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Papers on Book Reports
Freedom And Liberty
Number of words: 939 | Number of pages: 4.... middle-class workers in Oceania, discuss the concept
of Newspeak. Syme reveals that he supports the system, demonstrating how he
has been brainwashed by the Inner Party who enforces the system.
"It’s a
beautiful thing, the destruction of words... You haven’t a real appreciation
for Newspeak, Winston... Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to
narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thougtcrime literally
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. (p. 46)"
One can detect from this quotation that the people of Oceania, as a group,
have been brainwashed by the Inner Party .....
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Saint Augustine: Confessions
Number of words: 1992 | Number of pages: 8.... time frame is life. Time is everything.
I’m sure that if you asked any person what time is, they would respond by saying some thing about minutes and seconds. Mankind, unfortunately, sees time as an object. The human mind has the tendency to make everything objective. We have even made objects of God and his holy son, despite the commandment in Exodus, which forbids it. This is all great, but the question remains; What is time? In this paper, I hope to achieve some understanding of this question by refering to Chapter 11 of .
In this chapter, Augustine attempts to find the answer to the puzzling mystery of time. He immediately .....
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The Lord Of The Flies: Personal Reflections
Number of words: 1659 | Number of pages: 7.... to become a leader.
Overall Piggy would make an excellent leader, but his appearance and age
would make the others questions his orders. Journal II
Living on the island was an inner battle. Other boys on the island found
it hard to obey my orders. One of the bigger boys, Jack, formed a hunting
group.
One day they went out on one of their trips searching for pig meat for
the rest of us to eat. They took a while, and during their time gone, a
ship was spotted off the coast of the island. All the kids became happy,
knowing that they were going to be rescued. Even though the boat was
nearing the island, something didn't .....
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Grapes Of Wrath Book Report
Number of words: 1494 | Number of pages: 6.... that he got in a fight with a guy at a dance and when he tried to brandish a
knife, Tom hit him on the head with a shovel. The truck driver lets him off at his father’s
farm but he finds it abandoned. He does meet up with an old friend Jim Casy who used to
be a preacher. So Tom and Jim head down to his uncle’s to locate his family. A day later
he finds them all about to leave for California. Tom decides to accompany his family to
California although it means breaking his parole. Packed tightly into a truck, they begin
their journey down Route 66, little realizing that they are part of a huge migration into an
unwelcomi .....
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Of Mice And Men: The Great Depression And Lennie And George's Dream
Number of words: 739 | Number of pages: 3.... jobs. This put a damper on their dream because they were unable to save up the money that they would need to purchase a farm. The downfall of America during this time made it very hard for anyone. Even those people who were upper class before the Great Depression lost almost all of their money and were having trouble surviving. Someone who was lower class, like Lennie and George, had a hard time saving the money to buy their own plot of land for a farm. George knows saving the money will be especially hard for him because “…few people have the ability or drive to fulfill them [dreams]” (Cliffs Notes 25).
Lennie is obliviou .....
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The Rime Of The Christo-marine
Number of words: 1732 | Number of pages: 7.... Mariner tries to pray for salvation, he hears a demonic voice, like Lucifer: "I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;/But or ever a prayer had gushed,/A wicked whisper came, and made/My heart as dry as dust." [ln 244] As the ghost ship approaches, "I bit my arm, I sucked the blood," in reference to Jesus' use of the wine at the last supper as his own blood. When the spirits move the ship, "Slowly and smoothly went the ship/Moved onward from beneath," the Mariner is, in a sense, walking on water. The ending is the more ironic to consider that the Mariner, as a kind of Christ figure, is rescued by a Pilot, where Jesus died by P .....
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Addison And Steele
Number of words: 1527 | Number of pages: 6.... The two men would write about any occasion, but whenever they wrote they were really in depth of their feelings and thoughts. Their was one topic in particular that fashioned their writings and that was the topic of love. Love was portrayed as being good and bad throughout the writings.
Love was used repetitively due to it is a constant in every bodies life and they could easily relate to the characters. Allowing others to relate to their writings helped make them popular. gave love a good and bad side to show the readers that love is not cracked up to what it really can be. It was good in the way that it showed people having a .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Symbolism
Number of words: 533 | Number of pages: 2.... who i s fighting for his job.
Howard no longer need s Willy's services and without concern fires him.
This , to Willy, was like, "eating the orange and throwing away the peel".
However, Willy is partly to blame, as he does not accept change and wants
to remain in the pas t. This is foreshadowed in the scene where Willy is
left alone with the tape recorder and is unable to shut it off. Willy
believes in using his old techniques and style to succeed. N evertheless,
in hi job, it is not what you know, but it is who you know. Willy is not up
to date with the business nor technology. Yet, Willy still has hope, and
wishes to leave .....
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Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Number of words: 483 | Number of pages: 2.... that. He tried, and he failed.
Dr. Hyde on the other hand is the evil side of Dr. Jekyll. Enfield points out that “ he (I) saw a strange, deformed man round the corner and bump into a young girl. The strange man did not stop but simply walked right over the young girl.” This man was later figured to be Dr. Hyde, This obviously shows that he was an evil man who had no worries about anything in his life (pushing over a little kid as one of them), and he would peruse doing what he did, not letting anyone stop him.
Dr. Hyde and Jekyll have one common trait even though they have two different personalities. This trait .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Golding Reduces The Power Of His Message
Number of words: 401 | Number of pages: 2.... from the trees and carries him out to sea, so that the other boys cannot see that it wasn't a beast. The author uses the boy's fear against them, and although this could possibly happen in the situation, Golding uses it as a weapon against them, their morale and their companionship. I think that the boys split up and go to Jack because of the fear - he can kill the beast, he can get them meat, and if they ever get upset, he can start a dance and all will be fine.
The whole message of the story is about the `darkness of man's heart', which exists in everyone. To emphasise this side of human nature, the author had to make a situation .....
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