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Breaking Societies Rules

... be forgiven, but they have no strength and are cowards. Forgiveness can only be obtained when these characters find the strength within themselves to speak the truth. The first to commit a sin is John Proctor, the husband of Elizabeth Proctor. John is a good man until Abigail Williams comes into his life. John lives in a house feeling empty and thinking his wife does not love him. Lust is a very powerful feeling, and it tempts John right into bed with Abigail. Unfortunately once he commits adultery, Elizabeth does not forgive him. She finds wa ...

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Stoker And Rice's Books About Vampires

... Lestat, her main chacter Lestast says “As for my strength, well it was three times what it had once been. I could bend a copper penny double.” After becoming a vampire he notices his super human strength. Not much is written about Stoker's use of super-strength for Count DraculaTherefore, One tends to believe that Dracula in fact did not have enhanced strength. Stoker did use the power of morphing into animals in his novel. In Dracula , the Count can morph into a bat and he can turn into a greyish-green mist. He uses these powers so huma ...

Number of words: 1924 | Number of pages: 7

Sexuality In Wiseblood

... the show’s promoter claims that it is "SINsational." In his anxiousness to view the sideshow, Haze resorted to lying about his age. He was that eager to see it. When he enters the tent, Haze observes the body of an obese naked woman squirming in a casket lined with black cloth. He leaves the scene quickly. This first bout with sexuality was certainly a grotesque one, and one which, perhaps, helped fortify his resolve not to experiment with sex for years to come. Haze reacted to the incident on different levels. Before watching the "show," he ...

Number of words: 1239 | Number of pages: 5

Cyrano The Bergerac - Love

... love in utter perfection. First of all the question rises what is love. Love is having a sense of security in someone. When we love someone we usually mean that we can turn to that person comfortably if all other doors of the world are shut to us. This is the one person that we trust and like to be in company with. In the novel Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano loves Roxane more than anyone else but he is shy to tell her so. When he finds out of her feelings towards another character Christian, who she likes because of his looks, Cyrano f ...

Number of words: 663 | Number of pages: 3

Gulliver's Travels And The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen: Similarities

... of Munchausen, as well as the adventures of Gulliver, were very outrageous. The stories described by both are hard for the reader to believe. Although very entertaining, they are so farfetched that one would find it difficult to consider as true. Baron started off by telling his tales as he remembered them. He took off in his hot air balloon in search of his magical friends. He first went to the moon to look for Berthold. This was much like Gulliver's travels to Lilliput, however, Gulliver did not go there intentionally. ...

Number of words: 1700 | Number of pages: 7

The Chamber

... hijacking; and of course, homicide. The death penalty is also called for punishment of for: attempting to kill anyone investigating or prosecuting his or her activities; advising, directing, authorizing or assisting in the murder of someone. Also, The Anti-Drug abuse act of 1988 calls for the death penalty for all drugs related killings. Along with that, The bill amending sec. 848 to controlled substances act calls for the death penalty or life imprisonment for certain drug offences possession of 10 or more kg of heroin, cocaine, phe ...

Number of words: 2373 | Number of pages: 9

Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy

... for the security forces of individual nations to combat this threat to the safety of their people. What’s needed is an organization with the resources and authority to fight terrorism wherever it flourishes. It will be composed of the best and brightest counter terrorism experts from every country and armed with state of the art weapons and equipment. It will operate in absolute secrecy. Its existence known only to the most senior government officials. It would attack swiftly and silently cutting off the head of the viper before i ...

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Delsohn's The Emmitt Zone: Summary

... No one in Emmitt's family had ever been to college. So it was a great accomplishment for him as well as his family for Emmitt to be able to attend FSU and eventually graduate from there. After setting many collegiate football records as a top-notched, blue chip running back, he was drafted by a skeptical Dallas Cowboys football team. Jimmy Johnson, the head coach, knew that he would develop into the type of team leader and player the cowboys needed. Even though owner Jerry Jones was skeptical about the draft choice that Johnson ...

Number of words: 328 | Number of pages: 2

Holdens Shithole

... perverts and morons. (There were) screwballs all over the place."2 His situation only deteriorates from this point on as the more he looks around this world, the more depressing life seems. Around every corner Holden sees evil. He looks out on a world which appears completely immoral and unscrupulous. The three days we learn of from the novel place a distressed Holden in the vicinity of Manhattan. The city is decked with decorations and holiday splendor, yet, much to Holden's despair "seldom yields any occasions of peace, charity or even gen ...

Number of words: 1069 | Number of pages: 4

Pinocchio

... very spiritual fellow though that some thing had inhabited his cabin before realizing that his block of wood was crying in his hand. At that very moment there was a knocking on the door and in came Geppetto, better known as Polendina by the neighbourhood boys because of his very bright yellow wig. Anyways Geppetto came in and asked the burly lumberjack if he could have a piece of wood, because that morning he had an impulse to make a puppet. The lumberjack agreeing and relieved to find a way of getting rid of the piece of wood and handed i ...

Number of words: 1776 | Number of pages: 7

“The Loneliness Of The Long Distant Runner”: What Makes Smith Run???

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Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals

... developed during this time as he read the Oz books, Alice in Wonderland, Tarzan, Grimms' Fairy Tales, and the works of Poe. In 1934 his family moved to Los Angeles, where Bradbury attended high school and joined the Los Angeles Science-Fantasy Society. While a member, Bradbury published four issues of his own magazine, Futuria Fantasia. After graduating from high school in 1938 he took various jobs which allowed him to devote much of his time to writing. His first story, published in 1940 by Script magazine, was "It's Not the Heat, It's ...

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