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- 7511: The Hound Of Baskerville
- ... that the hound walked up to him and sniffed him? 8. Some citations showing special vocabulary are: 1. pg. 8 Holmes says "Perfectly Sound" meaning right or agreeable 2. pg. 58 James Mortimer says "I'd rather walk for this affair has flurried me rather" both of these examples show vocabulary of an educated english man from early 1900's. 9.Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859 and died in ...
- 7512: The Key To Greatness (great Ga
- ... for. Gatsby was living in a dream and when he finally awakened he had lost his life. Gatsby was murdered by Wilson, but that did not matter because the "Great Gatsby" had already died the day Daisy chose Tom. "He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream" (Fitzgerald 162). This is the way Gatsby felt ...
- 7513: The Odyssey - Comparing The Ro
- ... that is shrewd, yet still remains loyal to him. If these women were given personalities, and stereotypical characters shown in Rustler s Rhapsody , The Odyssey would not even be studied in high schools in modern day. The women of The Odyssey are the most important characters in the poem. They not only act as the mentors and intellectuals, but as the sensitive lovers that has been stereotyped throughout.
- 7514: The Call of the Wild: The Effect of the Environment
- ... the novel, it is easy to see that every environment Buck experienced affected him. After being kidnapped from his beautiful Southern California home, Buck is forced to endure harsh climates and weather in Alaska. Each day while serving as a sled dog, this slave endures freezing temperatures. Buck learns how to deal with the unbearable conditions by watching the other dogs and imitating them. This lesson proves to be very helpful ...
- 7515: Gas Laws (cemistry)
- ... heated. However, since no quantitative temperature scale then existed he could not, and did not, determine the relationship between degree of hotness (temperature) and volume of a gas quantitatively.(Siebring, Richard, Page 32) Guillaume Amontons (d. 1705) developed the air thermometer, which uses the increase in the volume of a gas with temperature rather than the volume of a liquid. The air thermometer is an excellent demonstration of Charles' law because ...
- 7516: Don Quixote
- ... his endeavors. Don Quixote finally recognizes that romances of chivalry are mere lying inventions, but upon recovering the clarity of his mind, he loses his life. This idea is very realistic because of its modern day implications. It tells who becomes bored with his life and experiences a midlife crisis. He enjoys reading about chivalry and finds the idea so fascinating that he decides that he wants to experience it himself ...
- 7517: Biography: St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
- ... Barcelona, 1885, 3 vols., octavo, complete edition, 8 vols. in quarto). They have no pretense to style; they are sometimes only reminiscences of domestic exhortations; the texts are often repeated; the illustrations are from every-day life; the treatment of one virtue occasionally trenches on another; but they are remarkable for the correctness and soundness of their doctrine and the profound spiritual knowledge which they reveal. They were not written with ...
- 7518: The Great Gatsby: A Total Failure
- ... Daisy got married to Tom because she was impressed by his wealth. Jordan describing the wedding said, He came down in four private cars and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach hotel and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars(Fitzgerald. p77). Gatsby joined Dan Cody and did many illegal things. He wanted to become rich and ...
- 7519: Slaughter House Five: Time Travel
- ... it in some way or not. I would think that time travel would be a way of fixing you mistakes but he doesn't want to. Another thing is that he knows all about the day he is going to die. He knows all the details: where, when, and how. This doesn't matter to Billy though because he is always leaping, so, when he comes to his death he would ...
- 7520: The Parable
- ... Pai tells Rosemary he is sorry but he can't help her. Not knowing what else she can do, Rosemary goes back to Sven for help. She spends the night with him and the next day he takes her across the river. Rosemary and Hernando are then together at last. The evening before their wedding, Rosemary feels the need to tell Hernando what she had to do to get across the ...
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