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The Longest Day, By: Cornelius Ryan, Simon & Shuster, 1959
Words: 643 - Pages: 3.... 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 German preparations for meeting it. This par .....
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Les Miserables: Jean Valjean
Words: 428 - Pages: 2.... a loaf of bread he was imprisoned. A few years later he is caught
after escaping, he is then sent to the galleys for 19 years. He later escapes
from there to goto a town where he was not wanted. Still a criminal he steals
some silverware from a kind priest who gave him shelter. When caught, the police
ask the priest if Jean stole the silverware. To everyone's surprise the priest
said it was a gift this started his conversion toward a good life. After this he
tried to live a peaceful life. He started a new factory in a new town employing
several. Then a man in a city nearby was arrested under the name Jean Valjean.
Jean was faced with .....
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Farenheit 451
Words: 414 - Pages: 2.... a very smart man of the old time and he tells her about the way things used to be. The main reason Clarisse is in the story is to show the ills of the world that is described in the book and to show Guy a new way of life. This is the basis for the changes that happen to Guy, emotionally, later in the book. After Clarisse serves her purpose in the plot, she is killed off.
The other character that we feel is influential in the book is captain Beatty. Beatty opens Guys eyes to the truth as he sees it. He Finally tells Guy about the way things really used to be. He tells him the truth about what firemen used to do and the way the world used to .....
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The Metamorphosis
Words: 549 - Pages: 2.... eat in her presence, she withdrew quickly and even turned the key, to let him understand that he could take his ease as much as he liked.” Gregor’s sister is the only member of the family who seems human in her treatment of Gregor. She treats him fairly well by bringing food to his presence, showing that she still has solicitousness. “He had been of the opinion that nothing at all was left over from his father’s business” The family now has a financial problem, Gregor is unable to work and he is struggling against his own form, his own identity. Gregor, who was once fairly self-sufficient, must now rely on his parents for food .....
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1984: Lack Of Humanity
Words: 1303 - Pages: 5.... beings walked the earth. The citizens do not realize that there have been better circumstances; therefore, they think this is the best time in history. In essence, people are unaware of their plight, and they know no better. George Orwell’s 1984 shows how a human being can be stripped of its emotions, its freedom, and its identity if that human being allows a society like Oceania to rule him; therefore, anyone should never allow it to happen.
The Party controls people’s emotions by instilling basic codes of moral. It is insinuated that you should not feel emotions; and, if you do feel them, then you are a criminal. Therefore, the .....
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Call Of The Wild - Character S
Words: 924 - Pages: 4.... while the judge was away at a raisin grower’s committee meeting, the gardener, Manuel, took Buck away from his home. Buck was then sold, and thrown in a baggage car. This would be the beginning of a new, cruel life for Buck. On his ride to wherever he was going, Buck’s pride was severely damaged, if not completely wiped out by men who used tools to restrain him. No matter how many times Buck tried to lunge, he would just be choked into submission at the end. When Buck arrived at his destination, there was snow everywhere, not to mention the masses of Husky and wolf dogs. Buck was thrown into a pen with a man who had a club. This is wh .....
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An Analysis Of "Heart Of Darkness"
Words: 1341 - Pages: 5.... the adventure is related to a larger view of human affairs.
Marlow told the story one evening on a yacht in the Thames estuary as
darkness fell, reminding his audience that exploitation of one group by
another was not new in history. They were anchored in the river, where
ships went out to darkest Africa. Yet, as lately as Roman times, London's
own river led, like the Congo, into a barbarous hinterland where the Romans
went to make their profits. Soon darkness fell over London, while the
ships that bore "civilization" to remote parts appeared out of the dark,
carrying darkness with them, different only in kind to the da .....
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A Summary Of Martin Luther, Lectures On Galatians
Words: 557 - Pages: 3.... [passive] righteousness has been withdrawn, that grace has been lost sight of, and that Christ is hidden and out of sight." (p. 8) The comfort of conscience is the righteousness of faith. (p. 5)
Luther delineates a series of dichotomies: morality/faith, works/grace, secular society/religion (p. 7), conscience/joy, works/faith, earthly/heavenly, Adam/Jesus, sin/righteousness, death/eternal life, flesh/spirit, Law/Christ (p. 9), Law/grace, Moses the lawgiver/Christ the savior (p. 10). These follow the dualism which Paul describes: "What the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for .....
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Yugoslavia-a Land Torn Apart
Words: 1575 - Pages: 6.... there were few low-level routes and those that existed became very important strategically. Most notable are the Varda-Morava corridor, which connected the Aegean Sea and the Danube, and the Iron Gates of the Danube, linking Central Europe and the Black Sea, that controlled much of the trade between the Mediterranean and Central Europe since ancient times. Most of the populations have lived separated from each other geographically and culturally, developing very strong national and tribal allegiances. This region is a frontier between Eastern and Western European civilizations and has also been influnced by Islam during the Turkish invas .....
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With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei In Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
Words: 858 - Pages: 4.... he got into trouble over them. He knew that what he
thought was right was often in stark contrast to what his society deemed
proper. He disagreed with the social hierarchy of Russia and paid the
penalty. He may have paid a penalty for standing by what he thought was
right, but he knew inside that he was doing the right thing. However, he
did not receive any joy from this realization. He was relatively
miserable his whole life. He turned to Gambling to punish himself. This
is a man who, when he had a chance to be with the woman he had loved for
years, ruined it by going to the casino and gambling. He thought that it
would prove to h .....
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