Catcher In The Rye: Childhood Innocence - What Holden Never Had
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hundred and thirteen. "I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old
Phoebe was going around and around [the carousel]." All these examples
clearly show that Holden appreciated "childhood innocence" to a great
extent. Yet Holden acts the opposite.
The irony in this novel is Holden's behavior, which is far from
being innocent. He smokes, drinks, always depressed, thinks about suicide,
thinks about going embarking to a far place, and has people tell and act in
many weird ways. There are three main reasons why he acts this way. Firstly,
Holden being only sixteen years of age already has so much responsibility.
He has to get .....
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The Effect Of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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father Lyman and brother Henry Ward were two of the most preeminent
theologians of the nineteenth century. This extremely devout Christian
upbringing, focusing on the doctrines of sin, guilt, atonement and
salvation, had an undeniable impact in her writings. Each of her
characters displays some aspect of these beliefs. Although he is unjustly
and ignorantly vilified by contemporary Black society, the character Uncle
Toms is given a Christ like persona. Tom forgives his oppressors, turns
the other cheek to blows, blesses those who curse him, and prays for those
who sin against him. At the end of the story he even give .....
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David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
.... natural capacities for such. They simply lack the necessary
"impression" of sound or color, as so they can visualize and manipulate
these concepts with their imaginations.
These all seem like good philosophical argumentation, and are
highly convincing, except for one seemingly overlooked flaw. Later on in "…
Ideas" Hume states "those who would assert that this position is not
universally true nor without exception, have only one, and that any easy
method refuting it; by producing an idea, which, in their opinion, is not
derived from this source ("An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,"
p.164.)" He goes on to propose .....
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White Shark: Review
.... One guy
was killed. The other guy managed to get away and swim for about 200 yards
and then he was down. The men's bodies washed up on shored weeks later.
That's when Chase and Tall Man knew there was something in the water and it
was up to them to figure out what it was. More strange things were
happening. The ocean life began to act strange and Chase couldn't figure
out what that had anything to do with the killings.
Tall Man was a rather large Indian man that had many reasons to be
fearless. The reason I'm drawing attention to this man is because he is
the hero. After all the hard work and long hours of .....
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The Prince And The Pauper: Summary
.... in Tom's town and gives money and food to them.
4. Describe briefly two dramatic scenes that would make good material for a
preview, if a movie were made of this book.
The first scene would be when Miles Hendon, Edward's best friend
fights all the people who were attacking Edward when he is the pauper.
Second, is when Miles fights for Edward's thrown back. Then when
Edward fights the people of Miles' kingdom for Miles to get his thrown back.
5. What situation aroused your greatest feeling of suspense, and what was
the final outcome?
The situation that aroused my greatest feeling of suspense was when
the only way Edwar .....
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Report On The Prince By Machiavelli
.... will control
the other half. Virtue is the best defense for fortune, and virtue must be
used in order to keep fortune in check. The prince must take advantage of
situations based solely on if it is best for the state. He should choose
his decisions based on contemporary and historical examples. A prince
cannot consider whether his acts are moral or immoral, and he instead must
act in an unbiased manner for the state. Also, it does not matter how the
state achieves its goals, as long as these goals are achieved. Finally,
regardless of the personal morality involved, the prince should be praised
if he does good for the state an .....
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1984: Duty Or Desire
.... and the
wrapping of the cigarette packing-every where the eye is watching you and
the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake ,in bath or in bed -no
escape"(p-26).
If Winston does anything out of order, a voice barks out
instructions. The Party frowns on art, on sex, on the life of the mind.
Their posters warn: "Big Brother is watching you". Every Party member knows
the worst crime of all is "Thought crime": having evil thoughts against the
Party or Big Brother. Winston is also troubled by dreams and memories of
better times, inspired by secret glances form O'Brien, a powerful member of
the Inner Party. Later on he find .....
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Summary Of Terkel's My American Century
.... of the
black people in town more than most-Ann Atwater. He claimed to hate her
specifically because every time he went into town, she was leading some
kind of demonstration. I didn't think she would really be all that
important to the rest of the story, but in my eyes she's the most important.
To make a long story short, Mr. Ellis began going to meetings for
the city council or something of that sort. It was there that he decided
he could start to come out in the open about his views on the integration
of black students in the town schools. He spoke honestly without holding
anything back. The blacks, of course, had extremely .....
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Old Man And The Sea: Themes
.... deal with figures of Christ. It
mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other
characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of
biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin,
his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might
be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal for a great period of
time and is sure it will work this time. Later, though, when Santiago
needs him for the quest he sets out to do, Manolin deserts him, although
he may not have wanted to at this time. In the novel Santiago comes upon a
force bigger than his skiff, the marl .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Misconstrued Identity Of Hester Prynne
.... there
replies by saying, ‘'Were I worthy of it, it would fall away of its own
nature or transformed into something of a different puport. Hester is
saying this her old cynical husband, clearly not her best frinend. For the
safety of herself and Pearl; she must cooperateand act remorseful among the
townspeople and to keep at peace with her husband. Hester does noy agree
with her tormentors or the acursed “A” on her bosom.
Is Hester truly a Puritan or is she forced to comply and accept the
shallowness and hypocrisy that is common in the Puritan way of life. Hester
is not a Puritan. She is not at all shallow, an out right hyp .....
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Summary Of Lord Of The Flies
.... hunters. A small boy with a mulberry-colored birthmark on his face
says he is afraid of a snakelike beast in the woods. Is there really such a
beast? The boys can't agree. However, the fear of the beast, of the dark,
and of what is unknown about the island is very real and an important part
of the story. Ralph convinces everyone that they need a fire for a signal
in case a ship passes the island. Starting a fire is impossible until they
use Piggy's glasses. Then the boys often abandon the fire to play, finding
it hard work keeping the fire going.
Jack becomes more and more obsessed with hunting and the desire to
kill. He s .....
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Is Stephen Dedalus Really James Joyce?
.... that Stephen is a rebel who withdraws from Ireland, family,
nationality and religion. Stephen rebels in two ways. On one level, his “
intellectual and emotional development fit him finally to....leave Ireland.”
And on another level, he learns to use “language, his medium of ingenuity.”
James Joyce completed the book when he was in his mature years of
thirty-two, but there is “little to suggest that he does not regard the
priggish and egocentric Stephen with full approval.” It is hard to say
just what James Joyce thinks of his main hero of the novel.
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