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The Gift: Review
Number of Words: 976 / Number of Pages: 4
... parent had a lot of difficulty accepting Maribeth because she was so young and alone and also pregnant. But very soon they became supportive of Tommy and his love for Maribeth because they realized how good-hearted she was. Tommy's parents soon decide to adopt Maribeth's child, knowing that this was another chance to share their love with a child, knowing that this child was a gift from God, and that Maribeth was sent to them for a reason.
During this novel, after Maribeth had gotten pregnant, she seemed very unsure of what she was she going to do with the baby, how she was going to tell her family ...
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Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... health and lives. Subsequently, the people at his parties show careless recklessness with their abuse of alcohol and their bodies. First of all, the people at Gatsby¹s balls drank all night and showed no respect for Gatsby¹s house or possessions. Also the participants of the parties held at Gatsby¹s mansion are audacious enough to drive home while very intoxicated. Furthermore the individuals who were drinking were astonished to see the car in the ditch but none of them bothered to help. Alcohol in large amounts and large groups can cause misjudgements and even death. All in All drinking by Gatsby¹s ...
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David Copperfield
Number of Words: 1007 / Number of Pages: 4
... childhood in which many scenes from his
childhood are intertwined throughout his novels. Dickens father was constantly
in debt and was eventually sent to jail. This memory was agonizing for young
Charles as years later he wrote: "No words can express the secret agony of my
soul. I felt my early hopes of growing up to be a learned and distinguished man,
crushed in my breast." This directly relates to Dickens discussion of David in
a wine house later in the novel. A couple of years later, Dickens attends
school at the Wellington House Academy where he fell in love with Maria Beadnell
but her fat ...
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Brave New World: Huxley Predicted Many Events Of The Future
Number of Words: 1194 / Number of Pages: 5
... the whole, will increase its sexual activity. Huxley's prediction of
promiscuity is based on his iron law of sexuality:
"As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends
compensatingly to increase." A current example of Huxley's belief is China.
China is the last remaining communist regime, it also suffers from having one
fifth of the world's population within its borders. Needless to say, China's
large population is a direct result of a very sexually active society. Aldous
Huxley's fears of the future caused him to write about sexual freedom and the
resulting over-pop ...
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Crime And Punishment: The Importance Of The Funeral Dinner
Number of Words: 585 / Number of Pages: 3
... had replied to the invitations—which reflects the bad manners of the people—but Katerina expected for “everyone” to be present. Only the poorest and most insignificant people came to the dinner, while the more respectable people stayed away. This reality embodies the way society treats impoverished people. It is confirmed further by the actions of Luhzin. Luhzin, thinking he is too good to associate himself with Katerina’s guests, sends Sonia to respectfully announce his absence. Katerina takes offense to the absence of what she considers important guests and starts to get upset. Katerina’s co ...
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A Farewell To Arms
Number of Words: 572 / Number of Pages: 3
... but she slaps him. Frederick has to go to war so she gives him Saint Anthony on a necklace. While fighting, Frederick gets wounded very badly. Rinaldi and the priest visit him at the hospital. Catherine visits him later and they have an affair in the hospital room. After this Frederick realizes that he is really, truely in love with her; that he isn't just attacted to her physically anymore. Catherine is now stationed at the hospital Frederick is in and changes her schedule to the night shift. Catherine is pregnant and Frederick feels "trapped biologically". They are both staying in a hotel room, an ...
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Charles Dickens’ Personal Experiences In Great Expectations
Number of Words: 462 / Number of Pages: 2
... dies. I think that these events show a sense of independence in both of them. They started to take care of themselves when they were teenagers. That gave them a few good qualities such as being strong and independent.
They have another similarity dealing with women. Pip loves Estella, but she does not love him back. She looks down on him because he is not wealthy and is not very well educated. Dickens does not have much luck with women, either. He loses his first love. It seems that he cannot keep a girlfriend. If he does keep one, the relationship does not last long because the girl hurts him (Sirs) ...
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Naturalism In To Build A Fire
Number of Words: 1239 / Number of Pages: 5
... "did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold."(p.1745) At first when the man started his journey to the camp, he felt certain that he could make it back to camp before dinner. As the trip progressed, the man made mistake after mistake that sealed his fate. The man's first mistake was to step into a pool of water and soak his legs to the knees. This blunder forced the man to build a fire to dry his wet socks and shoes so his feet would not freeze and become frostbitten. Whe ...
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Brave New World: Beliefs Of Sex And Drug Use
Number of Words: 489 / Number of Pages: 2
... are accustomed to. Sex is considered to be more of an activity in the same regards as sports. It is also encouraged by the government to engaged in with many different people and not to often with the same person. Society as a whole looks down on the people that have sex with only one partner. Drugs are also a socially accepted activity that is government controlled. The government issues a certain amount of drugs a day for the citizens to enjoy that night.
Human Creation is an issue that is talked about and practiced in Brave New World. The society is made up with classes of people that have h ...
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Beowulf
Number of Words: 1834 / Number of Pages: 7
... for people to read and serve as a reminder of their folklore. Not only to them, but to future people who come to read these documents. We have been lucky in the fact that over the last few hundred years, we have recovered many works from all over the world, dating back through years that had been long forgotten to many of us. In a great many of these works we have come into contact with many tales of heroism and the fight between good and evil. Just as the heroism in these stories may take on different faces, so does the evil present itself in many different guises.
This brings us to one work in specif ...
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