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The Andromeda Strain: Summary
Number of Words: 1275 / Number of Pages: 5
... outbreak starts when two people are sent out to search for Scoop VII.
When the two men sent neared Piedmont they noticed vultures circling the
town, watching, waiting. At their last check point there was only a scream
and static as the virus took two more lives.
Hours later a military helicopter with Jeremy Stone and Charles Burton took
off from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was headed for Piedmont, Arizona.
They were going there to recover a sample of the virus and to search for
the living man they had seen in the flyby photos. Upon arriving they
search through the houses until they found S ...
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To Kill A Mocking Bird
Number of Words: 699 / Number of Pages: 3
... Boo Radley out of his house. None of them had ever seen him. Scout started to school and on his way there and back, he and Jem would find gifts in a hole in the tree by the rocky place. Scout and Jem started hearing their father referred to as a “nigger-lover” because he was defending Tom Robinson – a Negro man accused of rape. When Scout, Jem and Calpurnia come home from church, they find Aunt Alexandrea is staying with them for the trial. One night, Atticus mysteriously leaves the house. Scout, Jem, Dill follow him. A lynch mob appears and was trying to force Atticus to let them have the Neg ...
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Dead Man Walking
Number of Words: 1120 / Number of Pages: 5
... in their time of loneliness, sorrow, and need.
Sister Helen’s first case, Patrick Sonnier, better influenced my opinion on capital punishment. Her strategies in dealing with a convicted killer were brave and courageous. She was always willing to meet with Patrick and to talk about anything he liked. She helped him to realize his mistake, but more importantly, helped him to become a better person. She was always reminding Pat that God had the power of forgiveness, and that if he were truly sorry, God would forgive him. Sister Helen’s best arguments were the details she spoke about p ...
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Character Analysis Of Mrs Mall
Number of Words: 1036 / Number of Pages: 4
... with each other. The Mallards’ marriage was really crippled by both their inability to talk to one another and Mrs. Mallard’s determination that her marriage was made by a “powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.” But she doesn’t recognize that it is not just men who put their will upon women and that the problems in marriage affect men and women equally. To me, Mrs. Mallard is a very sympathetic character, and I appreciate her will to live out the “ ...
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Life
Number of Words: 1336 / Number of Pages: 5
... If that is true then what does one so keen, so aware of how living things must cease to live, have to fix? Dylan Thomas appears to be telling us that wise men fear that they have not given their wisdom to others appropriately. It seems that wise men worry that all the wisdom they have accumulated over the many years of their existence was of no matter. Thomas has an eloquent way of phrasing things, “Though wise men at their end know dark is right Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night” (Thomas ll. 1-6). To reiterate my point Thomas used the term of ...
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Summary Of Cue For Treason
Number of Words: 896 / Number of Pages: 4
... man, he is nice to Peter and Kit. They both join Shakespeare's acting company. Kit's play as a Juliet very well. Everybody in town is all talking about Kit's act. But when every thing is ready to go on to stage for the play of Shakespeare's company. Kit ran away at the last moment. Nobody knows why. They put Peter on the play, he was really good, but the people in town were still mad at Kit. Finally she come back and explains why. She was afraid to be recognizing on the stage if she dresses as a girl. That man was in the audience. The man was Sir Philip Morton.
Between chapter Eleven and Twelve, bec ...
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Mernissi
Number of Words: 1385 / Number of Pages: 6
... the interests of the
participants the essentials varied.
The fabrication of false hadiths by the male elite was probably the first
and most popular way for them to protect their interests. The people
governing knew how important it was to "seek legitimacy in and through the
sacred text" (Mernissi 43). Mernissi talks about al-Bukhari, who
methodically and systematically collected and verified true Hadiths. He
was exiled from his native town because he refused to bring the knowledge
of the Hadith to the governor of the town and have it corrupted. He knew
that the invitation from the governor was mad ...
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Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's Criticism Of The American Dream
Number of Words: 507 / Number of Pages: 2
... 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 showy, but fundamentally
empty form of success.
Fitzgerald's cr ...
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Ivan Denisovich
Number of Words: 631 / Number of Pages: 3
... pleasure in small things that would be irrelevant to us in our daily lives, such as eating a meal. One would have to be a strong person to get true happiness just by eating a meal. Shukhov didn’t daydream about getting out of the camp or about anything in the future. He lived for that particular day and moment. Shukhov stated, when eating a meal, “It was great! This was what a prisoner lived for, this one little moment.”(p. 169) Another example of Shukhov’s emotional strength was at the end of his day, he was content and happy. This was only because he accomplished small tasks such as getting extra fo ...
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Chopin's A Pair Of Silk Stockings: Mrs. Sommers
Number of Words: 526 / Number of Pages: 2
... and "old". Her parcel is "very small". At this point, she wants more.
She begins to think without reason, and loses her sense of responsibility when
she puts the stockings on in the ladies room. Mrs. Sommers is "not going
through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself", she is "not
thinking at all" at this point.
Mrs. Sommers's mind is not working like it used to at the beginning.
All of a sudden nothing is too expensive, she eats the expensive restaurant,
buys shoes, gloves, and magazines "such as she had become accustomed to read in
those days". These things give Mrs. Sommers a ...
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