Go Ask Alice is based on the actual diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user. It is not a definitive statement on the middle-class, teenage drug world. It does not offer any solutions. It is, however, a highly personal and specific chronicle. The diary starts and ends in September - covering a two year period. ... erratically from optimism to despair. Although there are some out-dated references to hippies and a lot of expired slang, the book continues to be a classic for teens in the present day. Though the debate over its authenticity continues, there is no debating the profound effect its text...

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... they can give us a false sense of reality - I think that is trully very exciting The other story of the Matrix is the choice, the choice between the matrix and the Wonderland. And it is really hard. As Morpheus said, "matrix is a prison for your mind-. The idea of "real world- is that by entering into it offers not a denial of what ... of the Matrix, like our world, has its own moral norms " its own ethics " that ought to be both acknowledged and respected. But the weak point of living in Matrix is that there can't be facts which are impossible for us to know about. That power sounds fr...

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... book, Flowers for Algernon, you become Charlie Gordon. You read his thoughts as if they are yours. You would feel his pain and his sorrow. You could see how Charlie grew. You noticed how Charlie's mental capabilities raced past his ability to handle them emotionally. You noticed how Charlie changed his thoughts on everyone he believed were his friends. He praised Alice ... as if she were the smartest teacher in the world.He would soon gain feelings for her, and you could not notice this struggle within while watching the movie. The ... his mind. Charlie ended up recording himself on a ...

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... is the one that has a moral character such that no matter what he will do the just. Just people stand on their convictions. (more of this in book II) - Part of being just is being courageous and being wise. This explains why people cannot have bad motives and yet be brave (and if they ... when this order breaks down and the part that wants things is not overcome by wisdom and courage (presumably because of a lack of courage in most cases). Book II - Book II contains some profound insights into the nature of the just and the unjust. The idea is to make a story where we strip ... . Thus, ...

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... friend such as Ruthie had with Francie. I relate myself to Ruthie because people have picked on me and turned their back on me in the past, and I trust myself completely with my friends. In the middle of reading your book, I just suddenly asked myself "how do I treat other people?" I noticed how I don't exactly respect everyone. And that there is always a person that I can ... bully if I looked hard enough. Every person has that same problem too. Discrimination was a problem in this book, and it is a problem in my school. After reading this book, I was inspired to be nicer. Because of t...

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... watch the movie, the two are going to differ. Some parts of the book will be better and some parts of the movie will be better. In reading the book first, you get a unique idea of what you picture things to look like, and often times are disappointed by the movie. When you watch a movie the picture is already provided ... for you, and the book just seems to be excessive details. In reading the book Eight Men Out then watching the movie, I was left somewhat disappointed. I quickly realized that if I had been the director I would have done quite a few things differently ... have been no ...

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... that cannot sew two pieces of fabric together to match. She is unable to make a clear connection between one thought and the thought following right behind. In the second stanza it describes how she tried to focus and put sense of her thoughts. Because of her mental disability it was blocking her from connecting her ... Dickinson was using her own like life as to show the experience of being mentally unstable. I think that these were her feelings and emotions that were showing through in this poem. Dickinson wanted to capture her images from a woman's point. Using the ideas of a woman's ...

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... . Factories became very efficient, using better production methods. This made unemployment decrease. Though work conditions in factories didn't improved. Average wages were below levels of 1903 and prices increase a lot. This only allowed the workers to buy their basic necessities due to the money they had in comparison to the prices of the goods. Stolypin didn't allow opposition. Oppositionist were shot or hanged ... . This created a lot of fear in Russia, trouble and strikes in cities decreased. The military court sentenced and hung people which were against the ... or elected parliame...

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... I can relate on. Soto also shows how proud Hispanic persons are to represent their country in different places of the world. I think that this book also teaches a great lesson which is that there is great friends everywhere. I liked this book because of its simplicity and great story. This book has a really nice story about different cultures, traditions, and even different family relations. For example ... , in the book it say's "I felt Mexican pride." This shows how Lincoln was proud of his actual culture. And another thing that said in the book was "I am part of the family now" This s...

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... expedition from Gettysburg to Vicksburg, stopping at many battlefields and jotting down journal entries along the way. I found this book to be interesting and very informative. While reading this book I learned some things I never knew about the Civil War. Firstly, while Tony was in North Carolina, he met up with some women of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Tony started to strike ... that the South recently started recovering from the Civil War only about thirty years ago. Secondly, there was something in the book that I found very interesting. When Tony would include himself ...

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... . One of the reasons that I feel that the original novel Rebecca was more effective than the movie version was that I think the novel held suspense in a better way. While reading the novel, my suspense was able to build up more and more as I read further on. The plot seemed to move ... during the movie, the events kept on happening without any pause which didn't give you time to think, let alone gather up the information given. In the novel, one important event would happen, giving more information, and then the plot would slow down a bit, allowing me to gather my thoughts ... it actua...

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... of Holden's voice gives us a vivid and immediate sense of who Holden is. We feel as though we are in his head. Throughout this book, Holden is constantly putting others down whether it be in his head or out loud. The way he speaks shows the reader that he doesn't really want to be ... way her hair looks, not something an older brother would usually do. Another person who he speaks highly of in this book is his deceased brother, Allie. Holden doesn't mention Allie until the 5th chapter. In this chapter, he is writing an observation paper for Stradlater. Holden decides to write the paper a...

