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Papers on Book Reports
Cold Blood: Myrt
Number of words: 882 | Number of pages: 4.... false. Myrt’s
attitude towards her neighbors makes the reader think she is envious and
hypocritical.
Holcomb did show a friendly side. The town seemed to act more like
friends that did for each other than friends that just associate with each
other. “Any one who has been sick and had Mrs. Ashida walk nobody can
calculate how many miles to bring them some of the wonderful soup she makes.
Or the flowers she grows where you wouldn’t expect a flower to grow. And
last year at the county fair you will recall how much she contributed to
the success of the 4-H exhibits. So I want to suggest we honor Mrs. Ashida
with an award at .....
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Animal Farm
Number of words: 1165 | Number of pages: 5.... throughout the novel, fails to present an idea that is original, but tends to take credit for the ideas of others (Meyers 108). Like Stalin, Napoleon is not a good speaker and is certainly not as clever as his political opponent. However, he makes good use of his resident "smooth-talker," Squealer, to insure that his subjects see the purpose of his evil and demented ideas, while those who oppose him are merely torn apart by dogs that Napoleon accumulated to protect him and distribute justice as he sees fit in much the same way that Stalin used the KGB. Napoleon relies on flashy displays of power like the firing of the shotgun or fa .....
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The Jungle: The Appeal Of Socialism
Number of words: 438 | Number of pages: 2.... and long hours, in
an atmosphere where worker safety had no persuasion. Early on, there was no one
for these immigrants to turn to, so many suffered immensely. Jurgis would later
learn of worker unions and other groups to support the labor force, but the
early years of his Americanized life were filled, with sliced fingers,
unemployment and overall a depressing and painful "new start".
Sinclair, has shown in a dramatic style the hardships and obastacles
which Jurgis and fellow workers had to endure. He made the workers sound so
helpless and the condtions so greusome, that the reader almost wants a way out
for Jurgi .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Superstition
Number of words: 739 | Number of pages: 3.... stomach. Jim asks the hair-ball; Why is Pap here? But the hair-ball won't answer. Jim says it needs money, so Huck gives Jim a counterfeit quarter. Jim puts the quarter under the hair-ball. The hair-ball talks to Jim and Jim tells Huck that it says. "Yo'ole father doan' know yit what he's a-gwyne to do. Sometimes he spec he'll go 'way, en den ag'in he spec he'll stay. De bes' way is tores' easy en let de ole man take his own way. Dey's two angles hoverin' roun' 'bout him. One uv'em is white en shiny, en t'other one is black. De white one gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sil in en gust it .....
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Rheingold's Virtual Reality: Summary
Number of words: 711 | Number of pages: 3.... Research Center). This is
the place that invented the mouse and hypertext. His history lesson
included the evolution of the technology used in virtual reality from
television screen to the head mounted display to the virtual environment
display which used the glove to a laser microscanner to paint images on
your retina. He seemed to cover just about every aspect of virtual reality
and many of its potential uses. The book gives you a very good background
of virtual reality without getting into heavy jargon and this makes it
easier for us to think and relate to the potential uses of virtual reality.
This is one of those .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huck Finn
Number of words: 1065 | 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 upon him.
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 .....
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The True Devils In Salem
Number of words: 2534 | Number of pages: 10.... sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In The Crucible, Abigail starts the accusations by saying, "I go back to Jesus; I kiss his hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!" Another girl, Betty, continues the cry with, "I saw George Jacobs with the Devil! I saw Goody Howe with the Devil!" >From here on, the accusations grow and grow until the jails .....
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Im The King Of The Castle
Number of words: 2402 | Number of pages: 9.... COME HERE" Charles picked up the paper and he read it, he was afraid. When the two boys first meet they have a fight because Edmund says he own's everything in the house. Edmund also tells Charles that he has to sleep in the bed in which his grandfather died, this is not true. Charles hates his mother for taking him to this house and he also dislikes the way she is smiling to mr.Hooper. Chapter 3: Charles has been at Warings now for over a week, he wanted to go away from there so he decided to go to Hang wood for a walk. During the walk he saw a very big crow, the crow flew right over his head and he ran into the corn field. The c .....
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Helen Of Troy Willing Resident
Number of words: 799 | Number of pages: 3.... feels sorry for her and tries to take her mind off of her situation by asking her to point out members of the Achaian army. She responds by first telling him that she wished she had never come to Troy.
"Helen answered: 'You do me honour, my dear goodfather! How I wish I had died before I followed your son here, and left my bridal chamber and my family, my beloved daughter and all my young friends! But that was not to be; and so I pine away in sorrow.'"
In the battle between Alexandros and Menelaos, Alexandros is almost killed but Aphroditê saves him and carries him off to Helen's room. Aphroditê then disguises herself and g .....
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The Crucible: Abigail Is Selfish And Evil
Number of words: 949 | Number of pages: 4.... And you know I can do it... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down." She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living became to get back John. This shows that when a person is given something, which they enjoy, and even love, and they are denied it, they feel distraught and they will many times do almost anything to get it back.
She was very desperate and she .....
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