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Papers on Book Reports
Lord Of The Flies: The Breakdown Of A Society
Number of words: 745 | Number of pages: 3.... glasses in connection with the fire
and the boys' eventual rescue. The specs were used to start the first fire.
Without them, they have no chance of rescue.
At one point in the story, Jack and Piggy began to fight and Jack
hit Piggy's glasses off. They hit a rock and shattered one lens. This
symbolizes the loss of one-half of their chance of rescue.
One day, Ralph, Simon and Piggy saw a passing ship in the distance.
Unfortunately, their fire had gone out because nobody had fulfilled their
responsibility of tending to it. They boys are now more engrossed with
hunting than concentrating on being rescued. They concentrate so .....
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Mice Of Men
Number of words: 492 | Number of pages: 2.... wife. When Lennie is in the barn (after killing his new puppy) Curley’s wife came into the barn and came on to Lennie. Lennie not knowing what was happening let her lull him into touching her hair. To Lennie it was like petting any other animal. Curley’s wife became flustered when Lennie became scared and would not let go of her hair. She started to scream and Lennie tried to cup her mouth, which concluded in him killing her. Lennie was truly remorseful after this action. Soon after killing her Lennie can be heard saying to himself, “I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing (121).”
The final c .....
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Year 10 Asian History Origami
Number of words: 637 | Number of pages: 3.... the art was called Orikata.
Meanwhile, paper folding was also being developed in Spain. Arabs brought the secret of paper making to North Africa, and, in the eight-century AD, the Moors brought that secret to Spain. The Moors were devoutly Muslim and their religion forbade the creation of representational figures. Instead, their paperfolding was a study of the geometries inherent in the paper. After the Moors were driven out of Spain during the Inquisition, the Spanish went beyond the geometric designs and developed papiroflexia, an art this is still popular in Spain and Argentina.
Modern creative paper folding (as opposed .....
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To Kill A Mockinbird: Scout
Number of words: 348 | Number of pages: 2.... porch, Boo's point of view. She saw Maycomb how Boo had always seen it.
At that point, she understood Boo. Scout learned that you cannot
understand someone until you see things through his eyes in that she
achieved a new perception of Boo when she observed her town from his front
porch.
Both of the lessons portrayed are essential in the full development
of Scout's awareness of the world. The lesson she learned from Tom
Robinson gives her a moral outlook on her behavior toward others. The
lesson Boo Radley revealed to her allows her to think before making an
assumption about someone. Tom Robinson and Boo Radley granted Scout .....
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Anthem
Number of words: 705 | Number of pages: 3.... by the devil that this tree was the tree of knowledge and to eat of it would give them knowledge equal to God’s. In , Prometheus and Gaea are told that they have everything that they will ever need or desire by the council. They are forbidden to gain knowledge that is not permitted by the council but only to do as they are told. Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the pursuit of knowledge and ate of the tree in order to gain equality to God. When they did this God found out and so condemned them and punished them for all eternity. God banished them from paradise in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were no longer given anythi .....
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Female Power In The Odyssey
Number of words: 1026 | Number of pages: 4.... their ground in individual protests to get what they want; Penelope’s trickery in evading the impatient marriage proposals by suitors, Helen’s deceit over Menelaos during the Trojan War, and finally the control that Nausicaa seems have upon first meeting Odysseus each illustrate power possessed by females of the epic.
At the Epic’s beginning the reader finds Penelope, Odysseus’ wife in Ithica facing the pressure of suitors who wish her hand in marriage. Despite the fact that her husband has been gone for twenty years, she holds true to her husband’s memory and refuses to remarry. At first glance h .....
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Antigone Was Right
Number of words: 1063 | Number of pages: 4.... weighs humanity in ancient Greece. Antigone was justified in her actions.
Antigone was following divine laws, or walking with divine shoes, while Kreone followed the laws of the state. Her brother’s afterlife was so important to Antigone that she was willing to give up anything to ensure her brother’s happiness and "future" after his death. This supported in the play by the way she is so outspoken about what she had done after she is caught and while she is being questioned. "Why should I be ashamed of my loyalty to my brother?" (Sophocles line 624). Kreon didn’t like her speaking in the manner such as this because it shows .....
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Comparison Of Macbeth And Jack (of Lord Of The Flies)
Number of words: 528 | Number of pages: 2.... family, he didn't
hesitated and killed them without regret. Lastly, they were both
superstitious. Jack was superstitious, he worshipped the Lord of the Flies
and held a ritual dance around the camp fire after sacrificing the pig. For
Macbeth, he believed in the fortune telling of the three witches. (Quote:
All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis. All hail Macbeth, hail to
thee, Thane of Cawdor. All hail Macbeth, that should become king here
after.)
There are five differences between Jack and Macbeth. Firstly, their
ages were different. Jack was a teenager while Macbeth was an adult with a
wife. Secondly .....
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The War Ridden Soldier
Number of words: 494 | Number of pages: 2.... Catherine already has the knowledge that her life cannot be dependent on another through her husband's death. This all sets the tone for the novel.
Hemingway also develops the theme through tone. The tone of this novel is a tragic one. Throughout the novel Hemingway foreshadows Catherine's death. When Catherine is brought into the delivering room, the doctor tells her he has concerns about her narrow hips. Therefore, they had to get a caesarean, and the baby dies. Then Catherine starts to hemorrhage and Henry realizes why he did not want to become involved with love and now he must suffer the consequences. Frederick then states " .....
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Why Is It Called The Bean Trees?
Number of words: 647 | Number of pages: 3.... outside of Kentucky.
The idea of “beans” is irrelevantly brought up several times. When Taylor is searching for a room to rent, she interviews a group of hippies who tell her that “…[they] eat mainly soybean products”(78). Soon after, when Taylor and Lou Ann become friends, they make fun of the hippies and call them, “bean turds”(79). The first words Turtle speaks are not the usual “mommy” or “daddy”, but rather when gardening, Taylor shows Turtle beans and tells her what they are, and Turtle repeats the word “bean” but then says “humbean”(108). In a much later chapter, Turtle points out a bean tree t .....
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