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Jack London 3

... his step-father. Because of his family’s poor financial condition, London was forced to leave school at the age of fourteen and find work. He labored for several years as a cannery worker, a longshoreman and as a nocturnal scavenger of San Francisco Bay, becoming the self-styled "Prince of the Oyster Pirates." In his spare time, he attempted to further his education by reading the works of Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Rudyard Kipling, Friedrich Nietzche, and others. He joined the Klondike gold rush or 1898, returning to San Francisco ...

Number of words: 1002 | Number of pages: 4

Addicted To Love

... are doubled, and embraces are electrifying on both the physical and emotional levels. One sided love is a hell like no other. Here, passions of the heart will override the sensibilities of the mind. This agony filled state is where Mark’s resides. This theme of unreturned love is as relevant today as it is in Gottfried’s time. Mark’s perception of the world, mentally and even at times physically, is greatly skewed by love’s drunken haze. Broken on the wheel of love, Mark’s heart is tortured until he confesses that Isolde ...

Number of words: 1244 | Number of pages: 5

The Theory Of Property

... from being collectively owned to being individually owned which has planted the seed of its own destruction in modern society. Morgan, in an attempt to study the role property has played in shaping social structures throughout history, has concluded that the influences property has had on reshaping societies and vice versa can teach the historian many things about both the society being studied and the environment in which it strove to survive. To Morgan, the "germ" of the institution of property slowly infected many different societies i ...

Number of words: 2781 | Number of pages: 11

The Little Prince

... adults never look within, they will never know themselves or others. A fox is one cunning animal. And in the story, it is proven to be right. From the fox’s lesson that one can see only what is essential by looking with the heart, the author leaves the desert as a changed person. He agrees with ’s thought: “the stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen”. The rose is very fragile and needs constant care. Love is not a matter of choice; it is a matter of consequence; indeed, it is a matter of survival ...

Number of words: 1123 | Number of pages: 5

Star Wars

... lived on the small backwater world of Tatoonie with his Aunt Beru and his Uncle Owen. Lukes desire to leave is instigated by Obi Wan Kenobi a old friend of his father he never knew. Luke is given a lightsabre which once belonged to his father. When Luke receives this and learns of his Jedi potential he desires to leave and learn to be a Jedi. This is not unlike Nick Solchuk who also wants to leave his small town of Three Bear Hills, Alberta. He is raised by his father in an old fashion way, much like Luke. Nicks desire to leave is first arous ...

Number of words: 541 | Number of pages: 2

Of Mice And Men 2

... they will always have something. Most of the other ranch workers do not have any family or a close friend. Lenny can not take care of himself and depends on George to do so. George merely counts on Lenny for companionship and as someone to confide in. George tells Lenny of his hopes and dreams and although Lenny may not fully comprehend what George is saying, George’s need for someone to converse with is fulfilled. Lenny and George are almost like a family as in they satisfy each other’s emotional needs and keep each other co ...

Number of words: 671 | Number of pages: 3

E. E. Cummings

... in these poems in order to convey messages visually as well as verbally. Although one may think of l(a as a poem of sadness and loneliness, Cummings probably did not intend that. This poem is about individuality - oneness (Kid 200-1). The theme of oneness can be derived from the numerous instances and forms of the number '1' throughout the poem. First, 'l(a' contains both the number 1 and the singular indefinite article, 'a'; the second line contains the French singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' ...

Number of words: 1393 | Number of pages: 6

Best Evidence

... is the Zapruder film. The Zapruder film is the only animated evidence available to help study the assassination. Lifton brings up an observation I had never noticed, in that the Zapruder film did not have the background clarity to track the president's limousine position. I was shocked to learn that the sign in the film had been removed, and later reinstalled -- perhaps at a new position. I was also surprised to read descriptions of four different versions of the film. Lifton proposes that the official locations of the bullet hits were modifi ...

Number of words: 935 | Number of pages: 4

Professor Soruco As A Consumer

... money on beauty supplies. He uses products such as Degree deoderant bacuse it is not too expensive and it smells good. To brush his teeth he uses Mentedent, which is a more expensive brand of toothpaste but it doesn't matter because Dr. Soruco takes care of his teeth. Dr. Soruco has two kids that are moved out and on their own but he helps them out financially if and when they need it. A walk during the evenings with his wife, wearing his Nike walking shoes, keeps him healthy and in touch with his wife. Not too much working out though, Dr ...

Number of words: 371 | Number of pages: 2

Bookreport On The Spy Who Came

... works with Mundt and is probably just waiting for a chance like this, will catch on and together with the information he’s going to obtain from Leamas and the information he has already obtained himself will successfully accuse Mundt of betrayal. To the outside it should look as if Leamas was fired due to his failures and would start to become an alcoholic. He then went jobbing and ended up working as a Library assistant, where he meets Liz, a young woman who is also working at the Library. The two become lovers and Leamas finds out th ...

Number of words: 1239 | Number of pages: 5

The Strength Of A Family Willi

... have all grown up and moved away from home. The entire poem is about the interactions of the man and this girl. For whatever reason, he asks her how many brothers and sisters she has. She tells him she has seven. He, of course, sees no other children running around so challenges her answer. When he finds two are dead, he insists “then ye are only five,” she stands firm in her belief that “Nay, we are seven.” Each verse goes back and forth with him trying to convince her that she is one of five and of her explain ...

Number of words: 846 | Number of pages: 4

Hamlet 6

... problems that have not even begun to be discovered according to the history books. Such discoveries as Newton's law of gravity, the steam engine, and the theory of probability can all be solved in their own somewhat idiotic ways. They also argue and prove to each other the obvious puzzles in life. When trying to demonstrate the difference in which objects fall, Rosencrantz says, "You would think that the iron ball would fall at a faster rate than this feather." Upon dropping the objects the iron ball plummets to the floor while the feather ...

Number of words: 610 | Number of pages: 3

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