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Term Papers on Book Reports
The Bogart By Susan Cooper
Number of words: 820 - Number of pages: 3.... on people. It is like a little child that can be friendly towards mortals. Boggarts cannot be seen or heard..
The Volink family sold the castle right away because it would be to expensive to keep. Emily and Jessup kept two pieces of furniture to bring home. What they didn’t realize was that a Boggart was sleeping in the desk they took home. When the Boggart got up he realized he was no longer home in Scotland in his castle.
As the Boggart got comfortable he began his practical jokes in Toronto. He would take Mr. Volinks razor and hide it. The Boggart woul .....
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A Seperate Peace
Number of words: 838 - Number of pages: 4.... with greater strength, greater understanding, maturity, and he finds the separate peace that every man longs for.
“Phineas just walked serenely on, or rather flowed on, rolling forward in his white sneakers with such unthinking unity of movement that “walk” didn’t describe it. When the novel begins, John Knowles leaves a subtle detail of Phineas’ character through his vivid descriptions of his movements. Phineas always represented an uninterrupted flow of strength and energy, like a river with nothing capable of changing its cur .....
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1984: Some Prophecies Have Come True
Number of words: 552 - Number of pages: 3.... brainwashed into buying
a certain product by advertisements on the televisions or by subliminal messages.
Winston was brainwashed into conforming to the normal society by loving Big
Brother. The brainwashing in the book might be a little exaggerated but it is
still the same concept.
Yet another example is how people are tagged with numbers. People today
are identified by a social security number same as in 1984. Many of Orwells
predictions became true but many didn't.
Despite the truths, there were many untruths prevalent in 1984. Many
concepts .....
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Fahrenheit 451 2
Number of words: 528 - Number of pages: 2.... her.
Meanwhile at the fire station, Montag is discovered hiding his books by the fire chief, Captain Beatty. "A natural error. Curiosity alone … We let the fireman keep the book twenty-four hours. If he hasn’t burned it by then we come and burn it for him." (pg. 68) Beatty lets Montag keep the book until that night when Montag will return to work. Meanwhile, Montag meets with Professor Faber, a retired English teacher after a phone call cut short. While at the meeting, Faber is extremely careful due to the fact that Montag might not be able .....
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Heart Of Darkness: Heart Of Controversy
Number of words: 483 - Number of pages: 2.... about it. By today's more sensitive standards, such deference is
more serious, but turn-of-the-century England was sure to expect far
harsher. Educated people reading Conrad's novel should understand the
differences between the past and the present, and be forgiving of his
language.
The deeper the expedition progressed into the center of the
continent, the more isolation was felt by the crew. In a sense, Central
Africa IS the antithesis of Western Europe -- it lacks not only the hectic
urban structures but also the Social Darwinist attitudes of the tim .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Mr. Dimmsdale
Number of words: 693 - Number of pages: 3.... him what his secrets were then his illness would be cured. Mr. Dimmsdale then says that he will tell no man of his sin and that Roger should not get between God and himself.
Mr. Dimmsdale is also a coward. When Pearl, Hester, and Arthur are alone together and it is time to leave, Pearl asks him, "Will you stand up on the scaffold with us tomorrow?" (134), Later, she asks, "Will you go hand and hand with us out of the forest?" (185) And he replies that only on judgement day they will go hand in hand together. He is so afraid that if anyone finds out about his s .....
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Comparison Of To Kill A Mockingbird With The Dewey Decimal System
Number of words: 611 - Number of pages: 3.... system, which is widely used in libraries still today, each book has its place making it “easy for the librarian and the user to understand” (Gale Research, 1).
Like the Dewey Decimal System Maycomb also had its classification system. In the book, Jem confused the Dewey Decimal System with John Dewey’s philosophy of education. This is clear when Scout says, “What Jem called the Dewey Decimal System was school wide by the end of my first year, so I had no chance to compare it to any other teaching technique, I could only look around me” (Lee 37). Dewey’s educatio .....
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The Crystal Cave: Merlin
Number of words: 717 - Number of pages: 3.... Tremorinus gives Merlin is the right tool to entitle Merlin to advance
intellectually.
Some mentors provide the space for knowledge to grow, but others
are more effective because they set the foundation for the knowledge to
develop. The personage who is the most efficacious and who bestows the
true idea of knowledge on Merlin is Galapas. One day Merlin travels
through the forest and stumbles on what looks like an inhabited cave. In
the cave Merlin meets Galapas for the first time. Galapas teaches Merlin
an innumerable amount of information, but he, "ha .....
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