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Fahrenheit 451 - Similarities To Our Society
Words: 600 - Pages: 3.... like ours. Besides having advanced technological machines, they also have much larger speed limits, so people could get where they want a lot faster. Clarisse and Montag make it obvious to the reader that they live in a fast-paced world when they first meet each other. Before Clarisse runs into her house, they notice how fast drivers go that they "'don't know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them slowly,' she said. 'If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles .....
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Odysseus Portrayed As A Hero Who Uses Brains
Words: 549 - Pages: 2.... god. Scamander pleads with Achilles to stop dumping bodies in his river. Achilles takes his plead as an insult and attacks Scamander. His willingness to fight the river god illustrates the unbending warrior he has become: he is a warrior who has no fear of the divinity of a god.
However, towards the end of his fight with Scamander, Achilles is shown that gods are superior than man. And that the divinity of gods must be respected. After finally being beaten down by Scamander, Achilles pleads to Zeus for divine intervention. (Book 21 ll 309-320) Hera sends Hephaestus to rescue Achilles from the river god. It’s Achilles realizatio .....
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Macbeth Persona
Words: 900 - Pages: 4.... against the corrupt nobles and demand that we get the king that this land of ours has
needed for so long.
The one who we trust with the appointment of governing us must stand up to a
certain measure in my opinion. He must be no more important than any other man under
God, but he must also be able to fill the duty that no other is qualified for. I have a list of
specific qualities that such a man must posses if he wishes to be my king, here in this issue
is that list.
The man who is to be king must be both loved and respected by the people. He must
do what he can to please them but not give in to shameless gimmicks to appear that he is
doi .....
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A Separate Peace - Phineas And Carpe Diem
Words: 444 - Pages: 2.... game in the novel which is still played 15 years later as the author says. Finny invents this game just on a spur of the moment, making up the rules as he goes along, you can see that he surely doesn’t want to waste any of his ability. Which points you to the last example.
The last example is concerning his incredible athletic ability. Finny and Gene are in the pool one day, and they read the plaque that holds the swimming record times. Finny looks at one and decides that he can beat that time record. He tries, and he beats the record. Gene wants him to do it on front of an official judge. Finny Refuses and says "No, I just wanted .....
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Words: 1172 - Pages: 5.... deep end. All of the sudden, the only thing she really concentrates on is Jesus and her not being killed.
The action in the entire story surrounds and normally begins with something the grandmother has said or done. At the very beginning of the story, she starts off by stating that she does not want to go to Florida. She would rather go to east Tennessee and tried anything she could to change Bailey’s mind (Page 426). Later in the story, as they began the trip to Florida, the grandmother talked the entire time. She would tell stories of her youth to the grandchildren and lecture them about being more respectful to their native state .....
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ENGLISH
Words: 948 - Pages: 4.... himself." Holden had a
difficults with no being good. He was afraid of not having any special talents or
abilities and and did other thi8ngs to make himself look tough.
"Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one o'clock or so, getting drunk
as a bastard. I could hardly see straight." Holden tried all he
could to try to be cool he was faking it just to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life l to make it
seem he was like he knew of his habits. I myself have found me doing this
at times, also. I, at times, feel the need to fit in to a group and do
things similar to what others do in order to be accepted by others, but I do .....
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The Little Prince
Words: 784 - Pages: 3.... for children, but not specifically for them alone. The story of exists on many different levels.
Saint- Exupéry explains the importance of seeing beneath the surface by beginning his book with the story about drawings of closed and open boa constrictors. Later, he relates a story about the Turkish astronomer who discovers 's home, Asteroid B-612. When he presents his findings to the International Congress of Astronomy, dressed in his comical Turkish outfit, he is not believed . Because adults never look inside, they will never know themselves or others. All his life, has thought that grown-ups care only about insignificant matters, .....
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The Only Truth Existing
Words: 1063 - Pages: 4.... that we should find its certainty.
From the "natural" experiences of our being, we hold beliefs that we find
are our personal truths. From these experiences, we have learned to
understand life with reason and logic; we have established our idea of
reality; and we believe that true perceptions are what we sense and see.
But it is our sense of reason and logic, our idea of reality, and our
perceptions, that may likely to be very wrong. Subjectiveness, or personal
belief, is almost always, liable for self-contradiction. Besides the
established truth that we exist, there are no other truths that are certain,
for the fact that subjective t .....
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Lord Of The Flies -
Words: 2316 - Pages: 9.... society of savage boys forced 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 .....
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In Societies Throughout The Wo
Words: 945 - Pages: 4.... 'Why don't I have any friends?' April sighed." Page 83
It is evident that the main character has a primary element, one which clearly indicates that she has no friends.
As the story goes on, April falls in love with Tony. April liked Tony from the beginning and her love for Tony grows throughout the story. This creates jealousy in two boys who love teasing April.
"April, beautiful April, wanted him as he wanted her." Page 103
This shows that April loves Tony and loves the thought of being with him. This continues throughout the story making the texts substantially interesting.
In Loving April, Tony and April's growing relat .....
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