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Papers on Book Reports
Rosemary Well's When No One Was Looking: Ambition
Number of words: 489 | Number of pages: 2.... confidence, and works her way up
to the top.
Julia and Kathy have been best friends since they were in first grade.
Because of Julia's wealth, she is different, and is treated just that way.
Kathy would defend her when she used to get picked on. Since then, Kathy and
Julia are inseparable. They have such a good relationship, that they would do
anything to stop the other from getting hurt.
Ruth Gumm has no special talent when it comes to tennis, she is just
okay at the sport. When Kathy competes with her, she expects it will be a snap,
but she actually loses. Annoyed by the match, Kathy wishes Ruth was dead. The
next day, she f .....
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The Sun Also Rises: Thoughts Of The Lost Generation
Number of words: 1068 | Number of pages: 4.... his previous ideas of romanticism being absurd. Since their previous relationship of being lovers had failed they now tried a relationships of being best friends. As this new relationship develops, Jake and Brett draw back when the other becomes too emotional. “The street was dark again and I kissed her. Our lips were tight together and then she turned away and pressed against the corner of the seat, as far away as she could get. Her head was down” (Hemingway). The reader thus concludes that Jake contains an internal conflict between his behavior around his friend Cohn and his friend Brett, which he wants to further the .....
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The Stranger 2
Number of words: 596 | Number of pages: 3.... or not. The way that Meursault does not contribute to the conversation and that it is just “fine with [him]” to be friends creates an image of indifference. This image continues to grow as Raymond continues to talk to Meursault. Raymond goes on to tell of his problems with women, and Meursault still remains silent. After his Raymond’s confessions are over he once again thanks Meursault for being a pal: “I didn’t mind being his pal, and he seemed set on it.” (Camus, 33) Once again, Meursault’s attitude makes it seem that he doesn’t really care if he is Raymond’s .....
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The City Of Gold And Lead: Summary
Number of words: 438 | Number of pages: 2.... reach the city they are over come
by a stronger feild of gravity in wich the masters live in. In the city the
humans must wear suits that breathe oxygen because the masters breathe
different air. Each of the boys are then chosen by a master to be there
personal slave. Will was chosen by one of the nicer masters in the city,
while Fritz was chosen by a mean master who beat him for pleasure. Now in
the city it was Fritz's and Will's job to find out all they could about
the masters and their weaknesses. One day while Will was being beaten he
struck his master in a soft spot on his forehead and killed him. Will had
found their weakne .....
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: Effect Of Oppression Of Women In Society
Number of words: 867 | Number of pages: 4.... not take the form of the traditional symbol of security for the activities of a woman, but it does allow for and contain her metamorphosis. The house also facilitates her release, accommodating her, her writing and her thoughts. These two activities evolve because of the fact that she is kept in the house.
One specific characteristic of the house that symbolizes not only her potential but also her trapped feeling is the window. Traditionally this symbol represents a view of possibilities, but now it also becomes a view to what she does not want to see. Through it she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have a .....
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Germania
Number of words: 1400 | Number of pages: 6.... those times, the name "Germany" was believed to inspire terror when heard.
Tacitus makes mention of the fact that within sections of their mythological and religious structure, Hercules and Ulysses carry significant influence and this contributes to his theory (along with their distinctive looks) that the Germans developed their particular cultural/racial niche from intermarriage with foreigners.
Tacitus further comments on the German culture, as being one that is less able to bear laborious work and endure heat and thirst. But without delving too much into a diatribe on the German's laziness, Tacitus moves into describin .....
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The Rime Of The Christo-marine
Number of words: 1732 | Number of pages: 7.... Mariner tries to pray for salvation, he hears a demonic voice, like Lucifer: "I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;/But or ever a prayer had gushed,/A wicked whisper came, and made/My heart as dry as dust." [ln 244] As the ghost ship approaches, "I bit my arm, I sucked the blood," in reference to Jesus' use of the wine at the last supper as his own blood. When the spirits move the ship, "Slowly and smoothly went the ship/Moved onward from beneath," the Mariner is, in a sense, walking on water. The ending is the more ironic to consider that the Mariner, as a kind of Christ figure, is rescued by a Pilot, where Jesus died by P .....
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Mark Twain And The Lost Manuscript Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 1533 | Number of pages: 6.... under his brother,
Orion who was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. Clemens made an early
attempt at writing by sending comical travel letters to the Keokuk Saturday
Post in Iowa under the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. These letters
contained purposely inserted errors typical of Clemen's later work. When he
was twenty-two he fulfilled a childhood dream by becoming apprenticed to a
riverboat pilot named, Horace Bixby. After his apprenticeship, he worked
as a river boat pilot for four years. The Civil War stopped riverboat
traffic in 1861. Clemens was out of work for several weeks before he
traveled with his brother Or .....
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The Longest Day, By: Cornelius Ryan, Simon & Shuster, 1959
Number of words: 643 | Number of pages: 3.... in Chicago’s central post office dumping out the plans for D-Day and the decoding by an alert German intelligence officer of the actual Allied message to the French underground announcing the time of invasion.
The first half of The Longest Day is devoted to the allied preparations of attack and the German preparations for meeting it. This part of the novel is extremely informative. From the beginning of the novel a reader can learn things that for most people are not common knowledge, such as the weather deterrent that almost stopped the invasion before it commenced, it also became clear that although Supreme Commander, Genera .....
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Of Mice And Men
Number of words: 415 | Number of pages: 2.... not matter were you come from or what you do, it is okay to dream and work as hard as you can to reach it . For all it shows for friendship and loyalty it also shows how sometimes you have to do things you never thought you would do. For example in the end when George is forced to shoot Lennie in the head you would never have thought he would do that, but you can see that under the circumstances he had no other choice. He only had two choices let the other people get to him first and watch them torture Lennie while he died a long horrible death or do it himself and get it over quick were Lennie did not know what hit him. This i .....
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