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The “primitive” Friday demonstrates exceedingly good values superiorto those of the “civilized” Crusoe. Friday’s honesty, loyalty, andnatural innocence are unequaled by Crusoe’s deceptiveness, lack of trust inFriday, and pessimistic ideas. Early life in “civilization” givesCrusoe preconceptions that don’t allow for simple, natural thinking. Yet,Friday, raised as a “savage”, is given to simple childlike behavior. When…

Jane Austen’s EmmaJane Austen’s Emma is a novel of courtship. Like all of Austen’s novels, it centers around the marriage plot: who will marry whom? For what reasons will they marry? Love, practicality, or necessity? At the center of the story is the title character, Emma Woodhouse, a heiress who lives with her widowed father…

The theme of the story Hatchet is determination, perseverance and survival. Brian Robeson, whose parents are divorced, flies to visit his father in Canadianwilderness. His pilot has a heart attack and dies. Brian managed to land theplane in a lake, and escape unharmed. Now comes the hard part, surviving in thewilderness until rescued. He does…

At first, Chapterhouse: Dune (a sequel of Dune) by Frank Herbert is confusing. It is almost necessary to read Dune, or watch the movie. I hadn’t read Dunebefore I had started this book, and I was totally confused. I thought aboutputting the book down, but then I rented Dune. Everything suddenly cleared up. Suddenly, Chapterhouse:…

An Idle King In “Ulysses,” Tennyson presents Ulysses, the great Greekwar hero and warrior of the Trojan War, serving, again, as king of Ithaca. Ulysses, having been home for three years, feels himself stagnating and wastinghis life in the unwanted role of king. Longs to be again the man he has been. Ulysses desires a…

Ulysses S. GrantAlthough Ulysses S. Grant’s contemporaries placed him in the highest position of great Americans along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the twentieth century has seen him fade. His presidency has been almost universally condemned, and he is consistently ranked second to rock bottom Warren G. Harding in polls of historians to rate…

The Chivarlric Code Of Le Morte D’ ArthurThe Chivalric Code of Le Morte d’ArthurThroughout the tales of King Arthur, stories of brave knights and noble lordscaptivated the society of the European Middle Ages. These stories gave a criterion forpeople to base there values and way of life on. During the 1400’s knighthood was comingto an…

LES MISERABLESLes Miserables is a story, a very long story, which has been categorized as a classic. The story is about 1200 pages long. It is an epic saga, which covers about three decades in the early 1800’s of France. The film is about the fugitive, Jean Valjean, following his release from jail after doing…

Clean Well-Lighted PlaceIn “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”, Earnest Hemingway focuses on the pain ofold age suffered by a man that we meet in a café late one night. Throughthe use of dialogue, Hemingway creates three characters that symbolize thestages of life: birth, living, and death. Additionally, the tone of the story iscreated in three ways….

Amazing Grace Within the next few pages, I intend to address two issues. First, I will try to give a personal review of what I saw this book to hold. Second, I will try to explain the relevance which this book has to the field of Public Administration. First, try to picture children in a…