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Term Papers on Book Reports
A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries
Number of words: 1546 - Number of pages: 6.... schools swimming
record, but tells Gene not to tell anyone, he just wanted to do it for
himself. Gene and Phineas of campus to the ocean to swim. They have a drink
at the bar, the spend the night on the beach, and Phineas tells Gene he is
his best pal. Gene is not sure if he feels the same.
Chapter 4: Gene and Finny (Phineas) wake up and head back to Devon. Gene
fails his trigonometry examination for the first time. Finny tells Gene
that he studies too much. Gene thinks Finny is jealous. Gene wants to earn
the Scholastic Achievement Citation to get even with Fi .....
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The Parable
Number of words: 691 - Number of pages: 3.... problem and tells her he will take her across the river if she spends the night with him. Rosemary, surprised and shocked at hearing such an offer, declines and turns to another acquaintance, Lee Pai, for help. Lee Pai tells Rosemary he is sorry but he can't help her. Not knowing what else she can do, Rosemary goes back to Sven for help. She spends the night with him and the next day he takes her across the river. Rosemary and Hernando are then together at last. The evening before their wedding, Rosemary feels the need to tell
Hernando what she had t .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?
Number of words: 755 - Number of pages: 3.... is affected
the most is Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale handles it in a different way though,
to him its more of a "concealed sin." A example of this is, "It may be that
they are kept silent by the very constitution of their nature. Or - can we not
suppose it - guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's
glory and man's welfare, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy
in the view of men; because, thenceforward, no good can be achieved by them; no
evil or the past be redeemed by better service." Dimmesdale also has another
re .....
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Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction Of Jurassic Park
Number of words: 1130 - Number of pages: 5.... of a
few days, because the forces involved are too complex and unstable. If
everything in a popular narrative like Jurassic Park really means something else,
then so too does chaos theory.
The basic plot of Jurassic Park is fairly simple. A Palo Alto
corporation called International Genetics Technologies, Inc. (InGen) has become
able -- through an entrepreneurial combination of audacity, technology, human
ingenuity, and fantastic outlays of capital (mostly funded by Japanese investors,
who are the only ones willing to wait years for uncertain results) -- to clon .....
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Anna Karenina: Foreshadowing
Number of words: 470 - Number of pages: 2.... to her bedroom, she glances over to see who had
called at such a late hour. She immediately recognizes it to be Vronsky and she
feels ‘a strange feeling of pleasure mixed with a feeling of vague apprehension
suddenly stirred in her heart.'( page 90)This tells of what may be the conflict
in the plot.
The day after the great ball Anna announces that she must leave. Dolly
expresses her gratitude toward everything Anna has done to help her in her time
of crisis. She tells Anna that she does not know of a person with a greater
heart. Anna tells her that K .....
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Krutch's "Killing For Sport"
Number of words: 360 - Number of pages: 2.... Many of his stronger
arguments use comparison and contrast to show the difference between the
good and the bad. " He seems to get nothing other than the satisfaction of
saying: ‘Something which wanted to live is dead.' " On the other hand the
killer for food receives life in return for his killing, further stating
that the hunter for sport is evil. This work clearly exposes gaming
hunters and expresses how senseless it is to kill for fun. Krutch
identifies hunting as a "reality of evil" because we know it is wrong to
kill without purpose.
There is .....
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Killer Angels
Number of words: 668 - Number of pages: 3.... to read about the different strategies and tactics the generals utilized in the attempted destruction of their enemies. The well-deserved rave reviews that litter the front and back covers drew me to it, but Shaara's powerful writing style and stunningly human characters drew me into it. Shaara has an amazing ability to portray the major players of the battle, whose real personalities must have since been lost over a century of historian analyzation, as real people. Shaara portrays the terrible butchery of the four days' fighting through the vividly rend .....
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The Jungle: Character Analysis
Number of words: 1871 - Number of pages: 7.... hopes of finding freedom and fortune, they left for America, bringing many members of Ona’s family with them.
After arriving in America, they are taken to Packingtown to find work. Packingtown is a section of Chicago where the meat packing industry is centralized. They take a tour of the plant, and see the unbelievable efficiency and speed at which hogs and cattle are butchered, cooked, packed, and shipped. In Packingtown, no part of the animal is wasted. The tour guide specifically says "They use everything about the hog except the squeal," (The Jungle, page 38 .....
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