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Term Papers on Book Reports
Book Report On "A Dramatic Death"
Number of words: 1335 - Number of pages: 5.... expect the Dorking Drama Club where he acted in the play, he
had a sister and Steve was very careful to trust anyone during all the murder.
Emma was very fond of Steve but because she was Steve's sister's friend for so
long Steve treated her as a sister, which she didn't like. Emma became so fond
of Steve that she start doing all these gruesome things and in the end she went
to a mental hospital. Emma liked to be in the play a lot and she was said to
have a very over active imagination.
SETTING
The setting was in a small quiet town called Dorking, the play .....
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The Bogart By Susan Cooper
Number of words: 820 - Number of pages: 3.... on people. It is like a little child that can be friendly towards mortals. Boggarts cannot be seen or heard..
The Volink family sold the castle right away because it would be to expensive to keep. Emily and Jessup kept two pieces of furniture to bring home. What they didn’t realize was that a Boggart was sleeping in the desk they took home. When the Boggart got up he realized he was no longer home in Scotland in his castle.
As the Boggart got comfortable he began his practical jokes in Toronto. He would take Mr. Volinks razor and hide it. The Boggart woul .....
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Persuasion--austin Poor Dick
Number of words: 1011 - Number of pages: 4.... uselessness and his failure to live up to the promise of his birth and entitlement. This is a very important point. It seems that in the world of Persuasion, it is the qualities of usefulness, resourcefulness and capability that are attractive to the reader. To the aristocracy, what one does with one’s day is of the utmost importance. The Elliots are landed gentry and as such they do not work or conduct themselves in any manner of labor. It has often been said that the true mark of a gentleman is the ability to do no work. Austen, from the very beginning .....
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Analysis Of -guests Fo The She
Number of words: 1018 - Number of pages: 4.... eventually the community as a whole. Through Elizabeth Fernea’s ethnography on Iraq’s El Nahra village, we learn that all cultures have unique and equally important aspects.
In El Nahra, for example, the cultural ethos is family honor. All actions in the community are based on the strong family bonds that exist throughout. However, individualism drives the majority of America. Our actions seem to be a direct result of the cultural ethos. In that, lied much of the confusion between Bob, BJ and the El Nahran people. In America, we spend much o .....
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An Analysis Of The Novel Candide By Voltaire
Number of words: 753 - Number of pages: 3.... a woman who takes care of him and this is none other than Cunegonde.
They amuse each other with stories of misfortune and travel around the
world. At every place Candide goes something unthinkable seems to happen
to him. Candide meets several people along the way who all have their own
interesting story of misfortune and the inhumanities of mankind. Candide
ends up on a small farm, married to Cunegonde and living with two
philosophers. He argues with others at the end of the book if this really
is the best of all possible worlds and they conclude the we must .....
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Neuromancer By William Gibson
Number of words: 808 - Number of pages: 3.... cyberpunk dead, yet the stuff kept being published and it continues to be published today by writers like K. W. Jeter and Rudy Rucker. Perhaps the best and most representative anthology of cyberpunk writers is Mirrorshades., edited by Sterling, the genre's most outspoken advocate. But cyberpunk's status as the revolutionary vanguard was almost immediately challenged. Its narrative techniques, many critics pointed out, were positively reactionary compared to the experimentalism of mid-60s "new wave" SF. One of the main sources of its vision was William S. Bur .....
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Deliverance: The Establishment Of "Masculinity"
Number of words: 1283 - Number of pages: 5.... supervisor at a soft-drink company who is very devoted to his son and his job. Drew is the character who represents the middle-aged man's desire for talent and attention. Drew plays the guitar and his music is his true companion.
Without having any talent, as he would be the
first to tell you, Drew played mighty well, through
sheer devotion.
(Dickey, 11)
For Drew the highlight of this trip is his duo with Lonnie, an uneducated banjo player. Drew obviously finds this the most exhilarating part of the adventure in that he is the center of attention and i .....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Number of words: 2533 - Number of pages: 10.... attitude is reflected in the main character, McMurphy, who is often pulling pranks in the psychiatric ward.
The oppression of society is a big theme in the novel. The narrator (Chief Bromden) often reflects on how the Combine is taking over. The Big Nurse is never happy unless there is complete order in her ward. She often holds group meetings, in which she belittles her patients to where they are merely rabbits, and not men. Often, when a patient would act inflammatory, she would place him in Disturbed. There was always the threat of Electro-shock therap .....
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