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- 6261: Little League Coaches
- ... greatest. After each practice Dad would talk about how he had never seen anyone so eager to learn the game. As the season progressed, Carl was rapidly improving. One day the phone rang at our house. It was Carl. He had to tell my dad that he could no longer play this time because he would have to baby-sit while his mom took care of his father. All that time ...
- 6262: The Simpsons: The History
- ... a power plant. In many other sitcoms, the father works a popular job, such as an accountant, or with a television studio. The Simpson family is not a wealthy family living in a $300,000 house. Many children can relate to this. (Rebeck, 622) In some cases, The Simpsons is educational. Karen Brecze credits Homer Simpson with saving her 8-year-old son, Alex's life. Bence, of Auburn, Washington, says ...
- 6263: Work in the Media
- ... lower class people do, such as hard labor work, or janitorial work, things in that area. For example, the lead character Will Hunting is a lower class white male. He lives in a run down house, and works at Harvard University as a janitor. He wears ragged clothes and does not seem to have very much money. But he seems content with his station in life, he does not whine and ...
- 6264: The Glass Menagerie: Ignoring Problems Of The World
- ... a caller for Laura everywhere that she goes. For Amanda it becomes and obsession. She also is upset that when they finally do get a caller that it has been the first one to the house “It’s a terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller!” (74). Finally when Amanda gets her wish she makes Laura so nervous that she becomes ill. When a ...
- 6265: The Crucible and Similarities to The McCarthy Era
- ... The Crucible. Once such character in the play was that of John Proctor. Miller tried to fight the hunt for communists by not giving McCarthy any names when he was called to testify before a House committee. Proctor tries to stop the witch hunts by attempting to convince the town of Salem that the testimony of the girls, of which one had had an affair with Proctor, could not be believed ...
- 6266: Sankofa: A Movie Review
- ... waiting to experience that joyous flight with Sankofa. The issue of skin color has been an everlasting issue in America. Skin color determined if you were a slave out in the field or in the house. The lighter your skin was the "better" you were, the more privileged you were. This was one of the ways the whites divided African-Americans as a people. Because they were light it was good ...
- 6267: Romeo and Juliet: Love and Their Ends
- ... the potion on herself before the wedding. Romeo was then to come pick up Juliet from the Capulet tomb after receiving the letter. However, the plan fails because the messenger Friar John was placed under house arrest concerning the Plague. Romeo hears of Juliet’s “death” and rides to the tomb. He then kills Paris who was challenging him, unknowing of his identity. After laying Paris in the tomb and poisoning ...
- 6268: Othello: Iago As Satan
- ... like Roderigo. If Roderigo could "Put money in thy purse,"11 only if he could gather all the money he had as well as what he could get if he sold his land and his house, could Iago grant his wish. Roderigo was to follow Desdemona to Cyprus. There his wish would come true because in some way or another Iago, granting wishes, would split up Othello and Desdemona, so that ...
- 6269: Analysis of the Character Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s play, "Death of a Salesman"
- ... was well known and well-liked. The family lie even amongst themselves about their position as is revealed during the climax of the play: BIFF "...We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house!" HAPPY "We always told the truth!" BIFF (turning on him) "You big blow, are you the assistant buyer? You’re one of two assistants to the assistant aren’t you?" Another example is the way ...
- 6270: The Use Of “Nature” in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
- ... go for men; / As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, / Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept / All by the name of dogs: the valued file/ Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, / The house keeper, the hunter, everyone/ according to the gift which bounteous Nature/ Hath in him closed” (3.1.100-106). Surely, Macbeth who has recently been proclaimed king and has enjoyed all the success imaginable does ...
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