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The Storm Within
Number of Words: 742 / Number of Pages: 3
... this need and desire for each other and
it was beating down all the barriers they had set up within themselves to
resist this temptation. Their feelings were so dangerously close to the
surface that they could hardly hide them any longer.
The storm was raging on and the drama of the lightning was very
shocking to them. They could almost feel its electricity. “The playing of
lightning was incessant. A bolt struck a tall chinaberry tree at the edge
of the field. It filled all visible space with a blinding glare and the
crash seemed to invade the very boards they stood upon.” The lightning in
the literal ...
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The Goal: Book Review
Number of Words: 1034 / Number of Pages: 4
... that the manager manages in his plant is covered by them. Still, the manager must do much thinking and research in order to figure out just how to express his goal in terms of these measurement.
In addition to expressing the goal, the manager is troubled by whether employees, robots, and machinery actuall need to be running at all times. At first glance many managers seem to think that an idle worker is an unproductive worker, but Goldratt shows us that in reality a plant in which everyone is working all the time is very inefficient. The manager in the book soon comes to realize that machines do ...
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The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 1049 / Number of Pages: 4
... “circus wagon”, car that “everybody had seen. It is a rich cream color with nickel and has a three-noted horn.” (64) It has a “monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes, supper-boxes, tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields and a green leather conservatory.” (64)
Amidst Gatsby’s possessions, he develops his personal self. His physical self appearance sets him apart form the other characters. His smile is the type “that comes across four or five times in life. One of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.” (48) He has a collection of tailore ...
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Prophecy In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Number of Words: 922 / Number of Pages: 4
... of this is the discussion between Montag, his wife, and her friends. Mrs. Phelps, when asked by Montag how her children are, abruptly answers saying "No one in his right mind, the good lord knows, would have children!" (104) Mrs.Bowles, a mother of two, has an answer for Mrs. Phelps. However, with her response, Bradbury effectively conveys the cold uncompassionate and selfish morals in which Montag's world exists: "I've had two children by Caesarian section. No use going through all that agony for a baby . . . I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when the ...
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Around The World In Eighty Day
Number of Words: 1513 / Number of Pages: 6
... London, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, and New York. Clearly though one the most important settings was in the Indian forests, which were passed through, in order to pursue to Kandallah. The Carnatic and the Mongolia were also key settings to the novel.
Plot:
In the 19th century, a man by the name of Phileas Fogg, made a wager that he would be able to travel the world in approximately eighty days. At the time of his wager he was looking for a servant. He found a servant by the name of Jean Passepartout. These two came to the understanding that Fogg was the master and Passe ...
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Freedom In The Story Of An Hou
Number of Words: 1000 / Number of Pages: 4
... to have found a way to rectify what she thought wrong in her life. Mrs. Mallard then realizes in a rush of emotion and relief that she is “Free! Body and soul free!” She views the world with a fresh outlook: one where she will be her own person, answering only to herself. For a brief moment the reader is able to see through to how she is truly feeling, her emotional release apparent when she sat “with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair...” She is overwhelmed with freedom, opening her arms to it, letting it envelope both her body and her soul.
While thi ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Dimmesdale As The Greatest Sinner
Number of Words: 370 / Number of Pages: 2
... of him. He neglected his parental responsibilities as a father by not keeping in touch with Pearl and Hester. This was a very sinful thing to do. When Pearl asks him if he will stand with them on the scaffold he says no, just crushing the child. And Hester does nothing cut encourage this behavior by saying that one day he will stand with them. The last reason that Dimmesdale is the greatest sinner in the Scarlet Letter is that he died first as a result of his sin. Chillingworth didn't die first, Hester didn't die first, no it was Dimmesdale, because his sin was hidden and not open to the publi ...
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Kerouac's On The Road: Living In Clip
Number of Words: 1688 / Number of Pages: 7
... Middle America, and that is why Kerouac's works continue to enthrall the masses at large. On the Road exemplifies Kerouac's search for "IT," and the road is Sal Paradise's single guide; however, Sal's escapades with Dean Moriarty are most certainly energetic spurts of motivation and pure insanity.
On the Road is the charismatic adventure of two men, hungry for life, taking the reader on four journeys across America in search of identity through experience. In actuality the story was written in three short weeks; however, the trip itself lasted seven years. The novel includes a wide variety of epis ...
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The Scarlet Letter: The Harsh Puritan Society
Number of Words: 1063 / Number of Pages: 4
... here that Hester can do the same for Dimmesdale. It is here that the two of
them can openly engage in conversation, without being preoccupied with the
constraints that Puritan society places on them. The forest itself, is free.
Nobody watches in the woods to report misbehavior, so it is here where people do
as they wish. To independent spirits like Hester Prynne's, the wilderness
beckons her: "Throw off the shackles of law and religion. What good have they
done you anyway? Look at you, a young and vibrant woman, grown old before you
time. And no wonder, hemmed in, as you are, on every side by prohi ...
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Jane Eyre: Imagery
Number of Words: 739 / Number of Pages: 3
... she even goes so far as to excuse
herself for thinking. She says, "I was thinking, sir (you will excuse the idea;
it was involuntary), I was thinking of Hercules and Samson with their charmers"
(p.289). This statement possibly begins to suggests Janes unsatisfaction with
Rochester's position of complete dominance in their relationship. To Jane,
Rochester embodies the idea of love which she has so long been denied of. As I
stated earlier, the whole movie is about Janes journey towards acceptance, by
herself and by others. It is this journey which persuades her to move on when
she finds Rochester's ...
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