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The Seeled Train
Number of Words: 357 / Number of Pages: 2
... was hard to follow. I have studied Lenin in the past and I still couldn’t quite follow the book. It was written in short ineffective sentences. It also failed to go into great detail. In a sense it almost seemed to try to blow up the events of Lenin’s life. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone. Overall the book was kind of crappy. The book did however, hit on the basic events of Lenin’s life and generally portrayed his life story.
Life lesson-
In this book the life lesson I found was persistence pays off. Basically tried and tried to over throw the Russian governmen ...
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Origins--Generally “Losers” Founded America
Number of Words: 804 / Number of Pages: 3
... found a spot to build a village. They later named it Jamestown after James I. Most of the settlers from Jamestown faced many hardships. They fell sick from drinking the river water, and out of the nearby swamps came mosquitoes carrying a dread fever. Hostile Indians lurked in surrounding forests ready to attack settlers at any moment. Like the settlers from Jamestown, another group of people who faced extreme hardships were the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims landed on the bleak shore and gave the name of Plymouth to their settlement. Life was very difficult at first for the early settlers at Plymouth, ...
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A Separate Peace - The Role Of Minor Characters
Number of Words: 934 / Number of Pages: 4
... into his ""court room" to watch the trial and he tries to prove that Gene did in fact push Finny off. The result of all of this revenge and the result of Brinker’s existence is that Finny finds out the truth which is that Gene did knock him out of the tree on purpose. The major result is that Finny dies because of Brinker. So Brinker, being a minor character, has the role of partly causing Finny to die in the end. If it wasn’t for Brinker, Finny would have still been alive.
Minor characters also add plot and volume to the story and keep it alive. For example Leper’s going to the war. When Leper goe ...
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Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer
Number of Words: 1682 / Number of Pages: 7
... way (an F was something that was never on McCandless report card) or not listening to advice from his parents to the extreme of leaving society to go into the wilderness, McCandless definitely was not a follower. His parents were told by one of his teachers at an early age that Chris “marched to the beat of his own drummer”. Chris never lost his ability to do things the way he wanted and when he wanted to do them. After receiving his diploma from Emory in 1990 he set off on a two-year escapade that would eventually end his life but in my opinion, if Chris could start over he would probably not do th ...
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Nineteen Eighty Four - Fiction
Number of Words: 683 / Number of Pages: 3
... sexual relationship and were taken away by the Thought Police. They were then made to betray eachother, love the Party, and to believe what ever the party said was true. The Party had control over everything even peoples minds. This was proved when O ‘ Brien held up four fingers and said to Winston “how many fingers am I holding up?” Winston replied “Five”.
Big Brother also played a big role in creating the world which ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ was based in. Big Brother is a figure, which the Party has created to frighten people and give them more power. The Party can do anything they like and when someo ...
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Bioethics In A Brave New World
Number of Words: 878 / Number of Pages: 4
... is obviously the sanctity of live." (21)
Alodus Huxley’s novel, A Brave New World deals with many controversial moral conflicts. From the beginning of
the novel when Huxley introduces us to his world with ectogenesis (test tube babies) which is one of the most controversial religious and ethical dilemmas (Huxley, 1-17). Among the many other issues in A Brave New World are the Anthrax bomb (and germ warfare in general), hypnopaediae (implanting subconscious prejudices without letting the person know), and phosphorus recovery (taking minerals from dead bodies) (Huxley 1-247).
All of these things are ...
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Through The Tunnel: Third Person Point Of View
Number of Words: 857 / Number of Pages: 4
... irregular cold currents from the deep water shocked his limbs" clearly describes the beach where the boy is swimming and how it is seen by him. With the addition of words like "discoloured monsters" and "real sea" we can tell what the boy's feeling are toward his beach which he considers scary but at the same time challenging.
By using the third person omniscient point of view, the narrator is able to render the characters with information related both from direct description and from the other character's revelations. This way, the description remains unbiased, but at the same time coherent with how ...
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Beowulf
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... defeat the great Grendel with his bare hands. This miss leads Grendel into thinking that he will be easy to kill. Untold to Grendel has taken half of his men with their weapons and hidden them. They attacked him in vain, his skin was too tough
to be pierced by a sword. ended up ripping Grendel's shoulder and arm out of its socket, because he could not kill him with his sword. Grendel escaped back to his layer to slowly die of his mortal wound.
This proves that good will all ways overcome evil no matter what stands in its way. Like in the story of Beowulf he could not kill Grendel with his sw ...
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An Analysis Of Nature In The W
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... know the owner of the land but is still drawn to the beauty of the scene. Frost gives a scene that is taken into the reader and digested for a time in the speaker’s mind. It shows us that it is all right to take a minute out of a hurried hour and reflect upon what is around you, whether it is a snowy wood or a quite room.
Frost’s use of nature gives the reader an immense selection of symbolism to contemplate. The poem Nothing Gold Can Stay is a potent dose of symbolic nature.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then le ...
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A Dolls House - Noras Rebellion Against Society
Number of Words: 1124 / Number of Pages: 5
... as unimportant compared to the trouble Mrs. Wright is facing.
Likewise, in Isben's play A Doll House Helmer believes that his wife Nora only focuses on trivial matters. Three weeks prior to Christmas Nora spent every evening working alone. Helmer believes that Nora is making the family Christmas ornaments and other treats for the Christmas holidays. In reality, Nora is working for money to repay a loan that she illegally acquired when Helmer was ill. The house cat is blamed for destroying the nonexisting ornaments. Helmer reminds her of the long hours spent away from the family. Helmer ...
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