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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
764 words
The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger, is a
display of characters and incidents portrayed
through the eyes of an adolescent. Holden
Caulfield, the main character has been revealed in
the first person view in a unique narrative of a
teenage boy who forms a transition into adulthood.
Holden perceives the world as an evil and corrupt
place where there is no purity and that
individuals in the world acquire a trait known as
"phony. " Throughout the novel, Holden Caulfield
refers to the conditions of...
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60 Km H Speed A Vehicle Driving
507 words
It is a familiar scene during prime-time
television: A young woman is shown driving a red
Mitsubishi Eclipse down a country road at very
high speed. The woman is -on her way to her
grandparents' home, and the car is going so fast
that it makes the house rumble when she arrives.
Meanwhile, the announcer declares: "It's
uncommonly fast, and fun to drive, and it makes
quite an entrance. " The steady stream of
advertisements like these, which continue to
promote dangerous driving behavior despite en...
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Stopping By Woods Woods On A Snowy Evening
611 words
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert
Frost Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening by
Robert Frost is one of the many deeply symbolic
poems that he has written. Frost was a poet who
sought to master his art. His poems he wrote were
deceptively simple in appearance but saturated
with meaning. In this particular poem Frost paints
a simple picture that appears to be quite lucid,
until one takes a closer look to reveal what is
hidden within the words. As the poem begins, there
is a man drivin...
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Aunt Julia Major Role
1,016 words
The Dead" is a story saturated in music. In it,
the Morgan women - Aunt Julia, Aunt Kate, niece
Mary Jane, all music teachers - are giving their
annual Yuletide fete, complete with song and
dance. Most of the "The Dead" takes place at a
Christmas party in Dublin about a century ago. The
annual celebrations is right around Christmas time
and takes place in a very traditional Irish
fashion. Among the guests is their nephew Gabriel
Conroy, a teacher and writer who acts as a
somewhat pompous master ...
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Law Abiding Citizens Community Based Policing
1,089 words
In some cases, gun control may be favored even if
the price is more death. Consider, for example, H.
Laurence Ross's review of Gary Kleck's book Point
Blank in the American Journal of Sociology.
Kleck's book was awarded the Hindelang Prize, as
the most significant contribution to criminology
in the last three years; Ross praises Kleck's
meticulous research and analysis, and Kleck's
debunking of many of the myths surrounding the gun
issue. And Ross does not deny Kleck's conclusion
that, because h...
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Nuclear Arms Race Mikhail Gorbachev
1,096 words
... ing spirit of the Russian people, and their
kind-hearted, loving, and accepting characters
shine through in her writings. She is dealing with
an area that has not had much coverage in the
media or in history because of the political
structure of the Soviet Union. Until recently the
United States was engaged in a Cold War with the
Communist Soviet Union, and access to these types
of interviews, documents and experiences was
unthinkable. She has brought out a new way of
looking at the recent e...
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Family Together From Falling House
453 words
In the story, A Raisin in the Sun, Mama can be
classified as a caring, bold and a person with
great strength in her character. She kept the
family together from falling apart. She is proud
of herself and her family, never giving up what
she believes in. She is the mot courageous person
in this story. She kept everyone in obedience to
God and his way; making Beneatha understand of her
disbelief and rudeness. When Beneatha denied it,
Mama made her say: in my mothers house there is
still God. She s...
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Catcher In The Rye Elkton Hills
1,295 words
Holden Caulfield's monologue in The Catcher in the
Rye is an examination of one boy's struggle of
entering into adulthood. He is a classic screw up
with no goals, just as Stradlater, his roommate at
Percent, states; "you don't do one damn thing the
way you " re supposed to" (Salinger 41). It is
really Holden's avoidance of having to grow up and
his fears related to it. It is because of Holden's
fears the he becomes so full of despair and
loneliness and is often nauseated by the world
around him ...
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Group Of Boys Lord Of The Flies
1,130 words
In society human beings have developed morals and
ways of life that set them apart from savage
creatures. William Golding's story Lord of the
Flies, deals with young men shedding their
morality to maintain a society that is capable of
surviving. In this tale of human survival Golding
selects symbols on an island to represent themes.
Of the many symbols he uses, the stripping of the
cloths, a conch shell, and war paint are the three
most effective. Each of these three symbols
represent how humans...
