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Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels
Number of words: 839 - Number of pages: 4

.... of the origin of the species and the voyage of the Beagle_to show how Gulliver knows that people are at the top of the food chain. But if Lemule Gulliver is satirized, so are the Houyhnhnms, whose voices sound like the call of castrati. They walk on two legs instead of four, and seem to be much like people. As Gulliver says, "It was with the utmost astonishment that I witnessed these creatures playing the flute and dancing a Vienese waltz. To my mind, they seemed like the greatest humans ever seen in court, even more dextrous than the Lord Edmund Burke" (162) .....


Eliezer Wiesel's Night
Number of words: 536 - Number of pages: 2

.... About three days later, German troops entered Sighet. They order the people of Sighet to surrender to them or die. The people surrendered and had to give up all their possessions. Moshe was right, it did happen. All the people of Sighet were jammed into train cars and shipped to the concentration camp of Aushcwitz. At that point Eliezer was separated from his family forever with the exception of his father. There was a large crematory in Aushcwitz. You could smell the burning flesh in the air. Eliezer was ordered to the crematory. He came within two pac .....


A Farewell To Arms
Number of words: 744 - Number of pages: 3

.... 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 important themes .....


The Pearl: Selfishness And Greed
Number of words: 723 - Number of pages: 3

.... and tells Kino he will return in an hour. When the doctor returns he gives Coyotito the anecdote and then asks when he will get paid. The next show of greed comes from the dealer that Kino was going to sell the pearl to. The dealer tells Kino that his pearl is large and clumsy, and that no one would buy it. Then he offers Kino one thousand pesos, but Kino knows that the pearl is worth fifty thousand pesos. When Kino doesn't agree to sell the pearl for a thousand pesos the dealer tells his servant to go find three other dealers. When the other dealers get .....


Bless Me, Ultima: Antonio
Number of words: 833 - Number of pages: 4

.... to be a man of the Church, where mutual relationships would be able to return to him what he's given to society. On the other hand, in the eyes of his father, he beleives restricting Antonio in such ways keeps his spirit confined, unlike the free energy of his ancestors. He wants his son to sieze the day, sharing in the same expieriences he had during his earlier years. "We lived two different lives, your mother and I. I came from a people who held the wind as brother, because he is free, and the horse as companion because he is the living fleeting wind -- an .....


The Use And Nonuse Of The Theory Of Repressive Hypothesis In Indian Camp
Number of words: 1748 - Number of pages: 7

.... (142). We even pay people to examine the private life of other people and dig up dirt about their sexual life. Revelation of sex related secrets about other people promote extraordinary interests among masses and are handled with extreme pleasure (143). This obsession with sexuality is a definite violation of the limits of the society. " It stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it (repression) except at a considerable cost: nothing less that a transgression of laws, a lifting of prohibitions" (Foucault 142). According to Foucault, .....


The Persian Letters
Number of words: 971 - Number of pages: 4

.... crucial. He does not see anything wrong with having different religions because all of them have precepts that are useful to society. All the different religions promote obedience to the law and require their followers to be good and just. He believes that even if there was no God these ideas can still help society function correctly. Montesquieu also criticizes numerous aspects of established religion and shows that he sees it as useless and so he responds to it with indifference. He feels God’s precepts are of the greatest importance and that is e .....


Lord Of The Flies; A Review
Number of words: 620 - Number of pages: 3

.... that they need each other to stay sane and alive while on the island and that they are in reality best friends. While stranded on the island many of the boys dream of one day being rescued and going home. Ralph constantly shows his obsession with getting home and uses all of his power and knowledge to find a way home. Ralph knows he has to light a fire on the top of the mountain to be used as a signal to flag down a passing boat or plane, so that they can be rescued and go home to their families. When Jack lets the fire go out Ralph is enraged and doe .....



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