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Term Papers on Book Reports
Night 2
Number of words: 1622 - Number of pages: 6.... they were getting ready to leave or be sent some where else. The next step of the system is everyday they take a certain amount of Jewish people into the center of the town square and then they let them sit there for a while. The next step was that they had to walk to the synagogue and then they had to walk to train after being in the synagogue for a day. Once they reach the train, the Hungarian police put eighty people in a thirty person train car. The next step is the long trip on the train, where people start going crazy, people not getting fed well and no r .....
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Literary Comparison Of A Clock
Number of words: 1729 - Number of pages: 7.... societies, and as a result are denied the freedom to choose between good and evil, therefore becoming less than human.
Both Alex and John Proctor live in highly oppressive societies from which they feel alienated, and therefore decide to rebel against. The futuristic setting of A Clockwork Orange is one of a constructive, depersonalized society where the government has far too much control over people’s lives. They are forced to live in strictly regimented communities, and their daily life is dreary. “Alex’s England is a socialized .....
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Acid Test
Number of words: 2 - Number of pages: 1.... .....
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Virgil's Aeneid
Number of words: 1332 - Number of pages: 5.... a great dual and
Aeneas disarmed Turnus by striking him in the leg. With his sword to his chest
Turnus makes a last request for his body to be returned to his family, as Aeneas
is considering the request he notices that Turnus is wearing the sword belt of
Pallas and the stoic ways of Aeneas leave him as rage, fury, and anger run
through his body. He kills Turnus in anger and dedicates his death to Pallas.
This loss of control and act of violence is the opposite of stoicism and the way
Aeneas had been portrayed the rest of the epic.
Turnus has to die for the f .....
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Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
Number of words: 1235 - Number of pages: 5.... jobs which
allowed him to devote much of his time to writing. His first story,
published in 1940 by Script magazine, was "It's Not the Heat, It's the
Hu" and established Bradbury's popular theme of social irritation. By 1942,
Bradbury was able to earn enough money writing that he could give up his
job selling newspapers and devote all of his time to what he loved.
(Candee 88)
As some critics would agree, the term "science-fiction" does not
apply to Bradbury's work. Most of his stories are more along the lines of
fantasy with an intense understanding of .....
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The Little Prince: An Analysis
Number of words: 430 - Number of pages: 2.... their curiosity and ignorance.
There are many instance where an adult might possibly pass possible
significant reflections off as nothing and a young adult would find meaning.
In the desert when the pilot is fixing his plane, there is a time when the
little Prince is about to embark to an unknown well of water. The pilot
sees the Prince wondering off and says, “Where are you going?” The little
Prince replies, “to the well”, with great contentment. An adult might pass
that off as simply just part of the plot. If they would ask, “why?” and
read on they find that .....
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The Odyssey 2
Number of words: 682 - Number of pages: 3.... his
name was "Noman". With this new information Polyphemus prays to his father Poseidon to have Odysseus and his men punished. Having angered Poseidon,
they must wander throughout the sea slowly dying one by one. Odysseus learns that bragging can have ill effects and uses this knowledge on the island of
the Phaecians and Ithaca when he does not openly boast of his deeds and his journeys.
Odysseus also learns to pay close attention to the instructions of the gods,
or he might have to face a terrible price. When Odysseus and his crew landed
at the .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath 2
Number of words: 1572 - Number of pages: 6.... inside, the house is vacant except for a couple of things that were left behind. Some of them were important to the family.
Then they see a person coming towards them. It turns out to be Muley Graves, an old friend. The three of them start to talk for a long time about what is going on in the area. The banks and land companies had driven many of the farmers, including the Joads and Muleys family, of the land, and that tractors now plowed the earth instead of men. Then Muley tells Tom that his family is staying with his Uncle John. The next morning Tom .....
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