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Vexation and Diversion: Three Problems in Gullivers Travels Literature Book Report/Review
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As one turns to Gulliver’s Travels one finds that it is an equally unforgiving critique of English society, despite its supposed fictional setting.  As Corder (1961) observes, numerous critics, not to mention readers, have resisted interpretation of Gulliver’s Travels as a satirical representation of English society and norms, preferring instead to interpret the work as an expose of human nature. 
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Australian Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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Aboriginal philosophy is a main component of a life in the Australian environment to ensure the continuation of the survival conditions. The author explains the traditional view of Australian people through the description of tabooed areas of experience in novels of the aboriginal writers.
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Jasmine Tea by Eileen Chang Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Chuanqing appears incapable of loving another human being and acts as though he is emotionally dead. However, a professor’s daughter, Danzhu, develops an interest in befriending the troubled young man. Through his convoluted logic, Chuanqing passes through stages of dislike, hatred guided by jealousy.
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Coyote Waits - Joe Leaphorn's Crime Fiction Novel Literature Book Report/Review
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Two Navajo tribal policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee work side by side to unravel a mysterious case. Jim Chee’s friend and co-worker Delbert Nez die in an apparent car burning. The actual cause of his death is senseless roadside shooting. The suspect is an elderly Navajo drunk man who has a lethal weapon.
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Applying the Literary Analysis to Ernest Hemmingway's Indian Camp Literature Essay
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The varying degrees of favoritism of this short story had to do with how Hemmingway often presented Women, not only in his literary work, but in his own life as well. His literary style had a prominent effect on the feminist movement.
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The Depiction of Crimes in the US Poetry Literature Term Paper
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Crimes are everywhere around the world but to identify and control them matters which the American government took the step towards. Not only American politicians but the authors and media players also participated to morally emphasis the citizens of the country for noticing and considering the crimes. 
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Sevignes Letters Literature Essay
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Her letters demonstrate this preoccupation in her manner of addressing her daughter and in the concerns that she presents to her. In these four letters she brings out relations with her son, grandchild, neighbors, and the members of her high society. She appears to be at the hub of everything: the thread that holds together her family and the person that keeps them informed.
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Aristotle and His Relationship At Work Literature Essay
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Lori hurries into the office at 8:30 am and greets her friends Mary, Anna and Rosie who are already at their desks. Janice, her direct supervisor gives her a stern look as she glances at the clock; late again. Anna has been working as the company accountant for about 7 years embezzles a small sum every month for the last three years. Rosie, like Lori, has been working as a designer for four years and has a huge workload.
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The Modern Woman in Society Literature Essay
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The author states that both writers in their respective creations, Elisa Allen and the “American wife” bring out the stark reality of the times and an intimate glimpse of a woman’s secret needs and hidden desires. The predominant theme in both stories is suppression and the subsequent wilting of the female protagonists.
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Puritanism in American Literature Literature Essay
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The author states that puritan writers have always strived to accomplish their functions which are to transform a mysterious God, to make Him more relevant to the universe, and to glorify God (Reuben). These beliefs and functions are clearly reflected in the works of the Puritan writers which are against ornateness.
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Nine Men Who Shaped the American West Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the book focuses on the cultures around these important men it discusses in its nine essays. The nine essays contributed to the lives of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, Apache Chief Victorio, Geronimo, George Armstrong Custer, George Crook, Ranald Mackenzie, Lakota Chief Red Cloud, O.O. Howard, and Nelson A. Miles.  
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Death of a Salesman by Authur Miller Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that target on exposing the simple and modest truth behind Willy's vision, Biff craves for the terrain covered by his father's blind trust in a twisted, materialist edition of the American Dream. Biff's personality crisis is a role of his and his father's disenchantment, which, so as to retrieve his identity, he ought to reveal.
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Analysis of Greek Play Medea By Euripides Literature Essay
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All dark deeds happen behind those doors—Medea plotting to kill Creon and his daughter and her own sons, and the actual murder of the two children happen there. The audience only hears the screams. This is not a new device thought of by the director of this play—this is as visualized by Euripides himself. 
