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A Separate Peace

... and Finny initiate their summer of 1942 with the false perception that their friendship is flawless. At the beginning of the story, Gene seems to accept Finny’s superior athletic ability, but he resents what he feels was Finny flaunting his abilities. Finny demonstrates his superior agility to Gene when he grabs Gene’s hand, lending him support when he loses his balance during one of their routine jumps from a towering tree. Gene feels that he should not feel any “rush of gratitude toward Phineas,” because he does not like feelin ...

Number of words: 735 | Number of pages: 3

Jurassic Park

... the story. One of the first things Dr. Malcom talks about is the chaos theory. In the first conversation with him in the book Malcom said "Theory tells me that the island will quickly proceed to behave in unpredictable fashion"(Crichton 76). What Malcom means by this is that without even visiting the park he can say that it will fail. Dr. Malcom is a problem in the story because convinces other people that is a bad idea. Dennis Nedry is the computer expert at . He deals with all the problems in the parks computer system. Nedry works in ...

Number of words: 408 | Number of pages: 2

Cuckoos Nest

... his themes with the reader is through the use of third person narration. Kesey chooses one of the patients, Chief Bromden, as the narrator of the novel. The world which Bromden describes is a hazy, transparent realm, where the borders between insanity and sanity are unclear. “There’s long spells -three days, years- when you can’t see a thing, know where you are only by the speaker sounding overhead like a bell clanging in the fog (94)” Bromden’s view is omniscient. Although he poses to the ward staff as a deaf-mute, he act ...

Number of words: 1588 | Number of pages: 6

Lightning Never Strikes Twice

... family. As the legend of the family goes their souls were not able to escape the rubble and float into the sky. Therefore their soul will inhabit the house until their able to escape. Their souls will reside there until they find another soul to watch over the house. Three months ago. Steve Windmere a wealthy young CEO of AT&T is driving around Nantucket looking for a new house to settle in. When he comes across the most beautiful house he has ever seen. He loved every bit of it from the aged gray shingles to the pealing pain ...

Number of words: 1146 | Number of pages: 5

The Fall Of Satan

... shows Satan’s appearance as a beast. Pretty much you can see how his appearance and personality are quite related. Milton gives us a vivid description of Satan. That he has eyes that sparking blaze, monstrous size. This describes to us how Satan looks now, but before Satan was an Angel. He is not the same being that he was before. Satan’s actions also are shown on Milton’s writings. It starts out as early as the beginning of the earth. When Satan attracted Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. In his speech to Beelzebu ...

Number of words: 558 | Number of pages: 3

Another Voice In Frankenstein

... is the direct result of this over-analysis. What if we are looking too carefully? If we were to take a step back, we should see that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is nothing more than the not uncommon story of the average teenager. This isn’t to say that the novel is not a work of art, rather, it is quite possibly the best prose ever written by an eighteen year-old. But the fact of the matter remains. Mary Shelley was eighteen going on nineteen when she wrote Frankenstein. Taking this into account, it becomes more apparent that Shel ...

Number of words: 1033 | Number of pages: 4

Summary Of After The Sirens, Penny In The Dust, And Under The I

... they will combine and overcome this huge obstacle. The relationship might not have been so intense if something that wasn’t as serious as a nuclear blast was occurring. Although the reader has no way of knowing how intense their relationship was before the blast one might assume that it was not as intense. The character’s relationship grows because of the events, for instance the husband throws himself on the wife and child now, she knows that he truly cares for her and that she can trust him. The fact that the husband and wife are willin ...

Number of words: 518 | Number of pages: 2

Gods Grandeur

... conjure up, at various points, images of the Creation, the Fall, Christ’s Agony and Crucifixion, man’s continuing sinfulness and rebellion, and the continuing presence and quiet work of the Holy Spirit. These images combine to assure the reader that although the world may look bleak, man may yet hope, because God, through the sacrifice of Christ and the descent of His Holy Spirit, has overcome the world. The opening line of "God’s Grandeur" is reminiscent both of the Creation story and of some verses from the Book of Wisdom. The word ...

Number of words: 3610 | Number of pages: 14

The Bean Trees

... her business, her reputation, and her life to help out illegal aliens that are running, for one reason or another, from their original country. Most of these aliens are searching for a better life in America. Mattie assists them by providing them with housing, food, and medical attention whenever needed. She knows the consequences involved, and yet she perseveringly volunteers to give these people sanction. "There was another whole set of people who spoke Spanish and lived with her for various lengths of time. I asked her about ...

Number of words: 515 | Number of pages: 2

The Birthmark

... intent. Yes, the field of medical science has greatly advanced within the confines of the past two hundred years or so. Skills and procedures that have been learned during this time can be used in such powerful ways. Anyone can become practically anybody else they choose—just a clip here, slice there, take fat cells from here and add them to there, and voila…a new person. However, Mother Nature as been around for quite a bit longer, and she knows what she is doing—leave her alone! Messing with nature’s intent is dangero ...

Number of words: 623 | Number of pages: 3

The Sextants Of Beijing

... 645, which was the Tang dynasty. In this time, Han China was interested in establishing political and commercial relationships with others through trade. China began to trade silk and gold with Central Asia in regular basis and in return, China imported spices, woolen fabrics, and military projects from India. According to Waley Cohen, the trade expanded for a number of reasons during the Tang dynasty. The first was simply the attractiveness of the success and cosmopolitan Tang court and society. The second was an increase in seafaring ...

Number of words: 1024 | Number of pages: 4

Qualities Of Character That En

... have the characteristics to meet his determination. Kings are generally thought to be beautiful, God-like humans from a certain genealogy. They are placed at the throne due to whom they were born to and/or who they marry. Richard is born of the royal family but, he does not possess the qualities of a King to be legitimate according to Shakespeare's Richard III. In order to comprehend why such a high level of fear and insecurity can be brought about, a look at the upbringing and personal life of Richard should be brought into discussion. ...

Number of words: 1454 | Number of pages: 6

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