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- 13661: Robinson Crusoe
- ... and time again, "Why did god put me on this island all alone." His faith in god fluctuates all through the story. At one point he becomes ill and his faith in god becomes so great he starts to read the bible every morning and night. This book is one that keeps the reader attached to find out "what is going to happen next". The story begins when against his parents ...
- 13662: Battle Royal
- ... event, the narrator and several of his classmates must fight blindfolded until only one person remains standing. While the drunken crowd of respected bankers, lawyers, judges, doctors, and even a pastor finds this to be great entertainment, to the participants it is quite humiliating and degrading. Eventually the narrator and one other man are left alone in the ring. The narrator offers to let the other man win, but the request ...
- 13663: King Henry VIII
- ... throne in 1509, and soon thereafter he married Arthur's young widow, Catherine of Aragon. During the first 20 years of his reign he left the shaping of policies largely in the hands of his great counselor, Cardinal Wolsey (See Wolsey, Cardinal). By 1527 Henry had made up his mind to get rid of his wife. The only one of Catherine's six children who survived infancy was a sickly girl ...
- 13664: Ku Klux Klan
- ... their own hands, mobs of white-robed, white-hooded Klansmen punished "immorality" and terrorized "un-American" elements. At its height in the early 1920s, the Klan had between three and four million adherents and exercised great political power in many southern, western, and midwestern states. The Klan began to wane in the mid-1920s and by the 1930s had lost nearly all of its power. Some remnants of the Klan continued ...
- 13665: Brave New World: Comparing Life In the World State With Life In the US Today
- ... see a mother and father still together raising their own children and still loving each other, is a hard thing to come by in today's society, but it is still thought of as a great thing. People freely love who they want in our society with no restrictions. Love and marriage are in a way looked at as one of the highest accomplishments in our society, unlike the brave new ...
- 13666: Brave New World
- ... if they do, they are exiled so that they cannot influence those around them. Nothing changes, including the government and the lifestyle of the inhabitants. Last and most importantly, the Bokanovsky method of reproducing causes great numbers of genetically identical human beings (up to 96 at a time from a single egg alone). As well, the same ovary can be used to produce over seventeen thousand individuals with the same basic ...
- 13667: Roaring Camp
- ... story clearly shows the sorry state of the men and the camp before and after the birth of the baby, the regeneration of the men, and the storys spiritual redemption. Bret Harte does a great job of portraying each character and morals in "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
- 13668: James Joyce's "Araby"
- ... bazaar. This shows the power and persuasiveness that England has at that time over Dublin. The antagonist in this story, which can easily be determined is the culture and life in Dublin. This has a great effect on the boy and the rest of the people from this city. Dublin is referred to as the "center of paralyses,"(Internet) and "indeed sterile."(Joyce) This plays a huge role in the forming ...
- 13669: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... a fictitious city based on Schenectady (Vonnegut, Cradle, 66, 82, 14, 23). In God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, one of the main settings of the story is Rosewater County, Indiana. The people in this once great county are impoverished and for the most part feel worthless. Eliot Rosewater leaves New York City behind to focus his attention on these Hoosiers, and when his mind snaps, he ends up in Indianapolis (Vonnegut ...
- 13670: An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" and "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... and this is why he changed his name. Like Miller's the Crucible, The Scarlet Letter takes place in Puritan Salem and has a tragic hero, but these are the only similarities between the two great works. In Miller's play, the tragic hero is John Proctor, a man whose pride causes the demise of many women, tried as witches. Had Proctor chosen to reveal his sin of lechery with Abigail ...
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