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Nineteen Eighty-Four as the Concept of Dystopia Literature Literature review
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The author of the paper states that the chief character in the novel - Winston Smith - is a 39-year-old, physically weak person, who uncannily resembles the author Orwell himself in terms of physical attributes. Appropriate to a totalitarian political system there is only one Party in Oceania, in complete control of the ruling oligarchy.
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Admonitions of the Court Instructress to Palace Ladies by Gu Kaizh Literature Literature review
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Based upon information provided by the British Museum (2008), the scroll retains other elements of technique and style that are characteristic of the fourth-century figure painting styles of Gu Kaizhi. “Similar pictorial motifs have been discovered in contemporary tombs.  Experts describe Gu Kaizhi as having painted in this manner”. 
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Literature Book Report/Review
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Mary Shelley has given the novel a hidden message, this message is trying to put across the dangers of pride and egotism, as in the novel Victor feels that when he recreates life he will become world-famous. (Levine, 135) The second message of this novel is that the careless use of science can become dangerous.
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Modern Ireland Week Literature Assignment
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O’Brien’s novel An Béal Bocht or The Poor Mouth is a satire of the purest form. This novel was published in 1941 in the Gaelic language, and then later translated into English. The title comes from a Gaelic saying of ‘putting on the poor mouth’. This saying basically means to exaggerate one’s poor economic situation, to put off creditors. 
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Types of Audiences Associated with Genre Literature Assignment
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The author states that it should be noted that ever since classical times, literary works have already been classified into belonging to certain general types. This is seen in literature whose broadest division is between poetry, prose, and drama, within which further divisions are recognized, such as comedy and tragedy within the realm of drama.
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Literature Literature review
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The soldiers are described to be moving from one place to the other, wandering aimlessly carrying heavy loads. There was no purpose behind their journey, there wasn’t any war, and there was no fight, nothing. They are tired of this endless journey. Yet they are amazed by the constant supplies they get.
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Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia Literature Book Report/Review
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Although the rope swing was an important element of bringing Jesse and Leslie to Terabithia, complete with its connotations of a rite of passage and a literal leaving of the ground to land in another place, Jess finally came to realize that this activity was little more than a symbolic gesture into a place that existed mostly within his own mind.
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Victorian Realism Literature Essay
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However, because of her past life, she is unable to achieve this new start and circumstances continue to prevent her from finding happiness and peace.  Rather than focusing on the supernatural forces at work in her life, Hardy, in true realist fashion, simply presents the events of Tess’s life, permitting the realities to shine forth and the reader to understand how she has been limited and destroyed by a combination of factors.
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Shakespeare's Tragedy: Antony and Cleopatra Literature Book Report/Review
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In comparison with other tragedies of the playwright, such as Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth or Romeo, and Juliet, the play arouses neither sorrow nor fear about its characters. This fact has been emphasized by critics, who even related this “tragedy without terror” (Caputi 1965) to a comedy and discussed its comic visions and patterns.
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William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily Literature Essay
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Stream of Consciousness is a literary technique that tries to portray an individual’s point of view. An investigation into the mind and thought of the character is permitted. This technique is processed in the form of a loose interior monologue or in connection with the character's sensory reactions to the outside world.
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Maigret Goes to School by Georges Simenon Literature Book Report/Review
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The famous character he created, Inspector Jules Maigret not only made him rich and famous but also is the world's best-known fictional detective after Sherlock Holmes. According to Georges Simenon, the character of Jules Maigret came to his mind, while he was sitting in Delfzijl, a cafe in a small Dutch port one afternoon struggling to write a different kind of detective novel.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther Literature Essay
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Similarity can be drawn between Werther's betrayal and the betrayal of Jesus by Judas. A kind of challenging and questioning whether one should be afraid of God, “Should I not shudder at a prospect which had its fears even for him who folds up the heavens like a garment?” (Goethe, 1774)  Thus Goethe incited to shun optimism and reason for emotional anarchism.
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Literature Book Report/Review
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Frost writes much to symbolize life and choices in which one will make. Frost uses a unique ability to see an ordinary, everyday activity to portray such a theme. Frost reaches his audience on a more personal level. It is only one's past, present and the attitude with which he or she looks upon the future that determines the shade of light in which the poem will be seen.
