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To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1868.... women since they were now free. This sparked much of the violence that followed after the war towards the black race and for years to come. is a book set in the 1930's in a small town called Maycomb located in Alabama. Often as with small towns, the views are extremely conservative. "There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" remembers Scout (5). Maycomb can be seen as an everybody-knows-everybody kind of town. The majority of the town conforms to the standard norm, .....
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Citizen Soldiers: A Comparison
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1847.... in the way of main plot or story to this book, there is indeed an overall message that the book conveys, a universal theme. The theme being the unit cohesion, teamwork, and the sense of family that develops within a squad and platoon; which are the qualities most World War II combat veterans point to when asked how they survived and won. Each incident given by a person represents in its own way the personal levels of war, how it affected the individual and their units of soldiers. The book summarizes the personal and individual aspects of war, rather than military intellig .....
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Fate In Macbeth
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1072.... to Aquinas, time is something that you both exist in and are affected by or you not. One is either subject to the limitations of time or one is not. For instance, God is outside the normal limitations of time and is therefore immortal. In Macbeth, it seems, the witches are a transient hybrid of those in time and those not in time. That is to say, they can travel in and out of time at will. This ability allows them to both see the future and to change its very course. This of course proves to be an illogical paradox when examined analytically, but Shakespeare's great wor .....
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Once And Future King
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 973.... eaten him. The king used his size as his claim to power, therefore his subjects followed him out of fear.
In Wart's next transformation into a hawk he soared into the castle's mews. All the birds in the mews had a military rank. Their leader was an old falcon, who was kept for show. The birds who ranked below the falcon, held her in highest regard because of her age. She applied her power over the other birds with no concern for their lives. In one instance, Wart is ordered to stand next to the cage of a crazy hawk who almost killed him. On the other hand, her age brought .....
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The Code Of Chivalry In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 525.... While riding along, Gawain comes to a castle where he is greeted warmly by the lord and lady of the castle. The lord and Gawain decide to make an agreement to give each other whatever the other receives over the next three days. On the third day of this agreement, Sir Gawain receives a magic green girdle from the lady of the castle that is said to keep him from harm. Fearing the Green Knight, Gawain lies to the lord of the castle about what he has received that day keeps the girdle. Gawain was not honest and did not keep his word, thus breaking the code of honor.
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Animal Farm
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1154.... find out that the milk and apples are given solely to the pigs, and Squealer is sent to explain the uneven distribution of farm resources. “‘Comrades’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?’” (Orwell 42) He goes on to explain, “ ‘Milk and apples (this has been proved by science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being
of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers (42). Here, Squealer tries to convince the animals that it’s for h .....
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The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 650.... standards. He shows the dark side or evil part of ones personality
. While Dr. Jekyll is unable to allow this part of his personality to show
when he is with his friends, by creating a new being for himself, he is
able to express himself without being judged as Dr. Jekyll. Hyde contains
all of the dark feelings of Dr. Jekyll, he is the alter ego. One can
distinguish this characterization from the description of Hyde. >"Mr.
Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any
namable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to
the .....
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The Pardoner
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 446.... he may be equally guilty of sin, he can still make others repent. His only concern is that, realizing their sinfulness; they give him money to benefit from his pardons. All the money he gets he seems to regard as his own, he does not care if he takes from very poor people, so that their children starve, so long as he can enjoy himself. tells the tale of three young men drinking at an inn. After a coffin passes by the inn, the three learn that the dead person was a friend of theirs, killed by somebody named Death. The three men decide to find this Death and exact revenge f .....
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