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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
Number of Words: 1430 / Number of Pages: 6
... school a few days prior to
the end of term, and goes to New York to 'take a vacation' before returning
to his parents' inevitable wrath.
Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's thoughts and
activities over these few days, during which he describes a developing
nervous breakdown, symptomised by his bouts of unexplained depression,
impulsive spending and generally odd, erratic behaviour, prior to his
eventual nervous collapse.
However, during his psychological battle, life continues on around
Holden as it always had, with the majority of people ignoring the 'madman
stuff' tha ...
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Cyril Falls, "The Great War"
Number of Words: 3106 / Number of Pages: 12
... of war to Russia, Germany took advantage of
her quick acting. The Kaiser agreed to the "Schlieffen Plan", which said
that Germany has to knock out France first to avoid a two front war so
that the bigger strength of the Entente would be compensated.
The numbers at the beginning of the war were:
Russia 114 divisions
Germany 87 divisions
French 62 divisions
Austria 49 divisions
Britain 6 divisions (got bigger during the war, from her
colonies)
Chapter III The Clash in the West:
The Germans took the initiative during the beginning of the war. They
followed with all their patriotism ...
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Book Report On Jack London's "Call Of The Wild"
Number of Words: 704 / Number of Pages: 3
... goodness to leave the reader with a warm sensation in his heart. At
times, the way in which beatings of the dogs are described makes the
reader want to close the book. Throughout the book, Buck is severely
abused by humans. Upon being taken from his home to learn to be a sled
dog, Buck is beaten senseless for no reason other that to learn to respect
and fear the man in the red shirt. From this experience Buck learns not to
respect, but simply to obey a man with a club. Buck also travels for
twenty-five hundred miles, mostly as the lead sled dog. In this coarse he
becomes so tired that he can ...
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A Journey To The Center Of The
Number of Words: 641 / Number of Pages: 3
... among them.
They make many discoveries. They find that there’s a sea, with fish and sea monsters. They find forests, giant mushrooms, animals that look like dinosaurs, and even what seems to be giant human beings.
The idea of writing this story came from a scientist who explored the crater of a certain mountain. Verne got the idea that maybe it would be possible to descend even further into the earth. Many of Verne’s “fantasy” stories have come true in the years following his death in the year 1905. Earth is farthest from reality. Even with the technology we have today, it would be impossible for on ...
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H.g. Wells The Time Machine
Number of Words: 1828 / Number of Pages: 7
... the illusion of a perfect society free from all worry. The surroundings seem to indicate a time of great learning ,of art, and beauty. The Time Traveler states " I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed and as yet I had found them engaged in no toil" ( Wells 38 ). The Time Traveler believed that the future held a perfect society. He assumes that these people who live here live in perfect harmony with no worries at all. The Time Traveler is introduced to the Eloi , strange little people who inhabit this society. "Indeed there was something in these little people that in ...
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The Flamboyant Hester Prynne
Number of Words: 684 / Number of Pages: 3
... of different types of heroines. His heroines are equipped to expel wrongs against their sex bringing about an awareness of both the rights and wrongs of women. Hester is a compound of many popular stereotypes rich in the thoughts of the time ...portrayed as a fallen woman whose honest sinfulness is found preferable to the future corruption of the reverend (Reynolds 183). Hester was described by Reynolds as a feminist criminal bound in an iron link of mutual crime (Reynolds 183). According to Reynolds, Hawthorne was trying to have his culture's darkest stereotypes absorbed into the character of Hes ...
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Thesis Paper On The Crucible T
Number of Words: 1101 / Number of Pages: 5
... or the church will burn like hell is burning.” “The church in theocratic Salem is identical with the state and the community and will surely crumble if unquestioning obedience falters in the least.” Proctor, on the other hand, “has come to regard his self as a king of fraud,” as long as he remains obedient to an authority which he cannot respect. In other words he believes that the cannot be his true self when he has to abide by lies and not by his morals. He thinks there is to much mention of hell in God’s church and about the dangers to the community to implicit in all this talk of witch craft ...
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The X-Files, X Marks The Spot: Book Report
Number of Words: 265 / Number of Pages: 1
... suspense as soon as I got into the
second chapter. I didn't want to put the book down. I sometimes have trouble
trying to find a book that's actually interesting, but I didn't have any trouble
with this book. I got through the whole book fast, I was always reading it in
study hall, and trying to get as far as I could in readers workshop.
It was easy to understand. I've read a lot of science fiction books that are
very complicated. Some books have too many characters to remember, or they have
something that is really weird or unrealistic. Some science fiction books get
way too far out. This book w ...
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St. Augustin
Number of Words: 1245 / Number of Pages: 5
... we had reached the end of the first year of a friendship….you took him from this world (Confessions, 75).” “When all hope of saving him was lost, he was baptized as he lay unconscious (Confessions, 75).” This passage about e’s friend helps to illustrate that as death drew near in Augustine’s time, thoughts went to the after life in heaven. This hypothesis is furthered when Augustine writes about the death of his mother. “And so on the ninth day of her illness, when she was fifty-six and I was thirty-three, her pious and devoted soul was set free from the ...
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The Influence That Hsi Yu Chi
Number of Words: 1633 / Number of Pages: 6
... depth and profundity was not only a satire of the Chinese Imperial System and Chinese bureaucracy, but it was an insult to the two most dominant religions at the time, Buddhism and Taoism. The writer had taken the text 'Hsi Yu Chi' and turned it into what was considered at the time, utter nonsense.
No wonder it was released anonymously.
Until very recently, an unabridged edition of 'Hsi Yu Chi' has not been available to Western Readers. Professor Yu has done a
marvelous job translating the long book (one hundred chapters). The Journey To The West (which is want I will refer to it as from now
on ...
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