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Lord Of The Flies: Primal Instincts
Number of Words: 1163 / Number of Pages: 5
... home. At the beginning of the novel, he talks about his father, who happens to be a "commander in a navy" (p. 8), in such a way hoping that he will somehow finds the boys and bring them off the island. Furthermore, at various moments of the novel, especially when Jack lost interest in the fire, Ralph reminds the boys how important the fire is. At one point a ship passed by the island but did not see the smoke because Jack took all his hunters who were supposed to keep the fire lit, on a hunt, Ralph was indignant! He yelled at Jack like he was never going to forgive or forget about the incident. ...
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Morals
Number of Words: 791 / Number of Pages: 3
... met Stark Wilson for the final showdown. By having Shane return to solving problems with a gun, Jack Schefer implies that a man can not
changed, there is no breaking the mold.
In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens expresses his belief on changing ones personality. The moral of A Christmas Carol is "People can make changes in their lives whenever they really want to, even right up to the end." Charles Dickens shows the moral by haveing Scrooge change his personality. In the begining of A Christmas Carol Scrooge is a cold and almost heartless man, Scrooge doesn't like Christmas or anything to do wit ...
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Grendel
Number of Words: 461 / Number of Pages: 2
... He has only one person close to
him and that is his mother. She cares for Grendel but just with the natural
motherly instincts which Grendel sees as mechanical. Grendel doesn't understand,
"Why can't I have someone to talk to?" as the world starts to look darker in his
eyes. Animals of all sorts are enemies of his because they don't understand him.
Grendel is more superior
Grendel's role in society is to be the great destroyer. The Dragon tells
Grendel this " You improve them, my boy! … You stimulate them!" but Grendel dose
not want to except it. HE want to be part of the humanistic world. He w ...
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Critical Review Of 1984 By George Orwell
Number of Words: 604 / Number of Pages: 3
... used to let the people know that no matter where they go the could not
escape the watching eyes of the controling government.
The government itself was very mysterious and had several parts that were
very suspicious to the main character, Winston, who worked in one part of
the government. It was divided up into four parts. The Ministry of Truth,
where Winston worked, was incharge of education and the arts. The Ministry
of Peace, which was in command of war. The Ministry of plenty, which
controlled economic affairs. And finally the Ministry of Love, which
concerned itself with law and order.
Orw ...
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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass
Number of Words: 409 / Number of Pages: 2
... of the slaves is a fugitive slave, in the “person of Frederick Douglass” and that despite numerous oppressions in slavery, they have a human spirit so strong and steadfast that no power could crush it. It is also to be understand that it was slavery that darkened the mind, crippled the intellects, debase their moral nature and “obliterate all traces of their relationship to mankind” and not because the slaves of African descent were intellectually impaired. Mr. Oconnell stated before the Loyal National Repeal Association in 1845, that “NO matter under what specious term it may disguise itself, slav ...
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The Great Gatsby: The Question Of Nick Carraway's Integrity
Number of Words: 591 / Number of Pages: 3
... to bed," she says. When Daisy
begins her matchmaking of Nick and Jordan, we sense that she is only leading
where Nick's interest is already taking him.
It is Jordan, then, who makes Nick feel comfortable at Gatsby's party,
as we sense what Nick senses: they're becoming a romantic couple. As they drive
home a summer house-party, Nick notes her dishonesty but forgives it,
attributing it to her understandable need to get by in a man's world. She
praises his lack of carelessness, tells him directly "I like you"--and he is
smitten, After Jordan tells him the tale of Gatsby and Daisy's past, Nick feels
a " ...
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Comparison: Journey To The Center Of The Earth & The Time Machine
Number of Words: 1656 / Number of Pages: 7
... that tells how to get to the center of the Earth. The professor couldn't resist an adventure and chose to go on it. The Time Machine uses the plot "The Understanding." The Time Traveler had built a time machine and went into the future. The sensation he felt when he traveled he could not describe. The kinds of conflict are different. Journey to the Center of the Earth uses the conflict Man Vs Nature. The travelers have to over come the dangers of the journey. They have to face the elements, starvation, thirst, and fatigue. The Time Machine uses Man Vs Society. The Time Traveler has traveled into ...
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The Ironies In Orwell's 1984
Number of Words: 421 / Number of Pages: 2
... with 1984's Big
Brother. The Big Brother in this novel completely watches over every move
a person makes keeping them controlled with fear.
The next type of irony is Situation irony, which is when a character
or a sequence of events appears to be headed one way, but it ends up as the
opposite of what was thought. One example of this is Winston's general
health. From the beginning of the book, it is shown how horrible his
health is and is continually getting worse and more difficult, but as
Winston gets involved with Julia then he begins a metamorphosis into a more
healthy person. Another ma ...
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The Art Of Persuasive Speaking
Number of Words: 448 / Number of Pages: 2
... you have to talk in language that they understand, and find a compromise between shouting at them and quietly asking for attention.
After you get an audiences attention and are able to keep their attention, you’re home free. People are gullible. You can make them do whatever you want with the power of your voice; you just have to make them think that they’ll like it or gain something from it. There are countless examples of this that are spoken and written. Almost all chain letters use this principle. The masters of this little technique are those pesky salespeople who call you and want you to ch ...
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Zinn Chapter 4 Essay
Number of Words: 825 / Number of Pages: 3
... to pay for the Seven Year War, the lower-class stormed and destroyed merchant homes to level the distinction of rich and poor. A hundred lower-classmen had to suffer for the extravagance of one upper-classmen. They demanded more political democracy in which the working class could participate in making policies. In 1776 elections for the constitutional framing of Pennsylvania, a Privates Committee urged the opposition of rich-men in the convention.
Even in the countryside, there were similar conflicts of rich against poor. Several riots in the New York/Jersey area were more than riots but long la ...
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