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- 511: Death of a Salesman: Willy Loman
- ... and he relies on his own lies to numb his pain. The pain of knowing he cannot and wont be able to become Dave Singleman. He is Willy Loman, who is good at fixing the house. He is not cut out for travelling from city to city and selling goods to people he has never met before. Willy dramatically dies living out his dream, the dream that never suited Willy Loman ... their importance. They cannot just be important overnight. This lack of status contributes to his co-workers disrespect. Willy accomplishes less when he works compared to working and staying at home. Willy fixed up his house with great skill and ease. Willy's family appreciates the things Willy does for the house and the family. They share many happy memories of him working on the house. Willy is suited at a job that requires hard labour rather than being a salesman. Biff says in the novel ...
- 512: A New England Nun
- ... placement of the books. Joe transposes the order when he finished looking at them. This annoys her greatly, so she returns the books to their original order as if was compulsive. The order of her house like the structure of her life gave Louisa a sense of security. She becomes nervous if not angry when Joe later knocks over her work basket. The order of her house is so compulsively exact that she feels the need to remove his tracks from the rug. Joe Dagget and Louisa Ellis were engaged for over fourteen years. He went to Australia to make his fortune ... of it. When Joe returned he disturbed her life, just as he disturbed her work basket. Louisa’s dog Caesar was chained up in the yard. He lived a lonely existence with only his dog house and a couple feet of chain in his world. Caesar was a prisoner of his home as Louisa was a prisoner to her’s. The dog became accustomed to solitude and would not know ...
- 513: Great Expectations The Book Ve
- ... her common background of a housekeeper mother and a convict father. Miss Havisham would have Estella and Pip play cards to entertain her and would often make comments about how pretty Estella was. In Satis House, the name of Miss Havisham's home, Pip met Mr. Jaggers. He was a pale young lawyer that was a gentleman, unlike Pip, and was one of Miss Havisham's many connections. At about the ... London with Mr. Matthew Pocket, a relative of Miss Havisham. While there he became a very close friend to Matthew's son, Herbert, who was the pale young gentleman that he fought back at Satis House and also resided with Pip at Barnard's Inn. While Pip was in London, Mrs. Joe died and Pip began to neglect Joe and Biddy. Even when he went to Mrs. Joe's funeral he ... s for gas.” (Dickens) When Fin went looking through the massive overgrown vegetation, Nora saw him through the window and called his sister Maggaie asking if it would be alright to send Fin to her house on Saturday to play with her niece. Maggie took in account the fact that Nora was the wealthiest person in the Gulf and agreed to let Fin play with Estella. The eccentric woman expected ...
- 514: Famous African Americans
- ... the women's rights movement in 1850, she also added its causes to hers. During the American Civil War she solicited gifts for black volunteer regiments, and President Abraham Lincoln received her in the White House in 1864; she later advocated a "Negro State" in the West. Sojourner Truth continued to stump the country on speaking tours until 1875. An illiterate all her life, she was nevertheless an effective speaker and ... black woman to win a seat in the Texas Senate. She authored the state's first successful minimum-wage bill and pushed for civil rights legislation. In 1972 Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She took a seat on the Judiciary Committee, where she earned national attention for her eloquent speech in favor of impeaching President Richard M. Nixon (1969-74) during the Watergate affair. She also delivered the keynote address at the 1976 Democratic Convention. In 1978 Jordan left the House to teach public policy at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1982 she was awarded the university's Lyndon B. Johnson chair of National Policy. During the 1992 Democratic Convention, Jordan earned praise ...
- 515: Creative Writing: The Crash
- ... a nightmare of a morning. After Jesse took off his grandmother sat there on the couch, clutching the work shirt of her dead son crying, "Oh Edward, Oh Edward." The cries echoed through the empty house as the grandmother sat there in tears. "How could this have happened?" Thought Jesse to himself, "he was just in Green Bay and now he's dead. Who did this? They will get theirs." The ... funeral. Jesse's plan sounds so simple and fool proof that even a child could pull this off. His idea was to wait until about 1 o'clock in the morning and break into his house and deal with him in an inhumane manner. All through his life Jesse had a fascination with torture. So for this situation he would bring out the art of Chinese torture. Chinese torture is when ... on the body, and the person bleeds to death in enormous pain. Time passes by and it is about the hour of 12 o'clock, Jesse begins to make his way to the murder's house, and thoughts of his dad go racing through his mind. On the way there he breaks down into a tremendous sob. He gets very short of breath and his face is soaking wet from ...
