Author Essays and Term Papers
Short StorCharacter’s Role in Making a Story
Character, stories are affected in many ways by this seemingly small aspect of a y. Just the use of certain characters in a story can change the way we perceive a story. Some characters hardly receive a mention in the story, but that small part can change ...
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Joseph Conrad Heart Of DarknesJoseph Conrad’s Use of Light and Dark in His Writings
Many books are written by an author purely for informational, recreational, or monetary reasons, but some books are written to demonstrate a point. Joseph Conrad’s book Heart of Darkness is one such book. If the book is examined ...
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Lord Of The Flies 4 -I. THEME
"The author is making a comment on man vs. man and man vs. nature."
II. PLOT
The story is about a group of kids who got stranded on an island. Quickly and almost instinctively, they formed a hierarchy among the group of the older boys. With the ingenuity of most adults, they attempt to ...
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Greek Daily LivingSome people believe that no civilization has ever been able to compete with today's western culture and lifestyle. However, the ancient Greeks with their amazing ingenuity were able to develop an amazingly high standard of living for their time. Although the Greeks had little technology, they ...
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A Separate Peace 2A Separate Peace: by John Knowles
During World War II in the struggle for peace among nations comes a smaller, but still significant struggle, in a prep school boy becoming a man and waking up to reality.
In the book A Separate Peace, the author John Knowles, creates the image of two sixteen-year ...
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Dantes Inferno 2Michel De Montaigne, a fifteenth century French essayist once said that, "The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. (21st Century Dictionary of Quotation, 1993) In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri conveys the concept that actions throughout life determine the quality ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Cynical Point Of ViewThroughout the Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) novel, The Adventures of HuckleBerry Finn, a plain and striking point of view is expressed by the author. His point of view is that of a cynic; he looks upon civilized man as a merciless, cowardly, hypocritical savage, without want of change, nor ...
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Dulce Et Decorum EstThrough vivid imagery and compelling metaphors "" gives the reader the exact feeling the author wanted. The poem is an anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen and makes great use of these devices. This poem is very effective because of its excellent manipulation of the mechanical and emotional ...
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Nuclear StrikesScientifically, there is no obstacle for a nuclear or atomic bomb. There
are no secrets in Nuclear Science anymore. Anyone with a reasonable physics
degree and access to a good technical library could design a workable atomic
bomb in less than 6 months, so why hasn't anyone. Maybe there has been, ...
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Computer VirusesIn 1949 the Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey suggested that it was theoretically possible for a computer program to replicate. This theory was later tested in the 1950s at Bell Laboratories when a game called Core Wars ...
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Tools Used In The Writing Of Short StoriesThere is a fairly large group of authors that fall into the short
story genre. These authors use these short stories to show people things
that they might not have seen before, or maybe something they should look
at in more detail. These short stories can often show the countless sides
of human ...
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Suffering In Crime And Punishment
In 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 ...
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A Critical Analysis Of Herman Melville's Moby Dick“Moby Dick is biographic of Melville in the sense that it discloses
every nook and cranny of his imagination.” (Humford 41) This paper is a
psychological study of Moby Dick. Moby Dick was written out of Melville's
person experiences.
Moby Dick is a story of the adventures a person named ...
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Romeo And Juliet: Romeo - A Tragic HeroShakespeare is a well known author who wrote in the 1500's. Many of his
plays are classified as tragedies. According to the Oxford dictionary of
current English, a tragedy is described as a serious disaster or a sad event.
In Shakespeare plays, tragedy is identified as a story that ends ...
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Different Changes In Different Characters Of Lord Of The FliesIn his first novel, William Golding used a group of boys stranded on a
tropical island to illustrate the malicious nature of mankind. Lord of the
Flies dealt with changes that the boys underwent as they gradually adapted
to the isolated freedom from society. Three main characters ...
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Gustave Flaubert And Madame Bovary: ComparisonsWe would like to think that everything in life is capable, or beyond the
brink of reaching perfection. It would be an absolute dream to look upon each
day with a positive outlook. We try to establish our lives to the point where
this perfection may come true at times, although, it most likely ...
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Social Topics In American LiteThroughout American literature writers have always written on social topics. Writers wrote about what was around them, and this was anything from war to love. Pieces of literature that confront social topics include Walt Whitman's "Beat! Beat! Drums!", Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry ...
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A Doll's House And Tess Of The D'UrbevillesDuring the late nineteenth century, women were beginning to break out from the usual molds. Two authors from that time period wrote two separate but very similar pieces of literature. Henrik Ibsen wrote the play A Doll’s House, and Thomas Hardy wrote Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
Ibsen and Hardy ...
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A Clockwork OrangeThe new American edition of the novel features a final chapter that was omitted from the original American edition against the author's preference. Anthony Burgess, the novel's author, provided for the new edition an introduction to explain not only the significance of the twenty-first chapter ...
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The Great Gatsby: IllusionsJames Baldwin looked upon reality and illusion through the eyes of
a great author. He saw that all authors live in reality, while everyone
else lives in a sense of illusion, or not knowing the whole truth. He
shows us that the author must question everything, breaking down the
illusions that are ...
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