be better than that of their own. Voltaire uses 's journeys to portray the human assumption that the grass is always greener on the other side. This...
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The "" in modern literature has become an important period in
the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such
as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new
and prophetic vision of modern life and...
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Frankenstein's Evolution
In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the major character, Victor Frankenstein, evolves synonymously with the character of his monster. The evolution of Victor from a man of good to a man of evil leads to his isolation and eventual...
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?I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.?
-The Invisible Man
Be True to Thyself
Many people travel through life on a constant search on who there are and how they fit into this world. Some maneuver...
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A people's candidate in the Deep South, who was fighting for the rights of people; that's Willie Stark the main character of, All the Kings Men. He starts out as a good-deeded hick, and then evolves into a power-hungry, corrupt politician. Willie ruins his family and himself...
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Voltaire's Candide is a novel which contains conceptual ideas and at the same time is also exaggerated. Voltaire offers sad themes disguised by jokes and witticism, and the story itself presents a distinctive outlook on life. The crucial contrast in the story deals with...
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Beowulf was written in the eighth century by and unknown author. The story is centered on Beowulf, the main character, who goes to Denmark to offer his assistance in fighting off, Grendel, the monster who has been haunting them. Beowulf most definitely proves to be a hero. His heroism is...
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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...
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- Book Review- Little Girl Lost
PART A
Little Girl Lost is an autobiography of Drew Barrymore co-written with PEOPLE magazine's Todd Gold. Drew Barrymore, a twenty-five year old actress (ET, Never Been Kissed, to-be-released Charlie's Angels) has overcome an addiction, proven herself to be a...
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Character Analysis of Mrs. Mallard in Kate Chopin's ?The Story of an Hour?
Kate Chopin's ?The Story of an Hour? explores a woman's unexpected reaction to her husband's assumed death and reappearance, but actually Chopin offers Mrs. Mallard's bizarre story to...
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Toni Morrison's is set in rural Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873. The novel is centered on a woman named Sethe, who is the mother of four children, and an escapee from slavery in a Kentucky plantation 18 years ago. She lives with her daughter, Denver in a shabby house at 124 Bluestone,...
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Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, relies on the historical period of imperialism in order to describe its protagonist, Charlie Marlow, and his struggle. Marlow's catharsis in the novel, as he goes to the Congo, rests on how he visualises the effects of...
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Utopia through Materials?
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a materialistic society that has forgotten social interaction with each other. This materialistic society is where Bradbury believed society today is headed. The materialistic society in...
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Beloved
In her novel Beloved, Toni Morrison writes about the life of former slaves of Sweet Home. Sethe, one of the main characters, was once a slave to a man and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Garner. After Garner's sudden death, schoolteacher comes to Sweet Home and takes...
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Chaucer's Character, the Wife of Bath, is a very unique woman during the Middle Ages. She takes pride in the knowledge of the remedies of love, she wears elaborate clothing, and she has gone to the altar five times. A lesson of domination and submission can be learned from the...
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In Toni Morrisons' novel, Beloved, the main character Sethe, is a former slave
who chooses to kill her baby girl rather than allowing her to be exposed to the
physically, and emotionally damaging horrors of a life spent in slavery. There is
no other way to say it: she...
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Fahrenheit 451
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! ...
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In "Amy Foster", Joseph Conrad has written a great story that shows the different types of love felt between Amy and Yanko as described by Joseph Campbell in his essay on "The Mythology of Love". The relationship of Yanko and Amy is dynamic and changes as the story...
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Beowulf
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...
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In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's descriptive technique used to present the
Reeve emphasized his physical characteristics as well as the success he
attained in his occupation. It is evident that Chaucer gives two different
perceptions of the Reeve, one...
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The making of a martyr is composed of many things, including death. Sir Thomas More only became a martyr recently, but he died over 400 years ago, and did so in much controversy. The dissension over his death has spawned the play A Man for All Seasons, in which...
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Character Analysis of Iago in Shakespeare's Othello
In William Shakespeare's "Othello", the character Iago is, at least in my point of view, the main and most interesting character. Iago is in virtually every scene in the play, and has his hands in almost all...
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By: John Vega
Author: S.E. Hinton Character Analysis: Ponyboy Curtis - Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old member of a gang called the Greasers. His parents died in a car accident, so he lives alone with his two older brothers, Darry and Soda. He is a good student and...
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Good and evil has existed throughout time. Heroes have defended the righteous, as villains were bent on destruction. This story represents these qualities in both main characters. The struggle began when God allowed Satan dominion over the earth. Since then the battle between them...
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By: Anonymous
& Brave New World (Analysis of Man and Society) 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...
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Significance of Scyld Scefing
Scyld Scefing often deprived his enemies, many tribes of men, of their mead-benches. He terrified his foes; yet he, as a boy, had been found a waif; fate made amends for that. He prospered under heaven, won praise and honor, until...
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Chaucer's Character, the Wife of Bath, is a very unique woman during the Middle Ages. She takes pride in the knowledge of the remedies of love, she wears elaborate clothing, and she has gone to the altar five times. A lesson of domination and submission can be learned from the...
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The lady that appears after the first 100 pages of the book turns out to be Vivian, Grant's secret lover. Grant and Vivian take a walk and after their walk they visit Grant's aunt, aunt Emma. Aunt Emma and her friends are very fond of Vivian and they give her many...
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By: Anonymous
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,...
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By: Jason K.
I enjoy reading Fae Myenne Ng's . I find her novel easy to read and understand. Although she included some phrases the Chinese use, I find no difficulty in understanding them, as I'm Chinese myself. The novel is written in a circular narrative form, in which the...
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- Beowulf - Hero
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...
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Fahrenheit 451 ' A Charred Existence
Imagine living in a world where you are not in control of your own thoughts. Imagine living in a world in which all the great thinkers of the past have been blurred from existence. Imagine living in a world where life no...
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By: Anonymous
20hrs. 40 min. In 20 hrs. 40 min., (New York, Knickerbacker Press, 1928), Amelia Earhart gives a brief summary of her younger days, and then goes on to give a detailed story of her flight across the Atlantic. 20 hrs. 40 min. opens with Amelia...
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A person often gains new insight as a result of a specific incident that he or she experiences. This point is clearly demonstrated in the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Gene learns the profound meaning of friendship when he pushes Phineas out of the tree. When he...
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- Canterbury Tales - The Wife of
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, which was published in March 1981 by
Bantam Books in New York, New York is a funny piece of work about twenty- nine
characters and their stories while on their way to Canterbury. The twenty-nine characters
have to tell...
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Allegory is defined as any work of literature in which character, action, or setting represents an abstract idea or moral concept. Many authors use allegory to make their writing more meaningful than what is simply written on the paper. Allegory is a very...
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Chronicle of a Death Fortold, by Gabriel Marquez, is concerned with death in life and life in death.
It was rainy on the day of Santiago Nasar's murder, and yet by the account of others, it was not. His death is so mingled with illusory images that everything...
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The - Relationships Relationships surround us all though out lift. Everyone needs some type of relationship, whether it's a friendship, family, or lover. People can't last without them, no matter how different the relationships are. In the novel The Bone...
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World War II influenced the boys in A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, by making them grow and mature more quickly than they would have had there not been a war. The war made some boys stronger and readier for whatever life would bring, while in others it disabled...
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Fahrenheit 451 is a literary work of art. It is a novel about censorship and one mans fight against it. The story was written in the fifties, but is set in the future. Ray Bradbury's prediction of what the future will be like is precise in some aspects, but completely outrageous...
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Throughout the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the reasoning of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is completely subverted and undermined by their insatiable ambition. Macbeth was at first reasonable enough to keep his ambition in check, however it eventually became...
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Beowulf the Epic Hero
What does it mean to be a hero? Like anything else in this world, the definition of the word hero can be argued. Some may say that a hero can be passive, that is if he or she refrains from doing a certain action it makes them heroic. Others would...
