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- 3501: In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens and Everyday Use: Honoring Heritage
- ... the other. The first idea is from Dee’s point of view. She believes that heritage is something that is physical. When Dee (Wangero) and Hakim-a-barber came to dinner at her mother’s house Dee wanted specific thing that had been in her family for years. She wanted part of the butter churn and the butter dish from her grandmother. She thought that these things were so amazing because ...
- 3502: Huckleberry Finn: Prejudice and Intolerance
- ... s Aunt Sally. One example was when Tom and Huck were collecting wildlife to live in the shack that Jim is being held prisoner in they accidentally let loose some snakes in Aunt Sally's house and Aunt Sally, "…would just lay that work down, and light out." The main reason that Clemens portrays women as less outgoing, is because there are really only four minor women characters in the novel ...
- 3503: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christianity
- ... safe in the (Holy circle). Another time when the Host is used as a deterrence of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to Mina’s forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean. Another abstruction of the Christian religion would be the fact that Dracula sleeps in a ...
- 3504: Animal Farm: Political Satire
- ... gets a stronger and stronger hold over the other animals, dominating their every action. The situation at "Animal Farm", the new name for "Manor Farm", really starts to change now. Napoleon moves into Mr. Jones' house, sleeps in his bed, and even wears his clothes. In order to make his actions appear legal, the law had to be interpreted differently, which Napoleon arranged. In defiance of the original laws, Napoleon befriends ...
- 3505: Prophecy in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
- ... to occur, surely without our even noticing. Children are no longer a priority for today's young adults, who tend to be more orientated towards career objectives. Having four or five children running around the house tends to be associated with high-strung fathers and depressed mothers. In a sense, Bradbury's analogy about the washing machine is accurate. More and more children are being dropped off at day-care centres ...
- 3506: Great Gatsby
- ... piano player, who lives with Gatsby and doesn¹t go to the funeral but he has the brashness to ask for his tennis shoes back. Other guests of Gatsby are shallow enough to trash his house and not care that they are very drunk. The things that can make people happy such as women and money, can blind them to what is morally right. Within the minds and lives of the ...
- 3507: The Mysterious Stranger: Dependence On Others
- ... had to face and tests the citizens' true nature. Enticed with the thought of a better life, the residents are "as weak as water" and the town's grand reputation goes "to ruin like a house of cards."(241) Everyone wants the money but no one has the right to claim it until the Nineteener's receive a letter containing the remark that will guarantee them the gold. However each letter ...
- 3508: The Chrysanthemums: Elisa Allen Comes to Life
- ... is “dark” and “pretty”(308). Just as Steinbeck gives a physical description on Elisa’s appearance he also reveals her character and personality. Elisa’s industrious nature is symbolized by her “hard swept looking little house, with hand-polished windows and a clean mud mat on the front steps” (305). “Her terrier fingers destroyed” garden “pests before they could get started” (305). This tenacity shows the reader her hardworking disposition(305 ...
- 3509: As I Lay Dying: Anse's Laziness
- ... Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Bloomington/London: Indiana University Press, 1973. Howe, Irving. William Faulkner: A Critical Study. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. William, Faulkner. As I Lay Dying. New York: Random House, 1985.
- 3510: The Webb Story and the Efforts to Rebut It
- ... that he was once sent at CIA expense to two overseas conferences. (The Washington Times [7/31/96] once described Pincus as a journalist "who some in the agency refer to as ‘the CIA’s house reporter.’") Pincus elaborately rebutted a number of allegations that Webb never made, such as "that the CIA helped start and played a major role in promoting the crack plague," or "that the CIA was behind ...
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