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Term Papers on English
Frankenstein Themes Still Pres
Number of words: 607 - Number of pages: 3.... believe many people would agree that when something of this nature is done many scientists are in over their head. Frankenstein didn't know the creature would turn into this monster and kill others, nor did he know the creature would also be as kind and gentle as well. Frankenstein also didn't consider how society would accept and treat the creature. The creature was not exactly of normal standards, and when someone tries to place a being like that in a normal human environment without any guidance or teaching, then he was certain to be ostracized and punished as .....
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Catcher In The Rye Book Review
Number of words: 1246 - Number of pages: 5.... and then wrote it on the wall. I kept picturing myself catching him at it, and how I'd smash his head on the stone steps till hew as good and goddam dead and bloody." (201) His deep concern with impeccability caused him to create stereotypes of a hooligan that would try to corrupt the children of an elementary school. Holden believed that children were innocent because they viewed the world and society without any bias. When Phoebe asked him to name something that he would like to be when he grew up, the only thing he would have liked to be was a "catcher in the .....
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Learning Experiences(To Kill A
Number of words: 593 - Number of pages: 3.... novel does Scout finally learn to respect this saying. Until
then, she remains curious and confused why Boo never came out of his house. In the
meantime she goes through a series of maturing experiences. She learns how to see her
from the teachers point of view; she tries to judge the Cunninghams and the Ewells from
their side; she bears the insults of the town and particularly the apperent viciousness of
Mrs. Duboes. From all of these, she learns to look at the individuality of the others!
For Scout, courage is most often something with physical a .....
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The Catcher And The Rye
Number of words: 385 - Number of pages: 2.... book.
This piece of literature is in the realistic fiction genre. It dealt with person vs. person and person vs. self. An example of a person vs. person conflict is when, Holden have deal with a man named Maurice and he was a bellboy and a pimp. When Holden ordered a prostitute he did nothing with her except talk with her. Holden paid her the money Maurice told him in the deal but she insisted that he didn't pay her enough. So the prostitute gets Maurice and he beats Holden up and takes the money he "owed" him. An example of a person vs. self conflict is, d .....
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Review Of Amistad
Number of words: 471 - Number of pages: 2.... New Haven and and Hartford, Connecticut). The Africans are charged for murder and piracy. In the beginning, they are embraced by abolitionists Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) and Lewis Tappan (Stellan Skarsgard), as well as a young, idealistic real estate/property attorney named Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey). During the proceedings this case divides a nation. Two great American figures butt heads in debate as to what the outcome should be. Pro-Slavery Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne), seeking re-election in 1840, is willing to convict the Africans to ga .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Character
Number of words: 655 - Number of pages: 3.... impression that will soon be contradicted as the novel progresses.
After a signal fire is ignited by Ralph’s orders, two young twins, Sam and Eric stand guard in maintaining the fire. While on duty, an eerie figure drifts down from the sky and lands in the forest several yards away from Sam and Eric.
“There was a sudden bright explosion and corkscrew trail across the sky...There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs. The changing winds of various altitudes took the figure where the .....
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Passing
Number of words: 1029 - Number of pages: 4.... the extent of wishing that she were dead. This jealousy is also based on social status. Irene is jealous of Clare’s ability to succeed, even though she may not know it. The root of Irene’s jealousy of Clare is in these three ideas of race, sexuality, and class, making Irene despise someone who she obviously also loves.
Irene’s desire for Clare is revealed throughout the book, especially in the beginning when she is at the Drayton Hotel. She sees “an attractive-looking young woman…with those dark, almost black, eyes and that wide mouth like a scarlet flower a .....
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Hamlet:appearence Vs Reality
Number of words: 822 - Number of pages: 3.... help to add to the theme by showing their appearance of being Hamlets friends. The pair goes to Hamlet pretending to be his friends when in truth they are only there because the king asked them to find the truth. Hamlet quickly reveals the truth and says, "Were you not sent for/ And there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft in color.” (Shakespeare 2:2:278) From these words he is demanding an answer from his schoolmates as to their unexplained arrival. At the end he tells them nothing. As the play continues his R .....
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