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Papers on Book Reports
Agenda Setting
Number of words: 1693 | Number of pages: 7.... scheme of information causes the media to pick and choose information that it feels is relevant to the audience. This is where presents itself. is the idea that the media choose topics that it thinks are important and focuses its broadcasts around this topic. McCombs and Shaw fully developed the theory of in respect to public agenda in a study in the early 1970’s. Their cross-sectional study involved the effects of media on public opinion. They revealed that there were indeed correlations between the two, which backed the ideas of Cohen (Brosius 5). They derived that, “the basic agenda-setting hypothesis asserts that the is .....
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A Rose For Emily And Antlers: The Struggle Against Loneliness: A Search For Human Affection
Number of words: 1086 | Number of pages: 4.... 411). An example of the respect Emily expects in her town is when she is summoned for taxes, but refuses to pay because of her hereditary tradition. Emily sees herself as a "high and mighty Grierson" who earned honor and admiration from her family legacy (Faulkner, 409). Emily’s fear of loneliness is first seen when she refuses to admit that her father had died and would not let his body be buried. Emily’s denial of her father’s death indicates her fear to be alone. Once Emily became older, her loneliness was more and more apparent to the town’s people. The whole community muttered "poor Emily" because her father ha .....
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Comparison Of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" And Dali's "The Metamorphosis Of Narcissus"
Number of words: 1120 | Number of pages: 5.... by the craggy rocks of what could only be Cape Creus's. On the
right side of the painting, the scene has morphed into a more idyllic and
classical scene, in which the kneeling Narcissus has become the statue
of a hand, holding a cracked egg, from which emerges The Narcissus flower.
This painting reminded me of the first chapter of Metamorphosis,
where the main character, Gregor Samsa, first realizes that he is
confronted with a ludicrous fate in the form of a gigantic insect. In both
Kafka's and Dali's work, I noticed that they both implement a certain
"receding" technique. Dali tends to put an object (In .....
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Macbeth From Hero To Murdereth
Number of words: 1159 | Number of pages: 5.... of a mystical situation is when Jane gets locked up in the Red Room where her uncle had died. When it starts to get dark, she thinks that she sees her uncle's face in the mirror, and becomes frightened thinking that he has come to get her. However, it is probably Jane's own reflection, and because she's a terrified little girl, she believes that it is really a ghost. In the novel Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bronte, the mirror is also used to give a sense of the supernatural. When Catherine Earnshaw's health fails and she's on her deathbed, she thinks that she sees a face in the mirror, which she interprets as an omen of d .....
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Huckleberry Finn: Good Vs. Evil
Number of words: 438 | Number of pages: 2.... for help. They immediately
assumed that his father had smallpox, and he wanted nothing to do with Huck or
his father. Thus, he had saved Jim, and actually felt good about it. Further
along in the book, Jim becomes a slave again. Huckleberry, with the aid of Tom
Sawyer, free's Jim. Once again, Jim's escape and freedom are more important to
Huck than societies viewpoint.
The river is also important. The river is symbolic of freedom. It is
also symbolic of good. When Jim and Huck are rafting down the river, they are
free of society. They have no laws. This is not to say that they are lawless,
however, the laws they obey .....
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Alienation In "The Minister’s Black Veil"
Number of words: 642 | Number of pages: 3.... his odd clothing, Reverend Hooper’s veil caused more than a physical separation from the people of his town. The people felt the veil was "the symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Hawthorne 256). Their fear and confusion of the minister’s motives caused strange behavior and unnatural withdrawal from their spiritual leader.
After the initial onset of the black veil, the minister was alienated from himself. After performing the wedding, he caught a glimpse of himself in the looking-glass, and "the black veil involved his own spirit in the horror with which it overwhelmed all others" (Hawthorne 256). He would .....
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Sphere: Summary
Number of words: 361 | Number of pages: 2.... After the climax and many deaths the few people left discover whoever
enters the Sphere is granted the power that everything they think or
imagine happens or is created. Either it's conscious or subconscious,
while they're sleeping or awake, or even if they really want it to happen.
They also it was planted by another world as a test of its full
capabilities and consequences. Ted actually imagines his own death, only to
kill himself. Once their emergency submarine is lost, they realize they
have a serious problem being trapped together. So sadly, eventually
everyone dies 1,200 feet below the rest of the world. .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird 2
Number of words: 408 | Number of pages: 2.... which is the individual is more important! He makes them learn everything by themselves, Therefore she tells us how she is getting educated.
Jim was a very active boy, He has manners. He was the son of atticus. Scott was the daughter and narrator of Atticus. Atticus was a well known man. He was brave because he shot the dog. He was a lawyer. Calpurnia was the housekeeper of atticus, always helping out the kids when they needed them. Boo Radley was given a monster image by the kids. He is one of the true mocking birds in this story. He said Scott at the end. Tom Robinson, He was another Mockingbird. He used to help out people. He .....
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Wuthering Heights: Edgar And Heathcliff
Number of words: 271 | Number of pages: 1.... Catherine.
Edgar is the calm element contrasted by the stormy element of
Heathcliff. Edgar represents beauty with his "blue eyes and even forehead",
while Heathcliff is the ugliness as "the little black haired thing". Edgar
and Heathcliff both show love for Catherine but for different reasons.
Heathcliff loves Catherine because she is "wild and a free spirit" and
wants to be with her forever, yet Edgar loves Catherine because she is his
wife and he wants to protect her from the evil Heathcliff. Heathcliff who
is as "rough as a saw-edge and hard as whinestone", is an outsider whose
soul is torn between love and hate, and, becau .....
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Animal Farm
Number of words: 1154 | Number of pages: 5.... he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?’” (Orwell 42) He goes on to explain, “ ‘Milk and apples (this has been proved by science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being
of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers (42). Here, Squealer tries to convince the animals that it’s for health reasons that they take the apples and milk, but he tries to persuade them in other ways as well. Squealer continues, “ ‘The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us .....
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