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The Mill On The Floss: Summary
Number of Words: 1956 / Number of Pages: 8
... and Maggie's cousin
Lucy. Mr. Tulliver states his intention to send Tom to school and it is met
with opposition. In the eighth chapter he goes to his brother-in-laws house to
demand the money that he owes him so that he can pay his wife's sister Mrs.
Glegg. In chapter nine you read about the Tullivers going to visit the Pullets.
In the tenth chapter Maggie pushed Lucy in the mud because she is receiving
most of Tom's attention. When Tom goes to tell on her she runs off and can't be
found. In the eleventh chapter Maggie decides to run away to the gypsies, but
after learning how poor they were and ...
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Thomas More's Utopia
Number of Words: 1210 / Number of Pages: 5
... them. Nobody really need have suffered from a bad
harvest at all. So easily might men get the necessities of life if that cursed
money, which is supposed to provide access to them, were not in fact the chief
barrier to our getting what we need to live. Even the rich, I'm sure, understand
this. They must know that it's better to have enough of what we really need than
an abundance of superfluities, much better to escape from our many present
troubles than to be burdened with great masses of wealth. And in fact I have no
doubt that every man's perception of where his true interest lies, along with
wit ...
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The Canterbury Tales: The Perfect Love
Number of Words: 1071 / Number of Pages: 4
... Emily
is that Emily does not wish to marry either of the knights. she expresses this
in a prayer to Diana, the goddess of chaste, " Well you know that I desire to be
a maiden all my life; I never want to be either a beloved or a wife." This is so
ironic because Arcite and Palomon are about to kill each other for her love and
she doesn't want to beloved by either of them. She enjoys the thrills of maiden
hood too much to have them ended by marriage.
While all this is going on, no one stops to think that neither Arcite
nor Palomon has ever even spoken to Emily. When Palomon and Arcite are in jail
Palomo ...
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The World Of Odysseus
Number of Words: 1502 / Number of Pages: 6
... to as "Wealth and Labor," the author successfully supplies the reader with a larger knowledge base for what the Ancient Greek period was like. Economic and social traits of the period are discussed, with an emphasis of the role of the average Greek man. Throughout the rest of the book, the author carefully continues to assess the roles of Greek man and his relations and beliefs as told through The Odyssey and Iliad.
The most interesting aspect of , is the smoothly flowing relationship between the mythological stories and the historical facts. The author rarely explains the great stories of the god ...
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Lord Of Flies: Animal Instincts
Number of Words: 801 / Number of Pages: 3
... the conch. It is stated that in the beginning of the book, " By the time Ralph finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded." (p.32). This shows that in the beginning of the story the children were very obedient to following the rules. As the story progress, though, Ralph becomes aggravated. He states, "Things are breaking up. I don't understand why. We began well. We were all happy." (p.82). He is also annoyed with the amount of work the others are not doing. He says, "I bet if I blew the conch this minute they would come running. Then we would be very solemn and someone would say we ...
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The Sixth Extinction
Number of Words: 1156 / Number of Pages: 5
... and this figure will grow as population jumps in the next 50 years from 6 billion to approximately 10 billion.
Now, with the use of satellite imagery of much of the world's surface, doubts have been laid to rest about whether such alarming statistics are of real concern. The answer is beyond a reasonable doubt that at the current rate of destruction, tropical forests for example, will be reduced to 10 percent of their original cover in the next 50 years. The ultimate implication to all this, as Leakey attests is that the world is facing a sort of cataclysm, a crash with many consequences. Leakey ...
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Bill Budd
Number of Words: 483 / Number of Pages: 2
... contrast one another in a plethora of ways. Where Billy is sweet, John is bitter. Where Billy is naïve, John is knowledgeable. Where Billy is content, John is jealous. Lastly, where Billy is good, John is bad.
The ugliness that results in the death of both men portrays the triumph of sinister forces over the meek. John Claggart, who is a powerful and feared man aboard Bellipotent, lashes out at Billy who is for the most part defenseless. This is an injustice of biblical proportions.
What could have prevented this from happening? Perhaps, if Billy picked up on John’s malicious intent the entire ...
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The Magic Circle
Number of Words: 402 / Number of Pages: 2
... child who keeps his faith in The Ugly one till the end. Peter turns into a strong young man who is very knowledgeable about anatomy and demons due to his studies in books.
Bala was the neighbor who convinced The Ugly One to heal people. The Ugly One was not sure if the Bala was good or evil because of her name. The letters in Bala’s name were so similar to the Devils’ names. Bala treated The Ugly one very cruelly and had no respect for her because she was a hunchback. When The Ugly One turned into a witch, Bala was very quick to turn against her and sided with the crowd.
In conclu ...
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Of Mice And Men: Crooks
Number of Words: 528 / Number of Pages: 2
... time. Crook's room is his own
private place where he is in control but he hates being alone. The true
loneliness comes out when Lennie comes into Crook's room. Crooks explains
to Lennie that "guys don't come into a colored man's room very much." This
shows the reader that he has been casted out. Crooks is angry at society
for oppressing him so severely. Lennie is rare, because though he is a
white man, he is still weaker than Crooks, and Crooks takes the opportunity
to pass along some abuse, to take it out on someone else. He tells Lennie
that George isn't coming back just to see a reaction. ...
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Social Criticism In Literature, As Found In George Orwell's Animal Farm And Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities.
Number of Words: 1545 / Number of Pages: 6
... Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."(Gardner, 106) Orwell noted that " there exists in England almost no literature of disillusionment with the Soviet Union.' Instead, that country is viewed either with ignorant disapproval' or with uncritical adm ...
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