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    Gulliver learns little from his travels except hatred for humanity and love for horses. What does the reader learn from Gulliver’s voyages? After reading Gulliver’s Travels you see the details up close‚ and you see them from far away. The book shows you how meaningless some wars are‚ for example between the Lilliput and Blefuscu. There is no real huge conflict between the two and Swift implies this in different way. Gulliver also meets the Brobdingnagians‚ where the king shows Gulliver that the

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    generation‚ care more about elections compared to Democrats‚ and understand what a privilege voting is. Of the many Republican voters‚ the primary amount of votes are from older citizens. Compared to Democrats‚ Republicans are generally old. The age difference is a huge affect on the election. College students and young people are busy with work‚ partying and don’t necessarily have “time” or care enough about going out to vote. Whereas‚ old people have time to go out and vote. To older people‚ voting

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    century shared many similarities and differences to that of previous American expansionist ideals. In both cases of American expansionism‚ the Americans believed that we must expand our borders in order to keep the country running upright. Also‚ the Americans believed that the United State‚ being one of the strongest of the nations‚ had a need to become even stronger. This is shown in the "manifest destiny" of the 1840’s. Apart from the similarities‚ there were also several differences that included the

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    Similarities and Differences between Islam and Christianity Though they are two separate religions‚ Islam and Christianity share many ideas and had similar aspects of development. For both religions‚ there was great development after the death of their most highly worshipped prophet and a religious divide that would prove to be permanent. With these similarities there are also differences in major aspect of both religions like the disputed death of Jesus Christ and differing opinions on human and

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    Democrats generally adopt more liberal platforms‚ Republicans have a tendency to foster more conservative ones; In spite of this superficial difference‚ there are many similarities that enable Democrats and Republicans to reconcile. To overcome their differences‚ it is imperative for Democrats and Republicans to understand the similarities and contrasts that exist between them. There are numerous facets in which Democrats and Republicans can be compared; for instance‚ Democrats state that proper tax reform

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    The eighteenth century period was a time for travel writing and texts describing journeys. It is stated that ’different forms of non-fictional travel writing influenced the development of eighteenth-century literature’ (The Open University‚ 2012‚ ’Forms of travel writing’‚ transcript‚ p. 2). Voltaire’s Candide (2006[1759]) is an example‚ readers enjoy a philosophical journey that follows a series of challenges to Pangloss principle of optimism. The journey of Voltaire’s characters ’poses questions

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    I’ll be discussing the similarities and differences between John Taylor and Howling Wolf work of art. I find John Taylor‚ Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge more representational‚ it has the natural objects in a form that you can easily recognize. In the opposite side‚ Howling Wolf’s drawing appears to be more abstract meaning doesn’t appear to be real. Anyone can tell that Wolf’s artwork is very two dimensional and objective drawn on a piece of paper. The two pieces of art that you have seen

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    The ending of Candide brings forth a serious debate amongst the novel’s readers of whether the ending is optimistic or pessimistic. There is no definitive answer because it is relative to the individual view on what situational opportunities are available to Candide and his companions on their farm in Turkey. By contrasting Voltaire’s work with itself using the El Dorado paradox from earlier in the novel‚ an important understanding of what a utopian society could look like and how Candide’s farm

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    includes the contradictory characters Atticus and Alexandra. These siblings have identifiable similarities and differences. Atticus and Alexandra are similar in various ways. One similarity is the want to lead Jem and Scout into the right direction‚ but how they do it is in a different way. Atticus will lead them to the right paths‚ but Alexandra wants to shape the kids into her own image. Another similarity is they both listen to the radio. See‚ Atticus gets his news from the newspaper‚ so he probably

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    The Giver The similarities between the book and movie‚ The Giver‚ is that for their transportation they used bikes because they didn’t want anyone getting hurt or into crashes. Not to mention at one point Gabriel spent some of his nights at Jonas’s house. Also somewhere around the end of the book the Giver mentioned that his daughter is Rosemary. The last similarity I found was in the end when Jonas ran away from the community he brought Gabriel with him The difference between the book and the

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