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Essays on Book Reports
Title: Lord Of The Flies: Primal Fear
Details: Words: 651, Pages: 3... out of the deserving hands of
Ralph and given to his own. Jack demonstrates his dread towards losing
control and power. Ralph handles the situation very efficiently and in a
well-organized manner. Because of Jack's greed for power and his fear
of losing it, the small community of young boys are not able to effectively
and pragmatically plan ways to eventually be saved. When, having a
gathering of all the children, Jack urges everyone not to listen to Ralph's
reasoning but rather to listen to his own. This can be described as
deleterious to all the children because now not only do they have to deal
with how to survive, but also with extra internal conflicts. ...
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Title: To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout's Development
Details: Words: 377, Pages: 2... mad dog, which he manages to do with
one precise shot, yet he never told his children of his great talent for
marksmanship, and does not go hunting because he thinks it gives him an unfair
advantage over other living things.
The main event of the novel is a trial, in which Atticus is the defendant's
lawyer, against a black man who has been falsely accused of raping a white
woman. Atticus does his best to prove Tom Robinson's innocence, to a degree
where any objective jury would surely have found him not guilty, but it
sentences him to death, as it is expected to do by the general populace. Prior
to the trial, Scout and Jem are mocked by other children at school, wh ...
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Title: Literary Approach Paper On The Death Of A Salesman
Details: Words: 793, Pages: 3... one can see, Willy is almost encouraging Biff to steal in order to make a new stoop. However, when Willy finds out Biff has been stealing other things, like the school's football, he seems shocked. "Willy: What is he stealing?...Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told him anything but decent things."(40). Because of the lack of morals, Willy had made it extremely difficult for Biff to love him, especially when he caught him with a women other than his mother. Nevertheless, he always loved his father, even when he totally ignored him. "Biff, crying, broken: Will you let me go, for Christ's Sake?...Willy, astonished, elevated: Isn't tha ...
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Title: Computer Ethics: A Review
Details: Words: 1120, Pages: 5... is in today. The use of real life events and examples help to show the that law is too sparse today and some guidelines must be drawn up to avoid crime caused with computers in the future.
Computer crime is a very broad title for such a large group of dissimilar crimes. The only factor, which groups all of these crimes together is that they all involve the use of a computer. Computer Ethics includes a chapter dedicated to computer crimes and how broad the law is when it comes to computer crimes. This chapter defines computer crime and gives some real life examples of the computer crime that has gone on in the past. One of the largest computer crimes ...
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Title: The Odyssey: Odysseus
Details: Words: 2083, Pages: 8... adversities. Odysseus is also very human, and the reader can see these
many qualities as well. He is often moved to tears. He makes mistakes,
gets himself into tricky situations, and loses his temper. We see him play
not only a hero but also a husband, father, and son. He takes on the very
human roles of athlete, warrior, sailor, storyteller, carpenter, beggar,
and lover. He vividly displays human qualities like brutality and boldness,
while being sensitive and shy at the same time. It is these human
qualities that people can relate to. While he is no doubt a hero, Odysseus
is also viewed as a modern man, the pragmatic survivor. He must struggle,
suff ...
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Title: The Great Gatsby: Structure Of Novel Influenced By Foreshadowing And Flashback
Details: Words: 1105, Pages: 5... The Great Gatsby, the structure of the novel is influenced
by foreshadowing and flashback.
Fitzgerald utilizes foreshadowing to the best of its ability to help
organize the novel. "Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at
the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling
fingers and set it back in place. 'I'm sorry about the clock,' he said. 'It's
an old clock,' I told him idiotically." (Fitzgerald, pg. 92) This quote is the
first use of foreshadowing which is in chapter five. It pertains to all of the
trouble Gatsby causes as he tries to win Daisy back. The past is represented
by the clock and how Gatsby wants ...
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Title: Lord Of The Flies: Characteristics Of Children
Details: Words: 1530, Pages: 6... stray
towards savagery when they are w! ithout adult authority. Therefore,
Golding succeeds in effectively portraying the interests and attitudes of
young children in this novel.
When children are given the opportunity, they would rather envelop
themselves in pleasure and play than in the stresses of work. The boys
show enmity towards building the shelters, even though this work is
important, to engage in trivial activities. Af ter one of the shelters
collapses while only Simon and Ralph are building it, Ralph clamours, "All
day I've been working with Simon. No one else. They're off bathing or
eating, or playing." (55). Ralph and Simon, though only childr ...
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Title: An Analysis Of "Heart Of Darkness"
Details: Words: 1340, Pages: 5... larger view of human affairs. Marlow told the story
one evening on a yacht in the Thames estuary as darkness fell, reminding his
audience that exploitation of one group by another was not new in history. They
were anchored in the river, where ships went out to darkest Africa. Yet, as
lately as Roman times, London's own river led, like the Congo, into a barbarous
hinterland where the Romans went to make their profits. Soon darkness fell over
London, while the ships that bore "civilization" to remote parts appeared out of
the dark, carrying darkness with them, different only in kind to the darkness
they encounter.
These thoughts and feelings were merely part ...
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Title: The Canterbury Tales: A Character Sketch Of Chaucer's Knight
Details: Words: 542, Pages: 2... "just home from service" (l. 73) and is in such a hurry to go on
his pilgrimage that he has not even paused before beginning it to change
his clothes.
The knight has had a very busy life as his fighting career has taken him to
a great many places. He has seen military service in Egypt, Lithuania,
Prussia, Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor where he "was of
[great] value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has had a very
successful and busy career, he is extremely humble: Chaucer maintains that
he is "modest as a maid" (l. 65). Moreover, he has never said a rude thing
to anyone in his entire life (cf., ll. 66-7). Clearly, the knight possesses
an outs ...
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