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Yours, Jack (about Jack The Ri
1868 Words - 7 Pages.... were killed within forty-five minutes of each other. In response the Vigilance Committee asks the Home Office to increase the reward money. The request was denied.
On the first of October, one Thomas Coram found a bloodstained knife on Whitechapel Road, the blade was roughly nine inches in length. The possible murder weapon was immediately delivered to the police, who without modern techniques can do nothing with the evidence.
With the publishing of the "Dear Boss" letter sparking even more public interest in the crimes, the Financial News offers a further 300 pounds toward the award for the capture of the murderer. On top of that the Lord Mayor offers his own 500 pou ....
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A Separate Peace 2
414 Words - 2 Pages.... This is the story that he tells people and he believes himself. When other students get suspicious of what really happened, they hold a mock trial in attempts to find the truth. Phineas continues to lie for his friend and conjures an elaborate story to clear Gene’s name. This evidently shows that Phineas would much rather lie to others and to himself, to protect the good name of Gene.
When Gene sees that Phineas would much rather lie for him, than to believe it himself, he becomes extremely guilty for his actions. A moment, which occurred during those few seconds, has now caused him to see the pain he has inflicted on Phineas and how much Phineas really cares fo ....
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Gustave Flaubert And Madame Bovary: Comparisons
1410 Words - 6 Pages.... that she leads an ordinary and average life, but simply does not want
to abide by it. In the novel, Emma meets a pitiful doctor named Charles Bovary.
The first time they meet, Charles falls instantly in love with her. They begin
to see more and more of each other until Charles asks Emma's father for her hand
in marriage. They end up getting married and everything goes fine, just like a
normal couple, for awhile. They did things with each other, went out, and were
extremely happy. Although, this love and passion for life shortly ended when
Emma's true feelings began to come about. We soon come to realize that “the
story is of a woman whose dreams of romantic love, lar ....
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Summary Of The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
1565 Words - 6 Pages.... at Jurgis and Ona's wedding in
America, but soon flashes back to the time before they left Lithuania.
Jurgis met Ona at a horse fair, and fell in love with her. Unfortunately,
they were too poor to have a wedding, since Ona's father just died. In the
hopes of finding freedom and fortune, they left for America, bringing many
members of Ona's family with them.
After arriving in America, they are taken to Packingtown to find
work. Packingtown is a section of Chicago where the meat packing industry
is centralized. They take a tour of the plant, and see the unbelievable
efficiency and speed att which hogs and cattle are butchered, cooked,
packed, and shipped. In Packingt ....
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Madame Bovary: Emma's Unorthodox Behavior Due To Childhood
625 Words - 3 Pages.... the convent. In the fine pages of those
books, Emma read of parted lovers, excitement, romance, knights in armor, and
ladies in white satin dresses. These novels painted a world where palm trees
and pine trees lived together, where lions and tigers roamed the forest, with
Roman Ruins surrounded by virgin forests and lakes full of swans. "And the
shaded oil-lamp . . . lit up all these pictures of the world, which flowed by on
after another, in the silence of the dormitory, to the distant sound of a late
cab somewhere still rolling along the boulevards." (page 30) In short, Emma
fell in love with a world that never existed anywhere. She embraced the
elegance of the life ....
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The Struggle Between Good And Evil In The Hobbit
1631 Words - 6 Pages.... 37). Another critic mentions: "In itself, The Hobbit began as merely another story for amusement" (Kurska 56). Also in the book it mentions mysterious creatures and whether each is on the side of good or evil. Some of the creatures in the book are dragons, dwarves, elves, goblins, hobbits, trolls, and many more creatures that prove The Hobbit is a fantasy world.
True it is an impossible world in which dragons talk, wizards perform
Magic, evil creatures lose their flesh - blood forms, and magic rings of
Power rule and corrupt (Evans145).
Magic comprises part of the fantasy aspects of the book. For example, when Gandalf is awakened by a scream, there is a flash of li ....
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Criticism Of Practical Application Of Utopia In "Brave New World"
1162 Words - 5 Pages.... love.
The destruction of the family is one example of the effect of Utopia's
absence of love. In a world of bottled-births, not only is there no need for a
family, but the idea is actually considered obscene. The terms "mother" and
"father" are extremely offensive and are rarely used except in science.
Huxley uses Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, to portray the
vulgarity when he explains the obscenity of life before Utopia to a group of
students:
And home was as squalid psychically as physically. Psychically, it was a rabbit
hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with
emotion. What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, ....
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Cry, The Beloved Country: Stimulating A Change
1102 Words - 5 Pages.... for his son, Absalom, Paton has several
events befall onto Kumalo in order to represent the harsh society that many
of the blacks live in. The first event occurs when Kumalo arrives in
Johannesburg, afraid from the stories that he has heard, he puts his trust
in another black man who appears to be of good intentions, but in reality
cheats Kumalo of his money. This experience is unlike his time on the
train, in which Kumalo had been treated with immense respect. On the train
he is aware of the respect that other blacks hold for him, because he is a
man of God, though, in the city, his social standing demonstrates little
significance. This may be taken as a sign that the ....
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