The book To Kill a Mockingbird was full of symbolism and themes. The title itself was symbolic to the story. A mockingbird represented innocence‚ and to kill it would mean to kill the innocence of the people who possessed it. The three main themes of To Kill a Mockingbird were social inequality‚ innocence of people‚ and the challenges of growing up. The first theme of the book was social inequality. The social inequality was not only between blacks and whites‚ but also between the different economic
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This story talks about a young man who has dropped out of high school and cannot find a job because he does not have an education. Since he has no education‚ he decides to read 100 books‚ hoping he can get a job with that. The political and social themes of both Fahrenheit 451 and A Summer’s Reading
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railway with five people ahead tied and unable to move on the tracks. The train is headed straight for the five people‚ while I’m standing some distance off in the train yard near a lever. If I pull the lever‚ the train I’ll switch off to a different set of tracks. Only killing one person‚ who is also tied to those tracks. If there are five people namely A‚B‚C‚D and E on the main track and Z on the side track‚ the most common thing to do would be to pull the lever saving five people and only letting
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The Way up to Heaven by Roald Dahl ALL HER LIFE MRS FOSTER had had an almost pathological fear of missing a train‚ a plane‚ a boat‚ or even a theatre curtain. In other respects‚ she was not a particularly nervous woman‚ but the mere thought of being late on occasions like these would throw her into such a state of nerves that she would begin to twitch. It was nothing much ‑ just a tiny vellicating muscle in the corner of the left eye‚ like a secret wink ‑ but the annoying thing was that it
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creates a distraction and remains behind so the others can escape from the cave. After Bubbe was captured‚ Anton devises a plan to help her escape. He distracted the guards and sabotaged the truck‚ and they flee to safety. Outraged and concerned about what his supervisor might think‚ Major Von Duesen becomes unhinged and murders some of the Jews in cold blood‚ including Anton’s beloved Bubbe.
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motivations are unique to the individual‚ as Abraham Maslow‚ an American psychologist‚ wrote in his 1943 paper‚ A Theory of Human Motivation‚ in which he describes the hierarchy of needs‚ generalizing what every human requires for life. He describes these needs as a five-tiered hierarchy system and are what motivates each human in their life and is structured so that an individual cannot reach the next tier unless the lower one(s) have been fulfilled‚ though not necessarily at 100 percent fulfillment
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Lathe Of Heaven George Orr is tortured by his dreams because sometimes they come true. The world he wakes up to has changed into the world that he dreamed‚ sometimes radically‚ sometimes violently. As a teenager he dreams the death of his aunt and he awakens to finds that she was killed in a car accident six weeks before. He is horrified‚ and attempts to control his dreaming‚ but over the years some of his dreams and nightmares come true. Finally by the time he is thirty ( in the year 2002) he
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squashed‚ and some humanity was lost in what we now refer to as The Revolutionary War. Guidance should never be forgotten on enemy lines of independence‚ did Taylor know that? Negatively speaking Taylor lacks the mental capacity to commit to Jax. Call it odd or the way Taylor was raised‚ she treats Jax as an unnecessary luxury. Men like to feel needed and his continuous unrequited feelings for Taylor aren’t exactly beneficial to Jax’s needs. So‚ what does Jax do in ways of self destructing
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Knight Over Night The movie Kingdom of Heaven has many inaccuracies‚ some of these inaccuracies are for entertainment purposes and some of them are meant to give the movie a higher meaning. Many of the inaccuracies in the movie that are meant only for entertainment are typically minor. These inaccuracies are those such as the affair that Sibylla was having with Balian. This scene in the movie is inaccurate because in that day and age such a religious woman would not likely have an affair with another
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In the novel‚ The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka‚ alienation and isolation are very prominent themes that flow through the pages. When Gregor undergoes his transformation into a grotesque insect‚ it creates this psychological and emotional rift between Gregor and his family. To separate themselves‚ his family lock Gregor in his room and only his sister‚ Grete‚ is allowed in to clean and feed Gregor. Gregor is physically and literally isolated from mankind‚ as he is imprisoned and is in fact‚ no longer
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