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In discussing Chaucer's collection of stories called The Canterbury Tales, an interesting picture or illustration of the Medieval Christian Church is presented. However, while people demanded more voice in the affairs of government, the church became corrupt --...
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By: Hollis Adams
It all began in and around the year 1919. Sula Peace, the daughter of Rekus who died when she was 3years old and Hannah, was a young and lonely girl of wild dreams. Sula was born in the same year as Nel, 1910. Sula was a heavy brown color and...
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By: Jeff Joseph
1. 2. Author Bill Phillips, is the chief editor of Muscle Media Magazine and a fitness guru. Dedicating his life to physical fitness, Phillips' work is known universally throughout the world of bodybuilding and nutrition. Phillips is also an...
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A Review of the Scarlet Letter
The novel opens with an explanation of how the romance of The Scarlet Letter came to be presented as a story in its existing form. Having always wanted to be a ?literary man?, Nathaniel Hawthorne talks about his three-year...
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Book Review
"Familiar Mysteries"
Familiar Mysteries is a scientific and comprehensive study on mythology,
its appearance,and significance in our lives.The author , Shirley Park Lowry , a former professor of English at the Los Angeles Valley College ,...
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J.D Salinger gives his personal vision of the world successfully through his persona Holden Caulfield in the ?Catcher in the Rye?. Caulfield struggles with the background of New York to portray Salinger's theme ' you must live the world as it is, not as you would...
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Beowulf the great Anglo-Saxon epic, which was composed around the year 700, presents readers with a glimpse into the life of Anglo-Saxons. Beowulf, written in poetic form, was translated by Burton Raffel. The tone of the epic is somber and relates the achievements...
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Joseph Heller published Catch-22, his first novel. Based on his own war experiences, the novel wickedly satirized bureaucracy, patriotism, and all manner of traditional American ideals. This was reflective of the increasing disdain for traditional viewpoints that was growing in America...
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In The Oresteia, Aeschylus advocates the importance of the male role in society over that of the female. The entire trilogy can be seen as a subtle proclamation of the superiority of men over women. Yet, the women create the real interest in the plays. Their...
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In his Canterbury Tales, Chaucer fully explicates the cultural standard known as curteisye through satire. In the fourteenth century curteisye embodied sophistication and an education in French international culture. The legends of chilvalric knights, conversing...
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
List of main characters:
? Dr. Alexandre Manette
? Lucie Manette, daughter of Alexandre Manette
? Charles Darney
? Sydney Carton, an attorney
? Monsieur Ernest Defarge, a wine shop owner
? Madame...
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Beowulf: A Brochure of the Anglo-Saxon Beliefs
Beowulf is a terrific example of a story that portrays the beliefs the Anglo-Saxon people. Their entire culture was based on heroism and loyalty. They encouraged heroic action in the face of doom and generously rewarded bravery....
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Fallen Angels
By
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers wrote the book Fallen Angels. It is about America's experiences in the Vietnam War as told by the main character in the book, Richie Perry. Perry goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle...
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?Chaucer's Pardoner: A Character Sketch?
Geoffrey Chaucer was a people watcher. During diplomatic errands throughout Europe, Geoffrey Chaucer learned about the people who surrounded him. This is what made it possible for him to write The Canterbury Tales. The...
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The Odyssey is an epic poem written in a series of 24 books. It is one of two epics written over 2500 years ago by the Western European poet, Homer. This epic joins Odysseus 10 years after the Trojan War. The story follows him as he attempts to return to his home...
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Picture walking into a hotel room and finding a man dead on a bed. Upon closer inspection it becomes obvious that he has supposedly taken his own life with the gun that lay beside him. In talking to his wife who was asleep on the bed next to him when this...
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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...
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Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment explore the psychological depths of man. These two works examine tragedy as represented through the existential beliefs of many philosophers. Existentialist theory expresses the idea that man can satisfy...
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Lord Byron
(1788-1824)
Lord Byron was born on January 22, 1788, on Holles Street, London. His parents, Catherine Gordon Byron and Jack "Mad Jack" Byron, had been living in France, but Catherine wanted their child born in England, so he was. She was a determined and frightening...
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Chaucerian Moral and Social Commentary in the Canterbury Tales
As the first great English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer has etched out a tradition of English literary brilliance. From stem to Stern, Chaucer's cheerful and diverse poetry stands apart from other British writers....
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Book Report Boundaries: When To Say Yes, When To Say No To Take Control Of Your Life
Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1992
The authors present the book in three parts: What are Boundaries?, Boundary...
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Ray Bradbury's novel, , 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...
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Reflection of Theme of Resurrection
In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses a variety of themes,
including, revenge, revolution, fate, imprisonment and more. Though
these are very important themes, and were integral elements of this
novel,...
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Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1986
Katherine Frank's novel A Voyager Out tells the life story of Mary Kingsley. She talks of her childhood, her young adult life, and her traveling life. She wanted...
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"Dickens, in Great Expectations, presents us with a range of ideas, but the most powerful is that the individual is shaped by the worlds they live in and the experiences they have." To what extent did you find this to be true?
To what extent one's...
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?Arm yourself, dear Beowulf, best of men, against such diseased thinking,? [l419-1420] Horthgar said ot Beowulf. King Hrothgar had many thoughts to say after Beowulf's defeat of both Grendel and Grendel's mother. In that celebration in the mead hall, Hrothgar gives advice on how...
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Two of the more engaging books of the Romantic Era, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, are very similar. Both describe hero's travels to the strange places and adventures among outlandish peoples. They both reflect the literary need of the time...
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The book A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a classic about the love story of a nurse and a war-ridden soldier. The story starts as Frederick Henry is serving in the Italian Army. He meets his future love in the hospital that he gets put in for various reasons....
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The setting of the story begins in 19th century Europe, in the eerie
country of Transylvania. A solicitor from England named Jonathan Harker is
sent by a business man to meet with an old Count named Dracula at his
castle located far from civilization. Residents of...
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Claudius & Hamlet, would the inhumane and sick character please step forth.
Upon reading the sampling of "Hamlet" criticisms in John Jump's "Hamlet (Selections)" I disagreed with a few of the critics, but my analysis was the most different from Wilson Knight's...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In many modern day relationships between a man and a woman, there is usually a controlling figure that is dominant over the other. It may be women over man, man over women, or in what the true definition of a marriage is an equal...
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A Critical Review of: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck wrote this book in the hopes that people would be able to see what was happening to our nation's people. He wanted to open their eyes to see the hardships that migrants faced...
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World War One. The first great tragedy of humanity. That is of course excluding love and life. Combine all three and you find one of the most masterfully written novels about life, love, and war that could only be written by Ernest Hemingway. Born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park,...
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BEYOND THE DEAD SEA: THE ESSENES AND THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY
To paraphrase the Bobby Darin pop hit, "Somewhere, beyond the Dead Sea, there's a religion waiting for me." There was a serious lack of documentation on Judaism practices prior to the birth of Christ,...
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The 13th Warrior
Ahmed Ibn Fadlan is an Arab courtier who is sent to the barbaric north because he was seduced by a merchant's wife and was sent on an errand by the Caliph as a punishment. Soon, the Arab leaves the City of Peace and starts his travels to the...
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Thoreau was once sent to jail for refusing to pay his taxes and I support this episode of civil disobedience as justified. Thoreau did not pay his taxes because he objected the use of the revenue to finance the Mexican War and enforcement of slavery laws. He did not request...
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Of Mice and Men
In the beginning of the story, two men named George Milton and Lennie Small are trying to make their way to a small ranch in Salinas Valley, California. George is the leader of their two man tribe, despite Lennie's intimidating size. George...
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Hemmingway has a unique style of writing. It works on multiple levels. A person could read Farewell to Arms and enjoy it as a tragic love story. Hemmingway's concise writing style allows a literal interpretation. At the same time a reader could get involved with the...
