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- 7551: A Woman on a Roof
- ... roof. The color white describes things that are pure, innocent, and fair. Initially, Tom idealizes the woman. The less he knows about her, the more perfect and pure she seems in his mind. The first day he saw her, "she was white" (703) and "looked like a poster, or a magazine cover" (704). He later dreams "she had him into her flat: it was big and had fitted white carpets and ...
- 7552: Queen Elizabeth I
- ... pluck your plumes that you shall say no more, "Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, Importune me no more!" When he had spake these words, such change grew in my breast, That neither night nor day since that, I could take any rest, Then lo! I did repent that I had said before, "Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, Importune me no more!" (Elizabeth I 173) In this poem, I consider ...
- 7553: Biography of Samuel Clemens
- ... town. In his late teens, Clemens left Hannibal on a riverboat to become a printer in St. Louis. He moved up in the ranks of printing and moved to New York and eventually to Washington D.C. Clemens remembered how much fun he had had on the riverboat and how glorious it must have been to be a pilot. He soon decided to move to New Orleans to become a pilot ...
- 7554: Biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- ... never did finish this novel. He received income by starting a Saab dealership and writing short stories. In 1957, his father died of lung cancer. His sister and her husband soon died which would one day lead him to write the novel Slapstick. Kurt Vonnegut's writing style is exemplified in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. This novel also shows Vonnegut's view on war. He entered World War II in 1939 ...
- 7555: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... Charles had to pay for his food and everything else with the six shillings he earned every week. The details of London and of prison life were imprinting themselves into Dickens' memory and would one day help him in the novels he wrote. After John was in prison for three months, his mother died leaving him enough money to get out of debtors prison (Mankowitz 20-22). Late in Charles' teens ...
- 7556: The Plague
- ... because, as critic James Woelfel says, actively struggling against the injustices of the human condition. 19 Rieux will never quit trying to help, though he knows that the plague bacillus never dies and that the day would come when 'it would raise up its rats again. 20 Rieux reflects Camus compassion for man, and his belief that man is inherently good. Camus stressed that The Plague was to be a more ...
- 7557: Biography of 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 ...
- 7558: Bigger Thomas
- ... the floor from the metaphorical table of civilization. In the first book, Fear, Bigger stands out on the street with Gus. He and Gus see an airplane in the sky and Bigger says: “…God, I’d like to fly up there in that sky.” “God’ll let you fly when He gives you your wings up in heaven,” Gus said. The racial tension that has been building up since the first ...
- 7559: John Maynard Keynes
- ... a convincing attack on the classical theory that capitalism would self-correct from a recession. Also, he proved the theoretical defense for programs that were already being tried in Great Britain and by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States. Keynes based his model on the belief that increasing aggregate demand will achieve full employment, while prices and wages remain inflexible. Moreover, his bold policy prescription was that the government ...
- 7560: John Wilkes Booth
- ... with the help of a few people. A conspires maybe, of those on the side of evil who believe that we should have slavery today. The KKK who are racists might look back on the day of the death of Lincoln. So do you think this was morale right think on the side of booth North and South back then.
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