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Bilbo The Hobbit
Number of Words: 831 / Number of Pages: 4
... But. what was the use of a Hobbit in the journey Bilb had answered his own question, when he summoned the courage to save the dwarves from perils along the way, such as goblins, giant spiders, and elven dugeons. He did this all with the help of a Ring, enchanted to make the wearer invisible. "Bless my soul, a hobbit CAN be useful!" But usefulness in itself does not a task complete. There was still the fact that the dwarf's gold had not been claimed, and Smaug still lay in the heart of the mountain. The band of travelers had crossed much terrain, hills, mountains, swamps, and gloomy forests, including ...
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Descartes Vs. Pascal
Number of Words: 1163 / Number of Pages: 5
... doubt. This is impossible, as
we can logically doubt anything. A certain truth must be something that is not
logically possible to be false.
We must doubt, as that is the only way to find certain truth. It is the
only way to wipe the slate clean of all of the uncertain assumptions which are
believed and taught in the universities today. Just as mathematics will lead to
uncertain assumptions if it is not built on certain truths, so will all use of
reason lead to uncertain assumptions if it is not built on certain truths.
There is a way to use doubt, though, to find certainty. If 100% certaint ...
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Forever
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... in his name and for his honor? Millions. And look at all the lives he has touched. That is true power.
But not me, I want a different kind of power. I want power over the minds of those who surround me everyday. I want them to think about me, not just for today, but for the rest of their lives. Jesus touched their life through intimacy, but I will try it a different way. I will touch through mystery. When I leap from this building I become eternal. This one word scrawled on the building, , and in essence I become so. All of those people wondering what I must have meant, ha, and they can wond ...
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Bridge Of San Luis Rey
Number of Words: 734 / Number of Pages: 3
... Marquesa. The Marquesa was a crazy woman who made Pepita's life even worse then it already was. As her companion Pepita was ignored constantly and lived a life of solitude.
Pepita is that life in the novel, she is the only good love that exist in a world of those who either love too much or those who love too little. The Marquesa drove her daughter away, because she loved too much. Although she was able to realize this before she died, it was too late. She was not able to show this newfound love to anyone. In the case of Esteban, he was not able to love anyone else except for Manuel. While Manu ...
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Theme Of Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 744 / Number of Pages: 3
... capability of Ralph’s leadership skills and reasoning. This also ensures Ralph the confidence to be more then willing to face greater and more impossible challenges in the near future. Through Ralph’s Leadership, hope was not a dream and it brought reality towards rescue.
Trust destroyed peace within the society Ralph had built in the novel, Lord of the Flies. Trust is the bases of leadership, without trust there is no team to survive. When Ralph trusted the littleuns to work without his guidance, he put faith in them that they will work for their common goal to survive. In stead ...
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Lord Of The Flies - Role Of Ge
Number of Words: 913 / Number of Pages: 4
... these dangerous gender stereotypes. Numerous male images are used in advertising and television, representing themes such as "heroic masculinity" and "might is right". These portrayals of violent behavior associated with masculinity target young men and convince them that in order to live up to society’s standards, they must resort to aggressive and dominant behavior, the use of assertion, and physical violence. Males are saturated with images of glorified aggression through movies such as Lethal Weapon, sports programs, and "macho" celebrities, like Bruce Willis and Arnold Shwartzenager. Fema ...
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Mimosa
Number of Words: 1176 / Number of Pages: 5
... source, would recoil its leaves and take a defense position close to the garden that it grew within. Vito would retreat to this garden to escape the
troubles of the outside world when they became unbearable. He describes the garden to us as;
“The garden that kept them little children even as adults;”
This could be taken as that it did not actually affect Vito physically young but rather it altered him mentally. He would become like Adam and Eve before evil and like that of a young child, all ignorant of all troubles. Complexity and all other dilemma’s that plagued their lives. ...
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Flying Towards Fate
Number of Words: 3255 / Number of Pages: 12
... or he will proclaim loudly that he will never abandon these aspirations because they ought to be there.
Greek tragedy was written as an affirmation of these ideals of an individual man plagued with the conflict of his universe and the fate that governed him. The prime function of these dramas was to express the feelings and reflections of man’s encounter with fate. Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon is a reflection of Greek tragedy in that the book’s central character Milkman is governed by the environment in which he was born into. Milkman, in his selfishness, attempts to runaway from the con ...
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The Fires Of Jubilee
Number of Words: 1321 / Number of Pages: 5
... Oates has received are the Christopher Award and the Barondess/Lincoln Award of the New York Civil War Round Table. His work has gained worldwide notoriety and is currently translated in four different languages: French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.
“” took place in Southampton, Virginia and County Seat, Jerusalem during the 1800’s. The story takes shape during a time in which slavery was the norm, especially in the South. It describes the struggles and turmoil of one such slave named Nat Turner in his quest to gain his freedom. It tells the tale of a man who’s destiny w ...
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MacBeth
Number of Words: 1268 / Number of Pages: 5
... other hand, as the time for murder comes nearer, he begins giving himself reasons not to murder Duncan:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself.
(I, vii, 13-16)
When Lady Macbeth enters, though, she uses her cunning rhetoric and pursuasion techniques to convince Macbeth that this is, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the right thing to do. He then tells her that "I am settled." (79). He is firmly seated in his beliefs that killing Duncan is the right thing t ...
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