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Essays on Book Reports
Title: Sister Carrie: People Driven By Desire
Details: Words: 466, Pages: 2... has no feelings for Drouet of Hurstwood yet involves herself with them because of the prospect of money. Once Carrie became accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle, her subconscious desire gave her the will to do what it takes to avoid change.
Drouet is born bachelor whose desire is flirtation and courting women. For him this is almost a natural instinct, as soon as he saw Carrie on the train he felt an obligation to introduce himself. “He loved to make advances to women, to have them succumb to his charms, ...his inborn desire urged him to that as a chief delight.” He is moderately wealthy and therefore can afford to support women periodically. Drouet c ...
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Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For Themselves
Details: Words: 2768, Pages: 11... de next
morin' Ah could see uh big ship at a distance and a great stirrin' round. So Ah
wrapped mah way on down to de landin'. The men was all in blue, and Ah heard
people say Sherman was comin' to meet de boats in Savannah, and all of us slaves
was free. So Ah run got mah baby and got in quotation wid people and found a
place Ah could stay." Grandmother was wanting to make a school teacher out of
Janie's mother. Janie found out that a school teacher rapped her mother so she
never met her father either. Janie's mother was seventeen, when she was
pregnant with Janie. After Janie was born, Janie's mother took to drinking a
lot. Janie's grandmother raised Ja ...
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Title: Hobbit Essay
Details: Words: 808, Pages: 3... a cave. The magical ring, which was a key to
helping the group succeed in the book, allowed he 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 organisms 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 vocally
communicate with humans and dwarves in the novel, which is not pos ...
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Title: Summary Of "The Grapes Of Wrath"
Details: Words: 1217, Pages: 5... in among the orange trees." They had been
lied to by the handbills and other propaganda that was circulating in the
dust bowl region. The growers in California knew that the people of the
dust bowl would have to leave their houses because of the crisis. They
also knew the more pickers they had the lower they could make their prices.
The number of handbills sent out far out numbered the number of jobs
available. Many people in the dust bowl were constructing a view of
California that was devastatingly false. However most of the people had to
go somewhere, and all they knew was agriculture, so the natural thing was
to go to the only place in the country at that ...
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Title: The Grapes Of Wrath
Details: Words: 1745, Pages: 7... apart. She fights this as much as possible, but isn't completely successful. She knows that if Pa ever gives up, the family will collapse, so sometimes she probes him into anger so that he doesn't.
Pa Joad
He is the official head of the family, though Ma in reality is the driving force behind it. He is a hard working tenant farmer who is forced out by elements beyond his control.
Grampa
He was attached to the land. He was too old to adapt to a new place. As soon as he was removed from the land, he died. He pretended to want to go to California but he was faking it.
Granma
She and Grampa quarreled a lot but they really were devoted to each other. Af ...
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Title: Animal Farm Vs. Marxism
Details: Words: 1505, Pages: 6... Marx, as well as a novel perpetuating his convictions of emocratic Socialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Lenin became leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in a new society because the working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the power. (Golu ...
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Title: Hobbes’ Leviathan: Analysis Of Its Impact On The Framing Of Our Democracy
Details: Words: 1672, Pages: 7... Hobbes writes in such a manner as to present these basic principles so they could apply to any political system, including that of a democracy. To achieve this, Hobbes presents several questions in this novel. What kind of being is man? What is the nature of man? What comprises a commonwealth that can successfully govern man? These are the pivotal questions presented in Hobbes’ Leviathan.
According to Hobbes, man is a creation of God not dissimilar to that of man manufacturing watches. Both have moving parts; a spring or heart to keep them alive, strings or nerves to hold them together, and wheels or joints to give motion to the whole body. But it is m ...
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Title: Euclid: The Elements
Details: Words: 1120, Pages: 5... information. In fact there was a Euclid of Megara, who was a philosopher who lived about 100 years before the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria. It is not quite the coincidence that it might seem that there were two learned men called Euclid. In fact Euclid was a very common name around this period and this is one further difficulty that makes it hard to find information concerning Euclid of Alexandria since there are references to numerous men called Euclid in the history of this period.
There is nothing consistent in the dating given about when Euclid did all of his work but a person by the name of Itard said that situation is best summed up by the fowling three ...
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Title: Fire And Water Imagery In Jane Eyre
Details: Words: 1952, Pages: 8... representing passion, sexual desire and the heat of emotion and feeling. On a very basic level, one can already note the underlying significance for Brontë's use of fire imagery - fire, as is with the passions, can provide warmth and comfort, but can also burn. With water imagery, it is useful to consider that such imagery includes natural imagery of ice, sea and snow, all common features in the novel. Water, the antithesis of fire, represents the extreme point of cool reason, without any trace of passion. As we see Jane wander between these two points of temptation throughout the novel, the accompanying imagery of fire and water is most significant to ...
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Title: Animal Farm Comparison
Details: Words: 962, Pages: 4... we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades. Rebellion!”
The simple, but emotional appeal, gets trough to the uneducated and plain animals and, as in all revolutions, the planning begins in euphoria and idealism. No voice is raised to ask relevant question or call for a considered debate.
The appearance of rats at the meeting raises a question: ”Are rats comrades?” A democratic vote results in a ringing ”Yes!”. And Old Major proclaims, ”No animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. All animals ar ...
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