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Anselm's Definition Of GodAnselm's definition of "God" starts by saying that God is the greatest
being we can possibly think of. When Anselm states this, it essentially
means that it is not possible to think of a being greater than God.
Anselm also states that if God is the greatest thinkable being, he is
referring to ...
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H.g. Wells The Time MachineThe foretelling of societies downfall by
the time traveler in H.G. Wells'
The downfall of a society can be caused by the lack of care and the thoughtlessness of the members within it. H.G. Wells tries to illustrate the perfect society and explain the realities that exist. The futurist society ...
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RagtimeUp until the late 1900’s, the American populace on the whole had assumed a very optimistic view of American history. Glossing over disgraceful events, emphasizing the brighter points in our history, our culture has attempted to ignore the obvious fact that we have had, and still have, our ...
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The Scarlet Letter: SymbolismSymbolism in literature is the deepness and hidden meaning in a piece of
work. It is often used to represent a moral or religious belief or value.
Without symbolism literature is just a bunch of meaningless words on paper. The
most symbolic piece of work in American Literature is Nathaniel ...
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Character Development In Dead Poets SocietyThroughout the history of the movie industry and since man began to tell stories, there has been one dilemma. It is not the plot, nor the setting, nor any other device of writing, but that of character development. By the time our society invented the movies, character development had become a ...
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Candide: A Satire On The EnlightenmentCandide is an outlandishly humorous, far-fetched tale by Voltaire satirizing the optimism espoused by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. It is the story of a young man’s adventures throughout the world, where he witnesses much evil and disaster. Throughout his travels, he adheres to ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Evil And Corruption In The WorldIn The Catcher in the Rye, Holden views the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no peace. This perception of the world does not change significantly through the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change ...
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Anna Karenina: Characters And The Life NovelBy examining the character list, one immediately notices the value
Tolstoy places on character. With one hundred and forty named characters and
several other unnamed characters, Tolstoy places his central focus in Anna
Karenina on the characters. He uses their actions and behavior to develop ...
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Machiavelli's The Prince: Views Of A LeaderIn The Prince, Machiavelli offers his views on how a leader should rule his country based upon his past analysis of history. This advice was designed to help keep a ruler in power. Machiavelli had a very pessimistic, cruel, deceitful, and hypocritical view of how one should govern the world for ...
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Billy BudHerman Mellville's Billy Budd is and extremely divisive novel when one considers the dissension it has generated. The criticism has essentially focused around the argument of acceptance vs. resistance. On the one hand we can read the story as accepting the hanging of d as the necessary ends of ...
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12 Angry Men: Boy Is InnocentGentlemen of the jury, I would like to point out to you three
pieces of evidence that prove this young boy is innocent. I would like to
revewthe purchase of the knife, the old man hearing a yell, and the movie
theater. The future of this young boy is in your hands now, make the right
decision. ...
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The City Of The SunIn Tommaso Campanella’s document, , a new social order is introduced amongst the Solarians. Campanella presents his readers with a utopian society that is ordered by rationality and reason. This ideal visionary is a redeemed world, free from injustice and competition in the market structure. ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huckleberry FinnMark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel
about a young boy's coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800's. The
main character, Huckleberry Finn, spends much time in the novel floating
down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim. Before
he does so, ...
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Midsummer Nights Dream: HumorA Midsummer Night's Dream: Humor
Shakespeare uses many ways to portray humor and make his plays a success because of it. He created a careful mix of love with humor to create a success called "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The focus of this paper is to describe how Shakespeare uses humor in his ...
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Hughes' "Black Voices Oby The Tales Of Simple": Jessie SempleLangston Hughes is represented in Black Voices by the Tales of
Simple. Hughes first presents his character Jessie B. Semple in the
Forward: Who is Simple? In this tale the reader is given its first look at
the character Jessie B. Semple who is a black man that represents almost
the "anybody or ...
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Animal Farm: Satire About CommunismIn his book Animal Farm, George Orwell wrote a satire about communism. It also dealt with the Russion Revolution of 1917. A satire is a literary work that makes fun of the stupidity or vices of individuals, groups, institutions, or society in general. The animals on Manor Farm developed ...
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Sister Carrie: People Driven By DesireSister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is a story of the power of desire. Desire is the strongest influence among the characters. Carrie, Drouet and Hurstwood each have a longing for something they do not possess. As creatures of instinct, people are driven by desire.
Carrie Meeber, being a natural ...
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Canterbury Tales-a Personal Perspective on the Medieval Christian Church
In researching Geoffrey Chaucer’s collection of stories named The Canterbury Tales, an interesting illustration of the Medieval Church becomes evident. A crooked society exists within the corrupt, medieval church community. Not all of the ...
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Race Relations With Huck FinnFamous writers come and go every year. How do these writers become famous? Humans are fascinated with real life situations, tagged in with fictional story line. Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, describes real life situations, in a fictional story line perfectly. ...
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Jesus Christ And McMurphyMany protagonists are considered heroes, ranging from Hamlet to
Hercules. All of these heroes also did something to earn the honoured title.
In today's society modern heroes have been found, one of which is the
traditional Western hero. We also have a hero in Jesus Christ, saviour to
some, yet a ...
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: EvilThe Picture Of Dorian Gray is yet another novel portraying evil.
The theme is very much reflected by the book's setting, plot structure and
characterisation. It shows how individuals can slowly deteriorate because
of the evil lying within themselves. The evil of this book is the evil
created by ...
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Lord Of The FliesLast Summer I spent a week in my Aunts cabin in northern Minnesota. One afternoon while swimming with my cousins in the lake, I had found a unique clam shell. It was silvery and rainbow like on the inside and creamy white on the outside. My little cousins enjoyed looking and playing with it the ...
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The Great Gatsby Book ReportDuring the 1920s Jay Gatsby had been living out what Fitzgerald calls the American Dream. Fitzgerald’s American Dream through the views of Gatsby was to be very wealthy, have a sense of class, infinite capacity of hope, and wonder. Gatsby had sense of style that made him fit in to the upper ...
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