In the novel Water for Elephants‚ Rosie is an elephant that outsmarts everyone by pretending to be incompetent. Rosie spent weeks on the circus not doing anything because the circus staff thought that she was incompetent. In the beginning weeks when Rosie was on the circus even though almost everyone believed that she was a waste of money because she was useless and stupid she often proved to outsmart everyone. One day before the circus began the lemonade went missing and Uncle Al blamed it on the
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Michael Moore Intro to Ethics Reading Summary #18 John Stuart Mills‚ Utilitarianism Utilitarianism brought together a lot of ways of thinking that were out there at the time of Mills‚ but no one sort of gave it a name. I believe Mills makes some improvements on utilitarianism; Shifting the wave of quantitate which is calculating pleasure and pains on an even basis‚ somewhat like a balance sheet‚ to qualitative. He’s in fact saying utilitarianism can address any of the things
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I believe John Muir wrote this book for the purposes of saving the natural areas of Yosemite National Park and to give the readers a detailed glimpse into the park itself through described scenery and vistas. To be thorough‚ he furthermore details the vegetation that is seemingly spread throughout. Therefore‚ I believe this work was intended for general audiences and tourists who wish to see the areas themselves. The tone he imparts is whimsical‚ familiar‚ doting and informal. He is careful to
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The book‚ “Basic Christianity”‚ is written through the lens of John Scott. From this point of view‚ the reader is informed about the principles that Scott believes to be the essential foundation of Christianity. These aspects that Scott emphasized to be the most crucial to Christianity are: human sin‚ the need for salvation‚ and the work of Christ. By using his knowledge of all of these principles‚ Scott makes the declaration that we as humans have one goal and that goal in life is to reestablish
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the idea of gender equality. In fact‚ one form of opposition took form in a film called Annie Get Your Gun‚ which juxtaposes feminism and happiness. The film
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Essay Title: “Seeing” Author: Annie Dillard Analytical essay Title: The sense of sight in our life. The personal essay “Seeing”‚ written by Annie Dillard‚ indeed is a mystical literary work. Dillard uses magical and poetic language to describe her own experience of observation of the nature surrounding Tinker Creek. She introduces her subject with an anecdote about her childhood. When she was a little girl she hides her own pennies along the sidewalks of the streets. Afterward‚ she drew chalk
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John Gardner’s novel‚ Grendel‚ takes place in the fourth century A.D. in Denmark. The novel is about Grendel‚ a monster that lives in a cave with his mother who is unable to communicate with him due to her lack of ability to speak‚ and fails to fit in among humans‚ causing him to live a secluded life. Grendel was written in order to help people understand the very nature of mankind. Summary: In the very first chapter of the novel‚ Grendel is being introduced as any ordinary monster you could imagine
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Bible Book Summaries: Old Testament Bobbi Fletcher Module 5 February18‚ 2012 Summary of the books of the Old Testament Numbers The Genre’s of this book are made up of Law and History due to the sins of disobedience and "god" worshiping. Along Israel’s journey they were led away to wandered for 40 years in the wilderness before coming into the promised land. In the first 25 chapters of Numbers we see the experiences of the first generation of the Israelites in the wilderness along with the
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favorites and that books that got me into reading‚ The Littles. The books are shirt little chapter books with about fourteen chapters in each book. All the books are about this little family that are so tiny‚ the tallest one is about six inches tall. The whole family lives in the walls of a big family they call the Bigs‚ who don’t know the littles exist. In each of there stories they go on big adventures and they get in a little bit of trouble. These books are written by John Peterson and also have
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After reading‚ “The Medieval Church‚” by John H. Lynch‚ I had discovered many interesting facts that I had not learned about before. It was interesting to learn about the church and its beginnings‚ especially since I attend to church every week. Also‚ the importance that the church had in the countries‚ which has obviously changed drastically in cultures or countries. I was also fascinated by the words that the authors used for this book because even though it was non-fiction‚ his choice of language
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