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Papers on Book Reports
T.S. Elliot's "Tradition And The Individual Talent" And Alain Locke's "The New Negro
Number of words: 2413 | Number of pages: 9.... reconstruction" (1405).
Critics were in effect using tradition only to describe something quaint
and archaic. The problem with this view is that it creates the
misconception among the general public that good poetry is not at all
related to anything that has been done before, and it must instead be
something entirely new to be good.
This misconception was especially destructive because it caused
people to ignore the influence of great writers of the past upon
contemporary ones. Elliot states that "…in critical writing we tend to look
for what is original in a piece of work if we like it, so therefore do not
pay attention to wha .....
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Summary: Jurassic Park
Number of words: 1405 | Number of pages: 6.... was identified as a Procompsognathus,
thought to be extinct for millions of years. The scientists who witnessed
the evidence, Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant, both foremost in the fields of
paleontology, were soon requested to fly down to a private island off of
Costa Rica by John Hammond, founder of InGen. A little later on in the
second section, the story unfolds somewhat, when the scene shifts to a
meeting of the Biosyn Corporation of Cupertino, where they explain that
InGen was cloning dinosaurs. The Biosyn company then hires Lewis Dodgson,
an scientists who worked at InGen, to help them steal dinosaur embryo's for
them. He star .....
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Candide
Number of words: 806 | Number of pages: 3.... priority of life. Psychologists have classified human companionship as one of the most essential sociological needs of mankind. This is confusing to 's because Count Pococurant is unsatisfied with two girls that caught 's attention with their beauty, their style, and their manner. (118) To add to the irony of this situation, 's journey throughout the novel is a pursuant for a woman that he sees to be a good companion. Count Pococurant has two women that are beautiful, stylish, and well mannered. The bottom line is that both and Count Pococurant are both envious of each other's situation. wants female companionship and Coun .....
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Societies Clenching Paws
Number of words: 656 | Number of pages: 3.... offends the American aristocratic sensibility. Strangely, the American sensibility seems to be more deeply ingrained in her than any other character in the movie. The freedom and the innocence that she displays is foreign to the New Yorkers that she talks to, although among Americans of the day her thoughts and actions she would be normal. The same type of personality is brought to Europe when Daisy Miller goes there. She is too free and uninhibited by her social calling. The Americans in Europe once again act more like Europeans than Daisy does.
Both Ellen and Daisy are women on their own. They are fish out of water in th .....
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Bigger Thomas
Number of words: 1094 | Number of pages: 4.... in the sky and Bigger says:
“…God, I’d like to fly up there in that sky.”
“God’ll let you fly when He gives you your wings up in heaven,” Gus said.
The racial tension that has been building up since the first time the two races ever met has finally gotten to the point where a black person’s only hope of real freedom lies in his or her death. Conditions were much too cruel for the achievement of the American dream for most people, even in the rare instance that one did acquire his or her own home and family, prejudice kept him or her from living a full and normal life. Bigger was fully aware of his place in so .....
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The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
Number of words: 1019 | Number of pages: 4.... one by one. In the night he heard a "sound so
soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attacked the
trespasser. This is where the problems for Juana and her family began. The
fear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over his actions.
Soon even Juana who had always had faith in her husband, had doubted him
greatly. "It will destroy us all" she yelled as her attempt to rid the
family of the pearl had failed. Kino had not listened however, and soon
Juana began to lose her spiritual side and for a long time she had
forgotten her prayers that had at once meant so much to her. She had trie .....
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Elie's Wiesel And Night
Number of words: 366 | Number of pages: 2.... to the expelled Rabbi) and that of his companions.
The train full of deportees had crossed the Hungarian frontier and on Polish
territory had been taken in charge by the Gestapo. The jews had to get out and
climb into lorries. The lorries dove towards a forest. The jews were made to get
out. They were made to dig huge graves. And when they had finished their work,
the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion, without taste, they slaughtered their
prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present its neck. Babies were
thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets. . . Through
long days and nights, he went f .....
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Chrsanthemums
Number of words: 1634 | Number of pages: 6.... and a good garden. Their marriage is childless and conventional and she has begun to sense that an important part of her is dying and that her future will be predictable and mundane. Elisa is a barren woman who has transferred her maternal impulses to her garden, a garden full of unborn seedlings. On the other hand, Elisa would never consider a lurid affair, when a dark mysterious stranger appears at their quiet farm dwelling looking for work. A complete contrast from her husband, an adventurer who lives spontaneously, a man of the road not bound by standard measures of time or place. Since mending pots is a way of life, he has fou .....
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Book Report On "A Dramatic Death"
Number of words: 1335 | Number of pages: 5.... sister's friend for
so long Steve treated her as a sister, which she didn't like. Emma became
so fond of Steve that she start doing all these gruesome things and in the
end she went to a mental hospital. Emma liked to be in the play a lot and
she was said to have a very over active imagination.
SETTING
The setting was in a small quiet town called Dorking, the play took in a
high school drama room. The setting brings people together (the drama
group) which brings conflicts. The town was described to bring a spooky
setting to the novel.
THEME
The theme of this novel is that we shouldn't trust everybody we know no
matter how close .....
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Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": Summary
Number of words: 1474 | Number of pages: 6.... seems bent on perpetuating the family myth that all is well in the world.
His family, after all, "are people of good taste. They do not discuss a
problem in the face of the problem. And, besides, there is no problem." Yet,
there is not one problem in this family but two - Conrad's suicide and the
death by drowning of Conrad's older brother, Buck.
Conrad eventually contacts a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger, because he feels
the "air is full of flying glass" and wants to feel in control. Their initial
sessions together frustrate the psychiatrist because of Conrad's inability to
express his feelings. Berger cajoles him i .....
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