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Book Day Essays and Term Papers
The Stranger By Albert CamusIn The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the book's narrator and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He does not think much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times. He displays an impassiveness ...
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Education 2In each person's life much of the joy and sorrow revolves around attachments or affectionate relationships -- making them, breaking them, preparing for them, and adjusting to their loss by death. Among all of these bonds is a special one -- the type a mother or father form with his or her newborn ...
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Atomic BombsAn atomic bomb is a bomb in which the splitting of atomic nuclei results in an explosion of tremendous force and heat, accompanied by a blinding light. The destructive force of an atomic bomb is due to nearly instantaneous and uncontrolled successive
fissions of uranium or plutonium atoms in a ...
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Creative Writing: A SundayThe leaving was easier than she thought.
All those nights practising it in her head. Just wanted to look at the gardens,
so pretty in the spring. Just wanted to see the gardens. Except in the end
nobody asked. She simply put on the good blue dress, combed her hair and walked
down the corridors, ...
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Fahrenheit 451 2Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, is of the struggles of a firefighter, Guy Montag. This novel takes place during the future in Elm City where all houses are fireproof, people drive jet cars, and firefighters burn books instead of extinguishing them! Montag was pushed by his curiosity to ...
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The Queer Use Of Women In BorgThe Queer Use of Communal Women in Borges'
Sex and women are two very problematic components in the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges: the absence of these two elements, which seems so casual and unremarkable, really highlights the strangeness of their exclusion. For example, scenes of sexual acts are ...
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Hesse's Siddhartha As It Parallels Maslow's Hierarchy Of NeedsSeveral parallels can be drawn between the psychologist Abraham
Maslow's theoretical hierarchy of needs and the spiritual journey of
Siddhartha, the eponymous main character in Herman Hesse's novel. Maslow's
hierarchy of needs is somewhat of a pyramid that is divided into eight
stages of need ...
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Communism In Animal FarmThe novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is a story of rebellion and dictatorship. The book is usually referred to as an extended fable, or a story that contains a moral and has animals that function as humans. The moral of Animal Farm is that communism does not work. This book can also ...
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Marco PoloPOLO, Marco (1254-1323?). In 1298 a Venetian adventurer named Marco
Polo wrote a fascinating book about his travels in the Far East. Men read
his accounts of Oriental riches and became eager to find sea routes to
China, Japan, and the East Indies. Even Columbus, nearly 200 years later,
often ...
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The Scarlet LetterAdultery, betrayal, promiscuity, subterfuge, and intrigue, all of which
would make an excellent coming attraction on the Hollywood scene and probably a pretty good book. Add Puritan ideals and writing styles, making it long, drawn out, tedious, wearisome, sleep inducing, insipidly asinine, and the ...
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Comparing Survival Concepts And SituationsThe two books Lord Of The Flies and Hatchet entail essential information about how to keep yourself alive if that unfortunate situation came about. William Golding, the author of Lord Of The Flies, writes about a plane crash on a deserted island. All of the adults have been killed and for as ...
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Like Water For Chocolateis a fantasy-type love story. It teaches a lot about family life in Mexico, the country where it took place. The owner of the De la Garza ranch where the family lived was Mama Elena, who raised three daughters on her own because her husband had died. Tita, the youngest daughter and main ...
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The Silence Of The LambsClarice Starling, a student preparing for a life in the FBI, hunts a
serial killer by use of vague information given to her by an incarcerated
psychologist. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter relays information to Clarice in
exchange for information about herself. The killer, known only as "Buffalo ...
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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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Catcher In The Rye: Comparison Of Holden And MeThe book Catcher in the Rye tells of Holden Caulfield's insight about
life and the world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about
people and leads the reader on a 5 day visit into his mind. Holden,
throughout the book, made other people feel inferior to his own. I can
relate to this ...
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In The Middle Of The Night: ReviewIn the Middle of the Night
By Robert Cormier
(Harper Collins, 203 pages, $8.95)
Reviewed by Ranwick
Well, I picked up the book not really sure what it was about, and half way
through I still wasn't sure but once I grasped hold of what was going on I
couldn't put the book down.
In the Middle of ...
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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
The two main characters of mes are Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. They are both complex characters in their own ways, though Holmes is more mysterious. This may be because Watson narrates the stories, so we can see what he thinks and feels. About Holmes we only see what Watson thinks of ...
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Black Like MeThis story was an excellent idea by John Griffin to expose the true racism in the South. I wonder what motivated him to change his color also. I also want to know his views on racism. I wonder if George Levitan is still alive, the man who was the editor of Sepia. I also wonder if he had the ...
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