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Book Reading Essays and Term Papers
The Hobbit: Overview & ReviewBILBO BAGGINS: The Hobbit who led the Dwarves to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim their treasure from the dragon Smaug. He found the One Ring in Gollum's cave
GANDALF: The Wizard that accompanies Bilbo and the dwarves on their quest. He is well versed in magic spells and often calls upon them to ...
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Old Man And The Sea 2This novel weaves together the story of an old man, reflective and humble, and a giant Marlin, the largest ever seen, who engage in a struggle to the death. The novel is a wonderful mixture of all the distress and praise of life revisited and, in a way, it weighs out the experiences at face value ...
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Fahrenheit 451: PredictionsWhen reading Ray Bradbury’s description of the future in Fahrenheit 451, it would be very easy for many people to laugh at his predictions. Being written in the early 1950’s it is very understandable that Bradbury’s vision of the future may have been very distorted. Fahrenheit 451 did prove to be ...
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Tom Clancy, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1947, was the son of a mail carrier and a credit employee. He graduated from Loyola College in Baltimore in 1969. After marrying Wanda Thomas, an insurance agency manager, Clancy became an insurance agent. Later, in 1973, he joined the O.F. Bowen Agency in ...
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Donner PartyAlthough The of 1846-1847 is the most famous of the immigrant parties to cross the Sierra Nevada along the “Truckee Route,” they were not the first. Where the Stephens Party succeeded in crossing, in a very severe winter in 1844-1845, the became stranded and met only tragedy two years later. ...
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The Touch Of Magic By Lorena HickokThe book I chose to read is called The Touch of Magic written by Lorena
A. Hickok. The story was about Anne Sullivan Macy, Helen Keller's wonderful
teacher. I had never heard of Anne before I read this book, but while looking
in the library my mom explained to me who she was and she seemed ...
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The Life And Work Of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass's writings reflected many American views that
were influenced by national division. Douglass was a very successful
abolitionist who changed America's views of slavery through his writings
and actions. Frederick Douglass had many achievements throughout his life.
Douglass was ...
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The HobbitCHARACTER INTRODUCTION
BILBO BAGGINS: who led the Dwarves to the Lonely
Mountain to recla im their treasure from the dragon Smaug. He found
the One Ring in Gollum's cave
GANDALF: The Wizard that accompanies Bilbo and the dwarves on
their quest. He is well versed in magic ...
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The War Between The ClassesBy (Your Name Here) is an excellent book written by Gloria D. Miklowitz. It is about a high-school class that plays the “Color Game”. In the game, there are four social classes which are represented by armbands: Blues – highest, richest; Dark Greens – upper-middle class, semi-rich; Light Greens ...
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Overhead Look At SandsA Report on Sense and Sensibility
Summary: Sense and Sensibility is a story about the Dashwood family, who loses
everything when Mr. Dashwood falls suddenly ill and dies unexpectedly. Mr. Dashwood is
forced, by law, to leave his fortune and vast estate to his son, Mr. John Dashwood, from his
first ...
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Of Mice And MenWhen writing the novel , John Steinbeck made many themes clear to his readers. Some of these themes were good statements to live by, and others weren’t. Most of these themes were about people’s social lives, because that was what a good part of the book was about. They addressed friendship, ...
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Jurassic Parkis a book about the cloning of dinosaurs and they are used as the park entertainment on an island. In this park where dinosaurs are the attraction, not every thing will go as planed. Reading this book will teach someone how Michael Crichton feels about biological science and the cloning of ...
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HemingwayErnest ’s tough, Terse prose and short, declarative sentences did more to change the style of written English that any other writing in the twentieth century. II. Ernest has had many great accomplishments in his historical life but just one event has hardly sticks out from the rest. The Old ...
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Fahrenheit 451Life may be confusing to you when your job is to commit arson to any house
that has a book in it. At least that's the way it was for Guy Montag.
Guy Montag was a fireman and in the future, a firefighters job wasn't to
stop fires, but it was actually to start them. In the future, books were ...
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The Future Of The RaceThe title of Gates and West’s book evokes nineteenth and early twentieth-century works: Martin Delayn’s Past, Present and Future of the Negro Race (1854), William Hannibal Thomas’s The American Negro:What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become (1901)……..
Within ...
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The Chosen By Chaim PotokOne of the most emotional scenes from Chaim Potok’s The Chosen is when Reuven goes with Danny Saunders to talk to his father. Danny has a great mind and wants to use it to study psychology, not become a Hasidic tzaddik. The two go into Reb Saunders’ study to explain to him what is going to happen, ...
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Iliad And OdysseyThe views and beliefs of societies are often portrayed in the literature, art, and cinema of a certain era. The epic poems, The , give scholars and historians an idea how the Ancient Greek lived their everyday lives. By reading the two "novels," the reader is able to experience the three ...
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The HobbitBILBO BAGGINS: who led the Dwarves to the Lonely Mountain to recla im their treasure from the dragon Smaug. He found the One Ring in Gollum's cave
GANDALF: The Wizard that accompanies Bilbo and the dwarves on their quest. He is well versed in magic spells and often calls upon them to save his ...
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Huck Finn - JimThroughout all of his adventures Jim shows compassion as his most prominent trait. He makes the reader aware of his many superstitions and Jim exhibits gullibility in the sense that he Jim always assumes the other characters in the book will not take advantage of him. One incident proving that ...
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Intensity : What An UnderstatementWhat can make a book so intense that you are nervously anxious to see what will happen next? This is what Dean Koontz does with extreme sensibility. Very rarely is a psycho-thriller like this done without moments of stupidness and predictability. Koontz’ attention to detail makes the novel a ...
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