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... making you feel like you know the characters of which you are reading about. He draws you in with his words. I enjoy that I can play detective. The book is just so real to reality. It's just like something you could read in a police report. He especially was good when he put police reports into the story. How ... to Kathy except for Kathy. John is a Vietnam Vet, a failed politician and practitioner of magic. Through evidence and flashbacks the book unveils him to be a complex man that has many dark secrets in his closets. So of the secrets that he was hiding played into why he lost the el...

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... such a commodity and given as gifts. These days, it is known to cause cancer and would not be thought of in such a complimentary way. One of the most interesting events of the book, was when it first mentioned of how the crew became so ravenous, they took to eating dogs for survival. To me ... , this is as bad as it gets. It was enough to keep me engulfed in the book. I could not believe the animals these men ate without even thinking about it. They thought nothing of eating different animals and plants as they made ... abundance of them. Although, I really do not have time to read, I f...

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Can the human mind be controlled? That is the question that everyone in today's society should ask himself or herself. Freedom is so often taken for granted, and people don't realize what they have. Freedom is a concept that is not even living in the book 1984. People were only allowed a little part of their brain to think on their own; the rest was up ... to big brother. In Oceana there wasn't true education, the party re-wrote history so that they were always right. This kept the ... aspect. Another way to control a society is limits on food supplies. Someone who is hungry will do anything...

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... can't stand the thought of being at that school with those people anymore. During the remainder of the book I like to call it Holden's journey to finding himself. This kid is so screwed up in the head it really isn't funny. This kid has breakdown after breakdown. After he leaves Pency Prep he ... . His final words after he snaps out of this story are telling this psychoanalyst "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody". In summarizing this book I would have to say that Holden is a grade a freak. He has no since of reality and I am glad he was sent to a psy...

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... the novelette is overflowing with it. For the purpose of analyzing the title of this book lets assume the experts are correct, that the book is full of symbolism, and attempt to find this symbolism in the books title. Though I was asked to analyze the all of the words in the title, I think it would be frivolous to analyze "The" so I will start with ... "Old." "Old" in this novel more represents experienced then weak. But, in away, it does show weakness. It ... is an old human, but also how this human represents the whole of humanity, all of "man." This book deals with issues all "men" ...

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... to reach his full, glorious potential. Although the meat of Rand's philosophy (Objectivism) is concentrated in the 60 page speech by John Galt himself, I feel that the rest of the book is just as important in understanding the effects of a corrupt and derailing society. The more I go back and read my ... favorite tidbits and paragraphs, the more of Rand's philosophy reaches me, some of which I have trouble condoning myself. The so called "heros" in the story, Dagny ... daunting to me (and many others I assume) I took away some key points. Rand's foundation, her rock, is the importance o...

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... simplicity, so that there's no way you don't go to the music store and buy the new recording... For that reason most of the people just don't care about the lyrics. And how they can be interested in simple pointless words that mean nothing. And how can they call these words lyric. The ... soul. It expresses his feelings, his thoughts, and his mood. Most of the latest music texts don't! I call them "texts" because they have nothing in common with lyric. So everybody who doesn't appreciate the real value of music listens to it not to experience the artists" feelings but just to dance on .....

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... with Faith it is a very important event. When J.D. Salinger had Holden look about of the window I think it was a big simile, of which I think about more in theme number 3, of the theme of the book. I'm sure Holden didn't ride all the way to New York to pick a run down hotel. So I take it when he drove up it probably looked good on ... of this story that I want to talk about is the significance of the novel's title. First of all I have to say why the book was entitle as it was "The Catcher in the Rye." The title of the book is a mystery all the way until chapter 21 when he sneaked back h...

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... Zone Chapters 1-6 When I first stared reading this book. I was immediately pulled in. Tim O"Brien's doubts and thoughts about the war become clear. The way he described everything makes the story come to life. Because of this, I was unable to put it down. I had a few of questions while reading this book. One of those was who I Charlie that he ... Lastly, he says that his mother was a WAVE. I do not know what that means. I wrote these down while I was reading and are planning to ask in class. I can relate to his debate of going to war or not. He is totally against the was and does not wa...

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... ending. Unquestionably, there are the townspeople that have always perceived the Grierson family. "We had long thought of them as tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white, as contrasted with her father who described as a straddled silhouette" (624). When her father dies and leaves her penniless, people are glad they can ... perch. After, Miss Emily appears to come out of solitudes. She is described as "a slight woman, thought thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eye-sockets as imagine a lighthous...

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... and this is why man's basic drives are urges, not rounded thoughts. The Superego, however, is not fully sub-conscious. About half of the Superego is in the conscious state of mind. This means that thoughts are well rounded and it is often referred to as one's "voice of reason-. Ralph thinks "Only ... us that children develop the Superego last of the three components of the brain, and ignore it for the first while of its existence. Likewise, in Lord of the Flies Ralph only later accepts Piggy for the thoughtful friend that he is. There is a constant struggle to harmonize the demands of ......

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... much hatred Matt and Ruth had for him, along with some others. I also felt the connection that Mary Ann's boys had with Frank in the movie was much better then in the book. I thought one of the most powerful scenes in the move was when one of the boys that Frank and Matt used to take fishing rode his bike down to the docks ... to see Matt and they just looked at each other with a longing look. Although this scene was not shown in the story, it made a better picture of the actual killing scene. Strout, in the book, shot Frank with his boys sitting right there. He shot him without even a ...

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... are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it read."(5). They are in constant fear that the thought police are going to arrest them for thinking something that goes again what the government wants them to think or believe ... controls what the people get to know and what is kept from them. If the government wishes for the people to believe something that isn't in accordance with something it has said before they destroy all evidence of what they have said before. ""Who controls the past controls the future; who ... cont...

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