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    Unfortunately the three-book series is banned by certain school districts, and I would have to tread carefully to introduce The Lord of the Rings to a classroom. This is a classic that has regained popularity time from time again, but a teacher has to remain cautious just in case a parent is not in agreement in letting their child read this. I believe The Lord of the Rings does have a right to be included in the school curriculum. The Sunday Telegraph states the trilogy is “among the greatest…

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    The literary novel Lord of the Flies is an allegorical text that is complex and identifies common day issues through the eyes of its author William Golding, who had experienced the horrors of WWII. Golding created a story where a large group of British boys crash land on an island and are stranded. In the beginning, the boys try to stay civilized by selecting a leader and following that leader and a direct set of rules. Ralph one of two-man characters was chosen as leader. His rival Jack…

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    himself that he is more than capable of defeating the scariest of enemies and grows into a stronger dwarf because of the adventure. He gets himself out of the tightest situations when he gets lost in the tunnels and encounters Gollum. He finds the ring which gives him the power of invisibility and gain pity for another. He loses parts of himself that many consider bad traits, such as self-centeredness, but gains higher morals and ideals, empathy and kindness. The reader of the Hobbit will learn…

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    Choose one theme from the text so far, and discuss how it has been displayed by the author Ever since the beginning of time, in every species, there has always been the process of natural selection, wether it is someone who can't run fast enough to escape a predator, or someone that is dumb enough to drink and drive then get in a car crash. Society has been trying to take away the process of natural selection, but when Golding puts these boys in a savage habitat, the separation of the weak and…

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    Beowulf Alternate Ending

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    "You will NEVER be able to reclaim that mountain, stupid dwarf!" The elf fumed, his eyes glistening with malice as he clutched the armrests of his throne in anger. "What are you even thinking? Marching into Erebor with a handful of over-the-hill dwarfs and mere tod-dlers to face Smaug? I will not allow for your stubbornness to re-awake that dragon to bring death and destruction over all Arda! If you don't give in, you and your people shall rot in my dungeon. Your case is lost, dwarf!" "And so…

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    “There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed” ~Mahatma Gandhi. Take a glance at the world around us, our society now consists of grounds of greed and avarice. Individuals have other dreams regarding social life, money and aesthetics rather than focusing on relationships, respect, reputation and trust. The world can’t provide any more than our necessities: nature, food, fresh water and oxygen, yet people ask for more. In addition, around a year ago researchers had a…

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    Anthropology in the 19th century was composed more so of the evolutionism of ideas, which differentiated cultural structures through different stages of evolution using the single deductive theory. Learning from the failures of the horticultural dependency dilemmas, the Neolithic Revolution began allowing people not to depend on nature to gather food, but rather produce their own food through labor. Which later developed a whole new world for humans, transcending from hunting and gathering to…

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    determine the quality of the work and the readers reception of it, from superficial aspects of interest as well as technical skills and development of a story. The realm of Middle Earth, as described in J. R. R. Tolkien 's pieces of work The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, exemplify a large host of qualities in terms of writing skill and time poured into the series, as well as a story line filled with intriguing characters and events. Fundamentally a piece of literature, and even a…

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    Heroism In The Hobbit

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    The Hobbit In the analysis, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien gets employed. Heroism get allude. The Hobbit 's primary subject is Bilbo 's advancement into a legend, which all the more comprehensively speaks to the improvement of a typical individual into a saint. Toward the start of the story, Bilbo is bashful, agreeable, and smug in his protected small gap in the end. At the point when Gandalf talks him into setting out on a mission with Thorin 's dwarves, Bilbo gets to be frightened to the…

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    able to finally stump him, albeit his “riddle” being less of a riddle and more of a trick question. Part of being a hero in Tolkien’s world means that the right thing to do isn’t always the thing that you need to do to survive. Bilbo steals Gollum’s ring and cheats at the riddle game however ultimately ends up surviving, showing that his wit is what will keep him alive as opposed to abstaining his moral…

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