Summary Of Clancy's Rainbow Six
.... anti-
terrorist group called Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six is split into two teams;
Team 1 and Team 2. These teams are the best there is. They are based in
Hereford, England, but any European country can call on them at any time.
They run 3 miles in 20 minutes every morning at 6:00 am. Only one team
will be on-call at a time. The team that is not on-call will be doing live
fire practices. In the first 6 months of being in operation they are
called on three times which is a lot for this type of thing. The first
incident happens in a Swiss bank where terrorists have taken control. They
also have hostages. Team 2 successfully .....
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Slaughterhouse - Five: Satire About War And Life
.... to be not a coat but a
sort of large black, three-cornered hat. There were gummy stains on it,
too, like crankcase drainings or old strawberry jam. There seemed to be a
dead, furry animal frozen to it. The animal was infact the coat’s fur
collar.” (Vonnegut, p.81- 82)
Another example of satire in WWII is when Billy and the other
American prisoners are to stay in empty slaughterhouses. Billy and Edgar
Derby, a 44 year old American private were going to the communal kitchen
for supper the first night they arrived at their slaughterhouse. Billy,
now in his 20’s and Edgar in his 40’s were guarded by a tall, scrawny 16
yea .....
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Stillwatch: Summary
.... all.
Pat’s real name is Kerry Adams. She is living in her parents’ old
house in Washington. 24 years ago, her parents died. It was said that her
father had killed her mother and then himself. Pat’s not real sure that
was the case. She’s living in that house so that she can try to conjure up
some memories. And she does...like it or not. Pat begins to remember
scenes such as tripping over her mother’s bleeding body, crying for her
daddy, and running through the house in a state of shock.
Pat is seeing Sam again, and Sam can’t stand Abigail Jennings OR
her burly assistant, Toby. Toby doesn’t exactly have a clean record, an .....
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Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Vocation Sequence
.... first calling,
to become a priest, has appeal, but his epiphany lets him know that his
true calling, instead, deals with finally knowing the solitude that he
always faced. Stephen considers the many aspects of his priestly vocation:
great power, sinless innocence, and the pious constraint on his freedom.
By the end of this sequence, Stephen realizes that his soul longs for
freedom from social or religious orders.
At this point, realizing his true calling proves very important to
Stephen. The priest strongly believes in Stephens worthiness of this
priestly calling. As Stephen thinks about his past life and what the life
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Beloved: The Degradation Of Slaves
.... many slaves, Sethe is
whipped, only so badly that the scars form this shape; forever branding on
her tender back the agony she suffers along with many others. In addition,
Paul D. states, “ I had a bit in my mouth.” As a slave, Paul D. is
forced to wear a type of degrading mouth harness called a “bit” which
disables him from swallowing, let alone speaking. This not only belittles
slaves but it prevents Paul D. from coming to the aid of Halle during his
time of need. These displays of physical abuse that Morrison portrays in
her novel only begin to scratch the surface of the tortuous physical
degradations that American blac .....
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Something Wicked This Way Comes" Supernatural Forces
.... it. After the boys thwart her first attempt to find them and give
them to Mr. Dark, the old witch went in search of them during the parade,
but encounters Will’s father instead. During their confrontation Mr.
Halloway’s lack of fear and concern seemed to cause the witch pain, “The
Witch from the concussion of his fiercely erupted and overly jovial words,
dropped one wounded hand to her side, wiped sweat from it, as one wipes an
antenna for better reception ... (179)” Clearly, when Mr. Halloway shows
that he had no fear of the carnival, Mr. Dark, the Dust Witch, she lost the
power to sense and feel the world around her. When .....
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“The Yellow Wallpaper”: Solitary Confinement And Exclusion From Public
.... she analyzes
the wallpaper. Through the imagery she evokes from the wallpaper, it can
be seen that she is really analyzing herself and her illness subconsciously.
For example, she begins to see “a strange, provoking, formless sort of
figure that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front
design” (67). She describes her illness (as seen in the wallpaper) as “not
arranged on any laws of radiation, or alternation, or repetition, or
symmetry, or anything else that I ever heard of” (68). In other words, she
cannot make any sense of what is causing her illness.
A pivotal moment in the story is when the woman pr .....
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Edna's Suicide In The Awakening
.... walking into
the ocean. Perhaps if there had been a more well rounded woman figure in
Edna’s life, she wouldn’t have felt the life she craved was, “...an
undefined, unexpressed, ineffable life that she cannot articulate or shape”
(Spangler). In witnessing other women achieve the articulation of a
complexly spirited life, she may have found a new life easier to attain.
Adele serves as the perfect "mother-woman" in The Awakening, being
both married and pregnant, but Edna does not follow Adele’s footsteps. For
Edna, Adele appears unable to perceive herself as an individual human being.
She possesses no sense of herself beyond her .....
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Animal Farm: Summary
.... propagandist. He was the one who
revised the history that the animals knew to cover up for their actions.
Boxer, who was known for being a super strong scrupulous steed, was
gullible yet always faithful to the pigs. Throughout this story, he had
two sayings, “Napoleon is always right” and “I will work harder” Boxer
believed that working harder would obliterate all troubles. However, his
attempts to make things better were futile. He was alike all the other
animals on the farm, who were naïve and gullible, believing every lie that
the pigs declared. The conflict of the story was initiated by Old Major’s
speech. In his speech, this .....
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Huckleberry Finn: Review
.... distinction.
Huck is also more familiar with flawed families than loving, virtuous ones,
and he is happy to sing the praises of the people who took him in. Col.
Grangerford "was a gentleman all over; and so was his family"(116). The
Colonel was kind, well-mannered, quiet and far from frivolish. Everyone
wanted to be around him, and he gave Huck confidence. Unlike the drunken
Pap, the Colonel dressed well, was clean-shaven and his face had "not a
sign of red in it anywheres"(116). Huck admired how the Colonel gently
ruled his family with hints of a submerged temper. The same temper exists
in one of his daughters: "she had a look .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism Of The Forest In Puritan Society
.... themselves, and here that Dimmesdale openly
acknowledges Hester and his undying love for her. In the forest, Hester
can also do the same for Dimmesdale, such as the time when she revealed
her actual relationship with Chillingworth to Dimmesdale- "O Arthur, cries
Hester, "forgive me! In all things else I have to be true!... That Old
man!- the physician- he whom they call Roger Chillingworth!- he was my
husband!" (Hawthorne, 177) Finally, in the forest the two characters can
openly engage in conversation without being preoccupied with the
constraints that Puritan society places on them.
The forest itself is the most noted symbol .....
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Pudd'nhead Wilson: Slavery
.... up throughout the novel. The reality of
slavery is shown in many places in the novel. There are two main aspects
of slavery dealt with most realistically in the novel: sex, and violence.
The reality of sex between slaveholder's and slaves is a main point in the
novel due to the fact that "Roxy", a black slave woman, conceives the child
of an influential white man. This almost certainly was a reality in the
ante-bellum south. For evidence of this one has to look no further than
one of the country's first presidents, Thomas Jefferson and his illicit
affair with a slave that produced some offspring. As for violence in the
nove .....
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