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The Hobbit By J.r.r. Tolken
Number of Words: 856 / Number of Pages: 4
... rely on him, just as Gandalf foretold. Bilbo and the dwarves finally reach Lonely Mountain, the home of Smaug the dragon. The dwarves send Bilbo down a secret passage to the dragon's lair. Bilbo has more confidence in himself now and not only steals a cup, but manages to hold his own in a conversation with the wily Smaug (not an easy thing to do).Furious that someone has dared steal a piece of his treasure, Smaug attacks the mountainside where the dwarves have their camp. Then he flies toward Lake-town, to punish the inhabitants for helping the dwarves. The people of Lake-town run at the sight of Smaug ...
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The Great Gatsby: Unfaithfulness And Greed
Number of Words: 415 / Number of Pages: 2
... words know only by the faithful, George
Wilson. George certainly had his flaws, but he loved his wife dearly and
couldn't live without her. "He was his wife's man and not his own." When
he became aware of Tom and Myrtle's affair, he was "really sick, pale as
his own pale hair and shaking all over." He locks her up in fear that she
will run away with Tom forever. He stated that, "She's going to move stay
there until the day after tomorrow, and then we're going to move away."
George thought that by moving out West, where Myrtle wanted to go in the
beginning, would solve everything. Before the mov ...
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Marigolds By Eugenia Collier
Number of Words: 616 / Number of Pages: 3
... Her family is living during the times of the depression and as her fear and anger build up, they move her to an act of destruction. But this act also taught her a lesson in life.
Childhood is meant to be a time of learning and reaching to find that person you want to be as an adult. It seems that every act as a child is based on innocence and ignorance. Innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface. As a child, even an act of destruction is seen as innocence. During childhood, violence seems to come so normal to children, as if sec ...
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Heroic Qualities In The Hobbit
Number of Words: 602 / Number of Pages: 3
... lucky when he is able to first escape the elves. He is again
lucky when he is able to explore the elven palace at such great length.
Yet another example of his luck is when extremely potent wine comes in
barrels,and ends up putting the chief guard asleep who is in sole
possession of the keys which can unlock all the dwarves prisons. So with
all these examples of how luck can be a factor in heroism I am left to
believe that it is a necessary quality.
Another necessary quality needed to be a hero is bravery. This is
more than likely the most needed quality of all in being a hero. Say you
must fac ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 1072 / Number of Pages: 4
... Himmelstoss appeared
and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's unit, who were then only
mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were
killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very
distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing
that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent
a little while at a military camp where he viewed a Russian prisoner of war
camp with severe starvation problems and again questioned the values that
he had grown up with contrasted to the values while fighting t ...
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To The Lighthouse
Number of Words: 693 / Number of Pages: 3
... and regrets the sorrow he brought on Mrs. Ramsay. He sympathizes with her and is "ashamed" for what he had done. Mr. Ramsay wants to appease his wife and make her happy as a result of the torment that he inflicted on her. Next, Woolf again illustrates Mr. Ramsay's insensitive dimension when Mr. Ramsay makes Mrs. Ramsay "bend her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked." (32) Mr. Ramsay is heartless to his wife's feelings; it is as if he enjoys "drenching" Mrs. Ramsay and enjoys seeing her in mental anguish. However, Woolf later contrasts ...
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Night
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... being burned. After seeing these tragic events, Elie could no longer sleep. He could not believe this was happening and nobody was doing anything to stop it.
After surviving the first concentration camp, Elie and Mr. Wiesel were sent to Buna, a work camp. At Buna a Overlap (a prison guard) was tortured for sabotaging a power station. A young boy under him, called a Pipel, was also to be tortured for information on the Overlap’s accomplices. The Pipel was hung because his he would not reveal the Overlap’s accomplices. “For more than a half an hour, he stayed there struggling between life and d ...
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An Analysis Of "Heart Of Darkness"
Number of Words: 1340 / Number of Pages: 5
... They
were anchored in the river, where ships went out to darkest Africa. Yet, as
lately as Roman times, London's own river led, like the Congo, into a barbarous
hinterland where the Romans went to make their profits. Soon darkness fell over
London, while the ships that bore "civilization" to remote parts appeared out of
the dark, carrying darkness with them, different only in kind to the darkness
they encounter.
These thoughts and feelings were merely part of the tale, for Conrad had a
more personal story to tell, about a single man who went so far from
civilization that its restraints no ...
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Quinn's Ishmael: Mistakes Of Mankind And Their Affect On The Human History
Number of Words: 1286 / Number of Pages: 5
... to learn his lessons. “Teacher seeks
pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person”(4).
This rather awkward request appeared in the personals section of the
newspaper. Because the bulk of the novel is narrated through the first-
person perspective of the man who answers this ad and becomes the
enlightened student, the reader never learns his name. However, he/she is
exposed to many important aspects of the student and his motivations. One
learns that decades ago he had actually been looking for such a teacher
during the children's revolt of the sixties and seventies but finally ...
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The Photographs Of Margaret Bourke-White: A Review
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... the war. I would like to go downtown to take some grand view photographs, including lots of detailed subjects. I like to develop the pictures in black and white because it looks neat. White also does a good job of shooting pattern samples. I would also like to try and take more pattern samples.
Two photographs that I enjoy are of an old man and a house in India. The first picture is titled, Too Weak to Stand, India, 1946. Under it states, “ When the rains come late, famine follows quickly in undernourished India. After the rice goes, even leaves and weeds become edible.” I love this picture because ...
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