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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 1196 / Number of Pages: 5
... the butt of his rifle, Kat smashes to pulp one of the machine-gunners…We bayonet the others before they can get their grenades out” (p84). The use of poison gas is also a very brutal practice throughout the novel. Baumer describes this while he is in a gassed area, hoping that his gas mask is working properly. He says, “I know the terrible sights from the field hospital, soldiers who have been gassed, choking for days on end as they spew up their burned-out lungs, bit by bit” (p48).
The narrator changes his attitude towards war as he becomes more aware of its undesirab ...
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The Chamber
Number of Words: 2373 / Number of Pages: 9
... or analogue. Added to that, The drug kingpin act sates the use of death penalty for convicted major drug dealers caught with huge quantities of drugs, over 66 lbs. of heroin and 330 lbs. of cocaine. Even though there are these federal laws requiring the use of the death penalty for the crimes, State laws only consider one crime, murder, to be a capital offense.
In the United States alone there have been 4047 executions since 1930, and 188 were from 1977-1996. In 1996, there were a total of 15,168,100 arrests; 33,050 for forcible rape; 1,506,200 involving
Drug violations and 19,020 fo ...
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A Dolls House
Number of Words: 922 / Number of Pages: 4
... of a one-sided marriage it was and how it was a mock on society, mainly the ways of the upper class.
Next is the criticism of the role of the women in society. It was basically a time where the woman could not do anything for herself. An example of this from the book is the loan that Nora took out to save Torvold’s life. Nora could not take out the loan herself due to the fact that she was a women and only men could take out loans, a women could only take out a loan if they had the consent of a husband or a father. Due to the fact that she was doing this for Torvold she went ahead and forged the ...
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Hobbit: Summary
Number of Words: 453 / Number of Pages: 2
... game and if Bilbo won, he lived and if he lost,
he would die. Bilbo won the riddle game but Gollum still wanted to eat him,
But then Bilbo accidentally slipped the ring on his finger and became
invisible, so he escaped.
He met with the group again and walked with them for a few days. Gandolf
left the group a few days later. The ring Bilbo had helped the group
through two more circumstances along the journey.
The group made it to the base of Lonely Mountain. They then climbed the
mountain and found a secret entrance to the inside, where Smaug was.
Thorin and the Dwarfs stayed outside. Bilbo wen ...
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The Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 1562 / Number of Pages: 6
... lad by the name of Piggy. The group of boys were getting along fine
until Jack Merridew, a boy who wanted to be “chief” instead, decided to go his
own way. He disobeyed Ralph and did things his own way. He was to preoccupied
witdh his own whims to do the act that was most important on the island, which
was to keep the signal going so they could be rescued. Finally, Jack went
against Ralph and declared that if any of the other boys wanted to have “fun,”
which meant acting like savages, that they should follow him. The boys splot up
into two groups and then havoc insued. Jacks group went around hu ...
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Lack Of Love And Frankenstein
Number of Words: 1188 / Number of Pages: 5
... is indeed a birth myth , but
one in which the parent who brought death
into the world, and all our woe, is not a woman
but a man who pushed the masculine prerogative
past the limits of nature , creating life not through
the female body, but in a laboratory” (220, Kate Ellis).
In the novel, Shelley turned her ideas around, creating Victor, who,
desperate after the loss of his own mother, goes out to find the secret to
life, and in a way, to steal this awesome power from Nature itself.
Victor Frankenstein’s childhood is a complete contrast to that of
the creature. “No human bei ...
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Scarlet Letter- Hester Prynne
Number of Words: 684 / Number of Pages: 3
... of different types of heroines. His heroines are equipped to expel wrongs against their sex bringing about an awareness of both the rights and wrongs of women. Hester is a compound of many popular stereotypes rich in the thoughts of the time ...portrayed as a fallen woman whose honest sinfulness is found preferable to the future corruption of the reverend (Reynolds 183). Hester was described by Reynolds as a feminist criminal bound in an iron link of mutual crime (Reynolds 183). According to Reynolds, Hawthorne was trying to have his culture's darkest stereotypes absorbed into the character of Hes ...
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The Great Gatsby: Death Of The American Dream
Number of Words: 1425 / Number of Pages: 6
... inheritance. Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy; his first writing to appear in print was a detective story in the school newspaper when he was thirteen.
From St. Paul Academy Fitzgerald went on to a higher education at Princeton University.
At Princeton, Fitzgerald neglected his studies for his literary apprenticeship. He wrote the scripts and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club musicals and was a contributor to the Princeton Tiger humor magazine and the Nassau Literary Magazine. On academic probation and unlikely to graduate, Fitzgerald joined the army in 1917. During this time h ...
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Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Theme
Number of Words: 1498 / Number of Pages: 6
... type of love is known as Eros.
It is defined as a relationship in which two parties are physically attracted to one another. Esmerelda, the gypsy, is quite beautiful. She dances in the midst of a crowd near a bonfire:
All eyes were fixed on her, all mouths hung open. As
she danced to the rhythm of the tambourine which her
round, delicate arms held over her head, she seemed
to be some sort of supernatural creature. (22)
Quasimodo is taken by her loveliness just like most other men. However, because he is deformed and hideous, Quasimodo's physical attraction to the Mistress is unrequited. Never ...
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Antitranscendentalism In Melvi
Number of Words: 563 / Number of Pages: 3
... human people have a capacity for evil and that, given the proper circumstances, the evil in anyone would come forth in their actions.
The plot and characters of Moby Dick contribute to its anti-Transcendental philosophy; the entire story revolves around the evil of man, which is demonstrated in practically each person portrayed in the book. The story itself is about man being pitted against nature, as though the two were never meant to coincide peacefully. The men on the ship must fend for themselves against the harsh maritime weather and the believably evil whales which they hunt. Natural forces ra ...
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