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Jane Eyre
<view this essay>.... struggle under the oppressive rule of Mrs. Reed. She explains that she is discriminated against by the household members, and is exempted from activities. The lack of love she recieves leads her to feel lost and uncared for. She finds a glimmer of undersanding and care from Bessie, who pities her unfortunate situation.
On her arrival at Lowood, she again finds herself lonely and unwanted. The cold weather and meager meals damper her hopes of renewing her life and feeling wanted. But her continual hope for acceptance leads her to discover Helen Burns. Helen teaches Jane that love doesn't always have to come from others, but that it come through having faith in .....
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Flowers For Algernon
<view this essay>.... turns into a new character, except
for the frequent reminders of how he used to be, in the form of
flashbacks to his childhood and other emotionally blocked parts of his
mind. He gets a new awareness of himself and others. He also makes the
realization that some people he had put on a pedestal are not as good as
they seem. He also starts to think about romance.
Miss Kinnian, or Alice as he later in the book calls her, is
Charlie’s night school teacher and then a romantic interest and then a
teacher again. She liked the old Charlie, but when he starts becoming
smart she finds it harder and harder to keep up with him. Being with him
makes .....
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Play It Again Rita
<view this essay>.... information on other characters and events that are important
to the story.
'The Screenwriter's Bible' by David Trottier offers a good insight in
script writing and story structure. It deals with the basic elements of a
typical screenplay, and explains what it actually is that an audience
craves. Many of the principles can and should be applied to any story
whether a screenplay, theatric play, novel or short story.
The play is much more predictable in the sense that a great many things
are bound not to happen on stage. In fact nothing taking place outside
Frank's office can be seen by the audience. All action is inevitably
confined within th .....
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Margaret Atwood`s The Handmaid's Tale
<view this essay>.... main character in the book is Offred, one of these unfortunate servants
who's only right to exist depends on her ovaries productivity. She lives
with her commander and his wife in a highly supervised centre.
Unlike men, women have been facing unique problems for centuries, and often
women experience harassment and discrimination. In today's society, females
are trying to combat their tribulations through lawsuits and protest
rallies. Literature often deals with people being unable to articulate
their problems. Often, unforeseen circumstances force people to conceal
their true emotions. In "The Handmaid's Tale" the main female characters
find ways to escape th .....
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The Pelican Breif
<view this essay>.... all
the Supreme Court Justices in it and just two of them circled.
About Two minutes later both of them were murdered. One of
them in his house and the other one in a adult cinema. Then they
show Darby in the house of her law professor whose name was
Thomas Calahan. Who happened to be a clerk for Justice
Rosenberg. Shaw then tells her professor who she is having an affair
with that she is going to try and find out who murdered them. They
show the President talking with his advisor and they are saying if the
FBI can not solve who killed the Justices then maybe they should get
someone else.
After a while they go back to Gray who is on the tele .....
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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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Fahrenheit 451: The Hope Of The Phoenix
<view this essay>.... that he was
not happy at all, and that his life was nothing. His wife Mildred did not love
him at all, and his only friend (that he could remember) Clarisse died in a car
crash. All of sudden, he was not happy, but he did not know why. He thought
maybe because his wife had pulled the fire alarm on him, but really it was he
did not love her at all. "It's strange, I don't miss her at all(155)" Montag
had uncertainly about his marriage, because marriage was suppose to be bonded
with love, but with his marriage love was extinct and nowhere to be seen. His
life had died, when his wife Mildred pulled the alarm and had told the firemen
that Montag had books. .....
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Scales Of Justice
<view this essay>.... the code of conduct that is involved in being a policeman. For example, on more than on occasion, Sergeant Borland drinks and smokes while he is on duty. He then ended up influencing the new officer, Webber, to drink on duty. There is also an instance where Borland was offered an insufficient bribe so he locked the guy up and took him to court. He then influenced Webber to testify and say that he saw the man offer the bribe, which he didn’t see.
Many times it is shown that officers avoid crime because there is too much paperwork to go with it. While Webber and Borland were on duty, the saw a moving car collide with a parked car, and Webber was told to do .....
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