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Winston Smith Thought Police
574 words
The book 1984 was very interesting to me because
it was the first book i have ever read like it.
The book takes page in London England the state
which the main character r Winston Smith lives is
called Oceania. The Case System for this country
is the inter party is the highest, next comes the
outer party, then the paroles are the lowest
class. The setting of the book takes place in
april. The main character of the book is Winston
Smith who worked in ther minister of truth which
is a place where ...
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John F Kennedy Years In Prison
1,087 words
... nd. Hoffa had announced that he intended to
vacation there with his wife, who was getting
better from her recent illness. Well one day Hoffa
was returning to his Americana Hotel in Miami
Beach where the AFL-CIO Executive Council was
meeting. When George Meany heard of Hoffa's
presence he said, Whats that gut doing around
here? (6) Hoffa told the newsman that he was
active in the real estate business in Florida. So
Hoffa had to lie sometimes just to take a
vacation. That isnt the kind of life...
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Father Son Relationships End Of The Poem
1,333 words
In examining the four father poems, I chose to
talk about "Breakings", "Black Walnuts", and "My
Papa's Waltz." In each of the three poems the
speaker reminisces about memories he has with his
father that take place when the speaker was young.
The three texts discuss the father's importance in
the son's maturation. In the poem entitled "My
Papa's Waltz, " the author is writing about a son
and his father doing some sort of activity.
Throughout the poem some negative sounding words
are used to desc...
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Introduction To Literature Edgar Allan
908 words
In Edgar Allan Poe's short-story, The Tell-Tale
Heart, the speaker of the story tries to convince
the reader that he is not mad. But by the speaker
telling the story as he does, he answers his own
question that he asks the reader at the start of
the story, ... why will you say I am mad? (
Introduction to Literature, page 415). He attempts
to tell his story in a calm manner, but as he
describes various parts, he begins ranting with a
great The speaker pays particular attention to
emphasize specif...
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Catherine The Great Absolute Monarch
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Catherine the Great in my opinion was an absolute
monarch. I will now give a quick overview and
timeline of Catherine the Great to show some of
her achievements. She was born in 1729 in what is
now Stettin Poland into the family of Prince
Christian August, Catherine was christened Sophia
Augusta Frederica. At the age of 15 she was the
bride of the heir to the throne, Peter
Feodorovich. They married in 1745, and she was
christened into the Orthodox Church as Ekaterina
Alexeevna. highly intelligen...
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Soviet Union Holy War
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The Chechens always despised being ruled by the
Russians, likewise, Russia loathed them ranked
them among the most ruthless and severe criminals
of the former Soviet Union (Roskin 285). Stalin
deported the Chechens to Kazakhstan in 1944,
claiming they were "German collaborators." When
the remaining Muslim Chechens were permitted back
into their homeland, they returned feeling bitter
and helpless without any available resources on
which to survive. Since their repatriation, the
people of Chechnya...
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Days A Week Basketball Team
1,550 words
As I type away on my computer at my desk made out
of some wooden composite in my tranquil room, I
discern several things. I know what I know, I feel
what I feel, I believe what I believe & I view
what I view. When I situate myself in front of a
reflection of Alaina Talbot, I observe carefully.
What do I look for? Most of you would look for the
typical flaws in your individual exterior. I, on
the other hand, look at her and play over the last
two years of my existence. As an incoming
freshman, I ...
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Hitler Believed Magical Powers
1,456 words
Websters Dictionary defines skinheads, "as usually
a white male belonging to any of various,
sometimes violent, youth gangs whose members have
close-shaven hair and often espouse
white-supremacist beliefs. " I had the pleasure,
more like displeasure, of looking up information
on skinheads and found that they are not at all as
the dictionary defined them as. They are worse
then any of those English majors could imagine.
Skinheads are very violent and ignorant people,
they feel that they are super...
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Piece Of Paper Fourth Grade
755 words
It was the fourth grade. I always heard rumors and
gossip about a certain teacher. This year, kids
said to take any teacher except Mrs. Williams, the
oral project teacher. Of course in elementary, we
did not have a choice of which teacher to choose.
Boy, I was shocked when I glanced at the window
that had my schedule. Just by looking at that
plain white piece of paper sticking on a
safety-glass window, I knew it was going to be a
bad year. The old, grouchy, strict, and mean Mrs.
Williams would b...
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Humans Have Three Eyes Humans Have Three Winston
804 words
"Wake up!" a stern voice called from above. Her
weary eyes slowly began to open. It was absolutely
bright, however no windows were visible. Only
electric lights running endlessly in parallel
lines covered the ceiling of the hall. She was
sitting in the very centre; her head crouched
between her knees. She was afraid to speak or
question where she might be. She could hear
footsteps in the distant but could not make out
where they were coming from. The burning lights
had gradually blinded her eyes...
