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The Jungle
Number of Words: 598 / Number of Pages: 3
... wool pluckers lost fingers from acid. Second the workers who used knife lost or had hardly any fingers left especially the tumb. Third workers who worked in chilling rooms had rheumatism. And finally those workers who made tin for the cans had badly cut hands and, chances of getting blood poisoning. This proved that bosses did not care if workers were sick our had chances of dying as long as there work was cheap. Another problem for workers was the political system. In the labor industry it was ran illegally. In Jurgis’s case his boss Mike Scully was in an organization called War Whoop League, who’s ...
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Lovely People Do Stupid Things
Number of Words: 863 / Number of Pages: 4
... the world”, but she didn't want Janie to be a mule. She wanted to see Janie in a secure situation before she died, and Logan Killicks could provide that.
Janie did not want to marry Logan, but she did so because Nanny told her “that she would eventually come to love him.” Ironically, Logan wanted to force Janie into the servitude that Nanny feared. Also, he was disappointed that Janie never returned his affection and attraction. If he could not possess her through love, he would possess her by demanding her submission. At heart, his actions arose from the fear that Janie would leave him. Two month ...
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Great Expectations: Miss Havisham An Eccentric Character?
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... Miss Havisham treated her relatives like in weird ways. When Miss
Sarah Pocket asked her how well she look she said "I do not, I am yellow
shin and bone."1 She started arguing with Camilla and both would make
insults to each other. Miss Havisham asked Camila what was the matter and
Camilla said "Nothing worth mentioning, I don't wish to make a display of
my feelings, but I have habitually thought of you more in the night than
I am quite equal to."2 All Miss Havisham would say is "Then don't think of
me."3 Miss Havisham also told them quote "This, is where I will be laid
when I am dead. The ...
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"A Wrinkle In Time"
Number of Words: 1522 / Number of Pages: 6
... with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart- stopping journey through space" (L'Engle 215)?
The story begins with the unsolved disappearance of Mr. Murray in the midst of one of his scientific experiments. The blunder was the quest to find out what happened to him and bring him back home to relieve mothers heartache. Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin were granted help in finding Mr. Murray from the three heralds, ...
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Terror In The House
Number of Words: 393 / Number of Pages: 2
... and a finely molded chin. It is stated that the features make up a countenance not easily forgotten, by stating this he is pictured in the mind as being a horrifying character. Poe describes the look the disease has given Usher, a faint blush upon her bosom, and her smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death. Poe uses character to develop terror in his story.
The theme of “The Fall of the House of Usher” contributes to the total effect. The theme of the story, which is, the narrator is unable to escape the terror that is overwhelming his friends. The narrator hears a distinct, hollow, me ...
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Waheenee And Eve's Bayou: Common Ground
Number of Words: 764 / Number of Pages: 3
... they found Like-a- Fishhook Village. Waheenee at the age of six lost her mother which her great-grandmother and her grandmother raised her. So Waheenee had many mothers that had brought her up. Waheenee goes through various changes throughout life. There's a lot of human interest in Waheenee's story. As a budding teen, she attracts the attention of the young warrior Sacred Red Eagle Wing, who attends her families corn husking which is away for him to show off to her family (Encarta 2). But at this husking there are other men and she notices another man that she felt was a real man. So she ...
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The Reasons For Walter Mitty's Daydream
Number of Words: 924 / Number of Pages: 4
... driving too fast! . . . What are you driving so fast for?'" Here the reader sees the sharp contrast between the daydream and real life.
In the daydream, Mitty has the full respect and admiration of the passengers of his imaginary hydroplane. In real life, his only passenger, his wife, scolds him for not driving properly. This contrast between the competent man of the daydream and the incompetent man of real life is repeated over and over. Each repetition shows the difference between Mitty's real and imagined lives.
Mitty is aware of his real-life incompetence and shows it when he recalls ...
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Chaucer's "The House Of Fame": The Cultural Nature Of Fame
Number of Words: 2300 / Number of Pages: 9
... want their subjects to remain fresh in
the minds of their audience. Chaucer, while neither totally praising the written
nor the oral, reveals how essentially the written word is far more likely to
become eternal as opposed to the oral. The relative "fame" of any work is
dependent on many factors. Many traditional and classical ideas result in the
formation of the English canon, yet as Chaucer indicates, the "fame" of these
works can easily become annihilated. The arrival of new readers with different
ideals and thereby changing tradition, can reject classical or "canonical" work
and their "fame" wi ...
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The Natural: Fate
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... Bump leads him to a hotel room knowing that his
girlfriend Memo is lying buck-naked on the bed. When Roy notices her there
he doesn't stop and think,”Hold on a second their is a naked woman in my
bed mabey I should turn on the light and ask her what she's doing here” No,
he just jumps into bed and runs the bases. So one day Bump dies and Roy
thinks that Memo's all his, boy is he wrong. This new found passion
totally messes up his train of thought and guess what? Yup, you guessed it
another woman falls into his life. Strike two!
The woman is a very attractive....grandmother???? Her name was
Iri ...
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Animal Farm Compare And Contra
Number of Words: 1428 / Number of Pages: 6
... Orwell’s very accurate descriptions of the characters. As a result, a great deal of characterization is visible in most parts of the book, as he is constantly building upon the characters.
The movie Animal Farm on the other hand is quite different. In the movie, very little time (relative to the book) is spent on developing the characters. In some instances during the movie we discover that there are some characters in the book that are not mentioned in the movie (e.g. Molly and Mrs. Jones). Also, in Animal Farm the movie, there is little dialogue among the animals, unlike the book. In the book, ...
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