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Around The World In Eighty Day
... trip around the world in an astonishing eighty days.
Setting:
This novel takes place in the late 1800’s, approximately 1872. Mr. Phileas Fogg lived at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens. As the story progresses on and one tiny wager is made, a trip around the world changes the setting of this novel many a times. Some of these settings are London, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, and New York. Clearly though one the most important settings was in the Indian forests, which were passed through, in order to pursue to Kandallah. The Carnatic and the Mongolia were also key settings to the novel.
Plot:
In the 19th century, a man by the ...
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude
... sides!" Whether it is, in truth, an island is irrelevant. The town believed itself to be cut off from the rest of the world. In addition, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula are looking for solitude. The founding of Macondo was a result of escaping Jose Arcadio Buendia's murder of Prudencio Aguilar. Aguilar's ghost haunted them, eventually forcing them to retreat.
The family seems to remain very involved within itself. Much of this is Spanish culture. In Spanish-speaking countries, it is not uncommon to find many generations of the same family living in one house. The Buendia house always has various relatives within it. Yet, this is not the only explanatio ...
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Building Blocks Of A Family
... It seems that he does not concentrate, or put forth the right amount of effort. Daisy learns from Donny's principal that"… Donny was noisy, lazy, and disruptive…" (Schwiebert 287). Daisy explains to the principal that her and her husband, Matt, have tried what they can. "We don't let him watch TV on school nights. We don't let him talk on the phone till he's finished his homework. But he tells us that he doesn't have any homework or he did it all in study hall. How are we to know what to believe?" (Schwiebert 287) The principal gives Daisy the idea to check his assignments everyday. This wears down on Daisy and she becomes less involved in her daughter's life, and ...
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Moby Dick
... on the St. Lawrence. He was a crewman aboard the ship, and he would sail across the Atlantic Ocean to Liverpool and then back to America. However, this voyage would not be his last. Melville decided to join the crew of a whaling ship named the Acushnet. But Melville did not like his treatment on board this vessel, and would soon abandon them at an island of the Marquesas with another member of the crew. On this island they ran into a group of cannibals that, instead of harming them, would take them in. None the less, both the men would grow tired of the tribe and would escape, although Melville did remain slightly longer than is counterpart. When Melville ...
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Mark Twain And His Masterpiece: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
... B. Critics of the book.
1.Characterization
IV. Samuel Clemens Downfall
A. Family Life
1.Deaths
B. Money Problems
1. Bankruptcy
2. Move to Europe
C. His comeback
D. His death
V. Effects of Twain's stories
A. How he affected his era
B. How the era affected his writings
VI. Conclusion
A. My feelings
B. End notes
C. Bibliography
Samuel Clemens was an American writer and humorist who's best work is shown
by broad social satire, realism of pla ...
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Prejudice And The Pain And Suffering It Has Caused
... is as good as
a role model as Aunt Alexandra, if not better. Aunt Alexandra is a bigot
and doesn't see the character of Calpurnia, just the color of her skin.
Another person who is treated like an inferior is Scout by her teacher,
because she knew how to read. "She discovered that I was literate and
looked at me with more than faint distaste. (p.17)." Scout is treated like
it is her fault that she knows more than the average child did. She
learned earlier than others so she gets punished unjustly. Tom Robinson is
also one who is discriminated by a biased community. Tom is found guilty
by the jury in his case against the Ewells (p.211). The guilty verd ...
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The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman
... so she went to a hoo-doo. Sure enough, Joe was killed by a horse. Later, a boy was born, and they called him "The One." His name was Jimmy. They wanted him to become a preacher, but he didn’t want to.
Differences that were highly noticeable were that in the novel, the interviewer was a teacher that wanted her information for his class and in the movie, it was a magazine reporter. When Albert Clevoue died in the novel, the chariots of hell came for him, and in the movie, you don’t even hear of his death. In the novel, it was a black horse that killed Joe Pittman, and the movie, white.
In conclusion, the novel had more, described the stories more thoro ...
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The Canterbury Tales: The Wife Of Bath
... is noted to be strong and bold and we learn
she is slightly deaf. The Wife of Bath was married and widowed five times
and has had numerous companions. The Wife of Bath is a skilled cloth maker
and a devoted Christian pilgrim who has made trips to several shrines.
Through her unique introduction in The General Prologue we learn
much of her physical attributes. The Wife of Bath is gapped tooth.
"Gat-toothed was she, soothly for to saye.
Upon an amblere esily she sat" (p.91, ll. 470-471)
This physical feature is attributed to lust and passion. The fact that she
could ride a horse easily also could take on sexual conno ...
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Summary: Jurassic Park
... is
given a little insight of the background to the situation, as Bob Morris,
part of the EPA, reveals information that InGen had three Cray XMP's
shipped to Costa Rica, which were very powerful supercomputers, and 24
Hoods, which were automated gene sequencers. Later on, the carcass of a
dinosaur, which was found near the sight where the young girl was bit, was
sent to a lab to be examined, and it was identified as a Procompsognathus,
thought to be extinct for millions of years. The scientists who witnessed
the evidence, Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant, both foremost in the fields of
paleontology, were soon requested to fly down to a private island off of
Costa Rica b ...
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The Scarlet Letter
... small part in making this book a classic novel.
The novel contains only a couple main characters that are well developed. The main character in the book is Hester Prin. She is the one who wears A because she committed the crime of adultery. Hester is attractive and has a good personality. Hester has a child who is the product of her sin and Hester won't tell who the father is. The next character is Pearl and she is Hester's daughter. Pearl is not a well-developed character and could be considered controversial.
Another character is Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale is a young man and is the town's minister. Dimmesdale has a good personality and plays a ve ...
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