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My Reading Essays and Term Papers
NothingTHE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES
William Faulkner once said that The Sound and the Fury began with a picture in his mind. Four children, a girl and three boys, are playing in a stream near their house. They have been told to stay outdoors, although they don't know why. In fact, their grandmother, who has ...
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Nature And Its Elements In Jane EyreThe passage I have chosen to do the close critical reading on is from Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte. This passage is part of vol. II chapter 10 and is as follows:
"It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent ...
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Charles Dickensexpressed his views and feelings for the lives of the poor and the need for social change in Victorian life. The characters were people he knew and the events that happen in the stories are similar in what he went through. He shows us how tough life was back then and how the society classes ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: PrejudiceThe Main theme in this book is prejudice. You will learn about
segregation and how unfair it was.
To Kill A Mocking Bird deals with many primal and basic lessons in human
nature. The book exposes many issues that affect most people throughout their
lives. Scout, the main character was one of the ...
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To Kill A Mocking Bird 2"I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want,
if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."(96).
The above words are what Atticus Finch tells his children after they are given air-rifles for Christmas. In ...
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PoseidonI just finished reading about the god . I am going to tell you a little about him. Some of the things that I am going to tell you about, are some of his relatives, his symbol, his power, a few interesting facts, and a brief summary of one of the many stories that he is mentioned in.
First I am ...
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A Modest ProposalHave You Eaten Yet?: Swift’s Final Solution
As a lately favored eighteenth century essay, Jonathan Swift’s "Proposal" has been canonized as a satirical model of wit. As will be discussed shortly, Swift’s essay is often seen as an allegory for England’s oppression of Ireland. Swift, ...
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Call Of The WildThe main character of this book is a St. Bernard and Scotch Shepherd mix, named Buck. As I read the book, I found out that Buck can be very loyal and trustworthy to his master, if his master is loyal to him. Also, at times I found that Buck could turn into an enraged beast very easily.
At home, ...
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Big Two-Hearted RiverSudden, Unexpected Interjection "It is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." At one point in his
short story, ": Part II", Hemingway's
character Nick speaks in the first person. Why he adopts,
for one line only, the first person voice is an interesting
question, ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Book ReviewDecember 14, 1996
The Catcher In The Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, is a fictional novel
that was first published in 1965. The novel takes place in New York City and in
Pennsylvania over a duration of four days. This novel tells the story of an
emotionally disturbed teenager who has been ...
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A Portrait Of The Artist As AYoung Man:
Like his protagonist, James Joyce was an Irish Catholic. He was also sent to Clongowes Wood College to board and study as a young
boy. In effect the story is in part an autobiography of Joyce's own life up to the age of twenty or so (Kershner 6). In his essay A Portrait as Rebellion ...
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Asian American StereotypesPertaining to Tracy Lai’s article titled, “Asian American Women”, Lai
discusses how stereotypes dehumanize people while turning them into objects to be
manipulated. Lai touches on the topic of how Asian people and cultures are
stereotyped as being inferior and exotic. The problem that Lai brings ...
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The Crucible: IssuesThe Crucible, an extremely climactic play, written by playwright Arthur Miller, explores the unascertained realm of witchcraft among many other abstractions of nature. Among these include the dangers of religion, the ignorance and abuse of power, and the maturity of the mind. This play also has a ...
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The Lexus And The Olive Trees: The Lexus and The Olive Tree
Summary: Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old.
“ The trouble spread to one continent after another like a virus.” USA Today
On December 8, 1997, the government of Thailand shut down 56 of their countries finance houses. These finance houses borrowed ...
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Jack London 3Thesis statement: Jack London, as a writer, used Darwinian determinism, Nietzschean theories of race, and adventure in his writings.
I. Life
II. Darwinian determinism
A. What is Darwinian determinism?
B. How does Jack London use this in his stories?
III. Nietzschean theories of race ...
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man Religion As RepressiA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
Like his protagonist, James Joyce was an Irish Catholic. He was also sent to Clongowes Wood College to board and study as a young
boy. In effect the story is in part an autobiography of Joyce's own life up to the age of twenty or so (Kershner 6). In ...
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Review Of The Hobbit By J.R.R TolkienI have finished reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. I found it an okay book but I will get into that later. First I will give a summary of what happened since my last letter.
The end of the group's journey is almost over. They have ventured to Smaug's mountain and set up camp near the secret ...
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Cultural Literacy According To E.D. HirschAccording to E.D. Hirsch, to be culturally literate is to possess the basic
information to thrive in the modern world. It is the "grasp on the background
information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has." In
his book, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, ...
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Commanders Of The Army Of TheIn his civil war book Potomac Warren Hassler Jr. fantastically recounts the events that transpired between 1861 to 1865 during which seven men were given the reigns of the North's Army of the Potomac and asked to lead the Union to victory. However, one of the greatest commanders in history stood ...
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Reader Response Theory And TheDuring the mid twentieth century, the literary community witnessed the descent of the New Criticism and the emergence of the reader response movement. The reader response movement sharply contrasts the theories of New Criticism in that it focuses on the importance of the reader in the creation of ...
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