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Book Day Essays and Term Papers
The Hobbit: A ReviewIntroduction
The book I read and analyzed was “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkein. I shall discuss
the plot and character development, setting, author's style and my opinions
about it.
Plot Development
There are too many characters in the story and so it is hard to follow and know
each one of them. ...
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a contemporary American author whose works have been described by Richard Giannone as "comic masks covering the tragic farce that is our contemporary life" (Draper, 3784). Vonnegut's life has had a number of significant influences on his works. Influences from his personal philosophy, his ...
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Essay And Opinion On The Way ONotes on The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America,
By Joy Day Buel & Richard Buel Jr. :
In the Book the Way of Duty, the life and hardships of Mary Fish Silliman is described with remarkable detail and conveys an understanding of this woman, and other women, during the ...
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Charles DickensDid you know that thought that Americans were distasteful? There is a reason
for this and you will find out if you read my essay. This will be a discussion on the famous author and his life.
The great author was born on February 7, 1812, he was the son of
John and Elizabeth Dickens. ...
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J.D. SalingerWelcome to a thorough report on the life of Jerome David Salinger. It will outline his life from birth to the present. It will also discuss some of his better known literary works. Information about his early life, and family, schooling, and present condition can also be found within.
Jerome ...
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Social Criticism In LiteratureMany authors receive their inspiration for writing their
literature from outside sources. The idea for a story could come from
family, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity.
For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events,
the inspiration might come from ...
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A Separate Peace - The WarA Separate Peace and A Real War
In his book A Separate Peace John Knowles communicates what war really is. He uses a number of complex characters in a very complicated plot in order to convey the harsh, sad, cruel, destructive forces of war. The Characters Gene and Finny are used as opposing ...
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Tom SawyerMark Twain’s, The Adventures Of , is a story told from the eyes of the young . The story takes place in the small rustic town of St. Petersburg Missouri. is the main character of the book. He is an imaginative young man who always seems to be getting into trouble. Tom is very adventurous, he ...
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Analysis Of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", And Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"When I began to look at the relationship between Chris Marker's
film, La Jetee, and Roland Barthes's book, Camera Lucida, I was thinking
only about their most obvious link: photography. The more I looked, though,
the more Marker and Barthes seemed to have in common. It was almost
uncanny. Some ...
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Phone Call To BobbieBootcamp seemed like eternity. It was December 25, 1996 Christmas day. There I was in the US Navy’s bootcamp standing in line with my division waiting to enter the galley. Why I had chosen to be in Great Lakes in the of dead winter I will never know. More than anything I wanted to hear my ...
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Everyone Has Dreams, But To Carry Them Out Is The American DreamThe American Dream is something that makes America great. It
allows those with aspirations to make them come true. In America all one
needs is a dream and the motivation to carry out that dream. Ambition is
the driving force behind the American Dream. It allows anyone that has an
aspiration, ...
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The Writings Of Plato And DantesFor more time than artists would like to admit we have been
fighting a man who haunts us from a grave long forgotten, and for just over
600 years we have paid great respect to a man whose marble tomb lies in
Florence. Since the dawn of time people have passed on traditions and myths
to teach us ...
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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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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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The NinjaBorn and raised in New York City, Eric Lustbader graduated from Columbia University in 1969. Lustbader has had a number of fascinating best-selling novels, including Black Heart and Angel Eyes, he introduced Elton John to the American music scene. He spent fifteen years in the music industry in ...
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The Life And Accomplishments Of John F KennedyPresident Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brooklin,
Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The other eight Kennedy children were
Joseph, Jr. Rosemary Kathleen Eunice Patricia Robert F. Jean Edward M.
"Ted". As the Kennedy children grew up, their parents encouraged them to
develop their own ...
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We All Take Things For GrantedHelen Keller is a very recognized author throughout the world. Not only did she have to deal with the competition of other authors, but she also had to deal with a great handicap. At the age of nineteen months, she developed an illness that claimed her ability to hear, see, and speak. With her ...
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Why The North Won The Civil War"In all history, no nation of mere agriculturists ever made successful war against a nation of mechanics. . . .You are bound to fail" -Union officer William Tecumseh Sherman to a Southern friend.
The American antebellum South, though steeped in pride and raised in military tradition, was to be ...
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The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes
s is a detective novel written by K.C. Balzic an American mystery writer. Mario Balzic a proud from origin Italian police chief in Rocksburg, a coal-mining town in Pennsylvania will solve a crime, which is not even there at the beginning. But before that starts we meet Balzic in his attempt to ...
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Ethan Frome 5Ethan Frome, the main character in the book entitled Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, has many complex problems occurring at the same time. His parents have died and he has a wife who is continually sick, and the only form of happiness he has is from his wife's cousin Mattie. This, at times proves ...
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