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The Animal Farm
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... Napoleon and Squealer took advantage of their role as governor and ate all the food, drank beer, and lived in the owner’s house. However, to the farm animals, they considered these to be the 7 commandments:
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs and has wings is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill another animal.
7. All animals are equal.
Toward the end of the novel the pigs will have broken all of these commandments, which lead to their demi ...
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Rules Of Prey: Serial Killers
Number of Words: 1249 / Number of Pages: 5
... Third, the serial killer’s victims are secondary victims. There is little or no prior contact between the perpetrator and the victim. It is noted, though, that primary victimization can begin the serial killing process. Lastly, the killer has no instrumental or expressive motive. He/she is not doing the killing for material (instrumental) gain or emotional (expressive) satisfaction. Rather, the serial killer’s motive is the pure pleasure it brings to him/her. Within these parameters are different types of labeled serial killers.
One broad classification for serial killers is their spatial mo ...
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Parkland By Victor Kelleher
Number of Words: 832 / Number of Pages: 4
... is great
at climbing walls.This comes in handy when he is trying to find out
information with out being caught.
Half way through the book the keepers do to him what is known as ‘
deprogramming', which gives him a stroke and his skills are reduced due to
the left side of him being limp. Boxer goes through a lot of pain to save
his friends and never grizzles or wants anything in return which I find is
very admirable. Near the end of the book Boxer commits suicide so not to
slow everyone else down, this part of the book is very sad.
RALPH: Ralph is half human half gorilla and does not have the same gr ...
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Animal Farm: Socialistic And Fascist Governments
Number of Words: 484 / Number of Pages: 2
... governments.
The book animal farm is a strong social commentary against communistic governments. The animals in animal farm are involved in a communist system, which is where the results of everybody’ work is spread around equally. Which in theory would work, but Wells is making a point through the character Moses. He makes a statement that some will not do work and still reap the benefits. While others like Boxer, do enough work for two animals and is given the same amount of rations. This seen throughout the story in ways of a dictator controlling by intimidation rations being cut from ever ...
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A Thousand Acres: An Analysis
Number of Words: 478 / Number of Pages: 2
... her battle.
The major conflict in this book was when Rose and Ginny remember about their father molesting them. Their father thought that he took the secret that he molested them to the grave, but he didn’t. It took a while for Ginny to remember that she was molested. After Rose kept on telling her that they were molested Ginny had some flashbacks and she remembered what happened. Rose and Ginny never told anyone about their father. He was a respected man in the community and Rose and Ginny were mad that their father got away with it.
The theme of this story is that when something bad happens you n ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism
Number of Words: 508 / Number of Pages: 2
... extremely smart, pretty, and nice. More often than not, she shows her intelligence and free thought, a trait of the Romantics. One of Pearl's favorite activities is playing with flowers and trees. (The reader will recall that anything affiliated with the forest was evil to Puritans. To Hawthorne, however, the forest was beautiful and natural.) "And she was gentler here [the forest] than in the grassy- margined streets of the settlement, or in her mother's cottage. The flowers appeared to know it" (194) Pearl fit in with natural things. Also, Pearl is always effervescent and joyous, which is defi ...
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Turgenev's Fathers And Sons
Number of Words: 1602 / Number of Pages: 6
... with Arkady but abruptly puts his hand away when he is
greeting Bazarov. We can see from the actions of Pavel that he immediately
doesn't like Bazarov. After Arkady and Bazarov leave to go to their rooms,
Pavel begins to ask about the "hairy creature" that is visiting with Arkady,
and Bazarov begins to mock Pavel by comments his European demeanor and
finds him "terribly affected for someone living so far out in the
country"(ch4). Arkady and his father are also having problems at this time,
Nikolai tells Arkady of his relationship with Fenichka, Arkady responds
with saying that "You know my philosophy o ...
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Great Expectations Vs. Oliver Twist
Number of Words: 1726 / Number of Pages: 7
... by the other boys
at the orphanage to request more gruel at dinner one night. After making
this simple request, "the master (at the orphanage) aimed a blow at
Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud
for the beadle."3
The whole beginning of Oliver Twist's story was created from memories
which related to Charles Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory ( which
was overshadowed by the Marshalsea Prison ).4 While working in the blacking
factory, Dickens suffered tremendous humiliation. This humiliation is
greatly expressed through Oliver's adventures at the orph ...
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The Story Of Sweetheart Of The Song Of Tra Bong: The Use Of Setting
Number of Words: 1538 / Number of Pages: 6
... amazed with the fact that a girl can be seduced by the
lure of the wilderness that he begins to talk about her with the listeners as if
she were the attractive girl from school that everyone knows but nobody dates.
" 'You know…I loved her. Mary Anne made you think about those girls back home,
how clean and innocent they all are.' " (123) Rat is pushing his views upon
the listener. He is shaping how the story is seen. The reader sees "triple-
canopied jungle, mountains unfolding into higher mountains, ravines and gorges
and fast-moving rivers and waterfalls and exotic butterflies and steep cliffs
and ...
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Standing In The Light
Number of Words: 636 / Number of Pages: 3
... was strong-willed and
adjusting. She was strong-willed when she had the strength to adjust to her
new ways of life. She was pulled from her old life, to her new life, back to
her old life. It was very difficult for her because both the Quakers and the
Lenape were two very different cultures. She found herself having mixed
feelings and a lot of confusion, but she had the will to deal with it.
Catharine was also adjusting. She was adjusting when she had to adjust
to life with the Lenape. She had to learn new ways of life; she had to learn
how to survive off the land. She also made ...
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