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Odysseus A Hero
Number of Words: 1214 / Number of Pages: 5
... Ancient Greece has always been an interest of mine. In 6th grade a teacher that I had know for my whole schooling showed a movie every week. One week we watched “Jason and the Argonaughts”. Ever since then I could never get enough Greek mythology. In freshman year of high school we read the annotated text book version of The Odyssey. Lucky for me, I transferred English classes at the semester and I was able to read The Odyssey twice. And since then Odysseus has been a hero to me.
The story starts in book 9, Odysseus telling his story to the King of Phaeaica. They sacked a ...
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Old Man And The Sea: Themes
Number of Words: 1458 / Number of Pages: 6
... a tidal
pool with life called `Cannery Road'.
This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It
mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other
characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of
biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin,
his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might
be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal for a great period of
time and is sure it will work this time. Later, though, when Santiago
needs him for the quest he sets out to do, Manolin deserts him, alt ...
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Ayn Rand's Anthem: Themes
Number of Words: 640 / Number of Pages: 3
... they do not see personal benefits and fulfillment from their work, they lack enthusiasm and personal initiative. It is as though everybody has been brainwashed to one collective way. The people consider themselves as one body. Though collectivisim may have certain benefits, in Anthem it is taken to a dangerous extreme. Their collective society has nearly wiped out any traces of the individual. For example thoughts or opinions that are different from your brother are the root of evil. People are executed for referring to themselves singularly rather than collectively.
The main character is a man, Eq ...
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Managing Globalization
Number of Words: 1665 / Number of Pages: 7
... is the challenge of globalization."
Introduction:
"Globalization is a fact and a process. The fact is that the world's
people and nations are more interdependent than ever before and becoming more so.
The measures of interdependence are global flows of such things as trade,
investment, and capital, and the related degradation of the ecosystem on which
all life depends, a degradation that constantly reminds us that we are all
passengers on a spaceship, or, more ominously, a lifeboat" (p. XI)
"Globalization is a promise of efficiency in spreading the good things
of life to those who lack them. It ...
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In The Middle Of The Night: Review
Number of Words: 284 / Number of Pages: 2
... of what was going on I
couldn't put the book down.
In the Middle of the Night is about an accident in a theater where a balcony
collapses on a number of small children, and kills them, and a few are injured.
The owner of the theatre kill himself and everyone is out to blame John the
usher who was investigating the noises from the balcony at the time. Today the
usher has grown up and has a son. A victim, who died in the accident but came
back to life that day, is out for revenge on the usher's son.
The novel is hard to follow at first because there are jumps from one character
view to another, to ...
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Upton Sinclairs Book The Jungl
Number of Words: 572 / Number of Pages: 3
... Sinclair used in "The Jungle". "His reasoning so false, he is naïve in his disregard of human nature". Also "…his conclusions so perverted that the only effect can be only to disgust many honest sensible folk with the very terms he used so glibly" (Blinderman 103). Sinclair's book "The Jungle" effected the business of Chicago in a good way. "The Jungle" made laws come into effect to make meat packing, and the food safer. Today there is meat grading, the ink used today (that is used for stamping) is harmless, it is made from vegetable dye (Ziegler 374). Meat packing today has a price, it raises periodic ...
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Catcher In The Rye
Number of Words: 917 / Number of Pages: 4
... a bastard. I could hardly see straight." (pg. 150) Holden tried all he
could to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life in general to make it
seem he was very knowing of these habits. I myself have found me doing this
at times, also. I, at times, feel the need to fit in to a group and do
things similar to what others do in order to gain acceptance by them. I
smoked a cigar once with two friends of mine because they kept going on and
on about how great cigars were, but that was only once. Holden and I both
place people on levels other than our own for amount of knowledge and
likeness to ourse ...
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Frankenstein: Reflects Of Mary Shelley's Life
Number of Words: 1118 / Number of Pages: 5
... to "...the relationship between parents and children" (Ellis 125). In her book however, the relationship between parent and child becomes creator and creation. "I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness" (Shelley 70). One can now see how the characters from the novel reflect Shelley's own life.
The style in which Shelley wrote is shown in the novel. Since she grew up under the influence of a feminist mother and a philosophical father, she writes with a distict style. "The motif of the Doppelganger was ...
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Yugoslavia 2
Number of Words: 3026 / Number of Pages: 12
... been large scale conflicts faught in the former Yugoslavia. (Communist state) There is now a large concerted effort to end the centuries of fighting by the International community. The root of the problem in the balkans is the longevity of the issue and centuries of ethinic and religious hatred that have been passed along from genreation, to generation. Is it really possible for the internaional community to quell this hatred? Sober second thoughts suggest that the type of peace imposed on the Balkans by the Dayton Accord continues to fuel these flames of discontent. This political agremant was qui ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 1609 / Number of Pages: 6
... he is repulsed by the banal
and meaningless language that is used by members of that society. As
he becomes alienated from his former, traditional, society, Baumer
simultaneously is able to communicate effectively only with his
military comrades. Since the novel is told from the first person point
of view, the reader can see how the words Baumer speaks are at
variance with his true feelings. In his preface to the novel, Remarque
maintains that "a generation of men ... were destroyed by the war"
(Remarque, All Quiet Preface). Indeed, in All Quiet on the Western
Front, the ...
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