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- 4011: Lord of the Flies: Primal Fear
- ... Many lives could have continued without Jack's phobia of a power shift. Jack's malicious acts and fear garrote all of Ralph's plans to construct and progress on the island. Jack causes the death of Simon, the indirect death of Piggy, entertains the chance that nobody could find the children and save them, and the feasibility that the whole population of the island to become no better than the pigs that they hunted. Fear ...
- 4012: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... the great poets of the past, he was not that appreciated during his time period. The only reason that we have his work today is because his friends held on to his work after his death and decided to publish it for him in 1918. Hopkins age was defined by the change from romanticism to realism. This was a slow change but it was one that was greatly needed by Hopkins ... the great poets of the past, he was not that appreciated during his time period. The only reason that we have his work today is because his friends held on to his work after his death and decided to publish it for him in 1918. Hopkins age was defined by the change from romanticism to realism. This was a slow change but it was one that was greatly needed by Hopkins ...
- 4013: John Steinbeck's`"In Dubios Battle": Summary
- ... a once aimless man who finds himself in the course of the strike, briefly becomes its leader, and is ultimately crushed in its service. Jim Nolan's father was a working man driven to his death by blow of police clubs and pistol butts. As a youngster, Jim witnessed both his father's courage and his despair. He saw his mother loose even her religious faith as poverty and starvation overwhelmed ... refers to this them many times when he is trying to intensify the strikers. This was the main reason that Mac brought back the body of Joy to the camp, after he was shot to death. He wanted to use the body as a tool to enrage the strikers, and make them want to fight. Another example of the theme in use is when London broke Burke's jaw, and busted ...
- 4014: French Fur Trade
- ... gain control of the main fur trading traffic in North America. Samuel de Champlain reflected on the hatred brought about by arguments over territory, but also over control of the fur trade, after witnessing the death of an Iroquois prisoner of the Algonquian tribe: They were kept to be put to death by the women and girls, who in this respect are no less inhuman than the men, and, indeed, much more so; for by their sub- tlty they invent more cruel tortures, and take pleasure in ...
- 4015: Book Report on Jack London's "Call of the Wild"
- ... the men who were beating and mistreating the dogs. The descriptions were horrifying at times. It gave me a real sense of what really went on back in those times. When Buck was so near death, I felt as if I would have sacrificed anything in order to help him. There was a turning point in the novel in which Buck was so worn out that he could not get up from his lying position. Then a member of the triad that owned came over and tried to get him up with a club. He beat him until he was one more hit away from death. Thankfully; a man, John came to Buck's aid and said, "If you hit that dog one more time, I'll kill you." The two men then began to fight and Buck was left behind ...
- 4016: Hesse's Siddhartha as it Parallels Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- ... For several days he wandered in the woods with no particular destination. The narrator says, "He wished passionately for oblivion, to be at rest, to be dead." So deep were his troubles that he sought death at the banks of a river. The scene takes place with Siddhartha leaning out over the river from a coconut tree by one arm when the narrator says: With a distorted countenance he stared into ... face reflected, and spat at it; he took his arm away from the tree trunk and turned a little, so that he could fall headlong and finally go under. He bent, with closed eyes--towards death. Then from a remote part of his soul, from the past of his tired life, he heard a sound. It was one word, one syllable, which without thinking he spoke indistinctly, the ancient beginning and ...
- 4017: Summary of "A Raisin in the Sun"
- ... the house they live in dies in her sleep, but in the hapiness of knowing her family can get along by themselves. The Younger family is at first very upset and sad because of the death, but they relize that she is where she really wants to be, with her husband. Beneatha is now unsure if she should go off to college because of the death. Walter has a private talk with ehr and convinces her that it would be the best for her future, and that she would regret her decision if she didn't go. Slowly but surely the ...
- 4018: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Li
- ... domestic politics weighed heavily on him. During a vacation at Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945 he suffered a massive stroke and 2 ½ hours later without regaining consciousness. He was 63 years old. His death came on the eve of complete military victory in Europe and within months of victory over Japan in the Pacific. President Roosevelt was buried in the Rose Garden of his estate at Hyde Park, New ... important for the American people, by virtue of the opportunities that he had fabricated and gave to the nation. For example, the The New Deal of 1935 had revived thousands of American lives from starving death. President Franklin also led the U.S. through World War II and constructed the United States to become the world power enabling it to compete with other foreign powers such as the Soviet Union. Over ...
- 4019: Tale Of Two Cities
- ... same day, Charles is re-arrested on charges set forth by the Defarges and one other mystery person. The next day, at a trial that had absolutely no delay, Charles is convicted and sentenced to death. Because of the despondent situation, Dr. Manette has a relapse and cobbles shoes. Sydney Carton overhears plot to kill Lucie, her daughter, and Dr. Manette and has them immediately get ready to leave the country ... killing machine because she must get revenge. An example of this is when she finds out Charles Darnay is an Evermonde and is going to marry Lucie Manette. She knits Darnay's name into the death register. Another key theme in the novel has to do with courage and sacrifice. There were many sacrifices in this novel by many different characters. The ultimate sacrifice was made by Sydney Carton. Because of ...
- 4020: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... s father were to treat his son in an abusive manner today, he would lose custody of his child. A good example of Huck's unloving relationship was Huck's reaction to his father's death. When notified of his death he was relieved and felt safe! This detail can be used to illustrate the abuse that Huck went through in the beginning of the book, while living with his father. Because of Huck's father ...
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