The plot of the story follows Candide, a young and naive man who discovers true happiness after he loses his true love, Cunegonde, and endures many hardships when he tries to find her again. ... By the end of his journey, Candide finds that the key to his true happiness is not his love for Cunegonde, but a busy life on a farm, kept occupied by literally cultivating a physical garden. ... Therefore, he would have never been able to buy his farm, the place where he found true happiness. ...

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the analyzation of short stories, the reader uses a brief imaginative narrative unfolding a single incident and a chief character by means of plot, the details so compressed and the whole treatment so organized, a single impression results. ... The lesson taught by the author through the actions of the protagonist in the plot either through what the protagonist does or does not do. ... Because Rip always chooses to do the chores of others, the dilapidated Van Winkle home never gets fixed and the fields, never farmed. ... Six other criteria plot, central idea, setting, tone, language and nar...

• Word Count: 1162
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The New Economic Policy had created a spread of privately owned farms across Russia that were difficult to monitor. ... The scheme involved at first the encouragement of small private farmers to incorporate their lesser plots into larger collectives which would be publicly monitored in order to regulate food going into urban areas and food being exported. ... Looking at actual figures the percentage of farms collectivised came to 98% in 1941 and in 1939 the output of grain, milk and meat as much higher than in 1913. ...

• Word Count: 1086
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate