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- 4961: Pigman
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel The Pigman is about two teenagers (John and Lorraine) who make friends with an elderly man (Mr. Pignati). They then abuse his trust in them and the elderly man dies. I found "The Pigman" to be a very interesting play. The start of it was a little bit confusing but the audience soon learns that they ...
- 4962: Pocahontas
- ... eight years. A general peace and spirit of goodwill between the two groups resulted from this marriage. Shortly after Rolfe and Pocahontas married, they had a son whom they named Thomas. He was the only child born to them and would later become an important member of the Jamestown society. Sir Thomas Dale, the leader of a new settlement in Virginia, made an important voyage to England to seek financial support ...
- 4963: Persecuting The Innocent - To
- ... attends the same church as the Finch family cook, Calpurnia. Tom regularly assists people in need, especially Mayella Ewell, but he finds himself punished for it. Mayella, a white woman, accuses Tom of rape and abuse, and her father Bob takes this matter to court and uses subterfuge in his testimony. During the trial Link Deas, Tom’s former employer, announces, “That boy worked for me eight years an’ I aint ...
- 4964: Paradise Lost
- ... and in any case the natives cannot be regarded as civilized people.'16 The revelations of The Tempest of watching Caliban suffer at the hands of Prospero affords interesting material for examination. Caliban endures his abuse and insistent that he has deprived him of what is rightfully his, and this perhaps may have been Shakespeare's way of confronting his contemporary pro-colonising audience with the problems of ownership of newly ...
- 4965: Pride And Prejudice
- ... her plans to marry Mr. Darcy, who as far Mr. Bennet knows, Elizabeth detests. Mr. Bennet begs his daughter not to marry merely for worldly considerations but to unite with someone whom she admires. "My child", he explains, "let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life" (Austen 242). In essence, Mr. Bennet pleads that his daughter not make the same mistake in life ...
- 4966: Theodore Seuss Geisel, Better
- ... children in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of an information campaign to help encourage ethnic tolerance." (Reading Today 7) The idea to do this came from "a NATO soldier who read the book as a child and remembered the message of tolerance in The Sneetches." (Reading Today 7) Dr. Seuss’ characters "now have the opportunity to teach their lessons of tolerance in a far more important theater of operations: the minds ...
- 4967: Poor Piggy The Great
- ... t allowed." The reason for this was Piggy's asthma. Not long after that, Piggy mentioned his dad being dead, eliminating the father figure from his existence. Piggy is unable to respond to any verbal abuse provided by the other boys because of his ever lasting fear of rejection. In the end, Piggy's intellectual knowledge and good judgment are not enough to prevent him from being killed by a huge ...
- 4968: Beauty And The Beast
- Analysis of Beauty and The Beast If you ask any American child if they have heard of the story of Beauty and The Beast, ninety-nine percent of them will have very good memory of the tale. Beauty and The Beast has been a part of our ...
- 4969: By Means Of Power
- ... their poems. In the opening lines of Lordes Power, "The difference between poetry and rhetoric/is being/ready to kill/yourself/instead of your children"(1-5), she immediately stresses the importance of putting your child before yourself. This is a metaphor for putting the needs of what is truly important before the needs of oneself. It is not only stated simply and bluntly, but the way the lines are broken ...
- 4970: Book Report On The Crucible
- ... Anne Putnam’s jealousy for Rebecca Nurse was so intense, Rebecca Nurse’s death resulted. Anne first voices her resentfulness towards Rebecca Nurse at Betty’s bedside when she moaned, “… [Rebecca] should never lose a child, nor grandchild either, an I bury all but one” (28). It is learned later in the play that Anne Putnam’s jealousy rises to another level when Rebecca Nurse goes to in jail for, “the ...
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