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The Catcher In The Rye

The theme that the world has an outward appearance that seems fair and perfect but really they're as Holden put it "phonies." This is shown countless amount of times in his journey through New York and even before he left. The setting is in the 1950's; so I'm pretty sure that he didn't encounter ...

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The Characteristics Of Mrs.dic

Everyone should has his own characteristics. Some of those characteristics should be positive while some should be negative, and they might be changed as time passes and things happens. Throughout the story "Tears, Idle Tears" , the author shows that Mrs.Dickinson has characteristics of ...

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Accordion Crimes: Dismal Reality Checks

Accordion Crimes is a difficult book to place in a single time period because the story takes place over about 100 years, originating in a small Sicilian village, but the main setting and focus is the United States. The various settings introduced in the book influenced the characters in various ...

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The Touch Of Magic By Lorena Hickok

The book I chose to read is called The Touch of Magic written by Lorena A. Hickok. The story was about Anne Sullivan Macy, Helen Keller's wonderful teacher. I had never heard of Anne before I read this book, but while looking in the library my mom explained to me who she was and she seemed ...

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The Yellow Wallpaper: Going Crazy

The “Yellow Wallpaper” is a Descent into Madness in the nineteenth century. During this period of Literature, women were often portrayed as submissive to men and often-characterized women as oppressed by society, as well as by the male influences in their lives. The “Yellow Wallpaper” presents ...

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Elie Wiesel

The book Night opens in the town of Signet where , the author ,was born . He lived his child hood in the Signet, Transylvania . He had three sisters Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora. His father was an honored member of the Jewish community. He was a cultured man concerned about his community yet, he was ...

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The Cask Of Amontillado: Lyman

In many great literary works, an inanimate object can be as important and sometimes more important than the characters to an author when making his point. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” the cask of amontillado is as, if not more important than Fortunato and Montressor (the main ...

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Internet Security

The Internet is the community of the future, but if security measures are not put in place and enforced, then it will become more of a slum and less of a community. The primary question is, therefore, who has the obligation to put these security measures into place? Is it the individual users of ...

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Social Darwinism

CHARLES DARWIN AND THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION It is commonly thought today that the theory of evolution originated from Darwin in the nineteenth century. However, the idea that species mutated over time has been around for a long time in one form or another. Therefore, by Darwin's time the idea ...

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Growth Of A Chrysanthemum

D. H. Lawrence’s 1914 short story, "Odour of Chrysanthemums", is still in print and considered worth reading in 1999. Perhaps it’s printed and reprinted as a matter of habit. Perhaps editors like it because other editors have. But maybe it’s a success because it’s an exceptional work. Of these ...

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Christamas

Celebration No Longer a Religious or a Family? Close your eyes and try to imagine this: the streets of Sarpsborg the last days before Christmas last year. Does it look like people are calm, happy, waiting for the festival when we celebrate the birth of Jesus? Can you see any signs of this reason ...

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In Cold Blood

Many times, people can find themselves thinking that nothing can hurt them. Things such as car accidents and robberies are all too common. Who would think to worry of such things as murder? No one would until something happens to wake everyone up, such as in Truman Capote’s “”. The book ...

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The Horse And His Boy By C.S Lewis

I read the story 'The Horse and His Boy', which is the third book of 'The Chronicals of Narnina', from a series of seven books. Narnia in a "imagenary" place, a parolel world, which was discoverd through magic in the first book by a crazy magian. There are five main characters in the ...

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Can Intelligence Be Measured

Intelligence really has a broad definition and is thought of differently by about each certain individual. It is not really possible to judge someone by giving him or her an IQ test to see if they can do well on it. "Most criticism of testing arise from the overvaluation of and inappropriate ...

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Perfectly Insane - Gulliver's Travels

As a seemingly wise and educated man throughout the Swift’s classical novel Gulliver's Travels, the narrator cleverly gains the reader's respect as an intelligent and observant individual. With this seed planted, the comments and ideas that Gulliver impose upon those reading his four books have ...

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The Labours Of Mendevolin

ACT I SCENE I (HIGH PRIEST on stage right. Enter MENDEVOLIN stage left. HIGH PRIEST crosses to centre stage to meet MENDEVOLIN there.) MENDEVOLIN: High Priest Marchand! HIGH PRIEST: Ahh Mendevolin, it is such a pleasure to see you again. MENDEVOLIN: Let's disperse with the pleasantries. ...

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The Disproof (and Proof) Of Everything

The Disproof (and proof) of Everything Since the beginning of time, men (I'm speaking of the human race, this is not sexist in anyway because women are included in this too) have pondered our existence and purpose, as well as the nature of the world we live in. This is perhaps the single most time ...

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Gerald Gault’s Case

Assignment: Landmark Case paper I have chosen as my topic for this case study the case of the 15 year old Gerald Gault. I think after reading numerous cases regarding Juveniles weather it be Kent vs. US, or Powell vs. Alabama, this in my opinion is the most important cases that has happened ...

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In Groups We Shrink

In the essay, “In Groups We Shrink” author Carol Tavris speaks on how people tend to act completely different towards a situation, depending on if someone is in a group or by there selves. She goes on to state that groups in general tend to influence people to do the wrong thing, and that when by ...

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Body and Self Esteem Issues

Body and Self Esteem Issues In a society where your identity is the size of your jeans and you’re not loved for who you are, but what you are, we should ask ourselves who put this way of thinking into our heads? The media has an effect on teens in many ways, look at our magazines, our ...

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