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Stillwatch: Summary
Words: 1397 / Pages: 6 .... is doing a TV series entitled Women in Government, and her
first show is to be over Senator Abigail Jennings, the first woman to be
nominated for Vice President. Well, Pat starts going back into Abigail’s
past to find out more about her. What she does find genuinely intrigues
her: murders, love affairs, suicide, an extremely obese mother who wasn’t
appreciated, and an ex-fiancé...but that’s not all.
Pat’s real name is Kerry Adams. She is living in her parents’ old
house in Washington. 24 years ago, her parents died. It was said that her
father had killed her mother and then himself. Pat’s not real sure that
was the case. Sh .....
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A Farewell To Arms: Style
Words: 607 / Pages: 3 .... and it was a good thing to
warm you and to celebrate with. The inn was dark and smoky inside and afterward
when you went out the cold air came sharply into your lungs and numbed the edge
of your nose as you inhaled.
The simplicity and the sensory richness flow directly from Hemingway's and his
characters'--beliefs. The punchy, vivid language has the immediacy of a news
bulletin: these are facts, Hemingway is telling us, and they can't be ignored.
And just as Frederic Henry comes to distrust abstractions like "patriotism," so
does Hemingway distrust them. Instead he seeks the concrete, the tangible: "hot
red wine with spices, cold air that numb .....
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Comparison Of 1984 And Animal Farm
Words: 394 / Pages: 2 .... members.
The true reality in 1984 is shown only to the reader and some
Inner Party members. O'Brien knows the real truth of things as shown by
his torturing of Winston. He tells Winston that if the Party tells the
people that 2+2=5, then it does. He also instructs Winston that if the
Party informs its members that 2+2=3 or 4 or all at the same time, then it
is so. Although this true reality is available to Inner Party members,
they too do not have the freedom of thought or individuality... they are
only just aware of its existence. Only the outside reader is able to think
and understand the true nature of the reality established by .....
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Machiavelli's View Of Human Nature
Words: 1086 / Pages: 4 .... time believed that an individual had much
to offer to the well being of the state, Machiavelli was quick to mock human
nature. Humanists believed that "An individual only 'grows to maturity- both
intellectually and morally- through participation' in the life of the state."4
Machiavelli generally distrusted citizens, stating that "...in time of adversity,
when the state is in need of it's citizens there are few to be found."5
Machiavelli further goes on to question the loyalty of the citizens and advises
the Prince that "...because men a wretched creatures who would not keep their
word to you, you need keep your word to them."6 However, Mac .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
Words: 604 / Pages: 3 .... existentialism by having the main character, Holden Caulfield,
isolate himself from a world full of "phonies," and maintaining
individuality.
With such views in mind, Holden begins alone in the story, and he
stays as such throughout the entire story. He establishes concrete
individual existence as he abandons school and goes to live in New York by
himself. He understands that life must not be lived as a game, although he
agrees with Mr. Spencer in order not to sound inferior to him. A Danish
philosopher and existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard, once wrote, "I must find
a truth that is true for me… the idea for which I can live or die." .....
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The Light In The Forest: Analysis
Words: 774 / Pages: 3 .... usefulness. In The Light in the Forest, whites,
for example, cut down the forest and clear land for farming.
I also was intrigued with how True Son spoke of his mother the Earth,
his uncle the Moon, and his brother-in-law the Wind. In today's society we seem
to concentrate on technology, while such oneness with nature is almost non-
existent.
As an author, Conrad Richter appears to be a skilled writer. I found
numerous strengths and only two weaknesses. One strength was his use of strong
visual images. "What he hungered for most was the sight of an Indian face
again-his father's, deep red, shaped like a hawk's, used to riding the wind, .....
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Grapes Of Wrath Book Report
Words: 1494 / Pages: 6 .... depression,
so Steinbeck wrote of a typical family with detail that makes you understand the pain and
suffering people went through in the country’s darkest of times.
Tom Joad, recently released from prison for a homicide, hitchhikes back home to
his fathers farm which he hasn’t been to in 4 years. He tells the truck driver who gives
him a ride that he got in a fight with a guy at a dance and when he tried to brandish a
knife, Tom hit him on the head with a shovel. The truck driver lets him off at his father’s
farm but he finds it abandoned. He does meet up with an old friend Jim Casy who used to
be a preacher. So Tom and Jim head down to .....
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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Words: 998 / Pages: 4 .... thought, and he realizes that independent thought
is rewarding, and that he must strive to become a real individual. Although
this is true to a certain extent, Bernard does not realize that he would
much rather attain social recognition. At least, not until the opportunity
presents itself. Thus, through a series of events, Bernard uses the
curiosity of the society to his advantage, fulfilling his subconscious wish
of becoming someone important; a recognized name in the jumble of society.
This ends when the curiosity of others ends, and as a supreme result of his
arrogant behaviour, he is exiled.
The instigator of this curiosity as well as the .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caulfield's Perception And Gradual Acceptance Of The "Real" World
Words: 1004 / Pages: 4 .... more depressing life seems.
Around every corner Holden sees evil. He looks out on a world which appears
completely immoral and unscrupulous. The three days we learn of from the novel
place a distressed Holden in the vicinity of Manhattan. The city is decked with
decorations and holiday splendor, yet, much to Holden's despair "seldom yields
any occasions of peace, charity or even genuine merriment."3 Holden is
surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts, morons and screwballs. These
convictions which Holden holds waver very momentarily during only one particular
scene in the book. The scene is that with Mr. Antolini. After Mr. Antolini
patted Ho .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Words: 739 / Pages: 3 .... being mischievous, adventurous and funny. The society Huck lives
in labels him "uncivilized" because he has an abusive, drunk father.
"... by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry and I couldn't stand
it. I was all over with welts." Here the reader can observe the
ultimate failure of an uncivilized person. Pap is an alcoholic, a dead
beat and a racist. Nevertheless, society also considered Huck
"uncivilized" because he did not wear shoes, did not always attend school
and he smoked. Society criticized Huck as uncivilized due to physical
appearance when really Huck turned out to be more civilized than any
other character in the novel .....
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