Animal Farm
.... reclaim his power but the animals prevent him from doing so in what they call "The Battle of the Cowshed". After the battle, Napoleon drives Snowball off the farm telling everyone that Snowball was on Mr. Jones' side. Napoleon is further appreciated by the other animals for exposing and removing the traitor, Snowball, from their midst. Slowly, Napoleon gets a stronger and stronger hold over the other animals, dominating their every action.
The situation at "Animal Farm", the new name for "Mano .....
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A Summary Of Romeo And Juliet
.... same. The very next day, with the help of Romeo's friend Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet are secretly married.
On the day of the wedding, two of Romeo's friends, Benvolio and Mercutio, are walking through the streets of Verona when they are confronted by Juliet's cousin, Tybalt. Tybalt is out to get Romeo for crashing the Capulet's party so he starts a fight with his friends. Romeo shows up, but does not want to fight Tybalt because he no longer holds a grudge against Juliet's family. Romeo's frien .....
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And Then There Were None 2
.... aggressive with each other. Each person, with there nerves running on high octane, all reacted in the same manner. They hated each other. "You damned pig-headed fool! I tell you it's been stolen from me!" (pg 141) "He said stiffly, ‘just as you please Miss Brent.'" (pg 134) "Lombard threw his head back. His teeth showed in what was almost a snarl." (pg 139) The next reaction after testiness was inquisitiveness. The guests all had there worries, so they started to asks questions and started to become .....
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Alienation Paper Hemmingway
.... differences. The setting was one noticeable difference. In The Sun Also Rises, the setting changed a lot. It moved from country to country, and from city to city. There were so many different places in the book that it was hard to keep track of all of them. On the other hand, The Old Man and the Sea, had only one setting. Another difference can be found in the importance of vocations and money. In The Sun Also Rises, the characters didn’t have a strong vocation. The characters had money, but the reader .....
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Anthony Burgesss View That A L
.... replies...No matter how awful Alex's actions become, he should be allowed to choose them". To be forced to do good is truly wrong. If one is forced to do right, and he does what is right, it is not out of any ethical or moral conviction. When one does what he is forced to, he is merely a programmed pawn of the state. He becomes sub-human, he is merely a robotic existence. Butwhen one has choice, he is an individual. When one who is free, chooses good, it is out of a moral conscience and good intent. He .....
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A Fantasy Story
.... live here.” I agreed with him for once in a long time, so we headed back to the starship to take off. We got back to the ship and those a couple of those creatures we had saw spotted us and came toward us pretty fast. We just went in the starship and didn’t turn back. Those creatures ignored us and just turned around and went back with there herd.
My mom and dad had saw the creatures chase us and asked what they where. My brother Jack said, “I don’t know. They looked like small nasty horses.” My m .....
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Antigone 3
.... by Ismene, express her extreme fear for and subordination to man. She admits to and accepts commiting wrong and suffering due to a woman's subordination to man.
Apparantly, Creon, king of Thebes, is abhsolutely furious with his niece for commiting siuch an unforgivable crime. He claims that Antigone is out her place to do such a thing. Not only did Antigone challenge the authority of her uncle, but also the high power of a man. When speaking to his son, Haemon, about his wife's act, Cr .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... shock. “He is in a panic; he is new to it too. But it makes me mad that the young recruits should be out there and he here.” (P 131) This quote is Paul talking about Himmelstoss.
Remarque also describes the battlefield very well also. He gives accurate descriptions of the trenches and the life in the trenches. Trenches are described to be one of the most dangerous places in the war. Trenches are so dangerous because if a bomb or poison shells are dropped in a trench there is no way out. Chances are th .....
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Animal Farm
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Old Major: Old Major is the first major character described by Orwell in Animal Farm. This "pure-bred" of pigs is the kind, grand fatherly philosopher of change an obvious metaphor for Karl Marx. Old Major proposes a solution to the animals desperate plight under the Jones "administration" when he inspires a rebellion of sorts among the animals.
Napoleon: Napoleon is Orwell's chief villain in Animal Farm. The name Napoleon is very coincidental since Napoleon, the dictator of France, was thought by .....
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Arthur Koestler Darkness At No
.... out in a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?’ – which means, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?’
(Matthew 27:45-46)
Darkness at Noon is a fictional account of the truth behind the Stalinist State at the close of the infamous Moscow Show Trials in 1938, where forty-eight of the fifty-four on the executive of the Communist Party were dead. All members of the party knew that Lenin and Trotsky had been the real leaders of the Revolution and consequently the .....
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A Farewell To Arms
.... with scrap metal. Many of the Italians in the trench were badly injured. While trying to rescue one of the victims, a machine gun shot tore through Hemingway’s leg. He fell, but he managed to get back up, and hobble with the other man to safety. The two were taken to a shed filled with dying or already dead people. About two hours later Hemingway was, like Frederick Henry, transported to an emergency medical post in Milan for his leg wound. It was there that Hemingway fell in love with an American n .....
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African-American Literature, M
.... such frequency that she did not enjoy” (61). She was torn, even at such an early age, between fitting in to her culture and limiting her actions based on her own beliefs. Having to identify with her culture and be a normal black girl led to an unexpected and altogether unwelcome pregnancy.
This pregnancy led to the first major event in Meridian’s young life, marriage. It would not have been proper for a girl to have a baby out of wedlock. Once again, she chose community over self and married Eddie .....
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A Wife For My Son
.... by revealing how Hocine, the husband felt about his life.
The author touched on many subjects in the story; the most distinct one was how the Muslim culture is patrilineal, where the men are the leading role in the society. Women don't really have much say in this society, and most choices are made for them by the men because they think that the women are not capable enough to make their own decisions. Also in this kind of society men are always superior to women and one can feel this from t .....
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Anne Stevenson
.... to the mother's
internal conflict. "Why do I have to love you?/ How have you won?"
(15-16). These unanswerable queries are some of the fundamental
questions of our human existence.
Below the topmost layer of meaning in The Victory, is an
underlying theme that any parent or guardian will easily relate to.
Children are born out of the great pain their mothers endure. They are
helpless in one sense, yet they command the care of their parents.
Stevenson describes the intrinsic .....
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A Rose For Emily 4
.... her all alone. She didn’t ever recover form this, she isolated her self in her house. The only person that saw her on a regular basis was a black man that brought her food when she needed it. The only man that her father must of approved of ran out on her. This must have been the breaking point for her. Loosing the two most important people in her life near the same time must have been unbearable for her.
After these two events have passed the community attempts to reach out to her. When h .....
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