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The novel was published in 1960, just before Senegal became independent. It is based on a famous railroad strike which occurred in 1947-48. The novel focuses on the late stages of French colonialism. Sembene writes a dramatic and compelling story about the strike....
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Thesis statement: There really is no true or perfect human image nor can it be proven right by using religious theories which are hypocritical. Their theories developed from the experiences of Man, particularly from his tribulation. The Waknuk people are insecure about themselves;...
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By: Chad
A Separate Peace by John Knowls Is a classic struggle of man vs. himself and man vs. society. Taking place as a flashback, the narrator Gene Forrester tells of his struggles as a prep school student in the years of his life between age 16, and 17 during the period...
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Brave New World Final
1.) The Savage Reservation is similar to the Utopia world in several ways. They both have drugs that are designed to calm people down. Soma, used in the Utopia and mescal used in the Reservation. They both also have a separation within their own society....
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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...
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Beowulf Symbolism
Authors often use events and things to symbolize stages in someone's life. Symbolism is the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing meaning of significance to objects, events, or relationships. In Beowulf, Beowulf fights...
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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...
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By: Anonymous
The Chrysanthemums, by John Steinbeck, is set in the beautiful valley of Salinas, California, during a time when California was the land of plenty. A place where dust storms and drought were unheard of, where water was plentiful and the air sprinkled with the...
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In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries to convey the belief that every invention or improvement for the, so called, betterment of mankind is only an instrument for his ultimate destruction. ?We are,? he said, ?on the horns of an ethical dilemma and to find the middle way will...
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In life, historical events often play an important role in a person's life. Many times people can drastically have a change of opinion over night. In A Separate Peace, the whole atmosphere at the Devon School changed as World War II progressed. The boys either eagerly...
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A Portrayal of Humor Within the Tragedy of Hamlet
How does humor factor into a tragedy? Shakespeare knew the answer to this question and acted upon it quite frequently. Shakespeare has been known to write comedies and tragedies both but this does not qualify him at to...
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Since the dawn of time, the forces of evil have always tried to gain an upper hand over the forces of good. The battles between these two forces have transcended time in both different forms and in different places. Every culture since the birth of man has background...
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By: Aldous Huxley
Author: Aldous Huxley was born in 1894, and died in 1963. He first went to Eton, and
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,...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is story about Hestor Prynne, a woman who commits a sin and is filled with many feelings, including pride, surrounding that sin. Many of those around Hestor's sin reflect similar emotions and feelings. Hawthorne employs...
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- Brave New World - Religion
Thesis: Man's need for answers to questions that cannot be solved through
known applications of science and technology has resulted in the widespread
belief in religion.
I. Purpose
Elimination of stress
Addiction to soma
1. Rioting addicts
2. Religious...
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The book The was written by Alice Walker. The book was not written in a conventional manner. It was a series of letters spanning the life of Celie, the main character. Most of the letters were written by Celie and some by her sister Nettie. The theme of the book is...
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By: Adam Hendren
Colonialism and the Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, is a work that strongly attacks colonialism and its affects not only upon the native population but also upon the colonizers invading the land. Conrad experienced being...
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Joseph Conrad once wrote, 'the individual consciousness was destined to be in total contradiction to its physical and moral environment? (Watt 78); the validity of his statement is reflected in the physiological and psychological changes that the characters in both...
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The story "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes, that we read in English was about a mentally retarded person, named Charlie who had an operation to increase his intelligence, but the operation was a failure and Charlie is slow again. He wants to move now so society won't...
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- Breakfast of champions- kurt v
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPONS- KURT VONNEGUT
In Brandon Boyd's ?Make Yourself? he states that ? if [he] hadn't assembled [himself] that [he] would?ve fallen apart,? implying that if one does not take the time to understand and build his or her own values 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...
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In this century there have been many catastrophes and bad ideas happen and they all occurred because the person behind the scenes wanted to have more power. Through the use of the Salem witch trials, Miller forces readers to deal with shameful episodes in 20th...
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The characters in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World represent certain political and social ideas. Huxley used what he saw in the world in which he lived to form his book. From what he saw, he imagined that life was heading in a direction of a utopian government...
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Compare and Contrast Essay
According to The Pearl, the Indians and the Caucasians had the same plans of their own if they owned the pearl. The pearl meant wealth for the Indians. To the whites the pearl meant more power and wealth. Unlike the Caucasian, the...
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"All the things I am about to tell you are shameless lies." So begins the Books of Bokonon. Bokononism is an original religion that is introduced in this book, by Kurt Vonnegut. The book shows the importance of religion, even if that religion is "shameless lies". It also...
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- . modern soc
Although the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, was written more than
60 years ago, its subject has become more popular since most of the
technologies described in the book have, at least, partially, become a reality.
Huxley's community of Utopia is a...
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tamorphosis by Franz Kafka and The Stranger by Albert Camus
Existentialism is defined as a philosophical movement that human beings are completely free and responsible for their own actions. Existentialists will try not...
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Medical operations are carried out everyday, but for some,
an operation can change a person's life. One experiment was
done on a mentally retarded person to try to raise his
intelligence. The experiment worked, but after months, the
patient regressed dramatically. In the...
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Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, is a thought provoking novel set in a future of genetically engineered people, amazing technology and a misconstrued system of values. Dubliners, written by James Joyce, is a collection of short stories painting a picture...
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- Compare and Contrast - Sir Per
Many objects and people these days have the ability to be compared and contrasted. For example, you could compare and contrast a dog and a cat. A dog is most commonly a house pet, like the cat. But a dog has more of an ability to be trained, unlike the cat. But...
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The two children's books that I will compare and contrast are: 1) When We Married Gary, which is about a single mother with two daughters who remarries. The oldest daughter still misses her father occasionally, and the youngest has no memory of him. This is...
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An Essay on Ben Mikaelsen's Countdown
Countdown is a book written by Ben Mikaelsen and was first published in 1996. It has a total of 248 pages and published by the Hyperion Books for Children company. This book is mainly about sending the first teenager in...
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Comparitive Essay on the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit
A fantasy is an imaginary world where all things imaginable can be brought to life. J.R.R Tolkien portrayed fantasy through his use of skilled craftsmanship and a vivid imagination, which was presented...
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- Cather in the Rye - Language
The passage of adolescence has served as the central theme for many novels, but J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's...
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The poem is basically about a person who has at some point in his life been posed with a question of which path to take. Obviously, there would be a dilemma on his part and the poem revolves around his decision. Frost's narrative style has lent itself to a...
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Frankenstein's Creation and Rejection of the Creature
As the reader reads farther into the story Frankenstein, the reader learns more about Victor Frankenstein and his creature that he hopes to create. The reader understands why he wants to create his creature and why after...
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What a life, it would be great. I would love it if nothing ever changed, if everyone had a set role that they always carried out, and if life and death were planned. This would be like living the life of most of the characters in the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. ...
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Compare and contrast the ways in which ?Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead? by Tom Stoppard and ?Waiting for Godot? by Samuel Beckett teach important insights about the human condition.
Inspired by Beckett's literary style, particularly in ?Waiting for...
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- Catch 22 and Good as Gold - Sa
Joseph Heller who is perhaps one of the most famous writers of the 20th century writes on some emotional issues such as war. He does not deal with these issues in the normal fashion instead he criticizes them and the institutions that help carry these things out....
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Happy endings offered throughout novels are results of spiritual reassessments or moreal reconciliation of specific characters. Considered as a more relaxed novel, Catcher in the Rye catches the spirit of the reader with its moral reconcilliation, defining the...
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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
AUTHOR?S SKETCH
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. When Samuel Clemens was four years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where he spent his childhood. Clemens...
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By: G. Ogbamichael
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...
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France and England in A Tale of Two Cities - The French Revolution
Introduction
In the eighteen-fifties, Charles Dickens was concerned that social problems in England, particularly those relating to the condition of the poor, might provoke a mass reaction...
