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Lies My Teacher Told Me - Book Report
Number of Words: 1447 / Number of Pages: 6
... way of thinking as opposed to what is good for the country they would be ashamed at what the United States has stood for in the past.
Heroification is a degenerative process that makes people into heroes regardless of any type of character flaw they may possess. It appears that Mr. Loewen’s greatest concern about heroification does not revolve around who gets chosen for the history books but what actually happens to them after they do. He cites two examples of people that had led colored lives but in our textbooks show them as people we should strive to become like. These two people are Helen Keller a ...
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Educating Rita
Number of Words: 2087 / Number of Pages: 8
... "Everything." Later on she seems to think that she has acquired and learnt everything. "I've got what you got Frank, and you don't like it."
At the beginning he finds himself faced with an unexpectedly fresh and uncluttered mind. Rita tests Frank's intellectual talents to the full, by requiring constant justification and explanation of statements that would usually be taken for granted and accepted in a conversation between a student and a tutor. Frank is intrigued by her freshness in Act One Scene One showing that what Rita possesses is individuality, "I think you're the first breath of air ...
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Olenka In The Darling
Number of Words: 671 / Number of Pages: 3
... Then Pustovalov came along, the timber merchant, and she once again fell in love. This changed her life from the theater into a new life of business. Her husbands ideas were hers. If he thought the room was too hot, she thought the same.
At one point, she tried so hard to act like the one she loved and it drove her third husband away. Her third affair was a veterinarian who was there for her after Pustovalov died. He became quickly annoyed with Olenka because all she did was copy him and agree with him. She would interrupt his meetings with the other veterinarians, and tried to add ...
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Net Censorship
Number of Words: 2541 / Number of Pages: 10
... passed the bill with a landslide
414-16 House vote and a 91-5 Senate vote.2 It seems now that the wide bill might not be what it cracked up to be, as it
stands now, anyone who might upload James Joyce’s Ulysses could be placed in jail for two years and have up to a $250,000
fine.3 Representatives of on-line services industries were concerned about the bill, and feared they could be held criminally
responsible for Internet conversations.4
"We face a unique disturbing and urgent circumstance, because it is children who are the computer experts in our nations
families," remarked a concerned Rep ...
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Emerson's View On Transcendentalism
Number of Words: 444 / Number of Pages: 2
... their own souls and finding what their own spiritual capabilities are. Thus, they would travel through life spiritually empty and have no substance in their life. Likewise, if a person goes through life having everything spoon-fed to them and never have to work for anything that is important to them, they will never truly experience satisfaction, an emotion of the soul.
These situations can be played out today. Some people are exceptionally intelligent people and have the gift of regurgitating information which they are expected to know. These people can easily succeed in high school where tests ...
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The Chrysalids
Number of Words: 622 / Number of Pages: 3
... toward his own sister in law.
Aunt Harriet is the sister of David's mother Mrs. Strorm. She enters the story half way through the book, where she goes to Mrs. Strorm seeking help. Yet the help she is looking for is not something Mrs. Strorm agrees with: "Nothing much! You have the effrontery to bring your monster into my house, and tell me it's nothing much!" (p.70) Aunt Harriet is very loving, strong, and she fights for what she thinks is the right thing: "I shall pray God to send into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate." (p.73) Aunt Harr ...
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I Am A Man (The Elephant Man)
Number of Words: 1902 / Number of Pages: 7
... Mrs. Madge Kendal starts these visits from London's high society, simply with respectable intentions. Mrs. Kendal, as well known as she is, has a group of followers. What John does not know is that "wherever Mrs. Kendal goes, others inevitably follow" (182-183). With all of these ritzy visitors, John believes that people want to see him for who he is, not just to make themselves appear more valuable than their compeers are. John and others alike, excite the English. When Fredrick Treves first hears about John Merrick, an "excitement (takes) possession of him"(2) and Treves feels "like a ho ...
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Crime And Punishment
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... to realize that he is not alone, and it is because of this realization that the great sinner began to confess to Sonya. It can be said that, in this confession, Raskalnikov’s strength returns.
However, Raskalnikov’s confession to Sonya is not enough, and Sonya knows it. Sonya "asks only one thing of her beloved: that he should acknowledge the reality of . . . mankind outside himself, and should solemnly declare his acceptance of this new . . . faith by an act of confession to all the people." Sonya tells Raskalnikov to bow down at a crossroads, kiss the earth that Rodia had offended and say aloud "‘I ...
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The Essence Of Hamlet
Number of Words: 2259 / Number of Pages: 9
... the self. One way to categorize Hamlet's interpretation of the self is by first considering Hamlet's interpretation of man in general. Then we consider Hamlet's interpretation of himself, his analysis of his own behaviors and his inner thoughts. Through these two methods, we notice Hamlet's apparent resignation of his soul to fate once all of his doubts are resolved. It seems that Hamlet's obvious priority in terms of the self is not the physical body; instead, he is concerned about the well-being of his soul.
Throughout the play, Hamlet makes it clear that he is not impressed with humans. T ...
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The Pearl
Number of Words: 1020 / Number of Pages: 4
... was caught in a twisted realm of mirrors, and they were all shattering one by one. In the night he heard a "sound so soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attacked the trespasser. This is where the problems for Juana and her family began. The fear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over his actions. Soon even Juana who had always had faith in her husband, had doubted him greatly. "It will destroy us all" she yelled as her attempt to rid the family of had failed. Kino had not listened however, and soon Juana began to lose her spiritual side and for a long time sh ...
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