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- 6401: C.S. Forester's Lieutenant Hornblower: Success and Failure
- ... wanted without giving anything to the Spanish. These achievements made by Hornblower is what later earned him the command of the Retribution, although his command of the Retribution did not come until later when the war started again. Hornblower had also had a few failures that hindered his successes. Among these was when Hornblower was using the red hot shot to sink enemy ships. This was both a success and failure ...
- 6402: A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes
- ... sake of being accepted by others. Real individualists are not those people with blue and green hair you see on talk shows. Those people conform to a subculture, something that was less common during World War II. The real individualists of the world are quickly disappearing, as conformity becomes more popular. I haven't met any real individualists, so I can't say whether or not Knowles exaggerates Lepillier's lack ...
- 6403: Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization
- ... him. He also brings a more personal faith with him that pagan Ireland eventually accepts. Hungry for knowledge faith and literacy essentially become one. My other favorite part was the stories of the early Irish war heroes that became possessed by warp-spasm, particularly Cuchulainn. Cahill uses exerpts form The Tain to illustrate how they lived in fear of their mythological creatures, lived in fear of dying, and used alcohol, particularly ...
- 6404: Gulliver's Travels
- ... he luckily did not object to. Then, once they had developed a somewhat symbiotic realationship with him, Gulliver was basically forced to abide to their whims and fancies, and ultimately to be their tool in war. At any time, Gulliver could have escaped their grasp, but instead, he opted to stay and observe and oblige to their customs. He was a very agreeable guest. He did tricks for them, he saved ...
- 6405: The Great Gatsby: Forces of Corruption
- ... Fizgarald's depiction of the corrupt American Dream. Another force of corruption responsible for Gatsby's fate is his obsession with a woman of Daisy's nature. Determined to marry her after returning from the war, he is blind to her shallow, cowardly nature. He is unable to see the corruptiion whick lies beyond her physical beauty, charming manner and playful banter. That she is incapable of leaving her brutal husband ...
- 6406: Fahrenheit 451
- ... hands. Mrs. Phelps, one of his wife's friends asked him if he was reading up on fireman theory. He was so frustrated with her because of her expression of false views that night about war, husbands and children that he finally spilled it. He wanted her to understand that books were a good thing and that they could teach you to be more objective towards society and its beliefs. "Do ...
- 6407: Lord of The Flies: The Evil & Primitivism in Man
- ... s thesis comes not from the imaginary events on the island but from the reality of the readers response to them. Our minds turn to the outrages of our century - the slaughter of the first war , the concentration camps and atom- bombs of the second - and we realize that Golding has compelled us to acknowledge that there is in each of us a hidden recess which horrifyingly declares our complicity in ...
- 6408: Dune
- ... over the spice. But on the planet of Arrakis, the local people of that world known as Fremen had had a prophecy that one day a savior would come and make peace where there was war on the planet of Arrakis. The duke's son of the House of Attreides escaped during the fight for the planet and crashed landed on the dunes where the Fremen lived. The duke's son ...
- 6409: A Review: The Day of the Jackal
- ... Jackal, written by Fredrick Forsyth, is a fictional novel that displays the author's brilliance by setting a mood and connecting you with the characters. The Day of the Jackal takes place in post World War II in France. The Jackal is a professional assassin, whose name is not revealed, who is hired by a French terrorist group to kill Charles de Gualle, the President of France. This terrorist group has ...
- 6410: Book Review: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... seems to know exactly how to handle himself in the situation. The book, so far, is believed to be set in Spain as everyone speaks in Spanish and is set around the time of World War II ('carbine': gun used about that time). The main character of the book is a man named Robert Jordan. He is the soldier or 'partizan' (Russian word for guerrilla) who is sent to take out ...
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