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Lord Of The Flies - Character
<view this essay>.... have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are the best at everything. So we've got to do the right things." (p.42) Although we are shown a pretty normal boy, we start to see that Jack can be very hostile at the same time. While Piggy is talking, we see Jack exclaim, "You're talking to much. Shut up fatty." (p.21)
Jack is made the leader of the hunting tribe. He and his hunters have much trouble trying to hunt and kill a pig. Coming from a place like England, he has not had any experience in anything like this before. He is struggling to be a hunter, because right now he still has not made his decent into primitive .....
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Phineas And Gene A Comparitive
<view this essay>.... just met because the other person could have easily struck back to cause a conflict, but Phineas' confident nature helped him get through the situation as he laughed his way through the conversation. Another example which showed Phineas' confidence occurred during a conversation he had with Gene. Even though Phineas did not know Gene, he felt perfectly comfortable talking about his sexual history. The author explained what Phineas was talking about as he stated, " He had experienced it three times, and gave detailed, completely matter-of-fact and unboastful accounts of all three."(101). If Phineas was not a confident person, he would not have shared his story .....
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Crime And Punishment--is Rasko
<view this essay>.... helped...fancying yourself...an ‘extraordinary’ man, uttering a new word in your sense.... That’s so, isn’t it?” to which Raskolnikov replies, “Quite possibly” (247).
Raskolnikov was strongly prompted to murder Alyona when he recalled a conversation that took place between two ordinary men in a bar. One declared:
I could kill that damned old woman and make off with her money without the faintest conscious-prick.... For one life, thousands would be saved from corruption and decay.... Besides, what value has the life of that sickly, stupid, ill-natured old woman in the balance of existence? (63)
Raskolnikov reaso .....
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Hamlets Impractical Thinking A
<view this essay>.... didst ever thy father love/...Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” [1.5: 29, 31] With these words, the Ghost puts the play in motion, for the rest of the story will be governed by Hamlet’s quest for this revenge. Furthermore, the spirit emphasizes the need for Hamlet to act quickly:
I am thy father’s spirit,
Doomed for a certain term to walk the night
And for the day confined to fast in fires
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. [1.5: 14-18]
The message is clear: if the prince is to truly ease the suffering of his father’s spirit, he must avenge the murder immediately.
Hamlet initially me .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Alcohol, Sex, And Violence
<view this essay>.... in a mixture of rebellion towards their parents and a sign of maturity. Another reason for teenage drinking is it represents a daring gesture. According to Dr. Joseph Franklin, "The way drinking starts is, one kid dares another kid to take a drink of alcohol, and the kid doesn't want his friends to think he is a coward so he does. Then the rest of them follow."
In the book, Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year.
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's View Of The World
<view this essay>.... all over
the place." 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. The three days we learn of from the novel place
a distressed Holden in the are 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 genuine merriment. "Holden
is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts, morons and screwballs.
These convictions which Holden holds waver very momentarily during only one
pa .....
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Oedipus - King Of Riddles
<view this essay>.... a deficiency of the
ability to look inward. This talent of looking outward made him renowned
for deciphering riddles and mysteries. Yet when Tiresias appears and speaks
in riddles, Oedipus cannot solve them because of his lack of insight.
Tiresias's riddles are clear in what they state, but Oedipus cannot
understand them because he doesn't know himself well enough. Tiresias
conveys,
All ignorant! And I refuse to link my utterance with a downfall
such as yours.(Pg.42) At this point in the play, Oedipus still cannot
perceive who the murderer of King Laius is, even though the riddle is
obvious. Oliver 2 Oedipus has the ability to comprehe .....
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Orson Scottt Card's Ender's Game
<view this essay>.... it is very tough. He ends up killing 2 kids and
breaking count less numbers of bones in the 4 years that he is there. While he
is there he plays a virtual reality game. When he beats the game the computer
makes up a place called the end of the world. There are some very disturbing
things here. Eventually Ender graduates battle school (2 years earlier that
anybody has ever graduated, he's a genius.) He then goes to command school were
he learns how to control fleets of star ships. They put him in a simulator and
he is given many missions to fly. Then one day his inspectors say that today is
his final mission before they grade him. He up agents a whole planet an .....
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