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Their Eyes Were Watching God 4
Number of words: 993 | Number of pages: 4.... of herself. Her Nanny who was enslaved most of her lifetime only told her that a woman can only be happy when she marries someone who can provide wealth, property, and security to his wife. Nanny knew nothing about love since she never experienced it. She regarded that matter as unnecessary for her as well as for Janie. And for that reason, when Janie was about to enter her womanhood in searching for that love, Nanny forced her to marry Mr. Logan Killicks, a much older man that can offer Janie the protection and security, plus a sixty-acre potato farm. Although Janie in her heart never approves what her Nanny forced her to do .....
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The Fellowship Of The Rings
Number of words: 484 | Number of pages: 2.... along the way. Many a time would they be tempted to misuse the
ring. But Frodo's will held strong. Up unto the climax of events, when
the ring raids came to take what once belonged to them. In a moment of
weakness, Frodo placed the ring on his finger. He vanished from his
party's sight. "Take the ring off Frodo!", they yelled. But he was frozen
in his steps. Determind to get it they approached him. In a brave
attempt to protect the ring, Frodo ran up to them, held the sting high in
the air, attempting to strike one of them. But he failed. And instead he
took a wound in his side. He then somehow managed to mount back .....
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The Lost World: Summary
Number of words: 1694 | Number of pages: 7.... on a field trip with him
that day. They go to a guy named Doctor Thorne, a guy that was making
specialized equipment for their trip. He said that he didn't know what was
going on. They contact Malcolm and they go to Levine's apartment. They go to
his computer room and see all this stuff on the wall about site B. They go onto
the computer and Arby gets all this stuff about site B on it. Malcolm then
finds out that the island that Levine went to was Isla Sorna. They plan this
whole trip to go there, just Malcolm, Thorne, and Thorne's assistant, Eddie.
They also call a woman named Sarah Harding, a scientist in Africa, to come .....
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Night Elie Wiesel
Number of words: 434 | Number of pages: 2.... second warning was that the people of Sighet ignored was on the radio. The first radio announcement said "the Fascist party had come into power. Horthy had been forced to ask one of the leaders of the Nyilae party to form a new government." (Page 6) The next day there was another radio announcement that said "German troops had entered Hungarian territory." (Page 7) this made everyone a little bit scared for a few days but not for long. Optimism was soon revived. The people were saying that the Germans wouldn’t get to there city.
When the Germans arrived in Sighet the people didn’t realize what was going to happen, they j .....
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Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christian
Number of words: 1517 | Number of pages: 6.... Another time when the Host is used as a
deterrence of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are
going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to
Mina's forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean.
Another abstruction of the Christian religion would be the fact that
Dracula sleeps in a coffin and especially because the dirt in his coffin is
consecrated and Dracula, being evil, uses this ground to rest in. Dracula
has several of the powers that Christians believe no one but God could
control. For instance, Dracula can control the weather, wild or unclean
animals and, h .....
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Kennewick Man
Number of words: 1232 | Number of pages: 5.... several times and recovered a near complete skeleton. At first the nineteenth century artifacts led him to believe that the skeleton was from the same time period, but then he noticed that the bones were discolored and there was soil adhering to them. This indicated that they were not as recent as the late nineteenth century (Slayman).
Chatters began to clean and study the skeleton to try to learn as much as he could about it. As he did this he noted that it appeared that this person was male, around fifty years old when he died, and he was about five feet ten inches tall. He also noticed upon examination of the pelvic str .....
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Dracula
Number of words: 1104 | Number of pages: 5.... along with doing other superstitious actions. What Harker doesn't realize is that it was the eve of Saint George's Day, a night when "all the evil things in the world will have full sway"[12]. So, one of the women concerned for his safety gives him a rosary to protect him on his journey. A superstition of most is that a rosary will protect you from all evil, and in this novel the evil party is and his followers. This rosary protects him when Jonathan cuts himself shaving the next day and lunges for his throat, but stops when he sees the crucifix around Jonathan's neck. That night both and Jonathan observe a group of wol .....
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Ambition Vs. Reasoning In Macb
Number of words: 1272 | Number of pages: 5.... critical interest in Macbeth's character is that he represents humankind's universal propensity to temptation and sin. Macbeth's excessive ambition motivates him to murder Duncan, and once the evil act is accomplished, he sets into motion a series of sinister events that ultimately lead to his downfall." (Scott; 236). Macbeth is told by three witches, in a seemingly random and isolated area, that he will become Thank of Cawdor and eventually king. Only before his ambition overpowers his reasoning does he question their motives. One place this questioning takes place is in the following passage:
As happy Prologues to the swel .....
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Hamlet Literary Analysis
Number of words: 1896 | Number of pages: 7.... this, Hamlet lets Gertrude know that he is what she sees, torn over his father’s death. Later, he makes a clear statement about his state of mind when he commits himself to revenge. "I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, that youth and observation copied there, and thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain" (1.5.100-104). In that statement, Hamlet is declaring that he will be committed to nothing else but the revenge of his fathers death. There is no confusion about Hamlet’s character in Act One. He has said earlier that .....
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Satire In Huck Finn
Number of words: 675 | Number of pages: 3.... neighboring household, the Sheperdsons, this seems to be the central angle Twain uses to satire.
The two chapters dealing with the Grangerford and Sheperdson feud allow Twain to satire aspects of civilized culture. The main aspect he satirizes is the feud itself. The Grangerfords being the representatives of civilization, Twain reveals the senseless brutality and needless manslaughter involved in their arbitrary concept of honor. For Twain, such a feud goes against his common sense and anything that violated his common sense was crazy to Twain. The feud has gone on so long hat the people don’t even know why they are fighting; .....
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