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Billy Bathegate By E.L. Doctor

... in the crime family. It is for these reasons that the young fifteen year old boy quickly develops into a man. Author Overview The novel was written in 1989 by a contemporaneous author named E. L. Doctorow. Doctorow was born in 1931 and fantasized about the 1930’s crime life as a child. He is an American novelist, short story writer, editor, essayist, as well as a dramatist. His works include Big as Life, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, , Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella, a play entitled Drinks Before Di ...

Number of words: 2036 | Number of pages: 8

Book Report On "The Lost World"

... how to and operate most of the vehicles. Synopsis: My book is about how Richard Levine tries to and does find the InGen corporation's second dinosaur island which he had been searching for and trying to locate for years. The second island is only a few hundred miles away from the original , and they both were abandoned when a freak and tragic incident left nearly everyone on both islands dead. Not many people who knew about the second island survived so it took him a long time to find one of the old employees of InGen and get him to ...

Number of words: 1005 | Number of pages: 4

The Gift Of The Magi: Themes

... one would never know why they needed to sell their most prized possessions. The theme is expressed through the characters more than anything. Of course, there would be no story without the characters but even more so than that Jim and Della set the atmosphere. For example, when Jim walks in on Della to find that she has no hair after he has bought her combs, he is not infuriated, just astonished. There could not be a better emotion to feel in that position. The same happens when Della sees Jim no longer has the watch making her gift ju ...

Number of words: 400 | Number of pages: 2

Anselm's Definition Of God

... God has many attributes which describe him. Among these being: self-existent, a necessary being, omnipotent, omniscient, completely just and timelessly eternal. After reading the Proslogion by Anselm, it gave me a greater understanding of these attributes listed above. Although, they are all of equal importance, I feel the most prominent of God's attributes is the fact that he is self existent. In essence, that means that God depends on nothing else for his existence, he is uncaused. Therefore, his existence is timelessly-eternal. Thi ...

Number of words: 1572 | Number of pages: 6

Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach An

... 1846. He married and had children. He worked as an inspector of schools, to support his family. He wrote many books of poetry and essays. He went on two tours of America to do Lectures. He later died of a heart attack, in Liverpool, in 1888. Matthew Arnold lived during the Victorian period. For much of this century the term Victorian, which literally describes things and events in the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), conveyed connotations of "prudish," "repressed," and "old fashioned." Although such associations have some basis in fac ...

Number of words: 2000 | Number of pages: 8

The Role Revenge Played In The

... or against God’s will just by stating it. This led to complete chaos and people were falsely accusing others just to seek revenge on them for things that had been done in the past. Revenge was aimed toward enemies when the young girls realized the power that had been given to them through court. Abigail Adams ambitions were to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor because she was married to the man Abigail loved. The quote, “You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor” (19), shows Abigail’s ambitions of getting rid of Eli ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus Finch

... be good human beings while Joe is similar in his beliefs, he lacks the teaching ability that Atticus possesses. Atticus knows children need guidance and understands that the things he says to his children can have a profound effect on them. Joe believes he must communicate his feelings to Pip about his own actions and tell Pip what he needs to know. When Pip tells lies to Joe, Mrs. Joe, and Uncle Pumblechook about Miss Havisham and reveals this fact to Joe, Joe becomes upset with Pip. “‘Terrible?’ cried Joe. ‘Awful! What possessed you ...

Number of words: 713 | Number of pages: 3

Medea: Summary

... in the play Medea because the tragic Hero/ine - in this case Jason and Medea in each one's own sense - is done over by a woman after cheating on her with the princess of the King of Corinth. He places emphasis on human emotions and individual psychology in order to help the reader produce a clear picture of the characters. Medea features strong dramatic situations and a stirring part for the heroine, whose attitude of feminine pride and tradition is still popular in today's world. Setting: The entire play takes place on the island o ...

Number of words: 1753 | Number of pages: 7

Passing By Nella Larsen

... woman to win the Guggenheim Fellowship was forced out of writing by scandal. Before being haunted by scandal, Nella Larsen played an intricate role in the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that started toward the end of World War I and lasted through the mid 1930's. It was the first notable movement of African-American writers and artists in the United States. It was given the name "Harlem Renaissance" because the movement was centered in the Harlem district in New York City. More African-American writers and poets we ...

Number of words: 883 | Number of pages: 4

Black Boy

... Arab Palestinians war with Israelis to find a homeland; the Ku Klux Klan draws its biggest membership influx in over 20 years; and in the U.S. where freedom reigns, Americans have never to date voted a person into the president's office who was not a white male. Denny's restaurants, Texaco gas stations, and Avis car rental are a few of the number of national companies accused of extolling racism in this "apartheid America." Although less subtle in the lives of Americans then, racism also thrived in the souls of people living during the 1920' ...

Number of words: 1462 | Number of pages: 6

Macbeth - The Masks Of Lady Ma

... a letter from her husband. As she reads about the witches's prophecy of Macbeth becoming king of Scotland, she begins to accumulate villainous ideas in her mind. Only the death of the king would allow the witches's predictions to come true. King Duncan's visit to Inverness would be his "fatal entrance" (1.5.35). "Unsex me here" (1.5.37) and "make thick my blood" (1.5.39) Lady Macbeth would say, wanting to have the courage and strength of a man. To have power, she must win the "golden round" (1.5.24) and become queen of Scotland. Lady ...

Number of words: 1084 | Number of pages: 4

The Scarlet Letter: Evil Of Isolation

... Though Arthur's mark of shame is not visible, it is all the more tortuous for its absence. Shame and guilt feed upon Arthur's soul with slow malevolency. Only a combination of death and confession finally release Arthur from his torture. Though Hester's ostracism from society and the tortuous nature of her shame, Hester is stripped of all passion and humanity. Since society acknowledges Hester's sin, she becomes an exile in her own town. "All the world Ha[s] frowned on her," and Hester must bear the brunt of her shameful isolation. When Hes ...

Number of words: 665 | Number of pages: 3

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