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Lord Of The Flies 5
Number of words: 781 - Number of pages: 3.... the boys become uncivilized savages. They have no discipline. The meetings that Ralph calls restore a sense of order because the boys have to wait until they hold the conch to speak. Ralph says, "I'll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he's speaking." (Ch. 2, Pg. 36, Line 24-25). This quote proves that Ralph is trying to keep some order. Ralph uses his authority to try to improve the society. He tells Jack, "They talk and scream. The littluns. Even some of the others." (C.3, P.56, L.28). In this quote, he is referring to why the boys need shelters, reason being .....
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Time Machine Book Report
Number of words: 1164 - Number of pages: 5.... is accomplished in The Time Machine. His ideas about the future are surely detrimental. As the Time Traveler is standing on the shore of a dead sea, he thinks to himself, I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurt one's lungs; all contributed to an appalling effect (69). This scene is one of complete desolation and despair. He had spent all his ti .....
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Young Goodman Brown / The Masque Of Red Death
Number of words: 422 - Number of pages: 2.... Goodman Brown ended up living a miserable life because he couldn't deal with reality. The dream that he had changes his mind and made him believe in things that were fake but when he woke he couldn't deal with the real world. He believed what happened in the dream was reality and what ever happens in reality goes against what he learned in his dreams. So whenever normal actions occurred in real life he questioned it and wondered what it really meant. In The Masque Of The Red Death Prince Prospero for some reason decorated his rooms in a bizarre way and with haunting furniture he had a ecce .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 1064 - Number of pages: 4.... making him act in a way that the women find socially
acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life,
finds the demands the women place upon him constraining and the life with
them lonely. As a result, soon after he first moves in with them, he runs
away. He soon comes back, but, even though he becomes somewhat comfortable
with his new life as the months go by, Huck never really enjoys the life of
manners, religion, and education that the Widow and her sister impose
uponhim.
Huck believes he will find some freedom with Tom Sawyer. Tom
is a boy of Huck's a .....
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How Napoleon Obtains And Maint
Number of words: 2369 - Number of pages: 9.... and maintained power.
Napoleon obtains power primarily by elimination. He believes that if he eliminates all the people standing in between him and ultimate domination, then he can govern the animals in any way that he sees fit. His first step of eliminating is to divide the animals into two classes. Napoleon, along with the other pigs, became of a privileged class, while the rest of the animals were inferior. This division of the animals is first seen when “the order went forth that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harness-room for the use of the pigs”. W .....
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Morality In Frankenstein
Number of words: 746 - Number of pages: 3.... evil, which could hurt or kill his family. "With the companion you bestow I will quit the neighborhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor, if and when he, finished his first creation's mate there is a chance that the monsters will not keep their promise and stay in Europe evoking fear into townsfolk.
The good doctor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for the good of the world. The monsters can potentially take over whatever they please. "A race of devils would be propagated,"(pg. 163) thinks .....
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Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's Criticism Of The American Dream
Number of words: 507 - Number of pages: 2.... Daisy must have a huge house, a stable of polo ponies, and friends in Europe.
Gatsby must have his enormous mansion before he can feel confident enough to
try to win Daisy. Fitzgerald does not criticize the American dream itself but
the corruption of that dream. What was once for Ben Franklin or Thomas
Jefferson a belief in self-reliance and hard work has become what Nick Carraway
calls " . . . the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty." The
energy that might have gone into the pursuit of noble goals has been channeled
into the pursuit of power and pleasure, and a very show .....
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Canterbury Tales - The Wife Of
Number of words: 678 - Number of pages: 3.... is
established. The knight’s journey does not go well. Finally on the last day that he has, he
comes up to a group of women, as he approaches they disappear and an old woman
appears. This part is the climax of the plot because it is when the knight finally knows the
answer. The old woman says that she knows the answer but she will only tell it to the
Queen and in return she must do anything that she asks of him. The knight agrees. Finally,
while in the presence of the Queen, she tells her that the answer to what all women desire
is sovereignty over their husbands. No one disagrees with her .....
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Hamlet To Kill Or Not To Kill
Number of words: 618 - Number of pages: 3.... Of course then again, if he didn't have to prove it to himself, then he could have killed Claudius right away.
The play did come with a success. Claudius did show his disapproval of the play, proving to Hamlet that he was the killer.
Give me some light. Away!
-Claudius, Act III, Scene ii 275
But this leads to Hamlet's second hesitation moment. While Claudius is trying to confess his sins, Hamlet sees a window of opportunity. He could kill Claudius with no one around and no one to witness, but Hamlet had second thoughts on the matter.
Now might I do it pat, now 'a is a .....
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Bhagavad-Gita: Relationship Between Arjuna And Krishna
Number of words: 1168 - Number of pages: 5.... the fourth century CE, although the actual transformation is largely unknown to us. It was also influenced by the Dravidian cultures of the South, which emphasized “intense devotion to the deity” (Bulliet et al. 198). This shaping of Hinduism occurred in response to changing political and religious conditions in India, including the emergence of Buddhism and the unification of its northern territory under the singular rule of the Guptas. The Bhagavad-Gita, regarded as one of the most important Hindu texts and as the essence of its belief, is said to have been composed over the cent .....
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