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- 5291: The Paparazzi
- ... hit number one on the Billboard and he's signed deals with Virgin Records. His time has come to be bombarded with riches, bathed in fame, and stalked. Where stalking is referring to being hounded day and night by those whose job is to be indecent and bothersome. The aptly named "stalkerazzi" are to blame. Their career rewards them millions for a single piece of paper that shines these four words ... to allow her to die. What will stop them from doing the same thing again? Hiding behind the wall of the press they have the power to do so. Princess Diana was doomed from her day of birth. Born under the British royal family she was destined for a life of stalkers and cameras. Her picture kissing her lover, Dodi Al Fayed, sold for 450,000 USD and ended benefiting photographer ...
- 5292: Enduring, Endearing Nonsense O
- ... stammering Oxford mathematics professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and who ... which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." There is plenty of fodder for psychoanalysts, Freudian or otherwise, who have had a field day analyzing the significance of the myriad dream creatures and Alice's strange transformations. There is even Zen: "And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown ...
- 5293: The Giver: A Critique
- ... unit. He was scheduled for release however and this convinced Jonas what he had to do. Which was to escape with Gabriel and get away from the community. His father was a nurturer and one day Jonas wanted to see a release so the Giver showed his father releasing a newborn twin because he was lighter and having two identical people walking around would be too confusing. After Jonas saw his father murder the young newborn he was very distraught and the next day he learned of Gabriels scheduled release and since Jonas had become attached to Gabriel he decided he must leave. These were the main characters in this story. The theme of this book was the idea ...
- 5294: Biography of Aaron Montgomery Ward
- ... Michigan. Aaron's schooling ended when he was 14. According to his brief memoirs, he first earned money in a barrel Stave factory, "doing a man's work at the cutting machine at $.25 per day, then stacking brick in a kiln at $.30 day." Looking for something more compatible, Aaron left home and followed the river to Lake Michigan and the town of St. Joseph. Within nine months Aaron had engaged as a salesman in a general country store ...
- 5295: The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Oppression
- The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Oppression The story, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, follows the day-to-day life of a woman on the verge of insanity. One must take a closer look at the symbolism through out the story in order to understand the true meaning of the story. The symbolism present ...
- 5296: Albert Einstein from Start to Finish
- ... to write. He had two papers that were famous, they were, The Quantum Theory to Light and the second was called Brownie Notions, and the third was not said. In 1905 Albert received his Ph.D. from University of Zurich. Later he began a career as an academic lecturer. Albert was in Germany when WW I broke out. At this time he was concentrating on the problem of gravity and the ... them. They both rammbled about the an atomic bomb and said they needed him to help them to find the solution to split an atom. He came to the conclusion that, “Well....I guess I'd better get it before they do.” He was now working on total payment and funding by the government. After almost working non-stop he discovered what people had tried to figure out for years. Although ...
- 5297: Biography of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... school and the boys got jobs. The boys made so much money the girls were able to close their school. Elizabeth walked around the house for days wondering what to do with her life. One day, she was visiting her mother's sick friend when the lady said that she could be the first woman doctor. Elizabeth agreed. Everyone was shocked to hear her new goal. "Impossible—a woman doctor—never ... that Emily was following in her footsteps. When Elizabeth went to London, she met three girls who greatly admired her. The girls visited regularly and soon it was like they were Elizabeth's sisters. One day, another girl knocked on her door. This girl was Florence Nightingale. Florence and Elizabeth became good friends, but soon they parted and went their separate routes. Elizabeth returned to New York City. Her work was ...
- 5298: 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale: Lives of Dystopia Can Be Changed
- ... their lives changed and became so controlled in the book, everything from the past was erased or thrown away. All books, signs and letters were to be deleted and almost all of them were. One day when Offred is in her room, she finds some writing, “quite fresh it seemed, scratched with a pin or maybe just a fingernail, in the corner where the darkest shadow fell: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum ... everyone else in order to try to change her life in The Handmaid’s Tale. At the beginning of the book, there is a guardian named Nick who guards the place where Offred lives. One day, as Offred is leaving, “he looks at [her]…he begins to whistle and then he winks.” (pg 18) Offred knows that he has just taken a risk and that if she reported him, he would ...
- 5299: The Flea: Analysis
- ... an unflattering comparison described with unique detail. In the first stanza of the poem Donne says: Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deny'st me is; It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be;(1-4) The stanza says to the lady that she should pay attention to the flea and that inside the ... second stanza proposes that sex before marriage is all right Thou know'st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor the loss of maidenhead, Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do.(5-9) This stanza also says that the flea enjoys the mixing of blood which is referred to as ...
- 5300: Song of Myself: Divinity, Sexuality and the Self
- ... to the cosmos, facilitated by a union of the spiritual and the corporal, is then a direct result of the expression of the sexual self. Whitman's choice of the word "reached" in "...And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet," is a powerful image. It connotes not only a physical bridging, which Whitman establishes as a elemental force in its sensual nature, but also a direct application of the will ...
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