A Separate Peace: Gene Forrester
.... no jealousy or hatred towards him and that Finny is indeed perfect in every way. Gene becomes aware that only he is the jealous one. He learns of his hatred and that he really is a "savage underneath". Over a long period of time Gene had been denying his feelings of hatred towards Finny. Now all of the eelings come back to him and he sees how terrible he really is. The realization that these feelings are one-sided causes Gene to to fall dramatically in Comparison to Finny and it results with Gene jouncing the limb to Some how get even.
After the realization of the person he truly is, in his room and up in the tr .....
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Suffering In Crime And Punishment
.... head. These things clearly show that the crime isn’t what might cause him suffering, or pain, it is something else.
After Raskolnikov is sent off to Siberia, he doesn’t feel remorseful. His feelings haven’t changed about his crime, he feels bad at not being able to living up to his own ideas of greatness. He grows depressed only when he learns of his mother’s death. Raskolnikov still hasn’t found any reason to feel remorse for his crimes. He takes Siberia as his punishment, because of how annoying it is to go through all these formalities, and ridicularities that it entails. Yet, he actually feels more comfortable in Siberia t .....
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A Night To Remember
.... cared about it - if they even heard it. The ship's reputation would hold up to some grinding noise any day. So after a while the word got around that they had, in fact, stuck an iceberg. Surprisingly no one cared and everyone went back to bed. The captain of the Titanic could if in emergency hit a electric button and many air-tight doors sealed off special rooms that could keep the ship afloat even if it had a hole in its double reinforced hull.
As word soon spread that the collision was a lot worse than before expected, the captain and the crew members went to go check the damage. The blow caused a two foot gash in the side .....
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Hobbes’ Leviathan: Analysis Of Its Impact On The Framing Of Our Democracy
.... a commonwealth that can successfully govern man? These are the pivotal questions presented in Hobbes’ Leviathan.
According to Hobbes, man is a creation of God not dissimilar to that of man manufacturing watches. Both have moving parts; a spring or heart to keep them alive, strings or nerves to hold them together, and wheels or joints to give motion to the whole body. But it is more than just this that Hobbes says makes up man. Man has, or at least should have sense, imagination, speech, and reason. Sense is an instrument for conception in man’s mind. Without the senses, man cannot see the “Representation or Appearance o .....
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The Queen Of Spades: An Analysis
.... Out of desperation, Hermann insists that the Countess divulge her secret. Consequently, she refuses and in anger Hermann pulls out his pistol, which scares the Countess to her death. Later, Hermann dreams the Countess is forced to fulfill his request. Confident that the secret from his dreams will bring him is longed awaited fortune, Hermann plays the cards per the instruction of the Countess. On the last night, Hermann bet all his winnings and loses it all to the Queen of Spades.
Pushkin uses familiar romantic elements such as the destitute girl, the selfish mistress, and the determined and fervent man. Lisaveta, be .....
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Silent Spring: Abuse Of Pesticides
.... were caught in a storm drain, when they were flushed out, they mixed together and went into nearby streams, and contaminated the nearby lake and killed all the fish for 8 miles downstream. The government just didn’t have the research to realize that harmless chemicals when combined with other harmless chemicals had an equally disastrous effect on the environment.
Today the governmental regulatory agencies are trying the reduce the amount of pesticides applied, by monitoring the use. They have also banned the chemicals which do not break down quickly once in the environment, or cause damage to wildlife and humans. The g .....
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Animal Farm Vs. Marxism
.... gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in a new society because the working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 168).
Another character represented in the book is Farmer Jones. He represents the symbol of the Czar Nicholas in Russia who treated his people like Farmer Jones treated his animals. T .....
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The Three Angles From Which The Adventures Huckleberry Finn Can Be Viewed
.... Finn, it would be Huck and Jim's journey down the Mississippi River. That journey even had a hidden adventure. The whole time Huck and Jim where travelling down the Mississippi River, they thought they were in fact travelling up the Mississippi River.
The whole point of the journey on the Mississippi River was to help Jim acquire his freedom. That adventure revealed another angle from which Huckleberry Finn can be viewed: as a drama of moral conflict. For awhile, Huck was indecisive of whether to proceed with helping Jim acquire his freedom or turn Jim in. Should he help Jim escape, that would mean that Huck would be a .....
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Kafka's The Trial
.... the correct action to be taken when he is first arrested and is influenced by those around him. Even though initially he does not see the need for an advocate, he allows himself to be persuaded by his uncle to engage one. No matter what he does to try and prove his innocence it seems to be a forgone conclusion the he will be found guilty. This is also true about his relationship with his father. The accusing court represents his inability to be what his father demands. The power of the court and the growing control it exerts over Joseph K as the novel progresses are an abstraction of the control Kafka's own father exerts over hi .....
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Stereotypes In Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own
.... like a story - a personal anecdote shared with the reader by a persona who might not, if the story be fictionalized, exist. Thus, Woolf almost confuses the reader as to what classification it actually falls into – non-fiction or fiction?
The author’s conversational manner relaxes the reader to a point that he or she forgets that they are, indeed, reading a non-fiction essay. Woolf, herself, describes this aspect at the beginning of the book. “Lies will flow from my lips,” she says. “But there may be perhaps some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keepi .....
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The Cultural Gap In Joy Luck Club
.... school, his surrounding influenced him, as in his friends who spoke "perfect" English and his teachers who taught and exposed him to the American culture.
"It was like I was bringing home the American culture to my parents everytime I learned something new in school," Wong recalls. "I remember bringing home the first permission slip to go on a field trip when I was in kindergarten. My parents couldn't get over the fact that field trips existed. They thought going to school meant staying at school and not leaving the playground. They weren't too happy about letting me go until my teacher explained to them that the fie .....
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Frankenstein By: Mary Shelley
.... exactly making friends at the university. This was the being of Frankenstein's creation, or he decided to make a human being. Who can not relate to this? Who wants to be lonely for their lifetime? Noone. He work for 2 years on making his creation. And when he was done - it was the being of his horrorable life.
There was no lightening bolt that woke up the being. Frankenstein did not scream, "It's alive! It's alive!", and then do that madman's laugh, like in the movies. The monster opened his eyes on his own, which apparently frightened Frankenstein and he left the laboratory in shear horror. He didn't returned to the lab .....
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