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- 881: Continental Drift
- ... it living the same safe as his ancestors in New Hampshire have lived. Eddie is the very picture of the success that Bob wishes to obtain. Eddie has it all, a beautiful wife, an impressive house, an expensive car, two boats, Eddie is his own boss, and most importantly, Eddie has a seemingly endless line of prospects that offer him a limitless future. Eddie made his own way as an entrepreneur ... resents her, resents the responsibility to him that she represents, but more than anything else Bob resents Elaine for the freedom that he can never have while he is married to her. Everyone in the house knows there is something wrong, but it is Ruthie in whom the effects of the fighting can most easily be seen. By the time that the family has been in the Keys for a while ... for Ruthies medical expenses. A "mans man" does not need to rely on his wife to help support the family. His role is that of the sole provider, while his wife tends to the house and the children. When Elaine points out that she can make a significantly larger sum of money than Bob could by taking a second job, it forces Bob to see that he is a ...
- 882: A Jury Of Her Peers - Case Dismissed
- ... s dead" (185). He indeed finds Mr. Wright upstairs dead by a rope around his neck. The next day they take Mrs. Wright in custody and send a group of people to check out their house for clues. The group includes the sheriff, his wife, Mrs. Hale and Mr. Hale. When they reach the Wright house, the men went upstairs to discuss the murder scene and look for clues. They leave the women downstairs to gather things and to look for clues. The women do indeed find the clues to implicate ... Mrs. Wright was a submissive woman toward her husband. He seemed to be a cruel man who wanted his wife to himself. Her submissiveness was the lead into her husband's murder. All around the house there are examples of her submissiveness to her husband. The first example is the kitchen, which the group entered has a few of those things. The stove for instance in unkept. Mrs. Hale went ...
- 883: Personal Writing: Our Trip to See the Band "Last One Standing"
- ... cars that are going thirty- five miles an hour in a fifty zone does not help. A sigh of relief passed through the car as we came into Burlington. Justin dropped me off at my house in Burlington at four o'clock, a few hours before his show started. I made my plans with them for later and sent them on their way. Something about being home makes me feel much more relaxed. Walking into your house and immediately recognizing that perfect smell of freshness (my mom keeps a clean house), flopping yourself onto your comfortable bed, now this is what makes me feel at peace.I was relieved to be home, knowing that I was going to see Kristie,a friend of mine that ...
- 884: And Then There Were None
- ... If I had I'd never have done it." The judge said dryly. "That is probably true. But I think you'd better explain, Rogers." Atmosphere The atmosphere is very disturbing since everyone in the house was a murderer, and they're living all fancy. It's also confusing since there is one person out of the 10 who is the murderer. So there is bascially no one to trust but ... it? It wasn't one of us." Setting The story took place in the mansion. As for the mansion is looked very modern and it's really gigantic, so it could also be lonely. " The house was there facing south-low and square and modern lokking with the rounded windows letting in all the light. An exciting house, a house that lived up to expectations." Language She uses a lot of adverbs. "He said violently, "It's mad---absolutley mad----were all mad!" or "He looked from Wargrave to Vera and repreated ...
- 885: American Dream And Gatsby
- ... be successful in life, but most often people take the wrong ways to get there. In the 1920 s the American Dream was something that everyone struggled to have. A spouse, children, money, a big house and a car meant that someone had succeeded in life. A very important aspect was money and success was determined greatly by it. This was not true in all cases however. The belief that every ... I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors eyes a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. (P. 171). On his last visit to Gatsby s house, Nick realizes that Gatsby s belief in life and love resembles the hope and faith of those early Dutch sailors coming to America, looking forward to freedom and spiritual and material jubilation. With this ...
- 886: P. T. Barnum
- ... P. T. Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut on July 5th 1810. He later called himself a "Yankee doodle dandy, plus one." He was the oldest of five, all raised in a typical Connecticut saltbox house, which is an average, large house, is that still stands today. His father, Philo Barnum, dabbled in several trades. His father owned his own dry goods store. Barnum's mom, Irena Taylor, was a housewife. The family was moderately well off ... moneymaker. They returned in 1848. Barnum celebrated his success by building a 3 story home on a 17 acre property he called Iranistan. It was lavish and expensive America had never seen a more expensive house. Unfortunately four years later Iranistan burned down. Except for a few photos and a recreation f the library in the Barnum Museum, it was lost. Tom Thumb toured on his own and Barnum looked ...
- 887: Slingblade
- ... Karl stops and rests outside the local Laundromat and notices a young boy by the name of Frank struggling out with the washing, Karl offers to take the laundry the half-mile walk to the house. Lucas Black gives a wonderful performance as an innocent albeit nervous boy who is having difficulty coming to terms with the suicide of his father several years earlier. Frank takes an instant liking to Karl ... a closet homosexual in an intolerant Southern country town. Vaughn is best friend and self-proclaimed protector of Linda. Frank persuades Linda to allow frank to stay in the garage out the back of the house. She agrees on the basis that the boy needs some form of father figure. Both Linda and Vaughn trust Karl and take him at face value not questioning his past. A particularly humourous part of ... present themselves, a slow paced piano is used to match the solemn moment. Sections of the movie have a positive and optimistic outlook, for example, when Karl walks through the small country town to the house of his new found friend. Karl is obviously filled with awe and enthusiasm for his resurrection into life, this is reflected through the music. An intimate moment in the movie is between Karl and ...
- 888: Birdhouse
- ... the first place. It was supposed to be a good school though, even though it was a Jr. College named Chuffy. When she finally arrived in San Francisco she went straight to her cousins house. The whole house was painted bright colors, making it seem more fresh and new. Compared to her house, which happened to be all white! Giving the sense that it was boring and plain, which Beverly seemed to think it, was. The school was even worse
Each room was painted a dark green, ...
- 889: Clinton
- ... forces the citizens of the United States to deny his plea of innocence. In the spring of 1995, Monica Lewinsky graduated from Lewis and Clark College. She then started an unpaid internship at the White House. Allegedly in November of that year, she became involved in a sexual relationship with President Clinton. Shortly after this point Lewinsky was hired as a full-time White House employee. She left the White House for a public affairs position at the Pentagon. Here she became friends with Linda Tripp, a former White House employee, who worked in the same office. During this time President Clinton apparently sent gifts ...
- 890: Underground Railroad
- ... conductors often left a number of signs for the slaves to follow so they didnt go to houses that belonged to allies of the slave owners. A quilt on the clothes line depicting a house with smoke coming out of the chimney was a sign of a safe station. A white ring of bricks around the the top of a houses chimney was another sign of a good hiding spot. Shoppes that were safe often had a silohette of a fleeing man or woman on in sign. Other siggns were used to guide the slaves. There were knocks that slaves used when approaching a house,animal calls, and lights hung in windows. When a slave was moving to the next house along the railroad, this was called "catching the next train." There were also songgs that ave directions to ...
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