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The Martian Chronicles: "Yours Will Be Mine Soon"
Words: 800 / Pages: 3 .... abilities, senses the men coming. When
the men land, they meet a martian with a gun and so ends the first
expedition. Next, another group is sent to try to gain land on Mars.
These men land and go knocking from one door to the next saying that they
were from Earth. Each martian tells them to go to another person.
Finally, the men come to a house where a man gives them a key and says
they "will be taken care of" in the next room. They enter only to find
that they are locked within an insane asylum. They are taken next to the
ship and then killed. In the third expedition, the group lands and at
first think they are on Earth but traveled ba .....
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Official Netscape Guide To Internet Research, Second Edition
Words: 975 / Pages: 4 .... Chapter 1. Here, in the first paragraph, there are two obvious typos in the text.
Chalk it up to careless copy editing--some of it possibly due to the transition between Ventana and Coriolis. Not the authors' faults, but unfortunately, it detracts from the book. I found it annoying, at any rate.
Since the original Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research had Ms. Calishain's byline, the second edition differs because it talks to readers in the "we" collective voice, instead of first-person "I". It's pretty much the same information, except rewritten. Ms. Calishain's sense of humor is fortunately preserved throughout the book.
If you enjoyed the .....
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Cold Mountain: The Civil War
Words: 1364 / Pages: 5 .... movies, and documentaries have been published on the Civil War. One of them was written by Charles Frazier called Cold Mountain. The novel focuses on the life during the Civil War.
Cold Mountain captures some of the spirit and reality of the Civil War. Many people contributed their time, effort and lives in the Civil War. The main character, Inman, walks away from a hospital for Confederate wounded at the start of the book and is constantly on the move, meeting odd and dangerous characters, even a Circe. Beginning with Inman’s decision to leave the hospital where he has been recovering from a near fatal neck wound which turns him into a deser .....
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Summary Of Beloved
Words: 512 / Pages: 2 .... attempted to run away, which is in 1856, four years before the start of the Civil War. Sethe, Paul D., and Baby Suggs were all slaves on the same farm in Kentucky, which was ironically named Sweet Home, though for them, it was neither home nor sweet.
Plot
The plot of the novel is loosely based upon the life of a former slave named Margaret Garner, who tried to kill all of her children when they were captured by her slave owner, and she did succeed in killing one. When the novel begins, Sethe and her daughter, Denver, are living with the ghost of the baby Sethe killed when she was about to be recaptured. After another former slave, Paul D., arr .....
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Ragged Dick
Words: 652 / Pages: 3 .... tested, yet being a boy of good trust, he never cheats anyone.
As time goes on, Dick eventually meets a young boy named Frank, who is of a wealthy family, but is not at all familiar with New York City. Dick makes a very intelligent proposal; he offers to show Frank all around the city, and take him to all the famous places. Young Frank accepts the proposal, and in exchange, his uncle buys Dick a new suit, and helps him clean himself up. This was the real turning point in Richard Hunter’s life because Frank’s family was able to help young Dick. They did this by providing shelter and more importantly, friendship for him.
From this p .....
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Yanomamo
Words: 1351 / Pages: 5 .... by their father or brother to a man in return for reciprocity. The reciprocity could be another women or political alliances. The trades are often practiced in the culture. Polygamy is also a part of the culture. women are kept in the male’s possession. The man tries to collect as many wives as he possibly can in order to demonstrate his power and masculinity. As polygamy in American Culture is referred to as bigamy which is against the law.
Besides, polygamy, the practice of infanticide plays a role in the lack of women in their society. prefer to parent a male child rather than a female child, so in case a female is born she i .....
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Pudd’nhead Wilson
Words: 1159 / Pages: 5 .... correction by a trained barrister.” He did not want to look like a fool when he wrote these chapters. He wanted to make sure he, and the readers, were talking about.
takes place during 1830, in a little town called Dawson’s Landing. Dave Wilson was a new citizen. He had a law degree, but when he moved in he ruined his reputation by saying, “I wish I owned half of that dog, because I would kill my half”. Every one called him instead of Dave Wilson. His career, as a lawyer was ruined, no one would come to him to seek advice. His hobby was keeping fingerprints of everyone it the town. People thought him crazy, but in the end I was worth it. .....
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Stereotypes In Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own
Words: 1552 / Pages: 6 .... many cases, been given a very dry and straightforward voice, while fiction takes up the opposite; it is allowed to be metaphoric and abstract. With the stereotypical view in mind, a reader would not expect the above excerpt to come from a piece of non-fiction literature. The classification of “non-fiction” guarantees that the personas depicted in the tale will be real people; Woolf’s non-fiction tale reads like a story - a personal anecdote shared with the reader by a persona who might not, if the story be fictionalized, exist. Thus, Woolf almost confuses the reader as to what classification it actually falls into – non-fiction or fiction?
Th .....
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The Theme Of Nature In Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
Words: 1113 / Pages: 5 .... the various images of nature are used to interpret Tess's divergent and varying feelings.
The first images Hardy uses with Tess are those that portray a sense of innocence and purity. By saying, "every girl carried in her left (hand) a bunch of white flowers. . . their hair reflected in the sunshine every tone of gold. . . each had a private little sun for her soul," (24) Hardy is able to immediately present Tess as a naive, and untouched girl, even though he does not specifically mention her in this quotation. The image of white flowers provides a feeling of cleanliness and purity, which corresponds to the way Hardy has chosen to initially de .....
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Essay On The Stranger
Words: 1746 / Pages: 7 .... much irritation whenever the sun would shine red and bright. On a thoughtless walk on the beach, he ends up killing an Arab (who had a hostile relationship with his friend) for no apparent reason, but because his [Arab] blade light reflected by the sun. In addition, for no good reason he shoots four more times, the body lying on the ground. He is tried in court, during which he feels he is his own spectator. Meaursalt gets convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Before execution, he feels guilt for the first time because he would miss the simple things in life. However, he is never scared to die, because for him death comes eventually. .....
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