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    The title of this book is “Charlotte’s Web.” It was written by E.B. White, the author of other books such as “Stuart Little”. It was written in 1952. The book’s genre is fantasy because although it teaches a lesson about friendship, it still has some unrealistic elements, such as the talking animals and Charlotte being able to write. This book teaches about friendship, with Charlotte doing all that she could to save Wilbur until the very end. The main characters in the book are Charlotte and…

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    Animal Usage in the Military is Inhumane Animals came to this world the same way humans did, with no rights, or obligations. Life is meant to be lived it at it’s finest. Through centuries, humans learned skills to live in the world, to hunt and to love. Humans also learned to hate which caused conflicts between other nations. Humans found a way to use animals as weapons, they trained them to kill and to hunt enemies. According to the article “Animals and World War I”, says, “Over 16 million…

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    George Orwell’s 1984 depicts a futuristic society in which government and technology evolve and create a oligarchical utopian society equipt with a figurehead, Big Brother. As the top tier of a strict class system, the Inner Party uses Big Brother’s persona to enforce mechanisms used to maintain power and influence. Any distinction of an individual most likely will lead to his/her condemnation and vaporization, in which the individual is erased from official documentation and ceases to exist.…

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    Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist who lived from 1643 to 1727. Newton grew up with his grandmother, whereas his father passed away shortly before he was born and his mother remarried a man he did not approve of. Newton attended Trinity College in Cambridge and worked as a servant at the university until he was awarded a scholarship because he could not afford the tuition fees. In 1666, the university was temporarily closed due to an extremely contagious, mortal disease…

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    In Robert Sharenow’s The Berlin Boxing Center, the passage listed above describes the theme of being an outsider. The narrator is able to find many similarities between himself and his hero as both of them do not confirm to their worlds. Karl narrates that he lives in a world where his race is oppressed and deemed as useless and inferior. He matures into a strong and intelligent boxer after training with professionals at clubs to divert himself from the constant tension and struggle faced by his…

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    Introduction Pablo Picasso is the most important figure of 20th century, in terms of art and art movement that occurred over the period. Before the age of 50, the Spanish born artist had become the most well-known name in modern art, with distinct style and eye for artistic creation which influenced artists, painters, and explained more on the human conditions. .Human condition is the subconscious sense of guilt and agony we each carry of being unable to explain humans’ contradictory capacity…

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    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Animal farm is taken over by overworked and tiresome animals. Thus attempting the idea of a perfect utopian world with equality at its roots. Unfortunately, the dictatorship community comes back and the animals are forced to work while the rulers, the pigs, sit back and watch. The simple-minded animals live in fear, but do not take matters into…

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    Waiting for the Barbarians Essay I this essay I will talk about the characters and analyze the book in my perspective. Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. It was first published in 1980, chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. The novel is about a city magistrate in a village of a nameless empire. The narrator, who we…

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    “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future” (BrainyQuote). These are the words of Adolf Hitler, who is commonly considered one of the most evil man in history. The world has always wanted to understand why he was so cold-hearted, but research has not proved what caused him to be delusional. However, there are many theories…

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    The Great Gatsby’s narrator, Nick Carraway, states in the first pages of the book that “life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all”. In this paper, I will demonstrate that this sentence has a deeper meaning in the forthcoming events described in the novel and that Nick is not such a rational or trustworthy character as he claims to be. Paying close attention to the quote and analyzing it in detail, the narrator lets the reader know that life becomes simpler when…

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