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Term Papers on English
The Hobbit
Number of words: 1530 - Number of pages: 6.... later considered him a hero. What the people didn't know it was Bilbo who discovered the weak spot in the dragon's iron scales.
BEORN: An enemy of orcs, he becomes friends with Bilbo and Gandalf. He has th e ability to change forms from human to bear. It is he who determines the outco me of the battle of five Armies.
STORY SUMMARY
The book begins with Bilbo Baggins enjoying a pipe after breakfast. Th is is one of his favorite pleasures and he feels quite content in doing so. He is middle-aged, and resides in a clean warm burrow in the ground. One morning .....
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The Censorship Of Huck Finn
Number of words: 949 - Number of pages: 4.... American treasure, and more importantly, defies First Ammendment rights. Those who find Huck
Finn distasteful and unappropriate are trying to brand this work, by censorship, and make it unjust to read. This is similar to a farmer trying to brand his mark upon a bull, with those against Huck
Finn as the farmers and Huckelberry Finn is the bull. As most know the bull never goes down without a fight and won’t allow thje farmer to branded, just as the supporters of Huckelberry Finn
will not just be taken down passively. The main reason Huckelberry Finn is bei .....
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The Fifty-First Dragon: Analysis
Number of words: 1396 - Number of pages: 6.... The slogans were trite and did not address the deep betrayal the nation felt. Broun put it aptly when he wrote of the second European War looms in Europe, and a man with a guitar steps in front of the microphone to sing Ickey-Ickey-Oo” “
In “The Fifty-First Dragon” the Headmaster, much like Wilson, came up with the idea that if you give the uneducated a slogan and some basic training the natural end product is a powerful killing machine. The protection that the magical word Rumplesnitz gave Gawaine very much paralleled the strong, forceful, and unbeatable .....
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Odyssey 2
Number of words: 1787 - Number of pages: 7.... about to leave he was told by the Water that he would not ever return home because of such a thing he did. He would be sailed out into the sea but never return home again. Odysseus was astonished by this and was angered. He screamed out for the Water and started getting more and more mad. He told his men they had to start leaving anyhow. They were sailing for five years when they came on to an island that they thought they might be able to find food there. They found this humongous cave with this humongous bed and humongous pieces of cheese. They all start .....
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Why Do People Fight Wars
Number of words: 399 - Number of pages: 2.... and millions of people to suffer and even die just because we can't "discuss matters" anymore.
Sometimes i wonder is this "do or die " method going to be our only way of communication. Will we ever get to know the meaning of the word peace again or is humanity cursed to suffer forever.
All these thoughts and questions were generated by just a simple question by a little innocent soul.A soul which will have to grow up in a war field and be either an enforcer to it or a victim of it .A hard choice of either becoming heartless or lifless, and the choice is irr .....
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A Farewell To Arms
Number of words: 875 - Number of pages: 4.... in order to escape or retreat from
their lives. The ability to create characters who play
roles, he says, either to "maintain self-esteem" or to
escape, is one Hemingway exploits extraordinarily well in A
Farewell to Arms and therefore it "is his richest and most
successful handling of human beings trying to come to terms
with their vulnerability."
As far as Stubbs is concerned, Hemingway is quite blatant in
letting us know that role-playing is what is occurring. He
tells that the role-playing begins during Henry and
Catherin .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Number of words: 1095 - Number of pages: 4.... of Finn Clemens states, “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
There were many groups that Clemens contrasted in Finn. The interaction of these different social groups is what makes up the main plot of the novel. For the objective of discussion they have been broken down into five main sets of antithetic parties: people with high levels of melanin and people with low levels of melanin, rednecks and scholarly, chi .....
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Through The Tunnel
Number of words: 524 - Number of pages: 2.... on one side of the tunnel with all of his fears and beliefs of a child. However, as he improves his swimming skills, he develops the confidence to swim . He exits this tunnel with new beliefs. He is now a man.
The story uses the tunnel to represent burdens or challenges needed to achieve some goal. In the story, it was necessary to make safe passage . The young boy had to control his breathing. He had to hold his breath. He had to adjust to the water's pressure. Most of all, he had to control his fear with a sense of confidence. Without control of hi .....
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