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Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya Literature Essay
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Bless Me, Ultima, considered the classical Chicano novel, is the first in Anaya’s trilogy of the trials and troubles of adolescence in New Mexico. Moving in an episodic, seasonal, and cyclic fashion the novel represents Antonio’s rite of passage from innocence to knowledge and self-awareness, which occurs through a serial of inner and outer crises. 
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Art Culture and History Literature Essay
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The sphere οf influence οf Chaucer while writing The Canterbury Tales included Bocaccio's Decameron, Dante's Divine Comedy, Petrarch's Canzonere, and John Gower's Confessio Amantis. But whilst Bocaccio does not give much importance to frame. Chaucer's main interest, and quite a modern one, is on portraying different human types.
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History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Literature Book Report/Review
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Henry Fielding’s novel A History of Tom Jones: A Foundling conveys the story of a young man who was found, as an infant, asleep in the bed of a kind-hearted and loving country gentleman, Squire Allworthy and his life as a young man. Published in 1749, the novel is set in the countryside where Fielding himself was born and is thought to contain at least some biographical information.
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Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen Literature Term Paper
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All his plays including A Doll's House, Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, and others serve as a remarkable satire on the self-imposed moral values as well as the intermeddlers preaching and implementing self-articulated discipline, mores, and laws causing the destruction and turmoil of personal, domestic and social life of individuals consequently.
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Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya Literature Book Report/Review
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Antonio, in the novel, is a young boy who on his journey towards maturity discovers the dreadful evils that exist in this world. At the beginning of the novel, Antonio Marez is seven years old living with his family in a small town? His three brothers are away at war. His mother Maria and father Gabriel are very different by nature.
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Frankenstein the Human Aspect of the Monster Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that after being created the monster roams about, lost, and disarrayed in his objectives and searches for a partner. The monster itself frightens Victor. The appearance of the monster is described as a creature of eight feet height and a translucent yellowish skin which somehow fails to hide the vessels and muscles underneath.
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Gender and Cultural Values in Hansel and Gretel Literature Literature review
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The children who read the fairy tale could feel identified since the main characters are also children. The witch represents a contrast with the world of the woodcutter family. She monopolizes candies, bread and sweets, as well as precious stones, in an environment where the rest of the people were starving.
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The Poetry f the First World War Literature Essay
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The last two world wars were unique in our history, not least for the cultural shock inflicted on the whole οf our society. Each οf them took millions οf young men and women away from their families and friends at the most sensitive stage οf their lives. It put them into uniform to serve under strict discipline with strangers in closed communities 
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Macbeth: An Analysis of the Play by Shakespeare Literature Case Study
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The play tells the story of a Scottish general, Macbeth, who has seen victory in battle just as he meets with three witches up on the moors.  These witches tell him he will first become Thane of Cawdor, which is thought to be impossible as it is a rank of nobility and already occupied, and then that he will become King of Scotland, again a position already taken. 
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Tale of Victor Frankenstein Literature Essay
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From the beginning of his studies, Victor Frankenstein purposefully and intentionally turned his back on the natural world as a means of concentrating on discovering the secret of bringing life to inanimate material, a process in which he was “forced to spend days and night in vaults and charnel-houses.
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James Joyces Eveline Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that for Eveline, the choice is not a simple one. She can escape the hardship of Dublin and her difficult familial surrounding for a new, yet unknown life in Buenos Aires with Frank, a man who has asked her to marry him or she can remain tethered to duty and hardship in Dublin.
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Story of Three Generations of Twentieth Century China Literature Literature review
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Autobiographical notes based on the critical examination of her society draw a vivid picture of the socio-political background of her motherland Peoples Republic of China in a comprehensive and analytical way. Her famous novel under the title "Wild Swans" portrays the real picture of the Chinese political parties and their movements.
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Death as a Theme in the Death of Ivan Illych and the Fall of the House of Usher Literature Book Report/Review
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Death is the common theme in Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Illych and Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. However, both stories differ markedly in their treatment of death. The protagonists, Ivan Illych and Roderick Usher, face death in different ways, the message conveyed by the two tales – one of hope and the other of despair, is totally different.
