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- 2371: In Contempt by Christopher Darden: A Review
- ... In high school Chris followed in his brother's footsteps and joined the track team. This would be his ticket to a scholarship at Berkeley University, and the start to his law career. After completing college, he applied for a job in the District Attorney's Office, and surprisingly got the job at the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office in 1981. Through the years, he worked his way up through ...
- 2372: In Our Time: Review
- ... 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 ...
- 2373: Amory Blaine's "Mirrors" in Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
- ... and wealth in order to get by in life. He has been endowed with brains, but it takes him years to learn how and when to use them. Amory spends his late high school and college years frolicking with his peers and debutantes. By constantly associating with others Amory creates an image of himself that he maintains until he becomes bored or finds a new personality to imitate. Amory does not ...
- 2374: A Farewell to Arms
- ... even critical, in these response papers, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to do that. The line, "The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else's college," is beautiful.]
- 2375: Call of the Wild
- ... who was the one of the gardener's helpers, committed a treacherous act. Manuel, to cover his Chinese lottery gambling debts, stole Buck from his sound sleep and brought him to a flag station called College Park. There, the exchanging of money took place. It was simple. Manuel needed money to pay off his gambling debts, and Buck was a prime candidate. Buck was loaded onto an express car to Seattle ...
- 2376: The Catcher in the Rye: A Bridge from Innocence to Adulthood
- ... such as drinking alcohol, smoking, etc. However Holden's failed attempts forces him to realize that his act is fooling no one other than himself. Such an example can be seen when one goes to college bars and can see all the adults that are hanging out there. The people who are there are not fooling anyone as well. Sex is often the most complicated adult subjects, even for adults to ...
- 2377: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From the Common Man
- ... and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. (5) It models an extravagant castle with a European style. Indoors it has Marie Antoinette music-rooms and restoration salons. (92) There is even a Merton College Library, paneled with imported carved English oak and thousands of volumes of books. (45) There is even a private beach on his property. He also has his own personal hydroplane. Gatsby also drives a highly ...
- 2378: Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred
- ... positions, such as an "unwoman", who cleans toxic waste in the Colonies. Because Offred is characterized as passive, and mostly compliant, she is not as much in danger as other characters. Moira, her friend from college and the previous life, is dynamic and full of life. She doesn't want to be held back, and her resistence causes her both trouble and distress. Janine, another character, is a "brown-noser" who ...
- 2379: An Analysis of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife of Bath's Tale
- ... afflicted and weak; on the other, we have the sad truth that the human knight rarely lived up to this ideal(Patterson 170). In a work by Muriel Bowden, Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, she explains that the knights of the Middle Ages were "merely mounted soldiers, . . . notorious" for their utter cruelty(18). The tale Bath's Wife weaves exposes that Chaucer was aware of both forms of the ...
- 2380: An Analysis of The Wretched Of The Earth
- ... technologies that Foucault points out are symptomatic of the western disciplinary society. Fanon's book filled with his anger at colonial oppression was influential to Black Panther members Newton and Seale . As students at Merrit College, in Oakland, they had organized a Soul Students' Advisory Council, which was the first group to demand that what became known as African-American studies be included in the school curriculum. They parted ways with ...
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