- 516: The Great Gatsby Ending
- ... of literature. Since the ending is the last thing a reader remembers, a good ending is essential to unify and summarize the themes of the novel for a greater impact on the reader. "Gatsby's house was still empty when I left - the grass on his lawn had grown as long as mine. One of the taxi drivers in the village never took a fare past the entrance gate without stopping ... I didn't want to hear it and I avoided him when I got off the train." This entire paragraph signifies the grave change that has occurred in Nick's life. Just as Gatsby's house is empty, so is Gatsby's dream unfulfilled. Gatsby's vision of the American dream destroyed him and left no remnants behind. The grass is symbolic of their belief in the American dream. During Gatsby ... as they were dead in that though Gatsby could no longer care for either one during his death, there would always be someone else to carry on the dream, and a new resident in the house to cut the grass. "I spent my Saturday nights in New York because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter ...
- 517: Pride And Prejudice
- ... be a visitor, it’s his cousin Mr. Collins who they have never seen. He is Mr. Bennet’s only inheritor. Mrs. Bennet is upset, he can through he and the girls out of the house as soon as Mr. Bennet is dead. Mr. Bennet reads the letter outloud. Mr. William Collins writes that Mr. Bennet and his father had a very bad relationship and that now, as his father passed ... white. They greet and than Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy leave. The two eldest noticed the hostile manners and they wonder what going on between them. The girls and the two man walk to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Philip, there uncle and aunt. Mr. Collins got introduced. Kitty and Lydia talked about Mr. Wickham and their aunt promised them that Mr. Philip would ask around about him. On their ... fails. That evening she asks a maid whether Darcy is at Pemberley and gets a no as answer. At least she won’t meet Darcy there. [Chapter 43] Pemberley is a very large property. Pemberley House itself is a large, beautiful, stone building, around it a huge park. Elizabeth adores the place. It contains everything one needs and nothing one doesn’t need. Lizzy would almost regret not being Darcy’ ...
- 518: Sci/fi Sort Story
- ... of America) was served his coffee and a newspaper. Parker noticed that on the front page dozens of pictures of UFO’s were shown. Immediately the phone rang and he was called into the White House. As the Minister of Defence was guiding Parker to a helicopter, he mentioned that the presidents of England, Russia, France and China were reported with a serious virus. He also mentioned that they had been acting very strange. When Parker finally arrived at the White House, he noticed that something was wrong. Nearly all the politicians were fighting in a child like manner. The Secretary of State was strangling the Vice President over a seat. The White House was in complete ciaos and in result Parker told the Minister of Defence to call security and to organise a meeting with all negotiating American politicians. The Meeting took place several hours later and ...
- 519: The Writing of the Constitution
- ... of individual life, liberty and property. Following the election of George Washington as president of the convention, Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia presented a draft of a new constitution .The Virginia Plan proposed a two house legislature. A lower house directly elected by the people of the states based on the population , and an upper house elected by the lower house.The congress was to have broad legislative power ,with veto over laws passed by state legislatures . The President and cabinet would be elected by legislature. The national judiciary would ...
- 520: The Crucible
- ... Indeed, the State Department proceeded to hound and fire the officers who knew China, its language, and its opaque culture--a move that suggested the practitioners of sympathetic magic who wring the neck of a doll in order to make a distant enemy's head drop off. There was magic all around; the politics of alien conspiracy soon dominated political discourse and bid fair to wipe out any other issue. How ... the Democrats. But such was the gathering power of raw belief in the great Soviet plot that Truman soon felt it necessary to institute loyalty boards of his own. The Red hunt, led by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and by McCarthy, was becoming the dominating fixation of the American psyche. It reached Hollywood when the studios, after first resisting, agreed to submit artists' names to the House Committee for "clearing" before employing them. This unleashed a veritable holy terror among actors, directors, and others, from Party members to those who had had the merest brush with a front organization. The Soviet ...
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