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- 751: Essay On By The Pricking Of My
- ... This book starts out by introducing the two main characters who are old detectives named Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their Aunt passes away at a ladies home recently. The Aunt owns a picture of a house that is near a canal that comes very important later in the book. Tommy goes off to a secret convention for old detectives and Tuppence takes off to find the house that is painted in the book. Tuppence comes to a town that is called Sutton Chancellor where she finds the house and a numerous amount of interesting characters. She meets two gossipy old ladies, a child s missing grave, and a caretaker of a church. She finds out a lot of information about the house ...
- 752: Herman Hesses Demian
- ... Demian had told him his version of the story of Cain and Abel. Sinclair also remembers Demian s interest that day in an old coat of arms that hung above the door of Sinclair s house. The emblem is that of a sparrow hawk. Sinclair feels propelled by this memory to paint the old emblem. After several days of painting, he finishes it to find a picture of a sparrow hawk ... to him often, continually gaining in meaning for him. The dream is of the woman who resembles Demian, but she is more feminine, almost motherly. This woman embraces him as he enters his father s house, first passing under the coat of arms which bears the sparrow hawk. The embrace of this woman fills Sinclair with every emotion, whether it is love or hate, sacred or defiled, right or wrong. Too ... me along a path that would transcend and leave even him, the leader, behind. Sinclair finishes boarding school and during his break, before entering university, he returns to his hometown and visits Demian s old house. The old woman that presently lives there is not able to tell Sinclair where the Demian family now resides, but she does show Sinclair an album that contained old pictures of the mother and ...
- 753: Jay Gatsby And Dick Diver
- ... This is illustrated in Chapter five when Daisy is shown around Gatsbys mansion at his request. He shows her every detail, through from the gardens to his shirts and he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Gatsby sees his money and possessions as wonderful things, but they are also more than that, they are a means to an end, the end being Daisy. He bough the house because of where it was in relation to Daisy (across the bay), and he held the most amazing parties in the hope that Daisy, or someone that knew Daisy would come. Gatsby, in effect, devoted ... seen by their peers as luck men living an ideal life as socialites, entertaining people endlessly, blessed with great fortunes (lucky Dick, you big stiff). What more could they wish for? They lived in big house, socialise and provide for others, and appear to enjoy their lives, but do they? Their idealised lives seem, to them, vacant and directionless, a never-ending stream of parties and faces. For Gatsby, his ...
- 754: Cuban Missle Crisis
- ... Later that evening, while a dinner was being held in Gromykos honor, EX-COMM had an important meeting. During the meeting, a majority opinion had been reached on recommending a blockade to the White House. At the White House, Kennedy liked the idea of a blockade, but couldnt decide between it or an air strike. Kennedy met again with EX-COMM on October 20 to discuss his decision. He liked the idea of ... ever in US history. The notification, sent around the world, was purposefully left uncoded so the Soviets would know just how serious the Americans were. Khrushchev responded to this with another letter to the White House. It accused the President of "advancing an ultimatum and threatening that if we do not give in to your demands you will use force....Therefore the Soviet Government cannot instruct the captains of the ...
- 755: Water
- ... for cooking, bathing or showering, cleaning dishes, clothes, and cars, watering plants and lawns, drinking, and the all-important toilet. One person uses an average of 50 gallons of water a day just in the house. First, cooking. Most foods need to be prepared, and most of that uses water. Think of boiling things, all the recipes that call for water, making rice, potatoes, muffins, cake, almost every food uses water ... how much water an average family uses. We checked 3 meters in our neighborhoods each day for 3 days. We recorded the total use in gallons, divided it by how many people live in the house, and averaged all results to get the average daily water use. You're probably thinking, "Wow, that's a lot of piss. How can I save water?" Even if you're not, you should be. There are many ways to save water, starting in the house. In the bathroom- Be sure to apply low-flow shower heads to your showers. It saves many gallons of water, and you can't really tell the difference. Install low-flow aerators on the ...
- 756: The Good Earth: Summary
- The Good Earth: Summary Wang Lung was just a simple farmer in the beginning of this book and as he got older the more power he obtained, until he became Lord of the house of Wang. Being a farmer, he relied on the earth to give him and his family all that they needed to be supported through life. I think this would have been hard for him to do and I was surprised he was able to do all that he did. O-lan was Wang Lung's first wife who was sold to the house of Wang by her parents and then sold to Wang Lung. Her feet were not bound when she was little so she had big feet. This allowed her to be able to help out Wang ... and wished that the Chinese custom of paternal relatives living with their families did not exist. The only thing his uncle was good for was preventing a local group of marauding bandits from pillaging the house of Wang because his uncle was an important official in the group. Wang Lung gets his uncle addicted to Opium which later caused his death. I think Wang Lung's uncle represented evil in ...
- 757: Pride And Prejudice - Marriage
- ... inherited a fortune. Their marriage was not a happy settled one. They were always in debt, and Lydia often writes to her sisters, Jane and Elizabeth, asking them for money. They were always moving from house to house, and they stay for very long periods with the Bingleys, so much that even kind Mr Bingley thinks of telling them to move on. Bingleys and Janes marriage is based on love ... Mr Bennet thinks the couple is so nice and easy going that people might take advantage of them. We later see that the Wickhams do take advantage. They spend long periods of time in their house and Lydia often writes to Jane asking for money. They first meet at the Meryton Assembly. Mr Bingley is a young man of large fortune, from the north of England, who is going to ...
- 758: Personal Writing: The Hamster
- ... examining the hamster's cage. My little sister's hamster had died while it was under my care. My parents had gone to San Fransisco for the weekend, and instead of staying at my grandparents' house like my parents recommended, I decided to stay at home. Both of my sisters went to my grandparents' house, so I had the whole house to myself. I even had some company: my sister's hamster. I was the hamster's sole caretaker. Without me, it would starve, die of thirst, or somehow find a way to escape the ...
- 759: Charles Dickens
- ... A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, and A Tale of Two Cities. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Landport, a division of Portsea. His house can be identified and some consider his house a shrine or a memorial. His family was middle class; his father John Dickens was a clerk in the Navy-Pay Office and all through life a man of wavering and unstable status. It was ... dark. The characters and plots in his works seemed to show the eviler side of the human race. He now turned to symbolic themes to help express and expand his observations. For example in Bleak House the unhealthy London fog represents the illness of society. In another novel of his called Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he dealt primarily with a selfish egotist whose pride cuts him off form the ...
- 760: Perspective In As For Me And M
- Imaginative Center uncut, uncensored: Philip Bentley In order to fully understand a piece of literature and authorial intent, the reader must utilize unconventional methods of perspective. In Sinclair Rossf, As for me and my House, the use of perspective becomes climacteric in determining a veridical comprehension of the imaginative center of the novel, Philip Bentley. In order to gain the full understanding of Philip Bentley, the reader must dismiss the ... to talk with, or share Philips feelings. gOnce again, he closed the door behind him while entering his studyh (Ross, 64). Due to Mrs. Bentleyfs involvement with Paul, the new male of the house, and Philips involvement with Steve and Judith, it becomes impossible to recognize her views or narrative as be legitimate or true. Similarly, there are also a number of events in the novel that display that ... in the wind storm, Philip was finally exposed. The wind storm is evident throughout the entirety of the novel, as it suppresses, and then acts out, remaining unstable. The wind blows the dust over the house, the dust smothers the house, as Mrs. Bentley smothers Philip. They have no control over the dust, and it becomes clear that Mrs. Bentley also has no control over the dust, and it becomes ...
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