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- 1281: The Mill on the Floss: Summary
- ... Pullet, Mrs. Deane and Maggie's cousin Lucy. Mr. Tulliver states his intention to send Tom to school and it is met with opposition. In the eighth chapter he goes to his brother-in-laws house to demand the money that he owes him so that he can pay his wife's sister Mrs. Glegg. In chapter nine you read about the Tullivers going to visit the Pullets. In the tenth ... for her years but lacks Tom's self command. Mrs. Tullivers uncontentment in this empty life is less painful to Maggie than her father's sullenness. In the third chapter Bob Jakin comes to the house and brings books for Maggie. One is by Thomas a Kempis, this book leads her to a new inner life . Book Five: Chapters 1-7 In the first chapter Maggie who is now seventeen years ... he can if she will have him. In the ninth chapter Maggie helps Lucy in a booth selling large, plain articles. Mr. Wakem comes and speaks to Maggie amiably. Maggie goes to aunt Moss's house and has told Lucy that she will speak to Tom about marrying Philip, but she is still in love with Stephen. In chapter ten Stephen kisses Maggie and she sends him away. She tells ...
- 1282: Jailhouse Rock: The Story of Elvis Aaron Presley
- ... Life On January 8, 1935 at 4:35 a.m., a little boy by the name of Elvis Aaron Presley was born to parents Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love Presley in a two-room house located in Tupelo, Mississippi. Little did anyone know that this little boy would forever change the world of music and entertainment. Although this was a happy occasion for both of them, it was also a ... famous GI haircut at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. The draft leads him to Fort Hood, Texas where he goes through basic training. He is stationed there for six months, and his parents moved to a temporary house near the base as soon as they could. After a couple of years, Elvis gets promoted to Sergeant before he leaves West Germany for good. On March 5, 1960, he is officially discharged from active ... lived on. III. Impact on History Elvis wasn't just a musician; he starred in 33 successful films including "Love Me Tender," "King Creole" (playing the role James Dean was slated to play), and "Jail House Rock". Some later movies included "GI Blues," "Fun In Acapulco," and others that were considered uninspired and repetitious. Globally, Elvis has sold over one billion records; more than any other artist. His American sales ...
- 1283: The Awakening: Casting Shadows
- ... the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. In the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin the main Character Edna has the “perfect life”. The sweet loving husband, the cute children, enormous amounts of money and an extremely large house. Yet with all of this Edna is partially happy, but is not fulfilled. Since having a rushed marriage to spite her parents Edna never took time to examine her life to see what she wanted ... was caged and he was screaming to leave. The same is true of Edna's heart. It was screaming for freedom and independence in her monotonous life. This resulted in her moving into the “pigeon house” that she purchased, which was a small house she bought around the corner from the Pontellier's mansion. There Edna displayed her independence by her lack of acceptance of the things that Leonce had bought for her and proved to everyone including ...
- 1284: Character Analysis Of The Gran
- ... like to arrive at a motel with a cat." She decides that she would like to visit an old plantation and begins her pursuit of convincing Bailey to agree to it. She describes the old house for the children adding mysterious details to pique their curiosity. "There was a secret panel in this house," she states craftily knowing it is a lie, and not really wanting to, but she is determined to see the house. The grandmother always stretches the truth as much as possible. She not only lies to her family, but to herself as well. The grandmother doesn't live in the present, but in the past. ...
- 1285: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Conflicting Desires within a Doctrine
- ... Eileen Vance was the little girl that Stephen wanted to marry when he was younger. She is described to have ivory hands and golden hair, which confuses Stephen with the phrases, "Tower of Ivory" and "House of Gold" which is part of the Roman Catholic Litany of Our Lady. Later when Stephen is at school, he again thinks about Eileen. Stephen gets his first sensual experience from Eileen when she puts her hand into his pocket and touches his hand. Stephen gets quite confused with the terms of the Litany of Our Lady so he starts to associate the "Tower of Ivory" and "House of Gold" to Eileen. The way James Joyce describes the scene, "She had put her hand into his pocket where his hand was and he had felt how cool and thin and soft her hand ... Catholic. Stephen also associates women with the Virgin Mary, who was the mother of Jesus Christ. He thinks women as pure, just as Mary was and since he already associated the "Tower of Ivory" and "House of Gold" with Eileen, he assumes her to be like the Virgin. Another influence of women in Stephen's life comes from the story "The Count of Monte Cristo" while reading this story, Stephen ...
