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- 12361: Black Elk Speaks
- ... Red Deer fell upon a Crow encampment that night. The two youths killed the sentry guarding the Crow horses, and each made off with a small herd for himself. Returning to the tribe with his new herd, High Horse immediately rode up to the girl's family teepee. When shown the herd of horses that High Horse offered the girl's father acquiesced and allowed him to have his daughter, but ... such a skillful manner, and thus able to take care of his only daughter. Thus the lessons of life are displayed to the listener of the story. High Horse gets the girl through persistence and brave acts, Red Deer shows the rewards of loyalty by following his cousin on the warpath and coming out a wealthy man, and the girl's father caps it all with his display of guile in ...
- 12362: Such A Good Boy: How A Pampered Son's Greed Led to Murder: Summary
- ... dealt in illegal activities, smuggling lethal knives into Canada from a post office box in Washington State. He promised them rewards for killing his grandmother and mother. For David, a cabin in the woods, a new car and about 100,000 dollars. For Derik, he would become Darren's bodyguard, and also receive land and money for weapons. They agreed, and decided after weeks of thinking over the problem that the ... Huenemann. The judge sentenced Darren to imprisonment for life without eligibility for parole for 25 years. At this, Darren Heunemann, calm throughout the trial, dropped his mask, and cursed the judge, the court, and the world. In the cases of Muir and Lord, the same elements, presumption of innocence and reasonable doubt, were used by the defense to try to acquit their clients. For Lord, he also had a statement by ...
- 12363: The Right to Privacy by Robert Bork.
- ... strictly adhere to the language of the Constitution, thus people do not have a general right to privacy because it was never actually written into the Constitution. This view severely restricts judges in dealing with new issues that our forefathers could not have possibly envisioned. The inability of "originalist" to deal with modern and future problems displays a need for Supreme Court judges to be able to interpret laws from the ... does not specifically mention. For example, without the ability to interpret some of the various amendments in the constitution it would be virtually impossible for a judge to decide cases dealing with the on- line world. Is an on-line service provider similar to a magazine publisher (Responsible for the information that it disseminates) or like a bookstore (That is not specifically liable for the information that it disseminates)? These types ...
- 12364: Pride and Prejudice: What's Love Got to Do With It
- ... about her ability to marry well; thus after her marriage to Mr. Collins, she spends all of her time avoiding him. Charlotte knows that even though she wants to marry more than anything in the world, she does not expect love to come about; thus, she decides that it is probably even better if you don't know a thing at all about the person you are marrying. While Charlotte is ... achieved her goals. Even though she may not love, not even like her husband, she is happy because she will not be a spinster. Bibliography Austin, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Copyright 1813. Nal Penguin Inc., New York, NY
- 12365: The Satire of Jonathan Swift Revealed
- ... the human body. Swift uses the Maids of Honor as a metaphor to comment on the women of England, whom, among eighteenth century English society, were believed to be the most beautiful of all the world. Showing that despite their apparent beauty, they are not perfect, and suffer the same flaws and imperfections of appearance as any other women. At one point during Gulliver's stay in Brobdingnag, Swift comments almost ... Neil. Brewer, John. Plumb, J.H. The Birth of a Consumer Society, Indiana Universtiy Press, Great Britan, 1982. Swift, Jonathan. "Gulliver's Travels". Norton Anthology of English Literature. 6th Ed. M.H. Abrams, vol.1, New York: Norton, 1986.
- 12366: The Metamorphosis
- ... recent times, which had made her cheeks pale, she had bloomed into a pretty girl with a good figure" (p. 58). Grete has emerged from her adolescence into her young adult role in the real world (Lawson 34). Thus, her parents tacitly agree that "it would soon be time to find a good husband for her" (p. 58). Grete's metamorphosis into womanhood can be contrasted with the mother's lack ... animal whose condition begs the words to explain it. Kafka begins "The Metamorphosis" by remarking that Gregor's transformation is "no dream" whereas Grete's accession to female sexuality is described as the family's "new dreams." Possibly this is Kafka's ultimate irony that nightmares express lost human reality better than dreams do of animal satisfactions (Thiher 44). Grete Samsa's changing actions, feelings, and speech toward her brother, coupled ...
- 12367: George Dawes Green's The Juror: Annie
- ... the teacher was about to shoot Oliver, Annie ¨came out of the dark, like she was made of it ¨7 and shot him to death. I must go now. It is time to start a new trial, meet a new juror, and live a new adventure. I must say before I go that I am very happy to have met Annie, and to have carried her on top of me. For those of you who don't know who ...
- 12368: Book Report: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
- ... the most lethal of all strains of Ebola. It is so lethal that nine out of ten of its victims die. Later, the geniuses at USAMRIID found out that it wasn't Zaire, ! but a new strain of Ebola, which they named Ebola Reston. This was added to the list of strains: Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and now, Reston. These are all level-four hot viruses. That means there are no ... been seen outside of Africa and the consequences of having the virus in a busy suburb of Washington DC is too terrifying to contemplate. Theoretically, an airborne strain of Ebola could emerge and circle the world in about six weeks. Ebola virus victims usually "crash and bleed," a military term which literally means the virus attacks every organ of the body and transforms every part of the body into a digested ...
- 12369: The Glass Menagerie: Struggle to Fit Into Society
- ... too. Tennessee Williams artfully depicted this. The fire escape. A downtrodden red thing off the sides of buildings showing societies ineffectual escape from itself. In this case it served as a passageway between the real world and the dream one that Laura and Tom were living in at home. Both somehow stumbled both physically and mentally. When Laura said I'm all right. I slipped but I'm all right(47). She was trying to pass to the real world to do a real job and couldn't because of societies inability to accept her and her ways. She wasn't strong enough to make the trip by herself, but needed the moral support of ... who stumbles mentally in his inability to look at the escape, which would be his way out of the place. He was always losing his strength while out there smoking and looking out into the world. Recognizing the sounds and trying to connect but unable to. He was forced away and unable to bring up the strength inside himself to go out and leave and to stay strong as a ...
- 12370: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- ... village. Marcia spoke with him as her husband, and his child, a little girl of seven years old, named him as her father. In that manner he escaped. Meanwhile the police decided to use a new tactic in searching him. As they passed through each village the took a hostage. When a certain time passed without the appearance of father Montez, a hostage was shot. In that way the lieutenant of ... and the Glory Greene illustrates God's kindness as it defies the violent, atheistic government through the faith of his flawed, but still faithful people. And as the communism begins to spread all over the world, Greene's book assures the reader that there is a God, who will never leave us, and the evil will never win him.
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