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- 1201: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... His little sister comes to mind, and he can t stop thinking of her. He badly wants to see her, but it is too soon to come home. Finally, he decides to go to his house and meet with her. They have a long conversation and he explains to her how he has been kicked out of school again. His parents, who were at an opera, come home. Holden has to sneak out of the house. He is now broke and has no place to stay. He calls up one of his old English teachers and asks him if he can stay at his apartment. The teacher says yes, and Holden goes over to his house. That night, while sleeping, Holden feels someone touching him. His teacher was trying to put a move on him. Holden immediately runs out of the house, and goes to the train station, where he ...
- 1202: Gatsby's Dream
- ... bring that dream to fruition. Through Gatsby, Fitzgerald brings together both these ideas. Jay Gatsby thinks money is the answer to anything he encounters. He has the best of everything. The fanciest car, the largest house, and the finest clothes. Jay has everything except the object he most desires, Daisy. Gatsby believes he can win Daisy over with wealth, that he could achieve the ideal she stood for through his material ... were created by money. These shirts contribute towards Gatsby's vision of the American dream, that his money and belongings will create happiness for him. Another major object of Gatsby's dream was his incredible house. Jay states to Nick and Daisy, My house looks well, doesn't it? See how the whole front of it catches the light (95). Jay gave Nick and Daisy the grand tour of his house showing of all of his worldly possessions. ...
- 1203: Personal Writing: The Day of Surprise
- ... Although he tried to hide his fear, I knew he was afraid when my father would go on a rampage. An hour passed by and my brother and I decided to go back inside. The house was still. A pin could have dropped and we would of heard it. My father had gone to lay down in his bed. This action was suggested by the marriage counselor that my parents had ... to school. My brother put the car in neutral and coasted out of our driveway and down the hill. At the bottom of the hill he turned the ignition and drove to a friend's house to stay for the evening. My mother called my father from there. I was down in the basement with the two children of the family, talking to them. I mentioned that my parents might get ... we were going home so to get dressed. We arrived home shortly. As we drove into the driveway I noticed all of the curtains were shut. We opened the door and stepped into the dark house. I looked around for my father but he wasn't there. I had learned that my father went to stay with a coworker. Where did Valentines Day go? Had I missed it? The whole ...
- 1204: Araby A Modernist Perspective
- ... and from this state the boy is introduced to Joyce's version of reality that has been lurking before his eyes his entire life. Through hours spent at play on North Richmond Street outside his house our narrator is conditioned into a blissful state, and a hidden crush on his friend's sister extends this bliss into ecstasy. Our narrator begins by describing the setting in which he lives. In order ... describes the neighborhood in which he resides. The houses on each side of the street faced each other with "brown imperturbable faces."(21) At the "blind end" of the street, stood an inhabited, two-story house. Joyce sets up the setting perfectly to run parallel with his subtextual meaning. The houses that face each other have warm facades "conscious of decent lives within them."(21) The "brown imperturbable faces" and consciousness ... the theory modernist writers' hold that the more we realize about our environments and ourselves, the more pessimistic and 'realistic' we become. The "blind end"(21), where the street ends, stands the inhabited two-story house. Modernists also emphasize the emptiness we find in reality. Using the vacant house at the end of the narrator's street and the dark pathway he finds himself facing at the end of the ...
- 1205: The Constituion
- ... government. Nearly every colony had a government with elected representatives in a legislature, which usually made laws largely without interference from Parliament or the king. Jamestown, the earliest of the colonies, had an assembly, the House of Burgesses, which was elected by the property owners of the colony. Maryland developed a system of government much like Britains, with a representative assembly, the House of Delegates, and the governor sharing power. The Puritan colony in Massachusetts originally had a government similar to a corporate board of directors with the first eight stockholders, called "freemen" holding power. Later, the definition ... First, the Constitution specifies a federal system of government, which gives each individual state the right to a government. Second, it specifies that each state shall be represented in both houses of Congress. The lower house, the House of Representative, furthermore, is to be directly elected by the people. If the Bill of Rights is considered, the religious aspect of the tradition becomes apparent. The First Amendment states, "Congress may ...