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Women's Role in Society in Pride and Prejudice Literature Book Report/Review
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Jane Austen lived in a world that was rapidly changing, yet one that still had half of its population living under rigid constraints and traditional expectations.  Not only the roles of men, but the roles of women were going through a tremendous shift in understandings as traditional economic and social structures began shifting from the fields to the factories.
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Book Review of Let Me Hear Your Voice Literature Book Report/Review
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With a doctorate in the humanities, she writes under a pseudo name to protect the identity of her children.  She has devoted her life to the study and “curing” of autism through different types of therapies. She is not only qualified to write books on the subject of autism but is also one of the world’s leading authors on the subject.  She is qualified both educationally and through personal experience. 
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Misery by Anton Chekhov Literature Literature review
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The unexpected death of my grandmother had a great impact on me because I was very close to her, but I failed to communicate this properly to a single person. I tried my best to talk about this to my close friends, but they would immediately change the topic for something more interesting to them, but utterly trivial in my viewpoint.
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While They're at War by Kristin Henderson Literature Book Report/Review
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While They're At War is a true story of American families on the home front. Henderson shows how during the war the casualties are not restricted to the war zones but also to the people left behind. The loneliness of the women is no less than the devastating effect of bombs, the fear too can be as traumatic as it is for the military during combats.
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The Roots of War by Barbara Ehrenreich Literature Essay
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They remark that war can never be stopped until it is discussed and fought against. Instead, we should strive for peace and harmony, and permit ourselves to live in peace. St. Teresa, they argue, knew this rule. That is why she would have never gone to the meeting against war, but that for peace. Humanity is addicted to wars, while it hasn’t reached the stage when war is not necessary.
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Analysis of the Relationships in Odyssey by Homer Literature Essay
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Several examples of father/son relationships are provided, including those of Odysseus and Telemachus, Laertes and Odysseus, Poseidon and Polyphemus, Nestor and Pisistratus, and Eupithes and Antinous. Through these relationships, Homer portrays the idea of continuity between generations as traits of the fathers are carried forward and reflected or as they are rejected and refused in the sons.  
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A Character Analysis of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman Literature Term Paper
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The drama also tries to emphasize the mortality of human beings, the onrush of life that heeds little for our small but bloated egos. Man is naturally a very small being, howsoever, grand his. illusions, of the self, maybe.
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Writing the War on Terrorism by Richard Jackson Literature Coursework
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The fact that the then-Secretary of State Colin Powell got away with impunity after presenting to the United Nations Assembly “a highly concocted illustration” (Jackson, 36) of the presence of WMD’s in Iraq deserves condemnation.  And Richard Jackson does not show any hesitation in cutting Colin Powell’s legacy to size. 
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Sacrificial Role of Women in Madame Bovary by Flaubert and A Doll's House by Ibsen Literature Essay
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The novel Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, and the play “A Doll‘s House“, by Henrik Ibsen, both contain female characters that are viewed as being powerless and sacrificial for a number of reasons. In Madame Bovary, Emma Bovary commits suicide by drinking arsenic because of this role that she has been forced into. At the time, she was very much in debt, due to her constant borrowing of money.
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Minstrelsy in the U.S Literature Essay
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Lott also argues that the theft and parodying of the black American’s experience of slavery cannot be dismissed as purely racism. Lott’s view is that there is also an element of love and fascination inherent in these performances. The act of blackening the faces of white men is the indication of their desire to imitate the black man. 
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Closure of Charles Dickens David Copperfield Literature Term Paper
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Charles Dickens seemed to equate success in the Australian colony with some kind of humungous bluff. For example, we have the case of the impecunious Micawbers who effortlessly prosper, and where Mr. Micawber's empty rhetoric can achieve a success that it would never have found in his English existence.
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Science Fiction Story about Neuroanatomy Literature Essay
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I'm winning, he thought, Magpie doesn't stand a chance. He adjusted the scan depth to see where Madpie's wagon was. There. Straining away in the myelencephalon, grubbing away around the brainstem. He had already claimed the cerebellum, right after the medulla oblongata. Magpie could have the pons if he wanted. Barney was after the dynamic duo, the thalamus, and the hypothalamus.
