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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, And Violence
Number of Words: 1121 / Number of Pages: 5
... show that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year.
In the novel, Holden Caulfield has very easy access to alcoholic beverages. Throughout the novel, it seems that every time Holden gets depressed, he turns towards alcohol. in Chapter 12, Holden is at Ernie's night club and he got served even though he was only a minor. In Chapter 20, Holden gets drunk. The way he acted when he was drunk shows how pathetic you are when you can not function properly.
The next topic, sex, is a very co ...
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Sit-Down Book Report
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... all auto workers in the United States of America.
Governor Murphy’s role was to mediate, but he was on General Motors side.
He insisted that the sit-downers get basic human right’s such as food, heat,
and water. Murphy also controlled the police and National Guard. They shot
and killed several strikers. After it was all over Martin and the United Auto
workers emerged victorious.
The strike started in Flint on December 30,1936. The GM factories
were described as a mess, because of the lack of sanitation. There was also
spare parts and other miscellaneous weapons used against the cops in the
Battle ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Ralph Creating A Society Based On Survival
Number of Words: 2205 / Number of Pages: 9
... to go for your own good.'
`The Chief and Roger-'
`-yes, Roger-'
`They hate you, Ralph. They're going to do you.'
`They're going to hunt you to-morrow.'"(1)
Here, the reader is basically told on what the two groups have to offer.
Ralph's group is based on being rescued, while Jack's group is pro-hunting
and other games in the wilderness.
From the start, Ralph tries to keep the fire as the key-stone in the
group. He knows that fire and smoke is used best to signal ships at a
distance. This is what infact saves the stranded boys. In his group, Ralph
makes shelters and calls assembl ...
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Lord Jim
Number of Words: 1109 / Number of Pages: 5
... on the inside caused Jim to seem lack luster and lazy on the outside. If Jim would have been more at peace with his soul he would not have been in such pain. Being that Jim was somewhat innocent when he first became a water clerk aboard the Patna; he lacked the mental toughness that would be crucial in key situations. With virtue and perseverance Jim struggled on. Trying to find his inner self and to become a good sailor was important to Jim. Forced into maturing because of the importance of his job; Jim often felt isolated and alone. But his love for the sea kept him going even in tough times; iron ...
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"A White Heron" And "The Beast In The Jungle": A Comparison And Contrast Essay
Number of Words: 776 / Number of Pages: 3
... handle any other way. Rather, it handled
her. The grandmother was most receptive and hospitable. Over the course
of the short stay, Sylvy realized many things. The hunter offered money in
exchange for help in finding the heron's nest. Not only was his offer
tempting and attractive, but a curiosity awakened in her as he was most
attractive as well. She was somewhat intrigued and in a fog, taken each
moment and each step one at a time, carefully, slowly. Sylvy seems to come
to her senses in the twelfth hour when she climbs high into the trees early
one morning to see the white heron fly in ever s ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 1601 / Number of Pages: 6
... capitalism. Like Old Major,
Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the
working class poor. The working class in Russia, as
compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a
laboring class of people that received low wages for their
work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia
thought there would be no oppression in a new society
because the working class people (or animals) would own
all the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva and
Gellerstein 168). Another character represented in the book
is Farmer Jones. He represents the symbol of the Czar
Nicholas in Ru ...
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Antigone Was Right
Number of Words: 1063 / Number of Pages: 4
... to be colliding forces where divinity out weighs humanity in ancient Greece. Antigone was justified in her actions.
Antigone was following divine laws, or walking with divine shoes, while Kreone followed the laws of the state. Her brother’s afterlife was so important to Antigone that she was willing to give up anything to ensure her brother’s happiness and "future" after his death. This supported in the play by the way she is so outspoken about what she had done after she is caught and while she is being questioned. "Why should I be ashamed of my loyalty to my brother?" (Sophocles line 624). Kreon di ...
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Gullivers Travels 2
Number of Words: 953 / Number of Pages: 4
... just try to be like Gulliver. The trouble with this idea is that when taking a closer look at Gulliver, he isn't worth emulating. The final picture of him talking with the horses in the stable for four hours a day, unable to stand the company of his own family, makes him look foolish Another theory is that Gulliver made a mistake in regarding the Houyhnhnms as models to be emulated: so far from being admirable creatures they are as repulsive as the Yahoos. The Yahoos might be ruled by their passions, but these have no human passions at all. On this view, Swift was not advocating, but attacking re ...
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Essay On Romanticism In Frankenstein
Number of Words: 910 / Number of Pages: 4
... and art of the period. It encouraged spontaneity, and acting
with emotions, not common sense. In the more classical style of writing, writers
addressed their books to the upper class, but now writers addressed the common
man and his problems. Their was a new feeling of spirituality. People were
seeking eastern concepts of nirvana, transcendentalism and being one with nature.
People wanted to experience life, not study it. They seeked extreme emotions,
whether they were good or bad. Marry Shelly used all of these philosophies of
the Romantic Period in writing, Frankenstien.
Victor Fankenstien is ...
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The Taming Of The Shrew
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... her actions but not in her mind. Katherine assumes the role of an obedient, polite wife but she still retains her innate assertiveness. Katherine's being tamed is not a matter of her being cured of her shrewishness but rather her having learned to get along in a man's world.
In this play courtship and marriage aren't the result of love but rather an institution that people are expected to take part in. Suitors are not judged by how much they love the woman but how much money and land they can give her. A woman's suitors would all gather together and compare fortunes, and he with the largest ...
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