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Term Papers on Book Reports
The Great Gatsby: Characters Add To The Theme
Number of words: 717 - Number of pages: 3.... the closet until it's time to show off
for company. Daisy becomes radiant and personable. When everyone has gone,
she is a bored housewife, of no importance to the world wondering aloud
what she is going to do with the rest of her life. She appears to be bored
yet innocent and harmless. Yet her innocense is false. Simply a
materialistic young girl and has little mind of her own is underneath all
of that covering. Daisy rediscovers her love with Gatsby because of his
nice shirts and large house. Daisy has been well trained in a rich family.
She has grown up .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Ways People Are Punished
Number of words: 472 - Number of pages: 2.... mafia are caught and go to jail. Most of them do not go for their
full life but for a couple of years. When they do get out of prison they
are still in the mafia. The only thing they learn from being in prison is
to cover their tracks up better. People should pay for what they do and be
punished properly. For example, if a man rapes a woman he should be
castrated. This way people would have fear and not commit crimes.
Torture is also a better punishment rather then death. When a person
dies they don't pay for what they have done, they simply die. Whe .....
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C.S. Forester's Lieutenant Hornblower: Success And Failure
Number of words: 417 - Number of pages: 2.... giving anything to the Spanish. These achievements
made by Hornblower is what later earned him the command of the Retribution,
although his command of the Retribution did not come until later when the war
started again.
Hornblower had also had a few failures that hindered his successes.
Among these was when Hornblower was using the red hot shot to sink enemy ships.
This was both a success and failure. It was a failure because after heating the
shot for a considerably long period of time the shot began to deform. This
deformity of the shot wouldn't allow i .....
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Candide: A Satire On The Enlightenment
Number of words: 594 - Number of pages: 3.... While Voltaire’s Candide is heavily characterized by the primary concerns of the Enlightenment, it also criticizes certain aspects of the movement. It attacks the idea that optimism, which holds that rational thought can inhibit the evils perpetrated by human beings. Voltaire did not believe in the power of reason to overcome contemporary social conditions.
In Candide, Voltaire uses Pangloss and his ramblings to represent an often humorous characterization of the “typical” optimist. Of Pangloss, Voltaire writes, “He proved admirably that there cannot pos .....
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The Glass Menagerie: A Study In Symbolism
Number of words: 1622 - Number of pages: 6.... reality. Without the ability to function in the outside world, Laura becomes a liability to both Tom and Amanda. The gentleman caller, Jim O’Connor, is a friend of Tom’s from the warehouse. He is an ambitious young man, who strives for the American Dream through hard work and optimism. Jim offers the Wingfields hope for the future:
Tom: He is the most realistic character in the play,
being an emissary from a world of reality that we were
somehow set apart from. But since I have a poet’s
weakness for symbols, I am using this character also
as a symbol; .....
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Pride And Prejudice: What's Love Got To Do With It
Number of words: 714 - Number of pages: 3.... sister, she
expressed her opinion as to Jane Bennet's relationship towards a gentleman. She
says it is probably better not to study a person because you would probably know
as much after twelve months as if she married him the next day. Charlotte even
goes as far as to say that "it is better to know as little as possible of the
defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life" (p.21). Charlotte
considered Mr. Collins "neither sensible nor agreeable" but since marriage had
always been her goal in life, "at the age of twenty-seven, with having never
bee .....
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Jurassic Park: The Novel Vs.The Film
Number of words: 1125 - Number of pages: 5.... novel starts. The opening scene is
that of a frightfully mutilated workman being brought into a medical clinic
by military officers. The author continually gives clues, such as obvious
lies by the officers about how the man's injuries occurred, that this is
not a typical attack. Soon after this incident another mysterious attack
occurs. This time a young girl is bitten by an 'unknown' lizard on a Costa
Rican beach along with many other infant deaths in the surrounding area.
The evidence Crichton gives here is the fact that the lizard was of an
unknown species a .....
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The Great Gatsby
Number of words: 778 - Number of pages: 3.... a result of "The Rise of the Coloured Empires". Women are also
constantly referred to as "girls".
Also incorporated, was an interesting but sometimes uneventful and
boring sub-plot of a man's extreme love for a woman and the catastrophic
events that take place as a result. This was indicative of many people of
the day who had a spouse but often had someone else on the side. Although
this book is not the kind that exciting motion pictures are made of, It
was regarded as one of the masterpieces of American literature.
The plot centres on a fictiona .....
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