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Term Papers on Book Reports
The Satire Of Jonathan Swift Revealed
Number of words: 800 - Number of pages: 3.... belief in superiority over all
other cultures. Yet, despite his belief in superiority, Swift shows that
Gulliver is not as great as he imagines when the forces of nature call upon him
to relieve himself. Gulliver comments to the reader that before hand he, “was
under great difficulties between urgency and shame”, and after the deed says
that he felt, “guilty of so uncleanly an action” (Norton,2051). By revealing to
the reader Gulliver's shame in carrying out a basic function of life, Swift
comments on the self imposed supremacy of English society. By humbling .....
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Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle": The Power Struggle Between Owners And Workers
Number of words: 835 - Number of pages: 4.... for food. This dehumanized the workers because it did not allow
them to have any hope. Universally the pickers pretended to be content
with the quality of their life in fear of losing the little they have.
After they decided that they could know longer live under the horrid
conditions that the owners put them under they executed their power to
strike.
Since power is the ability of its holder to exact compliance or
obedience of other individuals to his will on what so ever basis the
strikers became a power. The owners no longer had absolute power over .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of words: 1473 - Number of pages: 6.... find out. It was a great accomplishment that Harper Lee only wrote one book and won the Pulitzer Prize.
There are many themes and symbols in this book. Scouts father, Atticus, tells Scout and Jem, “I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit them, but remember it’s a sin .” (Lee 69). This passage is where she got the name for her book. During the 1950’s in the small county of Maycomb, the mentality of most southern people reflected .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Tragedy Of War
Number of words: 1250 - Number of pages: 5.... our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.” This bitter quote shows that after the war is over their generation does not know what will be left for them. The characters felt betrayed. This idea of betrayal is paramount in the loss of war. Even though they may be able to go home after the war is over, they will constantly have to fight themselves. Another force that led to the loss of innocence at the front was the things that the boys were learning. They refer to themselves as “stone aged veterans” even though they are only twenty. The young .....
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Human Nature: Exposed
Number of words: 1420 - Number of pages: 6.... of these
passages reveals that man, in essence , is cruel, silly, and hypocritical in
nature.
Through his writing, it becomes apparent that Twain supports the
thematic idea of the human race being hypocritical. For instance, take the
scene in Chapter 20 where a group of people in Arkansas are listening to the
sermon of a preacher. In this descriptive passage, it can be inferred through
Twain's writing that the average person of this time was in fact "blinded" by
religious influences. The significance of this event can be observed later on
in Chapter 21 where .....
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Beloved 2
Number of words: 1030 - Number of pages: 4.... -- the ones Mr. Garner bragged about while other farmers shook their heads in warning at the phrase. [He said,] “. . . my niggers is men every one of em. Bought em thataway, raised em thataway. Men every one.”1
The things that occurred at Sweet Home while Mr. Garner is alive are rather conservative compared to what slaves actually suffered during this time period.
Under the management of schoolteacher, things change dramatically. He turns Sweet Home into a real slave plantation. He treats and refers to the slaves as animals. He is responsible for .....
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Farewell To Manzanar
Number of words: 2276 - Number of pages: 9.... difficult to see,
but difficult to justify this view, and therefore Jeanne Wakatsuki, just a child,
was now seen as a monster. Her father was immediately arrested and taken away,
being accused with furnishing oil to Japanese subs off the coast. And now,
Jeanne left without a father, her mother was trapped with the burden of Jeanne's
rapidly aging grandmother and her nine brothers and sisters. Too young to
understand, Jeanne did not know why or where her father had been taken. But she
did know that one very important part of her was gone.
Jeanne's father was .....
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Yarmouth,england
Number of words: 1563 - Number of pages: 6.... of Herring, and a great dock for boats. This attracted many fisherman from all over the continent, including the Clique Port fishermen. After awhile silting became very useless and migration began to occur towards the south part of the town.
In the royal domain, Yarmouth was known as a borough, in which they had to pay "every third penny" of revenues to the Earl. Yarmouth was a very small town compared to others in the region. According to the Doomsday survey, it had at least seventy burgesses by ten sixty six. Yarmouth was known as a frontier town due to its la .....
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