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Essays for English: Book Reports
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- The First King of Shannara
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****This book has about the same story as all the other Shannara books but it takes place Before all the
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other ones.******
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After the first war of the races, man became an outcast and was forced to run into the deep southland...
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- The Fixer
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In the novel, The Fixer, the author, Bernard Malamud,
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presents to us a poor Jewish handyman living in Russia
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during the early 1900’s, before the Russian
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revolution had begun. Destroyed by his wife’s
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- The Grapes of Wrath
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The Grapes of Wrath is set in the horrible stage of our American history, the Depression. Economic, social, and historical surroundings separate the common man of America into basically the rich and poor. A basic theme is that man turns against one...
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- The Great Gatsby
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Life, like The great Gatsby
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Imagine that you live in the nineteen twenties, and that you are a very wealthy man
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that lives by himself in a manchine, on a lake and who throws parties every weekend. This
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is just the...
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- The Great Gatsby
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Amidst the exceedingly prosperous decade of the 1920’s, traditional American lifestyles and principles were interjected by the new superficial and materialistic beliefs closely associated with “The Roaring Twenties.” Undoubtedly, the 1920’s...
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- The Great Gatsby - Jay Gatsby's Greatness
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The greatness of an individual can be defined in terms far beyond tangible accomplishments. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s greatness comes from his need to experience success and his will to...
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- The Great Gatsby : Nick Carraway’s Perception
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Every character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, holds significant symbolic meaning, but none support the theme of Easterners compared to Westerners as wholly as Nick Carraway. In an impartial manner, Nick narrates and states his...
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- The Great Gatsby a Critical Analysis
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Once there was a Greek philosopher by the name of Sophocles and he believed that \"The greatest grieves are those we cause ourselves.\" I believe this means that when things start to happen and people start paying more attention to the...
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- The Grifters
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Symbolism in The Grifters
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The Novel and Film of The Grifters had many uses of symbolism, supporting the theme of sexual corruption, and the fall of the three main characters’ craft of the grift. In the novel, symbolism was tougher...
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- The Handmaid's Tale Offred
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We learn much about Offred through her own personal private thought. Atwood uses a technique of writing known as stream of conscientious (or ecrire feminine in this case) to allow Offred`s thoughts to flow providing the reader with a real sense of...
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- The Hardships of Growing Up
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One of the most difficult transitions a person must experience in his or her life is the transition from childhood to adulthood. For many adolescents, the responsibilities adulthood entails often overshadow the vast carefree, innocent wonderland...
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- The Hopeless Plight: Edna's Struggle with Identity and Society
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The society of Grand Isle places many expectations on its women to belong to men and be subordinate to their children. Edna Pontellier's society, therefore, abounds with "mother-women," who "idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and...
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- The Importance of Ghosts in ‘Wuthering Heights’
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‘My fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it’
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(Page 20)
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In this extract Lockwood thought...
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- The Jiliting of Granny Weatherall
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Think, when you were a child you probably were mistaken for many things, I know I was. When I was a young boy I thought that chores were a great thing because it always made my mom happy. When my mom was happy I got happy. When I grew older I found...
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- The Joy Luck Club - Playing the Game
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A vivid portrait of the struggles, as well as the joys, of three generations of Asian American families is painted for us on the off white canvas used by Amy Tan in 1989, the pages of her book, The Joy Luck Club. In this portrayal of Chinese...
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- The Jungle
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Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” Moves the Government
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To Clean Up the Food Supply
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Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” gave the most in-depth discreption of the horrid
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truths about the way America’s food...
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- The Natural World in the Red Pony
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In “The Red Pony” by John Steinbeck, the natural world and how man affects or tries to affect it is a big theme. In this novel, the fight between man and nature is clearly shown, yet a winner isn’t. In this book, the deaths and births of...
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- The Old Man and the Sea
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I believe that in the past three decades, the way society has treated he elderly has remained primarily the same. Some younger citizens have looked up to the elderly with respect, yet most continue to shun them and
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consider them useless and...
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- The Old Man and the Sea 11
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The old man Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea is a character seen in many perspectives, as a hero, an ordinary fisherman, an unlucky old man, and a wise man. Throughout the novella he is made out as a person of motivation, passion, and hope...
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- The Pardoner's Tale
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The world is full of hypocrites and in the story “The Pardoner’s Tale”, Chaucer writes about a man who is living a life of sin. The Pardoner’s tale is an ipologia of a pardoner who has the power from the church to forgive others for their...
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- The Problem of Language in "All Quiet on the Western Front"
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For it is no easy undertaking, I say, to describe the bottom of the Universe; nor is it for tongues
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that only
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babble child’s play.
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(The Inferno, XXXII, 7-9.)
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Erich...
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- The Red Badge of Courage
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The Red Badge of Courage, by Steven Crane, has been considered one of the
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greatest war novels of all time. It is a story that realistically depicts the American Civil
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War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary...
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- The Red Pony
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The Red Pony was written by John Stienback and firstpublished in 1933. It tells the story of a boy named Jody wholearns how to be a man and how to lose a best friend. His familysupports him and wants him to be a rancher. Jody had a hard ranch...
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- The Red River Settlement
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The Red River Settlement was founded by the Fifth Earl of Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, In
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the year 1812. He called his settlement Aissinidoia. Aissinidoia was a close knit community
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whose economy was built around the Hudson Bay Company...
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- The Reign of God
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An introduction to Christian theology <br />
From a Seventh - day Adventist Perspective<br />
Richard Rice<br />
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This book introduces to the major Christian doctrine that includes the distinctive concerns of Seventh-day...
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