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Term Papers on English
Animals Are Good Metaphors In
Number of words: 1536 - Number of pages: 6.... represent people and therefore function as good metaphors. Mr. Jones symbolizes (in addition to the evils of capitalism) Czar Nicholas II, the leader of Russia before Stalin (Napoleon). Jones represents the old government, the last of the Czars. Orwell writes that "On a Midsummer's eve, which was Saturday, Mr. Jones went into Willingdon and got so drunk at the Red Lion that he did not come back till midday on Sunday. The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then gone out rabbitting, without bothering to feed the animals. When Mr. Jones got back h .....
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Welcome To The Monkey House
Number of words: 3085 - Number of pages: 12.... should not keep anyone from seeing literature, even if it is considered slightly explicit in a sexual, racial, or violent manner. Censorship should leave the ideas of people alone and leave them with their first amendment rights. Amendment one of the United States Bill of Rights reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble…". What this means is that we, in America have the right .....
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Brutus 2
Number of words: 385 - Number of pages: 2.... fore, it can be said that Brutus committed the worst crime of all. When Brutus hacked at his friend, making him a former friend, he betrayed Caesar for the first time. The way he further betrayed Caesar was by saying he was a bad person who would have gone on to destroy Rome. Other conspirators: Cassius, Casca, and Decius also betrayed Caesar.
The reason that Caesar died is not complex, but simply mistrust. The conspirators did not trust Caesar. They were sure he would destroy Rome by becoming a tyrant. Later Cassius and Brutus’s mistrust of each othe .....
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Witches, Werewolves, And Vampires
Number of words: 360 - Number of pages: 2.... little children in France. Many stories began of werewolves by making little children believe that evil was something that could be prevented by your own actions. From such a vivid and evil picture that people have created of such creatures, people have come to fear and believe other fictional stories about werewolves.
Vampires are living people who have powers to change into a non-corporal spirit. They sleep in the day and they begin their killings after dark. They take other peoples lives by sucking their blood from their neck, and this turns a human in .....
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Hamlet
Number of words: 1127 - Number of pages: 5.... confused but honestly knows the ghost is true. wants to doubt the existence of the ghost when he tells Horatio and the others, "Never make known what you have seen tonight."(Act 1, Sc. 5, ln. 160)(65) The mere fact that hesitates to reveal that he has seen the ghost at all and swears Horatio and the other sentinels to secrecy, shows his want to keep the proof of his father's death secret. When says, "If his occulted guilt/ do not itself unkennel in one speech,/ it is a damned ghost that we have seen,/ and my imaginations are as foul/ as Vulcan's stithy." (A .....
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Pornography And The New Puritans
Number of words: 772 - Number of pages: 3.... material – namely, away from the ones who are actually committing the crime. Second, it runs against the First Amendment. Finally laws on obscenity differ from state to state, and if the bill does not describe what kind of obscenity is not allowed then how are the creators of the material supposed to know weather or not its actionable? Irving’s understanding of the bill is that it makes the publishers and distributors of the obscene material think conservatively- “that is when their imaginations turn to sex and violence.”
After given the definition of the bil .....
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The Autobiographical Elements In The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
Number of words: 1630 - Number of pages: 6.... The family then moved and he
was separated from his older brother, who was left with relatives in
Baltimore. During those toddler years, Poe found his mother in the last
stages of tuberculosis. Upon her death, he was then separated from his
younger sister, Rosalie. Another major low point in his life was the death
of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan, and his foster father disowning
him, all at one time. The most significant set-back to Edgar Allan Poe was
the death of his cousin/wife Virginia Clemm. This single incident was the
cause of almost all of .....
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One More River
Number of words: 648 - Number of pages: 3.... River. All the Jews are not supposed to hate Arabs, but Lesley however comes in contact with Mustapha by the river and talks to him as a person not as an enemy. Mustapha made Lesley a more understanding person towards different kinds of people. The character I would most admire is Lesley for her ability to adapt to a new home, country and way of life.
Throughout the book there were many turning points. The war made Lesley really feel a part of Israel and the people. Another turning point was when Lesley was allowed to join the p’oola because she was fi .....
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