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The Chrysalids: The Importance Of Telepathy
Number of Words: 708 / Number of Pages: 3
... 134). The help that the sealant woman promised is on their way to the fringes. The plot is greatly influenced, David learns more things as the time goes on. He discovers who is the Spiderman(Gordon) and where is Sophie. He meets them and learn what it is like to live in the fringes. When the sealant woman rescues David, Rosalind and Petra they are brought to a big, developed city like the one in David's dreams. Because of the telepathy David discovers that such a city really exists but most of all through Petra they establish contact with a more civilized people than they are. Because of the ...
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Huck Finn
Number of Words: 939 / Number of Pages: 4
... to rescue Jim. Tom wants to dig Jim out with a spoon and make this spectacular escape and Huck decides bake some tools used for escaping into a pie and get Jim out that way. Another example is at the beginning of the story when Tom decides to play a trick on Jim by hanging his hat above is head while he is asleep on the tree. Tom Sawyer often tricks people into believing things that aren't true and this makes him the type of character that you have to be weary of.
Another of these characters is Huck's father, Pap. Pap is a very cruel and dishonorable man. Not only is he an alcoholic, but he is also a ...
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Reasons For The Downfall Of Ma
Number of Words: 547 / Number of Pages: 2
... anything that deviated from her current life appealed to Emma. What was new was romantic, exciting, bold, and adventurous. She perceived Charles to be a character from one of her books when she met him. He was fairly attractive, but most of all, he was a doctor! He was a man of power to the meager peasant that Emma was. To Emma, this was a man who could give her romance. He could satisfy all of her fantasies.
When Emma realized Charles was just an ordinary man, she felt there was something wrong with him, not her. What her books told about, what she needed, was a lover, which was what she fou ...
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"The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey"
Number of Words: 740 / Number of Pages: 3
... to give out work
that is not theirs so that they have time to do supervisory functions. (p.
30) If they are busy doing everyone else's work who is going to do theirs.
Once the supervisor puts the work back on the workers it belongs to
she needs to make sure everything is going according to plan. This can be
accomplished by following the 4 "Rules of Monkey Management." (p. 59) Make
sure that the "next moves" are set before you let the subordinate go with a
project. If my supervisor gave me a project to work on and I just left her
office without agreeing on what to do, I would just sit in my office ...
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Describing Biblical Parallels In Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"
Number of Words: 412 / Number of Pages: 2
... in different ways. The fruit on the tree in Genesis was forbidden simply
because that was the way God made it. The plant in Rappaccini's garden was
forbidden because it was poisonous. The only people immune to the poison of
this plant were Beatrice and Dr. Rappaccini.
In Hawthorne's story, a parallel between Giovanni and Adam is
established. Both are young men, and each was tempted by a woman. Giovanni in
Hawthorne's story was lured into the garden by Beatrice; however, Beatrice was
attempting to make Giovanni immune to the poison of the plant, so they could be
together forever. Beatr ...
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A Separate Peace: Antagonists And Gene
Number of Words: 629 / Number of Pages: 3
... down Gene’s maturing because in order to mature you can’t back down
on your decisions just to please another person.. However, Finny isn’t the
only thing that affects Gene and his maturing process.
The war acts as an antagonistic force toward Gene because it forces
him to mature too fast. When Genes friend, Leper is recruited from Devon,
Gene realizes that the war is real and it does affect him, especially when
Leper comes back from the war crazy. This affects his maturing because he
is seeing someone he cares about loose his mind. Finny’s opinion on the
war also affects and shocks Gene, ...
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Streetcar Named Desire
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... her to turn it off. Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up
himself and turns it off himself. When Stanley’s friend, Mitch, drops
out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he
even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. Due to the
music being on, Stanley, in a rage, stalks in the room and grabs the
radio and throws it out the window. His friends immediately jump up,
and then they drag him to the shower to try to sober him up. This is
the first example of Stanley’s rage and brutality.
Not only does throwing the radio out the window represent an ...
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All Ouiet On The Western Front: What Opinion Of War Does This Book Present
Number of Words: 907 / Number of Pages: 4
... Paul Baumer says, “Beyond this our life did not extend. And of this nothing remains” (20). The army became the most important thing now. Nothing else counts. Nothing else can count. By enlisting in the army, they chose to give up everyday pleasures. No matter how bad they want out, they’ve made a commitment and must stick to it. It doesn’t mean the soldier’s are treated badly or even that they didn’t like the army. It just means nothing else could come close to having the same importance in their lives at this point. Baumer also says, “We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time mor ...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christian
Number of Words: 1518 / Number of Pages: 6
... out
and to keep Mina safe in the (Holy circle). Another time when the Host is used
as a deterrence of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are
going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to Mina's
forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean. Another
abstruction of the Christian religion would be the fact that Dracula sleeps in
a coffin and especially because the dirt in his coffin is consecrated and
Dracula, being evil, uses this ground to rest in. Dracula has several of the
powers that Christians believe no one but God could control ...
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Social Criticism In Animal Farm And A Tale Of Two Cities
Number of Words: 1492 / Number of Pages: 6
... these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best ofus. 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 admirat ...
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