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Term Papers on Book Reports
The Scarlet Letter - Punishment And Death
Number of words: 612 - Number of pages: 3.... not possibly represent the values of a marriage. It would be
most improper to have one who has committed as sin as she had to be
involved in the marital bonds of another couple. Nevertheless, she does her
work dutifully and completely.
She is emotionately worn out by all the work and penance for her sin.
Midway through the novel she no longer appears as a hidden beauty. Hester
now wears her hair in a cap, and the only effort of considerable worth is
that which she expends in her teachings to Pearl. She has earned the towns
people respect. People now regard .....
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The Scarlet Letter 2
Number of words: 706 - Number of pages: 3.... general, and the rest of the ministers, watching the display, without any expression or emotion. Hester and Pearl go to the Governor’s home to deliver a pair of gloves, but more importantly to inquire about the possibility of the government taking away her child. Also there with Governor Bellingham are Pastor Wilson, Reverend Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. After Mr. Wilson asks Pearl a few questions, the Governor decides that Hester is unfit as a mother and that the child would be better off in the hands of the church.
Hester begs Dimmesdale, whom she .....
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Animal Farm By George Orwell
Number of words: 754 - Number of pages: 3.... animals were equal and the humans, or the czars, were pushed out.
Unfortunately his dream would never materialize. Then we are left with
his predecessors. The first is Snowball. Snowball believed one hundred
percent in Old Majors ideals. He wanted all the things Old Major wanted,
such as the welfare of the animals. In the Russian Revolution his
counterpart would be Trotsky. Trotsky believed and wanted the same things
as Lenin, and wanted to continue what Lenin had started. Then comes
Napoleon. Napoleon was selfish and greedy. He did not want to share the .....
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Gregory (Panos Ionnides)
Number of words: 881 - Number of pages: 4.... respect or esteem. To whom did the Executioner's honor belong? To Headquarters? To Gregory? Well, this changed, not only in direction but also in intensity. At first, the Executioner mentioned his first experiences of killing the enemy-soldiers headquarters had handed down to him. He described them as "delicate assignments". The first time, he said he threw up. The second, he was ill for days, the third, drank a bottle of alcohol, the fourth, a few glasses of beer, the 5th he joked about it, and finally the sixth, remorse, for it was Gregory fe killed. As you .....
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Macbeth 3
Number of words: 566 - Number of pages: 3.... a heart of stone and
that Macbeth is not a man if he is afraid of killing Duncan. This is a prime
example of her deception towards him, and how she acts differently when she
is alone than when she is around him.
Another example of her being two sided is the role she talks about
playing in Duncan’s death, and the role that she actually does play in it.
There are a few times in the play, mostly when she is attempting to persuade
Macbeth into committing the murder, that she says he should just leave the
murder to her. Throughout the play she grad .....
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1984 2
Number of words: 753 - Number of pages: 3.... later goes on and meets a woman named Julia. He knows what he is doing is definitely wrong and is a crime but his dissatisfaction with life and his sexual frustration lead him to the wrong conclusion. That he still thinks that he can get away with this and that the thought police will never catch him. This is where Winston unconsciously seals his fate of being caught but he feels the adventure is well worth the risk. Later in the relationship, they both are aware that the end to them is near.
There were a couple of things that Winston owned that were de .....
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The Martian Chronicles
Number of words: 1216 - Number of pages: 5.... hot it becomes within a few miles radius of a rocket launch. Around this certain rocket, it was winter. As soon as the rocket’s booster ignited, all of the snow within the vicinity melted. “The snow dissolved and showed last summer’s ancient green lawns.”. Bradbury knew when he wrote this that a weather change that dramatic would never happen from a single rocket, it was simply to grab the attention of the reader.
In “The Third Expedition”, the sixth short-story in , Bradbury uses his description of America on Mars to give a s .....
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Grendel: Queen Wealthheow
Number of words: 414 - Number of pages: 2.... "tortured by the red of her hair and the set of her chin and the white of her shoulders". There is definitely a sexual overtone in Grendels desire for Wealththeow. Upon his attack of her he ripped her out of bed by her feet as if he was going to split her in half. He wanted to kill her but he was torn by his feeling for her, all the pain he wanted to inflict was sexual. He wanted to "cook the ugly hole between her legs, and squeeze out her feces with his fists". His motive for killing her was justified by wanting to teach the Danes reality, but he refrained be .....
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