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Papers on Book Reports
Lord Of The Flies: Depending?
Number of words: 729 | Number of pages: 3.... obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch" (Golding 21). The boy who had blown the shell, the one who had successfully brought the boys in a state of order was, in the boy's view, the most comprehensible leader. They based his leadership skills on the fact that he had congregated the boys toge! ther and his envious appearance. Ralph accepts his reign as the leader and begins giving orders. For the most part, the boys were eager and willing to listen to Ralph instead of Jack for a change. An example of the boy's willingness to accept Ralph as their leader is shown when "Ralph sat on a fallen trunk...On his right were most .....
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Brave New World 4
Number of words: 2267 | Number of pages: 9.... pretty their whole lives thanks to chemicals and conditioning. It’s the complete opposite in the savage reservation. As seen by the old man, it’s shown that people in the Reservation age normally, loose their teeth, and get wrinkles. The reservation represents more of an old, more class time period whereas the Utopia is perhaps not to distant future gone wrong. In both societies, both of them still are imperfect but in completely different ways.
2.) When Linda was on the reservation she didn’t seem to cope with it very well. She got fat, became an alcoholic, and was just a big mess. She hated how dirty the reserv .....
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An Analysis Of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife Of Bath's Tale
Number of words: 1054 | Number of pages: 4.... rarely lived up to this ideal(Patterson 170). In a work by Muriel
Bowden, Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, she explains that
the knights of the Middle Ages were "merely mounted soldiers, . . .
notorious" for their utter cruelty(18). The tale Bath's Wife weaves
exposes that Chaucer was aware of both forms of the medieval soldier.
Where as his knowledge that knights were often far from perfect is
evidenced in the beginning of Alison's tale where the "lusty" soldier rapes
a young maiden; King Arthur, whom the ladies of the country beseech to
spare the life of the guilty horse soldier, offers us the typical
conceptio .....
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The Secret World Of Walter Mitty: Walter Mittys Life Sucks
Number of words: 228 | Number of pages: 1.... he's always sick. She likes
it because she can control him. She want's him to be at her feet. And she wants
him to think she's superior.
The lady on the street thought he was crazy. She probably thought he was
a sick, big, wimp, and a loser. Maybe she thought that that was a guy who never
scored in his life. To put it in another word he was just a funny looking, crazy,
sick, loser of a guy.
The parking attendant thought he was dangerous in a car. He thought
Mitty could be pushed around. And should be walking instead of driving,” but
even then he could be dangerous at that.” He thought Mitty was a wuss and all
around wimp.
Wa .....
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Jasmine: Taylor's Significance
Number of words: 891 | Number of pages: 4.... By meeting Taylor, he gave her the freedom to explore more America life instead just limited in one place. Her first experience with ordinary American family was with Taylor, Wylie and Duff. "I became an American in an apartment on Claremont Avenue across the street from a Barnard College Dormitory¡KDuff was my child; Taylor and Wylie were my parents, my teachers, my family." (p. 146) In addition, Taylor provided her the environments to live like an American, although she could not get use to the new kind of life, an more advanced life, and live under different culture. For example, "No window shades, no secrets. Barnard .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Inner Soul And Human Emotion
Number of words: 679 | Number of pages: 3.... her. Dickens, who was fascinated with French history, especially the French Revolution, begins by criticizing the aristocrats' treatment of the poor people of France. In the seventh chapter of book two, the Monsieur the Marquis had accidentally driven his carriage over a young child, killing him. Instead of worrying about the child's welfare, the Monsieur's reaction was to worry about his horses: "One or the other of you is forever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done to my horses."(Dickens, 111) He deemed their lives inferior and insignificant, this attitude was illustrated when he threw a gold coin to the child's d .....
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Anne Bradstreet And Sarah Kemble Knight: Writing Styles
Number of words: 632 | Number of pages: 3.... format allows her to comment and pass judgment on any of various things she encountered. She was a keen social observer and she was not hesitant to write with humor of those people by whom she was entertained. Her accounts are mostly non-fictional with a bit of reflective observation; she spares no details to good taste.
Knight and Bradstreet emerged from very different backgrounds. Bradstreet was raised in the house of a British nobleman. At sixteen, she married a scholar who eventually became the governor of Massachusetts. She came to America with her husband and parents, and she moved with her husband to a small to .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Number of words: 1214 | Number of pages: 5.... fiasco Jim listens to exactly what Tom and Huck say, even though some of the things that are "necessary" for a prisoner to do are ridiculous. Jim just thinks they are white people and therefore they must obey unquestionability. Their plan however backfires and Jim is back into the custody of the Phelps. Even when Jim has the chance to act like he knows Huck he doesn't. Therefore saving Huck from his identity becoming revealed. This would make the farmers mad and maybe put him in danger. Throughout this escapade Jim stands by Huck like a true "friend" and never doubts him for one second. Huck on his part tries to do every .....
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Black Rain: Reader Response
Number of words: 1361 | Number of pages: 5.... after the bomb to what his wife
cooked for dinner with the food rationing. He even likes to write how people
cured themselves of radiation sickness and what the burns and other injuries
look and act like. These things are like myself in the fact that he does not
like to forget what things are like, wants to see first hand what the effects
are, and is very interested in finding information about new things that he has
never seen before. He also likes to help people greatly such as his constant
wanderings looking for coal for his community. If you were depended on would
you help your community? I think so.
The theme that is very mea .....
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The Goal: Book Review
Number of words: 1034 | Number of pages: 4.... by them. Still, the manager must do much thinking and research in order to figure out just how to express his goal in terms of these measurement.
In addition to expressing the goal, the manager is troubled by whether employees, robots, and machinery actuall need to be running at all times. At first glance many managers seem to think that an idle worker is an unproductive worker, but Goldratt shows us that in reality a plant in which everyone is working all the time is very inefficient. The manager in the book soon comes to realize that machines don’t run themselves -- it takes people to create excess inventory, so sometimes .....
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