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- 1521: Huckleberry Finn: On the Surface…
- ... proves yet again how ignorant racists can be. Pap, for example, in his famous “govment speech” lets it be known what a fool he is. “‘There was a free nigger… a p’fessor in a college [that] could talk all kinds of languages, and… they said he could vote… I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn’t too drunk to get there; but when they told ...
- 1522: The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
- ... applies to the lives of the group of kids that Miss Moore takes on a field trip to F.A.O Schwarz, a toy store for the well to do. Miss Moore is a wise, college educated, African-American woman who felt a responsibility for the education of the group of kids in her neighborhood. She sets the stage with little lessons built into her outings. Miss Moore obtains the parents ...
- 1523: Forrest Gump
- ... He was temporarily deferred after the physical examination because they found out that he was a moron. He goes on to play football at the University of Alabama, but he flunks out after a year. College is where he met up with Bubba and later meets up with him again when he is in the Vietnam War. Bubba, who dies in the war, teaches him to play the harmonica, and they ...
- 1524: Malamud’s The Assistant: Frank Alpine's Metamorphosis From Bad To Good
- ... fault. He figured out a way to show Helen how much he cared and to make up to her for what he did. His plan was to somehow find a way to pay for her college education. He knew that Helen would appreciate this and that it was what she had wanted for so long. He wanted to do anything in his power to help Ida and Helen and to support ...
- 1525: The Color Purple, The Bell Jar, Franny and Zooey, and Ethan Frome: Internal and External Forces On The Character's Lives
- ... pathetic existence did not even allow him to successfully end his life and he was left to suffer the spoils of his efforts. Franny Glass faced a number of external and internal conflicts throughout her college years. She was born into a family in which success was expected and failure was not tolerated. Her strange upbringing and home schooling caused her to be socially uncomfortable. Franny was left the only girl ...
- 1526: Pudd’nhead Wilson
- ... white, so he did not need to be a slave. Percy died and Tom went to Judge Driscoll. Pudd’nhead was a little suspicious but did not mention anything. Tom grew older and went to college; he learned how to drink and gamble. He came back home and met the twins, Luigi and Angelo Capello. They were Italian; the townsfolk never had royalty, let a lone an Italian in their town ...
- 1527: Famous Mathematicians: A Book Review
- ... them today. His work on computers has been one of the most important to the modern world of mathematics. Norbert Wiener was born in Columbia, Missouri on November 26, 1894. He graduated with honors from college at the age of fourteen. His masterpiece was cybernetics, which derived from his study of the problems in motion and probability. This work gave Wiener the title "the father of automation." He is known for ...
- 1528: Fahrenheit 451: How Montag is Convinced to Change His Mind about Books
- ... books that he wanted to know because Clarisse was dead. Zipes writes that "Montag is now forced to seek help from Faber, a retired English professor, who had been dismissed from the last liberal arts college because the humanities had in effect been dismissed from the educational system". He also says that the name Faber means maker or builder (188). Montag asks Faber to make copies of the bible that he ...
- 1529: The "Hemingway Hero"
- ... 17). Eventually, Cohn gives up on this pursuit, is knocked twice by Pedro, and loses his battle for Brett. These events show that Cohn's boxing skills, a defense mechanism that he once used in college, will no longer pull him out of rough situations. Cohn fails to show the strength and courage needed to face the circumstances like a man. Pedro Romero, on the other hand, comes closest to the ...
- 1530: Savage Inequalities: Conditions of Poor Schools
- ... schools, usually located just minutes apart. When speaking of a North Lawndale kindergarten class of twenty three, he states that in twelve years fourteen will have dropped out of school, only four will go to college, and three of the twelve boys will have spent time in prison. A school in the South Bronx is set in a windowless skating rink next to a mortuary with class size up to thirty ...
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