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Twelve Angry Men
Number of words: 664 | Number of pages: 3.... takes on the leading role and handles it well. He also brings organization into the jury room by organizing the juries, the discussions, and the votes. With the excellent traits that Vance brings into the jury room, he allows the trial to run smoothly and effectively.
Dorian Harwood’s profession as nurse also shapes his actions in the jury room. In the jury room, he acts with compassion and respect. As a nurse he does the same. His compassion lies in caring for another. He relates that to the trial by thinking of the boy as one of his patients. He wants him to have a fair chance at life, and therefore wants him to have .....
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A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes
Number of words: 497 | Number of pages: 2.... sake of being accepted by others. Real individualists are
not those people with blue and green hair you see on talk shows. Those people
conform to a subculture, something that was less common during World War II.
The real individualists of the world are quickly disappearing, as conformity
becomes more popular. I haven't met any real individualists, so I can't say
whether or not Knowles exaggerates Lepillier's lack of stereotype.
In modern society, there is pressure on individualists to conform to
the most prominent subculture in the local area (I think). Those who fail to
conform become outcasts, like the character Quackenbush .....
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 2848 | Number of pages: 11.... Clemens, was born in Florida,
Missouri, in 1835. During his childhood he lived in Hannibal, Missouri, a
Mississippi river port that was to become a large influence on his future
writing. It was Twain’s nature to write about where he lived, and his
nature to criticize it if he felt it necessary. As far his structure,
Kaplan said,
In plotting a book his structural sense was weak; intoxicated by a
hunch, he seldom saw far ahead, and too many of his stories peter out from
the author’s fatigue or surfeit. His wayward techniques came close to
free association. This method served him best after he had conjured up
characters fr .....
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
Number of words: 1503 | Number of pages: 6.... is no reason to suffer and that satisfies him."(508) This quote illustrates that the men are in control. If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It is a feeling of self satisfaction the men feel w!hen they are superior to the woman. The main character knows John loves her, but it is the oppression she feels that bothers her so. Her husband expresses his love for her but at the same time imposes his will on her. He hinders her from having her own thoughts. "…He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction…"(507) The last few words of this quote show how John did .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Alienation
Number of words: 626 | Number of pages: 3.... is terrible beyond anything we could imagine. All our senses are assaulted:
we see newly dead soldiers and long-dead corpses tossed up together in a
cemetery (Chapter 4); we hear the unearthly screaming of the wounded horses
(Chapter 4); we see and smell three layers of bodies, swelling up and belching
gases, dumped into a huge shell hole (Chapter 6); and we can almost touch the
naked bodies hanging in trees and the limbs lying around the battlefield
(Chapter 9).
The crying of the horses is especially terrible. Horses have nothing to
do with making war. Their bodies gleam beautifully as they parade along--until
the shells s .....
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Of Mice And Men: Stereotypes And Discrimination
Number of words: 597 | Number of pages: 3.... Which roots to loneliness.
Lennie is not so much stereotyped, but rather trapped because of his size. Because Lennie is so big, Curley thinks he has to prove something by beating up Lennie. Lennie gets on Curley’s bad side when he didn’t do anything wrong. Lennie is then forced to fight. " ‘I don’t want no trouble,’ he said plaintively. ‘Don’t let him sock me, George.’ " p.32. This is not an everyday discrimination like racism. It’s one of those circumstantial incidents that was described in quote in the introduction. This is an excellent example of how John Steinbeck uses extraordinary circumstances to cr .....
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Overview Of "Catcher In The Rye" And "Death Of A Salesman"
Number of words: 345 | Number of pages: 2.... everything was the opposite of what he strived for. He started going
crazy, and then he lost it. He started to have his own conversations with
people that were not with him; people that were in his mind. He had a
imaginary girlfriend and many other friends that he would talk to. He put
most of his time into the people in his head, that he forgot about reality,
and went on a voyage with one of the people in his mind. That is how he
killed himself. Listening to somebody that wasn't there. .....
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A Comparison Of "The Handmaid's Tale" And "Anthem"
Number of words: 783 | Number of pages: 3.... strict and authoritarian to the point of dictating what
your job will be, to whom you will have children with.
In The Handmaid's Tale the story takes place sometime in the near future
after some kind environmental catastrophe that makes it impossible for most
women to have children. To solve this problem some radicals set off a nuclear
bomb in Washington during a full session of congress and then declare marshal
law. They then systematically took all rights away from women and forced the
ones that could have children into camps where they would be contracted out to
powerful ranking officials to have their children. These women .....
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Courage, Intelligence And Strength In The Client, Dragon, And Beowulf
Number of words: 1158 | Number of pages: 5.... of all ages share courage, intelligence and
strength.
Courage is a prominent feature of all heroes. Within these three books,
each character, Mark Sway, Dirk Pitt and Beowulf, display signs of Courage.
Mark Sway was a courageous boy at his age of 9 years old. Mark would never
quit from continuing with an idea of his if it was for good: "`We can't let
them take the body, Reggie. Think about it. If they get away with it,
it'll never be found.'"1 What this phrase points out, is that Mark did not
want to leave the Mafia men to retrieve the body of the Senator Boyette,
for if they got the body, his efforts to keep quiet about .....
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Things Fall Apart: The Loss Of A Tribe's Livelihood
Number of words: 1550 | Number of pages: 6.... led by the arrival of the Christian mission. Second, this mission acted as a channel to allow a new government to infiltrate Umuofia and challenge the laws and customs that held together the former Igbo way of life.
Igbo spirituality weakened in two waves. First Christianity provided answers that the inhabitants of Umuofia and Mbanta were seeking. At the end of Part One Obierika's thoughts are expressed:
Obierika was a man who thought about things. When the will of the goddess had been done, he sat in his obi and mourned his friend's calamity. Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? But .....
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