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The Time Machine
Words: 604 / Pages: 3 .... While in search of his time machine, the Time Traveller learned about this future world. He befriends an Eloi, who he named Weena. Then he himself was hunted by the Morlocks. He escaped by scaring them with fire. The Morlocks had hidden his machine. He finally found it and returned back to his own time and home in England. certainly makes you think. We picture the future as very advanced and evolved with much more technology than we have now. But in this novel, the reader can see that the progress of mankind could almost go in a cycle. We start off at a low level and as a species, we grow and evolve becoming more advanced. We can only reach .....
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Franny And Zooey: Childhood
Words: 646 / Pages: 3 .... geeneration after
generation. This is devestating because his or her child has absolutely no
power in controlling the early events of their childhood. An abused child
is not at fault of the results of their childhood. A child is easily
susceptible to having the rest of his or her life ruined, such as being
emotionally scarred.
I believe this happened in Franny and Zooey's case as children. They came
from a relatively large family, consisting of two parents and seven
siblings. The Glass children had a radio talk show called the "Wise Child"
when they were younger. Such pressures put upon the children resulted in
which Zooey calls "The Wise Child co .....
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The Return Of The Native: The Opening Chapter
Words: 1022 / Pages: 4 .... of the story, it is the King, and it is more powerful than any person is. The heath demonstrates the idea that fate is more powerful than the desires of individuals. This theme can be seems throughout the novel. The biggest effect of this theme is on Eustacia. The fact that Clym delayed sending his letter to Eustacia, coupled with the fact that Captain Vye unwittingly kept the letter from Eustacia until it was too late, suggests that perhaps destiny is against her. It is under the downpour of the rain, on the rugged heath where Eustacia laments her fate. Eustacia’s own remark, “how destiny is against me!” (354) and “I have been injured a .....
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An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" And "The Scarlet Letter"
Words: 734 / Pages: 3 .... is
now recognized as one the finest pieces of literature written by an American.
Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter was written in the eighteen hundreds,
with no other purpose but for Hawthorne to write a novel. Hawthorne perhaps
chose this dark subject to convey his contempt for Puritanism. He was a man
preoccupied with the hidden sin which is illustrated in not only the Scarlet
Letter, but also in The Minister's Black Veil. One might even say that
Hawthorne's ancestry (Hathorne) is what he might consider his own "Pearl", and
this is why he changed his name.
Like Miller's the Crucible, The Scarlet Letter takes place in Puritan
Salem and h .....
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The Quest Of A Hemingway Hero
Words: 1560 / Pages: 6 .... long separations, life-threatening wartime situations, and the uncertainty of each other's wereabouts or condition. This novel is a beautiful love story of two people who need each other in a period of upheaval.
At the start of the novel, Frederick is given a vacation to leave the
war for a period of time in order to relax. He befriends a priest because he
admires the fact that the priest lives his life by a set of values that give him an orderly lifestyle. He is told by the priest to go to Abruzzi, there in the mountains he can relax and forget about theworries of war. But Fredrick is
hardheaded and listens to his friends and decides .....
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Themes In "The Stranger" And "Waiting For Godot"
Words: 795 / Pages: 3 .... all, just like Meursault who lives his life at the spur of the moment.
Neither of them makes important goals in their lives. Meursault can care
less about his promotion and Vladimir and Estragon could have done
something worth while with the last fifty years of their lives. Because of
this, they found ways of passing time. Vladimir and Estragon tries hanging
themselves and call each other names while Meursault goes smoking, drinking
with Raymond, listen to Salamando and have casual sex all because they do
not have anything else to do. They all feel their very existence is
insignificant. Whether they live or died would not change anything. One .....
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Lady Audleys Secret
Words: 2396 / Pages: 9 .... play with romantic plot in which an author manipulates events to act on the emotions of the audience without regard for character development or logic (Microsoft Encarta). In order to classify as a Victorian melodrama, several key techniques must be used, including proximity and familiarity to the audience, deceit rather than vindictive malice, lack of character development and especially the role of social status.
The sensational novel is usually a tale of our own times. Proximity is indeed one great element of sensation. A tale which aims to electrify the nerves of the reader is never thoroughly effective unless the scene be laid out in our own .....
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Visitors From Oz
Words: 905 / Pages: 4 .... Even though Samuel’s mother insisted that the books were fiction, he never gave up believing that they were as real as you and me. Even when he started to grow old, even then he still believed.
One day after Samuel had grown and had become a big time movie producer, he was thinking about his next movie that he was going to produce. He had come to the conclusion that he would base his movie on the book The Emerald City of Oz, since that was his favorite out of all fourteen of the Oz books. Samuel wanted this to be the best movie he had ever produced, so he was trying to think of ways to make the movie the best it could possibly be, and then it came .....
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Marcus Brutus-the Tragic Hero
Words: 637 / Pages: 3 .... get into an argument leading to Cassuis saying he shall kill himself. After that in solved Brutus heads to bed. In the middle of the night he wakes up to the ghost of Julius. Caesar tells his old friend “Though shalt see me at Philippi.” Brutus is startled by this and isn’t sure what was meant by this. Will Caesar live again or is this some kind of omen. Brutus and his troops March to Philippi. After Cassuis dies, Brutus and his troops are winning, although Brutus don’t realize it. Brutus decides to take the cowards way out of this and kill himself, rather than be drug through the streets of Rome. Strato holds out his swo .....
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"The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey"
Words: 740 / Pages: 3 .... office. My supervisor
was killing herself trying to get all of the work done when she should have
been making the subordinates do their own work. This may require the
subordinates to go through a training process or just motivate them to do
the work they know is theirs. The supervisor must learn to give out work
that is not theirs so that they have time to do supervisory functions. (p.
30) If they are busy doing everyone else's work who is going to do theirs.
Once the supervisor puts the work back on the workers it belongs to
she needs to make sure everything is going according to plan. This can be
accomplished by following the 4 "Rules of Monke .....
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