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- 2261: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... as a frail being that men must protect from danger. Ideas of a southern woman in To Kill A Mockingbird are represented by wearing a big dress, attending tea parties, and gossiping with friends all day. Stereotypes about blacks in To Kill A Mockingbird are that they are uneducated poor people who are in a lower class than everyone else is. The truth, though, is that southern womanhood and the black ... a supposed rape had occurred but that a white woman had sexual intercourse with a black man. "Mr. Ewell came in, very excited he was, and said get out to his house quick, some nigger'd raped his girl" told the sheriff at Tom Robinson's trial (167). Mayella's father refers to his daughter as a piece of property saying she is "his". It was common for the southern men ... is very tricky. The Ewells are known as the "white trash" of Maycomb County. Atticus even said, "the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations. None of them had done an honest day's work in his recollection" (30). Even though the town is ashamed of the Ewells everyone comes to their aid when Mayella's rape surfaces. When the trial starts the Ewells go from being " ...
- 2262: My Friend's Battle With Anorexia
- ... diet trying to lose weight. Instead of eating sensibly, she began eating less and less, until she was down to eating only diet bars and Diet Coke. I remember sitting in my English class one day and observing Laura eat one of her tasteless diet bars. She pulled one out of her bag and ripped the top open. She broke off a tiny crumb and nibbled at it for a while ... satisfied her. Two minutes later, she pulled the bar back out, breaking off a crumb at a time. I was amazed at how she could make a five inch bar last for an entire school day. It was then that I became really worried about Laura. My friends and I all noticed how little she ate, and often commented on it, only to be ignored by her. She had also become ... would go on diets and eat only vegetables. After watching what happened to Laura, I have become less preoccupied with weight. After my hospital visits, I would go home and tell my mom that I'd rather be fat and happy than have to go through what Laura and the rest of those girls have to go through. Being thin isn't worth it.
- 2263: Catcher In The Rye 5
- Summary of Plot The book the Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger was very interesting. Holden Caulfield, a teenager tells about his insight about life and world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and leads the reader on a five day visit into his mind. Holden portrayed others to be inferior to his own kind all throughout the book. He made several references as to how people are not as perfect as he was. "The reason ... his motivation together in order to complete schoolwork and succeed in his prep school. The Catcher in the Rye is a story of a boy falling from innocence to enter adulthood. An example of J.D. Salinger using symbolism to show Holden s Holding on to his childhood is in his name, Holden(Hold On). This is referring to Holden not wanting to enter society and all it s phonies.
- 2264: School Safety
- ... remains. What can be done to make schools safer for the children and staff? One thing we need to do is learn to listen to our children and observe their behavior. According to Dr. Ronald D. Stephens, Executive Director of the National School Safety Center, there are some common characteristics among youth who have caused school- associated violent deaths. Accounts of these tragic incidents repeatedly indicate that in most cases, a ... changed during the past 20 years. Between 1993 and 1997, there was an overall decline in the percentage of students in grades 9 to 12 who reported carrying a weapon to school at least 1 day in the prior 30 days. About 3 percent of high school seniors reported carrying a gun to school at least 1 day during the previous 4 weeks. Although serious violent crimes constitute a small percentage of the total amount of school crime and homicide is extremely rare, the possibility still exists. In the 1992-93 and ...
- 2265: Valentine Party
- ... the large room as I entered. My footsteps echoed as I walked. There were decorated brown paper lunch bags were all lined up on the counter. Each bagEach bag wwasas decorated with various sizes of d, bright coloredbright colored construction paper hearts,which with with smooth, rippled, and scalloped edges., and some with rippled and scalloped edges. Tucked Inside Eeachach bag hadwere several Valentine cards, whichthat varied in size, shape, and ... the shadows were growing. There were sounds of children laughing, wafting carried on the wind. A teacher was headed towards a crying child. All the other children were either eating more goodies, or playing. The day was ending, as the parents came, one by one, to pick up their children. The day was ending as the parents came one by one to pick up their children. IMy jobwas The children had all enjoyed themselves. The games were put away, the trash picked up, the tables cleared ...
