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Summary of Lord of the Flies
Fiction
Lord Of The Flies
The Jungle
The bins give him food but refuse to join him. They tell him that Jack plans to send the entire tribe after him the next day. Ralph hides in a thicket and falls asleep. In the morning, he hears Jack talking and torturing one of the twins to find out where Ralph is hiding. Several…
The Poem My Last Duchess
Poem
In the Poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning the heartless and haughty talker explains a picture of his last married woman while unwittingly uncovering a darker side to his last matrimony than one might see from they outside. The verse form depicts a heavy watercourse of witting feel to it by utilizing linguistic communication…
Epic Poem: Beowulf
Beowulf
Beowulf is an epic poem written back in the Anglo-Saxon time period. While the epic poem features a significant amount of female characters such as Grendel’s Mother and Wealtheow, it is obvious that the men and their affairs are the focus of the story. A critic once pointed out that “the poem’s powerfully sexist disposition…
Comparing Fahrenheit 451 and The Crucible
The Crucible
Summary My essay compares and contrasts 2 literary works, “Fahrenheit 451” written by ray Bradbury, and the play “The Crucible” authored by Arthur Miller. The purpose of the essay is to study society and its idiosyncrasies while exploring literary style at the same time. The audiences most likely to benefit from the essay include classical…
The Leisure Industry: A High-Growth Area
Sport
The Lottery
The leisure industry is a high growth area, contributing 10% of UK gross domestic product GDP. It consists of the health and fitness, betting and gambling, and sports and recreation sectors. Health and fitness is divided between private health clubs and public sector leisure centres. Added to this are health clubs that are located on-site…
Rubik’s cube instructional speech
Speech
In 1974, Erno Rubik, a 29-year-old Hungarian, unintentionally created the famous Rubik’s cube when he was trying to solve a design issue connected to three-dimensional geometry. The cube originally had the name “Magic Cube” given by Rubik, but later on, it was renamed as Rubik’s Cube by the Ideal Toy Corporation in 1980. Little did…
Mexico Human Trafficking Speech Th
Human
Human Trafficking
Speech
Mexico and Trafficking Informative Speech Tommy Hertz (Fall 2012) Human Trafficking in Mexico Specific Purpose:To inform my audience of the trafficking going on in Mexico and some association of it around the border. Central Idea:The main points of focus here are Mexico’s stance on controlling or ending it, trafficking happening around the border, and why…
Mary Anne Bell Trasformation
The Things They Carried
The idea that “people never change” is proven false in various environments, as individuals undergo different transformations. In Tim O’Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, the chapter “Sweet Heart of the Song Tra Bong” illustrates how Mary Anne Bell is impacted by the harsh conditions of war. Mary Anne’s boyfriend, Mark Fossie, convinces her to…
2010 AP English Language and Composition Free Response
English Language
Voltaire
John Locke (August 29, 1632- October 28, 1704) was a significant British philosopher who played a crucial role in the advancement of social contract theory during the Enlightenment. His ideas greatly influenced epistemology, political philosophy, and liberal theory. Locke’s writings had a profound impact on notable figures such as Voltaire, Rousseau, various Scottish Enlightenment thinkers,…
A Spiritual Reality
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Spiritual
How do you feel when you see flowers growing on the roadside? To the author, William Wordsworth, in his immortal lyric poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, flowers and all of nature’s richness is a spiritual reality, bearing witness to the beauty and goodness of God. The poem expresses the writer’s personal feelings…