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Term Papers on Book Reports
Zane Grey
Number of words: 1468 - Number of pages: 6.... west, for whatever reason (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 173).
Gradually the character comes to be one with their surroundings and is able
to cope with the problems the west posses. They gain inner peace and
become one with nature. In the novel The Vanishing American Marian is an
eastern girl who moves out west to be with her true love Nophie. Nophie is
an Indian she met and fell in love with. At first Marian struggles with
the harsh conditions and hot weather. She almost gives up but continues to
push on. Gradually she becomes stronger and able .....
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Comparing "Waiting For Godot" To "Hollow Men"
Number of words: 654 - Number of pages: 3.... Pozzo, an upper-class man, mistaken by
Vladimir and Estragon as Godot, and Pozzo's slave, Lucky. After they leave,
a messenger from Godot arrives and states simply that Godot will arrive
tomorrow, same place, same time. They consider leaving, but do not. The
second act is almost an exact repeat of the first, but Lucky and Pozzo have
fallen upon hard times. Pozzo has become blind and pathetic, and Lucky has
become dumb. This change in events is a direct point of life being
terrific one moment, and worthless the next. Godot never shows up. The
play ends with .....
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An Analysis Of Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Number of words: 891 - Number of pages: 4.... was no
more.” (212) He also informed him of his intentions of keeping her corpse
for a fortnight in one of the many vaults in the house. Having no wish to
oppose his wishes, the narrator helps him entomb the body at Usher's
request. The mood in the house has worsened, and Usher is no longer
himself. The narrator finds him ranting about the storm, and he explains
to him its only a natural phenomenon, and turns to their earlier hobby of
reading to distract him. He chooses the Mad Trist, which is apparently a
story completely created by Poe (and is definitely .....
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A Seperate Peace
Number of words: 838 - Number of pages: 4.... with greater strength, greater understanding, maturity, and he finds the separate peace that every man longs for.
“Phineas just walked serenely on, or rather flowed on, rolling forward in his white sneakers with such unthinking unity of movement that “walk” didn’t describe it. When the novel begins, John Knowles leaves a subtle detail of Phineas’ character through his vivid descriptions of his movements. Phineas always represented an uninterrupted flow of strength and energy, like a river with nothing capable of changing its cur .....
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Prejudice And The Pain And Suffering It Has Caused
Number of words: 753 - Number of pages: 3.... an inferior is Scout by her teacher,
because she knew how to read. "She discovered that I was literate and
looked at me with more than faint distaste. (p.17)." Scout is treated like
it is her fault that she knows more than the average child did. She
learned earlier than others so she gets punished unjustly. Tom Robinson is
also one who is discriminated by a biased community. Tom is found guilty
by the jury in his case against the Ewells (p.211). The guilty verdict is
a direct result of a racist community. Tom was never given a fair chance
in the trial, .....
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Caroselli's "The Language Of Leadership"
Number of words: 1092 - Number of pages: 4.... for promotion to a position of leadership
was not technical excellence, not financial knowledge, not marketing
ability, but communication skill." (Caroselli 1990, 39) l feel that this
quality must be possessed by all leaders in all categories, in order for
his or her corporation to function in a successful manner. If you do not
posses this quality, it will be difficult to reach the other members of the
organization, therefor making it difficult to succeed with the information
or directions being diluted through the communication process of the
organization. .....
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Catch-22 Book Review
Number of words: 2221 - Number of pages: 9.... division of the United States Army as a wing gunner. After just a few weeks of war, he tried to obtain a discharge from his superiors. He was refused, and ended up flying over sixty missions. In those respects, he is a lot like Yossarian, the main character of the book.
Heller was written several books and a few plays. His literary works include Something Happened, God Knows, Good as Gold, Picture This, No Laughing Matter, ( with Speed Vogel ) and We Bombed in New Haven ( a play ). Catch-22 was his first and is widely considered to be his best work. Heller does .....
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Crime And Punishment
Number of words: 835 - Number of pages: 4.... room is “suffocatingly hot, but [Katerina] [has] not opened the windows” and in Alyona’s apartment “all the windows … [are] closed, in spite of the stifling heat” (pg 114) the day he commits the crime. In the former place he leaves money on the windowsill, while in the latter he takes money away. In both cases, however, the rooms are hot, and a feeling of an uncomfortable and unfriendly place is drawn in the reader's mind. Neither Raskolnikov's narrow room, Sonya's cheap apartment or Profiry's office, where the latter hints at the airlessness of the room an .....
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