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- 3751: A Separate Peace 2
- ... was going on and the sixteen-year old boys were trying to preserve the peace in their lives, before they would be old enough to be drafted into the war-just one year later. One day Finny, the best athlete in the school, came up with the crazy idea to jump out of a tree into a river. All of the seventeen-year olds had accomplished this task because it was ... Phineas, naturally was the first sixteen-year old to conquer this feat; so Gene was the second. None of the other boys ever tried the jump. After a while the two made it an almost day-to-day activity. The two boys were a lot alike, but Gene had this underlying resentment of Finny and he felt that Finny was deliberately trying to make him do badly in school because he was ...
- 3752: Arcadia
- ... through images and completely different time periods, particularly those of the Romantic and Enlightenment era¹s. Tom Stoppard uses the theme of determinism to show how the ideas of the Romantic era and the present day have gone in a circle. And that even though we get more and more advanced everyday, Stoppard shows us that despite our constant advancement, our basic ideas have remained unchanged. In Arcadia, Tom Stoppard uses a scientific view of determinism along with a religious view on determinism in order to allow the reader to see similarities in ideas between the Romantic era and the present day. Religious determinism in Arcadia is shown to have to do with God/fate, predestination, and the future whereas the scientific view has to do with Newton, and with biological determinism. Although both stories do use both aspects of determinism, it is usually the story from 1809 using the scientific determinism whereas in the present day, they use more of the religious view of determinism. In the first story, a scientific view of determinism is shown through Septimus and Thomasina in order to introduce to the reader the basic ideas ...
- 3753: Analysis Of Exiles By Carolyn
- ... broken with a recently established tradition and on leaving school in 1927 didn't go into the sheds. She lied to me though when, at about the age of eight, I asked her what she'd done, and she said she'd worked in an office, done clerical work. Steedman then goes on to say how she had sought out and verified that this lie was true: . . .I talked to my grandmother and she, puzzled, told me ... feel the deliberate vagueness in her accounts of those years: "When did you meet daddy?"-"Oh, at a dance, at home." There were no photographs. Who came to London first? I wish now that I'd asked that question. And so Steedman goes on and on trying to reveal every possible negative thing she can dig up about her parents. She extends her father no more mercy either, as we ...
- 3754: A Farewell To Arms
- ... s bold, daring, personality and determination landed him a job as a Second Lieutenant ambulance driver of the American Red Cross during World War I. Hemingway arrived in Milan April of 1918. On his first day, he and his fellow drivers were rudely awaken to the total devastation of the war when they had to remove the parts of dead or severely injured victims of a munition factory explosion. This, as ... About two hours later Hemingway was, like Frederick Henry, transported to an emergency medical post in Milan for his leg wound. It was there that Hemingway fell in love with an American nurse from Washington, D.C. Her name was Sister Agnes Hannah von Kurowsky. She grew fond of young Hemingway, but was discouraged that she was thirty years old and he was only twenty. Nothing ever really became of their ...
- 3755: Aids- Sleep With The Angels
- ... beginning to grow edgy about AIDS. As the President s motorcade drove by downtown Houston, tension settled down. Her next conference took her to Detroit, the place of her birth. Then followed the National Quilt Day in Washington, D.C. I know that this paper seems to be rambling on about the conferences she attended, and the speeches that she gave, but honestly, this is the way the whole book was. Future speeches took ...
- 3756: Animal Farm - George Orwell
- ... long after, he dies, but the animals keep his ideas of Animalism (which is essentially Communism) alive and the pigs, who are the most clever animals on the farm, begin to plan a revolution. One day, the workers on the farm forget to feed the animals, and so some of the more powerful horses break down the door to the barn where the feed is stored, and the animals enjoy a ... order to raise money for equipment necessary for the windmill’s operation. By the time the winter comes, the windmill is half-built, and the hardest work is done. Unfortunately, the animals wake up one day to see the entire structure in ruins. Napoleon is called out, and after a careful inspection, he finds that Snowball is responsible for the destruction. The animals, intent on making their work easier, begin to ... a case of whiskey. Clover, one of the horses, goes to the barn to see what the commandment regarding alcohol reads, and finds that it says “No animal shall drink alcohol in excess.” The next day, while the animals are working, Clover comes rushing into the fields telling the other animals to follow her. When they do, they see Squealer walking on his hind legs. Then, the door to the ...
- 3757: Arcadia
- ... through images and completely different time periods, particularly those of the Romantic and Enlightenment era¹s. Tom Stoppard uses the theme of determinism to show how the ideas of the Romantic era and the present day have gone in a circle. And that even though we get more and more advanced everyday, Stoppard shows us that despite our constant advancement, our basic ideas have remained unchanged. In Arcadia, Tom Stoppard uses a scientific view of determinism along with a religious view on determinism in order to allow the reader to see similarities in ideas between the Romantic era and the present day. Religious determinism in Arcadia is shown to have to do with God/fate, predestination, and the future whereas the scientific view has to do with Newton, and with biological determinism. Although both stories do use both aspects of determinism, it is usually the story from 1809 using the scientific determinism whereas in the present day, they use more of the religious view of determinism. In the first story, a scientific view of determinism is shown through Septimus and Thomasina in order to introduce to the reader the basic ideas ...
- 3758: And Then There Were None
- ... out to dine; One chocked his self and then there were nine. Nine Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself then there were eight. Eight Indian boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven Indian boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves then there were six. Six Indian boys playing with a hive; A bumble-bee stung one then there ... himself and then there were none. I really enjoyed this book and thought it to be entertaining. It was a hard book to put down and I read about half of the book in one day because it was so interesting. And since it is a mystery I thought I knew exactly what was going to happen, but it had a strange twist right towards the end. I would definitley recommend ...
- 3759: Animal Farm - George Orwell
- ... long after, he dies, but the animals keep his ideas of Animalism (which is essentially Communism) alive and the pigs, who are the most clever animals on the farm, begin to plan a revolution. One day, the workers on the farm forget to feed the animals, and so some of the more powerful horses break down the door to the barn where the feed is stored, and the animals enjoy a ... order to raise money for equipment necessary for the windmill s operation. By the time the winter comes, the windmill is half-built, and the hardest work is done. Unfortunately, the animals wake up one day to see the entire structure in ruins. Napoleon is called out, and after a careful inspection, he finds that Snowball is responsible for the destruction. The animals, intent on making their work easier, begin to ... a case of whiskey. Clover, one of the horses, goes to the barn to see what the commandment regarding alcohol reads, and finds that it says No animal shall drink alcohol in excess. The next day, while the animals are working, Clover comes rushing into the fields telling the other animals to follow her. When they do, they see Squealer walking on his hind legs. Then, the door to the ...
- 3760: 1984
- ... a two-way television screen that can be turned down, but never off. A new language is also being introduced to retard thought: Newspeak. This new English dialect uses shortened and compacted forms of modern day words that subconsciously facilitate the assimilation of misinformation through the omission of instances such as “science”, “freedom”, and “religion.” This, obviously, is a very bleak existence, and Winston, the oddball out, realizes it. Two characters ... learns the answers to the questions for which he has been searching. It seems as if happiness actually could exist in this world. But no, this is not to be. While visiting his lover one day, they are ambushed by a group of assault troopers. When they arrive in jail, they are separated and the story shifts back to Winston. It seems that the turn of events in his life as ... Eurasia. The story ends with Winston released, in a bar, drinking his money away, and completely broken. This is really no surprise to him, for he expected it and knew he had condemned himself the day he first began having his doubts. The central theme of the book is a warning of what could be the future. Just as much as Brave New World warns of a bland, pathetic future, ...
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