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Papers on Book Reports
Themes Of Unity In The Grapes
Number of words: 1506 | Number of pages: 6.... by the end of the story their family becomes one with other families who are weathering the same plight of starvation and senseless violence. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck emphasizes the power of groups over the individual’s power to survive poverty and violence through character evolution, plot and the use of figurative and philosophical language.
Tom Joad begins the novel with self-seeking aims, but with the ex-preacher Jim Casy as a mentor, he evolves into an idealistic group leader. Tom first meets Jim on his way home from jail. There begins a lasting friendship with the verbose preacher, who is going through a be .....
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An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" And "The Scarlet Letter"
Number of words: 734 | Number of pages: 3.... in not only the Scarlet
Letter, but also in The Minister's Black Veil. One might even say that
Hawthorne's ancestry (Hathorne) is what he might consider his own "Pearl", and
this is why he changed his name.
Like Miller's the Crucible, The Scarlet Letter takes place in Puritan
Salem and has a tragic hero, but these are the only similarities between the two
great works.
In Miller's play, the tragic hero is John Proctor, a man whose pride
causes the demise of many women, tried as witches. Had Proctor chosen to reveal
his sin of lechery with Abigail Williams before the problem got out of hand, he
would've saved .....
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Rip Van Winkle As A Folktale
Number of words: 1060 | Number of pages: 4.... of the elements in folklore is the use of supernatural and journey. Rip went on a adventure up the Kaatskill Mountains. The adventure consisted of some unusual happenings especially meeting up with the supernatural. The first element of a folktale, journey, ties in the second element, the supernatural. Irving displayed this when Rip met up with a ghost. The images of Henry Hudson’s crew displayed this. Rip and a stranger met up with the crew while they were playing nine-pin. He began to drink with all of them and by the time he realized what was going on he quickly passed out.
He woke up twenty years later. An .....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Number of words: 833 | Number of pages: 4.... Indeed, so that the reader does not miss the allusion, Kesey has McMurphy relate that the person who gave him the shorts was "'a co-ed at Oregon State, Chief, a Literary major'" who made him the present "'because she said I was a symbol'" (69). Melville is a by no means unambiguous writer. Indeed, in Moby Dick, the white whale may be seen as a symbol of impenetrability which forms the book's focus over its "hero" Captain Ahab.
Kesey, however, appears to associate Moby Dick with male aggressiveness/dominance as is shown in this later confrontation between McMurphy and Big Nurse:
"What do you think would have happened if one of .....
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Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six
Number of words: 1476 | Number of pages: 6.... commander and in charge of starting a new European anti-terrorist group called Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six is split into two teams; Team 1 and Team 2. These teams are the best there is. They are based in Hereford, England, but any European country can call on them at any time. They run 3 miles in 20 minutes every morning at 6:00 am. Only one team will be on-call at a time. The team that is not on-call will be doing live fire practices. In the first 6 months of being in operation they are called on three times which is a lot for this type of thing. The first incident happens in a Swiss bank where terrorists have taken control. .....
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The Storm Within
Number of words: 742 | Number of pages: 3.... was beating down all the barriers they had set up within themselves to
resist this temptation. Their feelings were so dangerously close to the
surface that they could hardly hide them any longer.
The storm was raging on and the drama of the lightning was very
shocking to them. They could almost feel its electricity. “The playing of
lightning was incessant. A bolt struck a tall chinaberry tree at the edge
of the field. It filled all visible space with a blinding glare and the
crash seemed to invade the very boards they stood upon.” The lightning in
the literal storm was the symbol of the electricity felt between the
Calixta .....
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Crime And Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, And Different Punishments
Number of words: 967 | Number of pages: 4.... to our misdemeanor crimes. Summery crimes were all minor crimes such as:
Property crimes, Vagrancy, Drunkenness, Prostitution, Minor Larceny , and all
other minor offenses.
Probably the most famous criminal in the Victorian period was " Jack
the Ripper ". Jack the Ripper was " the first modern sexual serial killer" (
Sugden, pg.2) Jack's trademark was the killing of female prostitutes. But not
only did he kill them, he would surgically remove organs and intrails and place
them near the dead body. "Jack the Ripper" wasn't his only nickname, he was
also called " the Whitechaple murder " because the body's were found near .....
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Ursula Le Guin’s Use Of The Psychomyth
Number of words: 575 | Number of pages: 3.... it repulsive how they are dirty, smelly, and often beg from us. Mentally or physically challenged people in our society often receive the same treatment. We make fun because they are not as intelligent or physically fit as we are. They might have to use some sort of assistance to get around. They might not be able to speak like us or understand things the way most of us do. These are just two examples of people living in these isolated rooms. We acknowledge that they are there, but most of the time we do nothing. Instead, we ignore them and go on with our own busy, happy lives, leaving them alone in the world.
Although the s .....
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Maggie A Girl Of The Streets And Pudd’nhead Wilson
Number of words: 1004 | Number of pages: 4.... child from slavery and put her masters child
into it. This idea does not work out and son grows up beating her and
whipping her. Her son turns into the laughing stock of the town. According
to the website http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/projects/applebaum/roxy.html,
Roxy is very naive. Her second sign of stupidity was after she lost all her
money from the steamship she returns to Dawson’s Landing hoping her son will
help her. According to the website, her naiveness is evident when she has
faith in her son to help her but he tells her to get out of his sight. Her
continuing faith in her son keeps being thrown back in her f .....
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Candide The Satire Of An Age.
Number of words: 644 | Number of pages: 3.... to make them Enlightened. For example L’Hospital’s a French Noble had in his “possession” mathematicians that developed new ways of taking limits (a Calculus idea). Yet in today's society we call this way “L’Hospital’s Rule,” not Bernoulli’s rule who is the one who “invented” it (Stewart 310).
Candide is consistently being brainwashed by reason (Pangloss) saying that we live in “the best of Yet it quite obviously that he does not. For how can there be, in the best of all worlds, war, slavery and many more abominations. Half-way through the book it would appear that Candide has given up his optimism .....
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