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- 1601: Irony of The Setting in "The Lottery"
- ... in the beginning of The Lottery creates a mood of peacefulness and tranquillity. This setting also creates an image in the mind of the reader, the image of a typical town on a normal summer day. Furthermore, Shirley Jackson uses the setting in The Lottery to foreshadow an ironic ending. First, Shirley Jackson begins The Lottery by establishing the setting. To begin, she tells the reader what time of day and what time of year the story takes place. This is important to get the reader to focus on what a typical day it is in this small town. The time of day is set in the morning and the time of year is early summer. She also describes that school has just recently let out for ...
- 1602: The 26 Amendments of the US Constitution
- ... a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as ... on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Amendment XX (1933) Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. Section 2. The Congress shall assemble ...
- 1603: E. E. Cummings
- ... said their nevers they slept their dream stars rain sun moon (and only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down) one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was all by all and deep by deep and more by ... in it you will (kiss me) go out into the morning the young morning with a warm world in it (kiss me) you will go on into the sunlight the fine sunlight with a firm day in it you will go (kiss me down into your memory and a memory and memory i) kiss me (will go) once like a spark (once like a spark) if strangers meet life begins- not ... once if strangers(who deep our most are selves)touch: forever (and so to dark) E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings was a poet who stood in stark constrast of style than poets of his day. His poetry rejected most rules of English grammar and syntax. Cummings modernism and experimental style culminated in his radical poetic language. Cummings used several reoccuring themes in his works. These include the celebration of ...
- 1604: Essay And Opinion On The Way O
- Notes on The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America, By Joy Day Buel & Richard Buel Jr. : In the Book the Way of Duty, the life and hardships of Mary Fish Silliman is described with remarkable detail and conveys an understanding of this woman, and other women, during ... severe depression due to being overwhelmed by a series of losses, such as the loss of her first child Rebecca, and many complications demonstrates strength that even innumerable people can not overcome at the present day. The strength that Mary had possessed, in my eyes, stems from her education. Her education can be viewed as an intensely prominent source for much of her accomplishments. With all of the men in her ... Silliman was woman enough to shed her gender and her prejudice to share with us what she had learned. ***** Notes on The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America, By Joy Day Buel & Richard Buel Jr. : In the Book the Way of Duty, the life and hardships of Mary Fish Silliman is described with remarkable detail and conveys an understanding of this woman, and other women, ...
- 1605: E. E. Cummings
- E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings was a poet who stood in stark constrast of style than poets of his day. His poetry rejected most rules of English grammar and syntax. Cummings’ modernism and experimental style culminated in his radical poetic language. Cummings used several reoccuring themes in his works. These include the celebration of individualism ... clear message. Its purpose is a glimmer of inspiration in words. It is a plee of humility before nature and the deity that it truly is. He is most deeply painting the picture of the day for your mind. “The green silence”, although not a true description of something tangeble, does force you you to think fondly upon silence. This is also true of similar phrases,”white earth”, “fine sunlight”, “warm world”. His description is obviously one of a spring day. What is truly interesting about this poem is the levels in it. Although it is one complete poem, it is actually comprised of three levels. The first is the afformentioned description of day. This ...
- 1606: Should Gambling Be Legalized?
- ... offer an enormous amount of cheap food at the casinos to attempt to keep people inside. Many casinos have such specials as "Women eat free at 6:00" to cover the slower times of the day. The losers are the neighborhood restaurants, many of whom soon go out of business. In Atlantic city, the number of restaurants dropped from 243 to 146 between 1977 and 1987.20 As convenience gambling increases ... p.159 Weinstein, David and Lillian Deitch, The Impact of Legalized Gambling: The Socioeconomic Consequences and Off-Track Betting, Praeger, New York (1991) Winston, Stewart, Harriet Harris, Nation of Gamblers: America's Billion-Dollar- A-Day Habit, Prentice-Hall, (1984) Endnotes 1. Shapiro, Joseph P., "America's Gambling Fever," U.S. News and World Report (January 15, 1996), p.57 2. Winston, Stewart, Harriet Harris, Nation of Gamblers: America's Billion- Dollar-A-Day Habit, Prentice-Hall, (1984) p.54 3. Popkin, James, "America's Gambling Craze," U.S. News and World Report (March 14, 1994), p.48 4. Popkin, James, "America's Gambling Craze," U.S. News ...
