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  • 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

    20000 Leagues Under the Sea

    The title refers to the distance travelled under the sea, not to the depth, as 20,000 leagues is 20 times the radius of the earth. If the title is more literally translated from the French as "20,000 Leagues under the Seas", not "under the Sea", this becomes clearer. The story was written before modern sea-going submarines were a reality. It is narrated by Professor Pierre Aronnax, a noted marine biologist, who is accompanied by his

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    Essay Length: 577 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Top
  • The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    This book takes place in the past and is about an old man that loves fishing in the Gulf Stream. The old man was a thin with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck and had scars on his hands from handling the fishing rope. He taught this young boy how to fish and the boy loved him. He even brought him fishing many times. But the past 84 days the old man had

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    Essay Length: 675 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea In the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago the fisherman can be viewed as either a failure or a success. In the aspects of Rishi, Devata, and Chhandas we can see that Santiago is not a failure. He has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish, and he is the laughingstock of his small village. Regardless of his past, the old man determines to change his luck

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    Essay Length: 564 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Andrew
  • The Village by the Sea

    The Village by the Sea

    ‘The Village by the Sea’ is a novel, which is a backdrop to the lives of the people in the village located in the western cost of India, Thul. It is a novel which is presented from an Indian boy, Hari’s point of view. The Indian culture and tradition can be seen throughout the novel. Desai uses concise descriptions to deliver the contents to the readers. Desai also uses various languages to make the novel

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    Essay Length: 794 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    The book “The Old Man and the Sea” was written by Hemingway in 1951. Just as Hemingway himself said, the work is the best one he ever wrote in his life. The book was so successful that it enabled Hemingway to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. The story of is quite simple: an Cuban fisherman finally fished a very big marlin after eighty four days’ taking no fish, but the fish was

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    Essay Length: 528 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Fonta
  • 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

    20000 Leagues Under the Sea

    ----------------------------------- May 15, 2005 20000 Leagues Under The Sea Book Report ----------------------------------- 20000 Leagues Under The Sea The year 1866 is an important time in nautical history. It is the year that the world was first terrified by an amazing ocean going monster, the Nautilus. During that year several ships had met with this "thing," a long slender object far greater in size than any creature known to man. After numerous sightings and the pass

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    Essay Length: 1,499 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: July
  • A Village by the Sea - Anita Desai

    A Village by the Sea - Anita Desai

    Anita Desai?s novel, The Village by the Sea, is a vibrant narration of perseverance and hope in distress. It is a saga of changes and adaptation, a little of evil and more about the goodness of nature and human kindness. Based on true events, it is a story set in a small coastal village Thul near Bombay. The two main characters of the novel are a brother and sister duo, 13-year-old Lila and 12-year-old Hari.

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    Essay Length: 1,016 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Max
  • 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

    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. One of his most famous books is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

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    Essay Length: 1,576 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Caspian Sea Oil Politics

    Caspian Sea Oil Politics

    Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Caspian area was not a major factor in the global oil market. Since then, interest in the region has skyrocketed due to strong economic and political competition. United States officials have been estimating that the Caspian Sea may hold more oil than any other Middle Eastern area. These estimates have been largely falsified. The truth is that the Caspian Sea region does not hold nearly as

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    Essay Length: 721 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: David
  • Old Man and the Sea

    Old Man and the Sea

    The epic journey of “The Old Man and the Sea” describes struggle, discipline and manhood. The main characters relationships exemplify how faith and skill overcome man’s adversity during life on the sea. Santiago’s growing relationship with the boy idealizes his statute as a father figure and develops his integrity and values towards the boy. Hemmingway shows us how an old fisherman’s will to overcome the sea’s obstacles proves his manhood to himself and the young

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    Essay Length: 1,243 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Old Man and the Sea

    Old Man and the Sea

    Old Man and The Sea - Rough Draft Human beings need to live in a group where everyone respects them and treats them equally. No human being can live alone isolated from other people because one hand can not clap by itself. In The Old Man and The Sea, the author uses setting, character and symbolism to show that people who society perceives as different are usually isolated. Once one is able to discover the

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    Essay Length: 1,440 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Artur
  • Psychosocial Aspects of the Old Man and the Sea

    Psychosocial Aspects of the Old Man and the Sea

    Psychosocially therapeutic aspects of The old Man and the Sea This exceptional story should be used as a therapeutic aid for hopeless and depressed people who needed a powerful force for continuing struggles of life against fate. They should say as the boy Manolin, "I'll bring the luck by myself." In the story the old man tells us "It is silly not to hope...besides I believe it is a sin." Hemingway draws a distinction between

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    Essay Length: 6,785 Words / 28 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Village by the Sea

    The Village by the Sea

    ESSAY NO.2 In Annita Desai’s novel, the treatments between male and female characters are totally different. It is described in the novel that the male characters are always lazy, selfish drunkards while the female characters are diligent and always keeping the family together. Annita tried to illustrate the readers how Indian people live in the village of Thul and how urban Indians live in the capital city of India, Bombay. In the creative novel of

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    Essay Length: 978 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Psychosocially Therapeutic Aspects of the Old Man and the Sea

