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Term Papers on English
Paradise Lost
Number of words: 689 - Number of pages: 3.... we should attack Heaven for that reason. I can surely think of some things worse. Do you think that sitting here with each other, talking to each other, and being armed is the worst thing possible? I think not. What about when we laid in the burning lake? That surely was worse. What if the air that keeps those hot fires going blew seven times as hard and covered us in flames? Or if, from above, vengeance's arm should come down upon us and plague us? What if all of the holes in Hell were opened and fire shot out of every crevasse? War, I think, is a bad i .....
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Jumping Off For Freedom
Number of words: 1249 - Number of pages: 5.... but while aborting the raft 'El Toro' (Luis' friend) with the help of Luis got on the raft as well, he was rude, he never had a smile of approbation, David and his dad had to keep up with his bad jokes, and bombastic comments, he also made inveigh comments to the Leals. David and Miguel were disappointed because he was not supposed to be on the raft, since he did not have the prerogative to be on it and they only had food and water for three persons. They were also scared of the see because they were callow, they did not know much about rafts or the ocean, bu .....
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Animal Farm
Number of words: 756 - Number of pages: 3.... of the Fourth Commandments. She asks Muriel to read the Commandments to her. It says that"No animal shall sleep in beds with sheets"(p.79). Clover does not trust her memory and believes whatever is written on that wall. Squealer is passing by when Clover and Muriel are reading the Commandments, so without losing a chance he convince them that the pigs are not breaking any rule. He mentions that the pigs are sleeping in beds but they have removed sheets(p.80). He is intelligeny enough to say that there was never a rule against beds, and that the rule was against .....
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Foreshadowing
Number of words: 583 - Number of pages: 3.... symbolizes a preparation for her coffin. When a person dies, they are usually dressed in their best outfit, just like the grandmother was dressed in what seemed to be in her Sunday best. A stronger foreshadowing is when O’Connor states the reason for the grandmother’s beautiful dress, "In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady." (11). She herself predicts her own death. Unfortunately, she does not know this yet. Not only does O’Connor foreshadow the grandmother’s death, she foreshadows the deaths of th .....
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Fate, Mayor Of Casterbridge
Number of words: 990 - Number of pages: 4.... however, marries Farfrae. She does this because he is good looking, better off than Henchard, and totally infatuated with her. This course was the best for her at the moment. She knew of Henchard's past, she had experienced his temper, and was afraid he would ruin her. Lucetta also puts a great deal of emphasis on looks.
Earlier in the story, she had fallen in love with Henchard. After he left Jersey, Lucetta wrote Henchard love letters. These letters would become her down fall. She died of shock (or possibly miscarriage) after the skimmity ride. The onl .....
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The Story Of The Flood, How Ut
Number of words: 780 - Number of pages: 3.... to achieve immortal life. The first god (Shamash) who he bumps into and he tells him, that he will not find the life for which you are searching for." (34) After Shamash confronts him, Gilgamesh then runs into the god Siduri. Siduri basically tells him the same answer, saying, "You will never find the life for which you are looking for. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping." (35) Gilgamesh still in a conquest to achieve everlasting life, does not believe any of the previous gods, and still wants to se .....
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Odysseus Is Not A Hero
Number of words: 800 - Number of pages: 3.... He also
neglected to take the advice from his crew member, Eurylochus. Eurylochus told
Odysseus not to send men to see what was on Circe's island and because he sent
them anyway, they ended up being turned into pigs. Odysseus also neglects other
people's lives when he takes action; such as when he tried to fight Scylla after
strictly being told not to. Because of this ignorant action, he lost three more
men on top of the other six. He also sacrificed men when he waited at the
Cyclops' home for "gifts." Odysseus was very self-centered where real heroes
are .....
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Only The Heart 2
Number of words: 276 - Number of pages: 2.... about the events which unfold later in the story. She predicts that "evil" or bad things will happen in order to restore the balance of Yin and Yang.
Since coming to Australia the Vo family has been very fortunate. As well as getting away from their communist county to a free one, Toan experiences success in school and later on as an actor. Vo Kin Tueyt believes that in order to restore the balance of good and evil something bad will happen, "good and evil, light and dark".
Near the end of the novel something bad does happen, Linh and Miro are involved in a car accident while being chased by gang me .....
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