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- Niccol' Machiavelli's is a blunt political pamphlet concerning the various kinds of principalities, military affairs, the qualities of a Prince, and Machiavelli's views on Italy's political status during the Renaissance. Machiavelli uses many specific examples throughout the text both ancient and...
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- The freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question about man's free will and the ability to choose one's destiny, good or evil. "If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a...
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- The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, took place during World War I. The novel focuses on six men who are involved in the war. The main character is Paul B@umer, a nineteen-year-old who was drafted into the war. At this point in time, going to war was not a...
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- According to popular culture, specifically through the use of such magazines as Glamour and Cosmopolitan, the woman of the twentieth century can still be defined by her sexual identity, although perhaps in different terms than were used when Chaucer first wrote the Canterbury Tales. "Today's...
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- The theme suggested in the closing paragraph of the novel is that people create their own enemy and then they defend themselves laboriously and obsessively against their imaginary enemy. They develop a particular frame of mind in
order to allay the fear that arises while facing their nonexistent...
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- Heathcliff cried vehemently, "I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" Emily Bront' distorts many common elements in Wuthering Heights to enhance the quality of her book. One of the distortions is Heathcliff's undying love for Catherine Earnshaw. Also, Bront' perverts the...
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- The short story and the movie planet of the apes were both futuristic stories. They also both showed the evil sides of today's man and the chaos and mass destruction that we are capable of accomplishing. They portrayed today's man as selfish, violent, and full of hate and rage. was written...
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- The Main theme in this book is prejudice. You will learn about
segregation and how unfair it was.
To Kill A Mocking Bird deals with many primal and basic lessons in human
nature. The book exposes many issues that affect most people throughout their
lives. Scout, the main character was one of the...
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- The definition of Utopia is "no place." A Utopia is an ideal society in which the social, political, and economic evils afflicting human kind have been wiped out. This is an idea displayed in communist governments. In the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell Old Major's ideas of a Utopia are...
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- "Killing for Sport" by Joseph Wood Krutch is an opinionated work on
the subject of hunting for sport. He uses rational appeals to press the
point of the sportsman as having less to gain out of the killing than the
liar, the thief, or the murderer. Joseph's primary aim is to persuade the
reader to...
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Margot Macomber is guilty of murdering Francis Macomber. The death of Francis Macomber is in fact on purpose. 'Mrs. Macomber, in the car, had shot at the buffalo with the 6.5 Manlicher as it seemed about to gore Macomber and had hit her husband about two inches up and a little...
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- Innocence betrayed as telekinetic forces work upon a child is portrayed in the novel Carrie, which was written by Stephen King. Stephen King is noted for his use of the supernatural and the innocent.
The theme of innocence betrayed is at the heart of
Carrie..... throughout his fiction, the...
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- The book ALIVE, by Piers Paul Read identified many possible themes, although I do think there are two that stand out. These two themes are survival and cooperation. Survival plays a major throughout the entire story. The most gruesome part in the story occurred when the remaining 28 passengers of...
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- o Manzanar
The book, Farewell to Manzanar was the story of a young Japanese girl coming of age in the interment camp located in Owens Valley, California. Less than two months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which stated that the War...
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- The ninth commandment tells man not to give false witness.(Exodus 20:16)
Nathaniel Hawthorn and Charles Dickens in their novels The Scarlet Letter and A
Tale of Two Cities, respectively, both use punishment for deception as a
recurring theme. Although they do so to different degrees and in...
