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Papers on Book Reports
Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction Of Jurassic Park
Number of words: 1130 | Number of pages: 5.... plot of Jurassic Park is fairly simple. A Palo Alto
corporation called International Genetics Technologies, Inc. (InGen) has become
able -- through an entrepreneurial combination of audacity, technology, human
ingenuity, and fantastic outlays of capital (mostly funded by Japanese investors,
who are the only ones willing to wait years for uncertain results) -- to clone
dinosaurs from the bits of their DNA recovered from dinosaur blood inside the
bodies of insects that once bit the now-extinct animals and were then trapped
and preserved in amber for millions of years. (This is, by the way,
theoretically possible.) The project is the .....
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Chaucer's "The House Of Fame": The Cultural Nature Of Fame
Number of words: 2299 | Number of pages: 9.... of their audience. Chaucer, while
neither totally praising the written nor the oral, reveals how essentially
the written word is far more likely to become eternal as opposed to the
oral. The relative "fame" of any work is dependent on many factors. Many
traditional and classical ideas result in the formation of the English
canon, yet as Chaucer indicates, the "fame" of these works can easily
become annihilated. The arrival of new readers with different ideals and
thereby changing tradition, can reject classical or "canonical" work and
their "fame" will melt into nothingness.
Most stories, histories and legends that emerge f .....
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Examination Of Puritan Philosophy In Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
Number of words: 1756 | Number of pages: 7.... they came to their
journey's end". But, "it pleased God before they came half-seas over, to
smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a
desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard".
Bradford believes that the sailor died because God was punishing him.
According to Bradford, the sailor's cursing, and mistreatment of the other
passengers displeased God, so God punished him accordingly.
In the same chapter, Bradford tells of another ship passenger named
John Howland. At one point in the trip, the Mayflower came upon a violent
storm. The winds of the storm were so fi .....
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Death Of A Salesman 2
Number of words: 1121 | Number of pages: 5.... Aristotle.
Willy, with a house, a car, a job, two sons whom he adores, and a supportive, caring wife, seems to have everything that any man could ever want. He manages, however, to alienate himself from these things that he loves near the end of the play as he slips into a self-induced state of altered reality. Willy, being "…lonely…terribly lonely" (1850) has an affair with a woman during his marriage to Linda. Even though she is not aware of this, or makes no mention of it, he is destroying his greatest source of support. Linda is the only one in the Loman family who seems to never give up on Willy, be it that she doe .....
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A Worn Path: Phoenix Jackson
Number of words: 698 | Number of pages: 3.... her and a slice of cake. As Phoenix begins to reach for the slice of cake, the boy vanishes. The young boy is merely a figment of her imagination Confused and disoriented, she continues her journey. This particular incidents suggest that she is senile and instantly gains her pathetic sympathy with the readers.
Another example of her being senile follows shortly after. She continues walking when she views a ghost. This view further credits the idea that she is senile, but it also gives a glimpse of her lack of education. Phoenix has no formal education and is taken by the myths of ghost and superstitions. This a realistic .....
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Book Analysis, Uncle Toms Cabi
Number of words: 1182 | Number of pages: 5.... also was successful.
Stowe did not stop writing after Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but her other novels never had quite the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin . The novel Lady Byron Vindicated almost buried Stowe because many critics believed that Stowe’s purpose of this novel was to trash a good name. Poganuc People, a story about a Yankee Town, is another Stowe novel that still carries merit today.
B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin reveals the life and horrors of slaves in the 19th century. It opens with a scene where a “kind” slave owner and a slave trader are dealing. Shelby, the kind slave owner, has fallen into debt, .....
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Huck Finn
Number of words: 1206 | Number of pages: 5.... Arabs really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday School picnic, and the stolen "julery"(12) is nothing more than turnips or rocks. Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom promises are not real and so, along with the other members, he quits the gang. Still, Huck ignorantly assumes that Tom is superior to him because of his more suitable family background and fascination with Romantic literature. Pap and "the kidnapping" play another big role in Huck's moral development. Pap is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the bad things that the Widow and Miss Watson have attempted to instill in Huck. However, Pap do .....
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The Truth About The Big Two He
Number of words: 854 | Number of pages: 4.... by quick angles, only to hold steady in the fast water again (472).
Hemingway is trying to show that the trout are better then Nick, since they are not bothered by emotions or their surroundings. Nick is, he is bothered by the war, which created internal emotions that he is trying to resolve. Hemingway used the trout in the river to represent the inner peace that Nick is trying to gain.
When Nick got to the country he saw that it was untouched by the fire that had burned the town down. He started to walk through the ferns and jack pines and Nick was becoming exceedingly content. Nick was thinking that, “…the cou .....
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Anne Frank Remembered: Review
Number of words: 1116 | Number of pages: 5.... discuss her main points and views, a summary of her story
must be given.
The book began with a brief history of the childhood of Miep Gies. She
was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909, where she lived with her parents until the
age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in the aid of
undernourished and sick children and was to be adopted by a Dutch family. She
became used to the Dutch way of life as she grew older and soon she began to
consider herself Dutch, not Viennese.
Her association with the Frank family began when she was given a job
with the Pectacon Company, owned and operated by Mr. Otto Frank. .....
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The Medea: Women's Rights
Number of words: 944 | Number of pages: 4.... done to me - Him and his father in law and the girl
who married him." (260-263) It may have seemed in the beginning of the
monologue that Medea was out to join forces with the other women in
complaint to the way they are treated, but Medea was out for revenge. That
was underling everything she said.
When one looks at the women's liberation movement that occurred in
the united states history, one will see that the women wanted to appear
stable and sane. The women wanted equal rights and they used logical and
rational arguments. If liberating women was what was in Medea's mind she
would have tried to put women in a positive l .....
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