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The Hobbit
The book is a prelude to "The Lord of the Rings". The main character is Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit. The book is just another "Harry Potter" and "C.S. Lewis" story. The plot is nicely written and the use of words is in high standard. However, the descriptions for each of the events aare too long. Sometimes I will feel boring. As a matter of fact, I don't enjoy the book too much and I
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The Hobbit
The book I read was titled The Hobbit. J. R. R. Tolkien wrote the book. It was first copyrighted in 1937. It was published by Ballantine Books. The main character in the book is Bilbo Baggins, who is a hobbit. Hobbits are humans a little smaller than dwarves. There are other main characters in the book, too. Gandalf is a powerful wizard who arranges the adventure the book is about. Thirteen dwarves also take part
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The Hobbit
The book begins with Biblo Baggins enjoying a pipe after breakfast. This is one of his favorite pleasures and he feels quite content in doing so. He is middle-aged, and resides in a burrow in the ground. One morning Gandalf, a wizard stops by to talk with Biblo. He tells Biblo that he is looking for someone to go on an adventure with him. Although Biblo is tempted he declines, but not before inviting
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The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
As the book, The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien begins to conclude, Thorin Oakenshield sees the goodness in Bilbo Baggins and apprehends the most significant parts of life. Since the beginning, Thorin's principle objective is to become the King under the Mountain and to have all the gold and treasure. While Thorin is on his deathbed he tells Bilbo, "There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West.
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The Hobbitt
The Hobbit is written in third person to make it sound as though the story is being told out loud. In The Hobbit, the narrator speaks as if he’s telling a story to kids, often interrupting the story to make little asides. A quote to back this up can be found on page 37 when Bert says, “You’re a fat fool William, as I’ve said afore this evening.” Another quote from the book proving it
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust is known to all of us in some manner. Maybe we know someone who survived this terrible event in history, or one has learned about it in school, either way, everyone has had some kind of knowledge about the horrible things that the Nazi party did to the European Jews during the Holocaust. The Holocaust took a great toll on many lives in one way or another, one in particular being Vladek Spiegleman.
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The Holocaust: From Survivor of Verdun
Hermanns, William. The Holocaust: from a survivor of Verdun. New York: Harper and Row Publishing, 1972. Pp. xi,141. Megan Houck BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: William Hermanns was born on the 23rd of July 1895 in Koblenz, Germany to a merchant family. His parents were Michael and Bertha. Mr. Hermanns was highly educated with a M.A. from the University of Berlin and he continued school to receive s Ph.D. from University of Frankfurt. His career consisted of a
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The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions
The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions I have always known the holocaust to be one of the worst events in all of history. I remember learning all about it in history class in the ninth grade and being appalled by all the horrors that were shown to us. We learned all about the intense persecution of the Jews, how they were forced into terrible concentration camps where they either worked or were killed, and how
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The Honorable Imposter
The Honorable Imposter The Honorable Imposter, written by Gilbert Morris brings reader’s imagination all the way back to before the Mayflower came to America. With romance, violence, betrayal, murder, and deception, Morris sucks readers in with no turning back. The Honorable Imposter is a great example of historical fiction. The readers not only get an exciting story but a history lesson! Gilbert Winslow, the main character, lives in London, England, but he can also be
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The Horse and His Boy
The Horse and His Boy The book I read for my book report was a fiction book called The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis. This is the third book in the "Chronicles of Narnia" series and it was published in 1954. The story takes place in the make-believe land of Calormen and the also make-believe land of Narnia. It's about a boy that runs away from his life of slavery and
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The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
In The Horse Dealer’s Daughter, by D.H. Lawrence, romance plays a critical part in the development of the story. It is the result of an accidental rendezvous of the two main characters. It creates a sense of redeeming power – love. Love, in a way, can solve or complicate dilemmas. In this story, love is not as simple as boy meets girl; boy falls in love with girl; boy marries girl. The psychological operations of
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The Horse Whisperer
Hi! My name is Grace, and I would like to tell you about something that happened about a year ago. I was about 13 at the time. I went riding with a friend of mine. The ice was slippery, so we couldn’t go up this hill we thought we knew how to go up, but I guess we didn’t know. I don’t like talking about it, so I’ll just say that my friend and her
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The Hot Zone
In 1980 a man named Charles Monet went on a trip with a girlfriend up to Mountain Elgon in West Kenya. They spent the night there and went to a large cave called Kitcum cave. Three days after his return home, Charles began to have a headache. A few days later he went to the doctors and they told him he should go to a bigger/better hospital in Nairobi. So Charles flew to Nairobi.
