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- 6291: A Rose For Emily By William Faulkner
- ... up) town where a woman by the name of Emily Grierson died. Emily is described as a "fallen monument" that many people admired as well as questioned. Emily lived with her father until the last day of his life, and tried to cling a little longer. She had taught some painting classes but with the years her classes stopped. Craziness ran in her family and that is the only thing that ... The town people were happy for her because they now seen her a little more and it was better than to be in a old house all the time. Emily began to think that some day she and Homer would marry, and when things went wrong she poisoned him. As time passed people began to wonder, and a smell began developing. Although the smell was hitting everyone in the town, no ...
- 6292: Clothing Or Concept
- IZOD: Clothing or Concept Every day, billions are spent on advertising with the intention of selling some product of one kind or another. Every day, even more people come in contact with these ads and are affected by them. As the number of ads continues to rise, the percentage of those that are misleading and manipulative also increases. As a ...
- 6293: Working Mothers
- ... first steps in getting working mothers into the workforce and alleviate their feelings of guilt. Many working mothers today are facing the reality of the "second shift". This is where they put in a full day of work at the office only to come home to start their "second shift", the one that entails all the housework and the raising of the family. Mothers feel that they have no choice in ... fixing dinner, and disciplining children. In order for the working mother to keep her sanity, the father needs to jump in and help with the chores that were previously held by the homemaker. In this day and age, the ideal homemaker is a thing of the past. Many women today want and desire careers and a place in this world. They want to stand on their own two feet, to become ...
- 6294: Legalization of Drugs
- ... associates with illegal drug use are, in reality, caused directly or indirectly by drug prohibition. Let's assume the war on drugs is given up as the misguided enterprise it is. What will happen? The day after legalization goes into effect, the streets of America will be safer. The American citizens will no longer have to worry for their safety due to the drug dealers in their community. One year after ... With their designer clothes and Mercedes convertibles, being seen everyday with a smug smile that says crime pays. They snicker at the honest kids going to school or to work at the minimum wage. The day after legalization, the honest kids will have the last laugh. The dealers will be out of a job, unemployed. The shoot-outs between drug dealers will end. Innocent bystanders will not be murdered anymore. Hundreds ...
- 6295: The Prohibition
- ... O’Banions (Behr, 192). The most powerful and infamous bootlegger however, was Al Capone, operating out of Chicago. One of the most gruesome and remembered gangster shoot-outs of all time occurred on Valentine’s Day, 1929. Because of business differences, Capone had his henchman, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn plot the murder of the O’Banions, led by Bugs Moran. McGurn staged a delivery of alcohol to Moran at a warehouse ... yeast, this product quickly turned into beer. Alcohol used for medicinal purposes, prescribed by a doctor, was also technically legal. There were restrictions, such as only one pint was allowed per person in a ten day period, but these rules were blatantly ignored (Bowen, 164). The sales of medicinal alcohol, which was 95 percent pure alcohol, increased 400 percent between 1923 and 1931. Another factor that proves the increase of alcohol ...
- 6296: A Rose For Emily
- ... her father's death Miss Emily was sick and remained in solitude, when she reappears she appears girlish. In the summer after her father's death she is seen by the townspeople with a Yankee day laborer driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy on Sunday afternoons. The older townspeople thought that even with Miss Emily's grief, she couldn't forget that she came from a family of a higher social ... when being seen until she dies. The narrator returns to the beginning of the story to the scene of the funeral. The two female cousins came to town and held the funeral on the second day. The ladies were "sibilant and macabre" and the old men were wearing their confederate uniforms. They waited until they buried her before they decided to enter her bridal room that has not been seen in ...
- 6297: Communication In The Millenium
- ... whole. Our society embraces things and ideas and technologies that are more convenient, more efficient, and faster than conventional, ordinary ideas. Computers have become the tools that are used more than any other on a day to day basis. It is very difficult to imagine trying to function at home and at work without a computer and a fax machine. It is even more impossible to fathom a world where e-mail doesn ...
- 6298: Biography Precis -- Black Boy
- ... Memphis in 1914. Though not always successful, Richard's rebellious nature pervades the novel. This is best illustrated by his rebellion against his father. He resents his father's the need for quiet during the day, when his father, a night porter, sleeps. When Mr. Wright tells Richard to kill a meowing kitten if that's the only way he can keep it quiet, Richard has found a way to rebel ... As a result, Richard is sent to his Uncle Clark's, but he is unhappy there and insists on returning to his mother's. Later, Richard confronts his Aunt Addie, who teaches at the Seventh-Day Adventist church school. He also resists his grandmother's attempts to convert him to religious faith. He writes his first story and blossoms in a literary sense. Richard then gets a job selling newspapers but ...
- 6299: A Raisin In The Sun
- ... that effects their role in society. The frustrations that a black man has to deal with can affect the family a great deal. For example, if Walter gets upset at work or has a bad day, he can't get irate with his boss and risk loosing his job; instead he takes it out on his wife Ruth. Also, the job that he holds can only provide so much to the ... for an opportunity to improve his family standing. He tells his mother how he feels about his job when she wouldn't give him the ten thousand dollars; " I open and close car doors all day long. I drive a man around in his limousine and I say, "Yes sir; no sir, very good sir; shall I take the Drive, sir?" Mama, that ain't no kind of job... that ain ...
- 6300: A Raisin In The Sun
- ... by the more Materialistic ideals of America's society The frustrations that Walter has to deal with affects the family a great deal. For example, if Walter gets upset at work or has a bad day, he can't get angry with his boss and risk loosing his job; instead he takes it out on his wife Ruth. Also, the job that he holds can only provide so much to the ... family standing. He tells his mother how he feels about his job when she wouldn't give him the ten thousand dollars to invest in a liquor Store," I open and close car doors all day long. I drive a man around in his limousine and I say, "Yes sir; no sir, very good sir; shall I take the drive, sir?" Mama, that ain't no kind of job... that ain ...
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