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Nobel Peace Prize Concentration Camp
902 wordsThe Night by Elie Wise is a non fiction auto-biography. His special qualification for writing this is that he lived through it. He has won the Nobel Peace Prize, and he has written Dawn, The Accident, and The Town Beyond the Wall. He won the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in improving the living conditions and promoting the understanding and acceptance of Jews around the world. I am not sure if this is a recent publication or a classic, but it was copyrighted in 1960. The book is organiz...
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The Scarlet Letter Pearl
841 wordsIn The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the characters suffer from the tolls of sin, but none as horribly as Hester's daughter Pearl. She alone suffers from sin that is not her own, but rather that of her mother. From the day she is conceived, Pearl is portrayed as an offspring of evil. She is brought introduced to the pitiless domain of the Puritan religion from inside a jail, a place where no light can touch the depths of her mother's sin. The austere Puritan ways punish Hester t...
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Nineteen Eighty Four People Of Oceania
1,108 wordsTo control human thoughts, intuition, emotions and actions are to control humanity, and that is exactly what the Inner Party had done in George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty- Four. The Inner Party, most often refereed as the Party, had the power to control humanity or at least the civilians of Oceania. Most people that were born during the rein of the Party know no other way of life. They all grew up without emotions, freedom or an identity. Winston who vaguely remembers when times were differ...
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Stop The War Gas Chambers
998 wordsDefining the word hero is difficult. The dictionary states that a hero is any person admired for courage, nobility, or exploits, especially in war. For most people, the definition of hero is left to interpretation. Some people believe a hero is an exceptional athlete, but others think it is the local cop that made the news for a job well done. It is all up to the individual who is defining what a hero is. Jan Karski is a hero for several reasons; he proved to be courageous, demonstrated his inte...
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Gladiator Fights Wild Beast
1,145 wordsIn many modern books written about Ancient Rome and its people, The Romans are often portrayed as brutal and unforgiving people who enjoy violence and though it is amusing to see people being injured and killed to the point of obsession. It is my goal to establish whether this classification is justified or if it is simply an exaggeration of what a While it is known that in Rome there were gladiator fights, public beatings and slavery was legal and common. It is also important to understand just...
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Legalism Confucianism And Taoism Character Of Judge Dee Philosophies
756 wordsThe character of Judge Dee is largely molded by the ideas of his time. During his reign, the philosophies of Legalism, Confucianism, and Taoism, were heavily relied upon for the basis of ethics within the common people and magistrates alike. Judge Dees persona is derived directly from the strictest teachings of these philosophies. As the revered district magistrate of Chang-ping province, his conduct was expected to serve as a model for the citizens. This expectation demanded he act accordingly,...
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Malleus Maleficarum Falsely Accused
1,137 wordsWitches, Scapegoats and Disorder Section 04 Are the Witches in Macbeth Psychological Projections? "No estate, no class, no group, however conceived, was completely exempt from the persuasiveness of belief in witchcraft witches could strike anywhere. ." One of the most famous questions that still exists today is, do witches really exist or are they simply a creation of the human mind? Regional Scott questions the intentions behind the witch craze. According to him witchcraft and those being accus...
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Closer To God Louise Erdrich
1,582 wordsIn the book Tracks, written by Louise Erdrich we meet various characters, including Pauline. As we hear stories about her life and circumstances that she encountered and overcame, we gain insight into the life of a woman who fought to gain acceptance in a world where no one would accept her. As Erdrich wrote the book she based the life of Pauline on a Native American historical figure, Tekawitha Kate. When looking at the lives of these two women we can see the many similarities in their lives, b...
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Searches And Seizures Probable Cause
1,074 wordsThe book, Terror on Highway 59 was about a reporter by the name of Steve Sellers. Steve was in his second week of his new job, for the Austin American Statesmen, when his city editor handed him a letter containing weird behavior on Highway 59. The letter was from a man named J. E. Foley. Foley complained about the San Jacinto County Sheriffs department. Foley was on his way home from Kentucky after visiting some friends in Houston, and had bought a new car. The officers pulled over the car he wa...
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Bram Stoker Forty Five
1,531 wordsJust who was this peculiar Vlad Tepes Dracula? An explorer of the further realms of experience, a demon to some and Angel to others. Nevertheless he was the fifteenth century ruler of Romania. Bram Stoker based his Dracula novel on Vlad Tepes. His real history is perhaps more interesting than any vampire story. Vlad was born in 1431 in the town of Sighisoara. He was the second son of the Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Dracula. Dracula, his father was the ruler of a country called Wallachia. He was al...