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Political Allegory of George Orwell's Animal Farm Literature Essay
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Though the original intention of overthrowing Mr. Jones (who represents the Czars), is not inherently evil in itself, Napoleon’s subsequent adoption of nearly all of Mr. Jones’ principles and harsh mistreatment of the animals proves to the reader that indeed communism is not equality, but just another form of inequality.
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Short-Term Individual Training Program Literature Essay
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Athletic training increases an athlete’s endurance and physical strength***, which enables them to break records and compete more effectively.  However, this is dependent upon the macro-, meso-, and micro-cyclic training offered, which must coincide with the needs of the athlete by strengthening and conditioning them so they can increase performance, speed, and dexterity in various sports.
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Rules of the Road by Joan Baur Literature Book Report/Review
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Jenna Boiler is tall, and she does not like her weight or red hair.  Regardless of her feelings about her appearance, she is very good at selling shoes.  Her customers like her, and she takes much pride in getting the right shoe and right fit for her customers.  Her hard work and ability get her noticed by Mrs. Madeline Gladstone, the CEO, and president of the company. 
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Gothic Tradition in Literature; Do Poe and Hawthorne Measure up Literature Essay
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Both Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne use fear as a tool in their writing, yet they are not both writing in gothic tradition. While Poe uses symbolism, darkness, and death imagery to terrify the reader, Hawthorne chooses to use parable to educate the reader, with fear being merely an afterthought. In Poe’s “Ligeia”, death and darkness are used as the setting to create a scene of terror, after creating a scene of love for the lost “Ligeia”.
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Herman Melvilles short novels Literature Book Report/Review
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The author analyzes each novel and covers a number of interesting points such as: effective use of deception and disguise in"Benito Cereno" and the topic of "going against the grain" in the "Bartleby the Scrivener". In the end of the essay, the author concludes and analyzes the contribution of each novel in the international literature.
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Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool and Maya Angelous Phenomenal Woman Literature Assignment
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Men are considered significant and supreme; powerful and relevant. Women, even after women’s liberation and her rights to suffrage acknowledged, still echo their inner desire for significance and acceptance. Being “cool”, which connotes men’s composure just by simply being himself, is a word almost always attached to men.
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Over Sea under Stone by Susan Cooper Literature Book Report/Review
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One day, they’re snooping about the house and going through the attic to see if they can come across anything exciting.  They find an old manuscript which speaks of an ancient and magical chalice which belonged to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.  The Drew children are determined to uncover the manuscript’s puzzles and find the chalice. 
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Book Report, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Literature Book Report/Review
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After that, every day Ethan used to give the narrator a lift to and from the railway station. But one winter evening on the way home they found themselves in a hard storm. The weather was growing so bad that Ethan offered the narrator to stay at his farm for the night.
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Responsibility and Seriousness in Ginsbergs Poetry Literature Book Report/Review
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Popular literature has become the center of focus in many of the important and energetic debates and the poems of Allen Ginsberg offer an effective example of popular literature or the requisition of popular literature into more elite literary forms. To comprehend popular literature, one needs to realize what popular means as well as what literature means.
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The Socially Marginal Characters Are Not the Least in Henry V and The Rover Literature Book Report/Review
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This essay examines the socially marginal characters in Shakespeare’s Henry V and Aphra Behn’s The Rover. The thesis states that gender is not a discerning factor for socially marginal characters since both sexes are equally vulnerable to be marginalized. It is how one conducts oneself that respect and importance can be earned.
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Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Avey Johnson, a middle-class African American widow, pays for her annual cruises to the Caribbean with her two friends, Thomasina and Clarice. The parfait last night on the cruise ship, the Bianca Pride, has given her a sudden sense of dementia and stomach problems.
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Compare and contrast Faust Part One by Goethe and Candide by Voltaire Literature Book Report/Review
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According to the study, while Candide wants happiness for everyone Faust desires it for his own self.  He is striving to learn everything that can be known, away from righteous pursuits. In both the works, writers have satirized the church both the protagonists are seeking happiness but while Candide has moral reasons behind the idea, Faust has personal interests.
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Middle Age Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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The author tried to convey the message that people may use the love and desires of their lovers easily for the sake of their own interest. Marie portrayed the changes of behavior and situations when the person whom someone loves goes out of sight. Marie does not only explain the negative impacts of love on the behavior of people.
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Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf Literature Essay
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In this description, Hitler talks about how Aryan races being diluted. He uses examples from America and South America in order to demonstrate how Gremanic races have been mixed or diluted. He emphasizes on Aryan blood losing its main identity in this way.
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Peaceful Conquest by Sidney Pollard Literature Book Report/Review
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It is interesting, in the light of 26 years of progress, to read S. Pollard's book (Pollard, 1981). This review will focus on his chapter 7, which concerns the economic history of Europe from 1870 to 1914. The period neatly brackets the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1, and the beginning of the "Great War" of 1914-1918.
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The Dark Continent by Mark Mazower Literature Book Report/Review
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These most important events, starting from the crisis of parliamentary democracies, the crisis of the Empire and World War I to Germany in the time of Hitler, the rise and fall of communism and the final transformation of democracy and victory of capitalism in Western Europe, are given chronologically.
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Lady Macbeth by Shakespeare: A Tale of Mystery and Intrigue Literature Essay
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Macbeth, arguably playwright William Shakespeare’s greatest work, was written in 1606 for the new king of England. He was James I of England as well as James VI of Scotland. It was in homage to him and his Scottish ancestors that Shakespeare penned this masterpiece of the stage. It is a tale of mystery and intrigue, with regicide at its heart.
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The Prototype of the Elephant Man Literature Essay
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The person who inspired the play and the film The Elephant Man was a true-to-life curiosity, if not considered as a monstrosity by others, during the late Victorian age. Joseph Merrick eventually was exhibited as a sideshow until he was rescued by Dr. Frederick Treves. Treves described his patient as "deformed in body, face, head, and limbs.
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Hawkings Hollow Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that ever since then every seventh year their town is plagued with unexplainable events for a full seven days. As one more seventh year unfolds they find themselves at receiving ends of a series of bloody attacks. Also joining them in their tryst this time are the three lovely ladies Lyala, Quinn, and Cybil.
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The Descriptive Aspect of Literature Literature Essay
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The author states that Toni Bambara’s work presents the reality of social inequality and William Faulkner’s work presents patriarchy and gendered narratives. Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson” reflects a social perspective regarding one African-American girl's struggle and her increasing awareness of the nature of class inequality.
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The Dreamer Examines His Pillow by John Patrick Shanley Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that when Tommy opens the door, she blows in angrily. She finds that the apartment is filthy and run down. It looks like he has not been taking care of himself. She comments on this, saying that he used to be clean and presentable, and demands an explanation. When he seems unfazed by his current condition, her anger escalates.
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Borges' Work: the Relationship of Author and Audience Literature Book Report/Review
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Borges exposes in this way the relationship of author and audience. By using every stratagem available to him, Borges prevails upon the reader's confidence and shapes his thought so that by the end of the story the reader is happy to accept notions of causality that, if baldly narrated, would seem impossible, if not ridiculous.
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Strategic Management of the Eden Project Literature Essay
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Research has shown, that 70% of people who have already visited Eden are willing to come back, and statistically the number of returning visitors is actually increasing from 14% in 2002 to 17% in 2003. The Eden management has to find its way to the returning customers and sustain their interest, and hopefully, their active returning.
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Waiting for Godot by Samual Beckett Literature Book Report/Review
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They meet two rather odd characters, a master, and his slave. Oddly enough, the tramps are unsure as to why they are waiting only mentioning in passing that they were expecting " the kind of prayer." And yet, they wait, both not leaving the spot by the tree - even after news that Godot is not coming
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Irony in the Necklace and the Lottery Literature Book Report/Review
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As we approach these stories from this standpoint, we attempt to tease out the more esoteric lessons they communicate. In both The Necklace and The Lottery, there is situational irony. In The Necklace, there is situational irony when Madame Loisel thought that the event would be uplifting to her boring life and it ended in being a catastrophe.
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The Whole Earth One Stain of Guilt: Four Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Literature Assignment
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The author states that “The Birthmark” tells the tale of a man of science, who pursues his vocation at a time when the practice of natural philosophy was still in the process of adapting to some of the methods of modern science. The journal of his scientific experiments was the continual exemplification of the shortcomings of the composite man.
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Huckleberry Finn, Emma and Asher Lev Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the protagonists in these novels are spirited youngsters who are put in larger than life events and situations. Sometimes they are equal to the tasks and other times they are not! The unfolding of the plots in these stories also reveals the true characteristics of these distinct protagonists and these novels have happy endings.
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The Right Stuff by Thomas Wolfe Literature Assignment
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The author states that Wolfe does not lay out the definition with hard vocabulary and narrow strokes of the writer's brush, but rather with a broad sense of experience as he takes the reader into the world of the astronauts. The exposure to their world, and their live sets the stage for the reader to build their own sense of "The Right Stuff".
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The Last War by H.G. Wells Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that society is swept away, purged by fire, and a new civilization rises from the ashes of the old. Viewed from the standpoint of a sane and ambitious social order, it is difficult to understand and it would be tedious to follow the motives that plunged mankind into the war that fills the histories of the middle decades.
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The Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Lynn Margulis argues that symbiosis is crucial for evolutionary originality. Writing from the point of view of the molecular biologist, she explains the evolutionary innovations brought about by the symbiosis between the partners, ranging from the tiny bacteria to the living earth itself.
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Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code Literature Book Report/Review
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The plot of the novel includes a conspiracy initiated by the Roman Catholic Church, in the attempt to hide and cover up in numerous ways the "true" story behind the identity of Jesus Christ.
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Language Use to Control People in Literacy Literature Book Report/Review
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In Atwood’s story, it is the language of religious scripture appropriated to political purposes.  For example, the naming of the new center of power as “Gilead” calls upon a Biblical reference.  Beyond this, a new language is invented to justify the mechanisms of control.  For example, Offred and the other handmaids are divested of their birth names and with that, a large portion of their identities.
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Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the American is persuading her that “it’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig, it’s not really an operation at all” and “I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let the air in”. Jig does not want to have an abortion, and retorts later stating that “'It's ours”; she displays her feelings indirectly.
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A Midsummer Night Dream Literature Essay
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On the contrary, Frances de la Tour begins her review of the comedy with a confession that "to me A Midsummer Night's Dream is a nightmare journey into love and out of love. It's about passion and the pain of passion, rejected love and unrequited love." However, at one point all doubtlessly agree, that love is indeed the cornerstone, the binding element, and in a sense the main hero of the play present in almost every scene.
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The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, Bernard Lewis Literature Book Report/Review
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Lewis believes that not all Muslims are fundamentalists and not all fundamentalists are terrorists, however, most terrorists today are Muslims and are proud to be so. In simple words, Islam itself cannot be blamed for terrorism, but terrorism does exist within Islam which forces the religion to face morally necessary choices
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull Literature Personal Statement
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The author analyzes two novels: “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho and Richard Bach’s “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”, that both share this theme and underline it, each in its own unique way. The personal dilemmas and my particular existence reflect upon the judgment brought to these novels.
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The Theme of Nature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Literature Book Report/Review
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Thus, she effectively suggests the possibility of spiritual renewal to human beings as well as the great strength of nature in determining the future of humanity. In short, the theme of the sublime natural world suggests the possibility of spiritual renewal to human beings as well as it serves as a vehicle to redefine the masculine prototype of Romanticism.
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