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- 8151: Dove
- ... courage, loneliness and love. Robin's trip ended up seeming like a love story between him and Patti, but it was much more. Robin's trip was also a fight with fear. When Robin had great waves hit the boat, water flowing inboard, and such things as when his mainsail broke, those were powerful enough to frighten even the most experienced sailor. Courage plays an essential part of the book. Had ...
- 8152: Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Carnegie was not only an outstanding industrialist, but also a great philanthropist. In the excerpt from page 105, Carnegie is stating that an end to Individualism would result in a revolution not an evolution because it is changing human nature itself, and there would be no ...
- 8153: Huck Finn: Twain's Cynic Point of View
- ... in producing this work seems clear: he wishes to bring to attention some of man's often concealed shortcomings. While the examples of Mark Twain's cynic commentaries on human nature can be found in great frequency all through the novel, several examples seem to lend themselves well to a discussion of this sarcastic view. In the beginning of the novel, it would seem that both Huck Finn and Jim are ...
- 8154: Tom Clancy: Believable Plots
- ... books like The Hunt for Red October and The Cardinal of The Kremlin mention historical facts, contain believable characters and refer to existing weapons present a very convincing plot. BIBLIOGRAPHY Binyon, Michael. Life in Russia. Great Britain: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1983. Bram, L. Leon. Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia. Funk & Wagnalls Inc., 1980, rev. 1986. Clancy, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. Clancy, Tom. The Cardinal of The ...
- 8155: A Separate Peace: The Internal Constant
- ... inside there is commonplace. In the book A Separate Peace, I believe that one of the main characters, Gene, resembles me as he grows up into this world. In A Separate Peace, Gene had a great friendship with a boy named Finny, whose friendship resembled that of my friendship with my best friend, Mason. Whenever I would go anywhere with Mason, I would not know what to expect, but one thing ...
- 8156: Comparison Between Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451
- ... s values. His marriage is not the happy kind that couples today experience but more like a coexistence. He and his wife live together and he supports her, though he apparently neither loves her a great deal or expects her to love him. This relationship and living arrangement, with its lack of love, is Bradbury's way of showing what life could be like if people not only stop communicating but ...
- 8157: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- ... if they do, they are exiled so that they cannot influence those around them. Nothing changes, including the government and the lifestyle of the inhabitants. Last and most importantly, the Bokanovsky method of reproducing causes great numbers of genetically identical human beings (up to 96 at a time from a single egg alone). As well, the same ovary can be used to produce over seventeen thousand individuals with the same basic ...
- 8158: Comparison of Lord of The Flies and All Quiet on The Western Front
- ... is suggesting that the societal taboos placed on killing are still ingrained within Jack. The next significant encounter in Jack's progression is his first killing of a pig. There is a description of a great celebration. The boys chant "Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood." It is clear from Golding's description of the revelry that followed the killing that the act of the hunt provided the ...
- 8159: Wealth
- Wealth There are differences between those who are born wealthy and those who earn money. Wealth, especially monetary wealth, means the person can meet all of their needs and wants with great luxury and still have money left to use, waste, save, or share. The people that are born wealthy don't appreciate their money as much as the people who have to earn it. Many people ...
- 8160: 1984
- ... the cell with a guard and Winston now realized he has been betrayed by him. O'Brein is a member of the Inner Party. O'Brien orders the guard to strike Winston who feels a great deal of pain on his elbow. Winston is tortured both physically and mentally for an unknown length of time. He keeps getting interrogated with beations and questions until he confesses to many crimes. O'Brien ...
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