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A Tale Of Two Cities: Recalled To Life
Number of Words: 456 / Number of Pages: 2
... someone being “recalled to life” is found in the last chapters of the book. Sydney Carton has recently switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the guillotine. While he awaits his death he thinks, “It is a far, far better thing that I do, then I ever done, it is far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” Through these words Sydney recognizes that by sacrificing his life for Darnay, a loved one of Lucie’s, he will be doing the best thing that he has ever done and can do. Sydney is finally satisfied with himself, he is no longer a drunken fool, but a hero that now ...
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Sources Of Pleasure And Disqui
Number of Words: 1009 / Number of Pages: 4
... Queen of Colonus. When he grows up, unknowing of his adoption, he discovers his doomed fate from an Oracle. Seeking to escape it, he flees from Colonus. Once upon the road, Oedipus discovers his path blocked by a man, whom he perceives to be a robber. He kills this man, who turns out to be his father, and unknowingly fulfills the first part of the prophecy. Soon, he comes to Thebes, which is being terrorized by a terrible monster, the Sphinx. The Sphinx wanders the streets surrounding the city, asking travelers an unanswered riddle. Oedipus encounters the Sphinx, and answers its riddle, causing ...
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Death Be Not Proud
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... Although he realized that eventually his life would end, he still
never gave up the hope that perhaps he could outsmart his fate to die,
if just to steal a few extra hours.
Each day, until his last, the determination Johnny had to get
well, live a normal life, and even maintain his schoolwork was
phenominal. After being away from school for sixteen months, being
tested constantly by doctors, and having a rapidly deteriorationg
brain, Johnny still managed to graduate with his class and be accepted
into Harvard. Throughout his illness, Johnny always had an unwavering
will to survive, to awake t ...
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Joy Luck Club - Literary Analy
Number of Words: 1031 / Number of Pages: 4
... the most pressure from her mother, because her mother had to follow behind the word of the prodigy in town. '"Of course you can be a prodigy, too '" (141) Jing-Mei's mother, Suyuan, tells her after receiving the news of Waverly, the chess prodigy. The expectations for Jing-Mei have heightened now that her mother's friend's daughter has been held in such a spotlight, as to be called a prodigy. Suyuan takes it upon herself to make her daughter rise above the accomplishments of her peers, and prove to the mothers their family is high in the running competition, whether Jing-Mei approves or disapprove ...
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Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction Of Jurassic Park
Number of Words: 1130 / Number of Pages: 5
... else,
then so too does chaos theory.
The basic plot of Jurassic Park is fairly simple. A Palo Alto
corporation called International Genetics Technologies, Inc. (InGen) has become
able -- through an entrepreneurial combination of audacity, technology, human
ingenuity, and fantastic outlays of capital (mostly funded by Japanese investors,
who are the only ones willing to wait years for uncertain results) -- to clone
dinosaurs from the bits of their DNA recovered from dinosaur blood inside the
bodies of insects that once bit the now-extinct animals and were then trapped
and preserved in amber for milli ...
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First Love: Pathway To Adulthood
Number of Words: 1241 / Number of Pages: 5
... was in love at the first sight of her. He couldn't help himself from
becoming infatuated with her because he didn't know the first thing about love.
As the genre moves on, Vladimir's feelings for Zinaida became deeper and deeper.
Vladimir thought to himself:
I felt weary and at peace, but the image of Zinaida still hovered triumphant
over my soul, though even this image seemed more tranquil. Like a swan rising
from the grasses of the marsh, it stood out from the unlovely shapes which
surrounded it, and I, as I fell asleep, in parting for the last time clung to it,
in trusting adoration. (48) ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Finn As The Narrator
Number of Words: 793 / Number of Pages: 3
... is dat so?"
"Of course it is. They just set around, except, maybe, when there's a war;
then they go to war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking—
just hawking…when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if
everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But mostly they
hang round the harem."
However, by using Huck's language Twain creates character and establishes
realism. Huck is capable of making Twain write something merely because it
is not the kind of thing Huck would say or do, and he can force Twain to
leave something out because Huck would not do or sa ...
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Wuthering Heights 3
Number of Words: 1176 / Number of Pages: 5
... at first, Mrs. Earnshaw is forced to care for what they refer to as a “beggar child” or more often a thing rather than a child. She was ready to fling it out of doors, while Nelly put it on the landing of the stairs hoping that it would be gone the next day. Without having done anything to deserve rejection, Heathcliff is made to feel like an outsider, following the death of Mr. Earnshaw, and suffers cruel mistreatment at the hands of Hindley. He immediately falls in love with their daughter Catherine and is found playing with her in the fields all of the time. However, he is deprive ...
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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy", By Douglas Noel Adams
Number of Words: 206 / Number of Pages: 1
... in order to create Inner-Galactic Highways as the
definition of Earth in the universe encyclopedia both represent the smallness of
human-beings, contrary to their original conception.
Furthermore, the alien breeds are not perfect at all, many aspects of their
actions represent a similar action which is often taken by humans: The
destruction of earth without an announcement, is an equivalent of the house-
destruction of Ford Perfect, one of the story's heroes, with out announcing him,
both are explained by the governments as actions for the welfare of the
population at the cost of suffer for a singl ...
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Huck Finn
Number of Words: 819 / Number of Pages: 3
... to help out people in need of help like Jim. He was friendly, kind, and willing to stand up for what he believed in, good or bad. With the many characters in this book, a few helped bring out the story. The main character, Huckleberry Finn, was an adventurous boy who was kind, smart, and shrewd but, no matter where he went, he always got into trouble. Jim, who was a run away slave, was a very kind man. He is very smart and knowledgeable of natural surroundings, and has good common sense. Jim and Huck were best friends. Widow Douglas was the lady who took care of Huck. She was a sweet lady who tried to ...
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