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- 3501: The Day Of The Jackal
- ... and The Fourth Protocol. Perhaps best-known of his novels is his first, The Day of the Jackal, a work that was so overwhelming in its craft and detail that he was immediately compared to John Le Carre, the preeminent spy novelist of the day. I first saw Fred Zinneman's The Day of the Jackal many years ago, and was so spellbound that I immediately bought the book. The book ...
- 3502: The Red Badge Of Courage 2
- ... the farm with nothing to do, so he made the final decision to enlist. After enlisting he finds himself just sitting around with nothing to do. He manages to make friends with two other soldiers, John Wilson and Jim Conklin. Wilson was as exited about going to war as Henry, while Jim was confident about the success of the new regiment. Henry started to realize after a few days of marching ...
- 3503: George Berkeley: His View of God
- ... this knowledge is processed by certain innate schema in the mind. Those that belonged to the empiricist school of thought developed quite separate and distinct ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible objects. John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. The main figure who believed that material substance did not exist is George ...
- 3504: The Double Life In The Importa
- ... the hypocrisy of convention becomes a hypocrite himself by pretending to be somebody he is not in fact. In Wilde s world truth itself is of little importance. When Jack is charged with being named John, he declares:"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."(49) And he is very confused and feels uneasy when he has to tell the truth: "It is very ...
- 3505: Essay on the Intrinsic Flaws Inherent in Christianity
- ... then therefore be analysed. It is accepted by Christians that god created everything. If this is true, then this same god created evil. It is written in the Bible that god is all-knowing (1 John 3:20). God is, in effect, omniscient. If god is omniscient and creates, he then knows all possible outcomes of all possible creations of all possible universes. If he created our universe, he chose what ...
- 3506: Billy Budd
- ... had previously been among those minor ships companies of the merchant marine(14). It is here, on the Indomitable that Billy says good-bye to his rights. It is here, also, that Billy meets John Claggart, the master-at-arms. A man in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious living but born with him and innate, in short ...
- 3507: The Book of Mark: An Essay for Humanities Courses That Treat The Bible As A Historical Document
- ... in which Mark expected the parousia: "Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place." You can easily see why the other evangelists, Matthew, Luke & John, re-wrote Mark's apocalyptic writing to be more of a "Sacred Time," and less definite. Mark used a common tactic of quoting scripture (especially Dan, Isa, Mic & some Psalms) for his apocalyptic writing. We ...
- 3508: The Chrysanthemums 2
- The Chrysanthemums, by John Steinbeck, is set in the beautiful valley of Salinas, California, during a time when California was the land of plenty. A place where dust storms and drought were unheard of, where water was plentiful and ...
- 3509: Tortilla Flat Evaluation
- I have just completed the classic nove Tortilla Flat by John Stienbeck. I must admit, this book was very boring to read. It's not very long, only about 200 pages, but it seemed like much more. I wasn't too interested in this book. I ...
- 3510: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about. Mark Twain (1835 1910), U.S. author. Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes, ch. 15 (written 1905; published in Which Was the Dream? ed. by John S. Tuckey, 1967). This quote says that people will always feel superior to some one different. The reason for this is that it makes people feel important and better about themselves. Slavery derived from this ...
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