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Papers on Book Reports
To Kill A Mockingbird: Prejudice
Number of words: 775 | Number of pages: 3.... of Mrs. Dubose. "She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe..son, I told you to see something about her--I wanted you too see something about her" (112). Another brave thing that Atticus proved to his children was when the old rabid dog, Tim Johnson, was wandering up the street towards Jem and Scout. Atticus who's nicknamed " One Shot Finch", Atticus shot old Tim with one shot and the children could not believe their eyes. Just like Jem's and Scout's ability to change their views about Mrs. Dubose through maturity, they were also able to do the same with their respect for their father, Atticus.
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Native Son
Number of words: 1219 | Number of pages: 5.... His life is dictated by a large group of white people’s false belief of superiority. With every cause there is an effect, and the effect that this burden has on Bigger turns him into an animal, living for only one thing, survival.
“There he is again, Bigger!” the woman screamed, and the tiny, one-room apartment galvanized into violent action. A chair toppled as the woman, half dressed in her stocking feet, scrambled breathlessly upon the bed. Her two sons, barefoot, stood tense and motionless, their eyes searching anxiously under the bed and chairs. The girl ran into the corner, half stooped and gathered the hem of he s .....
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A Separate Peace
Number of words: 662 | Number of pages: 3.... the limb, which made him fall.
Another reason the Gene did it intentionally was because after the accident he couldn’t believe what he did. He didn’t think it was that serious, almost like he was surprised that what he did made a big injury. He did do it on purpose but without the intent of making such a big deal that it did. Gene talks about this with Finny’s doctor after it happened in this quote, "Right now, well of course, I am shocked. Who wouldn’t be shocked, for god sakes. It’s terrible, everything’s terrible." "But I don’t see why you should look so personally shocked. You looked like it happened to you or s .....
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Your Chemical World
Number of words: 5608 | Number of pages: 21.... more then likely concerned primarily with staying alive. Certain things are needed to do that, like food, shelter, energy, and drink. Once those needs were meet our Neanderthal brethren made some archaicaly beautiful cave paintings. In doing so they applied chemistry in a whole new way, to benefit their lives. In time chemistry became an integral part of society, today we have used it to stretch our lives out by more then forty percent of what it would have been in the start of the century by the use of medicine. Later on in recordable history chemistry was implemented through rusty trial and error methods which allowed many thing .....
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Flannery O’Conner And Grotesque Characters
Number of words: 666 | Number of pages: 3.... and hightail it out of there with the car and some of the old womans money in his pocket. On the pretense that he would need it for a honeymoon trip, he convinces the old woman to fix the car and give him some cash. The story ends with him marrying the retarded daughter, leaving with her on a honeymoon trip, then abandoning her in a rundown diner on the side of the road.
“Good Country People” is a story about Joy Hopewell, a very well educated young woman living in the rural south. Joy lost a leg in a hunting accident when she was ten and since then had been forced to wear a wooden replacement. She also had a weak heart and it .....
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Joy Luck Club
Number of words: 559 | Number of pages: 3.... high paying jobs of a professional. The women in China are known for taking orders from their husbands.
Another feature that is found to be different in China from America is the different roles women take in the home. The author explains that a Chinese woman is expected to be a good wife for her chosen husband. Girls are promised at an early age to a man. The story “The Red Candle” shows an arranged marriage where the author sacrificed her life to fulfill her parents’ promise of marriage when she was only two years old. At the marriage ceremony the candle is lit at both ends and if neither end goes out it will be a su .....
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"The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character And Cry For Freedom
Number of words: 1501 | Number of pages: 6.... but to follow. "He knows there is no reason to suffer and that
satisfies him."(508) This quote illustrates that the men are in control.
If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It
is a feeling of self satisfaction the men feel when they are superior to
the woman.
The main character knows John loves her, but it is the oppression
she feels that bothers her so. Her husband expresses his love for her but
at the same time imposes his will on her. He hinders her from having her
own thoughts. "…He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir
without special direction…"(507) The last few .....
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The Battle For Your Mind: Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public
Number of words: 2571 | Number of pages: 10.... it from unlawful duplication for sale by other companies, in this
case, I invite individuals to make copies and give them to friends or
anyone in a position to communicate this information.
Although I've been interviewed about the subject on many local and
regional radio and TV talk shows, large-scale mass communication appears to
be blocked, since it could result in suspicion or investigation of the very
media presenting it or the sponsors that support the media. Some government
agencies do not want this information generally known. Nor do the Born-
Again Christian movement, cults, and many human-potential trainings. .....
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The Great Gatsby: Illusions
Number of words: 1084 | Number of pages: 4.... in this book, partly through the actions of Tom who feels
that he must discredit his name. Tom, however discredits name to draw
Daisy away from him when he finds that Gatsby has become interested in
Daisy. When Tom confronts Gatsby, and begins to crumble his illusion,
Gatsby is as cool and confident as he always is.
Tom's voice, incredulous and insulting: I told you I went there
[Oxford]," said Gatsby.
"I heard you, but I would like to know when."
"It was in nineteen-nineteen. I only stayed for five months."
Tom glanced around to see if we mirrored his unbelief. (136)
This passage shows that even Gatsb .....
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The Effect Of Sterotyping In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And Intruder In The Dust
Number of words: 2847 | Number of pages: 11.... however, the daughters suggest that the money
would be safer in the hands of the duke and king. The duke and king hide
the money behind a curtain in their room, but then the duke thinks that
they did not hide the money well enough. Huck observes them hiding the
money and describes it. "They took and shoved the bag through a rip in the
straw tick that was under the feather bed, and crammed it a foot or two
amongst the straw and said it was all right, now, because a n_____ only
makes up the feather bed, and don't turn over the straw tick only about
twice a year, and so it warn't in no danger of getting stole, now." (Twain
235). T .....
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