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- 3001: The Hobbit Bb J. R. R. Tolkien – Review
- ... visions of elves feasting in the forest. To their surprize every time they announce their presence to the elves...they elves vanish! Once again Bilbo finds himself seperated from the group. He stops for a short nap and awakes to find himself tied down by a giant spider. He uses his sword to cut himself free. He then attacks the spider and kills it. Feeling proud of his deed, he decides ... his m agic ring and implements a plan to rescue his companions. It is a success and t he party (once again) gets out of an awful predicament. The celebration of escaping the spiders is short lived since the dwarf s are yet again captured...this time by the Wood Elves. Bilbo however dons his ring and escapes capture. He followed the elves to there home in the forest. There he ...
- 3002: Gimpel the Fool: Golde vs. Elka
- ... loved by Gimpel and love him back, she could have prospered. This would have made her a happier person, and in turn, made Gimpel happier. Works Cited Aleichem, Sholem. Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories. New York: Schocken Books, Inc., 1987. Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1953.
- 3003: The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
- ... This was the first step of the American Dream slipping out of his reach, and there was nothing he could do about it. His second and final chance at recapturing Daisy's heart falls just short. The main reason his second attempt falls short would have to be the theme of this book, time. Gatsby bought his house in West Egg to be across the bay from Daisy. He would go outside alot at night to look at the ...
- 3004: Biographical Influences in The Great Gatsby
- ... last winter-but it was all trash and it nearly broke my heart as well as my iron constitution." The book Fitzgerald is writing about is The Great Gatsby, and the trash is the eleven stories and articles he wrote during the winter to make a payoff all the debts he suffered due to his horrible downfall in The Vetable (Eble 86). "The Great Gatsby does not proclaim the nobility of ... through not only Nick Carraway's dedication to achieving wealth, but also in the very vivid comparisons between Daisy Buchanan and Zelda Fitzgerald, and between Jay Gatsby and Fitzgerald himself. In many of Fitzgerald's stories he uses his real life experiences, and in The Great Gatsby he chose to use some of his wife's experiences to make the character Daisy Buchanan. Zelda Fitzgerald was an enormous part of her ...
- 3005: Daddy, Vampires, Black Hearts ( an insite into a life )
- ... year, seven years if you want to know" describe her husband and the ability of male power to strip a person of their own sense of themselves. The poem is written in stanzas of five short lines. These lines remind me of a Mike Tyson jab, short but extremely powerful. An example of this "If I've killed one man I've killed two-The vampire who said he was you". The powerful imagery of these lines overpowers any of the rhyme ...
- 3006: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... snuggled up to the fireplace, for the heat of the fire dissipated after only a few feet, Tituba whiled away the cold November nights, recalling wondrous tales and reciting nonsense rhymes from her past. Her stories awed and delighted her young audience."5 Betty Parris, described by Marion L. Starkey as a "sweet, biddable little girl, ready to obey anyone who spoke with conviction, including to her misfortune, her playmate Abigail ... as her small cousin, instinctively took damnation, death, and most other unpleasant things as something scheduled to happen to someone else, particularly to people she didn't like."7 Soon after the girls began hearing stories from Tituba they began playing with white magic. That was not at all uncommon, many other girls in the neighborhood most of whom were in their teens began dabbling in magic as well. The most ...
- 3007: The Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials
- ... snuggled up to the fireplace, for the heat of the fire dissipated after only a few feet, Tituba whiled away the cold November nights, recalling wondrous tales and reciting nonsense rhymes from her past. Her stories awed and delighted her young audience."5 Betty Parris, described by Marion L. Starkey as a "sweet, biddable little girl, ready to obey anyone who spoke with conviction, including to her misfortune, her playmate Abigail ... as her small cousin, instinctively took damnation, death, and most other unpleasant things as something scheduled to happen to someone else, particularly to people she didn't like."7 Soon after the girls began hearing stories from Tituba they began playing with white magic. That was not at all uncommon, many other girls in the neighborhood most of whom were in their teens began dabbling in magic as well. The most ...
- 3008: The U.S. Entering World War II
- ... Roosevelt's master plan was very complex and involved a great deal of people. Two of the people who would be affected the most by this plan were Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Gen. William Short. The reason they would be greatly affected was because they were the scapegoats. Adm. Kimmel, the Pearl Harbor commander, was kept in the dark by his superiors in Washington. Officials in Washington left Adm. Kimmel without any knowledge of the attack until it was too late, and then they blamed Adm. Kimmel for not being ready. The futures of Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short were a small price to pay for the possibilities of what economic fortunes laid ahead of the U.S. All the planning and effort that went into this scheme, ended up allowing Roosevelt to enter ...
- 3009: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
- ... did they inform Congress or the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy. They didn't even tell then-CIA director John McCone, probably because he was appointed by President Kennedy following the Bay of Pigs disaster. In short, as Anthony Summers has observed, "in September and October 1963--a crucial moment politically--CIA officers were acting in a way that gravely endangered White House policy". A key figure linking the Agency to the ... to discuss some oil business. After he was arrested, Brading gave the Dallas police an alias, and told them he had merely gone into the building to use the phone. The police released him a short time later. Without question, a Mafia man, Jack Ruby, silenced Lee Harvey Oswald before he had a chance to tell his side of the story. Furthermore, right after the President's visit to Dallas was ...
- 3010: Assassination of JFK: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman?
- ... couldn't tell where the second shot went.". Thus, it would have been impossible for one gunman to fire a shot with the Mannlicher Carcano rifle, reload, fire again, and fire again in a very short amount of time in order to make the shots sound close together. Also, when the fatal shot hit Kennedy, his head went back and to the left, implying that the bullet came from the front ... the President. As you can see, the killing of John F. Kennedy was a conspiracy. There is no way a single gunman could have fired all the bullets that hit Kennedy and Connnally in that short period of time. Also, since Kennedy's head went back and to the left, the bullet must have been fired from the front and right of Kennedy. This shows that there was another gunman, which ...
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