This belief serves the most important function: it gives purpose to their lives. ... And Godot, no matter what/who he is, is the one who can give them this change that they so desperately need. Summary of Act 1 The setting is in the evening on a country road with a single tree present. ... Estragon gives a short description of the maps of the Holy Land at which point Vladimir tells him he should have been a poet. ... Vladimir soon gives Estragon a carrot to eat. ...

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• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. The first family is the Kellers; Mr Joe Keller, his wife Kate and their two sons Larry and Chris. The neighbouring family is the Deevers; Steve Deever, his wife, his son George and his daughter Ann. The ...

• Word Count: 3955
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

At night they rest under some trees in the forest of Fangorn. ... He takes the Hobbits to an ent house and gives them drink and shelter. ... The trees have awakened and are marching towards Nan Curunir, the valley of Saruman. ... Theoden gives Shadowfax to Gandalf. ... He asks them to come with him to Isengard if they wish to know more about the trees. ...

• Word Count: 4146
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

It is our mind that makes us different, makes us human, or our spirit or whatever name one gives to that power of comprehension we have. ... We for instance see a tree rolling down a hill or we see that same trunk floating on water and a monkey sees the same. ... We see a wheel in the rolling tree and a boat in the floating trunk. Apes do not see a wheel in a rolling tree; otherwise they already had invented the wheel long time ago or would invent tools today and escape from the zoo. ...

• Word Count: 5369
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

Adam and Eve ignore God's rule to not partake in the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge believing that their own judgment is equal to God's and, as a result, they are kicked out of Eden. ... God, seeing their intent, punishes the people by taking away their common language and he gives them many different ones so that they can no longer communicate with each other. ... It is through Abraham and his future progeny that God decides to give his word to as he is a faithful follower of the Lord. ... Hagar gives birth to a son Ishmael, but they are both exiled by a jealous Sarah. ...

• Word Count: 3285
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the 1st 50 years of the 20th Century, it came to pass that revolutionary turmoil in the name of social progress brought humanity to the gates of destruction. Out of these flames of war arose several huge Political systems that bestrode the globe. One of these, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was founded on the ideals of social equality and sharing. Instead the people of the USSR had a nightmare unleashed on them unrivaled in the archives of human history. Only once in the passing of human fictional literature has the sensitive horror of this regime been displayed once, much l...

• Word Count: 8146
• Approx Pages: 33
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When he returns to Lagos he sees the slums he has not been to and the nostalgic poem he wrote about nature and how "sweet" it is to lie under trees under the "tender glow of the fading sun," is juxtaposed against the dead carcass of a dog "the dogs that taxi drivers hit for good luck. ...

• Word Count: 7844
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School