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Comparison of Antigone and Sizwe Bansi is Dead Literature Essay
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This is primarily because these values and these struggles have also transported themselves from period to period. We have seen the representation of Antigone on the histories and freedom struggles of various countries. In the same way, we have also heard stories of various struggles of mere survival and right to exist from every nook and corner of the world.
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Id, Ego and Superego Through Lord of the Flies Novel Literature Essay
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The central idea of this paper is primarily based on three forces of mind, id ego and superego. They can be similar to the Indian concept of Satvik (Superego), Rajas (Ego), and Tamas (Id). While describing the concept of psychoanalysis Freud describes that id ego and superego are the dynamic relations between conscious and unconscious.
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A Comparative Analysis of Dave in The Man Who Was Almost A Man and in Richard Wrights in The Man Who Was Almost A Man Literature Essay
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Dave tries to overcome the reality of things and his repeated fire can very well be seen in this connection. The realization of the setting that has caused damage to his wishes, socio-economic marginalization, and the lack of independence makes Dave change his own setting with optimistic thoughts about the next day.  
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Motivation and Dynamics in the Life of Doctor Faustus and Bernard Marx Literature Book Report/Review
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The mind of a human is the ‘mother’ of all successes and disasters because it is the human mind, which conceives and develops motivations and wishes. So, with mind playing mother in conceiving motivation wishes, the human can use all the resources to achieve his/ her wishes. So it is natural for human beings to wish, work and wean success to them.
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Frankenstein: The Art of Darkness Literature Literature review
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Darkness has always been associated with mystery, horror, and the supernatural. Poets, writers, and philosophers have used darkness sometimes personified, sometimes as metaphor and in many different ways with telling effect. Questions have been raised, experiments conducted with science, nocturnal life, religious rituals, spiritualism, occultism, etc. with the intended purpose of unraveling unknown mysteries and happenings.
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The Leading Role in the European Literature of Leo Tolstoy Literature Term Paper
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In comparison with “War and Peace” there were many changes in “Anna Karenina”. Even Tolstoy’s phrases and syntactic periods became shorter and more vigorous. The artistic thought of the writer moved tensely and resilient and the restraint had content. The feeling of dramatic reserve and mutual estrangement of heroes appeared. 
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Shakespeare's Use of Homosexual Imagery in His Sonnets Literature Essay
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This research will begin with the statement that Shakespeare’s sonnets break the established code for sonnets established during his lifetime and transformed them into something different, altogether more disturbing and capable of questioning to an even greater extent the idealistic romantic concepts of his time. 
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Frankenstein and Conrads Heart of Darkness Literature Literature review
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The concept of the myth is intrinsically linked to the concept of the archetype, which has grown out of Carl Jung’s theories regarding the collective unconscious.  The collective unconscious is “the reservoir of our experiences as a species, a kind of knowledge we are all born with.  And yet we can never be directly conscious of it. 
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Contemporary Writing Literature Essay
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It is the unique characteristic of man, to visualize the world of fantasy. Such a cavernous obsession for the fantasy led many writers to fabricate the amazing books on science fiction. According to Carl Freedman, “Of all genres, science fiction, is thus the one most devoted to the historical concreteness and rigorous self reflective-ness of critical theory.
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Literature Book Report/Review
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The line between the author and the narrator - a thoughtful, guilt-ridden man - is blurred. He knew that Vietnam was an unethical war, but he fought anyway because he couldn't tell his family he wasn't going. Twenty years later, he is still writing about this mistake and all the horrible things he saw and did.
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Comparison of Joe Keller of All My Sons & Willy Loman of Death of a Salesman Literature Essay
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The success dream is the embodiment of the American Dream and reveals the original spirit of the Americans.  Both Joe and Willy adhered to that dream. Their adherence to the importance of success is closely tied to their perceptions of fatherhood.  It is an attempt to portray themselves as the breadwinner in their respective families 
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Hamlet as a Philosophical Text Literature Essay
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The deceased king, himself called Hamlet, appears as a Ghost, informs the son in some detail how he was murdered by his brother, the latter’s uncle Claudius, and calls for revenge. Although Hamlet agrees, he is skeptical of the apparition and feigns madness as a means of averting suspicion while he embarks on a quest to check the veracity of the information vouchsafed to him.
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