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Jurassoc Park
Number of Words: 409 / Number of Pages: 2
... first people to tour Jurassic Park. Tim who is the 11 year old grandson of John Hammond is very into computers and loves Dinosaurs. His 7 year older sister is Alexis. She has a kind of tomboy attitude and loves baseball. Ian Malcom is the Mathematician that uses "Chaos Theory" to predict disastrous results. Finally there is Dennis Nedry. He was the computer genius who's greed and ambition bring chaos to Jurassic Park. The characters show the greatest difference in the movie and the book. There were many opposites in the characters. One of the obvious differences is that the roles of Tim and Lex were re ...
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Mila 18: The Affair
Number of Words: 545 / Number of Pages: 2
... to enjoy love-making so as to not offend her husband. Deborah
didn't experience either fulfillment or the smaller pleasures of love-
making. She was totally unemotional.
When Deborah met Christopher she said she was drawn to him like a
little girl that took his hand and was led through the black evil forest to
the golden castle that sat on a cloud. The time when they had done
everything but go to bed came. Deborah threw a tantrum, and Chris
understood completely that it was her fear of an inability to perform.
Deborah opened herself to Chris and he understood her problems. He
unlocked ...
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Romeo And Juliet 2
Number of Words: 393 / Number of Pages: 2
... feud was probably all started by the parents who then passed it down to their children who were taught to hate one another. This shows another example that young ones can suffer from adults actions.
Tybalt was another sacrifice to the Capulet and Montegue households. He was killed by Romeo while avenging Mercutio’s death. If it wasn’t for the conflict started between the Montegue and Capulet house, neither Mercutio or Tybalt would have been killed. As a result, Romeo was exiled which led to both the death of him and of Juliet. Later, this led to peace again between the two families a ...
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Mark Twain And The Lost Manuscript Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 1533 / Number of Pages: 6
... to a printer and at age sixteen he worked under his brother,
Orion who was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. Clemens made an early
attempt at writing by sending comical travel letters to the Keokuk Saturday
Post in Iowa under the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. These letters
contained purposely inserted errors typical of Clemen's later work. When he
was twenty-two he fulfilled a childhood dream by becoming apprenticed to a
riverboat pilot named, Horace Bixby. After his apprenticeship, he worked
as a river boat pilot for four years. The Civil War stopped riverboat
traffic in 1861. Clem ...
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A Comparison Of "Of Mice And Men" And "The Great Depression An Eyewitness History"
Number of Words: 684 / Number of Pages: 3
... stock market
crashed people realized that the reason the stock market crashed was
because farms were not producing enough goods. People started to work on
farms more to help everyone. Lennie and George worked for ranches and also
in the fields. "He's a good skinner. He can rassel grain bags, drive a
cultivator. He can do anything." (Of Mice and Men p.22).
If you really look closely, George and Lennie's way of life and the
Great Depression have a good deal in common. George and Lennie were
outcasts in life. George Milton was small in size and a very smart man
compared to Lennie. He was actuall ...
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Racism In Heart Of Darkness
Number of Words: 1210 / Number of Pages: 5
... to the one and the withholding of it from the other."(Achebe, p.255) This lack of human expression and human characteristics is what Achebe says contributes to the overflowing amount of racism within Conrad's novella. Human expression, is one of few things that make us different from animals, along with such things as communication and reason. This of course, being that without human expression, the native woman is considered more of a "savage...wild-eyed and magnificent," (Achebe quoting Conrad, p. 255), possibly even "bestial."
In an attempt to refute Achebe's proposed difference between the two wom ...
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The Lord Of The FLies
Number of Words: 1449 / Number of Pages: 6
... are an important symbol that we will encounter again. Ralph then takes off his clothes which implies goodness and naturalness. He accepts the island as his home. The fat boy who follows Ralph is worried. As I mentioned before Piggy is an asthmatic, nearly blind without glasses, he sees his life easily threatened because of his weaknesses. He doesn't belong in a wild place. When Piggy asks Ralph his name, we realize that not all of the boys on the plane knew each other. Ralph is not polite enough to ask his name in return, but the fat boy tells everyone his nickname, Piggy. When he tries to tell Ralph ...
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A Clockwork Orange 2
Number of Words: 907 / Number of Pages: 4
... Alex. Three of his "droogs"(friends) that help him in his crimes are Dim, Pete, and Georgie. Throughout the story, the author creates his own language called "nadsat", which is used by the youth of the futuristic world. "Nadsat" is a mix of Russian, English, and the slang words of both.
The story begins at the start of a wild and violent night with Alex and his friends sitting in a diner. To start a typical night they encounter an old man walking the streets, so they harass and hit him. However, this is not just any ordinary harassing episode but more of a complete and utter pounding. They beat ...
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"The Anniversary" And "To His Coy Mistress": The Synchronicity Of Pen And Life
Number of Words: 1943 / Number of Pages: 8
... This is where we begin a question what has up
till now progressed so smoothly, as all good fantasies must if they are to
be successful. We begin to question this world of Marvell's creation and
see the enigma that lies within the term "lower rate." We have been
hearing of an agonizingly slow mating ritual, Marvell has been patiently
dancing around his mistress, praising her every aspect with a devotion that
approaches what one would offer to the divine. How, we ask, can he slow
down to a "lower rate?"
This is not the only striking aspect of the first stanza. We know
that Marvell is speaking of ...
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Rand's "Anthem"
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... we could not guess."
Later, Liberty follows Equality into the forest, and the first sign of
forbidden love is shown when "we bent to raise the Golden One to their feet, but
when we touched them, it was as if madness had stricken us. We seized their
body and we pressed our lips to theirs."
Equality is excited with the joy of learning when he finishes his work of
building a light bulb. "WE MADE IT. WE CREATED IT. We brought it forth from
the night of the ages. We alone. Our hands. Our mind. Ours alone and only.
We know not what we are saying. Our head is reeling." The emotion shown by
Equalit ...
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