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All Quiet On The Western Front: Ramifications Of War
Number of Words: 514 / Number of Pages: 2
... Western Front (Ballantine Books, 1982), p. 71.] The war would change them permanently, and unfortunately, they did not realize this until they were actually faced with its brutality. They began to realize that "…a broken arm is better than a hole in the guts, and many a man would be thankful enough for such a chance of finding his home way again." [Remarque, p. 52] When new recruits came to the front and witnessed the harshness of the war, they frequently heard comments like, "You'll get used to it soon," [Remarque, p. 62.] In the end, they realized that war was not at all what they had thought. ...
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Marranos: A Lost People
Number of Words: 2428 / Number of Pages: 9
... Some Jews chose not to convert and they moved to
Portugal. . Unfortunately, Portugal, in 1497, expelled the Jews from its borders
as well. Anti-semitism was growing in Western Europe and the Jews needed to
escape. The prime choice seemed to be so obvious. The Jews went to the New World.
The immigration of the Marranos to the new world might have begun with
none other than Christopher Columbus. This, of course, is not definite, but
there has been research which has shown that Columbus was indeed a Marrano.
Apparently his parents were Marranos.2 Even though there are some disagreements
about this fa ...
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Discourse On The Origin Of Inequality: Savage Vs Civil Men
Number of Words: 1470 / Number of Pages: 6
... I hope to show that one is more suitable than the other is due to the fact that there is now more knowledge than before and without it savage man would not survive.
To begin with, Rousseau claimed that the entire population of savage man was happy and satisfied just by hunting everyday because that is what he loved. The author states, “…when I consider him, in a word, as he must have left the hands of nature, I see an animal less strong than some, less agile than others, but all in all, the most advantageously organized of all” (Rousseau 19). He is basically saying that the savage man was at a ...
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Another Antigone
Number of Words: 515 / Number of Pages: 2
... to tell the whole story. Aristotelian
Unities Yes, Antigone does follow the Aristotelian Unities.
The play occurs in the same place and roughly the same
time. Things that happened before the play or outside of the
place, was told by a messenger or a character themself. The
action was all centered around Antigone's actions. Her
actions were the sole cause of everything that happened.
Greek Tragedy Antigone does follow the Greek definition of
tragedy. Tragedy is a story or play that has a signifigant
conflict of morals, with a noble protagonist displaying a
tragic flaw that is their strength but lea ...
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Title Of The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 424 / Number of Pages: 2
... him in his quest to get Daisy to love him. Gatsby is great in his unyielding pursuit for Daisy.
Ultimately, however, Gatsby can only be considered great in a sarcastic tone, for the way in which he pursues his noble goal brings results in some one getting hurt. His great optimism that everything will be just the way it was delays and intensifies the effects of the inevitable fact that his encounter with Daisy was nothing but a “presumptuous little flirtation” to Tom, which Daisy tacitly agrees with. Gatsby also has acquired his great wealth from bootlegging the sale of illegal liquor. ...
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Brave New World
Number of Words: 1704 / Number of Pages: 7
... the whole picture. There is hardly any charaterisation in the book to
illustrate the individuals.
Theme: In the foreword Huxley states: "The theme of 'Brave New World' is not the
advancement of science as such; it is the advancement of science as it affects human
individuals." The picture of the world given in the book describes the condition of the
human individual in a western civilization in a 'near' future. The society has turned into a
well oiled machine, in which everything is controlled, even the future profession of the
individual is determined before birth. It's a society in which the human ...
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Doris Duke
Number of Words: 304 / Number of Pages: 2
... Long Arrow, an Indian who is the greatest naturalist of all time. When they arrive at the island they find Long Arrow and nine other Indians in a cave in which they were trapped. Another tribe on the other side of the island wanted to go to war with the peaceful Indians that had taken in the doctor and his crew. Polynesia brought millions of black parrots from South America to fight for the peaceful Indians. The parrots perched on the Indians’ heads and bit pieces from their ears.
Word Count: 302 ...
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Morals And Psychological Aspects In Jane Eyre
Number of Words: 368 / Number of Pages: 2
... In
addition, Jane never saw justice. No matter how obvious it was that John
or one of his sisters were at fault Jane was always blamed.
By looking at Jane's moral values it becomes apparent what Rochester has,
in Jane's eyes, done wrong. He was deceitful in many ways. For one, he
didn't tell Jane that he was already married when he asked her to marry
him. Big mistake! He also pretended that he was in love with and going
to marry Blanche Ingram so that he could make Jane jealous.
Even though Jane loves Mr. Rochester she cannot go against her morals; her
beliefs. Moral and psyche are one in th ...
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Jumanji
Number of Words: 875 / Number of Pages: 4
... he was safe Billy came out with his friends, attacked Alan and took
off, with his bike. He heard a drumming sound, Brummm-tum-tum! Brummm-tum-
tum!. He followed it to his fathers construction site where they were
building new offices. Finally he found where it was coming from. He dug
out a big trunk and smashed open the padlock with a spade. Inside the
trunk was a game called JUMANJI buried in sand. When Alan returned home
his parents were getting ready to go to a presentation. Alan's parents
announced that he would go to the Cliffside Academy for Boys, they handed
Alan a brochure and congrat ...
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The Dubliners: Summary
Number of Words: 1031 / Number of Pages: 4
... until the end of the story that the boy realizes from
one of the Sisters, Eliza, about the priest madness as well as his
physical and spiritual paralysis. He understands that the priest had been
a living his life in a way he felt would be satisfying to the church which
eventually led to his death. When The boy is finally able to see the priest
he has a moment of truth and understanding. He understands that his world
is the same as the priest, he relies on the books of the Church and his own
eyes for information. He believes that it was the way the priest was living
his life that made him become ...
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