- 2266: The Killer Angels (Gettysburg)
- ... whether the people were for or against the idea, was about freedom. The Killer Angels was informative, very fascinating and I liked it. I liked the book because I learned many things from it. I’d never thought much about the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg until I read The Killer Angels. From this book I learned many things. I learned that the Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point ... Robert E. Lee was not a good military tactician. Evidently, he thought that, as in most of the previous battles, the Confederate army could win this one with a series of charges. On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee ordered the first charge. In this charge, Confederate troops would make an uphill attack in an attempt to take a ridge from the Federal army. With an uphill advantage, the Federal troops drove the Confederate army into retreat. On the third day of battle, Lee ordered a charge that would take his army across more than a mile of open field. On the other side of the field, however, Federal troops released a continuous bombardment of ...
- 2267: Everyday Use
- ... quilts. She is using this cunning approach to get what she wants. As Dee is visiting, she comments to Mama regarding the quilts, "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags." Dee goes to the notable extent to say, "Maggie can't appreciate these quilts." Mama discerns Dee's manipulation to twist the truth, because she is aware that Maggie knows what it ... a new revelation: she certainly is a winner. Being a winner means that you have to assert yourself sometimes and that is the lesson that Maggie learns from watching her mother's conduct on the day that Dee has come to visit. A real smile comes upon Maggie's face as she is saying goodbye to Dee that day. Dee is humbled by covering her eyes in shame. "She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and chin."
- 2268: Time And Fate In Romeo And Jul
- ... a genuine coincidence that Romeo and Juliet were at the same place, at the same time. Some days after the ball, Benvolio and Mercutio are conversing, in regard to the quarrelsome weather. Benvolio declares, "The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,/ And if we meet we shall not 'scape a brawl,/ For now these got days is the mad blood stirring." (III, i, l 2-4) At this point, Tybalt, who ... losses of Tybalt and Mercutio, the Prince must penalize Romeo. However, the Prince agrees that Romeo was acting in self defense. Juliet, who desires not to wed Paris, asks for Friar Laurence's assistance. The day before the wedding, Juliet is to drink the poison, which will make her appear to be dead. In forty two hours she shall awake, with Romeo by her side. Romeo will then bring her to ... Friar Laurence that he was seeking another Franciscan, who was visiting the sick, to accompany him to Mantua. He says, "Suspecting that we both were in a house/ Where the infectious pestilence did reingn,/ Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth;/" (V, ii, l 9-11) Friar John tells that he could find no one to deliver the letter, for fear they may catch the infection. ...
- 2269: Stephen Crane
- ... Crane Today in modern America, it has become almost impossible to avoid the tales of horror that surround us almost anywhere we go. Scandals, murders, theft, corruption, extortion, abuse, prostitution, all common occurrences in this day in age. A hundred years ago however, people did not see the world in quite such an open manner despite the fact that in many ways, similarities were abundant. People’s lives were, in their ... wording in this description of a grown Maggie is one of the many examples of Crane’s unique choice of wording in contrasting Maggie, a beautiful girl, to a mud puddle, the tenements, which she’d grown up around. Amo Karlen describes this kind of writing as being one of Crane’s, “…little masterpieces of the most subtle and difficult prose effects—rhythm, assonance, alliteration—and full of premeditated irony or ... be greeted with the loud crying of a baby’s voice: Ah, what deh hell!, cried Jimmie. Shut up er I’ll smack yer mout’. See?….The father heard and turned about. Stop that Jim, d’yeh hear? Leave yer sister alone on the street. It’s like I can never beat any sense into yer dammed wooden head (Crane, 7). Scenes like these are typical in the opening chapters ...
- 2270: Shermans March
- ... clearly means that they all felt an attachment to the man. It was rough being a solider in Sherman’s army. Willis expresses this adequately in the beginning of a diary entry. “Had an awful day’s march yesterday, full 20 miles and the road very muddy and slippery. County peculiarly Georgian, like of which, I hope to found nowhere else in Uncle Sam’s Domain.” But in all his letters ... necessary for the war effort, and it is what the general wanted. Sherman’s troops were also very loyal and trusted him. In the Willis book, he states that Received a half official notification to day that the campaign and fighting are over. Orders to clean up arms came also, and the boys, showing their contempt of the enemy’s power to do harm, took their guns all to pieces and ... William. The Battle of Atlanta and the Georgia Campaign. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1958. Nevin, David Sherman’s March. Alexandria, Virginaia: Time-Life Books, 1986. Wills, Charles W. Army life of an Illinois soldier. Washington D.C.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. Osborn, Thomas. Ward The fiery trail : a Union officer's account of Sherman's last Campaigns. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. Nichols, Brevet Major George W. The ...
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