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Tom Sawyer: Summary
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1774.... June 17th about the hour of midnight, Tom and his best friend Huck were
out in the grave yard trying to get rid of warts, when they witnessed a
murder by Injun Joe. At the time Muff Potter was drunk and asleep so Injun
Joe blamed the murder him (Muff Potter). They knew if crazy Injun Joe found
out they knew, he would for sure kill them. Tom wrote on a wooden board
"Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swear to keep mum about this and they wish they
may drop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot", then in
their own blood they signed their initials TS and HF.
A few da .....
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Symbolism In Camus' "The Plague"
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 304.... as
people being good to a neighbor in time of need or people volunteering to adopt
a family for the holidays are many times based on a desire to simply do
something good, not a necessarily a desire to please a god or receive a reward.
Finally, without a god (or even with a god for that matter) Camus says
that we need to be responsible and create our own hope. By looking carefully at
the characters in the book, I plan to also show Camus' press for responsibility
among the people. The ultimate goal of this essay is to make prominent Camus
philosophical views of a godless worl .....
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Animal Farm
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1009.... just a metaphor, and there were no
"animals" in the story. As I read I discovered the whole thing was a
metaphor.
The five topics I'll be covering are:
1. plot structure
2. conflict
3. point of view
4. symbolism and figuration language
5. theme and author's vision
I hope this essay shows the ideas of Eric Blair and the freedom we
have under government control.
Body-
1. plot structure
The story starts off in a form called "Manor Farm." An old white
boar called "Old Major" tells all the farm animals of .....
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Orwell's "Such, Such Were The Joys....": Alienation And Other Such Joys
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1659.... feeling of abrupt awakening, a feeling of: ‘This is reality, this is what
you are up against.' Your home might be far from perfect, but at least it
was a place ruled by love rather than by fear, where you did not have to be
perpetually taken out of this warm nest and flung into a world of force and
fraud and secrecy, like a goldfish into a tank full of pike. (23)
Young Orwell, impacted by this, “hard,” disorienting situation, realizes he
is alone in a hostile, harsh environment. Orwell uses the image of the “
warm nest,” a womb, from which the child is thrown, then innocentl .....
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A Town Like Alice: Discussion
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 495.... example in the book that is more about religion and culture is the
Japanese soldier who walked with the girls in Malaya when they got the stolen
poultry from Joe. The soldier is abused by his captain and he finds it so
humiliating that he looses his will to live. When he's infected by the fever he
doesn't fight it and he dies. This is a mentality that is or maybe was very
common in Japan. A person from the west would never feel so bad about loosing
his face as a man from Japan.
The differences between cultures can be something that maybe some of the persons
wou .....
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Things Fall Apart 2
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 421.... also assisted in repairing the huts. The women never received important jobs such as tapping the palm tree for palm wine or harvesting yams. The women were also there to produce children. A good wife could produce many children. In today’s society some women might cook or do other comforting chores, but so do many men. Men take care of children as well as women. In Okonkwo’s village, taking care of children was a woman’s chore. The children even played a different role in the novel’s society. Basically, the young men helped their father and the .....
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News Of A Kidnapping
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1574.... countries.
The abduction of the journalists was a response to the idea of how to create a judicial alternative to the war against terrorism. Although there had been a distinction made between the problem created by the drug traffickers and the actual drug trafficking. The terrorism created by the drug traffickers was a national problem and the Colombian government believed there was a national solution. Whereas the drug traffic was international and was thought could only have an international solution. Narco-terrorism was the main priority; this had become a nation .....
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"The Anniversary" And "To His Coy Mistress": The Synchronicity Of Pen And Life
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1943.... state." Things become a little more complex in the next line, "nor
would I love at lower rate." This is where we begin a question what has up
till now progressed so smoothly, as all good fantasies must if they are to
be successful. We begin to question this world of Marvell's creation and
see the enigma that lies within the term "lower rate." We have been
hearing of an agonizingly slow mating ritual, Marvell has been patiently
dancing around his mistress, praising her every aspect with a devotion that
approaches what one would offer to the divine. How, we ask, can he .....
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