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Ragged Dick
<view this essay>.... Dick’s shoe-shining business, he tends to meet lots of people. Each and every day is another learning experience for Dick. There are many times when Dick’s integrity and honesty are tested, yet being a boy of good trust, he never cheats anyone.
As time goes on, Dick eventually meets a young boy named Frank, who is of a wealthy family, but is not at all familiar with New York City. Dick makes a very intelligent proposal; he offers to show Frank all around the city, and take him to all the famous places. Young Frank accepts the proposal, and in exchange, his uncle buys Dick a new suit, and helps him clean himself up. This was the real tur .....
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Animal Farm: The Corruption In Humans And The Character Napoleon
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main character, proved the possibility of corruption by his relentless
efforts to take advantage of the uneducated majority. Napoleon's personal
characteristics not only corrupted others but himself as well. His
devious personality, manipulative nature, and personal drive all lead to
the disintegration of society in Animal Farm.
From the start Napoleon was thought to be a very devious character.
He is a cold hearted individual and the effect he had on others didn't have
much impact on his moral character. His tactics for deception were his
cunning ways. An example of this is when the pigs milked the cows and
someone asked what was going to happen t .....
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Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
<view this essay>.... the difference between right and wrong when he was Dr. Jekyll. Once the potion started to backfire in Jekyll’s face because Hyde turned to evil and wants to kill him, Jekyll is upset and says only, “ Oh what a lesson I have learned! “. This shows that at least Dr. Jekyll realizes he made a mistake in the first place, he says to “ let him (me) alone to suffer for a great evil deed that I have committed”. He realizes that morally what he did was wrong. And that one shall just be as they are, and not try to change that. He tried, and he failed.
Dr. Hyde on the other hand is the evil side of Dr. Jekyll. Enfield points out that .....
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Bill Budd
<view this essay>.... forces. Billy Budd who is described as “strength and beauty. Tales of his prowess recited. Ashore he the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost.” John Claggart, a man “in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious living but born with him and innate, in short ‘a depravity according to nature.’” These two people who are clearly on opposite sides of the spectrum contrast one another in a plethora of ways. Where Billy is sweet, John is bitter. Where Billy is naïve, John is knowledgeable. Where Billy is content, John is jealous. .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
<view this essay>.... dying from a leg amputation. All Muller can talk about is who will get Kemmerich's fine leather boots. The more sensitive Kropp laughs bitterly at Kantorek's having called them Iron Youth. Lounging around the next few days, Paul recalls the basic training methods of Corporal Himmelstoss. Cruel as he was, Himmelstoss did a lot more than Kantorek to toughen them for battle. Alone with Kemmerich, Paul can hardly bear it when his friend dies and all the orderly cares about is getting the bed cleared. Outraged at the senseless death of all such frail-looking boys, Paul nevertheless takes Kemmerich's boots to Muller, they are of no use to Kemmerich now. Soo .....
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A Room Of One’s Own: Cranial Spelunking
<view this essay>.... Woolf, a modernist writer from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, uses steam of consciousness in her writing to explore, map out and better understand the workings of the human mind. This method of writing relies completely on internal descriptions, leaving much for the reader to contribute.
When attempting to explore the mind, the first step would be to look inward and see how your mind is operating. Then you would have to take this information and record it. This is no simple task. But someone like Virginia Woolf would have no problem doing this at all. It would simply be a matter of giving her a pen and paper. By placing your stream of thoughts on paper, .....
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Night 3
<view this essay>.... his mother and sisters for the last time. With the advise of another prisoner, Elie and Mr. Wiesel, lied about both their ages and occupations in order to get into the same line of men. “The baton moved unremittingly sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left.” (page 29) Happy to be with his father, Elie still did not know if he was in line for the prison or the crematory. The line marched up toward the fires, he could see little children and babies being tossed into the fire. The line moved on past another pit where adults were being burned. After seeing these tragic events, Elie could no longer sleep. He could not believe this was happeni .....
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Dystopia In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
<view this essay>.... advances in technology and science" (Baker 22). It is the
situation that costs a piece of an unhealthy environment for human beings,
is the theme of the novel. The dystopian setting is brought about by
technology and by higher authorities. As technology increases, the use for
human beings in the work force decreases leaving an overwhelming amount of
depression among humans. Therefore, a way to continue the production of
technological findings is by bringing up humans from day one to accept
their unhappiness as normal. By "breeding" human beings to accept the fact
that they are born to do a specific group. Higher authorities know the
illimination of .....
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