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- 15741: "Miss Brill": Emptiness In One's Life
- ... her a role, to her it was a role in life not just a role for her Sunday afternoons. Mansfield uses Miss Brill's imagination to suggest the need to escape out of the real world when times are adverse. Mansfield implies that Miss Brill must use her imagination to fulfill the isolation that she fills from the rest of the world. Along with her imagination and sagacity, Miss Brill illustrates her need for human companionship. The enthusiasm Miss Brill displays as she sits and watches people, implies that she is lonely. In the end, when she ...
- 15742: A Separate Peace 3
- ... with enemies is shown by Gene, who was dealing with few human enemies, but his emotions created far greater rivals than any human could possess. After dealing with these problems, Gene is ready to face new problems and new enemies. Finny took problems a little at a time, and that s how Gene has changed, he is taking the same approach. Hate, anger, jealousy, and the enemies in the human heart are gone from ...
- 15743: St. Louis Communities
- ... by area college kids. This portion of the city has also grown a subdivision known as "The Loop." The Loop is extremely liberal and thought of by most people as almost mysterious or bizarre. A new phenomenon happening in our city is the rebirth of many of our older and rundown areas. One of the best examples of this is the "Soulard" area of town, which now has an established nightlife ... making a major comeback, so are many business districts in our city. In Midtown, St. Louis University has recently bought up blocks and blocks of dilapidated and deserted homes. The university has expanded their beautiful new campus almost double the size from just five years ago. Another type of business in St. Louis that s making a comeback is nightlife. The Washington Loft district, while renting loft apartments faster than they ...
- 15744: The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
- ... s going 'Oh my God, I'm in the Chili Peppers.' It was very "Spinal Tap," the lights didn't work at first and everything. This time it will be nice because we have a new record, which we didn't back then. This will be more exciting from an artistic standpoint as we can play our new songs to all the little Woodstockians."
- 15745: Slaughter House-Five
- ... a chapter, "Billy Pilgrim nestled like a spoon with the hobo on Christmas night, and he fell asleep, and he traveled in time to 1967. When Billy is in 1958, he is busy talking about World War Two. Then suddenly he travels through time to 1967 and he ends up being kidnaped by aliens from Tralfamadore. So when the story changes, the reader's mind has to adjust to the changes ... different situations without any problem. In this book, shifting from one situation to another is meant to be poor. The book is difficult to follow. It has many small stories in it. Pilgrim is in World War Two and then he ends up being with aliens from Tralfadamore. Some of these topics are hard to comprehend. This symbolizes modern life since it is difficult to comprehend the understandings of life. For ...
- 15746: Auditor Liability
- ... aggregate therefore removing the element of risk at the firm level. The threat of litigation provides public accountants with a deterrent against negligent work. Finally, the results of lawsuits cause the profession itself to implement new standards. (Bolinger p.54) The AICPA and its supporters have developed their argument based on continued liability's likely effect on the profession as well as an economic argument. The arguments in favor of liability ... accomplishable. Finally, the opposition asserts litigation promotes reform. Again, the same argument as before is appliable-- if the profession accepts the responsibility of investigating possible claims of malpractice and negligence, and acts in areas where new standards are necessary the same result is achievable. The arguments the AICPA have developed in favor of liability reform begin with the effect of litigation on the availability of accounting services. As claims increase firms ...
- 15747: Slaughterhouse Five
- This first chapter, a preface, is insistent on the fact that the book is based on real events. Vonnegut, like our narrator, is a veteran of World War II, a former prisoner of war, and a witness to a great massacre, and that fact lends a certain authority to what follows. Vonnegut shares with us his enduring inability to render in writing ... Tralfamadorian philosophy (something we will be introduced to later). But because the phrase is first uttered by Vonnegut writing as Vonnegut, each "So it goes" seems to come directly from the author and from the world outside the fiction of the text. Chapter One also hints that time will be an important part of the fiction to follow. The author was going around and around in circles trying to create a ...
- 15748: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
- ... the author (Betty Smith) talks about the landlord sending two men two chop down the tree because it was in the middle of a wash line. They did, but the tree didn t die. A new one grew up from the stump, where there were no wash lines, and started to reach for the sky again. This tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it . This symbolizes Francie s troubles as she grew up, her dad dying, no food, her mom working so hard even with a new fetus, Francie skipping high school to make money, etc. But like the tree, Francie gets back up, tallies the losses and keeps going. She eventually makes it to college and that s where the story ...
- 15749: Frankenstein: Good and Bad Choices
- ... it pure evil, but in reality, Victor made his being evil. When Prometheus opens the box that his bother sends to him (Pandora's box) he lets out all the evil things that corrupt the world. Frankenstein can be compared to Prometheus. Both Frankenstein and Prometheus made things that undoughtily went wrong. Frankenstein made the being and by the end of the book the being had turned out to be an ... and are left to die but neither one of them are able to die and have no way of getting out of the situations they are in. Everything is made up of choices. In the world today there are good choices and there are bad choice. Everyone has to make choices and through Prometheus and through Victor Frankenstein anyone can see what happens when you make the wrong choice.
- 15750: Reaching For Dreams - A Ballet
- ... night. The dancers taking part in this production were from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. The ballet that they plan to perform in seven weeks is called “Speeds.” The choreographer of “Speeds” is a world-renowned woman by the name of Jennifer Mullers. This production contains a cast of eleven dancers and five alternates. “Speeds” is a modern ballet that explains how one moment in time is like no other, and how often things in the world change. Throughout this book, Kuklin observes the life of a dancer. The typical day of a professional ballerina at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre consists of waking up around seven to be at rehearsal ...
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