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Learning To See: Summary

... history. Samuel was asked questions on the feild he would like to study , he replied, I wish to be well rounded in all departments of zoology, devoting my specialtes to insects. Professor Agassiz was pleased when Scudder was wanting to get started as soon as he could. Agassiz handed him a huge jar with a specimen of a fish, told him how to care for the specimen,then sat him down at a table. Samuel sat at the table and looked at the fish just as the Professor had instructed him. After ten minutes he saw all that could be seen of the fi ...

Number of words: 456 | Number of pages: 2

Lord Of The Flies: The Personification Of Evil

... an island paradise, to represent the earth and its resources. The littluns overindulge themselves in the fruit and leave half eaten cores on the ground. This wastefulness relates to our greedy consumption of natural resources, and how those who have them don’t use them efficiently. Another example of man wounding earth is the scar that the plane left when it crashed, “All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat” (7). Golding calls it a “scar” to demonstrate that the island, or on a greater level, the e ...

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Book Review Of Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squardron

... Army. He later gets promoted to a commanding officer and sits on the right side of the head leader of intelligence for the Emperor. Setting : The setting first takes place in the Rebel's secret base. The setting then moves to a swamp planet by the name of Imdaar. The setting then moves to Imperial headquarters on the planet of Coruscant. Plot Summary : Corran and his new partners are given a limited amount of training time and are sent out on a mission in just weeks of forming the new Rogue Squadron X-wing fighter group. This book ...

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Who Has Seen The Wind: Meaning Of Life

... not knowing that God is something that cannot be seen, for He is a spirit. Brian would say "Lets go over to his place"(7). Throughout the novel, Brian seems to be looking for God. He has his own image of God in his mind, thinking that "God rides the vacuum cleaner"(31). Brian learns the truth about God from different people like his parents, Saint Sammy, Mr. Hislop, his grandma, and his friends. He discovers that God is everywhere and in everyone, but He cannot be seen. Furthermore, Brian is very much interested, like many other children ...

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Catcher In The Rye

... than I initially believed. Holden portrayed others to be inferior to his own kind all throughout the book. He made several references as to how people aren't as perfect as he was. "The reason he [Stradlater] fixed himself up to look good was because he was madly in love with himself." (pg. 27) Holden had an inferiority complex. He was afraid of not having any special talents or abilities and used other methods to make him out to be a rough tough boy. "Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one o'clock or so, getting drunk a ...

Number of words: 917 | Number of pages: 4

The Influences Of Tolkien In T

... love of language persisted throughout his life from his child hood years till adulthood. When he was a boy he would study Welsh names that would rush by on railway coal cars, and as an older academic scholar he took to discovering the mystery of language in its northern embodiments. Tolkien tells us as a boy that he loved to rewrite and rethink Norse and Greek mythology in his own manifestations. Possibly what Tolkien is most praised for is fantastic mastery of language. He created two languages for his imaginary race of elv ...

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Black Like Me 2

... he had no idea that there were such rumors of a black’s sex life. Another part in the book shows that the whites did not understand why blacks stayed in their towns when the towns offered nothing to the Negro in form of stores, washrooms or jobs. If this was asked to a black the answer would have been related to blacks desire to keep fighting and struggling for desegregation. Of course, nearly any white man would fail to understand this. The white community wanted none of the blacks about in their town. The ignorance of whites ...

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Lord Of The Flies Reflection

... of the boys who are stranded on the island. In the novel the boys are British yet in the movie they are American. This not only affected appearance such as clothing and accents, but also the way that the boys acted reflected the different cultures that they had grown up in and was different in each version. An example of this if how they thought of the army, in the novel they mentioned links to world war 2, yet in the movie they only spoke of the army as someone who would save them and war was never really mentioned. Also a different chang ...

Number of words: 533 | Number of pages: 2

Character Analysis: Holden Caulfield

... in your life”(16) was how he explained himself. He would lie even if he didn’t have to. “If I’m on my way to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera”(16) was one example of Holden in yet another unnecessary lie. Holden was definitely not someone that you could depend on. Holden’s actions were also peculiar. He would always act like a tough guy but he really was very scared. The incident with Maurice the pimp and Sunny the Prostitute is one example. He is ve ...

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Grendel

... to hurt man just understand him. When Grendel shows up the first time in the mead hall he yells "Mercy! Peace!" But no one even gives him a chance when he walks in holding a dead body and using it for protection against the drunken men swinging axes and swords at him. Grendel dose not understand this as he says "they were doomed, I knew, and I was glad." showing the hope for destruction of the human race. In Grendel's eyes humans are going to destroy themselves and he will be glad when it happens. Grendel is very lonely in the world of m ...

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Gilgameshs Downfall

... mountain which describes a woman in the part that her "paps reach down to the underworld." Referring to two women’s breast’s hanging down. Before he may enter the mountain, he meets two half female, half dragon figures guarding the entrance. They begin asking why he has come; "No man/ born of woman has done what you have/ asked, no mortal man has ever gone into the/ mountain." This mountain is off limits to mortal beings, he should not be there Gilgamesh is alloud in and goes through twelve leagues of darkness before he reaches t ...

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Wuthering Heights

... their desire for revenge. The story starts off with Mr. Lockwood going to Heathcliff’s house in Wuthering Heights interested in buying Thrushcross Grange. Mr. Lockwood meeting hostility in the house, had to stay overnight at the house because of dense fog. When Mr. Lockwood went to sleep, he made a encounter with a ghost in his dreams signaling the start of this wonderful story. Wuthering Heights is the home to Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley, Joseph, Nelly, Heathcliff and Catherine. At Thrushcross Grange, consisted of the Lintons with two chi ...

Number of words: 607 | Number of pages: 3

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