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Prejudice: Looking Through The Window
Words: 564 - Pages: 3.... other hand doesn't care about
how much money Walter has but about his potential to be a friend. She
doesn't let irrelevant things like money cloud her judgment of people.
The most typical of all prejudice views is that of race. An
example of this is during Tom Robinsons trial. Tom was a black man accused
of raping a white woman, a crime that is punishable by the death penalty.
Even though all the facts proved that he didn't do it, the jury still found
him guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt". Tom's life has been sacrificed to
racism by the people who were there to protect him. The justice system
didn't allow this man to have a fair tr .....
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David Edding's Pawn Of Prophecy
Words: 1050 - Pages: 4.... peoples known as Chereks steal the orb back from Torak
while he is sleeping. From that point one Cherek child per generation is
born with a special mark on his hand. Those with the mark prove to be
gifted in the use of the orb.
For thousands of years Torak is kept at bay because the orb is
protected by the Chereks, but somehow, a man known as the Apostate takes
the orb hoping to deliver it to Torak. Belgarath, his daughter Polgara, a
Cherek named Barak, a Drasnian named Silk, a Sendar named Durnik and a
young boy named Garion venture out into the world to try and recover the
orb. Garion is of the Cherek line and has the mark of the o .....
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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy", By Douglas Noel Adams
Words: 206 - Pages: 1.... Highways as the
definition of Earth in the universe encyclopedia both represent the smallness of
human-beings, contrary to their original conception.
Furthermore, the alien breeds are not perfect at all, many aspects of their
actions represent a similar action which is often taken by humans: The
destruction of earth without an announcement, is an equivalent of the house-
destruction of Ford Perfect, one of the story's heroes, with out announcing him,
both are explained by the governments as actions for the welfare of the
population at the cost of suffer for a single person or for a relatively small
group of persons.
Adams uses .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: "The Cause Of Death"
Words: 950 - Pages: 4.... ultimate horror,
the horror of war. The novel starts two years after Paul and his friends
first reached the front and then goes back and forth between present and
past. The main topics throughout the book is the change from idealism to
disillusionment, the loss of Paul's friends, and especially the loss of
Paul's innocence.
The change from idealism to disillusionment is really the driving
force behind the novel. From young school boys, listening to their
schoolmaster asking "Won't you join up comrades?"(11) to "weary,
broken"(294) men, idealism and disillusionment play a major role on Paul's
decisions and thoughts. Fo .....
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
Words: 371 - Pages: 2.... Lucy when she had figured out how to get to the land. She told him about the closet, but he did not believe her until they were playing hide and go seek and he hid in the closet. Lucy told the others that he had been to the land and Edmund denied it and made it look like Lucy was lying. This showed that Edmund was dishonest.
A change occurred in Edmund’s character when the witch turned a family of animals into stone. Edmund plead for the animals but the witch did it anyway. This showed that Edmund was no longer self-centered or selfish because he actually cared about something besides himself. This was the turning point in Edmund’ .....
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Lord Of The Flies
Words: 2300 - Pages: 9.... him to fend for himself. Piggy was an educated boy who had grown up as an outcast. Due to his academic childhood, he was more mature than the others and retained his civilized behaviour. But his experiences on the island gave him a more realistic understanding of the cruelty possessed by some people. The ordeals of the three boys on the island made them more aware of the evil inside themselves and in some cases, made the false politeness that had clothed them dissipate. However, the changes experienced by one boy differed from those endured by another. This is attributable to the physical and mental dissimilarities between .....
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The Devil's Shadow
Words: 786 - Pages: 3.... went wrong in their daily lives would be blamed on witchcraft or
sorcery. Such common things as burnt bread or broken plates would be blamed on
the supernatural. Many people, especially the uneducated, firmly believed in
the existence of witches and warlocks. They believed that such individuals had
the power to perform "black magic" that caused some kind of trouble. Every time
something bad happened they would blame it on witches and witchcraft.
Main Characters: One of the main characters in this story was Tituba, an
African slave woman from Barbados. She was purchased in Barbados by a merchant
named Samuel Parris. She lived in Bar .....
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Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach An
Words: 2000 - Pages: 8.... much of this century the term Victorian, which literally describes things and events in the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), conveyed connotations of "prudish," "repressed," and "old fashioned." Although such associations have some basis in fact, they do not adequately indicate the nature of this complex, paradoxical age that was a second English Renaissance. In science and technology, the Victorians invented the modern idea of invention -- the notion that one can create solutions to problems, that man can create new means of bettering himself and his environment. In religion, the Victorians experienced a great age of doubt, the first t .....
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A Farewell To Arms - Response
Words: 748 - Pages: 3.... also just as alone as Henry and with nowhere to go. The entire work was aware of where it was going and what was going to happen next, and then to stop the way it did was unfair. Now, I've read enough essays while deciding which would be the topic for my class presentation that I know many people see that the unfairness of life and the insignificance of our free will are apparently the most important themes in the book, but I don't agree. I also don't agree that it is a war story or a love story. Exactly what it is, though, is not clear to me. Can't art exist without being anything? "There isn't always an explanation for everything." War and .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus
Words: 559 - Pages: 3.... what is best for them no matter what others may say.
Another example that shows that Atticus is a good parent is when Scout uses profanity in front of Uncle Jack. To deal with this situation, Atticus tells Uncle Jack that if they don’t pay attention to her she’ll get over this "stage". I believe it takes a lot more control to ignore the comment and continue doing what you were as opposed to punishing the child for such a minor incident. By taking this approach to the problem, it shows that Atticus took the time to assess the problem before taking any action. If she didn’t understand what it meant then there is no point in punish .....
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