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Term Papers on Book Reports
A Farewell To Arms - Response
Number of words: 748 - Number of pages: 3.... and what was going to happen next, and then to stop the way it did was unfair. Now, I've read enough essays while deciding which would be the topic for my class presentation that I know many people see that the unfairness of life and the insignificance of our free will are apparently the most important themes in the book, but I don't agree. I also don't agree that it is a war story or a love story. Exactly what it is, though, is not clear to me. Can't art exist without being anything? "There isn't always an explanation for everything." War and love are obviously .....
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Where The Red Fern Grows
Number of words: 641 - Number of pages: 3.... grandpa, and judge. Billy was sensitive at the beginning of the book when the freckle-faced kid pulled one of Little Ann's ears. The kid was the leader of the gang that surrounded Billy. Billy has responsibility because he has to take care of his hounds, he had to feed them, if they're hurt he has to try to help them like after the fight with the mountain lion, etc. Billy has pride in himself when he earned the $50.00 he needed to get his dogs, and he also had pride in his dogs when they won the gold cup. Billy had faith in his dogs whenever they wen! t .....
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A Great Heron
Number of words: 360 - Number of pages: 2.... begins by describing a girl who is driving a cow that is a "valued companion" (text). This shows us that the girl can trust her rural friend while urban people cannot. Later the girl's past is shown to us and we can see how she is much more comfortable in nature. This is confirmed when the boy appears. Sylvia is terrified of him but later is interested in him because of his kindness. Because of Sylvia's bad urban history, she can see how wonderful rural life is and will not allow the boy to Eric Godsey corrupt her. She will not betray nature by helping the .....
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Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews"
Number of words: 890 - Number of pages: 4.... intentions upon my honor, how should I defend myself?"
The second example of the sexual advances and the lack of control
of their barbaric nature, was made by a man who had promised to take Fanny
to London, but instead had ideas of his own. If it wasn't for Abraham
Adams, Fanny might have been raped by the man who was accompanying her to
London.
The next show of a sexual advance on Fanny was made by a Squire
that they had encountered after leaving Mr. Wilson's house. Since the
Squire's dogs had attacked Adams, he defended himself by hitting them with
his can .....
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Great Expectations: Life Story Of Phillip Gargery
Number of words: 1487 - Number of pages: 6.... the marshes. On day while I was there, saying hello to them, I was confronted by a very scary man. A man who would soon change my life forever. He was a scary looking kind of guy, and he was very demanding. He ordered me around to get him things. And from the chains on his feet, I could tell he was a convict. I did what he said anyway, because I was afraid he would kill me, or hurt me very badly. So I got him what he needed. The next night, the town soldiers came to my house, and asked Joe to fix the handcuffs for them, because they found the escaped conv .....
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The Black Box: Symbolic Of Death And Faded Traditions
Number of words: 574 - Number of pages: 3.... in the post office, and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there.” Death is not something that people deal with everyday. Human beings deal with death very similar to the way that the towns people stored the black box. People place their experiences with death in different rooms and shelves of their hearts.
The black box also symbolizes the need for a new tradition and the reluctance of the townspeople to accept change. The black box is a symbol of the lottery itself. The physical appearance of the box suggest that it was not on .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage
Number of words: 1120 - Number of pages: 5.... physically turn an individual into a grown man, but it mentally matures them. War matures boys into a men is by experiencing new, unpredictable environments and adjusting to unfamiliar smells, sounds, and emotions. Think about it, being there on a battlefield witnessing deaths of friends and comrades would have to have an effect on a human being. Being in a war and to be around new faces, new personalities, confusion, and trauma would force one to adapt to an environment faster than you usually would. Just imagine leaving your country home and entering a new .....
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Animal Farm: Allegory Of Stalinism
Number of words: 962 - Number of pages: 4.... 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 .....
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