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The Witness
Number of Words: 733 / Number of Pages: 3
... Adam and his family, and the FBI couldn't risk telling the boy's mother or any other family members. Adam sat in the backseat, squeezed between two agents. He was confused, still half asleep and luckily, very quiet.
The dark car turned off the freeway and drove carefully down what seemed an unused dirt track. They were taking Adam to an FBI safehouse, to reduce th risk of being found. safe. As the car turned a corner and picked up speed, the shot was fired. A gunshot rang out through the trees. Joel looked in the back. The agent on the left side was leaning on Adam, and the other agent was franticall ...
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Buchi Emechetas Ona
Number of Words: 1282 / Number of Pages: 5
... controlled, even by the strong and powerful Agbadi, not only because of her individual desires, but because of her respect for the cultural norms of her society.
From the onset of the story we learn that Agbadi proposes marriage to Ona. Since Ona's father, Chief Obi Umunna, had no sons, he raised Ona to be very assertive and assume what is considered boylike traits. Thus, like a man, her father raised her never "to stoop to any man" (629). Does this mean that women and men are not considered equals in this society? Evidently, it seems the only reason Ona was thought not to stoop to any man was because ...
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Macbeth - Supernatural Theme
Number of Words: 775 / Number of Pages: 3
... and he could do nothing to abate it. Macbeth had risked his life to attain the throne and he had no choice but to employ Machiavellian practices to retain it. The appearance of Banquo’s ghost at the royal banquet horrifies Macbeth. Shakespeare brilliantly uses irony to make Banquo’s emergence very dramatic:
(III, i, ll 28-29)
Banquo’s appearance provides insight into the character of Macbeth. It shows the level that Macbeth’s mind has recessed to. His morality is declining and although he is battling his conscience, the evil forces have overcome his every thought and action. Banquo’s ghost only appe ...
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Tyndale And The Bible
Number of Words: 1297 / Number of Pages: 5
... of the New Testament. He visited Luther at Wittenberg and in the following year completed his translation. The printing was begun with William Roye, another reformist Cambridge man, at Cologne. But Roye was indiscreet and the work was soon being talked about. The city magistrates, at the behest of the anti-Lutheran theologian Johannes Cochlaeus, ordered the printing to stop. Only a few sheets were saved before Tyndale fled to Worms; among them was that containing his Prologue, which was later enlarged and called A Pathway into the Holy Scripture.
The printing was successfully carried out at Wor ...
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The Book Of Sand
Number of Words: 1124 / Number of Pages: 5
... him, and finds out the stranger has the same name, and the same address as he does. When Borges asks the man what year it is, the man answers 1918, even though it is 1969. It is then that the narrator figures out he is talking to the person whom he was fifty-one years earlier. He then tells "the other" him of the future, after which they part, knowing they will never meet like this again.
This story deals with time. The author is very nostalgic and lives for his memories. It also is a philosophical story where Borges expresses his doubt that we all may "just be an image of a greater being". ...
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Cat In The Rain
Number of Words: 451 / Number of Pages: 2
... to fetch a lost kitten, the husband gives a courtesy “I’ll do it” but makes no further attempt to help out. He has an another chance to help out his wife while she is pondering what to do with her boyish hair cut; however, he again only offers “I like it the way it is” instead of talking it over with her.
The wife’s character is much different than her laid back husband’s. She is involved with everything and seems to be very sociable; furthermore, she sets a goal to help the cat although it is pouring rain outside. Throughout the story she is looking for co ...
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Mother Theresa Intentions Are Honorable, But She Also Causes Evil
Number of Words: 553 / Number of Pages: 3
... but one person cannot
do all.
One overwhelming influence on those that wish to help is Mother Theresa.
These individuals doubtless wish to help, but for various reasons do not. When
questioned, there is one response that is entirely too common, which is "I can't
make a difference." Mother Theresa is a contributing factor to this response.
Everyone sees this woman doing so much, they then believe they can never do the
same on such a large scale. People become overwhelmed with all of the good she
does, then, because they acquired the impression that they cannot come near to
the legend she has be ...
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Around The World In Eighty Day
Number of Words: 1508 / Number of Pages: 6
... 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 Passepartout was just a man. His m ...
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Comparison Between Beowulf And Tick
Number of Words: 435 / Number of Pages: 2
... monsters out of the ocean,
and killing them one by one" (ll. 250-253). Beowulf likes to brag about his
accomplishments.
But Beowulf and Tick are also very different. For starters, Beowulf wore
lots of armor and expensive stuff, but Tick only wears a big blue Speedo-
type-thing. When Beowulf went to meet Hrothgar, he wore his expensive armor.
"Glittering at the top of their golden helmets" (ll. 214-215). Beowulf
liked to show of his wealth be wearing expensive armor. Beowulf was more
courageous than Tick. Beowulf does the types of things that Tick would be
too afraid to do. "...Beowulf, a prin ...
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Book Report On The Catcher In
Number of Words: 533 / Number of Pages: 2
... flashback from a rest home to his days in Pencey Prep, a boy's school in Pennsylvania, to the end where an obviously senile Holden, back at the rest home, claims he will be able to leave soon and that he will go back to school next September. I found the ending to be anti-climactic, but it was still pretty humorus.
The overall book seems to be more of a confession than a story, but it provides an entertaining change. The grizzled Holden "spills his guts" to a psychoanylist, revealing an entertaining plot to an entertaining book. One of the most important "angles" in the story is that the narra ...
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