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Dabydeen D 1987 Marriage A La Mode Hogarth
1,168 words... arth challenges the ideal view that the rich live virtuous lives, showing many of the people at their worst, having affairs, drunk, gambling, and other vices. In the first in the series of six, he shows an arranged marriage between a Count and Countess. In the second, the marriage has already begun to break down with the husband and wife disinterested in one another, while evidence of them having partied with different people the night before lies all around them. The clothes show men in lon...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Crime And Punishment
2,045 words... s and timidity. He aggravates his sin of adultery by his prolonged concealment of it and he further aggravates it by trying to keep up an appearance of piety. As the novel is primarily a story of fall of a great priest, we can easily defy Dimmesdale as the tragic hero. His life is also one long misery. He succumbs to temptation once again when in the course of his forest interview with Hester; he agrees to flee from Boston with her, though he could not stick to it. This action also leads him...
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Present Friends Close Friends Live
636 wordsFragile creatures are we humans. After all what is needed to get us hurt? A faint laugh of ridicule... a harsh word... a smile not returned. Often do we fall down during our journey. Often do we get hurt. Most often we dust ourselves off and start again. A true friend, according to me, is someone who gives us a helping hand to get us back on our feet, pats off the dust from our back and revitalizes us for the journey ahead. The world we live in is not as simple as it seems, nor is the millions o...
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Nightjohn And Number The Stars
912 wordsIn Nightjohn there were a number of facts, details and incidents that contribute to the historical accuracy of the book. I have outlined some of the more specific examples as follows: There was a man who risked his life for the sake of teaching the other children in the surrounding plantations how to read and write. The owner of the plantation whipped his slaves for moving too slow and did go out with dogs and two field hands after any of the slaves if they decide to run. He brings two field han...
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George Orwell 1984 Ministry Of Love
1,357 wordsSince the onset of the United States, Americans have always viewed the future in two ways; one, as the perfect society with a perfect government, or two, as a communistic hell where free will no longer exists and no one is happy. The novel 1984 by George Orwell is a combination of both theories. On the "bad" side, a communist state exists which is enforced with surveillance technology and loyal patriots. On the "good" side, however, everyone in the society who was born after the hostile takeover...
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Rest Of Her Life Hester And Pearl
1,031 words... to hide from accusations of witchcraft. She is tied in closely with the forest, and seems to know everything that goes on within this domain. B) Her worship of the Devil and her insatiable curiosity to know the happenings around her motivate her. C) Mistress Hibbins is left living with her brother, supposedly worshipping the Devil, at the end of the book. Reverend Wilson A) He represented the spiritual facet of Boston's everyday life. He was an elderly minister in the town of Boston. ...
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Reading This Story Touch A Girl Style
751 wordsAny author's primary goal in story writing is to convey an idea or topic to their reading audience. The conventional wisdom on this thought is that the clearer this is conveyed, the greater the appeal to the reader. However, some authors feel the need to resist this trend and forge new paths that sometime leaves the meanings of their stories obscure and hidden from the average reader. Donald Barthelme has taken this optional approach with his story "The Indian Uprising." There are several reason...
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Castle Of Westfalia Voltaire Candide Cunegonde
864 wordsVoltaire's Candide is a philosophical tale of one man's search for true happiness and his ultimate acceptance of life's disappointments. Candide grows up in the Castle of Westfalia and is taught by the learned philosopher Dr. Pangloss. Candide is abruptly exiled from the castle when found kissing the Baron's daughter, Cunegonde. Devastated by the separation from Cunegonde, his true love, Candide sets out to different places in the hope of finding her and achieving total happiness. The theme of C...
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Supernatural Force God Religion
419 wordsAccording to the dictionary "religion is the service and worship of God or the supernatural. " 1 I challenge that definition. It is true that all religions do involve the worship of some supernatural force, however, it is also true that no religion in history has ever stopped at that. For a more complete definition of the word religion we also have to examine two other aspects. How has it affected man over the centuries? And what is the true motivation of its leadership? Some would have you beli...
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Moral Obligation Brain Activity
1,775 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Animal rights is a catchphrase akin to human rights. It involves, however, a few pitfalls. First, animals exist only as a concept. Otherwise, they are cuddly cats, curly dogs, cute monkeys. A rat and a puppy are both animals but our emotional reaction to them is so different that we cannot really lump them together. Moreover: what rights are we talking about? The right to life? The rig...
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