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Term Papers on Book Reports
Brave New World
Number of words: 689 - Number of pages: 3.... is, and he also knows less. This is shown by his shock when the Controller dares to speak about two of the forbidden topics, history and biological parents. It is believed that topics of this nature will cause this utopia to deteriorate. Once the utopia deteriorates, people are not happy all the time. Even by its own criteria though, is not a society where everyone is in fact happy. There are asylums in Iceland for Alpha misfits. Even in this so-called utopia, no one is perfect. Lenina has lupus and Bernard is emotionally unstable, due to a mistake in the “bott .....
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Your Chemical World
Number of words: 5608 - Number of pages: 21.... like Silicon or Iron our hands will be forever bound to chemistry. The book starts off with our beginning and the unlikely usage of chemistry in pre-historic times. Our ancestors were more then likely concerned primarily with staying alive. Certain things are needed to do that, like food, shelter, energy, and drink. Once those needs were meet our Neanderthal brethren made some archaicaly beautiful cave paintings. In doing so they applied chemistry in a whole new way, to benefit their lives. In time chemistry became an integral part of society, today we have us .....
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All Quite On The Western Front
Number of words: 546 - Number of pages: 2.... about it was that they should report it to the
stretcher-bearers' because it was not their job to help these
fellow soldiers that were fighting on the same side. They were
fight for the same reason, for the same team and nothing even
crossed their minds that they might soon be those people in the
trees or maybe just laying on the ground, and other soldiers will
pass them and think nothing of it other than it is not their job
to help them out. Right after this situation Paul experiences
just this he is put in the middle of the gun fire with n .....
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Anne Hutchinson
Number of words: 4838 - Number of pages: 18.... about his convictions that many of the ordained ministers in the Church of England were unfit to guide people's souls. For this act of defiance, he was put in jail for one year. Undaunted, Francis Marbury continued to voice his radical opinions, including that many ministers were appointed haphazardly by high church officials to preach in any manner they wanted. Eventually, Anne's father did restrain his verbal attacks on the Church of England, choosing conformity with an imperfect church over constant arrests and inquisitions. (D. Crawford, Four Women in a Vio .....
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A Summary Of Martin Luther, Lectures On Galatians
Number of words: 557 - Number of pages: 3.... and out of sight." (p. 8) The comfort of conscience is the righteousness of faith. (p. 5)
Luther delineates a series of dichotomies: morality/faith, works/grace, secular society/religion (p. 7), conscience/joy, works/faith, earthly/heavenly, Adam/Jesus, sin/righteousness, death/eternal life, flesh/spirit, Law/Christ (p. 9), Law/grace, Moses the lawgiver/Christ the savior (p. 10). These follow the dualism which Paul describes: "What the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle
Number of words: 1064 - Number of pages: 4.... and the
poor relationships between husbands and wives (Kennedy and Gioia 424).
Guilman cleverly manipulates the setting to support her themes and set the eerie
mood.
Upon first reading "The Yellow Wallpaper," the reader may see the relationship
between the narrator and her husband John as caring, but with examination one
will find that the narrator is repeatedly belittled and demeaned by her
husband. On first arriving at the vacation home John chooses the old attic
nursery against his wife's wishes and laughs at her when she complains about
the wallpaper (Ken .....
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Oedipus The King
Number of words: 1958 - Number of pages: 8.... These ideals were brought about by a philosophy that was thriving in Greece during Sophocles' lifetime. Most of Oedipus' notions, can be traced back to either the dialectic Socrates in who appeared in Plato's several works, or Plato's student Aristotle. These notions were being circulated throughout Greece during the time period which Oedipus was thought to be presented, making them common knowledge for the audience of the time (Friedlander 7).
Of all the virtues that the Greeks, especially the Athenians held dear was wisdom, wisdom dealing with everyth .....
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Crime And Punishment - Sufferi
Number of words: 720 - Number of pages: 3.... his pride’s hurt. He doesn’t mention the idea of the pain that might arise from recurrent visions of the crime. Raskolnikov never again recalls the massive amounts of blood everywhere, the look on Lizaveta’s face when he brings down the axe on her head. These things clearly show that the crime isn’t what might cause him suffering, or pain, it is something else.
After Raskolnikov is sent off to Siberia, he doesn’t feel remorseful. His feelings haven’t changed about his crime, he feels bad at not being able to living up to his own ideas of greatness. He grows depre .....
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