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Watership Down
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his best to protect the others. He was also the bird Kehaar’s best friend
and enjoyed spending time with him. Blackberry was the most
intelligent rabbit in the group. For example, he made a boat to cross a
river although the others had never even seen or understood the
floating concept. Blackberry always helped Hazel to think of ideas
when problems arose. Dandelion, another smart rabbit, was known for
his speed and for his great story telling of El-ahrairah, the rabbit folk
hero. He could always tell stories which distracted and eased the
rabbits from problems. Pipkin, a good friend of Fiver, was small like
Fiver but acted as if he was as big as Bigwig. He .....
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"The Republic" By Plato
<view this essay>.... the fear of having a
bad reputations. He explains this decision in the story of the two magic rings.
The rings of magic would make a man invisible whenever he turns it on his finger.
He believed that each man would act in the same manor. They would both break
into houses unseen, and help themselves to whatever they wanted. The just man
would no longer feel the need to be just. He would have two lifestyles one,
being just in front of the eyes of the society and two being the unjust man
invisible unable to get caught. Glaucon say this proves that people are just
only because they find it necessary.
Adeimantus another philosopher and Socrates elder b .....
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Dune
<view this essay>.... and the indigenous sand
worms which live under the sand. The planet has no source of water on it except
that of underground, which is very hard to come by. As you can see, "Water is
precious there." (pg. 30)
The plot of this science-fiction story deals almost entirely of the two
major houses that at this time are sworn to destroy each other and the emperor.
The two major houses want control of the spice on the planet of Arrakis which
allows anyone who has it to fold space. Folding space means traveling anywhere
in the universe without actually having to move. The House of Attreides gets
destroyed by the House of Harkonnens in the fight over the sp .....
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A Raisin In The Sun: The Propagation Of Pride And Dignity
<view this essay>.... and the detrimental effects of these problems on the family is a major theme in the play.
As the play begins a husband, Walter, and wife, Ruth, are seen having a fight over Walter's dream to become a 'mover and shaker' in the business world by using an incoming insurance check for his mother as a downpayment on a capitalistic adventure. Walter tells his wife that, "I'm trying to talk to you 'bout myself and all you can say is eat them eggs and go to work", which is the first sign of Walter's recurring feelings that if someone in the family would just listen to him and put forth their trust his dreams would come to fruition. Following this argument Walter goe .....
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Irony In "The Pardoners Tale" And "The Nun's Priest's Tale"
<view this essay>.... drunkenness, while he is drunk, blasphemy, as he attempts to sell
fake religious relics, and greed, when he himself is amazingly greedy.
Yet there are also many ironic situations in the story itself. The irony
starts when, in the begining of the story, the three rioters make a pact
to “be brothers” and “each defend the others” and “to live and die for one
another” in protection from Death, (lines 37-43) and then in going out to
fulfill their vow, they end up finding money, and killing each other over
it. Even more ironic, is how they end up killing each other. After
finding the money, the men plan to stay with it until it becomes dark and
they can .....
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Dandelion Wine
<view this essay>.... in fact they liked being together. Tom took every day slowly,
writing most everything down, the first day of summer, the first this, his
first that.
Dandelion wine took place in a small town called Green Town,
Illinois. In Green Town the Spauldings owned a patch of land that they grew
dandelions on. Every summer, Douglas, Tom, and their grandfather would pick
the dandelions and bottle it for wine. Summers in Green Town were very hot
and winters cold.
It was a town where almost everyone knew each other like a big
family.
In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many
deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh .....
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The Crucible: Abigail Is Selfish And Evil
<view this essay>.... to get John back to her own self. Since she was overcome, she had no concern with morals, and starts to sin heavily by starting the witch trials, which causes the deaths of many people in the town. Abigail doesn't want anyone to find out that she was in the forest so she harshly threatens Betty Paris and Mary Warren not to say anything. "Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you... And you know I can do it... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down." She fell in love with John Proct .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Depending?
<view this essay>.... conch shell that produces a loud bellow when blown. Ralph blows the conch and produces a sound so loud that it is heard throughout the island. Moments later, boys began appearing from the forest in hopes of finding the source of the loud noise. All of the boys agree that in order to survive on the island, they must have some sort of leader. Jack and Piggy were the obvious leaders for Jack was bold and Piggy intelligent. "But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch" (Golding 21). The boy who had blown the shell, the one who had suc .....
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