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- 12931: Regeneration
- ... entrails. One has to think to oneself, "How can putting him there at the institute with all other war stricken men help him." The point is, it can't help him. He spends his whole day reliving the war. He has to see people in uniform walking around. He constantly has a psychologist reminding him of the terrifying experience that he would rather forget. He would be a lot better off ...
- 12932: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... other soldiers. Just by being around them, he sees how religious some soldiers are. When faced with the fact that they could die at any moment, the soldiers become very spiritual and faith filled. "Gaw'd." "I swear t' Gawd I will." (53-54) It is easy to see what war can do to the human nature that these soldiers once had. It has turned them from ordinary men to trained ...
- 12933: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... Ole missus-dat's Miss Watson- she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she alwuz said she wouln' sell me down to Orleans. ... but she could git eight hund'd dollars for me..." Twain wanted to show through Jim just how cruel people were in the past and how those feelings remained in his society. Twain also shows the ideal of freedom through Jim and ...
- 12934: Rebecca
- ... to take Rebeckas precious place and the one to do it was a joke. In her eyes a shy brat that even the servants laughed at. Maxim liked her for a beginning but the fifth day after their marriage he realizes how she´s really like. She played with him and other men. He couldn´t divorce her since their marriage seemed perfect on the surface. But she didn´t really ...
- 12935: Quest For Reformation
- ... Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau stumbled across a man and his family. The father, John Field had moved to America from Ireland with his wife and his son in order to "improve [their] condition one day" (Walden, 139). Henry listened intently to what John had to say about his life in America and his plans for the future, and then he offered up his personal experiences concerning society and life in ...
- 12936: Pygmalion
- ... After being presented in London society at a garden party, a dinner party, and the reception at Buckingham Palace, Eliza succeeds. Both Pickering and Higgins agree that, " Oh, she wasn’t nervous. I knew she’d be alright."(p.79) As the men brag about her success, Eliza becomes angry. She snatches up Higgins’slippers and hurls these at him with force. "I’m nothing to you--not so much as ...
- 12937: Put Myself In My Shoes
- ... themselves more directly attack him. Edgar Morgan, from the beginning of their encounter seems to be acting "odd" and on edge for some unknown reason. When Paula asserts that her husband "writes something almost every day", Edgar confronts him on the point. "Is that a fact?" Morgan said. "That's impressive. What did you write today, may I ask?" Myers can only respond " Nothing", an answer that places him on an ...
- 12938: Pride And Prejudice: Marriage
- ... young, unmarried women lived outside the family although she might be an heiress. Young women were thought of incapable of living their own lives, it seems, so the daughter stayed within the family til the day she got married and moved to her husband's estate. A woman who never got married could therefore expect a life in her parents' house for the rest of her life; what was called being ...
- 12939: The War in Vietnam
- ... appreciate the amount of effort that would be required to exert influence on Vietnam's political and social structure, the course of American policy led to a steady escalation of U.S. involvement. President Dwight D. Eisenhower increased the level of aide to the French but continued to avoid military intervention, even when the French experienced a devastating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in the spring of 1954. Following that battle ...
- 12940: Pride And Prejudice
- ... delight " in anything ridiculous", which included an insult to her beauty. (Pg. 12) Her loyalty and devotion to her sister was shown in her three-mile trek to Bingley’s house " so early in the day" and "in such dirty weather", to visit her while she was ill. (Pg. 30) Elizabeth is also more a sceptic. This particular quality in evident in the surprise she expresses in her sister’s tendency ...
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