An ironic comparison to the battle which takes place in the British Parliament when a office is vacant, takes place in chapter 3, when Gulliver gives a description of the rope-dancers: When a great office is vacant either by death or disgrace (which often happens) five or six of those Candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a Dance on the Rope, and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office. ... The King's condemning reply to Gulliver, concerning the legislators and laws of England, I think shows and explains a vi...

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• Approx Pages: 40
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• Grade Level: High School

Howard Brody has written a terrific book called Stories of Sickness. I am going to talk to you about some ideas in this book which I have found helpful in thinking about experiences of sickness--my own and others-- and in thinking about experiences of 'story',--as storytelling, as fiction and fact that I have read about in books. ... Finally, there is some special information to be gained from looking at sickness as a series of chapters in the ongoing narrative of a life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the book, "The Lie"," Ken Ham gives an example of this, "Hitler believed in struggle as a Darwinian principle of human life that forced every people to try to dominate all others; without struggle they would rot and perish Even in his own defeat in April 1945, Hitler expressed his faith in the survival of the stronger and declared the Slavic peoples to have proven themselves the stronger. " Sir Arthur Keith, the well-known evolutionist, explains how Hitler was only being consistent in what he did to the Jews; he was applying the principles of Darwinian evolution. ... Genesis chapter 1 sta...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book scrutinizes human behaviour in its most natural and un-conditioned shape and proves to be one big allegory. ... The book travels alongside the boys into their descent into savagery and reveals underlying conflicts of human behaviour that are covered by civilization. ...

• Word Count: 3388
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate