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Hanging Woman Creekis set in an era of American expansion when the major conflict of the Indian population was not much of a worry. The bigger worry for most men on the frontier was other whites. Bandits were plentiful, and the law was dealt out by the people. The book starts out in Chicago, concerning a man who ...
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Warriors Don’t Cry: Integration In Little Rock's Central High SchoolThe battlefield is full of warriors fighting for their lives. They
will never know if they will live through this or any other day. That’s
exactly what happens in Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals. In
this book Melba experiences the integration in Little Rock’s Central High
School during ...
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Flatland: Social Satire Of Victorian English SocietyIn his most inspiring masterpiece of science titled Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott intended a social satire of Victorian England's society, and an expression of his efforts to advance the cause of education for women and classes lower than the English aristocracy which are the priests. Abbott was a ...
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Augustine And LoveHow does Augustine define love?
Augustine states continuously that he was not yet in love, but was in love with love. This statement doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t believe that someone can be in love with something, if he or she doesn’t understand what love is. “I was not yet in love, but I ...
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Crime And Punishment - SufferiIn the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, suffering is an integral part of every character’s role. However, the message that Dostoevsky wants to present with the main character, Raskolnikov, is not one of the Christian idea of salvation through suffering. Rather, it appears to me, ...
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Ray Bradbury's The Martial ChronicalsIn The Martial Chronicals, Ray Bradbury provides a glimpse into the
future that not only looks at people from a technological standpoint, but
from a human one as well. His well crafted, almost poetic stories are
science fiction in setting only. They put much more emphasis on the apathy
and ...
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Kafka's Metamorphosis: ExistentialismThe book Metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka, is based on the
views of existentialism. One of these main views is alienation or
estrangement which is demonstrated by Gregor's relationship with his family,
his social life, and the way he lives his life after the metamorphosis.
Although Gregor ...
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Zinn's A People's History Of The United States: The OppressedDr. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States might be
better titled A Proletarian's History of the United States. In the first three
chapters Zinn looks at not only the history of the conquerors, rulers, and
leaders; but also the history of the enslaved, the oppressed, and the led. ...
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Run With The HorsemenLittle Porter Osborne, Jr. grew up on a farm in Georgia where the people own the land and the land, in turn, owns the people. In the novel, , Porter fights his way through adolescence and the depression, learning more about life every day from the big boys under the tree at lunch. Ferrol Sams is ...
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Lord Of The Flies: OpportunityChildren all over the world hold many of the same characteristics. Most children are good at heart, but at times seem like little mischievous devils. Children enjoy having fun and causing trouble but under some supervision can be obedient little boys and girls. Everybody, at one time in their ...
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Billy BuddHerman 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 as the necessary ends of ...
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The Lottery By Shirley Jackson"The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson, is a short story written "to shock the story's readers with a graphic demonstration of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives." Upon first reading "The Lottery," it seems to flow smoothly to a surprise ending. But with closer review, ...
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The Catcher In The Rye Essay BMark Jason S. So March 1999
Each and every action the children performed in school and in any place is a reflection of the quality of life they have in their own homes. Parents have a responsibility of taking ...
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Red Badge Of Courage - Henry FlemingThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane traces the effects of war on
a Union soldier, Henry Fleming, from his dreams of soldiering, to his
actual enlistment, and through several battles of the Civil War.
Henry Fleming was not happy with his boring life on the farm. He
wanted to become a ...
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An American TragedyTheodore Drieser constructed a character like no other in the book, . Clyde Griffiths started off as a young man with no real problems, except for the fact that his family was strictly religious and poor. I say “no real problems” because during the course of the novel, this boy spirals down in ...
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A Book Report On Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World"Huxley's point of view in Brave New World is third person,
omniscient (all-knowing). The narrator is not one of the characters and
therefore has the ability to tell us what is going on within any of the
characters' minds. This ability is particularly useful in showing us a
cross section of this ...
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A Tree Grows In Brooklynis an appropriate name for the book. It’s about 7 years of Frances Nolan’s life. The book’s title is highly symbolical and took me several passes through it before I understood it completely. In the beginning of the book the author talks about the “Tree of Heaven”. ...
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Ordinary People Vs. The Catcher in the Rye
In this paper I intend to show how the loss of a brother can have the same effects on two different people like Holden Caulfield and Conrad Jarrett. Both of their lives are turned upside down after the difficult loss of a family member.
In the book Ordinary People, Conrad Jarrett ...
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Dandelion Wine: DouglasIn the book, Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury uses the character, Douglas, as a model of himself and to portray the feelings he once felt. While all of this seems great, he manages to entangle a haunting past that every one person in Green Town, Illinois must learn to let go of.
No matter how old ...
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Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen's "Six Years In Hell"The book I have chosen to read for this review is one entitled
"SIX YEARS IN HELL." It is a book written by one Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen in a
first person manor. He was a military pilot who flew over Vietnam and was
captured and taken as a POW. This book covers his time in the military ...
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The Destruction Of The Human SThe human spirit is one of the most beautiful forces in the world, but it is also one of the most vulnerable.In the novels Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, this idea of the human spirit is portrayed clearly.Both novels have similar aspects about the human ...
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The Scarlet Letter Theme SymboNathaniel Hawthorne chose the market place and the forest as settings used to symbolically develop his portrait of society and the characters in The Scarlet Letter. In this novel a story unfolds of three people who are torn apart by sin, revenge, and guilt. The market place reveals to the reader ...
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Frankenstein: MoralityMorality. It has been questioned by people, honored by people and revered since the beginning of time. Yet even today not one person can say what is morally right. It is a matter of opinion. It was Dr.Victor Frankenstein's opinion that it was alright to create a "monster". Frankenstein's creation ...
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The Little Prince: An AnalysisThe Story of the Little Prince is to the reader either a surface
story or a deep abyss of meaning.
The novel can be perceived many different ways. The reader can look
at the Prince's adventures as a fun joyous adventure that of a kid's
imagination without looking into it, and in that the story ...
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The Lord Of The Flies: Personal ReflectionsJournal I
If I were among the boys on the island I would vote for Piggy as leader.
Although he is not one of the bigger boys, and seems to be put down all the
time, I think that he is the smartest. He would be able to think of ways to
be saved.
The problem with having Piggy chosen as leader ...
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