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Raptor Red
Number of Words: 993 / Number of Pages: 4
... this book and you see how
intelligent
raptors once were you really can't decipher Raptor Red's thinking to a modern
day
human hunter.
3. This book follows the life of Raptor Red and all the troubles a raptor
would face
in it's life from good times to bad. The book starts off with Raptor Red
hunting an
Ultrasaurus with her mate. They carefully select the dinosaur they will
single out to kill.
They look for faults in their prey, like injuries, preoccupation with
someting elese,
stragglers who want to rest for a while, just about anything to help assure a
safe victory
with ...
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Macbeth Fear
Number of Words: 893 / Number of Pages: 4
... follow after him. This made Macbeth very angry, he risked everything to become King and after him none of his family will follow.
Macbeth realizes that if something is not done to Banquo, then his sons will become King. Macbeth can't have this, he's already worried that his soul will go to hell for what he's already done. His fear become evident in this scene also, "But to be safely thus: our fears in Banquo Stick deep;" [Act III, S I, L 53-54] Macbeth then has Banquo murdered, however his son Fleance escapes in the attack. Next Macduff refuses to accept Macbeth as king and flees to England to join ...
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Black Like Me
Number of Words: 901 / Number of Pages: 4
... people to understand.
Mr. Griffin was a middle age white man who lived with his wife and children. He was not oriented to his family. He decided to pass his own society to the black society. Although this decision might help most of the African Americans, he had to sacrifice his gathering time with his family. “She offered, as her part of the project, her willingness to lead, with our three children, the unsatisfactory family life of a household deprived of husband and father” (Griffin 9). Leaving Mrs. Griffin and his children would deprive them of the care they needed. Even though h ...
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Antigone Fatal Flaw And Downfa
Number of Words: 797 / Number of Pages: 3
... life going against his words. But Antigone isn't afraid of Creon or the consequences that faces her if she goes against his ruling. Creon knows that Antigone would not back down, she shows him that she is not afraid of the consequences but yet still he wants to prove himself that his word is law even if the gods advised him that he would loose everything important to him.
Creon is in a position of great power, influence and responsibility. The extent of his power is quite clear when he sentenced Antigone to death for disobeying his order. Antigone's reasons for burying her brother were simply the fact ...
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Be True To Thyself
Number of Words: 1388 / Number of Pages: 6
... as [his] grandfather had been”(Ellison 17). Once the invisible man goes off to college he begins to act in a manner to please Mr. Norton. Not only does Mr. Norton not identify with the invisible man racially, he views blacks as “a mark on the scoreboard of [his] achievement”(Ellison 95). Despite these two facts the invisible man allows himself to be a “do boy” by chauffeuring Mr. Norton to slave quarters. It is here that the protagonist can truly be identified as someone that is not in touch with himself because he sacrifices his education for a man that is not concern ...
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Roman Fever
Number of Words: 999 / Number of Pages: 4
... she attempts to harness her jealousy, guilt and vindictive gratification regarding the fact that Grace double-crossed her in love. It seems that Grace feigned an illness one evening in their youthful years, begging off any further activities following a late night sightseeing expedition. What really occurred, which did not escape Alida's knowledge, was the fact that Grace had a rendezvous with Alida's fiancé, Delphin Slade. Alida barely controlled her anger enough to compose a letter that she penned as though she were Delphin, beckoning Grace to a prearranged meeting. The reader then consi ...
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Huck Finn 4
Number of Words: 1608 / Number of Pages: 6
... African Americans are treated in this time period. This idea is portrayed throughout the book by Jim the run-away slave who floats down the river with Huck. The author portrays this idea through the way Jim acts, the way Huck and other whites treat Jim, and how Jim is forced into hiding whenever he is around whites other than Huck, king, and duke.
The second main idea is how free everyone was back then. People could up and leave any time they wanted and live prosperously off the land. There where jobs but not the kind where you had to report to a boss. Usually you sustained yourself by knowing ...
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Catcher In The Rye: Theme Of The World Having An Outward Appearance
Number of Words: 2265 / Number of Pages: 9
... knew that he had a problem, that he need to do something about
his face; but Stradlater thought that he was a great guy. He actually
thought that there was nothing wrong with never washing his razor. I think
that what mad, Holden so made Stradlater was perpetrating in other word
being "phony" every time he went out all GQ after using that filthy razor.
Another instance is when he calls that girl in New York, Faith Cavendish,
that Eddie Birdsell had brought to a dance at Princeton. Anyway he called
her and she almost went off until Holden drooped Eddie's name. Then all of
a sudden "she was getting fr ...
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Comparison Of Lord Of The Flies And All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 1264 / Number of Pages: 5
... Jack's
progression is his first killing of a pig. There is a description of a
great celebration. The boys chant "Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill
her blood." It is clear from Golding's description of the revelry that
followed the killing that the act of the hunt provided the boys with more
than food. The action of killing another living thing gives them pleasure.
The last stage in Jack's metamorphosis is demonstrated by the murder of the
sow. Golding describes the killing almost as a rape. He says, "Jack was
on top of the sow, stabbing downward wherever pig flesh appeared ... Jack
found the th ...
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The Sound Of A Voice
Number of Words: 1124 / Number of Pages: 5
... examples are given when the
women feels days have no meaning without sound. She doesn’t believe anyone
should be left in silence. She feels lonely when she’s without sound. She
feels sad and abandoned when it is quiet. She speaks of how lonely it is
when no other living thing is around. The woman never really had a
permanent companion. Everyone that had visited her, left for some reason
or another. She states that it is hard to sleep at night without sound.
However, she soon becomes reassured knowing that she will hear the
visitors breath in the next room while he sleeps. The mats also ...
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