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- 15391: The Most Dangerous Game
- ... of Zaroff's home until he agrees to be hunted. Unwillingly, Rainsford picks to go hunting and hopes to survive the three days. If he did live, he would be set free with money and new clothing, so Zaroff says… On the hunting trip, Rainsford successfully avoids Zaroff for three days by hiding and setting up traps, then he pretends to go to sea by freeing the boats. Finally, he sneaks ... person's mind. In conclusion, I feel that the author, Richard Conel, tried to show how people could change by experiencing different situations. Rainsford, after becoming the hunted prey himself, corrected his faults and formed new opinions about hunting and standing up for the rights of animals. Rainsford is an excellent role model for positive change!
- 15392: Water Pollution: Is it as big of a problem as we think?
- Water Pollution: Is it as big of a problem as we think? The following essay will be looking at the factors that cause pollution, and the effect that pollution has on our world today. It will also investigate what it has in store for the future if things do not improve. It will also explore some of the methods used to treat and clean-up wastewater, and oil ... treatment plant to be treated, but there is nothing wrong with it. In conclusion, From all the points I have brought up it is easy to see that the more people there are in the world the more water pollution there is going to be. That doesn't mean that we have to stop having children, what it means is that we have to start watching where we drain our polluted ...
- 15393: The Scarlet Letter: The Scaffold's Power
- ... do this, but the reverend thanks God for leading him to a place where he could escape from the leech. Helped by Hester and Pearl he climbs the scaffold and confesses. One last time a new scarlet lettter is supposedly revealed on his chest. This voluntary confession makes this time unique. As the scene ends Dimmesdale again leaves Hester and Pearl; but this time, it is forever into the after life ... and yet would not relieve his suffering through confession. The ending event signifies bravery. Even though he didn't have to confess, Dimmesdale did. The Scarlet Letter's recurring event was very potent. It gave new aspects and meanings to the story that were integral to the book's power. Truth overcomes deception.
- 15394: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
- ... too much money for Margot to leave him." Later that morning, Francis Macomber has extreme hatred towards Wilson, making his hostilities known in the tone of his voice. It is this hostility that begins the new life of Francis Macomber. Later that day, the three of them, along with the gun bearers, go hunting for buffalo, and if is this hostility that helps Francis in the hunt. As they get into ... short lived, happy life is ended tragically by an accidental shot to the head by a bullet from the rifle held by his wife. Perhaps Margot shot her husband, fearing a divorce, because of his new found bravery. Whatever the answer is, Francis Macomber had a short happy life before he died.
- 15395: A Farewell To Arms
- ... the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring. The rhythm, the repetition, have us reeling with Henry. Thus, Hemingway's prose is in fact an instrument finely tuned to reflect his characters and their world. As we read A Farewell to Arms, we must try to understand the thoughts and feelings Hemingway seeks to inspire in us by the way he uses language.
- 15396: Les Miserables: Jean Valjean
- ... Jean stole the silverware. To everyone's surprise the priest said it was a gift this started his conversion toward a good life. After this he tried to live a peaceful life. He started a new factory in a new town employing several. Then a man in a city nearby was arrested under the name Jean Valjean. Jean was faced with a tough choice. Rather than letting the other man take the wrap for him ...
- 15397: Frankenstein: The Subjectivity of the Character "Safie"
- ... religion and the culture of her nation. Contrasts can be made between the Orient and the European society which attempts to interpret it. Often, this creates stereotypes such as western feminists that have viewed "third-world" women as "ignorant, poor, uneducated, tradition-bound, religious, domesticated, family oriented, (and) victimized"(Mohanty 290). Of course, some of these things could also have said of European women of the time period, although noone would ... way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Orient's special place in European Western experience" which "has less to do with the Orient than it does with (the Western) world"(Said 303, 307). These biases, apparently inherent to many European writers, are most prominently displayed in the role of Safie's father who is depicted as traitorous and oppressive. This ethnocentrically is best shown when ...
- 15398: Jewish Art
- ... accomplish this but I thought she did a pretty good job of it. Her pieces once explained told great stories of Jewish history. One thing that I found very iteresting was her idea of adding new riuals to the jewish religion through her art. I'm glad that I have always liked art because it helped me to understand her feelings towards it. The speaker showed a lot of enthusiasm and ... them were very obscure and odd looking but each told a storyf which only she knew. At first glance they were not so great but after her explanation they became beautiful. Her idea of creating new rituals for our religion through art really striked me. I found her ideas to be very interesting because it was som I think that many times Judaism is expressed through art because there are so ...
- 15399: Mitosis In Cancerous Cells
- ... 1. Randall Oelerich. Cell Replication/Cell Division 1998-1999. December 2, 1999. 2. National Health Museum. Mitosis: Labeled Diagram . 1999. December 6, 1999. 3. The Reproduction of Cells December 7, 1999 4. Cell . Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia: Vol. 5. 1992. Publisher Funk & Wagnalls Corp. :New York
- 15400: A Doll's House: Theme of Emancipation of A Woman
- ... Torvald is no longer exposed to her manipulative nature, he realizes what true love and equality are, and that they cannot be achieved with people like Nora and himself together. If everyone in the modern world were to view males and females as completely equal, and if neither men nor women used the power that society gives them based on their sex, then, and only then, could true equality exist in our world.
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