Book Report On "The Lost World"
.... island survived so it took him a long time to find one of the old
employees of InGen and get him to tell him about and the location of the island.
With his information Levine made a team of five people to take to the island
himself, Ian Malcolm Sarah Harding, Jack Thorne, and Eddie Carr, the top
employee of Thorne. They were going to leave in two weeks when Thorne finds out
that Levine has left for the island early wanting to be the first one to “
officially” find it. He and the small crew of .....
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Brave New World: Comparing Life In The World State With Life In The US Today
.... as true love for one person
would lead to a passion for that person and the establishment of family life,
both of which would interfere with the community and its stability. Nobody is
allowed to become pregnant because nobody is born, everyone is a "test-tube"
baby. Many females are born sterile.
The ideas and ways of obtaining happiness are not too much different in
the brave new world than in our lives here in the United States. The only
difference is that these pleasures are looked at in dif .....
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Brian's Search For The Meaning Of Life In W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen The Wind
.... asks his father how rabbits are born. With this new found knowledge,
Brian also sees another newborn. But this time it was a two-headed calf, who
dies at birth. Because of this, Brian comes to the realization that "God isn't
very considerate"(166), for sometimes he lets things like the two headed cow
come into this world, only to suffer and then die.
The Second instance in which Brian is confronted with the meaning of
life, comes to him when he sees death, and asks himself why. When Brian's
pigeon .....
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Of Mice And Men: Burdens Of Responsibility
.... anyone
who shows them sincere attention. An example of this is when Lennie has a
conversation with Crooks and he expresses his feelings of loneliness. Another
example is when Carlson shoots Candy's dog. Candy becomes very eager to attach
himself to George and lennie and purchase a house with them as a result of the
loss of his only real love in his life.
The responsibilities of aspiration and hope play a major role in the structure
of George, Lennie and Curley's wife's character. To an extent their aspi .....
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Machiavelli's "The Prince": By Any Means Necessary
.... to hear an idea
that may not be popular. Having been asked forgiveness for the pride of the
author, the reader drops barriers that he may have against arguments driven by
ego and opens his mind to Machiavelli on a personal, sincere level. By placing
himself at the feet of the reader, Machiavelli puts himself and his argument in
a position of power. He wastes no time in using this power to gain more control
over the reader. In the next sentence he states that his intention is to create
an outline for be .....
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An Analysis Of The Novel Candide By Voltaire
.... than Cunegonde. They amuse each other with stories of misfortune and
travel around the world. At every place Candide goes something unthinkable
seems to happen to him. Candide meets several people along the way who all
have their own interesting story of misfortune and the inhumanities of mankind.
Candide ends up on a small farm, married to Cunegonde and living with two
philosophers. He argues with others at the end of the book if this really is
the best of all possible worlds and they conclude th .....
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Summary Of The Canterbury Tales
.... genius of Chaucer's work, however, lies in the dramatic interaction
between the tales and the framing story. After the Knight's courtly and
philosophical romance about noble love, the Miller interrupts with a
deliciously bawdy story of seduction aimed at the Reeve (an officer or steward
of a manor); the Reeve takes revenge with a tale about the seduction of a
miller's wife and daughter. Thus, the tales develop the personalities, quarrels,
and diverse opinions of their tellers.
After the Knigh .....
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Wright's "Native Son": Capitalist Or Communism?
.... black rat squealed and leaped at Bigger's
trouser-leg and snagged it in his teeth, hanging on." This showed how broke they
were by showing that there were giant rats living with them and how it had no
fear of them .
Richard Wright did not just not just want to show the con sides to
Capitalism, he also wanted to prove the Capitalism has its good sides to it also.
For instance, Richard Wright purposely placed the Daltons in a spectacular
house and made them very rich and famous . Another trademark of Cap .....
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The Awakening: Casting Shadows
.... children. There were no other options within the
restrictive boundaries of marriage, and divorce was never an alternative.
Women's lives were austere and self enrichment or self gratification were often
times cast aside relative to the more mundane tasks of daily life. Most women
accepted this but Edna did not. She figured that life was more than constantly
doing for someone else. She wanted time for herself in order to figure out who
she was. Some may see this as selfish but everyone is entitled to .....
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An Analysis Of Catch 22 By Joseph Heller
.... the full craziness of
what everyone is living for: wealth, false happiness, society's approval, etc.
He is one of the few who tries to fight the power and elitism that have become
so sought after in America. Throughout the novel, he tries to find a way to live
a fuller life as a real human individual. He looks to many of the other
characters in the book for help but only finds unsatisfactory answers.
Each of the characters in Yossarian's life at the base shows the reader
one more example of how b .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Connection To The Title
.... "If a body catch a body coming through the
rye," (Page 115). It is difficult to understand why Holden is made happy by the
little boy's singing unless one has an idea of what the song means to Holden.
The little boy is described by Holden in gentle caring terms: "The kid was
swell. He was walking in the street, instead of on the sidewalk, but right next
to the curb. He was making out like he was walking a very straight line, the
way kids do, and the whole time he kept singing and humming." (Page 115). .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
.... Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer and Holden talk about
his direction in life: “‘Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future,
boy?' ‘Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure, I do.' I
thought about it for a minute. ‘But not too much, I guess,'” (14). After
leaving Pencey, he checks into a hotel where he invites a prostitute up to his
room. He gets cold feet and decides not to have intercourse with her, though.
Later, Holden decides to take his old girlfriend, Sally Hayes, to the th .....
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Catcher In The Rye: How Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, And Violence
.... Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse
is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among
high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week,
75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year.
In the novel, Holden Caulfield has very easy access to alcoholic
beverages. Throughout the novel, it seems that every time Holden gets depressed,
he turns towards alcohol. in Chapter 12, Holden is at Ernie's night club .....
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Summary Of "Ceremony"
.... on
the Japanese soldiers. Tayo could not see the reason for killing the Japanese,
and then when the soldier killed Rocky, it made his path split like a silk
string to a spider's web, it went out in all directions. His mind snapped at
that exact moment and went into "shell-shock".
Tayo started very early trying to find his path, but yet his path
paralleled Rocky's until the time when Rocky died. Tayo's path paralleled but
was always a step behind, because he was trying to retain his heritage and still .....
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Fahrenheit 451: Change
.... and titillation from burning books and destroying
lifetimes of important ideas. When outside influences put confusion in him, he
begins a series of changes, eventually becoming a revolutionary in a society
where books are valued.
Many factors contribute to the changes found in Montag. One of the first
influences during the story is the exquisitely observant Clarisse McClellan. She
is different from all of the others in society who like to head for a Fun Park
to bully people around," or "break windowpanes .....
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