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Death Be Not Proud
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... wanted so desparatly to get well.
Although he realized that eventually his life would end, he still
never gave up the hope that perhaps he could outsmart his fate to die,
if just to steal a few extra hours.
Each day, until his last, the determination Johnny had to get
well, live a normal life, and even maintain his schoolwork was
phenominal. After being away from school for sixteen months, being
tested constantly by doctors, and having a rapidly deteriorationg
brain, Johnny still managed to graduate with his class and be accepted
into Harvard. Throughout his illness, Johnn ...
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Heart Of Darkness
Number of Words: 890 / Number of Pages: 4
... novel contains an element of autobiography-and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only explain himself in his creations."(Kimbrough,158) The story is written as seen through Marlow's eyes. Marlow is a follower of the sea. His voyage up the Congo is his first experience in freshwater navigation. He is used as a tool, so to speak, in order for Conrad to enter the story and tell it out of his own philosophical mind. He longs to see Kurtz, in the hope's of appreciating all that Kurtz finds endearing in the African jungle. Marlow does not get the opportunity to see Kurtz until he is so di ...
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Compare And Contrast ‘State’ And ‘Nation’
Number of Words: 1238 / Number of Pages: 5
... to communicate thus this creates a major problem for nations as many nations include a huge diversity of languages, for example Britain. Therefore for a nation such as Britain to exist they must create their own ‘nationhood.’ It is this process of establishing a nationhood that a nation creates itself. America is another example of a nation created of major diversity but manages to exist and be recognized as one nation. However countries such as Northern Ireland refuse to live in unity as one nation due to their religious diversity. This is an example of a nation existing with components at differe ...
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Images Of Light And Darkness I
Number of Words: 2223 / Number of Pages: 9
... to thrive on.
Spiritual masters say that love is all there is. They also say in order to truly know something, one must know it’s opposite. To know hot, one must experience cold. To know sorrow, one must have known joy. To love, one must hate. (Or at least come pretty damned close to it.) Without darkness, one cannot appreciate light.
Professors of English say that the greatest writers are those who can “hook” their readers. Those who can propel a story forward. Divide and contrast. Divide and contrast, they say. Friction produced by opposing forces creates great drama. Shakespeare is a ...
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1984 2
Number of Words: 1197 / Number of Pages: 5
... physical control is not good enough, however. The only way to completely eliminate physical opposition is to first eliminate any mental opposition. The government is trying to control our minds, as it says "thought crime does not entail death; thought crime is death." (page 27). Later in the novel the government tries even more drastic methods of control. Big Brother’s predictions in the Times are changed. The government is lying about production figures (pages 35-37). Even later in the novel, Syme’s name was left out on the Chess Committee list. He then essentially vanishes ...
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Anthem
Number of Words: 691 / Number of Pages: 3
... the citizens to the specific profession, also known as a “house”. In this section, his dream of going to the House of Scholars is lost and he is sent to the House of Street Sweepers instead. Here the rules are very strict. He is not allowed to laugh or sing for any reason.
Entertainment was a part of daily life for all citizens within this society. Every day they would sing three hymns and watch a play after that. Among the three hymns were “…The Hymn of Brotherhood, and the Hymn of equality, and the Hymn of the Collective Spirit” (27). These were the only two forms of entertainment the work ...
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Lip Gloss
Number of Words: 457 / Number of Pages: 2
... hard to find the “perfect” product. Lip Smackers got a nine out of ten, because it doesn’t quite use all natural products.
When liking your lips, wouldn’t you want to have a spectacular taste come out of it? That is why taste also plays an important part in picking the right product. The taste must be appealing, non-greasy, and have a candy (not waxy) like taste to it. Lip Smackers received a rating of ten out of ten. There are tons of different flavors of lip-gloss that has been produced by Lip Smackers, such as cinnamon sugar, raspberry, cheesecake, blueberry, strawberry-banana, chocolate, and van ...
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Araby A Revalation
Number of Words: 731 / Number of Pages: 3
... the church and to live his life as he chooses. In the beginning of the story Joyce makes a reference to blindness. This refers to his sense of reality. The boys at the Catholic school have been trapped by the church and cannot escape. Joyce longs to be free of the church and wishes that he could relinquish the ties that bind him to it, like the house. The house was formerly own by a priest who has since passed away. The death of the priest signifies the death of the church. The priest also has more significance to the story. He also represents the hypocrisy of the church. Although the prie ...
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Alicia My Story, Book Summary
Number of Words: 1345 / Number of Pages: 5
... work camp, but that they could send food
packages to him. Shortly after this, Alicia was taken into custody by German officials and
put on a train to another work camp. Alicia managed to escape from this train by jumping
through a small window. She found her way to a river which led her back to the ghetto.
By this time several people in the ghetto had been feeling the effects of the impoverished
conditions. Starvation, Typhoid, and other diseases, were beginning to take its toll on the
people who lived in the ghetto. Then one day, Alicia found out that her brother Bunio had
been killed in t ...
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Gullivers Travels 3
Number of Words: 1024 / Number of Pages: 4
... by the Lilliputian king that it was declared that
his liberty hath been granted when he could have easily crushed
and killed these little people. Gulliver is also very eager to
be able to interact with the creatures and this is evident when
in a few weeks he “made a great progress in learning their
language” (68). He is also quite helpful and there are two
definitive cases of Gulliver displaying this helpfulness in the
country of Lilliput. The first occurs when he obeys the orders
of the king to destroy his opposition’s navy and ends up
stringing up the navy of Blefuscu ...
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