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- 5621: Kurt Cobain
- ... class and one of my friends tapped into the P.A. system. He hooked it up to his Walkman and started playing Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana's first single. I was sitting in class day dreaming and suddenly I was pulled out of it by this amazing sound. A few seconds later the principal shut off the song, but by that time I was hooked. Later that day I went to the record store and bought their second first and second album. I took them him and threw them into the CD player and fell in love. Finally I could identify with music ...
- 5622: The Hoa Lo Prison Camp
- ... Last of all, there were guard towers mounted atop the walls at the prisoner's four corners. The prisoners had to adhere to a tight schedule. A gong was used to signal events during the day. At approximately 6 AM there was a get-up gong; at about 10 AM a chow gong, for breakfast; at about 11AM a siesta gong; at about 2 PM a get-up gong; at about 4 PM another chow gong, for dinner; and the last gong for the day at about 9 PM, a go-to-bed gong, (Hubbell 97). Food was something the prisoners definitely hated. The prisoner's diet usually consisted of cabbage or pumpkin soup and a hard roll. They were ...
- 5623: Paper on Irony
- ... old enough to make my own decisions and that her new boyfriend needed her more. Besides, how many times had I said I couldn=t wait to be on my own. She told me she=d keep all the bills up and give me weekly grocery money. Even though the conversation lasted over an hour that=s all that I can remember except for her words as she walked out the ... of my mother in a deep lonely, angry place. Finally after two years of turmoil, I had adjusted and become content in my life. I was glad I was on my own, and that I=d become my own person. The angry words I had exchanged with my mother no longer haunted me and the beating of my heart in the silence had become a comfort and no longer a terror ...
- 5624: Wolf's "The Child By Tiger" and Bowen's "Tears, Idle Tears": The Innocence Of The Child
- ... to them which can be brought out by the type of environment that he or she is placed in. "Tears, Idle Tears", by Elizabeth Bowen, is about a young child and his mother during a day in the park. The young boy cries a lot, seemingly for no reason. As the story develops, the reader finds that the boy cries because his mother can't cry and, consequently, he experiences her ... of this can be found when the children find Prosser's gun in his room. This incident foreshadows the future events of the story: "I was just fiction' to hide this gun away twill Christmas Day"(29). Eventually the reader finds out what Prosser really intends to do with the gun on Christmas; he runs around town shooting everyone. Because the author used children and their natural innocence, he was able ...
- 5625: Development of The Civil War
- ... time of the Civil War, the Southern people still remembered how they were treated by the northern people. In the years before the Civil War the political power in the Federal Government, centered in Washington D.C., was changing. The Northern and Mid-Western States were becoming more and more powerful as the populations increased. The Southern States were losing political power. Just as the original thirteen colonies fought for their independence almost 100 years earlier, the Southern States felt a growing need for freedom from the central Federal authority in Washington D.C. They felt that each State should make its own laws. This issue was called "State's Rights". Some Southern States wanted to secede, or break away from the United States of America and govern ...
- 5626: The Catcher In the Rye: First Person Narration is Critical
- The Catcher In the Rye: First Person Narration is Critical In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the first person narration is critical in helping the reader to know and understand the main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a ... he lends his turtleneck sweater to this classmate, with whom he is not at all close. Holden's feelings about people reveal more of his positive traits. He constantly calls people phonies, even his brother, D.B., who " has sold out to Hollywood." Although insulting, his seemingly negative feelings show that Holden is a thinking and analyzing, outspoken individual who values honesty and sincerity. He is unimpressed with people who try ...
- 5627: Carpe Diem: The Golden Chance
- Carpe Diem: The Golden Chance Carpe Diem, is the expression that means seize the day, means that one should take advantage of every minute of this life. Many people do not succeed because they are scared about life. It is very difficult to accomplish anything in this life if they ... so much effort and money in my education, it would not be fair to them if I do not put the same amount of effort and care in my education. Carpe Diem means "seize the day", but for me it has another deeper meaning. The meaning for me is that one should take advantage of opportunities with wisdom and care, analyzing each move we make, not making precipitous decisions and not ...
- 5628: The Bicycle: From Wood to Metal.
- ... other forms of transport, especially in large congested cities. Aims:- I aim to discuss the change of materials used to construct bicycles, and why the change came about, starting with the first machines to modern day super-light- weight machines. Most written sources agree that the first bicycle was introduced around 1817 by a man called Von Drais. This wooden two-wheeled vehicle that weighed some 45kg (100 lbs). It comprised ... farthing was a dead-end area to go down many designers learnt from their experiments. The introduction of pneumatic tires, gears, and derailleurs, were the real start to what we know and use on modern day bicycles. The cross frame bicycle made from oval tubing is still used today. Bicycles today are made for particular activities, but the main factors of modern bikes are there weight, strength, ease of use, and ...
- 5629: Master And Slave In The Tempes
- ... st first, Thou strok st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in t, and teach me how To name the bigger light and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee, And showed thee all the qualities o th isle, The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile (1.2.332-8) This is Prospero s ploy to ... for Caliban to pay penance. Indeed, Caliban should be punished for his wrongdoing, but whether it should be done by Prospero and how much punishment is deserved is not for Prospero to decide. In present day, when a felon is caught for attempted rape, he is punished and serves time in prison. He may have to do services and live in poor conditions. However, these sentences are decided by the government ...
- 5630: Wuthering Heights 2
- ... own, and upon being attacked by one of the dogs, "he was pulled into the kitchen"(15) and allowed, however ungraciously, to stay the night at Wuthering Heights. Once his walk home commenced the following day, Lockwood found himself being escorted by Heathcliff himself. The path that is used as a means of connection between the two houses does well to exemplify the feeling contained within each. The path that is ... novel, around the time of Lockwood's return to visit Wuthering Heights, the weather suddenly becomes kinder and the setting more amiable. Upon walking up to the door of the Heights "all that remained of day was a beamless, amber light along the west' but [he] could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass by that splendid moon"(286). This feeling that the reader acquires from the ...
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