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By: Adrienne Delaney
If you ever saw in a dark alley, you'd probably turn and run the other way. His scarred body and wooden leg are just a couple of characteristics that show who he is. Ahab is the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, and their mission...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Attempting to make decisions is difficult when one experiences doubt in one's mind or when one's upbringing goes against it. In ?Huck Finn? by Mark Twain , the main character Huck has to first confront doubts and then form plans to...
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Dystopian Futures in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The existence created by Brave New World is very efficient however it lacks any meaning, humans have no real extremes in feelings, no love, hate, pain and suffering. They are conditioned by...
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- Canterbury tales-a personal pe
Canterbury Tales-A personal perspective on the Medieval Christian Church
In researching Geoffrey Chaucer's collection of stories named The Canterbury Tales, an interesting illustration of the Medieval Church becomes evident. A crooked society exists within the...
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Throughout life, an individual may endure several emotionally
or physically straining moments. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden
Caulfield suffers much verbal abuse, as well as physical. Both forms
of the abuse, combined with other factors, eventually...
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Huck Finn
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...
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The book Catcher in the Rye 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...
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"Gaudy primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the wildest dreams of Castille. . . The air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and the enthusiastic meetings between women who...
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provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain's novel, and his honest voice combined with his personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerfords' world. Huck is without a family: neither the drunken attention of Pap nor the pious ministrations...
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- Catch-22
The Lack of Comprehensive Speech in
Most of what we really say has no meaning. This concept is perfectly supported in , by Joseph Heller. Almost every character and scene in the novel contain dialogues where the people speak aimlessly and have no explanation for...
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A Comparison of Jack and Alex
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...
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- Huck finn: essay on each chapt
CHAPTER 1
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In the opening paragraph, Huck introduces himself to us as the
narrator of the story. He talks to us in a relaxed, matter-of-fact
tone that makes him sound friendly, honest, and maybe a little less
respectful than he...
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- Catch-22 2
Joseph Heller satirizes, among other matters, red tape and bureaucracy in his first novel, Catch-22. The novel concerns itself with a World War II bombardier named Yossarian who suddenly realizes the danger of his position and tries various means to extricate himself from further...
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Character Roles in Steinbeck's ?The Chrysanthemums?
In ?The Chrysanthemums? by John Steinbeck, the role of Elisa shifts several times throughout the story, from the loving, sensitive wife, to strong, independent woman and back. This all comes about from a...
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"Love is a universal language." This popular quote from many movies and literary works describes the importance of love, and how there are no limits or barriers when dealing with love. Many people cannot even help whether or not they fall in love. There are many...
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Through Holden's Eyes
The Catcher in the Rye has truly earned its place among great classic works. J. D. Salinger created a literary piece that was completely unique. The entire novel was written in the first person view of the 17-year-old, Holden Caulfield. The majority...
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- For whom the bell tolls - summ
Novel Analysis: For Whom the Bell Tolls
By Ernest Hemingway
Setting:
The story first takes place in Guadarrama Mountains, during the Spanish civil war. Robert Jordan, is an American teacher who has volunteered his services to the Loyalists in their...
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In the book Fahrenheit 451 there are many characters that have short parts and go by unnoticed to some. Other characters have noticeable parts but they are short and by the end of the book you forget about them. The minor characters are used to support ideas or to give background...
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The Scarlet Letter & The Crucible Comparison Essay
Through carefully analyzation of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone and The Crucible by Arthur Miller; one will discover the related themes throughout the stories. These themes include sin, punishment...
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- Catcher in the Rye - The Conte
J.D. Salinger is considered one of the most critically reviewed author in modern literature. In particular his only novel Catcher in the Rye has received the most criticism.
The book has been constantly debate and sometimes banned in some states because of its...
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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...
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One experiment was done on a mentally retarded person to try to raise
his intelligence. The experiment worked, but after months, he came back to
the state he orginally was at. In the book, Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel
Keyes, this intelligence operation was...
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- Catcher in the Rye - Holden an
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...
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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),...
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Huck's Relationship with Pap
Huckleberry Finn has relationships with many people and things throughout his travels traversing the river. One of Huck's main relationships is with his father, Pap. Pap is depicted as rather a contemptible character. There...
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Farenheit 451
Written By Ray Bradbury
"Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the joy of the midnight runs, nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames?never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old...
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- Frankenstein- can comfort be f
In the Romantic period of literature, nature was often associated with isolation in a positive way. Throughout the novel, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley, there is a strong symbolic relationship between loneliness and nature. However, Shelley...
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Huckleberry Finn Essay
The book Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, has many themes that appear throughout the text. One such theme is that people must live outside of society to be truly free. If one lives outside of society, then they do not have to follow all of its...
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- Catcher in the Rye - Character
Ever since its publication in 1951, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye has served as a firestorm for controversy and debate. Critics have argued the moral issues raised by the book and the context in which it is presented. Some have argued that Salinger's tale...
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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...
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Joshua Cobbley
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Synopsis
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."...
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Character Analysis: Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn is one of the many milestones in modern literature. It stands as a testament to the genius the world knows as Mark Twain. Through clever use of "local color" and other literary devices, he is able to weave not...
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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...
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The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, portrays Holden Cawfield a New York City teenager in the 1950's as a manic-depressive. Holden's depression starts with the death of his brother, Allie . Holden is expelled from numerous schools due to his poor academics...
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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...
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In the two stories that we have read each story explores the feeling of horror and fear. We are examining how each character in each story reacts to the ghost that they encounter. In each story the characters react very different to the different types of ghost...
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FIFTH BUSINESS ESSAY
Incidences that occur in one's childhood tend to affect them possibly for the rest of the rest of their life. This applies to the novel Fifth Business and the characters Dunstan Ramsey and Boy Staunton. Throughout the lives of these characters Dunstan...
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Dante's Influences
Through out the course of literature, various authors utilize their own past experiences and histories to enhance the plot of their works. Anything from their childhood to a random person that they meet on the street can create a spark that will create a...
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The story Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus made different feelings to me. I read it first time about five years ago, and when I read it now, I understood the concept differently.
The story has a from of letters from Mr. R. Walton, the traveler, to his...
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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...
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Dandelion Wine is a book written by Ray Bradbury. Dandelion Wine is a book about a summer through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy. It establishes a change of Douglas's childhood to manhood. It will show how a young, orgulous boy goes through many stymies. Douglas Spaulding is a...
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People who feel trapped often do desperate things that affect themselves and others. ?Fifth Business? and ?The Grapes of Wrath? are two novels that both consist of trapped characters that are affected physically, emotionally, and socially. These elements are the...
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The many women that are included in Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey, all are presented with a certain appeal to them for which they come to attract Odysseus's eye. A group of the women that comes into contact with him are those helpful souls. Lets use Nausikaa as an...
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Most people know of Mary Shelley as the writer of Frankenstein and the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. However, she was far more than that, and parts of her life were just as dramatic and tragic, if not more so, than her famous gothic novel. Mary's parents...
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By: Amy
When Miracle McCloy's mother dies before her birth, she's seen by her psychic grandmother as a miracle and named accordingly. Miracle receives occasional love and attention from her father, Dane, a writing prodigy who hasn't published a book in years. One night...
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It's nothing new, that everybody feels depressed at some time or another in their lives. However, it becomes a problem when that depression is so much a part a person's life that she can no longer see the happiness right in front her. (As tragically happens to...
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Contrasting the Characters Ralph and Jack
Ralph and Jack are both powerful and meaningful characters in William Golding's classic novel, Lord of the Flies. Ralph is an excellent leader; responsible, and stands for all that is good. Jack is a destructive...
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DEAD MAN WALKING
Dead Man Walking is a great book that deals with one of our nations most controversial issues: capital punishment. The books narrator, Sister Helen Prejean, discusses her personal views on capital punishment. She was a spiritual advisor and friend to two...
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Female Power in The Odyssey
Throughout time women have had to fight hard for respect and the rights that come with it. Many societies have potrayed women as second class citizens, teaching that they should be subservient to men. There have been those who...
