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- 2311: Little Women
- ... of the novel. Shangri-La offers him protection and the ability to be unconcerned with the substantial things in modern life. Shangri-La also offers him an abundance of gold, which he thinks might one day may help him to make an economic and personal comeback. The potential for his financial resurrection is what will keep him in Shangri-La, but we are to assume that he will not leave. Charles ... sudden some thirty-five year old British diplomat comes to Shangri-La for a week and a half and is declared the next High Lama, my reaction might be a bit hasty (i.e. I'd lynch Conway). "He was only partly unhappy, but he was infinitely and rather sadly perplexed. He did not know whether he had been mad and was now sane, or had been sane and was now ... It is more of a social commentary and a hope for the future, than it is propagandist. The novel does not provide any answers for the future, it just has an underlying hope that one day mankind will be at peace. The only answer it does provide is moderation, and that is to broad of an answer and not realistic.
- 2312: Looking For Alibrandi
- ... all that great. On page 255 Lee tells Josephine, "I just said it wasn't as great as people make out and to answer your question, Josie, you would've felt guilty now if you'd slept with Jacob." This statement from her friend most likely would have finalised Josephine's decisions and lessons she had learned about sexual activity and relationships. Probably the most important discovery Josephine Alibrandi makes in ... from yet another character helps her in her discovery of the truth in this area of life. She seems to have finally learnt this lesson when she is talking to Jacob Coote and says, "I'd hate to be as smart as John. I mean he was really, really smart and to be that smart means you know all the answers and when you know all the answers there's no ... Because of the similarity of conditions in which Mrs V grew up in compared to Josephine's upbringing, many of the cultural, social and religious practices were done by both their families, for example "tomato day". Also because of these similarities, Mrs Vanaria faced many of the same difficulties that Josephine faced. Mrs V struggled with identity due to her multiculturalism just like Josephine. She mentioned to the class "Somewhere ...
- 2313: Computer Mouse
- ... Engelbart did not officially announce his invention until 1968. After the debut of the mouse the next real step in its advancement did not come until 1970 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Alan Day developed the first working computer that used the computer mouse. While at the research center Day and other researches developed the first computer that depended on the computer mouse to point. The next advancement for the computer mouse came out of the Apple computer. The Apple Lisa computer used a graphical ... mouse. One of the new technologies that are being used more and more is the wireless mouse. This mouse allows you to move the mouse with out the drag of the cord. Also the three-D mouse is becoming available. This mouse will allow the user to rotate objects on the screen using the mouse. The user will be able to look at what they are creating on the screen ...
- 2314: Bermuda Triangle
- ... 1900-1919 1920-1939 1940-1959 1960-1979 1980-1999 Total Ships 13 11 13 14 12 63 Planes 6 5 8 4 5 28 Total 19 16 21 18 17 91 On a clear day, December 5, 1945, five Navy Avengers of Flight 19 took off for a routine mission. The experienced crew had a routine that would take them 160 miles east, 40 miles north, and then 120 miles ... the leaking sulphur afire in an instant (Berlitz 56-57). One of the most celebrated stories of the Devil’s Triangle is that of the SS Cyclops. The navy supply ship disappeared on a clear day in March 1918, during World War I. The Cyclops was a steamship, 542 feet long, one of the largest vessels afloat. Twenty-four hours after she left the West Indies bound for Norfolk, Virginia everything ... the Bermuda Triangle. But where is the Cyclops? Why wasn’t even a scrap of metal found from Flight 19? Until these and many more questions are answered, the mystery remains. Works Cited Baumann, Elwood D. The Devil’s Triangle. New York: Franklin Watts, 1976. Berlitz, Charles. The Bermuda Triangle. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1974. Cusack, Michael J. Is There a Bermuda Triangle?: Science and Sea Mysteries. ...
- 2315: On The Waterfront
- ... mob. The mob controls everything in this town; they are the union and the law. If anything accurs you don’t know anything about it. Even if you were right there you were blind or D&D (Deaf and Dumb). Situation – The situation in the town is that a very prominent man in the town was thrown off of the roof of his apartment building. Most of the people in the town ... injustices that were done to the innocent people of Waterfront. Now that he became the pigeon and sang everyone in town no longer knew him or talked to him he was an untouchable. The next day at the docks the mob mentioned that today everyone would be given a chance to work and no more fighting over tokens. All workers were given jobs but him. He went to meet Johnny ...