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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
THE HOT ZONE by Richard Preston The book THE HOT ZONE by Richard Preston tells the story of outbreaks of viruses in Germany and Africa, and provides a detailed look at the 1989 Ebola Reston disaster just outside Washington, D.C. In October of l989, monkeys imported from the Philippines began dying at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston, Virginia. Almost a third of them died within a month of there arrival. Unsure of why
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles Holmes and Watson are in a little office in Devonshire examining a little wooden stick that their host left behind. It was wasted from bottom because it was used daily, the cane belong to Dr. James Mortimer personal friend and doctor of Sir Charles Baskerville the murdered. When finally Dr. Mortimer comes down it brings a piece of scroll of nearly the 18th century under his arm. He unfolds it
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle First of all, this is a classic story of Sherlock Holmes narrated by his dear Watson, the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one if not the best story teller in British Literature concerning detective issues. The story began with a strange case that came to Baker Street in the hands of Dr. Mortimer who came to London from a countryside town called Devonshire, where apparently a
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The House Girl Isu Essay
Slavery May Be Over, But Racism Isn’t It is commonly argued that the abolition of slavery marked the end of racism for black people. It is claimed that this is a post racial society, and black people receive the same opportunities as white people do. However, although they are no longer owned as slaves, black people are still harshly oppressed. Examples from both the novel The House Girl by Tara Conklin, which shows what life
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The House of the Spirits- Chapter 7 Analysis
Amanda invites pity upon Nicolas when she exclaims, “you will always be a child” (234). Throughout this passage, we see many subtle signs of Nicolas’ emerging maturity. The flamboyant and retrospective young man slowly starts to realize the protective shield that has been guarding him for all his life, and the true nature of the world behind it. Isabelle Allende makes the rite of passage clear through the turns in Nicolas’ personality. A key way
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The Human Genome Project
Marshall, Elizabeth L. The Human Genome Project: Cracking The Code Within Us. New York, New York: Franklin Watts, 1996. 1-128. Elizabeth L. Marshall was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She grew up in areas of southern California, and in parts of New York City. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is currently married and has two daughters. She attended and graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in English. She then graduated from the
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
In this novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), Victor Hugo talks about the life of his characters in the city of Paris. This story takes place in the late-fourteenth century. With inequality all around it was hard for a person to gain respect without good looks or social status. In this paper I will mainly discuss the story of Quasimodoe Esmeralda, and their struggle in this story Quasimodoe's mother was a gypsy. She could not
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The Hunger Games - Using Entertainment as a Form of Control
The Hunger Games: Using Entertainment as a Form of Control The Hunger Games is a dystopian look at North America following an unknown apocalyptic event that changed the geography of the world. The country now known as Panem was formed from the remaining population after the event and while the country was forming there was a rebellion. Once the rebellion was crushed and District 13 obliterated, The Hunger Games were founded as a means for
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The Huntsman Poem Summary
Critical Summary of The Huntsman There have been hundreds and thousands of works of art that were created merely to communicate the advice of how unnecessary talking may kill a person. We also find literatures of different ages and languages full of the criticism over the cruelty of kings. But the poem "The Huntsman" reflects both; advice for the young as well as the criticism of the undemocratic and autocratic rulers. However, the advice
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The Ice Palace.
Lennon Fasha Lennon Professor Canning English B1B 7 March 2019 The Ice Palace F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24th, 1896. Francis Scott was named after a distant cousin, who wrote the poem lyrics to the national anthem. In 1913 Fitzgerald graduated boarding school in New Jersey and attended Princeton University to write short stories and journal articles. After attending the university for 4 years he got placed on academic probation and dropped out
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The Idea of Family
Every one desires to have a warm family. But what is the true definition of family we usually talk about? In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, we are able to discover the idea of family. Family means putting your arms around each other and always being there. Members in a family don’t have to have kin to form a good family, as long as they care about each other. In the novel, Calpurnia is
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The Iliad Essay: Western Thought
Colby Jarrell Western Thought Essay No. 2 10/20/15 Achilles’ rage has played a significant role in this epic. His anger is one of the driving forces behind the Trojan War. The rage that is inside of him is so great that he chooses to opt out of the war and leave his allies. The rage, pride, and revenge that lives inside of him only causes pain and turmoil. Although he possesses super-human abilities and strength,
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The Imagery of Blood in Macbeth
Imagery Of Blood 'MacBeth', the dramatic play written by William Shakespeare has many good examples of imagery, especially blood. The play opens with the weird sisters talking about meeting again and talking about MacBeth. A war has just ended, making MacBeth a Brave hero because he is the general of the Scottish army and they won. MacBeth is the thane of Glamis, and then becomes the Thane of Cawdor. The weird sisters make many predictions
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The Imperfect Heroin in Prose Fiction
The Imperfect Heroin in Prose Fiction There is one particular feature that sets the novel apart from any other literary genre. Literature has the ability to transport you into a world that is a product of individual imagination yet the realism expressed in the novel serves as a tool or road that leads to the emerging of conceived images. It is a time travel that has the ability to restore any period of growth in
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The Importance of Being Earnest
In Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest he presents a satirized view of the upper class during Victorian times. He does this is several ways. First, through his representation of These observations include the prevalent utilization of deceit in everyday affairs. Indeed the characters and plot of the play appear to be entirely irreverent, thus lending weight to the comedic, fanciful aspect. However, this same factor also serves to illuminate the major points
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The Importance of Beint Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde, a comedy of manners on the seriousness of society in either three or four acts (depending on edition) inspired by W. S. Gilbert's Engaged.[1] It was first performed for the public on February 14, 1895 at the St. James' Theatre in London. It is set in England during the late Victorian era, and its primary source of humour is based upon the main character
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The Importance of Crooks in of Mice and Men
Discrimination can take many forms, from racial to physical to gender discrimination. Sadly, many people suffer each day from it as well as loneliness. In Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, Crooks is set apart because he is the only black man on the ranch and he has a physical disability. In this novel Crooks possesses the majority of loneliness and discrimination. He has more possessions than anyone, because he is a permanent worker unlike
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