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Term Papers on Book Reports
Analysis Of The Ending Of "Death Of A Salesman"
Number of words: 1228 - Number of pages: 5.... [3] will allow Biff to come to something [4], so that at least one
of the Lomans will fulfill his unrealistic dream of great wealth and
success. But even here in one of his last moments, while having a
conversation with a ghost from the past, he continues to lie to himself by
saying that his funeral will be a big event [2], and that there will be
guests from all over his former working territory in attendance. Yet as was
to be expected, this is not what happens, none of the people he sold to
come. Although perhaps this wrong foretelling could be at .....
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Huck Finn
Number of words: 480 - Number of pages: 2.... or unintelligent. Huck stages his death. This
is not a real bright thing to do even though Huck's father is real mean and is a
threat to his life and Huck's life. Huck wants to get away from him so bad that
the first thing that comes into his mind is to stage his death so Pap will think
he's dead and won't be looking for him ever again. Twain feels that by making
Huck do this Twain is poking fun a Huck's intelligence. Not his nature
intelligence but his book intelligence. In other words Twain is making fun of
Huck. Twain also portrays Huck and Jim as stupi .....
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Good And Evil In The Crucible
Number of words: 829 - Number of pages: 4.... fact he needed to tend to his crops. Also, Proctor did not agree with the appointment of Mr. Parris as the newest minister, and therefore did not have his last child baptized. With the latest craze of witchery and swirling accusations, John Proctor was easily indicted of being a messenger for the devil by the testimony of his disillusioned servant Mary Warren, who in the past committed perjury. The court who heard the testimony easily accepts it because she is a church going person, while John Proctor slightly deviates from the norm. This transfer of blame is .....
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Social Criticism In Literature, As Found In George Orwell's Animal Farm And Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities.
Number of words: 1545 - Number of pages: 6.... theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."(Gardner, 106) Orwell .....
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The Cask Of Amontillado: Lyman
Number of words: 693 - Number of pages: 3.... in the story is the bond that it creates between the brothers. When reading the story, one is led to believe that these two brothers have very little in common other than their blood. Upon the purchase of the vehicle, however, they are brought together by a common interest: the car. Once the bond is formed, for some time the brothers are inseparable. For a whole summer the boys stay out in the car having adventures, meeting new people and furthering the bond that the car has created.
When they return from their trip, Henry is sent to war and he leave .....
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Naturalism In To Build A Fire
Number of words: 1239 - Number of pages: 5.... The man was faced with weather that was 75 degrees below zero and he was not physically or mentally prepared for survival. London wrote that the cold "did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold."(p.1745) At first when the man started his journey to the camp, he felt certain that he could make it back to camp before dinner. As the trip progressed, the man made mistake after mistake that sealed his fate. The man's first mistake was to .....
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The Great Gatsby: Nick Was A Neutral Character
Number of words: 812 - Number of pages: 3.... her husband, and did not go to Gatsby's funeray. I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hersitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them. Therefore, Nike Carroway's analysis was right by these clear observation. However, Nike Carroway is a good narrator, he sees everything happen and does not trust everybody easily. So during the people discuss about something at a time, he does not believe it is true. After he proves it, he will accept the truth. Moreover, when Nike wen .....
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Shaping A Nation
Number of words: 395 - Number of pages: 2.... him know how to cope with controversy. He was born into poverty, failed in business, and suffered a nervous breakdown. Also, he lost eight elections before becoming president. The Civil War had the power to divide this nation. Lincoln pulled these two sides together and helped them unite. He abolished slavery with the thirteenth amendment and managed to keep the southern states from seceding from the Union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president that brought the United States out of the great depression and positioned it as a superpower. His most si .....
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