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Greasy Lake

... satire is apparent in most of his stories. Boyle wrote an absolutely hysterical story called "The New Moon Party." The story highlights a politician named George L. Thorkelsson who was re-elected to the position of Governor because he proposed to get the United States to build a new moon that was bigger and brighter than the existing one. When the new moon was finally built and in space, it was revealed to the public. Boyle writes: "Something crazy was going on. The shoving had stopped as it had begun, but now, suddenly and inexplicably ...

Number of words: 912 | Number of pages: 4

A Tale Of Two Cities

... fidelity, and motherhood. It's as a symbol of home that her centrality and influence are greatest. Even her physical attributes promote domestic happiness: her blonde hair is a "golden thread" binding her father to health and sanity, weaving a fulfilling life for her eventual husband, Charles Darnay, and their daughter. Lucie is central, too, in the sense that she's caught in several triangles--the most obvious one involving Carton and Darnay. Lucie marries Darnay (he's upcoming and handsome, the romantic lead) and exerts great i ...

Number of words: 3391 | Number of pages: 13

Contrast Of Mark Antony And Ma

... death would not have been followed by Mark Antony, however Brutus was a man who could never show distrust to his comrads, even with his life at stake. When morality draws the line between winner and loser, to win, one needs to follow morals, while the losers are only those weak enough to be comprimised. At a quick glance it would appear that Mark Antony was definitely better than Marcus Brutus. He avenged the death of Caesar, thwarting Brutus's plans, and in the end of the battle, he emerged as the new leader of Rome. Antony had the abili ...

Number of words: 925 | Number of pages: 4

Convicts And Australia

... The convicts not only made a significant short term economic contribution they also played an extended role in becoming the founders of Australian society and culture. There is much postulation about the motives for convict transportation to Australia. Some view transportation as part of a global system of forced migration, while others argue resettlement was carried out for commercial advantage, defence strategy or simply as a genuine response to penal dilemmas . The majority of convicts were sent from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland ...

Number of words: 1990 | Number of pages: 8

Flowers For Algernon

... the way you were brought up. By him writing a story on a mentally challenged person wanting to become smart to be accepted by society, and be able to be seen as a "normal" person, at any length or means, was to show us, the society, how we treat mentally challenged people. He could possibly have seen a mentally challenged person being treated poorly, or perhaps was related to one and wanted to tell the society it was not right, but put it in a way by which it touched people in their own way, depending on how they interpret the story. In the s ...

Number of words: 866 | Number of pages: 4

One Hundred Years Of Solitude

... with Colonel Aureliano facing the firing squad. With his thoughts we are taken several years back in time when Macao was a village of twenty adobe houses. This, the beginning of the town, could in a different light be seen as representing the begining of mankind , “clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs.”. As the story goes on the town moves from utter igorance “ the world was so recent that many things lacked names” and developes until we are in the mod ...

Number of words: 527 | Number of pages: 2

Comparision Of Jack London

... "To Build a Fire") panicked when struck by the thought of dying, "he was aware of the panicky feeling that it caused"(364) Also, In "To Build a fire" the young man did receive advice; "he knew that he should have listened to the man."(357) Conversely, In "The Sea Devil" the old man did not receive any advice. Furthermore, In Jack London's story the young man did learn a lesson, but he died; "Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable sleep ever."(365) Contrarily, the man in Arthur Gordon's story learned a lesson; ...

Number of words: 793 | Number of pages: 3

Hackers

... of hacking, very little research has been done on the hacking world and its culture. The image of a computer hacker has grown from a harmless nerd into a vicious techno-criminal. In reality most are not out to destroy the world. The in today's society are not bored teenagers. Imagine this, you are driving along the road and suddenly you see something spectacular. Now imagine that you are not allowed to deviate from your course to check it out. This is what a so-called “hacker” faces. Just imagine that you saw an injured person on the ...

Number of words: 2826 | Number of pages: 11

Troubles Macbeth Faced

... Duncan Macbeth, the noble character, suffers from serious problems that lead him into losing the hope of living. People might say that the importance of religion to Macbeth gradually decreases to a point where he no longer refers to God in his thoughts or actions. For he had killed Macduff's wife and children for no logical reason. Moreover, Macbeth proves that he no longer has second thoughts about killing people when he says, "From this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The very firstlings of my hand." (IV, i, 145-147). T ...

Number of words: 589 | Number of pages: 3

Mark Twain A Morally Deficient

... his writings: such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Letters From the Earth. Twain also combined bad habits and swearing with his beliefs to justify the habits that he knew were bad, but just could not give up. Twains rebellious nature can be traced back as far as when he was a young boy of 13 in Hannibal. Working as an apprentice printer in his uncles print shop, he was put in charge of the paper for a week while his uncle would be out of town. It was then that the young Twain, being of devilish min ...

Number of words: 1543 | Number of pages: 6

With Malice Toward None By Ste

... his campaign for the presidency in 1860 Lincoln described his adolescence as "the short and simple annals of the poor." (p 30). His father Thomas was a farmer who married Nancy Hanks, his mother, in 1806. Lincoln had one sister, Sarah, who was born in 1807. The Lincoln family was more financially comfortable than most despite the common historical picture of complete poverty. They moved to Indiana because of the shaky system of land titles in Kentucky. Because the Lincoln's arrived in Spencer County at the same time as winter, Thomas only had ...

Number of words: 2490 | Number of pages: 10

Bridge Of San Luis Rey

... She needed someone who was able to perform all the task that she must now perform, when she could no longer perform them. As a result Pepita was subjected to a kind of molding process. In this process she was assigned to worst task in the orphanage, which taught her administration. She also became a kind of companion for the Abbess, accompaning her on her trips, on which she was educated in the management of women, wards, and how to beg for money. Yet the strangest part of her education was the Abbess's decision to send her to live with th ...

Number of words: 734 | Number of pages: 3

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