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Papers on Book Reports
Summary Of Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men" With Background About Steinbeck
Number of words: 1975 | Number of pages: 8.... heard of a ranch that was four miles
ahead of them and they could get a job there. George told Lennie that if
he would get into trouble at the ranch, that he should come back and hide
in the bush. Sunrise had came and the two men began their walk to the
ranch. When George and Lennie arrived, they saw a huge long rectangular
building where the bunks were inside, the walls were white and the floor
was wood. The old swamper showed Lennie and George to their assigned bunks.
While George and Lennie were getting settled in, a stocky man stood
in the doorway. He had on blue jeans, a flannel shirt, a vest, a coat,
boots and spurs. .....
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King Lear - Good Vs. Evil
Number of words: 632 | Number of pages: 3.... evil is caused by humans and
not the gods. Edgar said, "The gods are just, and of our peasant vices
make instruments to plague us" (ACT V, iii, 169). Edgar clearly says
that the gods are right and it is the people who are responsible for
promoting evil in the world. It is us who make the instruments
necessary for evil to spread and plague the world. In the world of
King Lear many characters believe evil was caused by the people and
not by the gods.
Even though evil was created by humans good will always exist.
After King Lear was captured he showed that even if evil exists, good
will always be present. .....
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The Man Of Hypocrisy (analysis
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Dune
Number of words: 1862 | Number of pages: 7.... the highest reverence. Duke Leto, Paul's
father now came into the picture. He was the leader of the Atreides Family. He
seemed very established and perceptive. The Atreides family represented good
and honesty while their enemies, the Harkonnen's, were ruthless killers.
The Harkonnen home planet, Gedi Prime was very desolate and dark. It
represented the immorality and darkness within the Harkonnens. Their leader
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen was very obese and inhuman. He killed his own slaves
for fun and hated the Atreides with a passion. He hated their peaceful and
honest ways. Most of all he despised their coming to Dune. .....
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Babyface: The Life Of Toni Chessmore
Number of words: 494 | Number of pages: 2.... with her
sister. Toni has an older sister, Martine, who lives in New York. Toni's
father has a small heart attack and he and Toni's mother are placed in a
care center for a few months. Her parents decide it would be best for Toni
to go stay with Martine while her father is recuperating. Martine and Toni
don't get along at all and it is hard for them to adjust to living with
each other.
A big change in Toni's life occurs when Martine tells her a
devastating family secret. Toni always pictured her parents as the perfect,
loving couple. But when Toni and Martine get in a fight, Martine tells
Toni the truth. Before Toni was .....
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Be True To Thyself
Number of words: 1388 | Number of pages: 6.... Once the invisible man goes off to college he begins to act in a manner to please Mr. Norton. Not only does Mr. Norton not identify with the invisible man racially, he views blacks as “a mark on the scoreboard of [his] achievement”(Ellison 95). Despite these two facts the invisible man allows himself to be a “do boy” by chauffeuring Mr. Norton to slave quarters. It is here that the protagonist can truly be identified as someone that is not in touch with himself because he sacrifices his education for a man that is not concerned about him or his race. Dr. Bledsoe tries to drive this concept into the invis .....
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The Good Earth: Summary
Number of words: 1155 | Number of pages: 5.... the book).
I liked the way the Chinese respected and treated their elders. I think we
should try harder to do this here in our culture too.
Wang Lung's uncle was a lazy and greedy man. Wang Lung did not
like him that much and wished that the Chinese custom of paternal relatives
living with their families did not exist. The only thing his uncle was
good for was preventing a local group of marauding bandits from pillaging
the house of Wang because his uncle was an important official in the group.
Wang Lung gets his uncle addicted to Opium which later caused his death.
I think Wang Lung's uncle represented evil in this book an .....
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The Ss
Number of words: 3724 | Number of pages: 14.... training of the children in school. The book included in-depth insights on the subdivisions of within the army core. German terminology flowed constantly from within the titles and ranks. Many graph and charts were also included depicting the command of the German Third Reich.
Of all the German organizations during WWII, was by far the most infamous, and the least understood. was in fact not a monolithic "Black Corps" of goose stepping Gestapo men, as is often depicted in popular media and in many third rate historical works. was in reality a complex political and military organization made up of three separate and distinct bra .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 1064 | Number of pages: 4.... many rules in his life,
finds the demands the women place upon him constraining and the life with
them lonely. As a result, soon after he first moves in with them, he runs
away. He soon comes back, but, even though he becomes somewhat comfortable
with his new life as the months go by, Huck never really enjoys the life of
manners, religion, and education that the Widow and her sister impose
uponhim.
Huck believes he will find some freedom with Tom Sawyer. Tom
is a boy of Huck's age who promises Huck and other boys of the town a life
of adventure. Huck is eager to join Tom Sawyer's Gang because he feels
that doing so .....
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Jurassic Park: The Novel Vs.The Film
Number of words: 1125 | Number of pages: 5.... about how the man's injuries occurred, that this is
not a typical attack. Soon after this incident another mysterious attack
occurs. This time a young girl is bitten by an 'unknown' lizard on a Costa
Rican beach along with many other infant deaths in the surrounding area.
The evidence Crichton gives here is the fact that the lizard was of an
unknown species and, according to witnesses, carnivorous. It also had the
now impossible task of standing on its tail. Foamy, 'prehistoric' saliva
was also found on the victims' bite marks. The only event in the film that
resembles the novel's beginning is the grisly death of the work .....
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