- 1607: Dandelion Wine: Douglas
- ... ever so high, and ever so slick; we lose a little of the child within us. This wall, or barrier we must breach, is no more than a simple introduction. An introduction to the first day of the rest of our lives. No one ever sees when this wall will cross his path. No one knows the very moment they reach the other side of it. This wall is not seen ... one man can experience and then bring to others. He would sit there and listen to the colonel talk about things he had seen and people he had met. Then, as the colonel died that day, Doug realized, that this is the last machine he was depending on, and it also left him. Doug realizes that “You can’t depend on machine’s because….” “…they fall apart, or rust and rot ... can die.” This realization shows one of the final initiations into maturity for Doug. He finally realizes that people don’t live forever and machines can’t be depended upon, because they also leave one day. The kids are still far from their initiation into maturity and don’t understand that everyone must get old. This is something little kids may think because they don’t know any better. Doug ...
- 1608: Gerard Manley Hopkins Terrible
- ... Davie 86). These poems were written while Hopkins worked as a professor at University College, Dublin (Drabble 474). Hopkins' sonnets "No Worst, there is none" and " I wake and feel the fell of Dark, Not Day" show his mental anguish caused by spiritual agony. His job as a professor at University College required the grading of 500 examination papers, each one several pages of uninspired student translations, five to six times ... square with what we know of Hopkins. The line more likely means that since death is part of every life, the speaker cannot suffer forever" (Mariani 61). Line fourteen "Life death does end and each day dies with sleep", reveals "Hopkins can only crawl under his bed sheets and hope for a dreamless sleep and temporary cessation from pain" (Mariani 61). The last three lines show how Hopkins thinks "The only ... but he seems to have never surrendered himself to despairing of God's mercy, as Hopkins does not let go and fall into despair. The sonnet "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day" reveals Hopkins feeling of isolation and self-hatred. The poem seems to have the directness of a prayer. I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours ...
- 1609: Popular Guy
- Popular Guy It was a gloomy November day and my team mates and I were getting ready to go to battle that day against our cross town rivals, the Glendale Nitros. We had been working so very hard the past nine weeks but had not come out with a victory. But to win just this one game it ... When I arrived at his house he looked at me in a harsh way. We drove almost half way then Thomas started to speak out. “Hey man I can’t believe it today is the day, today is the day we will get our first victory of the season”. The Glendale game has always been a big game every year, some say it is the biggest rivalry west of the ...
- 1610: Go Ask Alice 2
- ... doctor. Her mother nags a lot. Alice s parents like Beth, because she is pretty nice. In the holidays Beth goes on a summer camp for six weeks and Alice stays at her grans. One day she meets Jill Peters and she invites her for a party. Alice doesn t like taking drugs. She wants to stop it and to go home, but her grandpa has a little heart - attack and ... finally Alice takes a job in some crappy little lingerie store. Chris takes a job in the boutique from Sheila. Sheila is very attractive and the owner of the shop. Alice gets more homesick every day, but she is afraid of telling Chris. She quiets her job and gets a job at Mr. Maria Mellani who is very fat and jolly man. Alice adores her job and Mellani is like second ... at home and so she leaves home again. She hitch - hikers to Denver and there she shares a place with a couple of kids. For a few nights she sleeps in a park, but one day she goes to a nice church where she gets help. They give her to chance to take a shower and she gets clean clothes. She is allowed to take acid there. They want her ...
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