The Chosen By Chaim Potok
.... from not being able to have a civil conversation with Danny to becoming his best friend with whom he spens all of his free time, studies Talmud and goes to college. Reuven truly grows because he leans, as his father says, what it is to be a friend. Another way that Reuven grows is that he learns to appreciate different people and their ideas. He starts out hating Hasidim because it’s the “pious” thing to do, even though his father (who I see as the Atticus Finch of this novel) keeps telling him that it’s .....
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Candide: Voltaire's View Of Human Condition
.... process of philosophical events.
Candide is heavily depended upon exaggeration; but it also introduces the contrasting device of understatement whereby something is declared by stating the negative of its opposite. In relation to it is euphemism, which it is used ironically with fine comic effect to advance the satire of injustice, crime, and folly. Caricature and parody, ways in which the author exaggerated details of one sort or another for the same purpose, are noticed evidently in the story. For .....
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Book Report, Reinventing Government
.... up much of the corruption, but, “like a howitzer brought out to shoot ants, it left us with other problems.” The new problems grew out of the focus on internal processes and not, necessarily, effective outputs. The slower pace of society, technologies, and information availability allowed bureaucracies to be basically successful as it was still be able to handle the fundamental problems and services that the public wanted addressed.
Osborne and Gaebler point out a variety of reasons that government can .....
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Stylistic Analysis Of The Opening Page Of Dracula (Children’s Version)
.... a series of two-page spreads. This breaks the story into smaller sections which are easier to absorb than a continuous piece of writing, particularly for a child. Each spread is laid out with the text in the middle of the spread, surrounded by colourful pictures relating to the writing, small quotes and sidebars containing factual information, again relating to points in the writing.
Along the top of the opening spread is a landscape picture of a rustic village, probably Bistritz, which is mentioned in t .....
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Twelve Angry Men
.... order in the room. His leadership skills also shine in the jury room as well. He controls and leads every discussion, speaking order, voting, and demonstration. Vance takes on the leading role and handles it well. He also brings organization into the jury room by organizing the juries, the discussions, and the votes. With the excellent traits that Vance brings into the jury room, he allows the trial to run smoothly and effectively.
Dorian Harwood’s profession as nurse also shapes his actions in t .....
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Great Expectations: Life Story Of Phillip Gargery
.... hello to them, I was confronted by a very scary man. A man who would soon change my life forever. He was a scary looking kind of guy, and he was very demanding. He ordered me around to get him things. And from the chains on his feet, I could tell he was a convict. I did what he said anyway, because I was afraid he would kill me, or hurt me very badly. So I got him what he needed. The next night, the town soldiers came to my house, and asked Joe to fix the handcuffs for them, because they found the .....
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“The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall” By Katherine Anne Porter
.... out with Granny Weatherall lying in bed with Doctor Harry examining her. The movie, on the other hand, starts out with her wanting to make a white cake.
However, even though the movie and the story differ to a certain extent, they both have the two jiltings that happen to Granny Weatherall. The first one happens when Granny Weatherall is on her deathbed surrounded by her children, the doctor and priest. When a memory of 60 years ago, the day she was jilted by her husband-to-be, could no longer be .....
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The Cask Of Amontillado: A Vengeful Setting
.... there is an insecurity about the character and that he feels as though there is nothing note worthy or significant about him. This extreme amount of resentment and insecurity only highlights all the vengefulness that is built up inside of Montresor and gives the prediction of a conflict between the two.
The setting of the event as it unfolds begins at a jovial party with costumes and such. Poe establishes a rather happy and cheerful mood to surround the situation at hand in order to establish Fortuna .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: The Destructiveness Of War
.... Berger received a wound to the pelvis. Last of all, Katczinsky with a splinter in the head. Here is Paul’s description of one of the few horrifying sights he saw with his young eyes: “Beside me a lance-corporal has his head torn off. He runs a few steps more while the blood spouts from his neck like a fountain” (pg.115). Another incredible moment is stated on page 117, it says, “I fall into an open belly on which lies a clean, new officer’s cap.” These physical and emotional terrors cannot be healed c .....
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"A Wrinkle In Time"
.... be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract?' Meg's father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart- stopping journey through space" (L'Engle 215)?
The story begins with the unsolved disappearance of Mr. Murray in the midst of one of his scientific exp .....
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Passionate Storms
.... rode up seeking shelter from the storm. “May I come and wait on your gallery till the storm is over, Calixta?” he asked. Although Alcee wished to remain on the gallery, Calixta insisted that he come inside and stay until the storm passed. Although it was dark outside, inside Alcee admired the fact that “she was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon.” Calixta realized that “her firm, elastic flesh that was knowing for the first time it’s birthright, was like .....
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Huckleberry Finn And Tom Sawyer
.... Do you want to go to doing things different than what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?" (12). Since all the boys want to follow Tom, they keep in the part about ransoming even though they do not know exactly what it is. This brings out Tom's character as a boy that follows the rules very clearly and tries to be like society.
Also, when he tells Huck about the Arabs with all the jewels, elephants, and camels that they are going to go attack and they end up in a Sunday school picnic, Tom t .....
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The Truth May Be Hidden In Reality, But Expressed In Fiction
.... or characters. This is extremely true in Great Expectations. The main character in the novel, Pip, portrays a life that is similar to the life of Charles Dickens, his creator. It is evident that Charles Dickens drew on personal experiences in Great Expectations.
Pip and Dickens have numerous similarities beginning in their childhood and ending in their adulthood. Both appear to be unloved by their mothers. Both of their mothers died when they were young. Their fathers did not help the situation .....
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Death Of A Salesman
.... obvious flaw in society is greed, the desire to get ahead of
the next guy. This malady is present on a national level. It is the
philosophy of business and comprises the dreams of man. Sometimes, this
can drive man to great things, sometimes it can drive a man to ruin.
Willy was driven to the latter. (Not his own greed for he was a simple
man with simple dreams, but by the greed of others.) The developers who
took away the sun and gave birth to shadows, his boss who reduced him to
commission and his .....
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"The Doll's House" Essay
.... proportions of the doll's house and perfection with the lamp in its
simplicity. As others take interests in the gaudy nature of the house,
Kezia rebels: "But the lamp was perfect. It seemed to smile at Kezia, to
say `I live here.' The lamp was so real."
Conflict intensifies as Kezia remains the odd ball. The appreciation of
the lamp is a metaphor for the actions to come. Kezia likes the lamp
because she does not know any better. Thus, she decides to befriend the
Kelveys because she doesn't see any .....
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