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- 411: Hard Times: The Gradgrind System of Education
- ... virtually anything for him. As a result of her inexperience in life; and love for Tom, Louisa though she knew it was a bad thing, had no other possibility but to marry Boundaby when the proposal was put to her because again of her love for Tom, as Tom asked her to, again for his personal gain. Her father stated that the age difference did not matter that 'the Calmucks of ...
- 412: Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet
- ... observes Elizabeth as "...sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention...disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking and thinking for [men's] approbation alone"(Ghent 185). Elizabeth rejects Mr. Collin's proposal because she does not think that "marriage was the only honorable provision for a well-educated woman..."(Lauber 45). Nor does she believe in marriage of convenience. When Mr. Collins says arrogantly to Elizabeth that ...
- 413: Pride and Prejudice
- ... her prejudice against Elizabeth. Lady Catherine, as a result of her pride, believes she is more important than everyone and that everyone else should respect and honour them (in this case Elizabeth) by rejecting a proposal from a man who she loves and who loves her. This obscene assumption on Lady Catherine's behalf is as a result of her prejudice towards the Bennets because of their lower income, and social ...
- 414: The Hobbit: Bilbo's Journey
- The Hobbit: Bilbo's Journey Before Bilbo Baggins meets Thorin, he was a tiny and modest creature living as an ordinary hobbit, in his average hobbit hole. Thorin, who plays the role of a guardian angel in this story, watches over Bilbo as he seeks to complete his journey . The series ...
- 415: Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and Desai's "Clear Light of Day": Tension and Conflict Between Traditional and Modern Views
- ... The brother Raja in his world of poetry and heroism, but never venturing into a bold new path, preferring to follow the paths of others. "She had not realized that Raja's ambitions were so modest and unassertive. Far from playing the hero, he had only worshipped the heroes of his youth. Since he had set about imitating them and deriving from them
" The other sister, Tara, moving into a life ...
- 416: Anna Karenina: Characters and the Life Novel
- ... his life, Levin is essentially a realist, just as Tolstoy wishes to be in writing Anna Karenina. We first encounter Levin when he arrives in Moscow to propose to Kitty Shtcherbatsky. When Kitty refuses his proposal, Levin has been defeated in the first step he feels is necessary for personal satisfaction. After the refusal, Levin returns again to the county in hopes of finding personal satisfaction in the country life style ...
- 417: Caroselli's "The Language of Leadership"
- ... in the real world, and not just fabricated examples. To become an effective leader you must take risks. You must not take wild, uncalculated risks however, but planned out, calculated risks, which will have a modest chance of succeeding. The only way to climb the corporate ladder, is to take chances. If you don't take chances, you will be left at the bottom of the ladder. Columbus feels that when ...
- 418: Stephen King
- ... she removed it from the garbage where he had thrown it. Three months later when he submitted it to Doubleday publishing, he received a $2500 advance on the book that went on to sell a modest 13,000 hardcover copies. The book was Carrie. Reviews were mixed, but when United Artists and Brian De Palma released the film version in 1976, it was a critical and commercial success. New American Library ...
- 419: Thomas Jefferson
- ... when news was released in 1797 and 1798 that agents of the French foreign minister had requested a bribe from American diplomats. This was called the XYZ Affair. Anti-French feeling rose over the corrupt proposal and was exploited by the Federalists to damage the Republican, whose policies were generally pro-French. The Federalists then renounced the treaties it had made with France during the American Revolution and ordered an expansion ...
- 420: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... elected senator from Massachusetts. From there, Jackie and Johns relationship progressed. Upon her return from Europe, where she covered the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth for the Washington Times-Herald, Jacqueline accepted John Kennedys proposal of marriage (24). They were married on September 12, 1953 at St. Marys Church in Newport. There was a crowd of 3,000 on-lookers who waited outside the church to see the newlyweds ...
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