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Papers on Book Reports
One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest
Number of words: 1115 | Number of pages: 5.... A sexy woman's voice melted through the phone.
"Hello, who is this?"
"Hello, may I speak to Mr. Harding?" He choked a little with nervousness.
The woman's voice suddenly transformed with harshness.
"Who's that?... Ah, you must be one of his buddies," she emphasized the word "buddies" with contempt, chewing on it with relish-hatred, "You idiot, don't you know that he died 3 years ago?"
There was a shock and a pause.
"Died? You mean Mr. Harding, Dale Harding? When? How?"
"I am a busy person. I don't have time to talk to you. My fianc¨¦ is waiting."
The line went dead, but he held the phone for a long time, a very long .....
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Jurassic Park
Number of words: 382 | Number of pages: 2.... goes wrong. The electric fences stopped working, and the dinosaurs
escaped. Ian Malcolm's opinion of this world is that it won't survive, or the
humans won't survive. The world has survived everything until now, it will
surely survive the dinosaurs once more. But us, the humans are the ones that
may not survive. "Our planet is four and a half billion years old. There has
been life on this planet for nearly that long. Three point eight billion. The
first bacteria. And later, the first multi-cellular animals, and the first
complex creatures, in the sea, on the land…. Great dynasties of creatures
arising, flourishi .....
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Grapes Of Wrath 3
Number of words: 7173 | Number of pages: 27.... example in Tom's life how the larger are trying to control the less fortunate. This land had been his family's source of pride and livelihood throughout his life with them and it's loss was the first sizable impact on Tom's conscience that would lead him to an awakening. After visiting the land the Joad family had lived on for many years Tom and Jim traveled to his uncle John's house nearby. There Tom meets his family as they are making preparations to leave for California. Tom's family has already sold off every valuable possession they own while living under cramped conditions on old and soiled mattresses in a house not built .....
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A Character Sketch Of Joe Gargery
Number of words: 506 | Number of pages: 2.... utmost respect. Pip's
decision to go to London has a greater impact than most readers think. Not only
was Joe losing a set of hands around the forge, but he was also saying farewell
to a boy who must have been like a son to him. Joe knew that once Pip left
they would never have the same relationship. It was clear to Joe that this was
Pip's dream, so not once did he question the decision Pip had made.
When Pip is asked to come to Miss Havisham's and "play", Mrs. Gargery
and Pumblechook are driven crazy wondering what gift she will give Pip for his
service. Joe, on the other hand, pays no attention to their high hopes. His
pri .....
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Thematic Analysis Of Things Fa
Number of words: 1221 | Number of pages: 5.... desperate desire to succeed his chi, does not let him go any further than failure, destruction and death.
Chi is simultaneously a destiny and an internal commitment that cannot be denied.
The Igbo religion has a tendency to symbolize numerous amounts of divine gods. They have a god for every different natural phenomonum that occurred. These things of worship were things such as trees, pieces of wood, hills, caves etc. For every symbolic god there was a being in the clan that represented it. Ezeani the priestess of the goddess of the earth represented the goddess of earth (Ani). The clan seeks knowledge from the god through the .....
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Summary Of "Of Mice And Men"
Number of words: 1285 | Number of pages: 5.... Their goal was to own a shack and an acre of land that they can
call their own and to live of the "fat of the land' and Lennie wanted to
rasie rabbits. This telling of the their dream was greatly loved by Lennie..
especially and only when George told it to him (altough he knew it word
from word). George also blames his current situation of down and out luck
on Lennie because he has to always keep a look out on his behalf. Knowing
that there was a great possibility that something like the incident in Weed
would happen in the new ranch, George tells Lennie to run like the wind and
return to this place near the water and hide in the b .....
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Annotations From The Narrative
Number of words: 1628 | Number of pages: 6.... allowed to have this kind of knowledge. His master feared that if Frederick knew of his background, he would be deemed useless as a slave. Knowledge was a thing valued by slaves and feared by their masters. To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery. [Ch. 2, p. 47.] Douglass is speaking here of the songs he used to hear on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation. When he was a slave he was more sensitive to this music than any other parts of slavery. They had always filled him with sadness even after he became free. He starts to realize as a young boy after hearing these songs, just how b .....
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The Blue Hotel
Number of words: 656 | Number of pages: 3.... weird. This is shown when Scully shows the Swede pictures of his dead family (269). What person in their “right” mind would show someone who thinks they are going to be killed a picture of someone who was killed? These examples show how the settings are more important then the characters themselves. The characters are very odd in this story. It’s very hard to think of how such a group could have been formed. The differences among the men are large. The cowboy is the rugged and sinister type, while the easterner is very open and joyful. Johnnie is not like his dad, Scully. They seem to be foils of each other. The Swede is .....
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Time Machine Book Report
Number of words: 1164 | Number of pages: 5.... Traveler is standing on the shore of a dead sea, he thinks to himself, I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurt one's lungs; all contributed to an appalling effect (69). This scene is one of complete desolation and despair. He had spent all his time making the time machine to see the wonderful advances in technology, knowledge, and intellect. Instead he finds only decay and degenerati .....
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Famous Mathematicians: A Book Review
Number of words: 825 | Number of pages: 3.... in 287 BC and is thought of as the greatest mathematician, engineer, and physicist of ancient times. He was often asked by King Hieron to solve problems or assist in the safekeeping of Syracuse by developing different defense mechanisms. His mathematical works are concerned with many topics including plane geometry, cylinders, solid geometry, and arithmetic, especially with the estimation and notation of large numbers. A Roman soldier killed Archimedes as he was working on a geometric design in the sand but his mathematical works have challenged mathematicians for centuries.
Aryabhatta was a Hindu mathematician born near Patna .....
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