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- 4991: Samson Agonistes Dealing With
- ... or the pill-swill of servile food consumes him and brings about a much welcomed death. Manoa stills as though it will better for Samson to go home and lie bed ridden and hope one day of God giving back his gift of sight. Samson in complete denial still believes that there is no hope from him only the hope of death. Even though Samson has completely given up on himself ... After the officer leaves Samson realizes that he will go on the basis of it being involuntary and maybe God will pity him. The Chorus backs him in his decision. Samson also says that, "This day will be remarkable in my life, by some great act, or of my days the last." Samson's progression from "I cannot come" to "I will not come" to "I with this messenger will go ...
- 4992: Movie: The Firm
- ... and substantial offer Mitch McDeere takes the offer to be part of the Firm. The firm gets them caught up in a affluent lifestyle that they never thought they could live. Once involved n the day to day workings of the firm McDeere began to get subtle hints of a corruption with a Mafia mob client. McDeere gets a hold of some information that he shouldn't have had access to that supports ...
- 4993: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... beloved sister through a door rarely left “slightly ajar.” This seclusion gave her a reputation for eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps increased her interest in death (Whicher 26). Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the New England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be equal not ... in 1863, Dickinson writes of immortality and eternity, and although death does not “come in haste”, his eventual coming is inevitable since death in eternal, “ Since then-'tis Centuries-and yet, Feels shorter than the day, I first surmised the Horse's Head, Were toward Eternity-.” (Porter 170). Over all Dickinson's works can be seen as a study into the thoughts and emotions of people, especially in her exploration death ...
- 4994: Billy Sunday
- ... would carry him around on a tote pillow while helping her parents plant corn, milk cows, chop wood, and wrangle horses. Then a traveling doctor prepared a syrup that Mary Jane fed to Billy every day for three weeks. Miraculously, Billy gained strength and became a normal active child. Luck changed for Billy s family, but only for a short time. His mother remarried and had two more children. Sadly, the ... and then a grandmother he loved dearly died of the same disease. Billy was six years old when she died. I would leave her coffin, he recalled, only when forced to do so. The second day after the funeral my mother missed me. They called and searched everywhere; finally my dog picked up the scent and they followed my tracks through the snow to the grave, weeping and chilled through with ...
- 4995: Ironclads Of The Civil War
- ... vessel ever built. He started to build in October of 1861 and the monitor was launched on Jan. 30,1862. Captain Buchanan was going to attack the Monitor on March 6, 1862. On that same day, the Monitor left New York for Hampton Roads.The Merrimac and Monitor was compared to David and Goliath. Although the Monitor was smaller it was a lot better She was seven miles an hour compared ... eyes. His face was bloody and had to go to his cabin with surgeon’s assistance. While all this was going on, the Monitor started to wonder away from the battle. The Conferdates thought the day was theirs. They tried to go after her but the water was too shallow and the ship would have been ruined. They decided to to return to Norfolk for repairs. On April 11, 1862 the ...
- 4996: Song Of Solomon
- ... sun melted the wax that held his wings together. Icarus fell into the Aegean Sea and died. Solomon, a slave, had been a leader when he worked in the cotton fields in the South. One day he decided to fly back to Africa with his youngest son, Jake, leaving behind his wife Ryna and their twenty other children. Black lady fell down on the ground Come booba yalle, come booma tambee ... which Milkman heard in Shalimar, Virginia, was referring to Ryna's sobbing, an event which also led to the naming of Ryna's Gulch where it is rumored that Ryna's spirit moaned night and day alike for Solomon's return. When Solomon is flying, however, he drops Jake- also the name of Milkman's grandfather- and unlike Icarus in Greek mythology, Jake survives his fall. Milkman's desire to fly ...
- 4997: Talk Show Trash
- ... trash candidate would definitely be Jerry Springer, who tries so very hard at the end of his show to put real-life meaning to the topics of his show in “Springer's thought of the Day.” Topic this time is “pssst.. I have a secret to tell you.” During the duration of this show topics ranged from a forty year old women having an affair with an eighteen year old boy ... trash candidate would definitely be Jerry Springer, who tries so very hard at the end of his show to put real-life meaning to the topics of his show in “Springer's thought of the Day.” Topic this time is “pssst.. I have a secret to tell you.” During the duration of this show topics ranged from a forty year old women having an affair with an eighteen year old boy ...
- 4998: House Burning Down
- ... smoggy night, chills were running through the house in and out of my room like a quiet ghost silently coming and silently going. As I lie awake in my bed thinking of what the next day should bring, my eye's start to grow heavy as I doze off. In the distance I hear a faint booming sound, soon it starts getting louder and louder and still louder until I could ... sat down next to my dad asking him what we were going to do for heat, he just answered "I don't know I just don't know." shaking his head in resistance. Later that day I was over at a friend's house who had heat. We were playing a video game and eating chips in his living room. The walls had many game heads on them, one of the ...
- 4999: The Praying Mantis
- ... a nymph and as a adult. Baby mantids will eat other babies, adults will eat their own or others' babies, and adults will eat each other. Mantids are diurnal, that is, mainly eats during the day. But mantids also congregate and feed around artificial light sources. Mantids usually wait motionless for unsuspecting prey to get within striking distance--a "sit-and wait" and wait or ambush strategy, but can also slowly ... not necessary to the process. The male's sperm cells are stored in a special chamber in the female's abdomen called the spermatheca. The female can begin lay her eggs as early as a day after mating. As the eggs pass through her reproductive system, they are fertilized by the stored sperm. After finding a suitably raised location--a branch, stem, or building overhang--special appendages at the base of ...
- 5000: Book Report on Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
- ... comprise the plot of the novel are, for the most part, arranged chronologically. The sequence of events is only occasionally disrupted; Dostoevsky will, for example, document Alyosha's proceedings for a certain part of the day and then go back and document how Dmitry spent the same part of the day. Therefore, there are no gaps in the story; in a novel in which every action and every phrase is significant, it is important that the reader know all that happens. Dostoevsky also occasionally documents the ...
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