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Catcher in the Rye Essay
"I keep picturing all these kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's big but me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff -What do I have to do, I have to catch them. I mean their...
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Dawn by Elie Wiesel
In this report you will see the comparisons between the novel Dawn and the life of Elie Wiesel, its author. The comparisons are very visible once you learn about Elie Wiesel's life.
Elie Wiesel was born on September28,1928 in the town of...
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Contaminated Motives
The very essence of money creates an urge of human nature to obtain it, and have an excess of it. Fame and money go hand in hand; if you have one, you have the other. One also must understand that money equals power; people aspire to money. When...
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Female Power in The Odyssey
Throughout time women have had to fight hard for respect and the rights that come with it. Many societies have potrayed women as second class citizens, teaching that they should be subservient to men. There have been those who have spent...
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David Lynch's Blue Velvet
David Lynch's Blue Velvet is an exploration of things above and below the surface. This surface is really a borderline between not only idyllic suburban America and the dark, perverted corruption that lies underneath but also between good...
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Subject = Essay Exposition
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papers = Freedom
and Liberty (a book review of George Orwell's 1984)
Living in a society
with limited freedom of expression is not, in any case, enjoyable. A Totalitarian
society is a good example of such a...
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Ever since its publication in 1951, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye has served as a firestorm for controversy and debate. Critics have argued the moral issues raised by the book and the context in which it is presented. Some have argued that Salinger's tale of the...
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Dark City
I did my book report on Dark City by Frank Lauria. The main characters in the book were John Murdoch, Mr. Hand, and Mr. Book. Since Murdoch woke up in the icy bathtub in a strange room, he has been suspicious of everything. He is wanted for a series of brutal murders...
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Often in novels, a character faces conflicting directions of ambitions, desires, and influences. In such a novel, like 'The Awakening,' the main character, Edna Pontellier, faces these types of conflicting ideas. In a controversial era for women, Edna faces the...
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FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON SUPPLEMENTARY BOOK REVIEW
The book, "Flowers for Algernon", was an exciting science fiction novel written by Daniel Keyes. The main characters of the story are the central character, Charlie, who is a mentally retarded individual...
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In The Inferno - Dante's Immortal Drama of a Journey Through Hell, Dante allows the reader to experience his every move. His mastery of language, his sensitivity to the sights and sounds of nature, and his infinite store of knowledge allow him to capture and draw the reader into...
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Franny And Zooey & The Razor's Edge
Many novels use religion as the central object of their plot. Franny and Zooey, by J.D Salinger and The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham both display religion as having they key role in their novels. Religion is the...
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Catcher in the Rye
The book Catcher in the Rye Holden expresses many issues that get to him personally. One of the issues deal's with his sexuality. Holden, is very homophobic, thinks a lot of guys he meets in the story are "flitty." Holden also shares with us that he...
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In order to really understand Willy Loman, from Arthur Miller's play
Death Of A Salesman, the reader must analyze the way his character is
developed. Studying his thoughts, actions, how he relates to other characters
and how other characters relate to him enables...
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Citizen Kane is said to be one of the greatest movies of all-time, but it did not come without controversy. The controversy around this movie is based on the idea that Charles Foster Kane is the fictionalization of William Randolph Hearst, a narcissistic newspaper...
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Flowers For Algernon was told from the point of view of Charlie, the person the
intelligence-increasing surgery was performed on. The story would have been very different if it was told through the eyes of another character in the story. Views on things like the...
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By: chris
FRANKENSTEIN In the story 'Frankenstein,' written by the author Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein decided that wanted to create a being out of people that were already dead. He believed that he could bring people back from the grave. Playing with nature in such a way...
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Question 1: Compare and contrast the personalities of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are two friends with very different personalities, each bringing their own unique characteristics into this comical relationship.
Tom and...
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- Go tell it on a mountain - sum
Part One- The Seventh Day:
1. Summary- The story starts by introducing the active role of church in John's and his family's life. Various activities occur on Sunday in church, such as school, hymns, and preaching. On the morning of his birthday, he wakes up to...
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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...
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During the course of the last fifty years, society has changed significantly. In modern society a great emphasis is placed on individualism and diversity within a society. It is rare that an individual would be ridiculed or forced to change simply for not...
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Willy Loman as a Tragic Hero
Willy Loman, the troubled father and husband in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," can be classified as a tragic hero, as defined by Aristotle in his works, "Poetics." In Aristotle's text, a tragic hero was defined as one who falls...
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''the buzzing and struggling of some large fly as it swooped and beat against the windowpane.' (, pg. 332)
In the novel by Fydor Dostoevsky the main character Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov consciously avoids truth and clarity of...
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Flowers For Algernon
1.General Information-
I read the book Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It's a fiction
book, but with all the advances in modern medicine it could happen. It
takes place over the course of a few months, starting in March and
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- Death of A Salesman - Characte
Death of A Salesman
Death of a Salesman - Willy Lomans tragedy is due more to his own
flawed character than to societies flaws
Advancements in science throughout this century have led to
tremendous advancements in industry. Advancements in industry,...
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- Crime and Punishment - Sufferi
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...
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Grapes of Wraith by John Steinbeck portrayed the awakening of a man's conscience dealing with his troubling trials throughout the novel. The character that goes through this monumental change is Tom Joad, son of two tenant farmers from Oklahoma. Tom's conscience was changed...
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Greek tragedy would not be complete with out a tragic hero. Sophocles wrote Antigone with a specific character in mind for this part. Based on Aristotle's definition, Creon is the tragic hero of Antigone.
Creon fits Aristotle's tragic hero traits as a significant...
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Chapter 1
This book begins when it's main character Ishi is just thirteen years of age. He is one of the remaining Yahi Indians in the world. The people in his tribe now living are Ishi, grandfather and grandmother, Tushi, Timawi, his mother and his father. ...
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Hamlet's Tragic Flaw
It is better not to put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Many consequences can arise when one procrastinates. An example of this is found in Shakespeare's Hamlet through the depiction of the central character. Although Hamlet is...
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Honesty is one of the most important factors in Othello. And although there is very little honesty actually present in the play the term is most commonly applied to Iago, who also happens to be the most dishonest character in Othello. Due partly to the other...
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The soul is thought to be an immaterial entity coexisting with our bodies which is credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion. It is the part of our body which is believed to live on after the body dies. In Oscar Wilde's, The Picture of Dorian...
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Rocking Horse Irony
"The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence is a story about a boy named Paul who lives with parents that lack love and are filled with greed. Tormented by a house that whispers to him, Paul dies trying to convince his mother that he...
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By: Josh Castillo
I chose this particular book mainly because of the authors. I have read previous books written by them and I liked their works. Another thing that caught my attention was the size of the book. I have never read anything larger than 300 pages. The name of this book is...
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Every man, or woman --to be politically and socially acceptable-- has buried, within himself, beneath centuries of societal norms and restrictions, a dark side, a savage side. When a man is taken out of society, and left to create his own norms, he must rediscover those...
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Not Sweet Enough
The historical play ?The Grapes of Wrath? has been turned into a movie and is acclaimed by some people to be a classic. There are many themes going on in the play ?The Grapes of Wrath.? Deciding which theme to grasp a hold of can be very difficult, but I...
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Character Sketch
If Invisible Man has a happy ending, it is because the invisible man is able to recognize himself as invisible, yet at the same time, accept that he is an individual. Throughout Ralph Emerson's novel, the narrator struggles with many...
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As children, we have all dreamt of money, being rich; owning an extravagant mansion, magnificent cars, and being married to a prince or princess. Basically, we dream of the perfect life, with the perfect spouse. Generally, this dream is known as the American...
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The essay 'A Crime of Compassion' was written by Barbara Huttmann. A story of love, dedication, moral values, and a nurse who loved her job and her patients very dearly. One of her patients was a young police officer who had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Within...
