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- 9811: Comparison of Lord of The Flies and All Quiet on The Western Front
- ... savage animal. Perhaps the bet demonstration of this given by Golding is Jack's progression to the killing of the sow. Upon first landing on the island Jack, Ralph, and Simon go to survey their new home. Along the way the boys have their first encounter with the island's pigs. They see a piglet caught in some of the plants. Quickly Jack draws his knife so as to kill the ... first things that the boys do is establish the choir as an army or a group of hunters. Another of the criticisms of orderly society comes when Ralph asks for a sign from the adult world. Ralph does receive his sign in the form of a dead parachute shot down in an air battle above the island. This can be interpreted as saying that the savagery existent in man is even shown in the so called "civilized" world through acts of war. Golding clearly sees war as an action of destruction caused by man because of his inherently feral nature. While Golding views man as a brutal creature whose vile traits are ...
- 9812: 1984
- ... diary Reaction Major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how the earth has changed, into 3 main contenients. we are also introduced to the main character and how he fits into the new world. Also we are shown how the computer age has taken over peoples minds. The language is easy to understand, it has not really changed much over time. Seems like nothing left after nuclear war, just ... sleepy any longer" 1984 -George Orwell MONDAY, NOV 22, 1993 Summary Chapter 5 and 6 The torture room is brightly lit, room 101. O'Brien says that the room contains the worst thing in the world. It turns out to be rats in a cage which can be strapped over his face. Winston yells and screems and is overcome by the horror and the terror. He screams that this punnishment ...
- 9813: Being Digital
- BEING DIGITAL is a book written by Nicholas Negroponte, a Professor or media technology at MIT.'Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc; New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Ltd; Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Alfred a. Knopf,inc;New York in 1995. Being Digital is about what life will be like in the not too distant future, life in a world in which the bit has replaced the atom as the primary commodity in all our human interactions: in how we entertain ourselves, educate our children, conduct our bu sinesses, and express ourselves. Wide ranging ...
- 9814: Hester Prynne
- ... through the author's tone and diction as a beautiful, gold and colorful piece. From the beginning, we see that Hester Prynne is a young and beautiful woman who has brought a child into the world with an unknown father. She is punished by Puritan society by wearing the scarlet letter A on the bosom of her dress and standing on the scaffold for three hours. Her hair is a glossy ... however, and Pearl goes on about her retarded ways, throwing rocks at other children that look at her the wrong way and swearing at them. It pains Hester to watch her child go about the world as if possessed by an agent of Satan, and she both loves, and in some ways, loathes the child. When Chillingworth is at the beach picking up plants for formulas to cure Dimmesdale, who is ... after the Election Day, and he books himself up to travel with them, since he is obsessed with torturing Dimmesdale. Then, the big day came, and Hester was gleaming with joy in anticipation of a new life without ridicule or guilt. After preaching a powerful sermon, the good minister was walking along with the crowd, when he felt the weight of an overbearing guilt upon his shoulders; a power that ...
- 9815: Mark Anthony's "Crypt of the Shadowking": A Fantasy
- ... known power against the Shadowking and the nightstone. As the company travels to toward the Fields of the Dead, they encounter a shadevar, a horrifying and powerful foe thought to have been banished from the world of Toril long ago. After a wild battle, and the death of the shadevar, the company thief, Ferrit, searches the corpse and finds a ring which enabled the shadervar to communicate with the frighteningly powerful ... take the nightstone for her own, and is grotesquely killed by the being. But of course the Company intervenes and uses the shadowsong to drive the Shadowking back into the crypt and they save the world. The book revolves around the main character Caledan Caldorien. The fact that Caledan cannot be around his friends from the past without rousing memories of his wife who was killed seven years before causes a ... cityfolk how much their homes meant to them and how valuable their freedom really was.” The book is fantastic and there is never a boring moment. Mark Anthony tells an epic tale of lost love, new-found love, friendship, hate, and terror in Crypt of the Shadowking. The book is easily read because the fast paced writing flows so smoothly it sets the reader onto a thrill ride. The variety ...
