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Term Papers on Book Reports
Invisible Man: Plot Summary
Number of words: 421 - Number of pages: 2.... letter of what he suposes to be recomendation
to give to people in New York. He moves to Harlem and delivers the letters.
He finds out that these letters were not recomenation but rather advisments
against hiring him. The seventh reciever of a letter gives him a job in a
paint factory. He does not derform well there and evetually causes he own
dismissal by ignoring hes work and getting knoked out by an explosion that is
his fault. He joins a black power group called The Brotherhood and is sent out
to spread the word of the group. He meets a man named Clfto .....
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Animal Farm
Number of words: 1566 - Number of pages: 6.... good intentions when they take over the reins of society and are prepared to govern it; if power is unchecked, the one person who has absolute power will eventually be corrupted absolutely, and according to Locke, the purpose of the government will have been defeated. Locke believed that if a government is oppressive or corrupt, the people have the right to rebel. Through this book, Orwell demonstrates that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifies the means" are deplorable. Rather he believes in the ideas of Montesquie in which there sh .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Courage Of Atticus Finch
Number of words: 337 - Number of pages: 2.... thing.
Thirdly it is courageous of Atticus to be willing to charge Jem with Bob Ewell's
death. He risked the loss of Jem in the process. He also risked the chance of
Jem getting mad at Atticus, and never talking to him. Also It was courageous of
Atticus to teach his children not prejudge others until they really know what
they are really going through. There is a quotation that Atticus said “Never
judge anyone, until you have been in their shoes, and walked around in them.”
(86). When saying that to Jem, and Scout he risked the chance of them not
listening to him .....
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In Cold Blood
Number of words: 1157 - Number of pages: 5.... who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors were routinely left unlocked.
The killers then travel to Mexico, Hickock playing their way with bad checks. Tension grows in the complicated relationship between smooth-talking but malevolent Dick and half-Cherokee Perry, a moody little man with stunted legs who likes to sing and play the guitar. When their money runs out, they return to the States, pass more bogus checks and steal a car. They are finally caught and taken to federal prison where they undergo seven .....
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Tavris' In Groups We Shrink
Number of words: 707 - Number of pages: 3.... of the group. Why did the town's people just stand by and take
part in the senseless stoning of Mrs. Hutchinson? Why didn't anyone intervene?
Nobody was willing to be an individual and step up to take responsibility and
put an end to the senseless lottery.
Another good example of the reluctance to act against the group would be
the Rodney King incident. As the officers clubbed, electrocuted, and beat
Rodney King to a bloody pulp, onlookers just looked on. Nobody did anything to
stop the senseless beating. It was obvious that the police officers were .....
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Homeric Simile In Paradise Lost
Number of words: 3666 - Number of pages: 14.... Milton decided to abandon the radically figurative style of his early poems -- notably, Lycidas and certain passages of Comus -- which critics like to call Shakespearean (MacCaffrey, 119). Both Homer (the originator of the extended/epic simile) and Milton found it necessary to stop short of the complex metaphors that served the dramatists as instruments for psychological exploration and symbolic statement.
Homer’s similes provide a respite from the steady surge of heroic action, and broaden the scope of his poems. Into the simile could be introduced fami .....
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Othello - Injustice As A Theme
Number of words: 1183 - Number of pages: 5.... play. Everyone is his willing dupe. Every master villain attempts his level of excellency.
Iago, to achieve his revenge, makes Othello wrongfully suspect his wife of infidelity, and makes him insane with jealousy, enough to kill her in his rage. Othello is the general of the city of Venice, and a foreigner, a dark-skinned Moor. He has eloped with a senator’s daughter, Desdemona, and they love each other dearly. Othello is a level-headed practitioner of war, and is not ruffled by hints and allegations; that is, until his mind is poisoned by the machinatio .....
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Lassie
Number of words: 330 - Number of pages: 2.... and to Lassie. Sam then sold Lassie to The Duke.
Climax
After Lassie has been at the dukes for a while they ship him off to the Dukes other home in Scotland. Poor Lassie misses Joe so much he decides to go home. Lassie gets out of his cage and starts on the long journey home.
Resolution
On Lassie's journey home he meets a lot of people and some are very nice and help him if it wasn't for them Lassie would have never made it. He did though one afternoon when Joe Carraclough was coming out of school there he was waiting as before. Joe saw him and ran o .....
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