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The Joad family is forced to move to California because of the Oklahoma Dust
Bowl, which has made it impossible for them to earn a livelihood through farming.
Drought and depression has made it impossible for farmers to grow a substantial amount
to live on. As...
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- Crime and punishment--is rasko
In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov concocts a theory: All men are divided into ?ordinary? and ?extraordinary?. The extraordinary man should have the right to eliminate a few people in order to make his idea known to all humanity; however, the ordinary man has no...
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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...
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During the course of the novel Demian the author, Hermann Hesse, does create some curiosity in the reader but not much. One instance when Hesse is successful in creating some curiosity is during Emil's period of being harassed by a local bully named Franz Kromer. During this...
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In history, many extraordinary authors have written about struggles among two or more forces. Even in the earliest times, Homer, one of history's greatest writer and philosophers, has written such pieces as The Odyssey, the fable of a common man who challenges...
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In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky gives the reader an inside look to the value system that he holds for himself, as well as the type of characteristics that he abhors in people as well as the characteristics that he admires in people. He uses characters in the...
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GOVERNMENT?S FLAW
The government is one of the most highly criticized things in the world. From feudalism to democratic governments, there is always something to make fun of or talk about from how fat the president is to how unfair the government taxes the...
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?Defender of the Faith?
In Philip Roth's, ?Defender of the Faith?, Sergeant Nathan Marx is the ?Defender? of whom the title speaks. Reluctant at first, Marx defended his faith on two fronts, one across the sea in Europe and the second in the United States. The...
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Mystery Killer
It all started in the East End of London in 1888, from August 7 till November 10.
All killings occurred within one mile area and involved the districts of Whitechapel,
Spitalfields, Aldgate, and the city of London proper. The man I am referring to is...
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By: Jonny G
Joseph Conrad, like many authors, used his own experiences for the basis of his novels. Specifically, Conrad's journey on the Congo River as captain of a West African river steamer formed the basis for his novel . In this novel, the narrator of...
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Macbeth Essay
William Shakespeare's Macbeth, is a Medieval story about a Nobleman who had evil ambitions of becoming the King of Scotland. Throughout the story, Macbeth carries out three evil deeds, the murder of King Duncan, the murder of Banquo and, the murder of...
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- Good country irony-good countr
Good Country People? by Flannery O?Connor is an excellent example of irony in literature. From beginning to end it has a steady procession of irony, much of it based on the title of the story: ?Good Country People.?
In the beginning of the story we meet Mrs....
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- Hemmingway-hills like white el
Writing styles changed drastically from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. The nineteenth century had authorial intervention and authors wrote about things they had never experienced, where as the twentieth century had a lot of hidden symbols and images and...
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The Style and Genre of Lady Audley's Secret
Lady Audley's Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, is a novel of many elements. It has been placed in many different style or genre categories since its publication. I feel that it best fits under the melodrama or sensational...
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?Hills Like White Elephants,? by Ernest Hemingway
In Ernest Hemingway's ?Hills Like White Elephants,? the two main characters, Jig and the unnamed American man, are at a train station in Spain trying to decide whether or not they (actually just Jig) should go...
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The definition given (that the audience needs to have mixed feelings about the destruction of a human being for a play to be a tragedy) means that to establish ?Death of A Salesman? as a tragedy, we must be able to give evidence that not only is the audience made to feel...
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In history, many extraordinary authors have written about struggles among two or more forces. Even in the earliest times, Homer, one of history's greatest writer and philosophers, has written such pieces as The Odyssey, the fable of a common man who challenges...
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One of the fascinations of reading literature comes when we discover in a work patterns that have heretofore been overlooked. We are the pattern finders who get deep enjoyment from the discovery of patterns in a text. And true to the calling we have noticed a pattern in and...
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, is a story that takes place during America's dreadful period of depression. Due to misunderstanding the nature of the entire situation, Steinbeck writes this novel to shine some light on the people about the...
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By: Kia Berardinelli
Imagine being captive in a concentration camp for over eight years. Shukhov has experienced just this. In analyzing only one day of Ivan's life in a concentration camp, he displays many traits that show that he is a hero. Hero, can be...
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The question of whether Helen is a willing resident or a captive resident of Troy is explained in The Iliad, Book III. I believe that Helen is a captive resident of Troy. With the help of Aphrodit', Alexandros seduces Helen, and she temporarily falls in love with...
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Would you just stand by, as Nazis soldiers kidnapped your neighbors just because they were different? If you would, you have no voice and you need to develop one. Many people had neighbors who were taken away and killed by the Nazis. They just stood there, let it happen...
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By: Bob
's End is like Coca-Cola. It is greatly anticipated when brought forth, greatly enjoyed during its existence, and greatly missed when it's gone. As in 'Do Not Go Gently In that Good Night' by Dylan Thomas, many people get to the end of their lives and only then do they...
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The Last Disciple: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
When a man's life is the sea he has much time to think about that life and who he really is or might be. In Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad introduces readers to two such men who are at different stages...
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"You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of kindness; but I can not live so: and you have no pity." (p.45)
A prevailing theme of Jane Eyre is Jane's ceaseless search for love and acceptance. Jane journeys throughout England in search of love, which she has...
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?The Grapes of Wrath: In Times of Despair?
If one was to examine the three characters, Tom, Ma, and Pa Joad from John Steinback's The Grapes of Wrath. How would we figure out what astrological signs they were born under, as taken from their actions and...
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The infinite battle between good and evil can destroy, refine, or rebuild the human soul by means of choice. However, good is stronger than evil and someday, the power of good will dominate. In the novel Heart of Darkness, Conrad illustrates pure evil and its capability to...
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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...
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The human race is believed to be at the pinacle of developement. We have reahed the top of the mountain of success and evolution; we have surely surpassed the wild animal. We have evolved past the primal use of insticts to the utilization of reason and intelect. ...
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By: Anonymous
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass details the life of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, from his birth in Talbot County, Maryland to his speech (as a free man) during an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, on August 11, 1841....
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Jane Eyre
In Jane Eyre, the themes of servitude and liberty are brought to life and contrasted with each other in many instances throughout the novel. Inside, Jane at first desires to be a free spirit, but the social class stratification and conditions of the world that she...
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This story, , is taken form the Objective (dramatic) point of view where the author is the narrator. The author doesn't enter the mind of the characters at any time. He allows us only to see the characters as we would in real life. This is...
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With close reference to two or three moments in the text, discuss Hardy's ability to create mood, atmosphere and a sense of place.
Throughout "The return of the native", Thomas Hardy is very successful in creating mood and atmosphere. Some scenes are so...
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In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck lives in two different settings. One of the settings is on land with the widow and with his father and the other is on the river with Jim. There are many differences of living on land as opposed to living on...
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By: CISSY DELUCA
In Nick Hornby's , the main character, Rob, relates music to every aspect of his life. He utilizes music as an escape from his anxieties regarding his failing record store, relationship, and sense of self. Music provides Rob with the inspiration...
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The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, is a novel about the Dust Bowl migration. It is the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, and it is also the story of thousands of similar men and women. The Joads are forced off their land, so they move West to California. ...
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Jane Eyre is the main character in the novel Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte. She is a fictional character along with the book. The book takes place in the mid 1800's. Jane lives in five different places which greatly affect her life. The first place Jane stays is Gateshead...
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne lives in seclusion with her daughter Pearl. Hester has been shunned from Puritan society and now lives in the shelter of the wilderness. The clear contrast between Puritan society and life in the wilderness intensify...
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By: brennan
pment in Beowulf and Grendel The main difference between the Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf, and John Gardner's modern retelling, Grendel, lies in the development of the characters. In the epic poem, the characters are...
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Life Experiences in Farewell to 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...
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The monster's behavior was directly related to, his experiences with society and its treatment of him. All behavior is learned, therefore if the monster was to be good or evil depended on societies reaction to him. Even though the monster had a fully matured...