- 9816: Beloved
- ... no other friends in the community. Denver must make peace with what her mother did in order for her to survive, and she accomplishes this by making the ghost her playmate. In their own little world, both Denver and her mother acclimate themselves to the sin that they must live with. The appearance of Paul D throws everything into turmoil. To Sethe, Paul D is a man that knows what her ... s guilty detached conscience shows up again, but now in a human form, as Beloved. Sethe's conscience is masochistic in nature. Whenever it looks like her life may improve, her conscience just finds a new way to make her suffer for what she did. So, as life begins to get better for Sethe and Denver again because of Paul D, Beloved shows up, and when she gains some strength she ... now that Sethe was actively fighting it to make her life better. Beloved recognizes Paul D as the source of Sethe's strength, and makes Paul D even more uncomfortable than before. He uses his new knowledge of Sethe's crime as an excuse for moving out not much later. During the entire fight between Sethe and Paul D, he feels Beloved staring at him, adding to his discomfort. He ...
- 9817: Hydrogen: The Fuel of The Future
- Hydrogen: The Fuel of The Future By: Json Why are we as Americans so afraid to change? even if it is a change for the better? the world has been using oil coal and other petroleum products to power just about everything that moves for the last 150 years. yet most cars in the united states only get 10-20 miles a gallon ... hydrogen it certainly deserves recognition for working and I am sure sometime soon someone will discover a way to produce the same amount of H2 and O2 with less power and time either with a new catalyst or a more efficient power supply. One reason that hydrogen power has not taken off is that there are thousands of jobs in the petroleum and coal fields. Really who would want to own ... it would be the stock market crash all over again for us also. It will probably take a very dramatic threatening event to make us switch from fossil fuels, like running out of them. The world will eventually realize the potential of hydrogen and put it out there, but it may come very late like when gas will cost 3.95 a gallon but it will happen, it just has ...
- 9818: Analytical Essay On The Grass
- ... to stop the revival meeting. Even the road she lives on is named after her- Talbo Lane. Verena is extremely domaineering over the people that live in her house, especially her sister. " Put on that new pink dress I bought you.... and hold your head up. It makes me dizzy to watch you...... and do something with that mop of hair." Verena treats her sister like an incapable child, and makes ... a hard charger. The filmaker also uses clothes and mannerisms to highlight Dolly's character. She wears loose, flowing pink dresses and acceseries and a veil, which she uses as a barrier to the outside world, or when she has to talk to someone, as she has no confidence. She also has a breezy walk. Dolly's kitchen, pink with lots of open space, contrasts with the rest of Verena's ... own descisions. Dolly's modest rebellion unwittingly throws her into a process of self-discovery. " For the first time in my life, I'm doing exactly what I want to do. It makes the whole world look bright and beautiful." Dolly has broken free of verena, and the space that is now between then allows Dolly to change. Dooly to Verena when Verena orders Dolly home " You wanted me to ...
- 9819: Americas Fetish For Death
- ... and narcotics. Nationalism and racial superiority have existed since the diversion of races. However, never did it truly become horrific until the creation of slavery and indentured servitude. This was especially evident in the Old World Powers. Nations such as Great Britain, France, and Spain brought new meaning to the phrase "physical abuse." Spain and France, countries tied directly to the Roman Catholic Church spread the profound word of Christ along with the purification of numerous heathens. Their mission was simply to ... others, such as that at Columbine High School. Capital Punishment's effect upon society is astronomical, and will continue to consume society and history. It has and will continue to mold our society into a world that tolerates such vulgarity and views it with a cold-hearted laugh. It is no longer a stranger in our homes, but instead a neighbor that everyone welcomes with loving arms.
- 9820: Metamorphosis: Response
- ... money for them and partially because that was simply how he wanted in to be. Gregor's metamorphosis into a beetle only allowed his family and himself to consciously alienate him from society and the world. As someone said to meI can't remember who it was-it is really remarkable that when you wake up in the morning you nearly always find everything in exactly the same place as the ... truly negatively shock Gregor was that he could no longer attend to his job at the office. Gregor's family life did not change drastically. His loss of relation with his family was nothing very new, there was a lacking of personal connection with his parents for quite awhile before hand. His parents treated him as a form of hired help since he had taken the job to pay for his ... that we will rarely achieve only because we will never be satisfied with what we have in the end and force ourselves to keep going. This is the way of a vast portion of the world's population. Lack of satisfaction is what keeps us going. Should we ever achieve full satisfaction, we will have no purpose.
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