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Papers on Book Reports
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Number of words: 2533 | Number of pages: 10.... reflects on how the Combine is taking over. The Big Nurse is never happy unless there is complete order in her ward. She often holds group meetings, in which she belittles her patients to where they are merely rabbits, and not men. Often, when a patient would act inflammatory, she would place him in Disturbed. There was always the threat of Electro-shock therapy, and even lobotomy. The only way to get out of the ward was if you gave up your personality and conformed to her rules. Most of the patients who are in the ward were forced there because of the oppression they faced outside of the hospital. Chief Bromden’s fa .....
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Odysseus Personal Qualities (f
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Lassie
Number of words: 330 | Number of pages: 2.... decides to go home. Lassie gets out of his cage and starts on the long journey home.
Resolution
On Lassie's journey home he meets a lot of people and some are very nice and help him if it wasn't for them Lassie would have never made it. He did though one afternoon when Joe Carraclough was coming out of school there he was waiting as before. Joe saw him and ran out and hugged him real tight he had never been more happy in his entire life. That night every thing was back to normal. LASSIE HAD COME HOME. .....
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Gulliver's Travels
Number of words: 1303 | Number of pages: 5.... but also opened his eyes to the untrusting and ungrateful nature of
those aforementioned. When he first arrived in their land, the Lilliputians
opted to tie him up, giving him no freedom, which he luckily did not object to.
Then, once they had developed a somewhat symbiotic realationship with him,
Gulliver was basically forced to abide to their whims and fancies, and
ultimately to be their tool in war. At any time, Gulliver could have escaped
their grasp, but instead, he opted to stay and observe and oblige to their
customs. He was a very agreeable guest. He did tricks for them, he saved their
princess from her burning castle, .....
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Billy Budd: A Story Of True Goodness
Number of words: 483 | Number of pages: 2.... Where Billy is naïve, John is knowledgeable. Where Billy is content, John is jealous. Lastly, where Billy is good, John is bad.
The ugliness that results in the death of both men portrays the triumph of sinister forces over the meek. John Claggart, who is a powerful and feared man aboard Bellipotent, lashes out at Billy who is for the most part defenseless. This is an injustice of biblical proportions.
What could have prevented this from happening? Perhaps, if Billy picked up on John’s malicious intent the entire tragedy could have been avoided. But, on the other hand Billy was good and sought goodness. That is why he failed .....
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Rejection
Number of words: 678 | Number of pages: 3.... from the old man and eventually his children. He knew that it could have been possible because the old man was blind; he could not see the monster's repulsive characteristics. But fate was against him and the "wretched" had barely conversed with the old man before his children returned from their journey and saw a monstrous creature at the foot of their father attempting to do harm to the helpless man. "Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore [the creature] from his father..." (Shelley 142). Felix's action caused great inner pain to the monster. He knew that his dream of living with them "happily ever after" .....
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More's Utopia And Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
Number of words: 2387 | Number of pages: 9.... ambition. Most of all, he wants to curtail pride, the
evil he believes is at the root of all evils -- "the infernal serpent that
steals into the hearts of men, thwarting and holding them back from
choosing the better way of life." Likewise, in Aldus Huxley’s Brave New
World, crime and greed have been eliminated and everybody is satisfied with
their social status. This similarity between the two novels suggests that
the authors may have seen a link between social status and crime. Indeed,
in western civilization, it is evident through statistics that a large
amount of crime takes place amongst the lower class. Both authors saw .....
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A Review: The Day Of The Jackal
Number of words: 495 | Number of pages: 2.... the many small ventures that give rise to the climax. In a scene where the
Jackal is purchasing a fake identification card, the reader can tell that the
man making the card is an expert. Not because it was mentioned, but because the
man has such a large amount of information about I.D. cards to offer. This same
writing talent that displays the characters with subtle suggestion instead of
giving specific details is also shown when the Jackal goes to purchase his
sniper rifle. It is not mentioned earlier, but the way the armorer talks about
the mechanics involved with making a gun in which the Jackal described shows
that he is one .....
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David Copperfield
Number of words: 1007 | Number of pages: 4.... are intertwined throughout his novels. Dickens father was constantly
in debt and was eventually sent to jail. This memory was agonizing for young
Charles as years later he wrote: "No words can express the secret agony of my
soul. I felt my early hopes of growing up to be a learned and distinguished man,
crushed in my breast." This directly relates to Dickens discussion of David in
a wine house later in the novel. A couple of years later, Dickens attends
school at the Wellington House Academy where he fell in love with Maria Beadnell
but her father opposed the marriage and nothing became of it. David Copperfield
is more of .....
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Mary Astell's From A Serious Proposal To The Ladies
Number of words: 269 | Number of pages: 1.... She
felt that females back then should have the same rights as women have achieved
through the Civil Rights Movement today. Her answer to this was "A Religious
Retirement." It is Mary Astell's ideal place to end her intellectual suffering
and open new doors for the female mind. I feel that Mary went a little to far
with this idea. She wanted to segregate males and females, live in a convent,
and find alternates to marriage for women, which, I guess, would be the same as
living in a convent. Mary was a feminist which I feel lead her to be so
aggressive in this proposal, but I can understand why she is mad. I would feel
the sa .....
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