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The Hobbit By J.r.r. Tolken
<view this essay>.... is not sure that he is happy about being chosen burglar. But a part of him does yearn for adventure, and so one spring morning he finds himself setting out for Lonely Mountain with Gandalf and the thirteen dwarves. He does not prove very helpful at first. But then something happens that changes Bilbo's life. He finds a magic ring that makes him invisible, and has several opportunities to use it to rescue the dwarves from danger and imprisonment. They become quite impressed by him, and even rely on him, just as Gandalf foretold. Bilbo and the dwarves finally reach Lonely Mountain, the home of Smaug the dragon. The dwarves send Bilbo down a secret passage to .....
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Everyone In A Man For All Seasons Is Pursuing Their Own Ends. What Makes More Different?
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others and live chiefly for personal profit. All, except for one. Sir
Thomas More is a man who subconsciously is a slave to his conscience. He
executes selfless acts in order to do what he knows is legal, and what he
thinks is right. He is one of very few people who have died with their
integrity intact. He is a special man, who is steadfast in upholding his
principles, even when death breathes down his neck. Sir Thomas More truly
is a paragon.
One character in the play particularly concerned with his goals, regardless
of the path he must take to reach them is Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is the
personification of pragmatism and is willing to do anyth .....
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Snow Falling On Cedars
<view this essay>.... snowy but not entirely unpleasant. This is a parallel to the trial, it has just begun and the reader is yet to learn of the crime committed and discover the people and circumstances which the town is in the midst of.
The novel flashes back to the childhood lives of the characters, the setting here is one of innocence. The reader is given the chance to view each character in their youth, a time when racism, prejudice and adult issues were not heeded. Kabuo and Carl are depicted as friends, they lived on the same property and attended the same school. "Is Kabuo home ? ". The two often spent time together "Look at this, Kabuo loaned it to me". Kabuo had lent Carl .....
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Dollshouse
<view this essay>.... business know-how could derive ways to earn or borrow money. Torvald treats Nora like a doll. He calls her by all manner of names: squirrel, silly child, lark, songbird. The names he uses directly relates to how Torvald feels about her at the time. He tends to treat her views and opinions as less than important or trifling. Torvald doesn’t want Nora spending too much money at Christmas. Nora wants to borrow against his upcoming promotion and subsequent raise in salary. Torvald states on page 1565 ‘Are your scatterbrains off again? What if today I borrowed a thousand crowns, and you squandered them over Christmas week.’ On the rare o .....
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Go Ask Alice
<view this essay>.... got mixed up in
the drug world.
Alice bought a diary because she had a big secret that she could never
tell any of her friends. It really only ended up being that a boy named Roger
she was in love with stood her up and she would be to embraced to tell her
friends. She makes a big deal out of it, I can already tell she is dramatic.
Her birthday is only five days apart from mine, that is a weird
coincidence.
From September 19 through September 25 she goes on about how nothing
every happens in her life. She does not enjoy her teachers, subjects and school.
She thinks everything is losing interest and everything's dull. I think she just
is going through the "t .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
<view this essay>.... Paul and the rest of the boys. However at the end of the war many come to the realization of how pointless and horrific war really is.
is a novel that greatly helps in the understanding the effects war. The novel best shows the attitudes of the soldiers before the war and during the war. Before the war there are high morals and growing nationalist feelings. During the war however, the soldiers discover the trauma of war. They discover that it is a waste of time and their hopes and dreams of their life fly further and further away. The remains of Paul Baumer's company had moved behind the German front lines for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. Aft .....
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The Right To Privacy By Robert Bork.
<view this essay>.... to be able to interpret laws
from the Constitution. Without this ability it would be doubtful if people
today could claim a general right to privacy.
The Griswald case involved a bizarre law that forbade the use of condoms in the
hope that it would prevent adulterous affairs. This deduction is as absurd as
banning all sales of chocolate in order to prevent obesity.
Robert Bork admitted that this law did not make sense, especially in the ability
of government officials to enforce the law. Yet, Bork disagreed with the method
used by Justice Douglas to overturn the conviction of two doctors distributing
information on condoms. Bork felt that Douglas's liberal u .....
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Analysis Of Animal Farm
<view this essay>.... was Snowball the pig. Snowball
and Napoleon had opposite ideas on everything. Snowball acted like he was
the good guy (or pig in this case) until the time that the animals
supposedly found secret documents that said that Snowball was incohutes
with Jones. Snowball also spread a lot of lies around about Napoleon.
Events in Summary:
What happened first:
The first thing that happened in my book Animal Farm was that the
animals over took the Manor Farm. The "revolution," as they called it, was
achieved with great ease. Jones had gotten so drunk at a bar that he did
not get home until noon and then went to sleep until late that evening.
The animal .....
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