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A Book Review of George Orwell’s 1984
Living in a society with limited freedom of expression is not, in any case, enjoyable. A Totalitarian society is a good example of such a society, because although it provides control for the people, it can deny them a great deal of freedom to express themselves. The fictional society in George Orwell’s 1984 also stands as a metaphor for a Totalitarian society. Communication, personal beliefs, and individual loyalty to the government are all controlled
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Book Reports
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Book Report on the Five People You Meet in Heaven
Book Report On The Five People You Meet in Heaven This isn’t technically a book that I read when I was in the properly defined age group, but looking back at this book it is probably the book that has had the largest impact on my life, and had it been out when I was younger would have been a book that I would have read. I read this book after I had finished
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Brighton Rock Book Review
brighton rock book review Ida Arnold, a warm-hearted, buxom woman meets 'Hale' an unknown but distinctive stranger who leaves a lasting impression upon her. Following his odd 'disappearing act' - she later hears of his seemingly 'natural' death. However, convinced that something is amiss; she is determined to seek the truth and seek justice. She learns about the mob responsible for the murder; under the new leadership of an adolescent - 'Pinkie'. A ruthless
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20000 Leagues Under the Sea - Book Report
20000 Leagues Under The Sea Book Report ----------------------------------- 20000 Leagues Under The Sea Jules Verne was born in France in 1828 and always had a love for the sea. He once tried to be a sea captain on a boat but things did not work out. Jules Verne has written many very famous books such as Journey To the Center of the Earth, Five Weeks in a balloon and Around the World in Eighty Days.
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Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver remarks about the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Laputans, Houyhnhnms and Yahoos in a straightforward way, reporting on the cultures, rather than analyzing them. Swift disguises his allusions to the political and philosophical thought of his time, allowing the reader, not Gulliver, to discover them. One can view it as a simple adventure story and travelogue, as Gulliver intends, or as a complex satire on 18th century morals and thought, as Swift intends. In each land that
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Ayn Rand's Book: The Virtue of Selfishness
Rand’s argument for the definition of ‘selfishness’ is that it does not include a moral evaluation; it does not tell us whether concern with one’s own interest is good or evil. She states that ‘selfishness’ has become a synonym to the word ‘evil’. Which brings the minds of people to images of a murderous brute, therefore it does not constitute man’s actual interests. Altruism, which means unselfishness; self-sacrifice; selflessness, is declared by Rand that it
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Gulivers Travels
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, tells the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon who has a number of rather extraordinary adventures. In Book I, Gulliver’s ship is blown off course and he is shipwrecked. He wakes up flat on his back on the shore, and discovers that he cannot move; he has been bound to the earth by thousands of tiny crisscrossing threads. He soon discovers that his captors are tiny men of about
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Detailed Book Report on Elie Wiesel’s Night
Jon Cannon Period 1 Section 1 Elie tells of his hometown, Sighet, and of Moshe the Beadle. He tells of his family and his three sisters, Hilda, Bйa, and the baby of the family, Tzipora. Elie is taught the cabala by Moshe the Beadle. Moshe is taken away and sees an entire train of people murdered by the Gestapo. He returns to Sighet and tries to warn them, but no one believes his story. The
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"of Mice and Men" Book Report
“Of Mice and Men” was written by John Steinbeck and is a fictional book. “Of Mice and Men” is a book, set on the Californian Grain Farms in the 1930’s, about two life long friends named George and Lennie. The book generally is about all of the migrant workers, all with their own dreams. The main characters George and Lennie go from farm to farm, trying to work up a stake and save enough to
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Good to Great Book Review
Good to Great Book Review To transform a good company to great company is all manages’ dream, but only few of them make it. To find out the core factors which lead to a good company became a great company is very difficult, because in different era, different industry companies face different opportunities and threats. To begin the research for the Good-to-Great study, Jim Collins and his research team searched for companies that: performed at
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Book Report: What Are They?
