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Term Papers on Book Reports
Candide
Number of words: 1513 - Number of pages: 6.... in the Bastille. The first was from May 16, 1717 to April 11, 1718, the second was in 1726. After his first confinment Francois Marie Arouet adopter the name Voltaire, which later became synonymous for horatian sarcasm towards the aristocracy of France, whether it was truly his work or not. This is how Voltaire once again found himself in the Bastille. Falsely accused of the authorship of a politically abrasive poem, he was imprisoned. Once released Voltaire was forced to travel to England, but returned to France three years later, in 1729, and began his prolific .....
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The Hidden Life Of Dogs: Book Review
Number of words: 729 - Number of pages: 3.... up. How did the dog know how to cross a highway
on its own? How did its navigational skills work? How was it that this dog knew
exactly where it was and could travel through different cities without becoming
lost and other dogs couldn't? Continuing on to bringing in other dogs Elizabeth
was studying, she pointed out that some had skills that others did not. Misha
was clearly able to navigate himself but when with another dog, he would become
lost. After careful observation it was seen that the other dog could easily
loose track of where she was and mislead .....
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Bram Stokers Dracula
Number of words: 747 - Number of pages: 3.... an Harker and his
wife Mina, learn of the Count's sinister plan and pledge to destroy him
before he can create an army of un-dead vampires. They systematically
destroy his coffins with holy wafers and chase him out of England back to
Castle Dracula. There they carry out an ultimate plan to destroy Dracula.
The Author uses suspense as a storytelling device rather effectively
throughout the story. There are a fair number of parts in which the reader
is left suspended on the edge of seat, eager to find out what is to happen
next. However, there w .....
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Tom Sawyer
Number of words: 556 - Number of pages: 3.... his learning,
so he asked him who were the first two of the twelve Apostles to follow Jesus,
it being presumed that the prize boy knew such things perfectly, for the lesson
of the term had been in the study of the four Gospels. Tom felt the necessity of
giving some answer, and his was "David and Goliath," to the surprise of the
visitor, the consternation of the head teacher and the amusement of the school.
When Tom went to church he took a large snapping bug (which has a grip like a
crab) with him, and it got hold of a church-going dog, which rushed around th .....
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Reflections On The Things They
Number of words: 858 - Number of pages: 4.... over stupid issues. Here is where O’Brien starts up his literary art form. One thing that was interesting to mention is that I noticed when reading the story is the fact that the story is written in third person. The narrator is not actually in the story, merely telling us of the events, and yet we still get to see inside Lt. Cross’s mind to more accurately picture his feelings. The narrator also, although letting us see the innermost, personal thoughts of Cross, always refers to the Lieutenant as either "he,", "him," or "Lt. Cross," never speaking of .....
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Time Machine Book Report
Number of words: 1164 - Number of pages: 5.... of the future in the literature that he wrote. Wells' prophecy of "the shape of things to come" is accomplished in The Time Machine. His ideas about the future are surely detrimental. As the Time Traveler is standing on the shore of a dead sea, he thinks to himself, I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurt one's .....
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"Master Harold ...And The Boys"
Number of words: 605 - Number of pages: 3.... has to threaten him to get him to pay for something as little as milk. Willie believes he has the right to treat his son the way he was treated, coldly, without love and attention. His son was actually the lucky one compared to the way Willie treated his girlfriend.
Although Willie's son was neglected, the baby's mother was beat. Willie's father had more influence on his life than he wanted to. Willie treated his girlfriend as if she were beneath him, as his father did to him. On page (9) Willie shows his disrespect for women.
The best thing that coul .....
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Frankenstein: Morality
Number of words: 773 - Number of pages: 3.... (pg.152) says Victor upon looking back at his work. If there is
another monster there will be twice the power and possibly twice the evil,
which could hurt or kill his family. When and if Frankenstein commits the moral
sin of creating another monster he may be rid of both monsters forever. "With
the companion you bestow I will quit the neighbourhood of man,"(pg 142) promises
the morally corrupt monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner.
When the doctor, if and when he, finished his first creation's mate there is a
chance that the monsters will .....
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