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Wrote This Book Thousands Of Jews
1,554 words1. Give a short summary of your book. (characters, conflict, complications, climaxes, resolutions) The story was mainly about Alicia Jurman's life during and after the Holocaust. In her life she had witnessed more trauma that we cant even imagine, such as her mother getting killed right in front of her. Thats not all, her whole family was killed during the holocaust. Her family cruelly wrenched from her, Alicia rescued other Jews from the Gestapo, led them to safe hide outs. She was only 13 when...
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Miss Moore Main Character
542 wordsIn the short story "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara the story is an instrument for social transformation. The story represents an instrument of Social transformation because the characters standings in society in the short story is very poor and Miss Moore teaches guides them to acquire greater things in life by one trip to the town. The characters in the story are poor and are guided by Miss Moore. This story indicates the beginning steps of social transformation. Throughout the short story Mi...
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Loathing In Las Vegas Fear And Loathing In Las
1,965 wordsLas Vegas has always been known as the city of sin, and the movie Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas corroborates this belief. From drug experimentation to gambling, this movie portrays a surprisingly thoughtful glance into the mind of addiction and of drug usage. Though various drugs were used in this movie, psychedelics seemed to be the drugs of choice for the characters. The focus of this paper is to define the hallucinogens by using its most popular member, LSD. After LSD has been adequately def...
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Interesting To Note Lost Forever
933 wordsThroughout a long journey and endless flight the Mennonites have suffered religious persecution almost wherever they were. In the story sailing to Danzig the author Rudy Wiebe describes the life of a man who is searching for his identity through historical books and the tales of his family members. The Mennonites religious movement was first started during the protestant reformation in the 1520 s and was led by Menno Simons (Encarta). Originating in Switzerland it was not very long before they w...
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Make A Good Sci Fi
1,089 wordsSo, you just wrote your first science fiction novel. Your friend read it and told you that you were the next Ray Bradbury or Gene Roddenberry. Your fertile mind fantasizes your name up there on a Borders wall poster right next to images of Isaac Azimov and Jules Verne. Before going off the deep end and equating yourself with Hemingway and Steinbeck, give your ego a stiff reality check. Few of us mortals are literary Mozart's that can plop down in front of a computer screen and author a perfect m...
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Catcher In The Rye Romeo And Juliet
840 wordsSome may say that the main character of J. D. Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, is merely the average teenager, although he seems to think about sex and women quite a lot for his age of sixteen. This point can be easily argued in many ways, one example being the time Holden called a perfect stranger, Faith Cavendish, to get together at an unruly time of night. Another example of the main characters perversion is when he hired a prostitute named Sunny, and never actually a...
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Tyler Durden Alter Ego
1,352 wordsThe movie, Fight Club, has many themes dealing with some of the class-discussed vocabulary. Through a scene by scene, and dialogue-based analysis of the movie, I have found that these themes are emphasized through discussions, interactions, and non-dialogue scenes between the main character, his imaginary sidekick and the society that has had such effect on the main character. Some of these themes or topics that are shared by both the movie and the class vocabulary appear randomly, sporadically,...
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Main Character Colonel Story
288 wordsThis is a story that I got off the internet at web This story was written a long time ago. It happened at the Emperor Hotel, in what I believe is London. This story explains how a person worked at the Hotel. He was in charge of the lift or as we like to call it, the elevator. In November of the year that this story occurred in, a person named Colonel Say came to the hotel. He was strange to the main character. He had strange habits, for example, he never sat down whether the elevator was empty o...
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Chopin The Awakening Wife And Mother
3,424 wordsIn Kate Chopin 2 Sharp 1 In all of Kate Chopin s writings she placed a great deal of importance on the rights and freedom of the women of her time. Chopin believed that women should have emotional, sexual, and intellectual freedom and this belief was presented within the lines of all of her short stories, novels, and poems. (Gilbert, Gear 1012) The Awakening by Kate Chopin was considered very shocking when it was first published because of it s sexual awakening of the main character, Edna Pontel...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Emily By William Faulkner
1,121 wordsThomas Jefferson described the American Dream as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Every person has a dream and in the three short stories, The Catbird Seat by James Thurber, Winter Dream by F. Scott Fitzgerald and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, the theme is one common American Dream: happiness. The search for happiness is found in The Catbird Seat when the main character Erwin Martin plays an elaborate stunt to save his job and dispose of a bothersome co-worker. In Winter Drea...
