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- 15381: The Hobbit
- ... escaped from the goblins. He later joins them in the Battle of the Five Armies to help defeat the goblins and and the wargs. Bard- He is the man who slays Smaug and becomes the new master of the town where the men dwell on Long Lake. antagonists: the trolls (Bert, Tom, Bill)- they capture the dwarves and Bilbo with the intention of eating them. They are saved when Gandalf creates ... Bilbo to undertake a journey with them knowing that Bilbo will be of much use to them later on in their travels. Turning Point: After Bilbo escaped from Gollum and the Goblins, the dwarves had new found respect in Bilbo. They began to listen to his suggestions and follow his actions. Their respect in him helped Bilbo find worth in himself. Climax: The climax of the novel comes at the Battle ...
- 15382: Antonin Scalia
- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was born on March 11, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey to a Sicilian immigrant father and an Italian-American mother and was raised in Queens. He attended Catholic schools in New York City as a child and teen. Scalia then attended Georgetown University, spending his junior year at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, and graduated at the top of his class with an A.B ...
- 15383: An Analysis of the Novel Candide by Voltaire
- ... bad experience after the next. One day Candide meets a woman who takes care of him and this is none other 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 ... extremely influenced by his frame of reference and mindset. He finds room to include almost all of his political views. He takes Candide on a journey through all of the wrongs he beleives in the world in order to prove that it was not the best of all possible worlds. He shows us the inhumanities of man through war and social interaction. He basically paints an exaggerated picture of the wrongs ...
- 15384: Marijuana: The Untold Story
- ... due to some of its medical and chemical properties, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Marijuana Traffic Act, outlawing the possession and sale of marijuana. Since then the majority of countries around the world have created similar laws. Why would the world shun such a fruitful plant? Its is quite a miraculous plant, able to be manufactured into food, clothing, and more, however marijuana also has medical properties as well as a mind altering chemical called tetrahydrocannabinol ...
- 15385: Pride And Prejudice
- ... Believe me, my dear Miss Elizabeth' to 'not fail of being acceptable'. Discuss the passage in detail, commenting on its comic aspects, and what the chapter reveals about the characters and the social environment or world of the novel. At first glance Chapter 19 is just another cog in the story of Pride and Prejudice, but upon closer inspection it reveals a great many details. Obviously the comical aspects of Mr ... proposal as to how "elegant young females" act and gives a good many reasons as to why he is not worried about Elizabeth's rejection of him. Mr Collins is a reflection of the social world of the novel; he prostrates himself before Lady Catherine as he feels is proper to someone of her station. All of his views and opinions seem to be those that society has stamped upon him ...
- 15386: The Lord of the Flies
- ... This brought about many confrontations that further increased the animosity between them. Jack stood up as he said this, the bloodied knife in his hand. The two boys faced each other. There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense. - pg. 71. There was was also the conflict between the boys and the actual island. The boys were flung into a place which was a mystery to them and through ...
- 15387: A Case Study In Diversity Indi
- A Case Study in Diversity: India and Romania The WWW of most URLs (Uniform/Universal Resource Locators) literally translated, means the WORLD WIDE WEB. As such, one would think that it would be easy to find information and sites from virtually any point in the world. To some extent, this is the case -- but it can be very difficult. As a large part of our assignment was the comparison of the SAWNET (South Asian Women's NETwork) website, with another site ...
- 15388: Henry IV: Appearance vs. Reality
- ... comment Shakespeare is trying to impress on Prince Hal that in the eye of the public Alike a comet I [he] was wondered at " (3.2.47). King Henry had to keep himself Afresh and new, my presence like a robe pontifical @ (3.2.55-56), while in public. In contrast Shakespeare uses the image of a A cuckoo in June @ to show that Prince Hal is Aheard, not regarded, seen ... and asks the question of whether honour is truly what we say it is. Works Cited Shakespeare, William. 1Henry IV. In The Norten Anthology of English Literature. Eds. M.H. Abrams et all. 5th Ed. New York: Norton, 1987. Pg. 505-574
- 15389: Pygmalion 2
- ... that Higgins has treated others better than Eliza. At the parties, for example, Higgins is a gentleman to the hosts and other guest, but still treats Eliza as an experiment." Higgins could never see the "new" Eliza. Higgins only saw the dirty flower girl that had become his "experiment." Much like an author never sees a work as finished, Higgins could not view Eliza lady or duchess. Since Higgins knew where Eliza came from it was difficult for him to make her parts fit together as a masterpiece that he respected. Part of Higgins' problem in recognizing the "new" Eliza is his immaturity. He does not see her as what she is, he only sees her as what she was. This immaturity is representative of Higgins' childish tendencies that the reader can see throughout ...
- 15390: Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Review
- ... values, and Stephen decides to abandon his religion. He vows to change his life for the better, and begins studying at a university. Here, his artistic nature surfaces, and Stephen embraces it. He explains his new theories to all who will listen, and decides to move away from Ireland and his repressed beliefs, and to a new life of freedom. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a literary work that has many distinct aspects involved in it. The stylistic method of writing that Joyce uses is perhaps the ...
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