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Term Papers on Book Reports
Jude The Obscure: Summary
Number of words: 2266 - Number of pages: 9.... isolation chamber away from the prisoner’s of war camp in which Captain Hill is sent on a regular basis by the commandant.
Jude and Arabella’s marriage is a mistake from the beginning. Jude’s aunt did not like the idea of Jude’s marrying Arabella to begin with.
Fawley’s aunt being a baker she made him a bride-cake saying bitterly that it was the last thing she could do for him, poor silly fellow; and that it would have been far better if, instead of living to trouble her, he had gone underground years before with his father and mother.
Arabella did not want to .....
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Life Experiences In Farewell T
Number of words: 1175 - Number of pages: 5.... to Manzanar is the story of one girl making the difficult transition to womanhood, at a difficult time, at a difficult location. Two of the main life lessons that Jeannie learned during her stay at Manzanar dealt with the issues of her identity of an American against her Japanese heritage, and also with school.
During her time at Manzanar, Jeannie was surrounded by almost exclusively Japanese people, and did not have much exposure to Caucasians, or people of other races. Therefore, she did not know what to truly expect when she went out into the “school w .....
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The Awakening: An Analysis
Number of words: 1158 - Number of pages: 5.... was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way” (37). Through the action of the novel, this initial realization continues to be reinforced by events. Edna makes a number of painful and complex discoveries about the society in which she lives and awakens to her own potential for passion, desire, and love but “…she reserves her greatest passion for a figure of pure fantasy…”(Wolff 236). Her husband cannot fulfill these potentials “She grew fond of her husband…” but “…no trace of passion…colored her affection”(37). Edna also realizes that Creole society, a .....
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Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": Summary
Number of words: 591 - Number of pages: 3.... and just hit a few
bystanders and blow craters in the sidewalk. Just when the two are about to be
court-martialed, President Nixon gives the orders of unauthorized bombings
anywhere in North and South Vietnam. Grafton and Cole fly their next mission
with a EA-6B for SAM (surface-to-air missiles) suppression. This plane only
carried antiradiation missiles to destroy the SAMs and their radar. But, as they
were approximating (approaching, advancing on) the first SAM surface gun
destroyed most of the plane. The crew ejected within the midst of the night;
Grafton .....
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“Do You Believe In Fate Neo,”
Number of words: 1215 - Number of pages: 5.... the poster outside of Bigger’s apartment, and Bigger’s encounter with the “nut” in jail.
To Bigger’s chagrin he is not in control of his life. His life is dictated by a large group of white people’s false belief of superiority. With every cause there is an effect, and the effect that this burden has on Bigger turns him into an animal, living for only one thing, survival.
“There he is again, Bigger!” the woman screamed, and the tiny, one-room apartment galvanized into violent action. A chair toppled as the woman, half dressed in her stocking feet, scrambled .....
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Lord Of The Flies: About The Author
Number of words: 566 - Number of pages: 3.... the true evil
possessed within us all.
Golding uses the property of setting in Lord of the Flies as the
first hint of the evil within man and society. The entire book is set upon
a beautiful desolate island located probably somewhere in the Pacific near
the first atomic bomb detonation. This land was pure and basic; it was a
Garden of Eden, that is, until man arrived. Upon the boys' arrival (a plane
crash), a scar was left on the island. It was a plane, an offspring of
man's creation, that disturbed nature's beauty. Golding continuously
showed how the .....
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Tom Sawyer
Number of words: 1772 - Number of pages: 7.... in the town's wealth if he had not run out of paint.
On June 17th about the hour of midnight, Tom and his best friend Huck
were out in the grave yard trying to get rid of warts, when they witnessed a
murder by Injun Joe. At the time Muff Potter was drunk and asleep so Injun Joe
blamed the murder him (Muff Potter). They knew if crazy Injun Joe found out they
knew, he would for sure kill them. Tom wrote on a wooden board "Huck Finn and
Tom Sawyer swear to keep mum about this and they wish they may drop down dead in
their tracks if they ever tell and .....
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Black Rain: Reader Response
Number of words: 1361 - Number of pages: 5.... caused this type of destruction. Something else that
Mr. Shizuma wants to do is remember every little detail about what happens to
everything from what angle the house was on after the bomb to what his wife
cooked for dinner with the food rationing. He even likes to write how people
cured themselves of radiation sickness and what the burns and other injuries
look and act like. These things are like myself in the fact that he does not
like to forget what things are like, wants to see first hand what the effects
are, and is very interested in finding information a .....
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