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People Of Umuofia Okonkwo Didnt Okonkwo's
570 words
This novel is about the rise and fall of Okonkwo
and his culture. Okonkwo is a man who made a name
for himself by hard work and determination. His
ambition to gain more titles had changed when
things began to fall apart. The causes of things
falling apart are political and religious order as
well as Unoka, Okonkwo's father. These lead up to
Umuofia corruption, Okonkwo's headstrong attitude,
and fatality. Religion is still today one of the
most controversial topics around the world.
Tradition and...
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Play Called Absent Friends
1,251 words
Absent Friends is a modern comedy written for the
stage. Its humor comes from the situations and
actions of the characters. The setting is an
afternoon tea party, thrown by a group of five
'friends' for an old acquaintance who recently
lost his fianc. All of the characters are an
exaggeration of dislike able traits in everybody's
personalities; John, the workaholic who cares more
for money than comfort, Paul the stereotypical
self-dependant man and Evelyn, the slut succumbing
to her own desires ...
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Sexual Perversion Bad Faith
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I would like to take this opportunity to discuss
Jean Paul Sartre's philosophy and it's integration
into his play "No Exit." Embedded within the
character interactions are many Sartre
philosophical themes. Personal attributes serve to
demonstrate some of the more dominant ideas in
Sartre's writings. Each of the three characters in
the play show identifiable characteristics of
sexual perversion, bad faith, and interactions of
consciousness. This play takes an interesting
setting, that of the afte...
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Underground Man Fantasy World
1,594 words
... The Underground Man when confronted with
reality sinks into his world of fantasy, and yet,
realizes the depth of his fantasy in the real
world. The Underground Man went to all sorts of
strange places in an effort to amuse himself. Once
he saw a man being thrown out of a window of a
tavern and entered the tavern in the hopes that
someone would throw him out of the window as well.
Upon entering the tavern he is moved aside by an
officer who fail to even notice him. This refusal
to notice him w...
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William Shakespeare Romeo Romeo And Juliet
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Role of the Nurse and / or Confidant in William
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and in Jean
Racine's Phaedra The nurse in William
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet plays a very
significant and controversial role as well as it
does in Jean Racine's Phaedra. She plays a role of
a good friend and counselor in many tricky issues
that arise as the stories go. These significant
characters of the stories embody to a great extent
unconditional love and genuine friendship in order
to point out the importance...
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Quot Quot Playing Football
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" What a great goal! " Jamie thought as
Adam scored again, " Adams got everything the
latest games, the looks which women die for,
branded clothes, Rockport shoes, everything and
most of all the gorgeous women, the women of my
dreams, Cameron" . ? ? ? ? ? ? ? " Come
on, Cameron lets go! " Adam ordered Cameron
as the football match finished, Adam picked up his
boot bag and held Cameron's hand and left the
school football pitch. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Once again
Jamie's heart ...
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King Hamlet Death Of His Father
1,381 words
Hamlet was a man that will be studied for the rest
of time. The complication of the story is enough
to raise argument let alone Hamlet the man. Was
Hamlet crazy? Nobody knows and will ever know. The
entire play there are signs of his insanity but
there are also signs that he was putting a big
joke on to the people around him that he so hated
and distrusted. His true character is never
revealed throughout the entire play. The
identities and changes he goes through prove that.
Many things happened...
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Views Society
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Throughout a person? s life they will do something
very ignorant or say something very stupid
hundreds of times. Most of the time it is because
they are trying to impress somebody or change
their ways to make someone or others accept them.
The story? Haunting of Hill House? has great
examples of people changing just to fit in. The
author Shirley Jackson, who died in 1965, was one
of the most brilliant writers of her time. She was
widely acclaimed for her hair-raising stories and
novels of the su...
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Love For Catherine Wuthering Heights
725 words
Many people think that Heathcliff was an extremely
violent and cold-hearted man, but they did not see
his true personality. Heathcliff is a loving and
caring person, but hides this from everyone but
Catherine. Catherine is the only person he truly
cared about, and shares his true personality with.
When he is around other people he hides his
feelings behind a mask of no emotion, but when his
love is betrayed his mask breaks, and he can no
longer hide his emotions. When Heathcliff first
comes to W...
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Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance
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As a talented American author, Langston Hughes
captured and integrated the realities and demands
of Africa America in his work by utilizing the
beauty, dignity, and heritage of blacks in America
in the 1920 s. Hughes was reared for a time by his
grandmother in Kansas after his parents? divorce.
Influenced by the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
and Carl Sandburg, he began writing creatively
while still a boy. Not only did Hughes suffer from
poverty but also from restrictions that came with
living ...
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