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Author Essays and Term Papers
The Chamber: A Look Into The Novel And FilmStories about crime prove to be a strong part of America's entertainment in
this day. In The Chamber, John Grisham writes about a Klansman who is convicted
of murder and a grandson who tries to save his grandfather is on death row. This
story is now a major motion picture. This story carries a ...
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Harry Elmer BarnesIn 1952, wrote a timely article, "How 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Trends Threaten American Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity" as the final chapter of the classic revisionist anthology, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. Barnes analyzed George Orwell's classic novel as a work of prophecy and sounded the ...
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Bram Stokers DraculaThe setting of the story begins in 19th century Europe, in the eerie
country of Transylvania. A solicitor from England named Jonathan Harker is
sent by a business man to meet with an old Count named Dracula at his
castle located far from civilization. Residents of Transylvania who become
aware ...
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America At D-day:a Day Of RemeAMERICA AT D-DAY: A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
I am very interested in World War II. So I choose a book that was
written about the Normandy Invasion. More commonly know as D-Day or
Deliverance day. The title of the book is America at D-Day. It was written
by Richard Goldstein. The book has 287 pages ...
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Heart Of Darkness By Joseph CoIn Heart of Darkness it is the white invaders for instance, who are, almost without exception, embodiments of blindness, selfishness, and cruelty; and even in the cognitive domain, where such positive phrases as "to enlighten," for instance, are conventionally opposed to negative ones such as "to ...
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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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Charles W. ChesnuttThough born in Cleveland in 1858, the grandson of a white man and the son of free blacks, grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina where his family, having left the South originally in 1856, returned after the Civil War. Chesnutt who had little formal education taught himself and also received ...
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Owen's “Dulce Et Decorum Est”Dulce et decorum est The poem is one of the most powerful ways to
convey an idea or opinion. Through vivid imagery and compelling metaphors,
the poem gives the reader the exact feeling the author wanted. The poem
"Dulce et Decorum Est," an anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen, makes great use
of these ...
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Stephen King: The King Of TerrorStephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling
writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction,
the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these
themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a ...
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2The short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor could be viewed as a comic strip about massacre and martyrdom. What stops it from becoming a solemn story is its intensity, ambition, and unfamiliarity. O'Connor blends the line between humor and terror. She introduces her ...
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A 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 , the author John Knowles, creates the image of two sixteen-year old boys struggling to keep ...
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In Cold Blood: A ReviewUpon arriving in Holcomb, a small congregation of buildings on the
high wheat plains of western Kansas, Perry and Dick, two men recently
paroled for petty crimes, left almost no evidence behind except for a
bloody footprint and a radio they stole from the Clutter house. In the
investigative ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Golding Reduces The Power Of His MessageI think that, while the boys experience immense bad luck due to the author,
the story still proves its point. It is still possible though, that the bad
luck of the boys could have been experienced in real life. I think that
without this bad luck, the point of the story wouldn't be as great, ...
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Mark Harris' Criticism Of Doctorow's BookIn his criticism, Mark Harris describes a regret; a sorrow, almost,
for this once-great author who has written a book he feels is almost
pitiful in it's lack of clarity and style. He says the book “is a failed
work of a serious man.” In his view, Doctorow, once an excellent author,
has evidently ...
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The Time Is Night By LuidmilaThe Time is Night is a short novel by Liudmila Petrushevskaya. It is one of the few stories that I enjoy reading over and over again. The reason is that each time I re-read it, I perceive it in a slightly different way. The complicity of characters and the style of the novel is what I would ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Golding Reduces The Power Of His MessageI think that, while the boys experience immense bad luck due to the author, the story still proves its point. It is still possible though, that the bad luck of the boys could have been experienced in real life. I think that without this bad luck, the point of the story wouldn't be as great, ...
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With The Guest By Andrew Camus: DaruWe have had the opportunity in the last month to read many short story
selections, giving us examples of many different things. When asked to pick a
character to analyze it was a tough decision but I would have to go with the
story that most interested me to choose my character. This story ...
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Stephen King“If you have an imagination, let it run free.”
Stephen Edwin King is one of today’s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to ...
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Huck Finn - Mark Twains ViewsHuck Finn - Mark Twain's Views
Throughout 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 ...
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Critical Biography On J. D. Salinger"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." -James Bryce*
In 1945, a novel was published that would forever change the way society views itself. The book, entitled The Catcher in the Rye, would propel a man named Jerome David Salinger to fame as one of the most ...
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