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Tom Clancy's Genius
Number of Words: 1323 / Number of Pages: 5
... Germany fully armed with the expectation that the Russians could attack them at any time. This was also a time when the Soviets did the same exercises with the same amount of live ammunition. Therefore there was reason enough to worry about potential conflicts. Deep within the ocean waters, submarines played similar cat and mouse games with other submarines and surface ships. However some of these submarines were more dangerous then a whole army because they were fully loaded with nuclear missles. These facts were well know to the American public and made Red Storm Rising all the more real when it comb ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 11345 / Number of Pages: 42
... and play cards. They do not talk about their narrow survival during their last trip to the front. Kemmerich, one of Paul's classmates and a member of the Second Company, is in the hospital with a thigh wound.
Paul and his classmates' schoolmaster, Kantorek, urged them to enlist as volunteers to prove their patriotism. Joseph Behm did not want to go, but eventually he gave in to Kantorek's unrelenting pressure. He was one of the first to die, and his death was particularly horrible. With Behm's death, Paul and his classmates lost their innocent trust in figures of authority. Kantorek often writes lett ...
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Summary Of Rosen's "My Lost World: A Survivor's Tale"
Number of Words: 817 / Number of Pages: 3
... part one. She even has three separate chapters for
three different sets of family.
Sara Rosen's decision of explaining her family and the traditions
set forth, was an exceptional way to start the novel. It gave the reader a
more detailed image of what to expect. The reader now fully understands
what the Rosen family was experiencing while trying to survive the
Holocaust. The reader, also, now has knowledge of what the Jewish Religion
is like and realizes all the faith and trust they put into God.
In part two, the longest of the three parts, Sara Rosen explains
the hair-raising detailed actions th ...
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Summary Of Shelley's Frankenstein
Number of Words: 759 / Number of Pages: 3
... himself from all the people he loved in his life. People like
his father, Elizabeth, and other loved ones. Victor began to write less
and less. Yet, it was not until Elizabeth got a discouraged letter from
Victor, did his love ones start to wary about him. Though, the letter was
full of words, it gave no relief to Elizabeth, because the words meant
nothing to her. However, they meant a lot to Victor, because he felt the
project in which he was working on was so important to him, in his own
delirious world. He felt that with bring people back to life he would not
only better man kind, but als ...
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Emma By Jane Austen
Number of Words: 844 / Number of Pages: 4
... the story progresses, Emma notices Harriet’s fondness of a young farmer by the name of Robert Martin. Emma feels that Mr. Martin is not worthy of her dear friend’s hand, and convinces Harriet to decline his proposal. Emma, confident of her own matchmaking abilities, then tries to make a match between her companion and Mr. Elton, who is a charming gentleman of an impetuous background. This reveals one of the themes in the story, which is social class prejudice. Although Mr. Martin’s earnings are quite respectable, Emma feels that because Harriet is a part of her life now, she should have the same oppo ...
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Similarities In Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" And "Heart Of Darkness"
Number of Words: 1306 / Number of Pages: 5
... remarkable person. In The Secret Sharer the
Captain saves a murderer from almost certain death without knowing what the
man has done. Later, The Captain has a discussion with the man and finds
out his name is Leggatt. Leggatt tells his story and the Captain becomes
more enthralled with Leggatt ever so more. When Leggatt tells the Captain
he has committed a murder, the Captain does not throw him overboard.
Instead, the Captain harbors this criminal because he feels a connection
with Leggatt that he has never felt before. In both stories the hero
identifies with his evil counterpart to the point ...
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Hound Of The Baskervilles
Number of Words: 793 / Number of Pages: 3
... "The
Notting Hill Criminal", his real name though was Selden Barrymore.
One night while Watson and Sir Henry were in the Hall, they observed Mr.
Barrymore (the Butler) sending signals through the window using a candle.
Through questioning he divulged that he was really doing a favour for his
wife for the escaped criminal was his brother in-law. Baffled by this Sir
Henry and Watson went to go and arrest this villain, they reached him in
time, but Selden managed to evade the authorities once more.
Through remenents of a letter written to Sir Charles Baskerville prior
to his death, it was writt ...
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Evolution Of They Dystopia
Number of Words: 634 / Number of Pages: 3
... Russian Revolution. The corruption which followed within this government gave Orwell the basis to construct the dystopia found in Animal Farm. The feudalist dystopia found in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is altered by the inspirational theories of Karl Marx and by the Russian Revolution, into the communist dystopia found in George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The castes found in Brave New World depict an accurate representation of segregation in feudalistic society. This is most efficiently portrayed during the tour of the factory where "people are created on an assembly line. . .(Smith, 1)" and enginee ...
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A Review Of "The Lost World"
Number of Words: 726 / Number of Pages: 3
... an overgrown InGen factory
that runs on sulfuric fumes. One quote describing the island was "Thorne
glimpsed rugged, volcanic terrain, overgrown with dense jungle.
This book was actually packed with action, that is what kept me
reading it for such long periods at a time. One very adventurous scene was
when Sarah and Kelly where chasing after the raptor which had the key
wrapped around it's mouth. "They were now just three feet away. Kelly
could smell the animal. It turned it's head and snapped at them." Another
exciting scene was when Eddie Carr was battling with the raptors on the
high hide ...
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A Rose For Emily: Emily's Life
Number of Words: 910 / Number of Pages: 4
... glad being left alone. She had become humanized" (219). This sounds as if her father’s death was sort of liberation for Emily. In a way it was, she could begin to date and court men of her choice and liking. Her father couldn’t chase them off any more. But then again, did she have the know-how to do this, after all those years of her father’s past actions? It also sounds as if the townspeople thought Emily was above the law because of her high-class stature. Now since the passing of her father she may be like them, a middle class working person.
Unfortunately, for Emily she became home bound. She didn ...
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