- 1206: Yellow Wallpaper 5
- ... times. The main character had absolutely no freedom, for her husband would let nothing happen unless he was there to supervise. An example of this treatment is when she wanted to get out of the house and visit some cousins, but John insisted she really did not want to go. Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest reasonable ... must say what I feel it is such a relief! , this woman is actually wanting independence even if she must defy her husband. The main s character oppression is due to her husband, but the house and specifically the room she stayed in helped her realize who she really was, and helped her find the freedom she looked for. The yellow wallpaper which covered the room disturbed her greatly. At the ... revolting, Dull I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long. Through this the woman expresses her feelings towards the room, but specifically the wallpaper. Throughout her stay at the house and as the oppression sets in even greater, she begins to see patterns in the wallpaper. The woman is engrossed in finding what this pattern is all about, what meaning it holds. She states: ...
- 1207: Chief Seattle
- ... relations with the local whites that had been established by his father. Seattle learned early in his life that peace was preferable to war. Seattle moved to Port Madison Reservation and lived in Old Man House, just across from Bainbridge Island; "This was a community house measuring some 60' x 900' feet easily the largest Indian made wooden structure in the region". (4) When settlers first came to America they were meet by Indians. Once the settlers were able to make ... Chief Seattle spent the last years of his life at the Fort Madison Reservation and Agate Point on Bainbridge Island where he died on June 7, 1866 from fever or ague, at the Old Man House in Port Madison. "By his deathbed were his family and his best "Boston" friend, George A. Meigs, owner of the Port Madison lumber mill". (1) He was buried in the Suquamish Indian cemetery near ...
- 1208: The Indians of The Pacific Northwest
- ... relations with the local whites that had been established by his father. Seattle learned early in his life that peace was preferable to war. Seattle moved to Port Madison Reservation and lived in Old Man House, just across from Bainbridge Island; "This was a community house measuring some 60' x 900' feet easily the largest Indian made wooden structure in the region". (4) When settlers first came to America they were meet by Indians. Once the settlers were able to make ... Chief Seattle spent the last years of his life at the Fort Madison Reservation and Agate Point on Bainbridge Island where he died on June 7, 1866 from fever or ague, at the Old Man House in Port Madison. "By his deathbed were his family and his best "Boston" friend, George A. Meigs, owner of the Port Madison lumber mill". (1) He was buried in the Suquamish Indian cemetery near ...
- 1209: Rituals
- ... morning of the 24th my grandpa calls at 7:00 in the morning. He is worried about the little stuff like sodas and snacks. He worries because the gathering is going to be at his house and it is his nature to worry about the little things. My uncle has the turkey cooked the day before, for what reason I have absolutely no idea, and has all the so called specialty ... done worrying and everything finally set up it is about 5:30 at night. Around this time our family gets pumped for another one of our shindigs. We all load up and head to his house and just sit down and watch television. About and hour later my aunt shows up. She is always late and her time is an hour difference from the regular time. She brings all her kids ... parents and my aunt stay for a while just helping clean up and talk amongst themselves. I have participated in this ritual as long as I can remember. It used to be held at our house but a couple of years ago it somehow got transferred to my grandpas. The next generation of our family will definitely go to this get-togethers. It may be held at my house ...
- 1210: Christmas Day
- ... for all but; it was not a joyous time for the family. Two days before Christmas on December 23, 1988, my parents were fighting about everything. They were yelling, screaming and cursing all through the house. As usual, I ran to my room to hide from the noise and that is where I cried all alone. No one was around to tell me what was going on although I was eleven ... a huge pain from deep within my heart. There was nothing to fear and nothing was going wrong so I spent a lot of time in my mother's arms. After a while at the house my father had to call work to see how everything was going. He was on the telephone for a while but that always happened during family occasions. As the day ended we packed up our ... for home. It was a great feeling to be loved on this day by all and I thanked everybody a million times for all the wonderful gifts that I received. As I walked into the house I wished everybody a goodnight and then I went on my way to a night of rest. Then not all of the sudden something shattered that sparked the war that would ever end. My ...
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