Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Joseph Heller - used their art form as a weapon against society and the force that governed it. ... Joseph Heller is an author often compared to Vonnegut in the hall of 20th century American literati. ... Vonnegut focuses on the death of a nation and its dream, a similar theme to that of another celebrated American author - Joseph Heller. ... Although chaotic at heart, Closing Time communicates the same themes through Heller's trademark dialogue. ... Heller too plays with the idea of chaos in the dialogue of Closing Time. ...

• Word Count: 4213
• Approx Pages: 17

A man, a boy, and a girl were walking down a path they had lost track of time completely decided to camp under a giant tree for the night the boy his is the young prince Rythian and with him is Sir Ezio the commander of the Templar knights and the young girl her name was Jasmine and she was born in the city of Hydrax but cast out into the woods as a child and she grew up living off of the land. the princes father brought the land back from the edge off civil war and brought peace to the land but the king has been murdered by the kings high priest who turns out to be the leader of the order of ...

• Word Count: 5997
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: High School

The Visions of Light Vs Darkness When Joseph Conrad composed Heart of Darkness he created a literary masterpiece which embodied the essence of light contrasting with darkness. Throughout the novel Conrad constantly utilizes the images of light and dark and uses them to mold a vision, which the reade...

• Word Count: 4389
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Racism is introduced in this novel with the character of Joseph Bloeckman. ... There is no need to go through every nasty remark made about Italians, garlic eaters, Negroes, Jewish shopkeepers, the millions "swarming like rats, chattering like apes, smelling like all hell monkeys," (p.394). The career of Joseph Bloeckman can stand for the whole. ...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

On the Last Day, all the dead will be resurrected and either rewarded with heaven or punished with hell. ... On the last day, or judgment day, the same holds true as in Islam in the Christian beliefs, the dead will be resurrected and either rewarded with heaven or punished with hell. ... The Koran, using sources in the older Scriptures and later traditions, relates the stories of Abraham, Joseph, Moses and Aaron, David, Solomon, Jesus, and others, all of whom are declared to have been true prophets whose messages were largely ignored: "We sent forth Noah and Abraham, and bestowed on their ...

• Word Count: 2846
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 is a very deep, complex, and demanding novel, requiring the wide breadth of knowledge. One of the most fascinating aspects of the novel is Pynchon's choice -- or rather, invention -- of the names he gives the characters and organizations described in the novel. ...

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Comparing the ways in which the two authors express the Themes of Authority, Power, Repression and Rebellion. The Play Crucible is a fictional re-call of events in the American history surrounding the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century which also provide the metaphor for Mill...

• Word Count: 2648
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Making Hindley's life a living hell was probably Heathcliff's greatest accomplishment. ... "As children, they [were] hardly inseparable, running together on the moors and mocking together Joseph's superstitions and tedious pieties."" ...

• Word Count: 2511
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

But those who violate the moral commandments will be punished in hell until they have paid for their folly. At least in popular Buddhism (that taught to the laity), the promise of heavenly reward and the threat of hell's torments have been an important stimulus to ethical behavior. ...

• Word Count: 6321
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

The United States produces more serial killers than any other country. Up to 85 percent of these killers come from America. Female serial killers account for only eight percent in America. Surprisingly worldwide women make up 76 percent of the population of serial killers. One infamous serial killer in the USA is Jeffery Dahmer, who had many characteristics and motivations behind his crimes. ...

• Word Count: 3749
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School