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By: Greg
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...
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What Do Children Feel Guilty About?
Christopher Williams and Jane Bybee of Northeastern University were
interested in discovering the frequency of guilt provoking events in
adolescents. They wanted to establish proof for the hypothesis that
age-related...
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, lives in seclusion with her daughter Pearl. Hester has been shunned from Puritan society and now lives in the shelter of the wilderness. The clear contrast between Puritan society and life in the wilderness intensify the...
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LIES OF THE CRUCIBLE
Lying has always been considered to be one of the worst things man could do. Yet almost anyone who has ever spoken a word in their life has lied at one point or another. The truth is that lying comes naturally. Lying is an easy way out of...
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By: Jon
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...
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Years?
Born: 1902
Died: 1968
Wrote: He wrote The Grapes of Wrath in 1930's and released it in 1939. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940.
Nationality: He was an American author who lived in Salinas, California. He was educated at Stanford University. He first worked as...
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Author: was born in California, in 1902. In California he lived the most of his life. He always had jobs on farms during his high school years, or, as he was very much interested in science, helped out in local laboratories. After school he went to college at...
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The Creator's Faults in the Creation Often the actions of children are reflective of the attitudes of those who raised them. Conclusion
Originally, had planned to use the results of his experiment to benefit mankind; but this idea soon transmuted into and obsession...
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Charles Dickens wrote a masterpiece in Oliver Twist. He wrote a book that sold more than 4 million copies in the decade after his death in England alone. Oliver Twist continues to be one of the most famous books around. His novel is a delight to read because of...
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By: coby cohen
What u need Its not as easy as you think to throw a Rave, this sounds kind of easy, but it take takes a lot of hard work and dedication. The first thing you need is money, and the reason you need money is because you need to make a lot of deposits. If the cash...
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By: karen
The Holocaust. A subject most people would like to forget but shouldn't. People must find out as much as possible about it so history won't repeat itself. Millions of Jewish men, women, and children , of all strata were persecuted because of what?...
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Sometimes many similarities can be found between two completely different works of literature. The poem ?I am Joaquin? and the short story ?The First Seven Years? at the same time exhibit both contrasting positions and similar ideals. Even though ?I am Joaquin?...
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Brave New World illustrates a world where everything that is morally right in our society, is wrong. Monogamy is sinful, massive orgies are not. Serious thinking is unnecessary because life has already been planned out. Hardships and stress can be solved with a...
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Mary Shelley's ?Frankenstein?
Through the exploration of value attached to friendship in Mary Shelley's ?Frankenstein?, it is found that Victor, Walton, and the monster each desire a companion to either fall back on during times of misery, to console with, or...
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- Literaranalysis- all quiet on
All Quiet on the Western Front
By Erich Maria Remarque
The book I chose to read was All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. The story told in All Quiet on the Western Front occurs during the two years just before the Armistice ended World War...
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By: Bob Jr.
Catcher in the Rye, Holden views the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no peace. This perception of the world does not change significantly through the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is...
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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...
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Friends Cannot Be Objects
"I suppose if I were a novelist rather than a Chautauqua orator I'd try to 'develop' the characters of John and Sylvia and Chris with action-packed scenes that would also reveal 'inner meanings' of Zen and maybe Art and maybe even...
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- Great expectations- morals
Morals play an important part in everyday life. Morals are lessons taught by exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior. I believe that the purpose for Pip to tell his story of Great Expectations was for it to be used as a moral guide for people to...
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Edgar Allan Poe was an author who wrote dark and sinister stories and poems and whose motives in writing such works were closely related to his life. Edgar Allan Poe has captured the attention of many of his readers, but what is not said is that his life affected...
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Happy endings offered throughout novels are results of spiritual reassessments or moreal reconciliation of specific characters. Considered as a more relaxed novel, Catcher in the Rye catches the spirit of the reader with its moral reconcilliation, defining the book's meaning as a...
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"Desiree's Baby," by Kate Chopin, takes place in Louisiana during the time of slavery. The story involves Desiree, a woman of an unknown past, and her husband Armand, a man from a powerful and wealthy family. At first, they seem to be a happy and loving family, but...
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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 ...
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My first impression of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Caf' was that it was a ?woman's? novel. This was because the movie, which was more popular than the book, was advertised as a ?chick flick?. To say the least, I was wrong. The novel poses many issues that...
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Hysteria
The state of hysteria in a society can spread faster than a brush fire, and be more dangerous then a San Francisco earthquake. There is a process of four combined steps that will ultimately lead to this disaster; a fearful event, promotion of the event,...
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Like Water For Chocolate is a fantasy-type love story. It teaches a lot about family life in Mexico, the country where it took place. The owner of the De la Garza ranch where the family lived was Mama Elena, who raised three daughters on her own because her husband had...
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The complex and furious creation of Emily Bront', Wuthering Heights is a powerful novel that fiercely combines many of the greatest themes in literature, such as love and its intricacies, revenge and the its terrible effects, and the contrasts between nature and...
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?Pip changes from an innocent child to a character consumed by false values and snobbery.? Explore the major incidents in Pip's childhood that contribute to this change.
Pip's transition into snobbery is, I believe, a steady one from the moment that he...
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Joseph Conrad's Use of Light and Dark in His Writings
Many books are written by an author purely for informational, recreational, or monetary reasons, but some books are written to demonstrate a point. Joseph Conrad's book Heart of Darkness is one such book. If...
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The tells the story of a comfortable, friendly creature named Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo, like most hobbits, is similar to a human, but about half the size, and much more nible because they have leathery soles on thier feet, and not nearly as loud. Bilbo gets caught up in mysterious...
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The Australian novel, Lightning Mine, covers the development of an iron ore mine on a sacred land guarded by ?Namarrkon? in the Northern Territory. MDG/Global mining was very interested in the area, and sent their chief prospector, Aaron Shoemaker to investigate the...
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Authors use symbolism in their written expressions in order to enhance the thematic interests of the novel. The use of symbolism allows the reader to interpret the story, which in turn, stimulates a more personal, imaginative, and meaningful experience. Scott F....
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Coping with situations within FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
Human Nature, it's our instinct, our reaction, our thoughts, and our ability to make decisions. It has been examined from every conceivable angle. It has been scrutinized, interrogated, glorified and even...
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Imagine being back in the colony of
Massachusetts before the Revolutionary war. As you walk
down the streets of Boston, you meet a young man named
. After listening to his story, you think of the
different ways you could describe him. You could describe
him by...
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In the novel The adventures of huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses his knowledge of the Mississippi River to write about the ways of life in the Southern Mississippi area before the civil war. In chapters 17-22 of the novel Mark Twain exposes the Hypocrisy of...
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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...
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By: jon smith
One day Carrie and Jerry were walking home from school, and there was an ambulance at the next door neighbors house. They asked what was wrong and they found out that Mr. Zooman (that is what the kids call him) had a heart attack (that's what they thought). And...
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Freedom in ?The Story of an Hour?
Mrs. Mallard's overwhelming response of ?free, free, free!? upon hearing of her husband's death reflects the attitude of many nineteenth century women. During this time, highly restrictive gender roles forbade women to live as...
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A Whole New Perspective
She walked toward the light. She felt a slight tug on the leash and realized that she had to stop. She guessed that the light was red and that was the reason the dog came to a halt. However she could feel the breeze of people passing by her and was...
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Locke's Primary and Secondary Qualities
When reading Lock's Book II "Of Ideas", one comes to a state of boredom, while reading about things that should seem obvious to an adult. These ideas are mainly trying explain to the reader that a person can not think...
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- Crime and punishment - russian
Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, ?Crime and Punishment, is a reflection of life in St. Petersburg, Russia, during the rule of Czars Nicholas I and Alexander III.? Though this topic only accounts for the reigns of Tsars Nicholas I and Alexander III, the reformative...
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What is doublethink? Orwell describes doublethink as 'the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.? In 1984, doublethink is the normal way of thought, and as a result everyone understands it and practices it. ...
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Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN is a controversial anti-war story of a soldier who lost his arms, his legs, and most of his face in a World War I from a shell. Trumbo's soldier is Joe Bonham who comes from a patriotic background. The boy works in a bakery,...
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A final point worth noting is Macbeth's reported inability to answer "Amen" to a solemn prayer to God. Shakespeare's post-medieval world still strictly adhered to the binary opposition between the divine and the occult, or to put it in more ecclesiastic terms,...
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The Anglo-Saxon society was a combination of the Jutes, the Anglos, and the Saxons. It was through this combination that the values of this one culture evolved. Anglo-Saxons lived their lives according to values such as masculine orientation, transience of life,...
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Oedipus: King Of Riddles?
In Greek mythology the oracles or gods are rarely wrong in their
predictions of the future. Yet the characters still try to fight the
predictions. Do their personalities and traits decide their future, or does
fate take its...
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What is the American Dream? In the Webster's New World Dictionary, dream is defined as: "a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything lovely, etc." In F. Scott Fitzerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the lead character Jay Gatsby defines the American...
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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...
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Great Expectations, by Charles dickens is fascinating tale of love and fortune. The main character ?Pip? is a dynamic character who undergoes many changes through the course of the book. Throughout this analysis the character Pip will be identified and his gradual change...
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Long and tedious, with the purpose of showing the unsanitary conditions of the Chicago meat industry, The Jungle is a book that was written by Upton Sinclair. After his manuscript was completed in 1905, it appeared serially in Appeal to Reason, a widely circulated...
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For my book report I chose to write about one of John Grisham's best sellers, The Partner. The Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc. in New New York, New York published the Partner in 1997. I chose to write about this book for two reasons; I had forgotten what...
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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...
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Literary Essay
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway ties together a story about a fisherman trying to catch a fish and a deeper story about a man attempting to prove to society that he is not useless. This novella is an...
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Gatsby Essay
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...
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Chapter 1: this chapter is an introduction to the story, the first two characters are introduced here. These characters are named mr. Hooper and Edmund Hooper. The story starts with the death of edmund's grandfather, they visit him and later het dies. Mr. Hooper and...
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When Odysseus returned home to his wife and son, he took a very brutal method to rid his home of the suitors who had run over his household. This revenge was also taken out upon the servants and maids who had been unfaithful to Penelope and had slept with the suitors. Some...
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In Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" the characters struggle with loneliness and loss of dreams. These themes are highlighted by the use of parallels that tie the novel together. The relationship between Candy and his dog parallels that which exists between George...
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Gatsby meets a woman and falls in love with her. However, Gatsby does not have the fame and fortune a classy lady like Daisy desires. Gatsby decides to devote his whole life to achieving the material goods with which to satisfy Daisy. He lives in the past on a moment of absolute...
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives forever. -John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, ch. 1 (1989)-
Innocence is a quality that is often taken for granted and abused. We never know...
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Question:
?And so I mourn him-I admit it-with a certain?alarm?
How does Arthur Miller expect us to react to the death of Eddie Carbone? In your opinion, does he succeed?
Eddie Carbone, the family guy, not wanting any trouble, just wanting his niece, in...
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A Literary Comparison Of
A Clockwork Orange and The Crucible
The existence of evil in the world is a universal question that is often contemplated. Anthony Burgess and Arthur Miller in their novels A Clockwork Orange and The Crucible address this question...
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A great lecturer once said, 'Man is so caught up in his own recklessness that he does not notice the values of life.' The theme proclaimed in the quote reflects literature in the abundance that it is used in throughout the history of writing. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, spokesman of the...
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DON QUIXOTE
The novel opens by briefly describing Don Quixote and his fascination with chivalric stories. With his ?wits gone?, Don Quixote decides to become a knight and ream the country side righting wrong and rescuing damsels in distress. He outfits himself in some...
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To be known as a hero takes a lot. But what is a true hero? To some, a hero
might just be a person who has a lot of courage and bravery, to others a hero might be a person that is a strong warrior and leader who wins battles; still to others a hero might be a person who...
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Critical Analysis of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain describes the
journey of a young boy and a runaway slave, Jim, up the Mississippi
River. One of the most important themes of the book is that society is
cruel....
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Identity Crisis
(Joy Luck Club)
Every person comes to a point in their life when they begin to search for themselves and their identity. Usually it is a long process and takes a long time with many wrong turns along the way. Family, teachers, and friends all...
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The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, is a powerful portrayal of four Chinese women and the lives of their children in America. The book discusses the conflicting cultures between the United States and China, and how men treat women throughout their lives. People living in the United...
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Summary
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is a story written written to show the importance of black people in the 1930's. It is a good story with a good point. The prime messages observed in this novel is that of racism, how the...
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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...
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Identity Crisis
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior presents the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing up as she attempts to reconcile two cultures, a female
devaluing Chinese culture and influences by an American culture, while developing her own...
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By: Joey
In A , by Ernest J. Gaines, racism plays a huge part of life in the south. When a white man is found dead; his family and friends start to gather to find the man who did this. After time these men start to drink and make a plan to kill the...
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The Odyssey, by Homer, is about Odysseus, the king of Ithaca. Odysseus fights in the Trojan War and wins. He travels towards Ithaca but does not reach it because he is not in favor of Poseidon, god of the sea, who prevents his return. For many years, Odysseus...
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Evil is like a cancerous plague, that does harm upon those who come across it. In the tragic play ?Othello? by William Shakespeare, Iago is a character that is malignant. His evil is exposed through his choice of words, his ability to manipulate people, and his opportunistic...
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1984 by George Orwell is a story of a man's strugle against a totalitarianstic government that controlls the ideas and thoughts of its citizens. They use advanced mind reading techniques to discover the thoughts of the people and punish those who show signs of...
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CHINESE-AMERICAN WOMEN IN AMERICAN CULTURE
In Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, there is one episode, "Waiting Between the Trees," illustrating major concerns facing Chinese-American women. Living with their traditional culture in American society, Chinese-American women...
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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...
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A symbol is an object or place used to represent an abstract idea or quality. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are many such symbols. F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates each symbol into the plot and structure of the novel. His use of symbolism helps give...
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By: Adam
Simon - "He was a small, skinny boy, his chin pointed, and his eyes so bright they had deceived Ralph into thinking him delightfully gay and wicked. The coarse mop of black hair was long and swung down, almost concealing a low, broad forehead... [he...
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The author by essence is the creator of his book akin to God creating in his own like image in man. With this in mind, Dostoevsky through writing Crime and Punishment creates the essence of man that he believes to be a replica of himself. By creating specific characters in his...
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I am not what I am
Iago is quite possibly one of the best examples of evil in literature.
He is not merely manipulative as other "bad guys". Iago also brings the
interesting aspect of truthinto it all. He quite literally tells the
best lies using mostly the...
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Odysseus is a hero of all times thanks to Homer who wrote his story in The Odyssey. Odysseus is a hero in his on time because of all his adventures and characteristics. Homer wrote about the Trojan War, in which Odysseus took part in, in the Iliad, and about Odysseus? long...
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The short story, House Opposite by R. K. Narayan is an example of a man and his struggle with his own humanity. The basic plot of the story includes a holy man (only referred to as "the hermit") that is living along with the traditions of an Indian lifestyle. He...
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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...
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By: woody
The Irony Of Lord Jim Lord Jim was written by Joseph Conrad in 1900. Lord Jim'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...
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By: Don Robinson
Huck Finn Essay No one who has read the novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain can deny not seeing the faults of the civilized world that Twain so critically satires. This element of the novel plays the perfect backdrop to the thing Twain uses to compare...
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The character of Hamlet is very prestigious, but he has many shortcomings. In many cases, he shows that he is all words and no action. He waits until the very last minute to take a course of action. Hamlet realizes this, and he wishes that he had the...
