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Myth Of Rock
Number of Words: 992 / Number of Pages: 4
... to question its own sense of cultural/societal/governmental reality. In his book 1984, George Orwell created a society in which the ministry of information controlled the masses by controlling the information they received. The government even went so far as to rewrite history by changing old newspaper and film files to support the ideological goals of the current regime. They created a world very far removed from the truth but also gave the public a unified, single, consistent vision (however untrue). The mythology of rock is very firmly rooted. Many of us grew up believing that if we learned to play ...
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Supernatural Forces In Macbeth
Number of Words: 926 / Number of Pages: 4
... King Duncan. Murdering the king was an easier plan since the motivation in his dreams urged him on. Lady Macbeth also relied on the supernatural by her soliloquy of calling upon the evil spirits to give her the power to plot the murder of Duncan without any remorse or conscience "… Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood Stop up the access and passage to remorse,That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
Th’ effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,whenever in your sightless substa ...
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Of Mice And Men 6
Number of Words: 972 / Number of Pages: 4
... and a bit of money there. Their one lifelong dream is to one day make enough money, to get a ranch of their own. So they one day come across a ranch where they plan to work, and work they do and this is where the story begins. They meet lots of people in this ranch, friends, nobodies and people they know they have to stay away from, in order to avoid harsh consequences, such as Curley and his wife, of whom I will talk about in my perspective of the book. They have friends, all of different characteristics.
So heres what happens very briefly: Lennie gets in a fight with Curley, Lennie gets scared an ...
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Shawshank Redemption
Number of Words: 980 / Number of Pages: 4
... prisoners grow accustomed to being told what to do, then doing it. When enough time passes, prison life is all the life that they know. Acceptance of their controlled life becomes dependence as they are no longer able to function on their own, but rely on being told what to do. In the final stages, the prisoners loose their individual wills.
Red understood the dynamics of prison all too well and labeled the process as being institutionalized. "These walls are funny. At first you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes, it gets so that you get to depend on them." ...
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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment: Reality Or Illusion
Number of Words: 801 / Number of Pages: 3
... proves to us the power of the water because when the
rose regains life nobody was drunk or had even attempted to drink the water.
"The crushed and dried petals stirred, and assumed a deepening tinge of crimson,
as if the flower were reviving from a death-like slumber;"(page 3)
It is that clear cut, and completely undeniable considering that five people
witnessed the act and not one had the slightest objection.
After the first drink of the potion until the last, I was still led to
the opinion that what the guests were experiencing was in fact real and
completely genuine. At this point I will ...
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Crime And Punishment
Number of Words: 3951 / Number of Pages: 15
... He presents a graphical experience of ones who do not know how
to deal with humanity and its problems. Dostoevsky himself does not give a
clear solution nor does he leave one with the certainty of faith for an
example. He says himself:
Finding myself lost in the solution of these questions, I decide
to bypass them with no solution at all. (From the Author. The
Brothers Karamazov)
Through the presentation of crime and the issue of money which is often
connected to it, Dostoevsky retells a Bible story. His answer to the problem
of evil and human life filled wit ...
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Huck Finn The Problem With The
Number of Words: 407 / Number of Pages: 2
... of many people in the south who treated blacks as dogs. They sold, bought, lynched, and murdered many thousands of African American people. Not even thinking that the blacks had feelings, hopes, and dreams just as they did. We sold them like a car or food at the market. Like when the King sold Jim to the Phelps Plantation for forty dollars. He traveled with Jim for so long, just to sell him like “that”. Even when they sold the slaves and Huck told them that the money was with the slaves, I tried to show there how money is so important to people, then and now. I tried to portray ...
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All Quiet On Westren Front
Number of Words: 1051 / Number of Pages: 4
... life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. We are not youth any longer." They have lost their innocents. Everything they are taught, "the world of work, duty, culture, and progress" are not the slightest use to them because the only thing they need to know is how to survive. They need to know how to escape the shells as well as the emotional and psychological torment of the war. The war takes an heavy toll on the soldiers who fight in it. The terror of death will infest the minds of soldiers and bring about horrible images of death and destruction until they break down and go to pieces. "E ...
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Symbolism In The Call Of The W
Number of Words: 556 / Number of Pages: 3
... almost all of them. She doesn’t know how to walk. When Charles and Hal ask her to get off the sled and hike along, she refuses and has to be carried off and dropped. When Charles and Hal set up camp, they have to go back and pick up Mercedes, who thinks she should be carried to Dawson City. Charles and Hal shouldn’t have brought her along, all she was a hindrance. Jack London creates a good description of what is weak in a civilized society.
Buck was betrayed by a friend because someone needed sled dogs to go to the Yukon to mine for gold. Sacks of gold depict the idea of capitalism ...
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The Rift Wars
Number of Words: 802 / Number of Pages: 3
... or to escape the mounting flames, the elves poured out of the woods
in droves. As they emerged from the flaming trees, half blinded by hot ash and choking smoke, the dwarves mowed them down. The blood of these two peoples ran thick in the Caspian River.
Meanwhile, the truly evil god Morgion with his orcs and goblins capitalized on a chance to wreak havoc on two of their most hated enemies. They began to covertly destroy the villages of both elves and dwarves, knowing that the feuding creatures would blame each other for these atrocities. The young, the old, the crippled, and the infirm of both races b ...
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