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- 20211: Grass Soup
- ... portion of food that no one wanted. He does not cry at the death of convicts, or even at the last episode in the book. He cries not thinking of his mother or the outside world. He cries at the possibly smaller ration of food rejected by the other members of his group that he must eat. He does not get the luxury of choosing what to eat because he divided ...
- 20212: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... lack of self restraint! She abuses men terribly then cuts and breaks dates with them, yawns in their faces, and they come back for more!" recalls Fitzgerald. As the jaded, rebellious "flaming youth" of the new era went on, it brought life to Fitzgerald's story which became and instant hit. This Side of Paradise. And during America's decade of prosperity, excess, and abandon, he became noted as the spokesman ...
- 20213: Arthur Miller And His Distorted Historical Accuracies
- ... Abigail is exposed as a fraud, she steals a total of 31 pounds from her Uncle Samuel Parris and runs away to Boston. Margo Burns, creator of a credulous web site entitled "17th c. Colonial New England: with special emphasis on The Salem Witch Trials of 1692", argues that: Abigail Williams probably couldn't have laid her hands on 31 pounds in Samuel Parris' house, to run away with John Proctor ...
- 20214: The Power of Speech & the Persuasion of Writing
- ... Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled here to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my home town"(King 154). To speak in front of a big audience one would not want to boar them with a formal ...
- 20215: Articles Of Confederation
- ... could not pay off the debts it had incurred during the revolution, including paying soldiers who had fought in the war and citizens who had provided supplies to the cause. (Doc C) In addition, the new nation was unable to defend its borders from British and Spanish encroachment because it could not pay for an army when the states would not contribute the necessary funds. Another serious problem was that Congress ...
- 20216: Asian-Americans And Concentration Camps In WWII
- ... home. The sneak attack on Pearl Harbor left a permanent indent on the way Americans viewed the Japanese. Indeed, it was this one act which thrust the isolationist U.S. into the middle of the world’s biggest war. The brutal attack, so close to home, was viewed as sneaky and underhanded. This, added to the fact that the Japanese were rumored to have an amazingly effective spy system on Hawaii ...
- 20217: Woodrow Wilson
- ... nations to form the League of Nations and ultimately form the United Nations. For Wilson's efforts, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Wilson was greatly responsible for increasing US participation in world affairs. Wilson was a great president and a great public servant. He was a brilliant speaker and a fun loving, energetic man who pursued his ideas to lead the nation through hard times. A true ...
- 20218: Great Expectations
- ... leaves him with a broken heart, no money, and distance from his dearest friends, Joe and Biddy. This stage in Pip's life was brought about essentially through his obsession with Estella and by his new fortune which Magwitch secretly granted upon him. Even though Pip had almost everything he could desire materially, he was not truly happy as one can see "...Fortune alone has raised me; that is being very ...
- 20219: Edgar Allan Poe And The Raven
- ... replied because of the sonorous of the word, Pallas, itself. Two other symbols that are not so apparent are the use of midnight and December . Both signify darkness, an end, or a change to something new. The chamber the narrator speaks from could be interpreted as a symbol, as it represents loneliness. The expensive furnishings of the chamber appear to say that the beauty and riches the man surrounds himself in ...
- 20220: Great Gatsby
- ... in business. We are introduced to the business side of Gatsby in the person of Meyer Wolfsheim. Wolfsheim is modeled on the real-life figure of Arnold Rothstein, the man who helped fix the 1919 World Series. Through Wolfsheim, we learn about Gatsby's connections with a shady underworld, and we begin to understand for the first time where Gatsby's money comes from. The discovery of Gatsby's unsavory business ...
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