Madame Schacter (pp. 22-25) had begun to give the passengers of the trains an eerie premonition of their fate with her visions of "a terrible fire" and "flames" and a "furnace." ... While Elie and his father did not take part in hard labor throughout most of the imprisonment, they were subject to regular beatings, relegated to very minimal sustenance, and denied adequate medical care. ... As far as hard physical labor goes, Elie gives us brief looks at what a laborer's life might have been like. ... Elie briefly mentions seeing workers when he first arrived, and he later hints at hard labor...

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• Grade Level: High School

The story Hard Times is set in an imaginary town by the name of Coketown. Coketown "was a town of red brick, or of some brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like a painted face of a savage. It was a t...

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• Grade Level: High School

By separating seating, excluding from activities and plays, receiving harder assignments were all ways that teachers and schools tried to alienate Jewish students (Kaplan, 95-96; Gallant, 199). ... This includes Lory Cahn whose father pulled her out of the train widow as it was leaving the station. She was devastated that she was not on the train but her father was so happy that she was with him again. ... Sometimes the inspectors would take children off the train just to keep the train from continuing on (Gallant, 202). ... They needed a person who would understand that this situation is very...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It's hard to think about that day. Who knew it would be the last day I would spend with her. It still feels like a fresh nightmare that just happened last night. But it didn't. It happened over two years ago and I was still struggling with this new reality. I didn't like it. I hated it. How could th...

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• Grade Level: High School

Timothy Findley pieced The Wars together much like a puzzle. When piecing together a puzzle it is crucial to first find the corner pieces. As when trying to understand the novel it is necessary to realize what the most important aspects are. Each separate corner holds together and is linked to anoth...

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• Grade Level: High School

As we all know, the play Hamlet is essentially about life and death. We can see this through the character Hamlet. Hamlet's character is not one dimensional; there are numerous sides to his personality. We can tell this by the way his inclination differs all through the play. Just in the monologues,...

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Alzheimer's Disease is relentlessly destroying the brains and lives of our nation's older adults, robbing them of memory, the ability to reason, and affecting their emotions and behavior. Alzheimer's Disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain. The longer we live the greater the risk; "nearly 10...

• Word Count: 3614
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate