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Night By Elie Wiesel
Number of words: 910 | Number of pages: 4.... honorable Yitzach Herschel)
Eliezer
Pro - Eliezer do you see the kapo that was in charge of you at the concentrat-
ion camp?
Eliezer - yes there ( Eliezer points to Idek ).
Pro - Eliezer, when were you introduced to Idek?
Eliezer - When we reached Buna, the kapos randomly chose us.
Pro - What was your first "bad" impression of Idek?
Eliezer - When Juliek told us to stay away from him when he had his "bouts of
madness".
Pro - Did you ever see Idek beat or abuse any of the prisoners?
Eliezer - Yes many times, however, two of the most prominent occasions were
when he beat my father and I. The first one he beat my father f .....
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The Metamorphosis
Number of words: 418 | Number of pages: 2.... when he first turned into a bug. “The next train went at seven o’clock; to catch that he would need to hurry like mad and his samples weren’t even packed up, and he himself wasn’t feeling particularly fresh and active”(786). He had made up his mind that he would have to catch the train - completely ignoring the fact that he was no longer a human. One other thing he maintained was his relationship with his sister which still stayed the strongest of his family. However, the main difference he encountered was the way his family started to treat him after . Rather than him avoiding his family, throu .....
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Siddhartha 3
Number of words: 1271 | Number of pages: 5.... one, the Sakyamuni, and he was rumored that he was perfect. Siddhartha agrees with Govinda so they started on a journey to hear the Buddha's teaching.
After they heard the Buddha's teachings, Govinda becomes his follower, but Siddhartha doesn't. Siddhartha and Govinda said goodbye to each other. Siddhartha learned that even from the perfect one, the teachings wouldn't teach him, so he decides to be taught by nobody. He realizes that he was trying to lose the Self because he was afraid of it. From here, he starts to learn from himself.
After a few days, he reaches a large town, and there he sees a beautiful woman ca .....
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Harrison Bergeron
Number of words: 1487 | Number of pages: 6.... is no possible way to make everyone equal in everyday life. Without individuality, there would not be any free thinkers and no dreams to accomplish anything special. Vonnegut uses satire to mock the American political system.
The idea of the American political system being compared to that of the China’s and Soviet Union’s is meaning how the system is much like that of a dictatorship. This is true since there is a head person, this person being the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers. Diana Glampers is the one to decide what the standard is for a person to be handicapped in any way. The only thing though, .....
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The Significance Of Changes In The Lottery
Number of words: 494 | Number of pages: 2.... Man Warner was born. Even with a stickler over tradition around, the story plot shows that things would change with time. Mr. Summers used paper slips to draw instead of wood chips. His excuse for the change was the increase in population and lack of space in the black box for “all those wood chips.” Therefore, they did modernize part of the tradition; they just did not question the meaning and modernize it in the more significant areas.
At one time, cutting out some of the ritual and some comments made to Tessie suggest that meanings change with different time periods. They had cut out the “recital of some sort, perfo .....
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The Glass Menagerie
Number of words: 903 | Number of pages: 4.... back to denial. She doesn't perceive anything realistically. She believes that this gentleman caller, Jim, is going to be the man to rescue Laura and she hasn't even met him yet. She tells Laura when Laura is nervous about the gentleman caller, "You couldn't be satisfied with just sitting home," when, in fact, Laura had preferred that (Williams 85). Amanda cannot distinguish reality from illusion. When Jim arrives, Amanda is dressed in the same girlish frock she wore on the day that she met their father and she regresses to her childish, giddy days of entertaining gentlemen callers. Amanda chooses to live in the past.
Tom e .....
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Iliad
Number of words: 1315 | Number of pages: 5.... he puts aside his pride and chooses to temporarily forget about his previous feuds with Agamemnon that have, up until now, prevented him from participating in the war. He joins the fighting with a deadly and vengeful mindset that will likely play a major factor in the outcome of the war. Today, this lust for revenge might be considered a glaring character flaw. However, this passion for retribution undoubtedly conforms to the heroic code of Greek society. Meanwhile, Hector is full of indecision and reluctance about whether to take part in the war. He too believes that fate has dictated that he will be killed in battle. He spends m .....
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Jurassic Park Book Report
Number of words: 766 | Number of pages: 3.... is a renowned paleontologist who agrees to visit Jurassic Park only to find out it is the home of several Dinosaurs. Unlike the movie Dr. Grant loves kids in the book. He also had a of a beard. Dr. Ellie Sattler is a Paleobotinist and Alan Grant who is among the first people to tour Jurassic Park. Tim who is the 11 year old grandson of John Hammond. He is kind of geeky, into computers and loves Dinosaurs. (Reminds me of myself.) His 7 older sister is Alexis. She has a kind of tomboy attitude and loves base-ball Ian Malcom is the Mathematician that uses "Chaos Theory" to predict disastrous results. he only wears black and gray. H .....
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Old Man And The Sea Summary
Number of words: 1853 | Number of pages: 7.... Santiago, who fell asleep.
Lions immediately filled his dreams. As a boy he had sailed to Africa and had
seen lions on the beaches. Now, as an old man, he constantly dreamed of the
great and noble beasts.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of Great occurrences, nor
of great fish, nor fights nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only
dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach ... He loved them as he
loved the boy.
Before dawn of the next day, the fisherman, as usu .....
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Glass Menagerie
Number of words: 2368 | Number of pages: 9.... apartment and nagging mother. Therefore the fire escape for him represents a path to the outside world where dreams are. For the gentleman caller Jim the fire escape provides the means through which Jim can enter the Wingfield's apartment an entrance to their lives. For Amanda, Tom's mom, the fire escape allows Jim to come into the apartment and prevent Laura from becoming a spinster. For Laura, Tom's sister is that it is her door to the inside world in where she can hide. It is ironic that when Laura does leave the security of her apartment she falls. This symbolizes Laura's inability to function properly in the outside wor .....
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