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- 8131: Madame Bovary 2
- ... A sweetish sour masculine smell; shaving lotion, uneasy stomach, clean starched shirt and some secret hairy foulness. (Munro, p. 90) He introduced himself as Uncle Bill to Del, and he was really her mom s American brother, meanwhile the door opened on the other side of the car and a tall lady got out, and Uncle Bill introduced her as his new wife, she was so young and perfect. Uncle was ...
- 8132: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- ... evil side can take over and destroy you. In Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of DR. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this aspect, that of identity and personality can be found. According to The American Heritage Dictionary, identity can be defined as "the collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is recognizable or known." In this book, Stevenson uses the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr ...
- 8133: Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms": Henry - A Man of Action, Self-Dicipline, and One Who Maintains Grace Under Pressure
- ... emotionall y involved. Frederick is sentimentally detached from the rest of the world which enables him to deal with intensely climatic moments with such aplomb and ease. When being transported to his room in the American hospital, Henry graciously acknowledged the stretcher bearers even in such grueling pain. "There is money in my pocket. I said to the porter. The porter took out the money. The two stretcher bearers stood beside ...
- 8134: Margaret Atwoods Surfacing - A
- ... complete control of the continent and to turn everyone into a single type of creature : "Are the Americans worse than Hitler. It was like cutting up the pieces of a tapeworm, the pieces grew." Being American means being replicated for a prototype of the ideal creature and forced to live in a society separated from life' s most fundamental qualities. If people are living in a culture which separates them from ...
- 8135: Hard Drive Evolution
- ... mainframe and minicomputer installations. Vast "disk farms" of giant 14 and 8 inch drives costing tens of thousands of dollars each buzzed away in the air conditioned isolation of corporate data centers. The personal computer revolution in the early 1980s changed all that, ushering in the introduction of the first small hard disk drives. The first 5.25-inch hard disk drives packed 5 to 10 MB of storage, the equivalent ...
- 8136: Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
- ... hardly notice the other Nigger s... and, Nigger s is always talking about... . Around the time this novel was written, Nigger was thought to be the appropriate word to use when referring to an African American. Everyone in town thought Huck had been murdered and thrown into the Mississippi River. In reality though, he was alive on the raft. Huck and Jim lived a life that was as Huck stated ...it ...
- 8137: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences on Huckleberry Finn
- ... with the other members, he resigns from the gang. Another person who tries to get Huckleberry Finn to change is Pap, Huck's father. Pap is one of the most astonishing figures in all of American literature as he is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the civilizing effects that the Widow and Miss Watson have attempted to instill in Huck. Pap is a mess: he is unshaven; his ...
- 8138: The Significance of Food in "Like Water for Chocolate"
- ... into which this story pursues. Sex, food and magic are mixed in sparingly in the story, which revolves about Tita, third daughter of a Elena. The time is the early 1900's and the Mexican Revolution is raging, but in the kitchen of the family ranch, the emphasis is on cooking. The family servant, Nacha, Tita's surrogate mother, teaches the her secrets and makes her the next in an ancient ...
- 8139: Madame Bovary: Destiny
- ... moments where her decision is needed, and rarely does she make the right one. Bibliography 1. Flaubert, G. Madame Bovary. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1972. 2. Guralnik, David B. Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language. New York: Warner Books, 1982.
- 8140: Munros Trademarks
- ... A sweetish sour masculine smell; shaving lotion, uneasy stomach, clean starched shirt and some secret hairy foulness. (Munro, p. 90) He introduced himself as Uncle Bill to Del, and he was really her mom s American brother, meanwhile the door opened on the other side of the car and a tall lady got out, and Uncle Bill introduced her as his new wife, she was so young and perfect. Uncle was ...
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