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Catcher In The Rye Kings In The Back
1,574 wordsIn the novel, Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden, has very definite views on sexuality, aggression, and death. He is ambivalent towards sex, loathsome of aggression, and fearsome of death. Its this triangle of sin that demonstrates the conflict occurring within Holden's inner monologue. In the novel, Generation X, the main character, Andy, is grappling with many of the same problems that Holden faced forty years earlier. Even though the more modern society is different than forty yea...
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Blind Man Main Character
648 wordsCathedral People Cathedral Jessica Boehmer Cathedral People in society are alienated in various ways. Alienations have a stereotype of being negative and offering nothing to the normal person. In the short story, Cathedral, a blind man, Robert, is the assumed alienated character in the opening of the story. The nameless protagonist is thought to be that of the normal crowd. As the story progresses it takes a surprising turn, and roles seem to switch. The characters can be said to be in a situati...
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Jackson Nest
1,712 wordsShirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, California on December 14, 1916. Jackson began writing in journals at a very young age. She took an interest in the supernatural at as a child as this 1933 New Year? s Resolution shows; ? seek out the good in others rather than explore the evil? (Ragland). Jackson started college at the University of Rochester. She dropped out of school, and transferred to Syracuse University, in the fall. At Syracuse University, she met her husband Stanley Edgar Hyman....
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Town People Shoot The Elephant
1,414 wordsThe story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College, which introduced him to England? s middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship, which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of respect for the justice of British Imperialism in Burma and India. He ...
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Hamlet And Ophelia Character In The Play
1,599 wordsthe foils of hamlet In his plays, Shakespeare often puts the antagonists in circumstances similar to or resembling the problems of the main character or hero. He does this in order to give us a clear perception of what the characters are like, through contrast or similarity between them. These literary experiments are called foils. In Hamlet, Shakespeare gives us many foils for Hamlet, the main character. One major foil is Ophelia. Hamlet and Ophelia have both lost their fathers. In the beginnin...
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Shows That Huck Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
1,283 wordsHow Outside Influences force Huckleberry Finn and Dave to Mature The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Man Who was Almost a Man are both bildungsroman's. A bildungsroman is a story whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character. In Huck Finn the main character, Huck, is placed in many situations that force him to develop his personal skills. These situations also teach Huck to listen to himself and make the correct deci...
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World War Ii Uncle
2,272 wordsMs Harrison ENGI immigration Nikki Bumbacco Ms Harrison ENG OAC July 21, 2000 It is a fact that almost all of the people in Canada are immigrants, or come from immigrant descent. If it were not for the millions of people who have fled to Canada in hope of a better life, Canada would never have prospered into what it is today. As a result of this fact, it is hard to believe that immigrants are still faced with many hardships when they enter Canada. Most immigrants have good intentions in mind whe...
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World War Ii Uncle
2,178 wordsENG OAC July Immigrants Ms Harrison ENG OAC July 21, 2000 It is a fact that almost all of the people in Canada are immigrants, or come from immigrant descent. If it were not for the millions of people who have fled to Canada in hope of a better life, Canada would never have prospered into what it is today. As a result of this fact, it is hard to believe that immigrants are still faced with many hardships when they enter Canada. Most immigrants have good intentions in mind when coming to a new co...
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Temporary Nervous Depression Yellow Wallpaper
3,181 wordsSliding Towards Madness in Gilman s The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman s The Yellow Wallpaper, relays to the reader something more than a simple story of a woman at the mercy of the limited medical knowledge in the late 1800 s. Gilman creates a character that expresses real emotions and a psyche that can be examined in the context of modern understanding. The Yellow Wallpaper, written in first person and first published in 1892 in the January edition of the New England Magazine, depic...
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Build A Fire Jack London
796 wordsIn Arthur Gordons short story The Sea Devil and in Jack London's short story To Build a Fire, it is clear that in spite of the many differences the two stories have many more similarities. First, although there are more similarities between the two stories, there are still many qualities that portray the antithetic nature between the two short stories. For example, when the fisherman (in Jack London's story) used his intelligence to defeat his enemy; Only by using his brain could he possible sur...
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