- 2316: Causing Generation X
- ... a huge problem with us riding in town and in allies. I ve been yelled at hundreds of times This isn t a bike park! Get the He*l away form here! Well, if they d build us a place instead of whining about it for months and getting our hopes up then saying no. In order to keep us out of trouble, we need to be occupied with good things ... car. No one has lived for fun ever. Maybe Generation X is trying to change things, and this outburst of disrespect is the first step. A lot of us think Why are we living each day for another day? Are we ever going to catch up to the one ahead? I personally would like to live every single minute of everyday to the fullest, letting my emotions control me instead of the dream ...
- 2317: Closure At The Wall An Analysi
- ... Country, Bobbie Ann Mason writes about a young woman and her uncle searching to heal their scars caused by the Vietnam War. Sam Hughes, the young woman and Emmett Smith, her uncle, travel to Washington D.C. in the summer of 1984. Their destination is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial or the Wall, possibly one of the nation's most dramatic monuments. Some come to the Wall in dedication, while others need ... even after he quit college (28). Since Emmett does not work, he spends his time doing various nonproductive things. For instance, many mornings he meets fellow veterans at McDonald's. During the rest of the day, he watches M*A*S*H, plays Atari, obsesses over killing the fleas that his cat, Moon Pie, brings in, and he soon begins to dig around the base of the house. Emmett says he ... adventure helped her to ease her disgust of those who fought (209). In light of their denial to get out of past, Emmett suggests that he and Sam visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. The lives of both Sam and Emmett change upon viewing the Wall. Emmett is finally able to put the war behind him and realize that it is over. He is overcome with a ...
- 2318: Original Gullivers Travel Stor
- ... harsh luck, I managed to salvage some things from our wrecked ship. Some of the items included: a knife, a pocket watch, a pair of glasses, and a twig. I reached land in about a day. When I reached shore I looked up upon this small island, it looked beautiful. I just wanted to sit on the beach and look up at the desolate trees that were swaying. I could not ... I guess I was right because he signaled for me to follow him. This was one of the fastest mimes I ve ever followed and believe me I ve followed some fast mimes in my day. We arrived in a village, actually it wasn t really a village because land in villages is divided in small portions, but these people had huge land plots for themselves. As we were walking one ... it that had two doors. Inside this smaller building were two machines of some sort and a middle aged man was spraying water on them to wash off soap. I told the mime that I d be right back and then I proceeded up to the man. I greeted him with the sign the mime taught me and said, Excuse me sir, would you mind telling me what this contraption ...
- 2319: One Messy Situation (book Thei
- ... going tonight, and why did my boyfriend lie to me about arons? Janie screamed. Sam went inside the house to call Teacake over. When Teacake got there he knew it was a messy situation. Why d you do it, why? screamed Janie. Ah been hear uh long time listenin to dat heifer run me down tuh de dawgs said Teacake. Who, Sam? He s one of the nicest people I know ... to her house to get away from the whole thing, while Teacake did not know what to do or say. Phoeby was kicked out of the house by her husband for the night. The next day Sam called a lawyer and got the legal papers for the divorce. He signed all of them and then gave them to Phoeby to sign. She was astonished that he would do such a thing ... I don t care about you anymore you bitch. Just get out of my life was Sam s response. The divorce was official, and the two of them were separated. About that time the same day Janie was moving all of her things out of Teacake s house and back into hers. Please don t do this, I love you sweetheart, you mean the world to me. Then why would ...
- 2320: The Chocolate War
- ... was when Archie informed Jerry of his assignment, Jerry’s assignment was not to sell chocolates for the first ten days of the annual chocolate sale. The climax of the novel was on the eleventh day of the chocolate sale when Jerry was supposed to start selling the chocolates but he didn’t. As a result of Jerry not selling any chocolates, the other students’ sales began to plummet during the ... Jerry to a bloody pulp in a matter of minutes, while Jerry landed only three punches the entire match. As a result Jerry finally learned that he couldn’t beat the system, and that he’d be better off doing what his authorities instructed him to do. 3. The main conflict of The Chocolate War comes from Jerry Renault wanting to be different. The conflict involves Jerry, who doesn’t want ... want him to sell the chocolates. I would consider this conflict to be external human conflict. 4. The story doesn’t actually state a certain time period in which the story takes place, but I’d say the story takes place in the late seventies or the early eighties. Most of the story takes place at Trinity High School in a town that the author doesn’t reveal. 5. Jerry ...
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