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Jurassic Park
Number of words: 382 - Number of pages: 2.... world of Jurassic
Park, is a world of new state of the art technology and entertainment. Until
everything goes wrong. The electric fences stopped working, and the dinosaurs
escaped. Ian Malcolm's opinion of this world is that it won't survive, or the
humans won't survive. The world has survived everything until now, it will
surely survive the dinosaurs once more. But us, the humans are the ones that
may not survive. "Our planet is four and a half billion years old. There has
been life on this planet for nearly that long. Three point eight billion. The
first bacteria. And later, the .....
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Salamandastron
Number of words: 481 - Number of pages: 2.... over his tribe.
They travel in shrew logboats across the bottomless lake, and encounter the Deepcoiler (A huge sea serpent). They reach an island where the Blackstone is supposed to have been left. However, danger and mystery await them on the island.
Meanwhile, at the massive Redwall Abbey, two searats have come to stay. The brothers and sisters think they will only bring trouble, but the Abbess is slow to turn any creatures away from their gates. The searats, Dingeye and Thura, turn out to be more trouble than they are worth. They accidentally murder one of the abbey's brothers, steal th .....
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Report On The Prince By Machiavelli
Number of words: 1216 - Number of pages: 5.... well as
smart. A prince cannot be uncertain, because uncertainty is a sign of
weakness. Fortune controls half of human's actions, and man's will control
the other half. Virtue is the best defense for fortune, and virtue must be
used in order to keep fortune in check. The prince must take advantage of
situations based solely on if it is best for the state. He should choose
his decisions based on contemporary and historical examples. A prince
cannot consider whether his acts are moral or immoral, and he instead must
act in an unbiased manner for the state. Also, it does not matter how th .....
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Passing By Nella Larsen
Number of words: 883 - Number of pages: 4.... City. More African-American writers and poets were published during this period in the United States than ever before. Not only were African-American writers being published more, but they were also getting a great deal of recognition for their work. The body of work characteristic of this time period showed a heightened sense of racial consciousness. African-American writers during this time were not only seeking to counteract racial prejudice, but were also perpetuating the cultural heritage of Africa. Some of the major writers born from this period include Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, J .....
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The Culture Of Censorship In F
Number of words: 462 - Number of pages: 2.... such as T.V's, radios, and self-buttering toasters. These material things gave people happiness. A good example of someone who was brain-washed by the material possessions was Guy Montag's wife Mildred. She was so convinced by the people on the television that she was unable to think for herself. When Montag eventually questioned the mindless pleasure seeking, his wife was too wrapped up in her life to think twice.
The mindless pleasure seeking and materialism may have been most entertaining and powerful for firefighters such as Montag, until he began to question this destruction. Montag .....
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The Quest Of A Hemingway Hero
Number of words: 1560 - Number of pages: 6.... is given a vacation to leave the
war for a period of time in order to relax. He befriends a priest because he
admires the fact that the priest lives his life by a set of values that give him an orderly lifestyle. He is told by the priest to go to Abruzzi, there in the mountains he can relax and forget about theworries of war. But Fredrick is
hardheaded and listens to his friends and decides to go to Naples, there he
drinks and travels from one house of prostitution to another and yet he is
discontent because his life is very unsettled. This vacation was his free
ticket ou .....
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So Long A Letter And A Raisin In The Sun: Love And Wealth
Number of words: 1306 - Number of pages: 5.... but in the end the most important thing is love. The Younger’s, a black family from Chicago receives money from Walter Younger’s death and his wife wants to buy a house in an all white neighborhood. The Younger family consist of Lena, the mother Walter Lee and Beneatha her children, Walter Lee’s wife, Ruth, and their son Travis. This story takes place in the 1950’s when there were many racial discriminations occurring, segregations, and the Civil Rights movement.
So Long a Letter takes place where the Islamic culture and tradition is very important. In the Islamic culture a very loo .....
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A Critical Analysis Of "Revelation" By Flannery O'Connor
Number of words: 1759 - Number of pages: 7.... thoughts. These
characteristics she gives her characters definitely reveals the Southern
lifestyle which the author, Flannery O'Connor, was a part of. In addition
to her Southern upbringing, another influence on the story is Flannery
O'Connor's illness. She battled with the lupus disease which has caused
her to use a degree of violence and anger to make her stories somewhat
unhappy. The illness caused a sadness inside of Flannery O'Connor, and
that inner sadness flowed from her body to her paper through her pen.
Although she was sick, O'Connor still felt proud to be who she was. By
comp .....
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Death Of A Salesmen: Freedom And Willy’s Dream
Number of words: 1725 - Number of pages: 7.... which are very expensive, it is a symbol of love to Biff. He sees his father giving them to someone else and he knows that his father isn’t all that he seems. He is giving his love away to someone other than Linda.
The second thing of significance is the fact that is one instant Biff now doesn’t want Willy to get his grade changed. He thinks that because of the person he now thinks his father is he couldn’t do it. He is completely disillusioned by what he has seen, and his whole concept of who his father is breaks down. His hero image of his father is shattered. He doesn’t .....
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Wuthering Heights 2
Number of words: 1213 - Number of pages: 5.... Heathcliff's, and the other member's of the household's true personalities. Upon arriving he was forced to bang continually upon the door before someone would take the care to let him in out of the cold. The dinner that Lockwood was permitted to have with the ‘family' was anything but hospitable. Lockwood was treated not unlike an ignorant and unworthy guest, and hence the visit was in no way enjoyable for him. Upon desiring to leave the destitute home, Lockwood finds the weather too intolerable for him to even consider venturing out on his own, and upon being attacked by one of the do .....
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