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- 1171: One Messy Situation (book Thei
- ... mean it just sort of happened? Why did you lie to your husband about where you were going tonight, and why did my boyfriend lie to me about arons? Janie screamed. Sam went inside the house to call Teacake over. When Teacake got there he knew it was a messy situation. Why d you do it, why? screamed Janie. Ah been hear uh long time listenin to dat heifer run me ... me how good of a friend he is to you. A friend, and that s it you cheating scum yelled Janie. Y all really playin de dozens tunight said Sam. Janie walked back to her house to get away from the whole thing, while Teacake did not know what to do or say. Phoeby was kicked out of the house by her husband for the night. The next day Sam called a lawyer and got the legal papers for the divorce. He signed all of them and then gave them to Phoeby to sign. ...
- 1172: Gatsby Essay For Rocco's Fat Ass.
- ... is, but they do know that something envelops and preys on him. The reader is further made uncertain about Gatsby when the narrator, who they now knows is Nick Carraway, is invited over Gatsby’s house for one of his huge house parties, (Gatsby 45). At this party he hears people speculate about Gatsby. He hears that Gatsby might have been a spy for the Germans in World War One and also hears that Gatsby might have ... level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring at the morning “Tribune” and waiting for the four o’clock train” (Gatsby 42). Then the start of chapter three begins with, “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights”, (Gatsby 43). The story goes from Nick at a train station to hearing music at his house. There is never any explanation of how Nick got home or anything that ...
- 1173: Dubliners
- ... end of the 18th century, a distinct Irish nationalism began to evolve. From 1801 onwards, Ireland had no Parliament of it's own. It was ruled by the Parliament in Britain which consisted of the House of Commons and House of Lords. Meanwhile, in the 1840's, a small group formed out of the Young Ireland movement. The leader, Thomas Davis, expressed a concept of nationality embracing all who lived in Ireland regardless of creed ... Evelyn" and "A Painful Case." In the latter, Mr. James Duffy, despite his dislike of the "modern an pretentious" Dublin, decides to stay at least in the suburbs and commute back and forth to his house. Also in the story of "Eveline", we see her refusing to leave with her fiancé because of her ties to her home and her city. She couldn't leave; she couldn't abandon it. ...
- 1174: Home Burial
- ... way of dealing with their grief, and go on with their lives. This the young mother cannot do. The baby is buried in the family graveyard, which is visible from an upstairs window of their house. Day after day she goes to the stairway window looking out upon the nearby family plot. The sight of the raw mound where her child lies buried reopens her grief. But, another emotion wells up ... going through an extremely difficult time emotionally and she needs support and compassion, which she does not feel she is getting from her husband. Hazelwood 3 Twice during the poem she starts to leave the house, and twice the husband delays her, by asking her not to " Amy! Don’t go to someone else this time. / Don’t carry it to someone else this time. (39 and 57). At first the ... the mother’s anguish is felt in that naked image (Garnett). He was digging his child grave in as sprightly manner as if he were planting a tree, Hazelwood 4 and then returned to the house with what seemed to the mother an offhanded remark about the effects of damp on birch trees. But let’s look specifically at what he did say, for in those lines lies the whole ...
- 1175: Democracy
- ... General School Act of 1647 was the origin of modern education laws and the Maryland Toleration Act was the basis for freedom of religion. These, however, were not the first step towards democracy. The Virginia House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact, New England town meetings, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were all early stepping-stones toward a truly democratic government. The early governing bodies in the colonies such as the House of Burgesses were all based on a written constitution. The Virginia House of Burgesses, established in 1619, was the first representative assembly in Colonial America, and was established with permission from the Virginia Company. The Mayflower Compact was the constitution for the Massachusetts Bay colony. It ...
- 1176: Thomas Jefferson
- ... in these days. Ere long, the mutterings of the coming Revolution drew Jefferson aside into the service of his country. At the age of twenty-six (May 11, 1769), he took his seat in the House of Burgesses, of which Washington was a member. On the threshold of his public career, he made the resolution which was not once violated during his life, "never to engage, while in public office, in ... might well hesitate whom to choose, and more than one was hopeful of winning the prize. It so happened that one evening, two of the gentlemen called at the same time at her father's house. They were friends, and were about to pass from the hall into the drawing-room, when they paused at the sound of music. Some one was playing a violin with exquisite skill, accompanied by the ... R. Livingston. It was by their request that he prepared the document (see fac-simile, page 49,) done on the second floor of a small building, on the corner of Market and Seventh Streets. The house and the little desk, constructed by Jefferson himself, are carefully preserved. The paper was warmly debated and revised in congress on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of July, 1776. The weather was oppressively hot, ...
- 1177: Alcatraz Island (The Prison)
- ... plain cruel? Located on a twenty-two acre island in San Francisco Bay, about a half mile off shore (National Geographic), Alcatraz was built out of an old military fort. It consisted of a cell house, the old fort, work buildings, a lighthouse, and a mess hall. Some considered Alcatraz escape proof. A cyclone fence topped with barbed wire surrounded the entire structure. The cell house was three stories of reinforced concrete. Elevated gun galleries were built at each end of the cell house. Inmates were monitored constantly by guards on a central walkway surrounded by bars. All doors on the island were electronically operated and were designed to slam and let the inmate know the guards were ...
- 1178: Ethan Frome
- ... its cold winters and its bleakness. The whole community is lifeless and stark, this is not a town for anyone to prosper in. The snow had ceased, and a flash of watery sunlight exposed the house on the slope above us in a plaintive ugliness. The black wraith of a deciduous creeper flapped form the porch, and the thin wooden walls, under their worn coats of paint, seemed to shiver in ... Starkfield, so to was poor old Ethan. Ethan’s home has suffered the loss of it "L": "the long deep-roofed adjunct usually built next to the main home, connecting it, through storerooms and tool-house" (11). Ethan removed this portion of his home in order to make his life easier or better yet as a type of symbolism. Consider, the "L" of ones home "presents of a link with the ... Winter is a season that can be lonely, bitter, and bleak and Zeena represents this to the fullest. It all started when young Ethan’s mother became sick and he needed some help around the house, not only for his mother but for himself as well. The house was to quiet and this was driving him insane. Soon after Ethan’s mother death he married Zeena, out of fear of ...
- 1179: Personal Essay: Look Before You Leap
- Personal Essay: Look Before You Leap One bright Easter day about four years ago, my family had gone to my grandparents' house to celebrate Easter like we usually do each year. We talked, ate, and had fun. Little did we know when we drove up to the house that, by the end of the day, we would be in a hospital emergency room. It all started when my cousin suggested that we have a water fight. We had water guns and "water Easter ... eggs filled with water that would come open when you hit someone. My cousin Ryan and I were on one team and my cousins Philip and Lance were on another team. We played outside the house and also on a deck extending from the second floor of my grandparent's house. For about thirty minutes we played and got a little wet but nobody had been hurt. At one point ...
- 1180: The Great Gatsby
- ... borrowed. The fantasy world that Fitzgerald gives Jay Gatsby also concludes with parties that are practically like movie-like productions. These parties are so fantastic that they last from Friday nights to Monday mornings. His house and garden is decorated with thousands of colored lights, “enough to make a Christmas tree of his enormous garden.” (39) “Buffet tables are garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads ... of wonder.” (112) He devotes his life to trying to get Daisy back into his life by first becoming rich and then by getting her attention with his possessions and parties. He even builds his house directly across the bay and facing the Buchanan’s house. Gatsby is also likened to a chivalric knight. His outrageous car may be paralleled to a great white horse of a knight. His quest for Daisy is identical to the quest of medieval knights ...
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