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Term Papers on English
The African Queen
Number of words: 2352 - Number of pages: 9.... been taken by the German soldiers.
Only the mission bungalow was spared. Samuel goes on praying the awful calamity of war which has descended upon the world would soon pass away, so that slaughter and destruction would cease and that when they had regained their sanity men would turn from war to universal peace. Because of this war they were cut off from all communications and the rest of the world. Samuel thinks the Germans responsible for the outbreak of the war and all the sufferings. Rose is helpless as her brother suffers a nervous breakdown. He realises .....
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The Things They Carried
Number of words: 697 - Number of pages: 3.... was a big man, carried extra rations; he really was fond of canned peaches in heavy syrup over pound cake. Dave Jenson, who practiced field hygiene, carried a toothbrush, dental floss, and several hotel-sized bars of soap he’d stolen on R&R in Sydney, Australia. Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside the village of Than Khe in mid-April. Because it was SOP, they all carried steel helemts that weighed 5 pounds including the liner and camouflage cover. They carried the standard fatigue jackets and trousers. .....
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Three Things Worth Fighting For
Number of words: 321 - Number of pages: 2.... In addition to the other two topics, my third thing to fight for
would be my freedom. My freedom is very important to me. I would fight
so I would not be under communistic rule or enslaved in any way. Also I
would fight to stay out of prison if I was falsely accused. Therefore
that is why this is the third most important thing I would fight for.
In conclusion to what I have said I feel it is wrong to take
someone's life away, harm there family, or take there freedom away. These
are all very important things in any life to fight for. They should be
importan .....
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The Ones Who Walk Away From Om
Number of words: 1046 - Number of pages: 4.... asks the readers "Now do you believe in them?"(879) Asking if the reader believes what the narrator says about the festival, city, and joy of the people of Omelas implies that the reader should have doubts. Can the narrator be trusted by a reader who is being asked to approve the details of the story? Such questions raise doubts in the reader’s mind about what the narrator is conveying.
With the help of the reader, the narrator makes Omelas appealing to everyone. "Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon .....
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Realism And Naturalism In 20th
Number of words: 2147 - Number of pages: 8.... (Elliott 502) by presenting many walks of life. They did not try to give one view of life but instead attempted to show the different classes, manners, and stratification of life in America. Realists created this picture of America by combining a wide variety of “details derived from observation and documentation” to “approach the norm of experience” (Elliot 503). Along with this technique, realists compared the “objective or absolute existence” in America to that of the “universal truths, or observed facts of life” (Harvey 12). In other words, realists objective .....
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Jurassic Park
Number of words: 408 - Number of pages: 2.... people that is a bad idea.
Dennis Nedry is the computer expert at . He deals with all the problems in the parks computer system. Nedry works in the control room with Arnold. Arnold didn’t care much for Nedry when he said "That idiot Nedry turned off the security systems"(Crichton 177). Arnold said this after Dennis Nedry had put a bug in the computer system that shut almost every thing down in . Nedry is a problem
because he has full control of the park from his desk. He being a computer expert can cause any computer system problem he wants.
Nature is .....
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Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism
Number of words: 1220 - Number of pages: 5.... and the Salamander, the title of part one, is the first example of symbolism. The title suggests two things having to do with fire, the hearth is a source of warmth and goodness, showing the positive, non-destructive side of fire. Whereas a salamander is a small lizard-like amphibian, and also in mythology, is known to endure fire without getting burnt by it. Perhaps the salamander is symbolic of Guy Montag, who is being described as a salamander because he works with fire, and endures it, but believes that he can escape the fire and survive, much like a salam .....
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Magic
Number of words: 1734 - Number of pages: 7.... right. All the references available in our school library were pretty easy to find; such as the Roget’s Thesaurus, the Unabridged Dictionary, and surprisingly the Book of Quotations and the Concordance to the Bible. On one day there, at the St. Paul library four were down and there were four to go, which wasn’t too shabby for the first day. I figured I was doing well getting half of my list taken care of before Christmas vacation, and then during vacation I would finish the job.
Well as any normal teenager would agree the plan of doing work during vacation van .....
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