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Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
Number of Words: 1539 / Number of Pages: 6
... not affect him since his children were grown
and his wife unable to have any more children. It would be rather absurd to
think that a rational man would want to both propose this and partake in
the eating of another human being. Therefore, before an analyzation can
continue, one has to make the assumption that this is strictly a fictional
work and Swift had no intention of pursuing his proposal any further.
One of the other voices that is present throughout the entire story is that
of sarcasm. In order to understand this further, a reader has to comprehend
that Swift, becoming infamous after Gulli ...
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Great Expectatons
Number of Words: 306 / Number of Pages: 2
... allowed to speak"(pg.25) when at a table surrounded by adults. The period in which this is written, assumes that one must become old before one has an opinion. I feel that "children should be seen and not heard," could be relevant to modern day society if it were changed to "people who are ignorant to the situation at hand should be see and not heard". If a person of any age is not well informed of a situation which they take a strong stand on, their opinions are just as irrelevant as those of small children who are equally uninformed. ...
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The Bogus Logic Of The Beak Of
Number of Words: 8487 / Number of Pages: 31
... these birds on a hot volcanic rock. However, the writers and editors of the book avoid simple logic and put a spin on history that is misleading. The facts and logic presented in The Beak of the Finch really make the book's author out to be a closet creationist.
It just so happened that at the same time I read this book, I was reading The Storm Petrel and the Owl of Athena by Louis Halle. Half of The Storm Petrel is on the bird life of the Shetland Islands, another isolated natural system. Halle, though an evolutionist, devotes a whole chapter on how the Shetlands and other islands conserve spe ...
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Great Gatsby And Money
Number of Words: 756 / Number of Pages: 3
... Soon, the reader comes to understand what makes Daisy's voice like this; "Her voice is full of money" (115). The truth of Gatsby's remark is immediately perceived, her voice is the key to all her magic. Daisy has an ulterior motive to just about everything she does; this motive is to gain money. Her voice carries the jingle of riches.
Tom is a man who is made out of and by money. Tom, being raised into a rich family, has had all the advantages of being rich throughout his life, "His family were enormously wealthy-even in college his freedom of money was a matter of reproach" (10). Tom, being rai ...
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Call Of The Wild Book Report
Number of Words: 929 / Number of Pages: 4
... cruel life for Buck. On his ride to wherever he was going, Buck's
pride was severely damaged, if not completely wiped out by men who
used tools to restrain him. No matter how many times Buck tried to
lunge, he would just be choked into submission at the end. When
Buck arrived at his destination, there was snow everywhere, not to
mention the masses of Husky and wolf dogs. Buck was thrown into a
pen with a man who had a club. This is where Buck would learn one
of the two most important laws that a dog could know in the
Klondike. The law of club is quite simple, if there is a man with
a club, a ...
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Negro Essay
Number of Words: 1383 / Number of Pages: 6
... The driver stood up
and announced "Ten minute rest stop,". The whites rose and ambled off.
Bill and I led the Negroes toward the door. As soon as he saw us, the
driver blocked our way. Bill slipped under his arm and walked away.
"Hey boy where are you going?" the driver shouted at Bill while he
stretched his arms across the opening to prevent myself from stepping
down. I stood waiting. "Where do you think your going?" he asked, his
heavy cheeks quivering with each word. "I'd like to go to the rest
room." I smiled and moved to step down. He tightened his grip on the
door. "Does your ticket s ...
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Odysseus Portrayed As A Hero Who Uses Brains
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... fear of the divinity of a god.
However, towards the end of his fight with Scamander, Achilles is shown that gods are superior than man. And that the divinity of gods must be respected. After finally being beaten down by Scamander, Achilles pleads to Zeus for divine intervention. (Book 21 ll 309-320) Hera sends Hephaestus to rescue Achilles from the river god. It’s Achilles realization of Scamanders’ divinity, which is paradoxically a kind of acceptance of his own humanity.
Throughout The Odyssey, Odysseus rarely shies away from his craft. He’s a tactful thinker. His tactfuln ...
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Arsenic And Old Lace
Number of Words: 353 / Number of Pages: 2
... movie, Mortimer finds himself ashamed of his Brewster name. He discovers that his aunts keep twelve bodies in the basement. Mortimer also receives a visit from his lunatic brother John, who, like his aunts, murders people. While Mortimer discovers more about his insane family, he still must deal with his brother Theodore, who believes that he is President Roosevelt. Finally, Mortimer commits his brother Theodore along with his aunts to an insane asylum. The humor in this scene is at the very end of the movie when Mortimer finds out from his aunts that he is not really a Brewster, rather a son of a ...
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Snow Falling On Cedars
Number of Words: 808 / Number of Pages: 3
... with Ishmael, sending him into a life filled with jealousy and grief.
Howard Frank Mosher paints the same portrait for us, only in a more commonly know setting. A black man and his son are cognizant of their color when they are forced to live in a town of solely white people. As the murder trial unfolds, we find out that the man’s son also has been having a relationship such as the one Ishmael and Hatsue had. He had been having "relations" with a white mail-order bride that had just arrived in town. They kept this secret because of the obvious problems it would have caused with ...
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Survival (on The Book Night)
Number of Words: 1195 / Number of Pages: 5
... were too frightened for their lives to even touch the cauldrons. One brave man dragged himself to the cauldrons intending to drink some of the forbidden soup. Before he could so much as take a small taste of the soup, he was shot, and he fell to the ground, dead. In Night, Elie recalled him as a “Poor hero, committing suicide for a ration of soup” (Weisel, 56).
Later in the story, there is yet another example of how food could kill. While the prisoners were in cattle cars, being moved to a different camp, a worker in one of the towns they passed through threw a piece of bread into ...
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