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The Killer Angels (Gettysburg)
Number of Words: 816 / Number of Pages: 3
... about the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg until I read The Killer Angels. From this book I learned many things. I learned that the Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War. Prior to Gettysburg, the South had won most major battles. At Gettysburg, however, the North gained it’s first major victory. From then on, the North continued to gain momentum, winning virtually every battle for the following two years of the war. The Battle of Gettysburg exhausted both armies; greatly decreasing their reserves of ammunition and soldiers. The North had more than twice as many men as the S ...
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Of Mice And Men
Number of Words: 437 / Number of Pages: 2
... and had a private room out in the barn. Some of the other ranch hands did respect him, though; as much as someone could expect from anyone at the time the story takes place. Throughout the story, Lennie found out just how fragile life was in his strong hands. When he was younger, his aunt would give him mice to play with and pet. Because he was so strong, he would pet them too hard and kill them. When Slim gave Lennie a pup, he eventually pet it too hard and accidentally killed it too. Then, while talking to Curley’s wife in the barn, she invited Lennie to touch her hair. When she wanted him to stop, h ...
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Of Mice And Men: The Great Depression And Lennie And George's Dream
Number of Words: 739 / Number of Pages: 3
... and George were always looking for new jobs. This put a damper on their dream because they were unable to save up the money that they would need to purchase a farm. The downfall of America during this time made it very hard for anyone. Even those people who were upper class before the Great Depression lost almost all of their money and were having trouble surviving. Someone who was lower class, like Lennie and George, had a hard time saving the money to buy their own plot of land for a farm. George knows saving the money will be especially hard for him because “…few people have the ability or drive ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 598 / Number of Pages: 3
... ran Snowball of the farm with his vicious dogs claiming he was a traitor. Napoleon then won the role of thier leader. What he said goes. So the animals worked hard day and night to build the windmill.
In the mean time Napoleon was beginning to change the rules around more and more. The pigs seemed to be more equal then the rest of the animals. While the poor animals starved and had to work long hours with hardly any sleep, the pigs were eating rich foods, sleeping in beds and even drinking alochol. The pigs seemed to control everything while others suffered. Boxer died and was said he was taken to a h ...
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Voltaire's Writing Techniques In Candide
Number of Words: 3861 / Number of Pages: 15
... or his duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless quarrels...-it's one unending warfare. By having this character take on such a pessimistic tone, he directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide. In the conclusion (page 1617) an old turk instructs Candide in the futility of needless philosophizing by saying that "...the work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty." In each of these examples, the character chosen by the author comes across as a reasonable and respectable person, m ...
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The Lord Of The Flies: Summary
Number of Words: 544 / Number of Pages: 2
... The failure to
establish rules soon creates confusion and inappropriate behavior encouraged by
Jack. Ralph=s only supporter is Piggy, a fat asthmatic boys who nobody likes
because he is always lecturing and criticizing everyone=s behavior. Jack bullies
him constantly and the other boys make fun of him. Jack and his followers spend
most of their time hunting for wild pigs so Ralph=s efforts to organize the
group fail. By now, most of the older boys are beginning to act like savages,
hunting wild pigs, going into a frenzy when they succeed and celebrate their
kill with wild dancing around a fire. ...
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The Great Gatsby: Capturing The American Dream
Number of Words: 530 / Number of Pages: 2
... this dream doesn't happen, he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want.
Later, as we see, Gatsby still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when he takes the blame for Myrtle's death. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes...but of course I'll say I was." He also watches and protects Daisy as she returns h ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Jack Merridew - Not Guilty
Number of Words: 414 / Number of Pages: 2
... individual is not controlled by another individual. As for
influencing the boys to kill Simon and Piggy, the boys were uncontrollable.
On the night that Simon died, we were having a feast while "a thing came
crawling out the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly." (p.152) The boys,
especially the littluns, were so terrified, they thought Simon was the
beast, so they attacked with the thought of killing the beast not Simon.
Ralph was at that incident as well. He was one of us.
As for Piggy, the rock that struck Piggy was not launched by my
hand. The boys were bright enough to act on thei ...
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The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses: Actions Have Consequences
Number of Words: 762 / Number of Pages: 3
... prisoner in the area of Span One, which has nine other prisoners just like Brille. Brille is not physically intimidating. He wears glasses and has "a hollowed-out chest and comic knobbly knees" (Head 427). Brille needed to release these suppressed feelings. He did this by turning the Warder in. This gave him a sense of control and relief from the years of suppressed feelings of depression and confusion. He wanted to see Warder Hannetjie to suffer from his mistakes just like he did. Brille wanted Warder Hannetjie to feel the grim reality of a life crumbling right before his eyes. Watching an ...
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Summary Of Orwells' Animal Farm
Number of Words: 269 / Number of Pages: 1
... a "president" and they ran the farm on their own. When the
animals took over the farm they named it "Animal Farm". Napoleon took over
as president of the farm and decided what needed to be done and when it
needed to be done. But after a while Napoleon took things out of context.
He began to abuse his power to fit his own needs, he changed the Seven
Commandments so he could do what he wanted and when he did this and the
other animals noticed Napoleon called it "explaining what they are". He
abolished "The Beasts of England", the song that gave all of the animals
faith that someday all animals wou ...
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