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- 2151: Frank McCourt
- ... I also noticed frequent use of imagery. Frank describes his eyes when they are infected with red and yellow oozing out of them. Vivid images are also used to describe the putrid smells in their house next to the lavatory that was used by the entire street to empty their chamber pots. McCourt also chooses to write very often in the diction of the old Irish language. This word choice adds ... into Ireland. The book is also packed with humor. For instance, when the boys were playing outside, McCourt said that the women stand because all they do is take care of the children, clean the house, and cook but the men sit because the spend their time discussing the problems of the world and wondering what to do with the rest of the day(107). This is a humorous, almost satirical ...
- 2152: The Great Gatsby 11
- ... reunion of Daisy and Gatsby within his own home. He was aware of the sin, but he did not actually come forward with his opinion on the matter. Daisy would often go to Gatsby s house in the afternoons, and still Nick would remain tolerant of the immoral acts performed by his cousin. Towards the end of the novel as things became more involved Nick realized the error of his ways ... admitted to his own disloyalty, Nick made a decision to be moralistic. When Tom, Nick, and Jordan had arrived back at Tom and Daisy s home, Nick parted ways. When he drove away from the house, he spotted Gatsby. Who had decided to watch over things, and make sure Daisy would be alright that evening. Instead of trying to help Gatsby in any way, Nick drove home, and stayed out of ...
- 2153: The Black Cat
- ... neglect his dearly beloved cat and his wife. One day when he is maddened by the actions of the cat, he cuts out its eye and later kills the cat by hanging it. After his house burns down and he has lost all he owned he finds a new cat resembling all to well the first. One day while working with his wife in the cellar he is nearly tripped down ... the narrators decent into the murky regions of alcoholism, self-deception, and violence. A further place foreshadowing is used is when the appearance of a hung cat is left on the remaining wall after the house has been burnt. This hints that he will forever be haunted by how he killed Pluto. The gallows on the breast of the second cat also play a part in foreshadowing because they implicate to ...
- 2154: Benjamin Franklin Was A Man of Many Accomplishments
- ... the toy shop but on the way met a boy blowing a whistle. Charmed by the sound, he gave the boy all his money for it. Coming home, he whistled piercingly all over the small house, annoying his family. When he told them of the bargain he had made, they teased him for paying four times of what the silly whistle was worth. He realized how many good things he could ... between 1739-1740 (Meltzer 115). His next invention was the Damper which is a metal plate that plugged the hole in the chimney. With the hole closed it kept the cold air out of the house. It let the smoke out and it kept the draft out (Meltzer 116). He developed a candle made of whale oil. The light of the candle was whiter and it did not make spots on ...
- 2155: Silent Cal: An American President
- Silent Cal: An American President Fun Fact: Calvin Coolidge, a president of few words, was so famous for saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get the president to say more than two words. She told the president of her wager. His reply: "You lose." At 2:30 on the morning of ... winds them up for twenty minutes more." But no President was kinder in permitting himself to be photographed in Indian war bonnets or cowboy dress, and in greeting a variety of delegations to the White House. Both his dry Yankee wit and his frugality with words became legendary. His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had ...
- 2156: Traditional Ideologies
- ... In this text many characters are seen to have somewhat different roles in the family that one would expect. Lester Lamb is an excellent example of this. The traditional role of the man in the house is to go out and work hard for his money and come home to a wife who would support him and look after the house and the kids. However, Lester is portrayed as a sensitive man who cooks and cleans regularly aswell as helps with many of the household chores. He also seems to have no quarrel with his wife ...
- 2157: Jimmy Carter: The 39th President of the United States
- ... World Book 235). III. The election campaign was a very unique campaign in 1976. The main issues were the national economy, the personalities of the two candidates, and the desirablility of change in the White House. In three televised debates, Carter appeared to most observers to be at least as " presidential" as the incumbent, Gerald Ford. During the election, Jimmy was the unknown canidate, and the phrase that was popular in ... a ruling factor in Washington D.C. Jimmy's small town life, and his success and ideas that developed Plains, Georgia, helped get him into the governor's mansion in Georgia, and into the White House. When his father died, he went back to the farm to help out. The first investment he made was buying a peanut sheller. He had remembered what it was like picking the peanuts by hand ...
- 2158: The Life and Work of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... unstable. Yet with this condition of the character and with the same condition associated with the author, this reflects the alcoholic temperament. Another detail of retrospect can be noted in Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher". The idea of incest is insinuated here. The character Roderick Usher has taken his sister for his wife. Poe has not married his sister but his cousin however the subject of incest still ... Broadway Journal, of which he became sole owner, but that failed too in 1846. These failures can be reflected uponin the character of Poe's antagonists. "The Cask of Amontillado", "Hop Frog", "Fall of the House of Usher", and "William Wilson: A Tale" each deal with some kind failure or loss or death. Such as how Poe lived. Being that these failures were negative, it would seem right for the antagonist ...
- 2159: The Life of Booker T. Washington
- ... Booker T. Washington has put in his life he became a very famous speaker on educational subjects. Booker T. Washington became a very famous speaker he had been invited to eat dinner in the White House with President Theodore Roosevelt. Slowly Booker began to get the respect he deserved. Booker preached that Blacks should accept that they were inferior to whites, he told them that we have to prove to them ... Booker T. Washington has put in his life he became a very famous speaker on educational subjects. Booker T. Washington became a very famous speaker he had been invited to eat dinner in the White House with President Theodore Roosevelt. Slowly Booker began to get the respect he deserved. Booker preached that Blacks should accept that they were inferior to whites, he told them that we have to prove to them ...
- 2160: To Kill A Mockingbird-book Rep
- ... or write. The last black character who embody the characteristics of immortality, dishonesty, shiftlessness and personal squalor is Tom Robison.. Tom is married with children and works hard to support them with a job. His house and yard are well cared for and he attends church. Not only that, but he stops at the Ewell house to help Mayella knowing that he is putting himself in a compromising position. At the trial, while on the stand, he answers questions in a respectable, dignified manner even though he is being accused of ...
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