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Term Papers on Book Reports
Animal Farm Vs. Marxism
Number of words: 1505 - Number of pages: 6.... of emocratic Socialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Lenin became leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in a new society because the working class people (or animals) w .....
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Number of words: 747 - Number of pages: 3.... and his
wife Mina, learn of the Count's sinister plan and pledge to destroy him
before he can create an army of un-dead vampires. They systematically
destroy his coffins with holy wafers and chase him out of England back to
Castle Dracula. There they carry out an ultimate plan to destroy Dracula.
The Author uses suspense as a storytelling device rather effectively
throughout the story. There are a fair number of parts in which the reader
is left suspended on the edge of seat, eager to find out what is to happen
next. However, there were parts wher .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Women In Society
Number of words: 864 - Number of pages: 4.... is something strange about the house." Her impression is like a premonition for the transformation that takes place in herself while she is there. In this way the house still is the cocoon for her transformation. It does not take the form of the traditional symbol of security for the domestic activities of a woman, but it does allow for and contain her metamorphosis. The house also facilitates her release, accommodating her, her writing and her thoughts. These two activities evolve because of the fact that she is kept in the house.
One specific characteristic of .....
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Is There Evil Inside All Of Us
Number of words: 940 - Number of pages: 4.... or would he be made up of pure evil, like mini-me in the movie Austin Power The Spy Who Shagged Me. Edward Hyde was just that pure evil.
Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any namable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice. (Stevenson 10)
In this novel it states that a potion can isolate your evil side. But does it take more then that? In many people minds it .....
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Mama Lola: An Analysis
Number of words: 1329 - Number of pages: 5.... were partly made up to complete her book and to make everything come together in the end. Vodou is not only a religion for these people, but it is a way of life. Vodou is practiced to help them get by in life day by day, not to rise above the social status that they have, but to be happy in the lives that they live. The way that the immigrant Haitians live in New York is described to the reader by Karen as a much lower class of living. They have little money and have a hard time finding work. The reader is also introduced to the “birthday parties” and ceremo .....
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Summary Of The Heart Of Darkness
Number of words: 1758 - Number of pages: 7.... jungle. They pass a French gunboat firing shells into the dense, black
depths of the jungle. Marlow is told that there are enemy natives hidden
there, but it is struck by the absurdity of this war with the “darkness”
and its invisible forces. Finally, the steamer reaches the mouth of the
Congo and Marlow disembarks.
Here, he boards another steamer, commanded by a Swede, and starts
on his first leg of his journey up the river. The captain tells him of the
sad fate of another Swede who had apparently hanged himself. Again and
again Marlow is struck by the .....
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Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christianity
Number of words: 1515 - Number of pages: 6.... during the night Van Helsing and Lucy stay out near the courtyard of Castle Dracula, Van Helsing makes a (Holy circle) with the Host to keep vampires out and to keep Mina safe in the (Holy circle). Another time when the Host is used as a deterrence of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to Mina’s forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean. Another abstruction of the Christian religion would be the fact that Dracula sleeps in a coffin and esp .....
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Women In Julius Ceasar
Number of words: 387 - Number of pages: 2.... any information, and says nothing to her other than to go to bed. From her dialogue with Brutus Portia reveals, that Brutus is indeed, a pompous self-centered man and that they have an un-pleasant relationship.
Calpurnia plays a similar role in the story. She reveals an un-clear part of Caesar. Calpurnia shows Caesars' vague suppositious trait. Until the conversation with calpurnia, Caesar never directly admitted to being suppositious. He always added something in front of his superstitions. However, when calpurnia had the bad dream, she convinced him not to .....
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