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Long Time Ago Fear Of Death
2,974 words
... oes in. There is a scream as the tiger devours
Kenny and Charles cringes outside the bathroom.
Soon after that incident Miss Bird comes by to see
what happened to the two boys, and she goes right
into the bathroom and is devoured as well. Charles
then noticed that the tiger was satiated and he
proceeds to use the bathroom, and heads back to
class. The fear in this story may also be a fear
of growing up. Charles sounds to be in about first
grade and is getting used to acting more mature
and b...
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Love And Sex Mob Leader Pinky
721 words
Does Greene raise his characters from mere
functions in a detective novel to characters whose
motivations are believable? Use two characters to
illustrate your argument. Brighton Rock, by Graham
Greene, is a book based in 1930 s underworld
Brighton. The novel is based on the tale of Pinky,
a teenage gangster, and his conflict against an
amateur detective, Ida, who is intent on bringing
Pinky to justice. In many ways Brighton Rock can
be classed as a detective novel as it contains
certain element...
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Horatio Alger And Ragged Dick
1,174 words
The use of symbolism has always been a prevalent
way for writers to communicate important issues to
the public. It is not uncommon to read a simple
childrens story and discover underlying political
or moral messages, for example, Horatio Alger's
novel Ragged Dick. This story was written after
the Civil War, when America experienced a period
of huge industrial growth. The capitalistic work
ethic had become a universal idea in the North,
and in response the Government agreed to stay out
of busines...
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Ernest Miller Hemingway Farewell To Arms
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Earnest Hemingway's Works Ernest Miller Hemingway
was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois.
His father was the owner of a prosperous real
estate business. His father, Dr. Hemingway,
imparted to Ernest the importance of appearances,
especially in public. Dr. Hemingway invented
surgical forceps for which he would not accept
money. He believed that one should not profit from
something important f...
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Heron Secret White Heron Sylvia
693 words
There were two similar, but different people that
crossed each other's path one night. They would
find how important a friendship would be, if put
on the line for one's life. Sylvia would have to
make a decision that would define everything she
stood for in her life. " The woods were already
filled with shadows one June evening, just before
eight o'clock, though a bright sunset still
glimmered faintly among the trunks of the trees. A
little girl was driving home her cow, a plodding,
dilatory, pr...
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Lesson Before Dying Young Black Man
470 words
A young black man is soon to be put in the
electric chair, but the fact that he is innocent
is not important in Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying.
The question is will he face death like a man, or
like a dumb animal, a hog, as his defense attorney
carelessly characterized him. The story takes
place in a small Louisiana town during the 1940
's, when all-white male juries commonly found
accused black men guilty until proven innocent. In
this case, some prominent white men in the town
wanted to bet on ...
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Venus And Adonis Comedy Of Errors
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There is no documentary record of Shakespeare's
activities from the birth of the twins, in 1585
until Robert Greene's complaint about him as an
"upstart crow" in 1592. Biographers have therefore
called these the lost years. In fact, there is
nothing certain known about him from his birth in
1564 until 1592 except that he was married in
1582, fathered Susanna in 1583 and the twins
Judith and Hamlet in 1585, and probably attended
Stratford Grammar School. The lack of details has
not stopped author...
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8 Th Century Tang Dynasty
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Until this century dynastic families have provided
most of the rulers over the human race. Kinship
formed an in-group network to support the power
holder (or rival) as well as a principle by which
to settle (or dispute) the explosive question of
the succession of to power. Out of all the
dynasties, of the world, none ruled as large a
state as China or maintained such a monopoly of
central government. As institutions of government,
the major Chinese Dynasties are in a class by
themselves. Neither...
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Things They Carried Playing Basketball
1,178 words
William Timothy O'Brien was born on October 1 st,
1946 in Austin, Minnesota. He planned on having a
good career, and to follow in the foot- steps of
his parents. His father, William, was an insurance
agent, and his mother, Tim graduated from high
school, and then went on to college to continue
his education. At the age of twenty-two, he was
drafted into the United States Armed Forces to
fight during the conflict in Vietnam. Tim was less
than thrilled. Being a soldier in the Army was not
somethin...
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Grand Inquisitor Eighteenth Century
1,745 words
Europe and frontier South America; mid-eighteenth
century Pangloss, Candide's tutor and philosopher
friend Cunegonde, the beautiful daughter of a
baron Cacambo, Candide's servant and companion
Martin, a later traveling companion Candide, the
illegitimate son of a Baron's sister, was sent to
live with the Baron at his beautiful castle in
Westphalia. The Baroness weighed about three
hundred and fifty pounds, as therefore greatly
respected, and did the honors of the house it had
dignity which rende...
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Civil War Young Man
433 words
When we play chess, what is always the first piece
we sacrifice to achieve victory? The pawn, of
course. The front line soldier that is always
expendable. I am not that great a chess player but
in my somewhat lacking strategies, I have even
often used my pawn as bait to try and draw out my
opponent's "more valuable" pieces into a trap.
Nevermind what happens to that poor pawn. In this
Civil War novel, Stephen Crane invites us into the
mind of just such a pawn. We see that he is not a
mindless to...
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Hemingway Hero Mark Twain
1,688 words
Hemingway's style left a deep imprint on the
landscape of prose In the years after the First
World War, the Young Man Who Lived and Loved Hard
and Wrote Well revolutionized American literature.
His prose was a symphony of short, strong,
sonorous sentences. His heroes were men broken by
the world but left "strong at the broken places. "
His women were both strong and weak, and they were
always very beautiful in their summer dresses. The
Young Man Who Lived and Loved Hard and Wrote Well
lied out o...
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Great Deal Four Years
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... n As for me, I was so astonished that I did
not at first see what was going on by the brook;
but when I did look there was a sad sight; two
fine horses were down, one was struggling in the
stream, and the other was groaning on the grass.
One of the riders was getting out of the water
covered with mud, the other lay quite still. "His
neck is broke, " said my mother. "And serve him
right, too, " said one of the colts. I thought the
same, but my mother did not join with us. "Well,
no, " she sai...
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Day By Day Walt Whitman
1,319 words
Walt Whitman's poem A Sight in Camp in the
Daybreak Gray and Dim, sets the picture of a
solider camp near a battlefield. (This was
probably around the time when he served as a
volunteer nurse and comforter in the army. ) In
line two Whitman wakes up early due to little
sleep, perhaps from going to battle. As he goes
outside near the hospital tent, he sees three
people on stretchers brought outside untended. He
describes the blankets covering the soldiers over
each stretcher. In the next lines se...
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John Updike Small Town
773 words
In the story A&P, the author John Updike
introduces to us a young man named Sammy. This
young man of 18 works in the local A&P of a small
town. Sammy foolishly walks away from his job to
impress a very good-looking young girl. I feel
that Sammy made a very bad spur of the moment
decision. Most people do not just up and walk out
from their jobs, especially when they have very
limited opportunity like Sammy. Sammy comes from a
small town where everything you do and do not do
is everybody's busines...
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Solitary Confinement Tear Gas
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When I was sent to the Missouri State Penitentiary
at Jefferson City, in February 1960, there were 2,
500 men inside "the walls. " The white convicts
slept three to a cell (except for several hundred
in the one-man cells). The blacks slept as many as
eight to a cell. Stabbings and killings, robberies
and rapes were common. Dope was easier to get in
prison than it was on the streets. There were men
in prison who were said to make more money each
year from dope and gambling than the warden was
pai...
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Divine Intervention Trojan War
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... ake's Odysseus extremely attractive, so much
so that Nausicaa comments that "I should like my
future husband to be just such another as he is,
if he would only stay here and not want to go
away" (Scroll VI). It really does seem that the
girl has been manipulated into falling in love
with Odysseus. This sort of manipulation appears
to be acceptable in the name of the general goal,
getting Odysseus home. An interesting question to
consider throughout the text in light of events
like this, howe...
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Paul Was Changed Faith In Mankind War
505 words
Paul Buyer changed dramatically throughout the
course of the book, All Quiet on the Western
Front. Paul went from an able-bodied, spirited
young man in the prime of his life, to an
atavistic, instinctive man, doomed to be haunted
by his experience of war. Paul quickly learned the
irrelevance of his 10 -year education from school
in comparison to his short 10 -week education from
boot camp. Paul bore witness to the brutality of
war, and has forever been changed by the sights he
saw. Paul watched ...
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Makes You Feel Story The Narrator
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Sucking You In: The story of John Updike John
Updike has been known for his short story and
novel writing all throughout the last 30 years. He
has something in his text that can just grab the
reader and literally pull them into the story.
Using his vivid imagination and his unique style
of writing, he makes you feel like you are
actually there. Weather it is in the middle of a
sporting event, or on top of a snowy mountain
preparing to start your voyage down on nothing but
two thin pieces of meta...
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Tom And Daisy Eyes Of Dr
694 words
Great Gatsby and its Themes A good novel has a
number of themes. The following are important
themes of The Great Gatsby. The corruption of the
American dream, sight and insight, the meaning of
the past, and the education of a young man. The
American Dream was based on the assumption that
each person, no matter what his origins, could
succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her
own skill and effort. The dream was embodied in
the ideal of the self-made man, just as it was
embodied in Fitzgeral...
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