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Term Papers on Book Reports
Dandelion Wine
Number of words: 540 - Number of pages: 2.... would pick
the dandelions and bottle it for wine. Summers in Green Town were very hot
and winters cold.
It was a town where almost everyone knew each other like a big
family.
In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many
deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal,
which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas,
named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because of a job opportunity for
his father. Also, Douglas got extremely sick and was dieing and there was
no info .....
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Call Of The Wild
Number of words: 431 - Number of pages: 2.... traveling with the team of huskies and mix breeds from Dyea Beach, to the
town of Dawson. After several trips with Perrault and Francois, Buck was traded
to a gold seeking family. They knew nothing, or hardly nothing, about managing
a sled team. There trip began with a very bad start. The family had loaded up
their wagon with too much unneeded baggage, and it was top heavy. As the dogs
began to pull away and pull around a curve, the baggage tipped over along with
the sled and thus the unnecessary baggage was discarded, and the trip was barely
completed bec .....
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The Scarlet Letter Essay
Number of words: 1210 - Number of pages: 5.... manage this. He is a typical diagnosis of a "wuss".
To some extent, Dimmesdale's story is one of a single man tempted into the depths of the hormonal world. This world, however, is a place where the society treats sexuality with ill grace. But his problem is enormously complicated by the fact of Hester's marriage (for him no technicality), and by his own image of himself as a cleric devoted to higher things. Unlike other young men, Dimmesdale cannot accept his loss of innocence and go on from there. He must struggle futilely to get back to where he was. Torn be .....
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan De
Number of words: 837 - Number of pages: 4.... believed he had surrendered to the Germans and had returned to spy on his country for them. He was originally sent to Ust-Izhma in which the zeks were normally kept. After a while he was sent to a special camp where they kept the political prisoners. These gulags were the repositories for Stalin's enemies, real or suspected. They housed many people taken in the great purges. It is estimated that the population in these camps was over 8.8 million from 1929-53. The resilience of the human spirit is perhaps the most important theme of the novel. It demonstrates .....
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The Stone Angel: Hagar Shipley
Number of words: 971 - Number of pages: 4.... father made aware that she
had "backbone" (p.10) and that "she took after him" (p.10). The first sigh
of Hagar's excessive pride was shown when her father scolded her for
telling a customer that there were bugs in the barrel of raisins. She
refused to cry before and after the punishment: "I wouldn't let him see me
cry, I was so enraged" (p.9). She continued to build a wall around herself
to hide her emotions. Her pride interfered with many relationships in her
life. When her brother Dan was dying, her other brother Matt asked her to
put on her mother's sha .....
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Brandy's "I Want A Wife": An Analysis
Number of words: 415 - Number of pages: 2.... they're feeling down by bringing them to the park, playing games with
them or just reading them a book to them every night. Furthermore,
schooling is another big responsibility that a mother has to take seriously.
Mothers have to make sure that their children are prepared for school, by
registering them. In many other cases mothers have to sacrifice time in
order to attend PTA meetings. So they know what's happening with their
child's education.
The final role a mother has to play is making room for the husband's
sexual needs. She has to mak .....
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Pride And Prejudice
Number of words: 982 - Number of pages: 4.... depicted as a major characteristic flaw)
I believe that it was not to be the object of Jane Austen's sharper
criticism.
Jane Austen has depicted pride in her minor (functional) characters
as a means of demonstrating it's importance as a theme of this novel. Lady
Catherine is one of the main offenders, her airs, arrogance and pride are
fuelled by other characters like Mr Collins who is put there to satire
proud people and their followers. Another important character to note is
Mr Darcy. He is an extremely important character in this novel, a major
character, a .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of words: 1072 - Number of pages: 4.... that Paul had comforted
earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's
company were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared
and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's unit, who were then only
mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were
killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very
distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing
that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent
a little while at a mi .....
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