Create life-sized models of two of your favorite characters and dress them as they are dressed in the book. Crouch down behind your character and describe yourself as the character. Tell what your role is in the book and how you relate to the other character you have made. Create a sculpture of a character. Use any combination of soap, wood, clay, sticks, wire, stones, old toy pieces, or any other object. An explanation of
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A Book Report of “the World Is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman
A book report of “The World Is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman “The World Is Flat" a book by author Thomas L. Friedman discusses a brief history of the twenty-first century and its most recent impact on the US economic today and the world we live in. Friedman unfolds and identifies three major world wide events that explain he’s philosophical explanation of why he thinks the “The World Is Flat” with the incorporation of
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Book Report on the Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Book Report on The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger The fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts, just north of Boston, is one of the oldest fishing ports in the United States and can trace its history to around 1623. Since that time, around ten thousand men have lost their lives fishing the Atlantic Ocean. Not only did the fishing port feel the full brunt of the storm but that fateful day in October 1991 was to
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"call of the Wild" Book Review
“Call of the Wild” Book Review By: Sheldon Shepard What if you were torn away from your home, your life, your family, and everything that was ever familiar to you, and got thrown into harsh, life threatening situations? Would you adapt in order to live and survive or would you be totally enveloped in the chaos and just give up, and become a name unmentioned? In Jack London’s book “Call of the Wild”, we are
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Alphabet Book Report
Book: Amazing Alphabet Book Author: Dr. Seuss ISBN: 0-679-88281-2 Publisher: Random House The plot of my book is very simple. It is an alphabet book that is intended to help children learn the alphabet. It gives the letters in order and 3-4 words that begin with that letter and pictures for the children to easily understand the letters. It goes in order from A-Z which is the best way to help a child learn his
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1984 Book Report
Joshua Sanchez May 7 2004 English 100 M-W Professor Hu Not so free after all Big Brothers eyes are over watching us everyday. The privacy we once had has dissipated. His focal point is in the sky like an eagle stocking its prey. The camera lenses of Big Brother dwell everywhere. Big Brother is always awake and has an eye on us. As of today, Big Brother has risen taller and mightier. He has gained
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Firewalkers: A Book Review
CHAPTER I A. INTRODUCTION Philippines, being an archipelago is a home to numerous folks and cultures, each different from the other, separated by bodies of water, language and beliefs. The fact that we, Filipinos have been under the ---- of different countries, our ancestors have had their share of the stories. Today, during our modern times, such stories are now considered a mere folklore. In this book “The Firewalkers”, the first chapter presents us with
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Of Mice and Men - Theme of Lonliness in the Book
Of Mice and Men Literary Analysis Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is a book that can be analyzed and broken down into a vast majority of themes. One of the predominant themes found in this book is loneliness. Many characters in this book are affected by loneliness and they all demonstrate it in one way or another throughout the book. Examples of these characters are Curley’s Wife, Crooks, and Candy. All through
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A Place I Travelled To
It came as a surprise; the invitation to a cook out. The surroundings that the so called cookout was supposed to take place were in a cave! outside the city. We were going to celebrate our cousin’s birthday there. He wanted something different and now he was getting something different but the best part was that it was only going to be for teenagers. After a long and bumpy ride we finally arrived at the
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Critical Book Review : No Shame in My Game
When someone thinks of the poor they instantly imagine a homeless man sleeping in a cardboard box or the nearest garbage can, but the working poor especially in the inner-city is commonly overlooked by society. However the working poor, in this case the working poor in the inner-city, are people advancing to try and make their lives better. They are taking minimum wage jobs so that they can barely afford a roof over their heads.
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The Brethren - Inside the Supreme Court: Book Review
The Brethren – Inside the Supreme Court: Book Review The Brethren, co-authored by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, is an in-depth documentary of the United States Supreme Court from 1969 to 19, under the leadership of Warren Burger. The book attempts to present the reader with what "really" goes on in the Supreme Court. It describes the conferences, the personality of justices, and how justice's feel toward each other, items which are generally hidden from
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Guns and Violence Book Review
Throughout one’s life, one experiences many emotions and undergoes many changes. Changes that are not always apparent, changes that cannot always be reasoned or changes that reflect greatest in behavior, ones that are dependent on the environment. In Deanna Wilkinson’s Guns, Violence, and Identity among African American and Latino Youth, Wilkinson studies the role of violence and guns in the construction the social identity of minority youth. Wilkinson studies 125 violent African American and Latino
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The Day They Came to Arrest the Book Review
My novel ‘The Day They Came To Arrest The Book’ was based upon racism in the late 70’s. An era which occurred before I existed. There are many movies and books depicting events from this time, some of which I have seen or read. I had always thought that my views on racism were somewhat close to the truth, after reading the novel I realized that I had been wrong. Therefore, this novel has
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The Namesake Book Report
In Juhmpa Lahiri’s novel, The Namesake, the reader is thrust into the daily life of Gogol Ganguli. Gogol is a promising young man from a Bengali family, which the reader gets the pleasure of knowing since his birth. Ever since Gogol’s childhood all he ever wanted was to find a place where he could truly fit in, whether it be in his own culture, or in the American one in which he lives. During his
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