Papers on Book Reports
Examination Of Puritan Philosophy In Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
Words: 1756 - Pages: 7.... Chapter IX (nine) of
"Of Plymouth Plantation", entitled "Of Their Voyage…" , he tells of a
sailor "..of a lusty, able body.." who "would always be condemning the poor
people in their sickness and cursing them daily….he didn't let to tell them
that he hoped to help cast half of them overboard before they came to their
journey's end". But, "it pleased God before they came half-seas over, to
smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a
desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard".
Bradford believes that the sailor died because God was punishing him.
According to Bradford, the sailor's c .....
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Amazing Grace A Book Report
Words: 807 - Pages: 3.... conditions were really like, or how the people there managed to live. But in no way was I aware that such conditions existed in America, the so called "Land of Opportunity." It seems it was just the opposite in these ghettos. There was very little, if any for the people living here. No chance whatsoever of employment outside the ghetto, or being accepted outside it. It was their home, they were not supposed to leave it, and when they did they were eyed with hate by other people who did not want to be in their presence.
I was also mortified by the extremely high amounts of child deaths in this particular ghetto. It seemed terrible that .....
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Jumanji
Words: 875 - Pages: 4.... scurrying around the sole
stamping machine, his father pulled out a shredded shoe, it was Carl's new
creation. “Who did this?” asked Alan's father, Carl put up his hand, and
took the blame. Alan picked up his bike and rode home, but just as he
thought he was safe Billy came out with his friends, attacked Alan and took
off, with his bike. He heard a drumming sound, Brummm-tum-tum! Brummm-tum-
tum!. He followed it to his fathers construction site where they were
building new offices. Finally he found where it was coming from. He dug
out a big trunk and smashed open the padlock with a spade. Inside the
trunk was a game called JUMA .....
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Short Story - Red Dress: How A Girl's Home And School Environment Determined Her Attitude Towards The Dance
Words: 437 - Pages: 2.... also ugly because she came from this disgusting
creature. This makes her attitude towards the dance understandable. When
Mason Williams comes to dance with her, she describes dancing with a
`nobody' like her was "as offensive to him as having to memorize
Shakespeare."
The narrator's school life was just as bad if not worse. She would never
be sure of herself when she is called up to the blackboard. Her "hands
became slippery with sweat when they were required to work the blackboard
compass." She would also envision the worst case scenario, that she had
her period prior to being called to the front of the class, even when
impossible. .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Comparison Of Movie And Book
Words: 1032 - Pages: 4.... food and shelter. They are all from
America also.
In the book it starts out with a boy,from a private school,
searching and he meets up with the other boys. They are all British in the
book. The one boy, Ralph, meets another boy, "Piggy". Soon after that they
find the other boys . The other boys are from a British choir/academy
school, and they were all wearing uniforms. The oldest was Jack Merridew,
he was he was the captain of the all the boys from the academy. Then there
was Maurice he was next in size in the choir. There was a very shy boy who
no one really knew. He kept his distance from everyone. Later in the book
we find out that h .....
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Animal Farm: Socialistic And Fascist Governments
Words: 484 - Pages: 2.... band of dogs run off Snowball. After this the farm goes downhill and the more time goes on the more the pigs look like the Humans, which is the reason they revolted to begin with. This book is a strong social commentary against Socialistic and Fascist governments.
The book animal farm is a strong social commentary against communistic governments. The animals in animal farm are involved in a communist system, which is where the results of everybody’ work is spread around equally. Which in theory would work, but Wells is making a point through the character Moses. He makes a statement that some will not do work and still reap the benef .....
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Racism In Heart Of Darkness
Words: 1210 - Pages: 5.... the native woman. Explaining that the savage "fulfills a structural requirement of the story: a savage counterpart to the refined European woman," and also that the biggest "difference is the one implied in the author's bestowal of human expression to the one and the withholding of it from the other."(Achebe, p.255) This lack of human expression and human characteristics is what Achebe says contributes to the overflowing amount of racism within Conrad's novella. Human expression, is one of few things that make us different from animals, along with such things as communication and reason. This of course, being that without human expression, .....
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Huck Finn
Words: 1885 - Pages: 7.... is . But is he? In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain the character of Huck can be seen as a moral person who grows through his actions and experiences both on land and in the river, even though his actions might go against the set standards of society.
Huck is a moral person at the beginning of the novel before he begins his journey on the river. The character of Huck can be seen as subdued in the beginning of the novel. Huck has not let out his true self and it is important to understand this point that Mark Twain tries to get across. This is so important because at this point Huck is conforming to society and followin .....
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Juror 10
Words: 491 - Pages: 2.... it can be seen that he has a certain unfounded prejudice towards the defendant, viewing him as a liar and a piece of trash, with no supporting evidence. This prejudice most surely influences his verdict of ‘guilty’ without view of any evidence. If that is not enough, starting on page 62 begins a speech lasting 2 pages in which he spews out his views of people like the defendant: “Human life doesn’t mean as much to them as it does to us…And they are-wild animals.”
is an impatient and uncaring/unconcerned person. It is made clear by viewing his lines that does not take his part on the jury seriously and o .....
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Thesis Paper On The Crucible T
Words: 1101 - Pages: 5.... he wanted to die honorably with his friends not without a name, a soul, and with guilt. “John Proctors decision to die is reasonable and believable”. Reverend Parris, the Salem minister and Proctors immediate supervisor, which says “ there is either obedience or the church will burn like hell is burning.” “The church in theocratic Salem is identical with the state and the community and will surely crumble if unquestioning obedience falters in the least.” Proctor, on the other hand, “has come to regard his self as a king of fraud,” as long as he remains obedient to an authority which he cannot respect. In other words he bel .....
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