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Papers on Book Reports
Reasonable Doubts?
Number of words: 2321 | Number of pages: 9.... the judicial system and believe that it is a legitimate institution we can search for truth. As I read Alan Dershowitz's book it became clear that the question "Did O.J. do it (murder Nicole Brown)?" would never be answered. Dershowitz argues that "Neither the prosecutors nor the judges were searching very hard for the truth of why the detectives went to the Simpson residence.
They apparently though that the disclosure of that truth would make the proving of what they believed was a more important truth-that defendant was guilty…" (48; ch. 2). Instead what would be answered is "Did the police cover up a scandal as an ambitiou .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Evil And Mistriss Hibbins
Number of words: 843 | Number of pages: 4.... gave way before her, and seemed to fear
the touch of her garment, as if it carried the plague among its gorgeous
folds." Here, it says that the townspeople were so scared, that they
thought her evil was contagious.
Mistriss Hibbins also effects the way some of the characters think
in the novel. In one part of the novel, Mistriss Hibbins tells Pearl, the
daughter of Hester Prynne, that Dimmesdale, who is her father, is the
"Prince of Air". "They say, child, though art of the lineage of the Prince
of Air!" In this quote she was telling Pearl that Dimmesdale is the devil.
Pearl gets influenced by her and believes her father is th .....
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Evolution Of They Dystopia
Number of words: 634 | Number of pages: 3.... within this government gave Orwell the basis to construct the dystopia found in Animal Farm. The feudalist dystopia found in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is altered by the inspirational theories of Karl Marx and by the Russian Revolution, into the communist dystopia found in George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The castes found in Brave New World depict an accurate representation of segregation in feudalistic society. This is most efficiently portrayed during the tour of the factory where "people are created on an assembly line. . .(Smith, 1)" and engineered to perform the social task associated with their respective caste. Huxley hi .....
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The Use Of Symbols In Steinbec
Number of words: 718 | Number of pages: 3.... and so she takes care of her chrysanthemums, symbols of how beautiful she really is. Early in the story, Steinbeck uses little symbolic phrases to let the reader know that the chrysanthemums are an extension of Elisa.
Her gardening area could be described as a “cage” to protect herself from anything harmful. Knowing that her husband does not show interest in her chrysanthemums, gives her the thought that he does not have interest in her. The flowers and Elisa have interchangeable meanings that are explained later on in the story. When her husband goes off with one of the cattle buyers, a mysterious man on a j .....
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Social Commentary In Animal Farm
Number of words: 661 | Number of pages: 3.... the leaders, or the exploiters of the masses, depending on your point of view. Waters does the same in Animals, depicting the pigs as uncaring, self-involved, and overbearing masters of the masses. In both works, dogs are an enforcer-type, driven either by a sense of patriotism, honor, and pride, but also those misanthropes who relish in the power they have been given and enjoy abusing those weaker than themselves. The sheep are a shared characteristic of both works, depicting them as easily manipulated and led to the slaughter.
The works diverge from one another in which philosophy they individually espouse. Orwell’s novel .....
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Theme And Setting In Coming Of Age
Number of words: 319 | Number of pages: 2.... homecoming queen, and how she started a trend with her tight jeans. She had many antidotes from her school life. She spoke of her embarrassment at lunch when she had such a poor lunch. She talked about how Adline and Junior would follow her around at school and how it embarrassed her. Mostly though she talked about her grades and what a good student she was. She told how she became the tutor for Wayne and his other white friends. Of all the settings in this novel her school life was definently one of the most important and is a building block for the whole story. .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Summary
Number of words: 1167 | Number of pages: 5.... by Tom Robinson.
Judge Taylor is the Judge of Maycomb County. Heck Tate is the county law
official.
I think the protagonist in the story is Atticus Finch because he has the
main part and he has the biggest decision to make. The decision being whether to
defend or not to defend Tom Robinson.
To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary district in
Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s, the years of the Great Depression
when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States.
The story begins during the summer when Scout and Jem meet a new
playmate named Dill who has come from Mississippi to s .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery
Number of words: 654 | Number of pages: 3.... He has promised not to tell but worries
that people will “call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for
keeping mum....” (43). During the course of their journey, the line that
Huck envisions between himself and Jim becomes increasingly fainter.
Society and its mores seem extremely distant and remote from the simple yet
ideal life Jim and Huck lead on their raft.
Just as slavery was an almost universally recognized practice in
Huckleberry Finn’s world, the supposed inferiority of women has been an
accepted idea in more recent times. Into the twentieth century a woman was
not considered an equal member of American .....
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1984: Dystopian Visions
Number of words: 853 | Number of pages: 4.... for the good of the people, when really all they
were doing was killing them. They were smothering them with rules and
regulations, depriving them of their natural born right to be able to marry,
have a family and indulge in the fruits of life. Is this the type of
future that Orwell intends to happen?
Orwell's view on the future may have been influenced by the activities
going on in the world around him. The allies had just defeated the Nazis
in the Second World War and people were starting to know all the details
of what the Germans had done during the war. There are many similarities
between the book and the war. For instan .....
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FightClub
Number of words: 1088 | Number of pages: 4.... from real bad insomnia. He goes to the doctor who's only reply is "Nobody has ever died from insomnia. If you want to see real pain go to Trinity Episcopal church Thursday nights." So he did. There at in the basement there is a support group for sufferers of brain parasites. After the meeting he finds himself feeling better. He can sleep again. Soon he is going to not only the brain parasites group but others as well: Testicular cancer, blood parasites, ascending bowel cancer, and others. It is easy or him to feel alive in these groups. That's why it helps. Until one night during testicular cancer she walks in. Enter Marla .....
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