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- 13311: The City Of The Sun
- ... given an equal opportunity to pursue a lifestyle that is desirable to them; they are not born into misfortune. Moreover, the Solarians are encouraged to realize their full potential and enhance their skills. In present day societies, minorities and females are discouraged from reaching their ultimate goals in life. Since Campanella is aware of the social structure that exists outside of his utopian city, he presents two reasons why rulers are ...
- 13312: Bubonic Plague 2
- ... it had made its way to the lower Volga River. By early 1347 it was in Constantinople. It hit Alexandria in the autumn of that year, and by spring 1348, a thousand people a day were dying there. In Cairo, Egypt, the count was seven times that. The disease traveled by ship as readily as by land and it was no sooner in the eastern Mediterranean than it was in ...
- 13313: The Ingenu
- ... why they don't live up to what the Bible says. He is ready to be castrated, because everyone in the Bible is, but they tell him that it is no longer done. When the day finally comes for him to be baptized, he is nowhere to be found. When they were about to give up looking for him, they find him standing naked in a cold river waiting to be ...
- 13314: The Lord Of The FLies
- ... biguns are groups of boys known only by their size. Some boys lose their names. One even forgets his by the end of the story. Ralph spends hours in the warm waters of the lagoon. Day-dreaming. He believes that his father will rescue them. Thinking that your father will come to save you is like believing in a magical wizard or a god. This is part of Ralph's innoncence ...
- 13315: The Old Man In TheSea
- ... In The Sea The "Old Man and the Sea" is a heroic tale of man's strength pitted against forces he cannot control. It is a story about an old Cuban fisherman and his three-day battle with a giant Marlin. Through the use of three prominent themes; friendship, bravery, and Christianity; the "Old Man and the Sea" strives to teach important life lessons to the reader while also epitomizing Santiago ...
- 13316: The Role Of Women In The Heart
- ... also conveys that it is the responsibility of men to save women and preserve their naοvetι. This point of view is reflected often, and stems from his English upbringing and the British society of the day. Marlow speaks utilizing many lewd words and racial slurs. Many of the Victorian ideals still remain within English culture, and this fragility towards women is a prime example of the fragmented set of beliefs. Nevertheless ...
- 13317: The Speckled Band
- ... a speckled band on him. It was no band it was a Indian snake that the stepfather used to kill Helens sister and was going to kill Helen with it to but Holmes saved the day once again . Word Count: 323
- 13318: The Time Machine
- ... Morlocks live in desperation and must survive by cannibalism. It seems like a Capitalist system gone wrong with the upper class (Eloi) and the lower class (Morlocks). The lazy rich would play and relax all day becoming frail and helpless. Meanwhile, the poor were living underground and began to hunt the Eloi. The theory that a proletariat driven to the depths will devour the upper class is exemplified. While in search ...
- 13319: Brave New World 8
- ... of the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis. He once almost quit school because of a eye disease but Aldous went and studied at Oxford, lived mainly in Italy in the 1920's, (where he met and befriended D.H. Lawrence) and moved to California in 1937 with is wife Maria Nys. His early writing included poetry, short stories, and literary journalism, but his reputation was made with his satirical novels Crome Yellow (1921 ...
- 13320: Things Fall Apart
- ... boy, Ikemefuna, shows many similarities to Okonkwo and they become very close. He sees Okonkwo as a father figure, and even calls him father. Okonkwo even puts him before his true son, Nwoye. But one day the village elders decide that he has gotten too close and that he needs to be killed. Okonkwo eventually deals the final blow that kills Ikemefuna, to show that he is not weak. The grief ...
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