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Point Of View Freedom Fighters
1,018 wordsBook Notes Title: After The First Death Author: Robert Cormier Date Started: 02 / 06 / 00 Date Ended: 03 / 06 / 00 Miro: Miro is a teen-age terrorist that came from another country know, in the story, as their Homeland. Even Miro himself is uncertain of his age because during the training (Or as they call it, school) age is not important. Te training is preparing them for terrorism. Miro is feeling less and has learned not to give in to the call of nature. For example: Things such as hunger, Res...
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Candide Vs The Book Of Job
1,116 words... h questions the accuracy of a dependency on faith. In the Book of Job, three of Jobs friends try to convince him to not be dismayed in the Lord due to the curses that have been stricken upon him because He is the only man who can rid Job of his problems. Job questions his friends by saying, Indeed this is true, but how can a man be righteous before God? He explains that there is nothing more that he can do to gain Gods praises and eventually convinces his friends that he is right. Finally El...
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Called For His Wife Mat And Perrin Rand
2,472 wordsThe Below are the chapter names and following them will be a short summary of each chapter. Overall the book was excellently written the imagery that it portrayed was excellent although at times the character development was more then drawn out, but in this particular book it suited the plot and the fantasy theme that it tried to express to the readers. As you may read, the chapter reviews are very brief and they will really only bring the basic meaning of what happened. Before the actually summ...
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Ray Kroc Oak Park
1,166 wordsGRINDING IT OUT: The Making of McDonalds Mr. Kroc sold paper cups for Lily Tulip Cup company for seventeen years at $ 35. 00 a week and played piano part time to support his wife and children in the early twenties. He was born in Oak Park, Chicago Ill. His father Louis Kroc left school in the eight grade to work for Western Union and steadily but slowly worked his way op the company ladder. His nick name was Danny Daydreamer he like to just sit and think so his mother started calling him Danny D...
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Light And Dark Tim Burton
1,205 wordsIt makes you realize how abstract the film industry, and life in general, really is how much of it is just based on things that Tim Burton is just a man like any other man, except any other man is not Tim Burton. Tim Burton is a filmmaker. As a filmmaker, Burton has creative power over what he produces, directs, or even writes. His auteur, a term in film criticism that is applied to a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or aut...
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The Masque Of Red Death
902 wordsTales of horror and hidden messages of Edgar Allen Poe's stories and poems have kept readers in deep thought to this day. People have argued for years about the vivid imagination of this historic writer. Everyone has their own opinion of the meaning behind his twisted stories. The Masque of the Red Death has been a topic of discussion because of its many different messages. This is typical of many of his haunting stories, in which there is always a bit of truth and reality to his twisted tales. ...
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Stephen Edwin King Stephen King
1,015 wordsIf you have an imagination, let it run free. " 9 - 11 - Steven King, 1963 The King of Terror Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known for his novels, has broadened his horizons to different...
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Sir And The Green Knight
578 wordsIn the Epic poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the unnamed author uses Sir Gawain to illustrate the heroic ideals of chivalry, loyalty and honesty in fourteenth century England. The poem depicts the society of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. In the poem, Gawain is the ideal of virtue and all that is good. Throughout the poem, however, his character is constantly tested and his integrity is compromised. In the end, Gawain proves that, although he is fallible, he is an honest a...
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Blindness In King Lear
855 wordsA reoccurring theme in Shakespeare's King Lear is the theme of blindness. Blindness in todays society is generally interpreted as the inability of the eye to see. In Shakespearian terms, blindness is not a physical state of being, but rather a temporary mental flaw. The theme of blindness in King Lear is clearly shown through the actions of Albany, Gloucester, and King Lear. Albany suffers from the classic case of blindness. Albany is blinded by love. Although Albany disagrees with Goneril's cru...
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Thousand Years Ago High Middle Ages
2,200 words... it hout straying too far from the traditional legend. The deeper interpretations of the characters and events in the story provide for a truth and authenticity not to be found in similar works, and the sense of humor gives White's novel an individual touch. T. H. White's The Once and Future King is one of the best retelling's of the Arthurian legend, and his additions to the tale create an invigorating and entertaining combination, ranking it among the most popular and best read of all. Nath...
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Count Orlok Fast Motion Film
330 wordsTitle: Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grades Year: 1922 Director: F. W. Murray Starring: Max Schreck, Greta Schrder, Gustav Van Wagenheim The story begins in Bremen, Germany. A little real estate agent, assigns his employee to visit the remote castle of Count Orlok, who wishes to buy a house in town. During the trip to Orlok's lair in the Carpathian Mountains, images foretell doom. In an inn, all of the customers fall silent when the employee mentions Orlok's name. Outside, horses bolt and run, a...
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Lady Of The Lake King Arthur
686 wordsExcalibur: In Arthurian legend, the sword belonging to King Arthur. The sword with jeweled hilt and magic powers, of King Arthur of the Britons. One legend says the Lady of The Lake gave it to him. Another says it is the sword fixed into the miraculous stone, to be removed only by the man that would become King. When Arthur was a young boy, he drew the sword from the stone, though all others had failed. When he died Excalibur was thrown into the lake, and a mysterious hand rose to grasp it and d...
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Subliminal Messages Subconscious Mind
1,159 wordsAre you sure that you arent being subconsciously manipulated into making decisions that you wouldnt normally make? Are you sure that over the next few days, your purchases of popcorn and Coke will be completely under your conscious control? Are you even sure that I havent embedded secret messages into this research paper to manipulate you into giving me an A? If you didnt consciously perceive secret messages but you did perceive them subconsciously, then they would be called subliminal. The word...
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Born Of A Woman Thane Of Cawdor
695 wordsOne of Shakespeare's most famous plays, Macbeth, includes examples of several literary techniques. Two techniques he uses are foreshadowing and bringing supernatural elements into a story. Like many writers, Shakespeare uses characters to foreshadow. The witches in Macbeth bring out the elements of foreshadowing and the supernatural. Throughout the play readers can find the witches and their effects upon the story and the other characters. When Macbeth begins, the first characters on stage are t...
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King Hamlet The Devil In Disguise
1,547 wordsWilliam Shakespeare's Hamlet is a drama which has been round for its content and depiction of characters. Over the years, it has gone through many variations of interpretations and criticisms. One such criticism is the nature of the ghost who takes the form of Hamlet's dead father. At first glance, it may be sufficient to accept the ghost as the spirit of Hamlet's dead father who returns to the land of the living in order to have his son avenge his murder. However, looking deeper into the text, ...
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King Lear Act Ii
654 wordsOne of the primary themes portrayed in "King Lear" is the harsh effects of betrayal by one's loved ones. Incorporated in this message is the fact that such betrayal can be avoided with sound judgment and temper, and with patience in all decisions. Shakespeare uses the motif of madness to aid in this message. Anger and insanity are coupled to illustrate the theme, and they both cloud the judgment of characters in various ways. A contrast between actual insanity and fabricated madness aids in the ...
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Tycho Brahe Ur Hamlet
1,294 wordsShakespeare was a man of many accomplishments. Many were in his writings; others were in his great director and playwright skills. The play Hamlet is one of the most re-created and re-written books to date. Hamlet is still being performed in theaters around the world. Even though many people perceive Shakespeare as a literary genius, we can not give him sole credit for his plays and sonnets. With a few exceptions, Shakespeare did not invent the plots of his plays. Sometimes he used old stories (...
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Act 1 Scene 1 Scene 3
1,920 wordsOne of the most commonly debated issues concerning morality is the concept of nature versus nurture. Which is more integral to ones behavior: the inborn qualities or the influences of life on the individual? Mark Twain, in his essay entitled "What Is Man?" describes humankind this way: Man the machine -- man the impersonal engine. Whatsoever a man is, is due to his MAKE, and to the INFLUENCES brought to bear upon it by his hereditas, his habitat, his associations. He is moved, directed, COMMANDE...
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Zaroff Rainsford Island
212 wordsThe story The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell, is a story about hunting. In the beginning of the story, the main character, Rainsford, falls off a yacht into the ocean a couple of miles from an island called Ship-Trap island. Upon reaching the island, he fell face forward from exhaustion into a deep sleep. When Rainsford finally awoke, he started to search the island until he came upon a huge castle. After knocking on the door, he was greeted gruffly, but allowed to enter the large build...
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Walls Were Decorated Stood Up Slowly Looked
2,696 wordsNathaniel Nathaniel I remember how it all started. Its been so long now I cant remember the whens but I remember how as if it was branded into my mind. I was out tending the fields at the time. I was only 10 but what could I do? My father was sick someone had to do the job and my sister and mother had enough work in the house. Suddenly, I heard an odd rumbling. I looked around but the sky was clear, Id never heard such a sound before in my life. Off in the distant a silhouette could be made out,...
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