    Psychosocially Therapeutic Aspects of the Old Man and the Sea

    Psychosocially therapeutic aspects of The old Man and the Sea This exceptional story should be used as a therapeutic aid for hopeless and depressed people who needed a powerful force for continuing struggles of life against fate. They should say as the boy Manolin, "I'll bring the luck by myself." In the story the old man tells us "It is silly not to hope...besides I believe it is a sin." Hemingway draws a distinction between

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    Essay Length: 6,785 Words / 28 Pages
    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Village by the Sea

    Village by the Sea

    The Village by the Sea is set in a small village called Thul, which is 14 kilometres from Bombay. Lila, the eldest child among four siblings, is thirteen years old, yet she already has the maturity of an adult. Her brother Hari, twelve, is the only person with whom she can share her troubles. Their mother is ill and needs constant care and nursing. Nobody knows exactly what she suffers from but she grows weaker

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    Essay Length: 378 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) Type of Work: Symbolic drama Setting: North Coast of Cuba; early twentieth century Principal Characters: Santiago, an old, weathered fisherman Manolin, a boy, Santiago's young fishing companion The Marlin, a gigantic fish Story Overview: Eighty-four days had passed since Santiago, the old fisherman, had caught a fish, and he was forced to suffer not only the ridicule of younger fishermen, but near-starvation as

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    Essay Length: 2,297 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: Max
  • Symbolism in the Old Man in the Sea

    Symbolism in the Old Man in the Sea

    Symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea has a lot of symbolism throughout the story line. A majority of the symbolism occurs when the old man is actually out in the ocean, but there is also some symbolism when he is on his island before he sets out to sea. The young boy, whom the old man taught to fish, symbolizes hope and joy for the old man.

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    Essay Length: 577 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Kevin
  • The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway describes an old fisherman and the unfortunate trials he faces as his "luck" runs out. Through the novel, the fisherman, Santiago, replicates Hemingway's ideal man, a noble hero. Hemingway had a Code of Behavior that he himself followed. He had morals that were strict and an appreciation for instinct and human nature. He had a specific way of living life and an understanding of time. He

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    Essay Length: 1,456 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Bred
  • Kentucky Fried Chicken

    Kentucky Fried Chicken

    Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is a very well known restaurant in the world. It is rated at number 60 as the world most well known brand by BusinessWeek (McDonalds at number 9 and Nescafe, 23). Its history spans almost 80 years when it started at Corbin (Kentucky-USA), in the 1930s. During this period the United States was under The Great Depression with almost 25% unemployment rate. The hard time was probably one of the biggest

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    Essay Length: 1,336 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Vika
  • Femininity in Euripides Medea and Jean Rhyswide Sargasso Sea

    Femininity in Euripides Medea and Jean Rhyswide Sargasso Sea

    Historically females have been portrayed as being weak and submissive, obeying their male counterparts (fathers/husbands etc) and staying in the background looking after the home and the children. To be freethinking was unheard of; all decisions were made by the male which the female had to comply with, whether or not she wanted to. This went for everything from arranged marriage to who she could associate with. There was also the generalisation that women were

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    Essay Length: 1,391 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Sea Wall

    Sea Wall

    The Sea Wall A singular love of walls is mine. Perhaps because of childish association with mountain-climbing roads narrow in the bright shadows of grey stone, hiding olive trees whereof the topmost leaves prick above into the blue; or perhaps because of subsequent living in London, with its too many windows and too few walls, the city which of all capitals takes least visible hold upon the ground; or for the sake of some other

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    Essay Length: 1,958 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Top
  • The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is a heroic tale of man's strength pitted against forces he cannot control. It is a story about an old Cuban fisherman and his three-day battle with a giant Marlin. Through the use of three prominent themes; friendship, bravery, and Christianity; the Old Man and the Sea strives to teach important life lessons to the reader while also epitomizing Santiago, the old fisherman, as a Hemingway

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    Essay Length: 1,001 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Comparing the Old Man and the Sea and the Bluest Eye

    Comparing the Old Man and the Sea and the Bluest Eye

    Perseverance has been an issue for many people for as long as anyone could remember. “If at first you don’t succeed, give up, there’s no use in being a damned fool about it”, this modern twist on the old adage seems to convey the attitude of most people in this day and age. However there are a few people that decide to go all the way with it; people that decide defeat is not an

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    Essay Length: 989 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Chicken

    Chicken

    Assignments Each of these assignments should be included in the Portfolio you submit at the end of the course. Carefully read through all of the assignments below. Assignment A. - Optional and no points are attached. To prepare for the first quiz on number conversions you might want to do Assignment A and then get assistance from the instructor before the quiz. Rarely do students do well on the quiz Class Assignments Assignment 1. Excel

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Bred
  • Old Man and the Sea

    Old Man and the Sea

    In the book, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells a story of an old fisherman. The old man, named Santiago, had gone for eighty-four days without catching a fish. Santiago feels that the following day would be a good day because eighty-five is his lucky number. The following day he gets up before dawn and sets out for a day of fishing. He had set one bait at forty fathoms, the

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    Essay Length: 1,356 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Fatih

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