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- 19221: Personal Writing: Getting My Driver's License
- ... weeks to finally have the completion slips signed and ready for us to take. The day after they were ready, I got my completion slip and left to get my driver's license and a new computer (I was actually more eager to get the computer that day). We go to the mall and all I had to do was take an eye exam!! I was very surprised, I figured I ...
- 19222: Kahlil Gibran
- ... not limited to the Near East only, but far beyond these borders. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages. His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake. In the United States, which he made his home for the last twenty years of his life., he began to write in English. The ...
- 19223: Incidents in the Life Of A Slave Girl
- ... conditions of this master-slave relationship are that the slave (Linda) is there to do work for her mistress, or master, which is now her sister' s daughter. Linda is supposed to take care her new owner's five year old daughter, help plant things, take care of any animals and anything else she is told. As a slave, she should also do everything else she is told by her master ...
- 19224: Ellison's "Battle Royal"
- ... of dignity and pride, none of them wanted to lose that. Also, by the time the boys were given the chance to chase the money, they were numb from pain. I don't think the new torture methods were really affecting the boys. Their bodies became somewhat immune to the blows after awhile. My battle royal was a little bit different from the boys in the story. I did not really ...
- 19225: Tradition: Lost and Kept
- Tradition: Lost and Kept Each culture in the world follows its own customs and traditions. These traditions, however, are sometimes broken to allow a compromise in their society, or are still kept throughout the culture's existence. In the story The Rain Came, an ...
- 19226: Biography Precis -- Black Boy
- ... though they can do nothing to stop his interest in literature. When he graduates, Richard becomes class valedictorian. But he refuses to give the speech written for him by the principal. Upon entering the harsh world of actual adulthood, Richard has several terrifying confrontations with whites. In the most important of these confrontations, he is forced out of a job because he dares to ask to learn the skills of the ...
- 19227: Summary of Burk's "Runs With Horses"
- Summary of Burk's "Runs With Horses" Brian Burks has also written classic westerns for adults. This was his first book for young adults. He lives in Tularosa, New Mexico with his wife and five children. This book takes place at Sierra Madre in Mexico with a small band of Chiricahua Apaches. The year was 1886. Runs With Horses is about a young Apache ...
- 19228: Summary of The Old Man and The Sea
- ... sea had beaten him. He wished that the boy were with him. Throughout the night he could feel other sharks nibbling at the marlin's remains. Finally that night, Santiago saw the lights from the new beaches along the shore. At this time he started blaming himself for the sharks eating the marlin. When he finally got to shore he had only the mast to take to his home. So he ...
- 19229: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Comparison of Movie and Book
- ... dramatic moments as well. The scene with Billy Bibbit breaking down emotionally in front of the Nurse and then eventually committing suicide were among the most dramatic. Nevertheless, the most dramatic moment was when the new McMurphy was revealed to the viewers. Up to that point we were used to McMurphy being a lively and cocky character. What we were exposed to was a character with totally contrary characteristics. He looked ...
- 19230: The Scarlet Letter 2
- ... Chillingworth was constantly investigating Dimmesdale and reaching to the depth of his heart and prying his secrets and by that constantly hurting him. Dimmesdale was hurt because he lived a life of lies. To the world he was clergyman Dimmesdale - a wise man who was considered a saint, but in his heart he knew a different image of himself, as a sinner who is afraid to confess. Throughout the story it ...
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