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The Lord Of The Flies: A Picture Of Our Society Today

... he can eat meat because of the “enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh.” (p 41). Roger cannot hit the boys with the stones even though he could if he wanted to because he has been conditioned by the society he used to live in. This is the type of society the children live in. Everything is a game until the beast. The beast signals the end of the games and start of reality. Lives are at stake in perspective of the boys and survival must occur in any form. Our society is much like this as today's society is ...

Number of words: 1059 | Number of pages: 4

A Worn Path

... she has many years ahead of her. Eudora Welty brings realism into the story describing the realities of being old. It is Christmas, and Phoenix Jackson has to head out to the city to obtain the medicine for her nephew. A long time ago, her nephew swallowed lye that burned his throat, and the medicine is the only thing that relieves his pain. The woods are filled with pine trees that cast dark shadows throughout the terrain. The darkness that surrounds Phoenix is the total opposite of her. She is a poor woman, but is very neat and tidy. S ...

Number of words: 1158 | Number of pages: 5

The Hobbit: Overview & Review

... Armies. SMAUG: The dragon of the Lonely Mountain who hordes the treasure he stole from the dwarves of Dale. GOLLUM: He is perfect example of the evil powers of the One Ring. He was born a Hobbit but had the ring too long. It made him into a slimey little creature who only lives to possess the ring. BARD: The archer who killed Smaug. He shot the dragon in the one spot it had no protection. The towns people later considered him a hero. What the people didn't know it was Bilbo who discovered the weak spot in the dragon's iron scales. BEORN: A ...

Number of words: 1529 | Number of pages: 6

The Sound And The Fury Essay

... and Dilsey responds, "I'll tend to dat too…. I can't do but one thing at a time," (271). Time does not encumber Dilsey because she believes in eternity. Time does not effect Dilsey as much as it does the Compsons. She uses it to determine when to do work. The Dilsey section also refers to Jason and his concept of time. Jason seems to have an obsession to have things ready on time so his day will go smoothly, but this never happens. He is always trying to rush although he never accomplishes anything. Another example of a person who ...

Number of words: 744 | Number of pages: 3

The Mysterious Stranger: Dependence On Others

... breeds independent thought, and without knowledge it is very difficult to have awareness. The citizens are forced into ignorance because, knowledge "was not good for the common people, and could make them discontented with the lot which God had appointed for them, and God would not endure discontentment with His plans."(279) They are taught to be followers of God and all that symbolizes Him and His power which leads to the importance they place on the idea of Moral Sense. Moral Sense is "the faculty which enables us to distin ...

Number of words: 733 | Number of pages: 3

Great Gatsby

... tells Gatsby "Your worth the whole damn bunch put together!" and he meant it. Nick saw that Gatsby may of thrown his money away just to impress someone but he also had to work hard to earn that money, it has not just been handed to him at birth. When Gatsby tells Nick "You’ve got to get somebody for me old sport." Nick does his best to. The "friends" he contacted either wanted something they left at Gatsby's house, or were not interested in coming. He tried to be there for Gatsby, unfortunately, only Gatsby's father, Henry, Nick, and the ...

Number of words: 346 | Number of pages: 2

Kaffir Boy

... provide the money that was necessary to get Mark through school. Mark was helped through this situation by his Mother who was the person who wanted Mark so desperately to attend school. She decided to go against Mark’s Father and send Mark to school. She then had to get a job which was illegal for her to do so because she didn’t have the required pass from the South African government. With the little money that his mother made and some money that his grandmother gave him he was able to pay for his schooling or at least some of it ...

Number of words: 621 | Number of pages: 3

Year 10 Asian History Origami

... have remained unchanged over the centuries. The Japanese transmitted their designs via an oral tradition, with the recreational designs being passed from mother to daughter. Because nothing was ever written down, only the simplest designs were kept. The first written instructions appeared in AD 1797 with the publication of the Senbazuru Orikata (How to Fold One Thousand Cranes). The Kan no mado (Window on Midwinter), a comprehensive collection of traditional Japanese figures, was published in 1845. The name origami was coined in 1880 f ...

Number of words: 637 | Number of pages: 3

Zeus The King Of The Gods

... Indians. He was the ruler of all Greek Gods, and father to most of them. He was god protector of the kings, that is why he was also called Zefs Megistos (Zeus the greatest) and Zeus Aristos (Zeus the Best). When democracy became popular in Greece those attribute names changed to others like Zefs Eleftherios (Zeus the liberal). He was also worshiped by the attribute names Milihios (mild) and Xenios (of hospitality). The first because he was thought as a god that his rage could be milled and the second because he was protector of the tr ...

Number of words: 1014 | Number of pages: 4

An Analysis Of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed In Life Due To His Father

... success as a butcher, and his father did not want Jimmy to work for what he has, but would rather see his son become popular and make a lot of connections. Jimmy's father is the reason he will never succeed in life on his own. Jimmy Doyle grew in a family that was quite well off financially due to the hard work of his father. Mr. Doyle made a lot of money through hard work and sacrifice as butcher, and he wanted nothing but the best for his son. He did not want his son to work as hard as he did growing up. When Jimmy went away to college, ...

Number of words: 665 | Number of pages: 3

The Great Gatsby And The American Dream

... exemplifies the greed and shallowness a such society generates as well as how it destroys human relations. One of the main topics of this book is how one should question one's aims in life. Jay Gatsby has most of his life concentrated his efforts in order to establish a reputation of being in the uppermost fraction of the social hierarchy. Once, this is beyond doubt achieved, he does not experience a sense of success, only a lack of motivation to go on. To earn the hart of Daisy thus becomes his only goal and dedication in life. This symbo ...

Number of words: 444 | Number of pages: 2

Stillwatch: Summary

... meet Pat Traymore, a young, beautiful, and talented reporter living in our nation’s Capital. She is very in love with an older congressman named Sam Kingsley. They had a love affair two years before the present time, when his wife was dying. Pat is doing a TV series entitled Women in Government, and her first show is to be over Senator Abigail Jennings, the first woman to be nominated for Vice President. Well, Pat starts going back into Abigail’s past to find out more about her. What she does find genuinely intrigues her: murder ...

Number of words: 1397 | Number of pages: 6

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