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Tom Clancy: Believable Plots
Words: 2283 - Pages: 9.... Many people who lost
trust and belief in the Communist system defected to the United States and
other countries. Through use of historical facts such as defection in The
Hunt for Red October (THRO), Clancy is able to advance his plot. Defections
for political reasons happened quite often during the Cold War. There were
many defections in history starting back in World War II when famous people
like Albert Einstein defected to the use because the Germans discriminated
again him being Jewish (pg. 124-5, Vol. 9 Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia).
The more recent occurance of defection to the US of a high ranking deputy
chief of staff del Pi¤o .....
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Summary Of Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men" With Background About Steinbeck
Words: 1975 - Pages: 8.... two frightened men hid out in the Salinas River waiting for
dusk to come. When dusk arrived, the two men gathered wood and built a
fire. Luckily, George had three cans of pork and beans with him in his
backpack. They stayed there until morning to start walking again.
George told Lennie that he heard of a ranch that was four miles
ahead of them and they could get a job there. George told Lennie that if
he would get into trouble at the ranch, that he should come back and hide
in the bush. Sunrise had came and the two men began their walk to the
ranch. When George and Lennie arrived, they saw a huge long rectangular
building where the .....
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Gulliver's Travels And The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen: Similarities
Words: 1700 - Pages: 7.... as he remembered them. He
took off in his hot air balloon in search of his magical friends. He first
went to the moon to look for Berthold. This was much like Gulliver's
travels to Lilliput, however, Gulliver did not go there intentionally.
Once on the moon, Munchausen set out to look for Berthold. He discovered
many things in his search. While being locked up for trying to romance the
queen, Munchausen accidentally stumbled upon Berthold. He then moved on to
search for the next of his companions. Munchausen fell off of the moon
into a vulcano where Vulcan, who was a Greek God, lived. He then sat down
to drink tea with Vulcan an .....
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Summary Of The Canterbury Tales
Words: 1364 - Pages: 5.... introducing and joining stories within a block.
The tales represent nearly every variety of medieval story at its best.
The special genius of Chaucer's work, however, lies in the dramatic interaction
between the tales and the framing story. After the Knight's courtly and
philosophical romance about noble love, the Miller interrupts with a
deliciously bawdy story of seduction aimed at the Reeve (an officer or steward
of a manor); the Reeve takes revenge with a tale about the seduction of a
miller's wife and daughter. Thus, the tales develop the personalities, quarrels,
and diverse opinions of their tellers.
After the K .....
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Of Mice And Men: Four Major Themes
Words: 757 - Pages: 3.... one. He now has hope of doing something and it came from the "dream
farm". A final example of the value of dreams and goals is when Crooks hears
of the farm. Crooks is a lonely black man who has no future, but when he
starts to think of how he can be a part of the dream he also gets happy and
excited, until his dream is crushed.
Many people of good character have to honor certin moral responibilites.
George is bond by his own moral to take care care of Lennie. No one makes him
do it, he just does it because it feel like the right thing to do. Candy felt
like he neglected his moral responibility to shoot his own dog. Candy felt
real .....
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The Old Man And The Sea
Words: 643 - Pages: 3.... water. All of a sudden Santiago
spotted this Dolphin sized fish. At first he thought it was a dolphin,
but then noticed it's fins. It was a marlin.
Santiago had hooked a marlin. He knew he had caught a big fish, but wasn't
sure what type. He did not real the fish in right away. Santiago feared
that the line would break because the size of the fish. He thought about
increasing the tension so it would hurt the fish and it would jump out.
But the line had been taut up to the very edge of the breaking point.
Then with his right hand he felt the difference in the pull of the line
before he saw the slant change in the water. The fish s .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Idea Of God
Words: 948 - Pages: 4.... as mankind had mastered something within themselves
to have a need for a higher god. This first god was still immoral and like
the humans, except that he could live forever and did not dwell on the same
surface as the humans, but god still lived in heaven, which was thought of
as a tangible place in the sky, and still was thought to be in the shape of
a man. This idea was challenged by another Hebrew prophet, Jeremiah. He
was the first to convey the message that god was holy, apart from the world,
and did not meddle in mortals lives. This change was brought about by the
change in morality by the monotheistic Hebrews. With the ascensio .....
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A Picture Of Dorian: Gray Basil's Changes As Related To Wilde's Opinion On Art
Words: 868 - Pages: 4.... Wilde does this many times throughout the book. He loved using paradoxes and that is why Lord Henry, the character most similar to Wilde, is quoted as being called "Price Paradox." Although Dorian and Basil end up hating each other, they do enjoy meeting each other for the first time. Basil finds something different about Dorian. He sees him in a different way than he sees other men. Dorian is not only beautiful to Basil, but he is also gentle and kind. This is when Basil falls in love with him and begins to paint the picture. Basil begins painting the picture, but does not tell anyone about it, including Dorian, because he knows that there .....
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Kitty Freemont
Words: 1595 - Pages: 6.... She wasn't in agreement for what was happening to them, but she wasn't prepared to take a side for them. She seemed to follow the passive way of so many others in the world of just thinking that maybe what was happening was right and they must have had some clarification for it. "Everything connected with Caraolas is neck deep in politics. I am certain that the British have their reasons. I don't wish to take sides" (,pg51)
Kitty is confused, and most likely doesn't understand anything at this point, so she decides to go along with the stupidity of the British. The first slight change that we see in Kitty's outlook is the discovery of Karen .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The Breakdown Of A Society
Words: 745 - Pages: 3.... conch and
just continue on with what they are doing. The conch now has very little,
if any power over the group at all.
The end of civilization occurs when Piggy is killed. The heavy
impact of the stone shatters the shell and ends what is left of their
society.
The second symbol is Piggy's glasses in connection with the fire
and the boys' eventual rescue. The specs were used to start the first fire.
Without them, they have no chance of rescue.
At one point in the story, Jack and Piggy began to fight and Jack
hit Piggy's glasses off. They hit a rock and shattered one lens. This
symbolizes the loss of one-half of their chance o .....
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