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Hysteria In The Crucible
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 532.... to occur a significant number of people must learn of the event. This happens by the promotion and spread of fear throughout a community. Promotion is important because without public knowledge of the fear social unrest will not take place. As seen in the Crucible, promotion is shown when Reverend Parris holds a meeting of the largest town gossips to tell them of Betty and Ruth's ailment, and that witchcraft may be involved. This knowledge starts a chain reaction through Salem, which spreads the news to everyone in the town. During the Red scare media exploitation had alre .....
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Jack London's To Build A Fire: Theme
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 577.... character realizes "he had just heard his own
sentence of death." Jack London introduces death to the reader in this scene.
The man realizes "a second fire must be built without fail." The man's
mind begins to run wild with thoughts of insecurity and death when the second
fire fails. He recollects the story of a man who kills a steer to stay warm and
envisions himself killing his dog and crawling into the carcass to warm up so he
can build a fire to save himself. London writes, "a certain fear of death, dull
and oppressive, came to him."
As the man slowly freezes, .....
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A Analysis Of Jack London Nove
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2895.... for his great adventure stories, that could be enjoyed by all ages. Londons life was diversified and so were his writings. Today, London is mostly known for his "dog stories", The Call of the Wild and White Fang. In addition to those great works London wrote many other stories and novels, all of which were published in the seventeen years that he wrote professionally. Londons writings vary in quality as well as in subject, his from the cheapest and worst kind of pieces to the beautiful works like The Call of the Wild and Sea Wolf. In this literary analysis the focus will be on .....
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Symbolism In The Glass Menagerie
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 923.... also represents the fragile relationships among all the
characters.The glass unicorn is most obviously a symbol of Laura--
delicate,sadly different,an anomaly in the modern world.The glass motif
recurs throughout the whole play in many other forms.When Laura dropped
out of college she constantly visited the zoo,a glass house of tropical
flowers that are as vulnerable as she is.During Laura's and Jim's brief
romantic encounter,Laura is gaining more confidence about herself.It seems
as if she is starting to escape her world of illusions.When they started
dancing together,Jim acci .....
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Report On The Prince By Machiavelli
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1216.... which means he is strong, confident, talented, as well as
smart. A prince cannot be uncertain, because uncertainty is a sign of
weakness. Fortune controls half of human's actions, and man's will control
the other half. Virtue is the best defense for fortune, and virtue must be
used in order to keep fortune in check. The prince must take advantage of
situations based solely on if it is best for the state. He should choose
his decisions based on contemporary and historical examples. A prince
cannot consider whether his acts are moral or immoral, and he instead must
act in a .....
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Machiavelli's View Of Human Nature
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1086.... both
intellectually and morally- through participation' in the life of the state."4
Machiavelli generally distrusted citizens, stating that "...in time of adversity,
when the state is in need of it's citizens there are few to be found."5
Machiavelli further goes on to question the loyalty of the citizens and advises
the Prince that "...because men a wretched creatures who would not keep their
word to you, you need keep your word to them."6 However, Machiavelli did not
feel that a Prince should mistreat the citizens. This suggestion once again to
serve the Prince's best inte .....
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Ernest Hemingway - "The Lost Generation"
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 765.... is the
first of many code hero traits that he features. This physical wound,
however, transcends into an emotional one by preventing Jake from ever
consummating his love with Lady Brett Ashley. Emotional suffering can take
its toll on the Code Hero as it did with Jake Barnes. Despite the deep
love between Jake and Lady Brett, Jake is forced to keep the relationship
strictly platonic and stand watch as different men float in and out of Lady
Ashley's life and bed. No one other than Jake and Brett themselves ever
learn the complexity of their relationship because Jake's hopele .....
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Fahrenheit 451
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 763.... who refuse to give up reading books for entertainment or religious purposes. What the modern world's definition of a Fireman is today does not match the definition of a Fireman in this novel. Firemen in are employed with the sole purpose of starting fires as opposed to putting them out and saving lives. The fires started by these Firemen are provoked by reports that the owners of the building that is to be destroyed are hiding illegal books in the establishment. Guy Montag is a Fireman in this novel. He lives his whole life never thinking about what a book is or why it was .....
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