- 1286: Isolation And The Individual I
- ... When Huck stumbles upon the Grangerford family under the assumed name George Jackson, he is exposed to a higher level of society than he has ever seen. Upon first meeting the Grangerfords and seeing their house, Huck states: “It was a might nice family, and a might nice house, too. I hadn’t seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style” (Twain 120). The family is well mannered and civilized, the father, Col Grangerford a gentleman and kind. Huck is given ...
- 1287: The Pearl: A Review
- ... the pearl but the prices he gets offered, he feels, are to low. That night he gets attacked several more times and ends up killing a man. The family is forced to flee after their house is burned down and their floor is dug up. They cover their tracks very well but Kino notices a trio of trackers following them. The family tries to outrun the trackers but they cannot escape ... of the poison out and it looked like he was going to survive. However, they weren't totally sure and wished to seek the reassurance of a doctor. When they went to the doctor's house, they were turned away, the obvious reason was because they had no money, although it was not the reason given. They decided they needed money, so Kino went diving for pearls. When he found this ... gods and against his morals because, once a plan is made, it can never be broken. This left only his family and his mind to be destroyed in efforts to reach his plan. After his house is burned down, he begins to believe he is only the pearl, for it has destroyed everything else. Without the pearl, probably none of this would have every happened and, most likely, Coyotito would ...
- 1288: Angel Island
- ... keeping the distinct groups separated and against each other, the capitalists are able to keep the work wages to a minimum. Profits were maintained and work continued without complaint. Labor unions, farmers, merchants, lumbermen, and house wives all opposed Oriental immigration. Advocates of Chinese labor argued that Chinese workers reduced the production costs, and as a result there would be lower prices, which was equivalent to an increase in salary for ... rent for Asians were often very high. To get a lease, they would offer a very high rent that no landlord could refuse. Once they had a space rented out, the Orientals would pack the house with tenants and space is improvised to make more room. The bath tub goes to the backyard, the bathroom becomes a bedroom, the shoe repair shop goes into the basement, the laundry in the rear end, and a sign for house cleaners goes in one of the front windows. Next door neighbors who are white, get tired of their Oriental counterparts and move out. Once the district is free of white families, the Asians can ...
- 1289: J. Edgar Hoover
- ... did get the his name in the headlines, Hoover put that agent on his enemy list. The book does have two glossy inserts. The first one is categorized the early years. It shows his first house and his family. After turning the page, it goes straight into Hoover’s career. They are pictures of the Justice Building, Hoover’s mentor, and Hoover, himself, working. The next couple of pages are of ... Tolson. He was the assistant director and Hoover’s best friend. He was the one that found Hoover’s body in the bedroom on that May day. The next couple of pages show Hoover’s house. After his house, the pictures shown are of Hoover’s enemies. He had many. The book also contains source notes. The author also has put a bibliography and index in the book. Gentry must have researched the ...
- 1290: O.J. Simpson: Guilty
- ... caused worldwide media excitement. There was so much evidence against him, it seemed almost impossible for him to be that he'd be found innocent. For example, the famous bloody glove found behind the guest house was proven by DNA testing to have O.J.'s blood and hair, Nicole's blood and hair, and Ron's blood and hair. DNA testing is 99.9 percent accurate. Fibers were also found ... which matched O.J.'s shoes, blood on O.J.'s Bronco door, on the console, on the interior side of the door, a bloody footprint in the Bronco, bloody socks in O.J.'s house, O.J.'s injured finger, blood found at Nicole's condo that matched O.J.'s, and so on(Posner,64). The defense claimed that the evidence had been planted. On June 30th, Allen Wattenberg ... June 12, O.J.'s limo driver arrived to drive O.J. to the airport and saw a black man, with the same build as O.J. sprinting across the lawn towards O.J.'s house. Yet when O.J. answered the door, he said he'd been napping(Biema, 56). O.J. also acted guilty: he wrote a suicide note, and led police on a chase through L.A. ...
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