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The Jungle
Words: 325 / Pages: 2 .... descriptions were there solely for the shock or disgust of the reader. The end of the story was extremely confusing. I can understand why Jurgis left his family after the death of his young wife, and then the death of his only son. After his time in the country and working for the political machines of Chicago, he became interested in the idea of socialism. With the introduction of a socialist Jurgis, I wanted to put down the book. Where had the whole socialist movement came from? I felt it made absolutely no sense to be in this story. The story, at that point, needed to concentrate more on the reunited family of Jurgis rather than the radical ideas .....
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The Longest Day, By: Cornelius Ryan, Simon & Shuster, 1959
Words: 643 / Pages: 3 .... chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Hans Speidal, about the invasion until ten fifteen on the morning of June sixth, ten hours after the invasion had started. He also reveals many intriguing sidelights: the five crossword puzzles in The London Daily Telegraph containing the key code words of the invasion; the mysterious ill-wrapped envelope which burst open in Chicago’s central post office dumping out the plans for D-Day and the decoding by an alert German intelligence officer of the actual Allied message to the French underground announcing the time of invasion.
The first half of The Longest Day is devoted to the allied preparations of attack and the Germ .....
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Twain And Finn: Breaking The Language Barrier
Words: 559 / Pages: 3 .... read and write. You
think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, because he can't?”
Perhaps this statement shows disgust in Huck through not following the
moral values of his father, or perhaps this is just merely jealousy on his
father's part. Huck's father warns Huck about going to school any more, yet
Huck goes anyway, showing great willpower in the character of Huck in that
he was gaining an education that he never really wanted in the first place,
but soon came to realize that it was something actually useful, and in the
fact that he was disobeying his father's orders.
Huck's feelings about slavery are shown when he helps Jim, Miss
Watso .....
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Gullivers Travels 2
Words: 953 / Pages: 4 .... the species was out of the question. A major fault with this theory is that it leaves no place for Gulliver. When attention is drawn to the figure of Gulliver himself, as distinct from his creator, Swift, he is taken to be the moral of the story. If you can't be a Houyhnhnm you don't need to be a Yahoo; just try to be like Gulliver. The trouble with this idea is that when taking a closer look at Gulliver, he isn't worth emulating. The final picture of him talking with the horses in the stable for four hours a day, unable to stand the company of his own family, makes him look foolish Another theory is that Gulliver made a mistake in regarding the Houy .....
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Good And Evil In The Crucible
Words: 829 / Pages: 4 .... a hard working farmer who had a bad season the year before and struggling this year was occasionally absent at Sunday service. This was due to the fact he needed to tend to his crops. Also, Proctor did not agree with the appointment of Mr. Parris as the newest minister, and therefore did not have his last child baptized. With the latest craze of witchery and swirling accusations, John Proctor was easily indicted of being a messenger for the devil by the testimony of his disillusioned servant Mary Warren, who in the past committed perjury. The court who heard the testimony easily accepts it because she is a church going person, while John Proctor .....
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The Shining: Summary
Words: 867 / Pages: 4 .... head chef who sticks around to show the Torrances the kitchen and supplies before he embarks on his vacation for the winter. Hallorann notices the shining in Danny and his father and offers his help in case of an emergency by telling Danny to yell in his mind and he'll come right away.
After a few months the Torrances finally settled in and Jack was finally getting in some writing time to work on his novel. Just when everything else was going well, Jack was drifting near an edge. He wondered into the ballroom, up to the bar and ordered a drink as if a bartender would give him a drink, when he looked up he saw that there was a bartender and all. He .....
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The Insanity Plea By Winslad And Ross: Summary
Words: 1164 / Pages: 5 .... had been shot and killed at death in the San Francisco City Hall.
The Police then sniffed-out and charged Dan White with the murders of the 3
people.
In 2 years the trial ended with the verdict of guilty on the account of
manslaughter. He was later sentenced to 7 years and 8 months in a Prison,
with a possibility of parole after 5. After the verdict there were Riots
breaking out in the streets because of the verdict. Before hand he was elected
a Supervisor and resigned because he didn't like the way that Politics worked.
The point before, that I may not have mentioned, is that the defense argued
that he was insane and that "a person wit .....
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All My Sons: Miller's Chief Criticism Of American Society
Words: 634 / Pages: 3 .... The
third example is Jim's abdication of his pursuit of medical research do to the
lack of profit involved.
In his play "All My Sons," Miller makes it apparent that society in
general values money and profit more than human life. He shows this by his
portrayal of Keller. Keller ships out cracked cylinder heads, aware that in
flight they will cause planes to crash, to save his business from being shut
down. Furthermore, he goes on to allow the blame to fall on Steve, in order to
save himself from going to jail, even though Steve was not the only one guilty.
Keller tries to rationalize his actions by saying that he committed this heinous
act .....
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Underground To Canada
Words: 1265 / Pages: 5 .... separating them from the blazing sun. The slave cabins were very short because when Julilly straightened her shoulders she almost reached the cabin door. The only thing which Jullily and Mammy Sally could keep warm with was a small, thin blanket. Surrounding their slave cabins was a garden which sometimes a hen would scratch around.
Although the living conditions were better at the Hensen plantation it turns out the condition was much worse at the Riley plantation. The slave cabins were far behind a row of trees in the back yard, behind the Big House so the Massa and Missy did not have to look at the pitiful slaves. Usually there would be some laugh .....
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"By The Waters Of Babylon"
Words: 696 / Pages: 3 .... He then sees a man
siting in a chair in one of the temples (skyscrapers).
IV. Describe the story's climax.
The climax of the story is when John realizes that the man and all the
men in the Place of the Gods were just normal people. He realizes they are more
advanced humans, but they were just like he was.
V. What events make up the story's falling action?
The falling action is when John goes back to town to tell his father
what he saw. He then went to his father to be praised an purified. His father
told him that "You went away a boy. You come back a man and a priest." He
started to go to the Dead Places to retrieve books .....
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