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- 961: Catcher in the Rye and Generation X: Holden and Andy
- ... lived. In a quote sounding a lot like Holden, Andy said, " I became nonsexual. I started to find humanity repulsive, reducing it to flanks, mounds, and secretions..." Andy also goes through a similar sexual identity crisis when he laments that, "I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body." An ironic sexuality, much like that of Holden's. Andy also abuses the sexual vocabulary to a large extent, when he ...
- 962: Jasmine: Taylor's Significance
- ... was filled with the family, she slept with Duff, "I prayed I'd be allowed to stay." (p. 154), and while Taylor's not home, she could take Duff to park, or place such as Asian Society, her "life had a new fullness and chargedness to it" (p. 164) More over, the family that Taylor provided gave her the comfort as well. By living in such family, she could start learning ...
- 963: As For Me And My House and Surfacing: Heros
- ... are wrong, the feelings I remember about them will be wrong too" (Atwood 78). The protagonist must resolve the factors that has caused her to become so unstable in order for her to live. The crisis point for the narrator involves a re-invention of reality, one that completely abandons both the rational and logical reality of her father, and the Christian, martyrdom reality of the community. The protagonist re-invents ...
- 964: Death of a Salesman : A Social Criticism
- ... bothers Biff Walters 5 exceedingly until he bursts, saying angrily, "We haven't told the truth for ten minutes in this house!" (Miller 112). "Willy slips into the past whenever he is confronted with a crisis too difficult for him to accommodate..."(Schlueter & Flanagan 59) and he often asks advice from those who are not actually present as opposed to his living, breathing family. Willy must believe that he is a ...
- 965: The Great Gatsby's Theme
- ... own class and loses all sense of morality. And for all her social ambition, Myrtle never succeeds in her attempt to find a place for herself in Tom's class. When it comes to a crisis, the rich stand together against all outsiders. Myrtle's condition, of course, is a weaker reflection of Gatsby's more significant struggle. While Myrtle's desire springs from social ambition, Gatsby's is related more ...
- 966: Stephen King: Telekinesis And Its Effects On The Innocent
- ... underlying, repeated, question. Did Carrietta White ever have control of her own telekinetic abilities? The phenomenon commonly known as telekinesis or psychokinesis has most often been reported as being used in times of stress and crisis situations. Most situations occur under conditions in which the person, or persons, possessing the powers of telekinesis are not aware of their abilities or are not able to control their own actions. Even Carrie herself ...
- 967: Pride and Prejudice: The Summary
- ... realistic, Austen does not use any real historical people in the text. The events in this novel very well could have taken place, but they did not. Many families might have had some of these crisis, but the characters are all fiction. One part of the novel, which positively happened in history, was the army coming to stay in the town. The militia regiment comes to town, Kitty and Lydia get ...
- 968: The Constitution: Discord And Tension In 1850
- ... himself, he supported the immediate admission of both California and New Mexico, as free states. Some southerner extremists met in Nashville in 1850 to discuss secession. Henry Clay had a proposal for solving this political crisis. 1. Admit California to the Union as a free state. 2. Adopt a Fugitive Slave Law and enforce it rigorously 3. Ban the slave trade in the District of Columbia 4. Give the land in ...
- 969: The Nations Sectional Discord And The Unity Within The Nation
- ... himself, he supported the immediate admission of both California and New Mexico, as free states. Some southerner extremists met in Nashville in 1850 to discuss secession. Henry Clay had a proposal for solving this political crisis. 1. Admit California to the Union as a free state. 2. Adopt a Fugitive Slave Law and enforce it rigorously 3. Ban the slave trade in the District of Columbia 4. Give the land in ...
- 970: The Colonial Economy
- ... day, spices were very valuable because there was no refrigeration, and spices can be used to preserve food. Spices came from the East (Orient). They could either be obtained from Eastern Mediterranean countries or from Asian countries. The monarchs of other European countries sought to break Italians' grip on the spice trade. Portugal was the first European country to lower the cost of obtaining spices by sailing to the Far East ...
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