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Phone Call One Day
1,234 words
... very color and trees of every shape until I
found her in the solitude of the woods behind
school. We would pull out our professionals piece
of pot smoking equipment- a bowl that had a
shotgun hole in such a natural position that you
couldnt tell it was even there. Made out of
marble, it resembled a reddish orange snake
sticking out of your mouth when you hit from it. A
piece that cost us both a combined effort of
thirty-five dollars, it hit like a heavyweight
boxer. The smell of residue coul...
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Life And Death Cultural Tradition
804 words
Things Fall Apart, a novel by China Achebe where
he tells two different stories at the same time.
One is of Okonkwo, the villager whose rise to
power is halted because of all of his misfortunes.
The other is of Okonkwo's village, Umuofia, and
its struggle to hold on to its cultural tradition
while facing colonialism from the West. The title,
Things Fall Apart, describes perfectly what
happens to both Okonkwo and his village. Okonkwo's
life falls apart and as a result, he commits
suicide by hangi...
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Sexual Abuse Physical Abuse
897 words
Maltreatment of children is not a new phenomenon.
It dates back far into history, as far as the
colonial times and even back to biblical times.
During the recent years child maltreatment has had
an increase in the publics eye. There are many
factors to child maltreatment. There are four
general categories of child maltreatment now
recognized. They are physical abuse, sexual abuse,
neglect and emotional maltreatment. Each category,
in turn, covers a range of behavior. The
maltreatment of children...
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Hands Of An Angry God Sinners In The Hands
567 words
Analyzing Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by
Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Edwards was born in
1703, in East Windsor, Connecticut. He grew up in
a very strict and disciplined puritan atmosphere,
which would affect him throughout his whole life.
Ever since he was young, he showed great interest
in the puritan religion by preaching to his
friends and his classmates. At the age of twelve,
Jonathan Edwards had learned to speak three
different languages: Latin, Greek and Hebrew. When
he was thirte...
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Id Never Forget Knew I Was Falling Love
781 words
/> I love you more than anything. If you love me
as much as I love you. Those were the empty words
you said before you did it. Love is what you
called it. If you loved me, you wouldnt have done
it if you loved me, you wouldve waited. Love you
dont even know the meaning of the word! We hade
been together six weeks. I was the envy of every
girl in the school. I couldnt believe how lucky I
was to be going out with you. I told my self it
was too good too be true. I shouldve seen through
your act but...
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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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Center Of The Universe Heliocentric Universe
1,122 words
A paradigm is one's world view in which one
understands his place in it. Copernicus, Galileo,
Vesalius, Linneaus, Luewenhoek, and Newton were
all medieval scientists, whose work changed
people's lives and the world. The way man viewed
the universe in which he lived, the world of
nature that surrounded him, and even his own
physical anatomy changed right before him.
Scientists, like Galileo, disproved the
heliocentric model as new instruments like the
telescope were invented. The way in which man...
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Sir Gawain Green Knight
633 words
The many temptations of life bring people to act
differently through personality changes. The
characters in Sir Gawain the Green Knight change
their personalities through temptation. Through
the Christmas time, Bertilak, king of the castle,
decides to go hunting. While he is hunting, his
wife is hunting or seducing Gawain. Men tempted
with sex by women often act with certain
anomalistic instincts; in Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight by the Pearl Poet, the seduction scene
leads Gawain to act upon ...
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The Party Denial Of A Persons Natural Rights
1,006 words
The novel 1984 touches on many disturbing aspects
about the denial of a person's natural rights. In
today's society people are granted certain rights
which the government or anyone else can not take
away. These rights are the right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. In the novel 1984
the government which the people of Oceania live
under has taken away all of the rights of people,
including natural rights. The right to life has
been taken away in the sense that a persons life
is the ...
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Humanism And Clericism Of The 16th Century
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The two paintings, The conversion of St. Paul by
Caravaggio, and lady writing a letter with her
maid by Vermeer, reflect the religious conflict
between the Protestant and catholic cultures of 16
th century Europe. Before we take a look at why
they reflect the religious dispute, first we must
know some background on what caused it. Humanism
and Clericism. During the renaissance humanism
stood for the intellectual attitudes of the
ancient world paired with the wide acceptance of
the existence of G...
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Poem Begins Hollow Men
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The imagery depicted in T. S. Eliot's poem "The
Hollow Men" evokes a sense of desolate
hopelessness and lends to Eliot's generally
cynical view of civilization during this period in
history. A reaction of deep and profound
disappointment in mankind around him is made
evident in this stark work, first published in
1925. In this short piece, Eliot enumerates
several deep faults he finds in his fellowman,
including hypocrisy, apathy and indifference, and
leaves the reader with a feeling of overwhel...
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