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The Bluest Eye
Number of words: 784 | Number of pages: 3.... society's hate for her and she knew that, "Nobody loves the head of a dandelion" (Morrison 47). Pecola soon realizes that she will never be beautiful just how she is. As she looks affectionately at the dandelions, "they do not look at her and do not send love back" (Morrison 51). Pecola realizes that the dandelions are ugly and like them, she is merely an unwanted weed because she cannot be beautiful, like people she saw around her.
Pecola saw many other things around her that she could not be a part of, like the life of the rich white people. Pecola's mother worked for a white family on the other end of town, and occasionally, .....
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1984: Socialism, Fascism, Or Communism
Number of words: 298 | Number of pages: 2.... or Communism.
Socialism demands state ownership and control of the basic means of production and distribution of wealth. Both of these are going on in the book. The Inner Party controls business, and I don’t think that anyone can have private profits. They all have apartments, no houses or privately owned residents, and all eat and work in similar environments. All of these are signs of Socialism. There are classes of people, though, (the proles are different from the others), and this is not a trait of Socialism.
Communism also calls for no private property while there is shared ownership of all money and business. Everyo .....
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The Deterioration Of Salem During The Witch Trials The Crucible
Number of words: 823 | Number of pages: 3.... devil took them over and influenced them to dance. The girls also said that they saw members of the town standing with the devil. A community living in a puritan society like Salem could easily go into a chaotic state and have a difficult time dealing with what they consider to be the largest form of evil. Salem's hysteria made the community lose faith in the spiritual beliefs that they were trying to strictly enforce. The church lost many of its parishioners because the interest of the town was now on Abigail because people wanted to know who was going to be named next. When the church was trying to excommunicate John Pro .....
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The Lost World: Summary
Number of words: 648 | Number of pages: 3.... clues which led him to the lost island. He set out on a test expedition
with his colleague to find out exactly if he was on the right island. He missed
his boat back home to the states. So, he called his friend, Dr. Thorne with his
satellite phone and left a message asking him to come down to the island and get
on with the expedition. Dr. Thorne, Ian Malcolm, Dr. Sarah Harding , and two
kids that sneaked in with them, went to the island to rescue Dr. Levine and
explore the behaviors of the dinosaurs on the island. When they get to the
island, they find out that they aren't the only ones that were looking for
dinosaurs .....
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"The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character And Cry For Freedom
Number of words: 1501 | Number of pages: 6.... but to follow. "He knows there 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 when 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 .....
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Yours, Jack (about Jack The Ri
Number of words: 1868 | Number of pages: 7.... of the "Dear Boss" letter sparking even more public interest in the crimes, the Financial News offers a further 300 pounds toward the award for the capture of the murderer. On top of that the Lord Mayor offers his own 500 pound reward. Sir Alfred Kirby offers a 100 pound reward and fifty militia men to help apprehend the criminal. His offer was declined. Queen Victoria herself telephones the Home Office at 3:30 pm that day to express her shock at the murders, but does nothing else.
Later that day the "Saucy Jack" postcard is received by the Centeral news service and is published by the Star in the evening edition. The ha .....
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Common Human Experiences In To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of words: 420 | Number of pages: 2.... did not know what to think. They made up their own ideas of what
he was like and made him out to be some sort of monster. They pre-judged
him because he was different than they were. Scout later met Boo and
discovered that there judgements of him were false.
The second common human experience is courage. Atticus displays two
different types of courage in the novel. the first is a mental courage
when he defends Tom Robinson even though the chances of winning are almost
hopeless. This act is also couragous because he knows by defending Tom he
will shunned by his peers and people will see him as a traitor. The
second typ .....
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The Great Gatsby: Daisy's Love
Number of words: 1253 | Number of pages: 5.... to be one of the very top priorities in her life, and everyone
that she surrounds herself with, including her daughter, seem to accept
this as mere fact with her. She lives in one of the most elite
neighborhoods in the state, in one of the most elegant houses described in
the book, and intends very much for her daughter to grow up much like she
has. "And I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in
this world today, a beautiful little fool." (Fitzgerald 24) She raves
repeatedly of boats and large windows and halls where many a extravagant
party is held. This only stands remind of her reliance on material goods .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of words: 1072 | Number of pages: 4.... of the members of Paul’s unit, who were then only mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul’s unit were killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent a little while at a military camp where he viewed a Russian prisoner of war camp with severe starvation problems and again questioned the values that he had grown up with contrasted to the values while fighting the war. After Paul returned to his unit, they were sent to the front. Dur .....
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The Scarlet Letter
Number of words: 506 | Number of pages: 2.... and free thought, a trait of the Romantics. One of Pearl's
favorite activities is playing with flowers and trees. (The reader will
recall that anything affiliated with the forest was evil to Puritans. To
Hawthorne, however, the forest was beautiful and natural.) "And she was
gentler here [the forest] than in the grassy-margined streets of the
settlement, or in her mother's cottage. The flowers appeared to know it"
(194) Pearl fit in with natural things. Also, Pearl is always
effervescent and joyous, which is definitely a negative to the Puritans.
Pearl is a virtual shouting match between the Puritanical views .....
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