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Amelia Earhart 20hrs. 40 Min
Number of Words: 419 / Number of Pages: 2
... flight across the Atlantic as commander of the Friendship. Bad weather had delayed their leaving until June 18th, 1928. Flying through dense fog for most of their journey, they landed in South Wales and not in Ireland as had been planned and with very little fuel left. After her flight, she was overwhelmed by the press and fans because she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic. Amelia was distressed because the others on the plane were ignored by the reporters. Amelia said that she was only a passenger and didn’t understand why she was receiving so much attention. Amelia Earhart proved that if you ...
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Anne Frank Remembered: Review
Number of Words: 1116 / Number of Pages: 5
... viewpoint is her own story.
In order to further discuss her main points and views, a summary of her story
must be given.
The book began with a brief history of the childhood of Miep Gies. She
was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909, where she lived with her parents until the
age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in the aid of
undernourished and sick children and was to be adopted by a Dutch family. She
became used to the Dutch way of life as she grew older and soon she began to
consider herself Dutch, not Viennese.
Her association with the Frank family began when she wa ...
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Satire At It's Best In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 652 / Number of Pages: 3
... man is so misguided that he thinks it's a lesser crime to let a man drown than to just plain kill him
Twain a lot of the time makes fun of how whites perceived blacks or how blacks thought of whites. "He judged it was all up with him any way it could be fixed; for if he didn't get saved he would get drownded; and if he did get saved, whoever saved him would send him back home so as to get the reward, and then Miss Watson would sell him South, sure. Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level headed for a nigger."(81) This shows a point that Huck and the rest of the worl ...
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Courage, Intelligence And Strength In The Client, Dragon, And Beowulf
Number of Words: 1158 / Number of Pages: 5
... the same traits as today.
Heroes of every culture of all ages share courage, intelligence and
strength.
Courage is a prominent feature of all heroes. Within these three books,
each character, Mark Sway, Dirk Pitt and Beowulf, display signs of Courage.
Mark Sway was a courageous boy at his age of 9 years old. Mark would never
quit from continuing with an idea of his if it was for good: "`We can't let
them take the body, Reggie. Think about it. If they get away with it,
it'll never be found.'"1 What this phrase points out, is that Mark did not
want to leave the Mafia men to retrieve the body o ...
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An Analysis Of William Styron's "The Long March"
Number of Words: 945 / Number of Pages: 4
... person to Korea. The
time and setting lend to the plot and theme in the way that it shows that
the march is taking place in America in the peace time. It advances the
whole theme showing that the superiors of battalion aren't trying to get
ready for war, just being cruel.
The author uses several styles, and an overall tone to make the
novel more interesting, and to advance the theme and plot. The author uses
a straightforward chronological order to introduce things as they happen.
He revealed all the characters through the eyes of the main character
Culver. Things can be seen as Culver saw them happe ...
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The Painted Bird
Number of Words: 748 / Number of Pages: 3
... predicaments the boy encountered during the separation from his family. The use of organic form in the formal pattern offers the reader the “what-will-be-next” scenario before they proceed through the pages. Kosinski gives the reader a taste of the animalistic characteristics of the towns’ people the boy confronts during the war. This allows the reader not to be “shocked” when the peasants the boy faces demonstrated an extraordinary predilection for incest, sodomy, and meaningless violence.
While reading “”, the reader gains the impression that relig ...
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Macbeth Literary Essay
Number of Words: 643 / Number of Pages: 3
... to the Scotland who was a high ranking individual. For killing the traitor so bravely, Macbeth is awarded the title the Thane of Cawdor. The irony of this situation is that the title first did indeed belonged to ‘a most disloyal traitor’(pg. 3, line 53). As Macbeth heads home with his new title and a lot more ambition. This is mainly because of the three witches who tell him he will be king. With this new ambition, Macbeth did not know what to think and he wrote a letter to his wife. By Macbeth writing this letter it showed at this stage he was still loyal because he still was sharing everythin ...
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THE ILLIAD
Number of Words: 711 / Number of Pages: 3
... of his characters and their heartfelt emotions. The Iliad embodies action at it’s very onset, and although long in content, captures and to an extent , possesses it’s reader. I am sure that it is the style and meter, that Homer uses to convey his thoughts, that make the Iliad such a classic epic. Crawford pg. 3 In the opening lines of the Iliad, words of war capture the reader. Rage-Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion, ...
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Summary Of Twelve Angry Men
Number of Words: 476 / Number of Pages: 2
... take another vote. The verdict is
still 11 to 1 in the favor of guilty. Juror eight is now going over the
time periods of when the woman said she saw the murder. Juror eight is
also trying to explain how the man could not have seen the boy run down
the stairs because the old man would not have had enough time to get out of
bed. After juror eight makes all of his points they take another vote.
This time the vote is now 6 guilty and 6 not guilty. Juror ten is very
disgusted at how a lot of the jurors are changing their votes. Some of the
jurors now start to get into a fight about how the boy was a ...
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Canticle For Leibowitz: Walter Miller
Number of Words: 845 / Number of Pages: 4
... Brother Francis thinks regressively. The monks copy out the blueprints,
and then do nothing with them. As a society we do the same thing today. In
school students copy notes off the blackboard blindly, they do not know what
they are copying. Therefore, they do not understand the content.
Not only does Miller also poke fun at impractical details, Miller also
pokes fun at the way today's society revolves is the importance of a spiritual
being such as Leibowitz. Today's society is strongly set on the existence of
God.
Today's society is mocked due to the importance of a spiritual being,
like ...
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