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Book Review: NemesisName of Book: Nemesis
was three years of age, his family immigrated to the United States and settled
in Brooklyn, New York. Asimov turned to full time writing in 1958. This
accomplished writer is best known for his novels dealing with science fiction.
However, his works extend to other subjects. ...
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Don QuxioteDon Quixote: Renaissance humor with a modern translation A Spanish knight, about fifty years of age, gave himself up so entirely to reading the romances of chivalry, that in the end they turned his brain, and nothing would satisfy him but that he must ride abroad on his old horse, armed with spear ...
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Little WomenLost Horizon is the story of four people who, while being evacuated from a war-torn city in Asia, were kidnaped and taken to a mystical and mysterious valley in the Tibetan mountains named Shangri-La. Shangri-La was a uncommonly strange place. It was isolated, it wasn't on any map and no one had ...
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Catch 22America has been involved in the cold war for years. The fear of communism is ruining lives. The country moves closer and closer to the Korean war. Joseph Heller’s is published. 1963- College students are seen wearing army fatigues with "Yossarian" name tags. Reports are being made ...
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The Adventures Of HuckleberryMany changes violently shook America shortly after the Civil War. The nation was seeing things that it had never seen before, its entire economic philosophy was turned upside down. Huge multi-million dollar trusts were emerging, coming to dominate business. Companies like Rockefeller’s Standard ...
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Murray Davis' Smut, Erotic Reality/Obscene IdeologyIn the book Smut, Erotic Reality/ Obscene Ideology , by Murray Davis
(1983), the author expresses the idea that the best source for studying human
sexuality objectively is "soft core", rather than “hard core” pornography.
(Davis p. xix). The purpose of this paper is to critique Davis's claim ...
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Anna Karenina: ForeshadowingThroughout life there are situations which arise that seem to have
been hinted earlier. You might not have noticed the hint when it first
appeared, but suddenly at one point it finally dawns on you. The same goes
for the literary aspect of foreshadowing. The novel Anna Karenina by Leo
Tolstoy has ...
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Pride And PrejudiceJane Austen's , set in Nineteenth century England, is a novel about marriage. Austen's feminine writing and weaved storyline creates a novel which can be interesting to read and which women especially enjoy. The novel has a strong theme of marriage as a mother (Mrs. Bennet) desperately trying to ...
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Summary Of DraculaOne of the famous monsters of our time that has terrorized audiences in many movies is Count Dracula. The character was created by author Bram Stoker in the novel titled Dracula. In the novel, Dracula of course is the antagonist. The protagonist is a young man from England, Jonathan Harker, who ...
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Crisis: Generation XGeneration X is the most misunderstood generation to date. Douglas
Coupland attempts to make sense of what sense this generation has been left
with. Due to high expectations placed upon Generation X, commonly know as
"X-ers", by the successful "Baby Boomer" generation. Couplands' ...
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Huckleberry Finn 8Huckleberry Finn Should Not Be Banned
If Mark Twain was alive today, he would probably be appearing at libraries and in online chat rooms during Banned Books Week to discuss the fate of his own books. He certainly deserves recognition for the number of times his books have been challenged or ...
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Huck FinnTim Lively Critical Analysis: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Setting: Late 1800’s along the Mississippi River Plot: When the book begins, the main character, possesses a large sum of money. This causes his delinquent lifestyle to change drastically. Huck gets an education, and a home to live ...
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Sex Is For Marriage OnlyThis is a very interesting chapter. It talks about how some people have gotten so far out of God's will that they are perishing. They are perishing for their lack of knowledge of God. They don't know that's why they are perishing, but the reason is simple: They are in disobedience to God's ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities - SuspensThroughout the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens creates suspense and mystery to try to keep his readers interested. This technique might have worked for 19th century people with nothing better to read, but it doesn’t stack up nowadays. You can paint this anyway you want but what it ...
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Lord Of The Flies - FixedIn many novels chapter one introduces the characters and the setting. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies he not only introduces characters, settings, but also gives off clues to up coming events, by using the activities that the characters participaid in while in civilization. In the begging ...
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Great GatsbyGatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream The , a novel by Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goals. The attempt to capture the American Dream is central to many novels. This dream is different for different people; but, in ...
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The Blue HotelStephen Crane is a well-known author of variety of short stories. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a Methodist minister. After schooling at Lafayette College and Syracuse University, he worked in New York as a freelance journalist. His short stories and experimental poetry, also, ...
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Comparing The Works Of Richard WrightOne of America's most prominent black authors is Richard Wright writes mostly from the African American perspective. Both his novel Native Son and his short stories The Man Who Was Almost a Man (from the collection Eight Men) deals with young black men in their quest and struggles to become ...
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Lord Of The Flies - CivilizedThe novel "Lord Of The Flies" bases itself on civilized and savage behaviour. Civilized behaviour means to be aware of your surroundings and to care for them and to sacrifice certain pleasures to attain them, and to help others. When hearing the word 'savage' one thinks of cavemen squatting and ...
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Stephen KingStephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his parents separated when Stephen was a toddler, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his ...
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