He meets Chloe, who is dying from cancer, and all she wants before she dies is to feel the intimacy of a sexual relationship with another person. The fact that she wants to feel love from another person and not a material possession reveals how the desire to feel emotion will outlast any belongings in life. ... But slowly, the Narrator becomes accustomed to fighting: the rawness of the violence, how alive he feels with every blow he receives. ... Tyler forces the Narrator to understand that it is "only once we have lost everything that we are free to do anything" (Fincher, Fight Club...

• Word Count: 1025
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite most readers varying degree of familiarity with the truth of what occurred within the Nazi's numerous concentration camps, one cannot help but be moved by Gellhorn's words as we struggle, once again, to comprehend man's capacity for such heinous atrocities. ... Gellhorn must also wonder how best to write the unimaginable to an audience that may not desire to be enlightened to it. ... He mentions it's nice murals and adds, incidentally, that the artist died of starvation two months earlier. ...

• Word Count: 479
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Though the bones gave the apes the power to hunt for animals easier, it also taught them how to be violent out of the fear of losing power. ... These scenes display how the idea of life isn't celebrated with full vitality as it once was, de-humanizing the concept in a busy, structural environment. ... This scene alone questions the fine line between humanity and machinery; is machinery evolving their self-consciousness while we are devolving it? ... There are many eyeline match shots, as well as reverse shots, of Bowman looking at multiple, aged versions of himself, either eating, lying i...

• Word Count: 2216
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As history progressed, major occurrences, namely the rise of the feminist thought cycle, has had heavy influence on this steady process of literary devices becoming conventional in our everyday discourse, in order to define those prevalent changes in the way that we perceive the differences in sexes. ... Pointing out that biology textbooks use only negative words such as "failure" that only produces "waste", and "dying," denuding, " to describe the female reproductive system, specifically the menstrual cycle, Martin forms a juxtaposition against the male sper...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

'He said he was gonna turn off the smoke alarms and burn the whole house down when we were asleep,' Hall told detectives that about his father (Wallace, 2013). ... 'I wasn't really thinking about if he was gonna die or get unconscious', Hall said about his thoughts before committing the murder (Wallace, 2013). ... At one NSM meeting just a few weeks before he died, Hall's father boasted that 'by the age of nine, my son was able to operate a Gen-1 night vision and infrared scope.' ...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate