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- 2301: Catch 22 - Satire
- ... winning the war than they are about getting promoted. Heller spent eight years writing Catch-22, is a former student at three universities--New York, Columbia and Oxford--and a former teacher at Pennsylvania State College. From 1942 to 1945 he served as a combat bombardier in the Twelfth Air Force and was stationed on the island of Corsica where he flew over 60 combat missions. That experience provided the groundwork ...
- 2302: Bread Givers
- ... and starve herself nearly to death, and give up all things other girls her age covet like going out on dates or wearing make-up. She address the sacrifice she makes within herself to her college dean, Sara says, "Why is it that when a nobody wants to get to be somebody shes got to make herself terribly hard, when people like you who are born high up can keep ...
- 2303: Big Game
- ... and turned or dwell on certain ideas for long periods of time. Also different in the plots are the types of people the events of the story occur to. In "Greasy Lake" a bunch of college students are out having a good time whereas in "Big Game" middle-aged vacationers are trying to uncover their roots. Perhaps the most important of the differences, however, is the near-death in "Greasy Lake ...
- 2304: Battle Royal
- ... just to test his patience and pride. It paid off because one of the white men gave him a brief case with a document inside of it. The document was a scholarship to the State College for Negroes. The narrator was ecstatic. He then had a dream that night. He dreamed about what his grandfather had said earlier. He awoke with laughing in his ear. He had no idea what it ...
- 2305: A Raisin In The Sun - Women
- ... inward, towards her family and her home. This is shown when she uses $3,500 of her late husband's insurance money to buy a house for the family. Beneatha, by contrast, looks outward towards college and medical school. Lena is very proud of Beneatha's plans to become a doctor. Beneatha knows that a doctor helps people and therefore wants to become one. She is committed to blacks improving themselves ...
- 2306: A Man For All Seasons
- ... religious beliefs, at any cost. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bolt, Robert. A Man For All Seasons. Toronto: Irwin, 1963. Coles Editorial Board, ed. A Man For All Seasons: Notes. Toronto: Coles, 1994. Hodges, John C., et al. Harbrace College Handbook For Canadian Writers. 4th ed. Toronto: Harcourt, 1994. Houghton Mifflin Co. The American Heritage Dictionary & Roget's II: The New Thesaurus. electronic ed. China: Seiko, 1993.
- 2307: A Holiday For Murder - Summary
- ... father with his affairs that he boasted about. The mother was not able to devorce because of the times. Blames his father for his mothers' death. He had not seen his father since he started college because of a dispute between what he wanted to do and what his father wanted him to do. Part 1, Chapter 5. George Lee and his wife are talking about his father's great wealth ...
- 2308: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... perverse she is. The "beauty" and "holy madness" is evident throughout the entire story and illustrated best when the characters interact. Works Cited Mandell, Kirszner &. Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing Compact 4th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt College, 2000. Evans, Chris. Site visited January 20, 2000. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/msgspool/evans/309/amlit/841779875.html. 2000. Babycenter. Site visited January 20, 2000. http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/. 2000.
- 2309: A Considerable Speck - Compared To 4 Other Poems
- ... though thirteen hundred years have given Hank a technological advantage, they havent made him any smarter. Twain himself says of Hank,
this Yankee of mine has neither the refinement nor the weakness of a college education; he is a perfect ignoramus; he is boss of a machine shop; he can build a locomotive or a Colts revolver, he can put up and run a telegraph line, but hes ...
- 2310: Tamed Shrews And Twelfth Night
- ... It is this very important point which establishes the conclusion that Shakespeare did indeed create realistic and meaningful female characters. Sources Cited Peralta, T. "The Taming of the Shrew." English 28: Shakespeare's Plays. Cerritos College. Norwalk, CA, Fall semester 1996.
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