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- 2131: Great Gatsby And Money
- ... a man who is made out of and by money. Tom, being raised into a rich family, has had all the advantages of being rich throughout his life, "His family were enormously wealthy-even in college his freedom of money was a matter of reproach" (10). Tom, being raised with money, knows nothing other than money and what money can buy. It seems that Tom has an endless pit full of ...
- 2132: In Our Time
- ... Sea ages ago in high school, but it was so long ago that it has slipped completely from my memory. He is one of those authors that I always connect with my father and his college years for some reason, although I'm not entirely sure why. I've always wanted to read Hemmingway, but I've always wanted to read all of Shakespeare, Homer, and Eliot, too. The edition I ...
- 2133: Lord Of The Flies - Role Of Ge
- ... is responsible for the maturation of the areas of the brain that arbitrate between the male hormones and their dominant behavior. Steven Goldberg, the chairman of the Department of Sociology at New Yorks City College, explains that "men are more willing to endure pain and frustration to learn what they must do
for dominance." He writes that women, when enduring these severe emotions, so not do it for dominance, but ...
- 2134: New Atlantis By Francis Bacon
- ... spirit and weaved them together so as to suggest a method by which man could master the universe. He did this to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college instituted for the interpreting of nature and the producing of great works for the benefit of man. The island community of Bensalem also has "two long and fair galleries" (Bacon, 456). In one gallery the ...
- 2135: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... life marked by poverty. Ralph's mother, Ruth, was left as a widow having to take care of five sons. However, Ralph's life seemed to carry on smoothly. He would end up attending Harvard College and persue a job of teaching full time. While teaching as a junior pastor of Boston's Second Church, his life gained more meaning when he married Ellen Louisa Tucker. Journal entries and love letters ...
- 2136: Romanticism - Washington Irvin
- ... arts grew and was encouraged by one of her sister's boyfriends (Myers 64). His interests in the arts and in the theater were obvious in his works. Irving did not wish to go to college. Though he had great interests in the theater and the arts, his father expected each of his sons to support himself, so Washington decided to be an apprentice in a law office. His employer was ...
- 2137: Stephen King
- ... Frequently King would place his friends and family into childhood fantasy tales. And one would always know how Stephen felt about them because of how long they lived in the story. It was not until college that Stephen King received any kind of real recognition for his writings. In the Fall of 1967, King finished his first novel, The Long Walk, and turned it into his sophomore American Literature professor for ...
- 2138: The Chosen By Chaim Potok
- ... of his father. Reuven goes from not being able to have a civil conversation with Danny to becoming his best friend with whom he spens all of his free time, studies Talmud and goes to college. Reuven truly grows because he leans, as his father says, what it is to be a friend. Another way that Reuven grows is that he learns to appreciate different people and their ideas. He starts ...
- 2139: The Color Purple - The Struggl
- ... mine, I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia. This was the first time that I had ever heard anything about any kind of school or college that was more pretentious than the little coloured school in our town. In the darkness of the mine I noiselessly crept as close as I could to the two men who were talking. I heard ...
- 2140: The Great Gatsby - Analysis Of
- ... his love for Daisy in these "sentimental" terms? Is not this excess of sentiment in fact Nick's sentiment for Gatsby or perhaps Nick's attempt at displaying those "rather literary" days he had in college? Or both? The reader should consider the distance that Fitzgerald has created between his presence in the story and Nick's and their implications. Fitzgerald has created a most interesting character in Nick because he ...
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