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- 9371: Lord Of The Flies - Book Report
- ... mundane tasks of modern society. It is a struggle between Ralph and Jack, the boys and the Beast, good and evil. The story takes a look at what would happen if a group of British school boys were to become stranded on an island. At first the boys have good intentions, keep a fire going so that a passing ship can see the smoke and rescue them, however because of the ...
- 9372: Lord Of The Flies
- ... is utter chaos and disorder, but once the government steps back in, every senseless act is underlooked, and the people start over in a more civlized manor. Another scenario it may be a fight at school. The children who are very naive and primative, are fighting; but when a teacher or elder steps in, the students finally realize what they have done, and they calm down to more mature people. This ...
- 9373: Lord Of The Flies
- ... mundane tasks of modern society. It is a struggle between Ralph and Jack, the boys and the Beast, good and evil. The story takes a look at what would happen if a group of British school boys were to become stranded on an island. At first the boys have good intentions, keep a fire going so that a passing ship can see the smoke and rescue them, however because of the ...
- 9374: Little Women
- ... their father is away fighting in the war. As they grow and mature, they learn many hard lessons about life. For instance, there was the time when Amy, the youngest, suffered her first punishment in school. She carries that anger, humility, and embarrassment with her for the rest of her life. There were also more serious lessons to be learned, like when one of the sisters, Beth, dies. By the end ...
- 9375: Life Of Ma Parker
- ... s the generic British working-class female at the turn of the century cowed by drudgery and burdened by loss. Her husband, a baker, died of white lung disease, and those children who survived the high rate of infant mortality fell victim to other ills of the late-Victorian underclass: emigration, prostitution, poor health, worse luck" (Lohafer 475). At the present point in the story, Ma Parker arrives to work in ...
- 9376: Lies My Teacher Told Me - Book Report
- ... 273-276) They may be part to blame in the influence on some subjects however the textbooks on the average are not chosen by these people but by committees who are part of the countless school systems throughout this great nation. These committees who do chose which textbooks are used in their schools dont actually have the time to read the textbooks but rather they scan through them. This in ...
- 9377: Langston Hughes
- ... the moment. Often children do not consider the consequences of their actions; they act on instinct and desire. Hughes might have been 27 when he wrote this poem, but the feisty, upbeat tempo of a school boy is present in his style. ³Harlem Night Club² is unique in that it describes the integration of blacks and whites in an optimistic tone. The vigor and spirit of his youth is reflected in ...
- 9378: Jurassic Park
- ... new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way" (Crichton 159). The experts in Jurassic Park were mistaken in assuming that they could control and master life. By employing what one could call, "high technology", the over-sophisticated automation going beyond the parks needs, the experts failed. Any illusion of control was therefore lost because of the false assumptions that their "halfway technology" could successfully maintain these unpredictable ...
- 9379: Jonathon Swift
- ... that Swift is not literally ordering the poor to cannibalize. Swift acknowledges the fact of the scarcity of food and empathizes with the struggling and famished souls of Ireland through the strange essay. Being of high society Britain, which at the time mothered Ireland, Swift utilizes his work to satirically place much of the blame on England itself. Through his brilliant stating of the fact that the children cost money as ...
- 9380: January Chance
- ... that the conflicts they do have will simply go away. "With winter sounding past" might imply that they are leaving behind all past memories and bitterness they might have had. "In the warm cubicle between high seat backs that slumber, voyaging vast" means they are reclining in a chair, or maybe a passenger seat of some kind of transportation, like a train. As the train speeds on toward whatever destination they ...
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