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- 2911: Book Report A Voyager Out
- ... of the time and therefore Mary had to take care of her and the household chores. While her father was off on one of his many voyages, Mary Bailey had the front windows of the house bricked closed. The house was kept dark and stuffy. Growing up like this made a normal childhood almost impossible for Mary Kingsley. Part of her mother s illnesses came from constant worry about George. He went on many trips ...
- 2912: The Body
- The Body In Castel Rock Maine, There were four boys Vern Tesio, Gordie La Chance, Chris , and Teddy Duchamp. They have a tree house in a abandon parking lot where they play cards and hang out. Vern comes and tells the gang that when he was under his portch looking for his penneys that he had burried when he ... no one could take credit for finding the body. The figured the best way to help the police was by a anonymous call to tell them where the body was. Vern was killed in a house fire in a appartment building in 1966. Teddy went in a car crash. Chris was stabbed in a chicken store. And Gordie is a writer with a family.
- 2913: Saddam, Iraq, And The Gulf War
- ... it. Some people were angry, other relieved. Morning passed into afternoon, and many felt that there would be no Gulf War. But then, at about 7:00 PM, a bulletin came in from the White House that bombing had started at 4:50 that afternoon. The operation had been dubbed Operation Desert Storm. “The liberation of Kuwait has begun.” 6 Desert Storm was the largest air assault in history. Its goal ... With adequate yet deadly accuracy, the missiles found the launch sites, oil refineries, power stations, and other targets. It was now Saddam’s turn to act. After labeling Bush as the “Satan of the White House,”7 he began his attack on January 18, 1991. His attack shocked people around the world. Following through on his promise to strike out against Israel, he ordered a missile attack against the Israelis at ...
- 2914: Harrison Bergeron
- ... effect how that person is thought about and treated. Women were always expected to sit at home, cook, clean, and raise the children, while men were thought to do the more physical work around the house and support the family by earning a living. Women are just now making into the work place and some women now are even running major companies and corporations. Women are even competing on the professional level in sports now, a feat that no one would have ever thought would happen. To add to the point that times have changed, men are raising kids, cleaning house, and cooking in today’s world. In every country, rules are required in order to maintain order. With these handicaps to make everyone equal, it would be impossible for someone with a mental handicap to ...
- 2915: Personal Writing: Getting Out
- Personal Writing: Getting Out Moving to Ankeny proved to be more difficult that I first expected. I had been looking forward to moving out of the house for over four years, and wxpected it to be easy and fun. Moving turned out to be neither easy nor very fun, as I had hoped it would be. I took us four trips to ... and family, but August became very bust. One week I went on vacation to Chicago. Then I had to go fishing for four days with my family. Another weekend I went ot a friend's house, who I met at Boy's State, to see a rodeo. My roommate, Nathan, had a wedding ot attend. Nathan worked from eight'o clock untill five thirty as a hired hand. I worked a ...
- 2916: Nicholas: The Last Tsar
- ... first sight. Nicholas' father, Tsar Alexander III, did not approve of Alexandra, because of the fact that she was the granddaughter of the English Queen. Instead, he suggested that Nicholas marry a princess from the House of Orleans. His decision was basely mainly on politics, as he was striving for an alliance between Russia and France. Alexander's suggestion did not have any effect on Nicholas, as he seemed certain to ... on its way to Moscow and take the family to the Uralite capital of Ekaterinburg.8 In Ekaterinburg, the family was put in a prison in one of the town's largest houses, the Ipatiev House. About two months later, when the Ural capital was surrounded by the Czech Legion and the White Army who were intent on overthrowing the Bolsheviks, a decision about the family had to be made. The ...
- 2917: Great Gatsby
- ... married to Tom Buchannan. He dreams that one day he and Daisy will get together. Gatsby has worked hard to become the man that he believes will impress Daisy. Even though he has an extravagant house, lots of money, and wild parties, he is without the one person he wants, Daisy. Even befriending Nick deals with Gatsby getting Daisy, because Daisy is Nick’s cousin. In a meeting arranged by Nick ... I could have sworn he was trembling...I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light" (26). That light was on the end of Daisy’s dock, which is why he built his house where he did, so he could see Daisy’s. Even Nick knows that for Gatsby to imagine that what he thought he had with Daisy is over is too hard to believe and says: "he ...
- 2918: Up The Ladder
- ... carpenter," said the woman. "I'm building a home to live in." "On a ladder?" asked Chris, astonished. "Sure," replied the carpenter. "See? I'm nearly finished." Chris looked, and sure enough there was a house hanging from the ladder. "Are you climbing to the top of the ladder?" asked the carpenter. "Yes," Chris replied. "Would you like to join me?" "Thank you, but no," said the carpenter. "I'm much too busy building my house." "I'm going to see what's at the top of the ladder," said Chris. "And then I'm coming back down to tell my friend, the blue bird, what's there. Would you like ...
- 2919: Great Gatsby
- ... could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to amass wealth to reach her economic standards. Once he acquires wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (p83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them ... he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon, he meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know…if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (p83)." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. Later, as we see in the Plaza ...
- 2920: Derek
- ... the sidewalk, lit a cigarette, and waited for his bus. III Derek got off the bus two stops early and walked the rest of the way home down the busy street which ran past his house. He did it as a sort of penance for not walking all the way home, and ended up not enjoying it a bit. The street was a major artery for traffic bound for home across ... notice that he had already automatically turned across the front lawn (he never used the cracked and heaving sidewalk) and was making his way up the creaking stairs at the side of the old leaning house where he was renting an apartment on the third floor. He reached into his pocket to pull out his key ring and froze: it wasn't there. His eyes widened. Shit, he thought. He patted ...
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