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Gatsbys Dream

What is the American Dream? In the Webster's New World Dictionary, dream is defined as: "a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything lovely, etc." In F. Scott Fitzerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the lead character Jay Gatsby defines the American Dream as: everyone ...

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Tom Sawyer

is a boy who is full of adventures. In his world there is an adventure around every corner. Some of his adventures have lead him into some bad situations but with his good heart and bright mind he has gotten out of them. Tom lives with his aunt Polly, his cousin Mary and his bother Sid. One of ...

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Kurt Vonnegut's "The Lie": Portrayal Of A Moral Society

In the short story, "The Lie", by Kurt Vonnegut, the author portrays a moral society. He does this by displaying a private prep school as perfect. This wealthy preparatory school, the Whitehill School For Boys, is welcoming and accepting of the new state requested integration of Africans in their ...

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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

"You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of “ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. that book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There were things which he streched, but mainly he told the truth. That ain' nothing. I never ...

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Herman Hesses Demian

Demian is the story of a boy, Emil Sinclair, and his search for himself. Emil was raised in a good traditional home at the turn of the century in the nation of Germany. His family is very wealthy and they have a reputation as a principled, religious family. As a boy, Sinclair views the world ...

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Tom Sawyer

is a boy who is full of adventures. In his world there is an adventure around every corner. Some of his adventures have lead him into some bad situations but with his good heart and bright mind he has gotten out of them. Tom lives with his aunt Polly, his cousin Mary and his bother Sid. One of ...

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Catcher In The Rye 5

The book the Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger was very interesting. Holden Caulfield, a teenager tells about his insight about life and world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and leads the reader on a five day visit into his mind. Holden portrayed others to be ...

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Sexuality

means the concern with or interest in sexual activity according to the Oxford Dictionary. The meaning of changes from time to time, from land to land, and from people to people. Social historians hold different points of view about relating to what the common people are thinking especially on ...

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Huckleberry Finn: Review

Huckleberry Finn provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain's novel, and his honest voice combined with his personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerfords' world. Huck is without a family: neither the drunken attention of Pap nor the pious ministrations of Widow Douglas ...

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Addison And Steele

During the early part of the 1700's Joseph Addison, the Tatler and Sir Richard Steele, the Spectator, came together to write "The Tatler and the Spectator". Through their hardships of life they came about understanding what others were feeling and the actions that they took. They documented five ...

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Herman Hesses Demian

Demian is the story of a boy, Emil Sinclair, and his search for himself. Emil was raised in a good traditional home at the turn of the century in the nation of Germany. His family is very wealthy and they have a reputation as a principled, religious family. As a boy, Sinclair views the world ...

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Huckleberry Finn

provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain's novel, and his honest voice combined with his personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerfords' world. Huck is without a family: neither the drunken attention of Pap nor the pious ministrations of Widow Douglas were desirable ...

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Catcher In The Rye 5

The book the Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger was very interesting. Holden Caulfield, a teenager tells about his insight about life and world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and leads the reader on a five day visit into his mind. Holden portrayed others to be ...

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Beethoven

“...to the cast majority of people suffering is still one of the fundamental characteristics of life, and it is their realization that an experience of suffering, pure and profound, enters as an integral part into ’s greatest work, that helps to give that work its unique place in the ...

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Aaron Burr Jr.

was thought to be one of the most brilliant students graduated from Princeton in the eighteenth century. Woodrow Wilson said he had “genius enough to have made him immortal, and unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous.” His father was Princeton's second president; his maternal ...

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Intertextualilty - The Mocking

The difference between short stories and novels extends far beyond the obvious, Short stories are often read in a single sitting and can be defined as a brief version of logical events usually revolving about a singular plot. Whilst a novel may retain many of the characteristics of a short story ...

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In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

2. Author plus biographical background information: Truman Capote, one of America’s most famous writers was born in New Orleans in 1924 and died in California in 1984. He wrote both fiction and non- fiction stories. (for example this book, “ In cold blood”) short stories, novels, travel writing, ...

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Romeo And Juliet: Theme Paper

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, violence plays an important part of the action and causes the deaths of several of the characters. And a theme of the play is violence begets violence. The chorus states "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean." ...

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The Works Of Clive Staples Lewis

Many people for different reasons know Clive Staples Lewis, from Christianity to his Chronicles of Narnia. Not only was Lewis a writer, but he was also a professor in England and a World War I veteran. Today he is known as C. S. Lewis because many of his works were always published under this ...

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Albert Einstein 2

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession” Albert Einstein, also known as “The Father of The Nuclear Age,” perhaps one of the most brilliant minds ever to exist was a very quiet man. “Einstein’s Theory of Relativity revolutionized scientific ...

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