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Griffin's Egg: Gunther
Number of words: 426 | Number of pages: 2.... stumbled away, only to find that the robot
was following him. He ran into the shelter and closed the door, sealing the
robot outside of the shelter. The shelter was s small room, just big enough to
fit a cot, a chemical toilet, and a rebreather with spare oxygen tanks.
A while later, after the flare was over, the CMP chips, which has been
implanted in everyone's brain that had come to the moon, was being used against
them. Krishna, a scientist, found that if he broadcasted over the chips
frequency, he could make hypnotic suggestions to the people with the chips.
Gunther had to find a way to stop this, so he and another scienti .....
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Tempest A Look At Reality And
Number of words: 1472 | Number of pages: 6.... tell Gonzalo he is lying about the clothes and the island being in such fantastic shape. They tell him this because they are not affected by the spell that Gonzalo is under. Spells don’t always affect a person directly, but it still makes a person see their reality in a different perspective. Alonso is fooled by Prospero’s magic too, but it is not directly aimed towards Alonso. Because of the magic that put Ferdinand in a glen where no one could see him; Alonso thinks that Ferdinand drowned at sea. Alonso thinks that Ferdinand is dead because no one saw Ferdinand make it to land safe. This is because Prosp .....
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Antigone
Number of words: 799 | Number of pages: 3.... him.
Ismene says "We must obey them.....I yield to those who have
authority"(5). Not only do the people of Thebes obey the laws of the
city because of their fear but because it is a shame to dishonor the
king. To go against the kings claim and dishonor the law is to die a
more shameful death then Antigone's mother and father(59-60). Antigone
does not want to let her brother be left without a proper burial. Her
belief is to show respect and love towards her brother she must bury
him. Her beliefs in "The sacred laws that Heaven holds in honor" are
far more important than those set by the king(Antigone 78). She feels .....
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Addicted To Love
Number of words: 1244 | Number of pages: 5.... believing she is his. This repeated scenario of torture is by far the highest tragedy in the romance. The climax of the abuse is when Mark questions his own senses after the discovery of the couple copulating in the garden. Blinded by the violent inebriation of amour, he disavows empirical proof of Isolde’s betrayal. While through the omnipotent narration the reader sees that Isolde never loves Mark, the king is nevertheless betrayed. First of course, he betrays himself. All indication points to the affair. His heart is not a friend at this point for Mark. Isolde’s betrayal goes beyond betrayal of the state; the real .....
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A Separate Peace - Artificial Vs. Natural
Number of words: 1805 | Number of pages: 7.... and weight advantage or disadvantage to Finny were important to him. What people, especially Finny, thought about him worried him. "...I would have lost face with Phineas, and that would have been unthinkable." (Gene Pg. 26) Later in the novel, when Finny wanted to wear a pink shirt to school, Gene told him it would make him look like a "fairy". "Pink! It makes you look like a fairy!' (Gene Pg. 17) Gene knew that people might question Finny's masculinity and ridicule him so he spoke up. Gene would have never taken such a risk as wearing a pink shirt because it was not socially acceptable at Devon School. This again points out .....
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Chopin's "The Storm": Summary
Number of words: 812 | Number of pages: 3.... Laballiere enters the
yard, seeking shelter from the coming storm. My first impression of Alcee
is that he is pretty well off in the world. Although I see Bobinot as a
simple man. There is a mutual attraction between Calixta and Alcee, and
this attraction is not new. Calixta has not seen Alcee very often since
her marriage, and never alone. The attraction between Calixta and Alcee is
only briefly explored. With Alcee's arrival comes the beginning of the
rain, and he asks to wait out the storm on the front gallery.
Calixta is startled from her sudden awareness that she is still
sexually attracted to Alcee, even though bo .....
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The Political And Econimical C
Number of words: 784 | Number of pages: 3.... who distilled the molasses to make rum, claimed that the British suppliers could not meet their needs. The merchants then began bribing the customs agents to wave the tariffs. Many agents pocketed extra money that way. A man by the name of Grenville observed this and created an act, The Revenue Act, which was successful with Parliament. This act stated that the tax on molasses would decrease to a mere three pence tariff per gallon of molasses. After the instatement of this act Grenville put an end to the bribes.
The next act was the Currency Act of 1764. This act stopped the colonies from manufacturing their own money for tr .....
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Alice Munro Open Secrets The A
Number of words: 1483 | Number of pages: 6.... short stories.
Since many of her stories are based on the region in which she was born, the characters and narrators are often thought of as being about her life and how she grew up; and making her stories appear from a feminist approach. This could also indicate why the central characters in the short stories in Open Secrets, are all women: a young woman kidnapped by Albanian tribesmen in the 1920’s in The Albanian Virgin, and a young born-again Christian whose unresolved feelings of love and anger cause her to vandalize a house in Vandals.
Her theme has often been the dilemmas of the adolescent girl coming to terms with fam .....
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Like Water For Chocolate Movie
Number of words: 1341 | Number of pages: 5.... The terrible news brings on a heart attack killing him instantly. In the book, this information is not given until the middle chapters. As the novel continues, another character is introduced, Gertrudis. Gertrudis, the older sister of Tita, is the first to rebel against her mother’s wishes. Wanting to escape the securities of home, Gertrudis is overwhelmed by her lustful passions. A soldier, not too far away, Juan, inhales the aroma of her desire and heads her way. “The aroma from Gertrudis’ body guided him…The woman desperately needed a man to quench the red-hot fire that was raging inside her…Gertrudis stopped .....
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Number of words: 5272 | Number of pages: 20.... Mr. Hyde, and gives a fresh take on the distinguished Dr. Henry Jekyll and the nefarious Mr. Edward Hyde. It is told through the psyche of a Victorian servant named Mary Reilly. The book's structure purports to be Mary Reilly's diary. The entries articulate Mary Reilly's feelings and experiences while in service for Dr. Henry Jekyll, and how she often empathizes with Dr. Jekyll on his afflictions which she cannot comprehend. As the book progresses Mary Reilly continuously comments on her Masters every changing state of health. Towards the end of the book her mother passes away leaving Mary in grief. Soon after this personal catas .....
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