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Essays on Book Reports
Title: Milton's Presentation Of The Fallen Angels
Details: Words: 1981, Pages: 8... myths and stories, allowing him to convey his own
perception of the world's history, as the reader is guided through various
points in time. Before we are introduced to the individuals, Milton
depicts an enormous army of different species, each of changeable size and
form. The image of a "pitchy cloud / Of locusts" to describe them as they
rise from the burning lake is especially apt, given the destructive nature
of, and biblical references to these insects. Milton states that they lost
their original names after the Fall ("Got them new names, till wand'ring
o'er the earth") and that they became known to man as the heathen idols of
the Old Testament and the pagan ...
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Title: The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Insight About Life And World
Details: Words: 921, Pages: 4... He was afraid of
not having any special talents or abilities and used other methods to make him
out to be a rough tough boy. "Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one
o'clock or so, getting drunk as a bastard. I could hardly see straight." (pg.
150) Holden tried all he could to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life
in general to make it seem he was very knowing of these habits. I myself have
found me doing this at times, also. I, at times, feel the need to fit in to a
group and do things similar to what others do in order to gain acceptance by
them. I smoked a cigar once with two friends of mine because they kept going on
and on about how great cigar ...
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Title: The Hobbit: Fantasy World Comparison To Our World
Details: Words: 782, Pages: 3... ring, which was a key to helping the group succeed in the book, allowed the person who was wearing it to become invisible to others. Also, there was a black stream in Mirkwood that made he who drank out of it suddenly very drowsy and forgetful of previous events. All of these examples of happenings and objects found in Middle Earth are physically impossible in a world such as ours.
Several of the charecters in the book are not known to exist on Earth. Hobbits, of course, are fictional characters, as are dwarves, elves, goblins, and trolls. Many species of animals are able to talk with humans and dwarves in the book, which is not possible in real life. Beo ...
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Title: One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich: Summary
Details: Words: 1249, Pages: 5... guards
search him. They search him side and back and his pocket, and one guard also
crushes the mitten that Ivan holds out which is the empty one. This was in the
book as,
He was about to pass him through when,
for safety's sake, he crushed the mitten
that Shukhov held out to him - the empty one. (Solzhenitsyn, Pg. 107)
The smart move that he does is to place the empty mitten on top and take the
risk that the guard will only search the empty one. Shukhov was lucky. Another
example of having to be smarter is after they find the wood panels, they want to
carry them back to make the place where they work warmer. Shukhov knows that if
they c ...
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Title: How The Scarlet Letter Effects
Details: Words: 1731, Pages: 7... "adultery," but to the characters of Hester and Dimmesdale it was a constant reminder of the sin; and to Pearl it was a symbol of curiosity.
Obviously, the scarlet letter had the largest impact on Hester, it was a constant reminder of the sin she committed. The "A" she must wear on her bosom completely humiliates her in front of everyone she meets, she begins to even hide behind it, trying to conceal her identity. Hawthorne is referring to Hester in the quote, "The unhappy culprit sustained herself as best a woman might, under the heavy weight of a thousand unrelenting eyes, all fastened upon her and concentred on her bosom" (55). Hester is doing everything po ...
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Title: In Search Of Excellence: Review
Details: Words: 717, Pages: 3... Eight Basic Principles.
Their research had shown that the excellent companies had been based on the
basics. The companies had to try to keep things simple. Sometimes, to a big
business, it might seem logical that business should be run more complex the
larger it is. From their research, this is usually not true. The first
pricnciple is a bias for action. This is basically saying "Stop talking and do
something about it." When Taco Bell has a rush of customers and their supplies
for making food are low, they (usually) don't say "You know what, I have no more
cheese" or "Could someone get me some more cheese?" They take action and get the
cheese, make it if necessar ...
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Title: Linking Edgar Allan Poe To The
Details: Words: 891, Pages: 4... rewriting "The Raven" (the original was written ten years before), life was really hard for him.
"He had been for ten years a writer of untiring industry, and in that time had produced an amount of work large in quantity and excellent in quality, much of it belonging in the very highest rank of imaginative prose; but his books had never sold, and the income from his tales and other papers in the magazines when he was not attached to a magazine had never suffice to keep the wolf from the door." (Woodberry 2: 72)
Hard times fell on Poe like raindrops falling onto the ground. The money needed to sustain his day to day needs proved insufficient. He had written man ...
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Title: Hawthorns Letter A
Details: Words: 1263, Pages: 5... publicly repenting for his misdeeds and dying clean of soul.
It is not known until well into The Scarlet Letter that Arthur Dimmesdale is Hester Prynne’s lover, but by this point, his conscience has already begun inflicting a woeful penalty on his spirit: "His form grew emaciated; his voice...had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed...to put his hand over his heart with...paleness, indicative of pain" (106). Although his reputation is flawless and his parishioners believe that through death, he is to be called to a higher plane of existence, Dimmesdale says with what is believed to be humility that his looming death is "bec ...
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Title: The Metamorphosis
Details: Words: 1690, Pages: 7... between Gregor and his sister Grete is perhaps the most
unique. It is Grete, after all, with whom the metamorphosed Gregor has any
rapport, suggesting the Kafka intended to lend at least some significance to
their relationship. Grete's significance is found in her changing relationship
with her brother. It is Grete's changing actions, feelings, and speech toward
her brother, coupled with her accession to womanhood, that seem to parallel
Gregor's own metamorphosis. This change represents her metamorphosis form
adolescence into adulthood but at the same time it marks the final demise of
Gregor. Thus a certain symmetry is to be found in "The Metamorphosis": wh ...
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Title: Contaminated Motives
Details: Words: 1271, Pages: 5... to achieving this “goal”, they violated ethics, which in turn changed them as people. Although money serves as a driving force for individuals, it does not counter the negative effects that are induced during the process. Therefore, money is the root of all evil.
Despite the two novels possessing slight differences, they coincide in many aspects. When Pip acquires the money from the unknown benefactor, he moves away under Jaggers guidance and barely ever returns to his hometown. In the beginning, his reasons for coming back were to visit Joe, Biddy, and Miss Havisham, but eventually he changes and seeing the people previously so important to him appea ...
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