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Gena Walker Biology Dear Book Report March 6, 2008 First Block The Cobra Event The “Cobra Event” by Richard Preston was an extraordinary book about an eruption of an unknown disease in New York. The disease started like the common cold but after a period of time blood blistering would begin in the mouth, nasopharynx,…

The author uses a stark recurring contrast of light and dark imagery to describe the world that encompasses the Heart of Darkness. This contrast is quite often taken to be the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, order and chaos. Conrad, however, through his twisted and emotionally provocative descriptions, distorts and undermines this…

Despite their differences in location and time, both “Great Expectations” and “To Kill A Mockingbird” share connections in their storylines. These novels are written from the viewpoint of an adult reflecting on their childhood, making them both bildungsroman in style. The novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” addresses different types of prejudice that existed in Maycomb…

As Violet bathed, she paid particular attending to her tattoos, each one reminding her of a alone event in her life, like an cuticular scrapbook: the rose on her bicep where she ’ d tattooed over Lenny ’ s name, the snake vining it ’ s manner around her mortise joint, the spider crawling up…

In both Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” the characters are not loyal to each other, but are very selfish and only loyal to themselves. In “The Lottery,” when Tessie Hutchinson is selected for the lottery, Mrs. Delacroix “selected a stone so large she had to…

The Life Story and Work of Mark Twain People do not always like to read nonfiction books or novels because they are too long and sometimes they will feel like the story will never end. The shorter and more understandable the stories are, the easier to read. Samuel Clemens, or better known as, Mark Twain,…

In play “Antigone” he writes about the same themes as in “Oedipus Rex” and places different characters into almost the same horrible, chaotic situations.Sophocles writes strongly about his most important key theme, the exploration of human limits.He also touches on the themes of discovery of self, wisdom through suffering, and the struggle between individual conscience…

            Society imposes certain expectations among its members. Men and women are supposed to fulfill traditional roles dictated by their culture. Human growth means they do not only develop and adjust to physical changes, they also have to conform to the expectations of society in every period of their lives. These expectations are unwritten and…

Like a phoenix rising from the flames, Phoenix Jackson rises from all the challenges. Symbolism is used in everything we do now in days, for example clothes, shoes and even simple words and colors. It helps us create and represent a imagine of who we are in a way that is memorable that allows us…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The Ideal Medieval Knight In Medieval times, much was expected of the knights that served the courts. Most importantly was that each knight was pledged to a strict code of chivalry. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is the ideal of a medieval knight. Sir Gawain directly exhibits the…