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- 921: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme of Prejudice
- ... take Tom's side against a white woman. The white townspeople even showed Atticus that they didn't want him defending Tom. They sent this message to him on his lawn in front of his house and then again at the jail. They did not want Atticus to defend a black man against a white woman. Tom was accused of raping Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell's daughter. Atticus was his attorney ... Radley was, or what he looked like. Jem and Scout were afraid of Boo, and Dill was curious about him. They wouldn't walk on his property and never went in front of Boo's house. Until Jem was dared by Dill, they never even thought of going up to Boo's house. They like everyone else thought of Boo as different, strange and a outcast. The children begin to realize that Boo isn't the way they see him as, when he wraps the blanket around ...
- 922: The Great Gatsby
- ... in the reader’s mind, but as each one approaches a goal, he or she becomes more absorbed in desire and shows a shocking change in temperament. When Nick went to Tom and Daisy’s house for dinner one evening at the beginning of the novel, Daisy attempted to make plans with Nick. She said, “What’ll we plan? What do people plan? (p.25).” She acts naïve and innocent with ... with their place in society. Jay Gatsby lives in an enormous mansion, which housed a large Gothic library. Nick once observed the irrelevant quantity of books and how they had seemed never opened. Gatsby’s house was full of expensive, luxury items rarely used as anything more than opulent trimming. His house operated merely for parties—a characteristic of the newly rich. Tom’s estate, on the other hand, was a ravishing colonial manor. The furnishings were tasteful and pleasant. It suited the Buchanan established rich ...
- 923: The Yellow Wallpaper, A Descen
- ... Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents the tragic story of a woman s descent into depression and madness because of this oppression. The narrator s declining mental health is reflected through the characteristics of the house she is trapped in and her husband, while trying to protect her, is actually destroying her. The narrator of the story goes with her doctor/husband to stay in a colonial mansion for the summer. The house is supposed to be a place where she can recover from sever postpartum depression. According to Jennifer Fleissner, "naturalist characters like the narrator of Gilman s "The Yellow Wallpaper" is shown obsessed with the details ... is so good with the baby. Such a deer baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me nervous" (Gilman 359). The symbolism utilized by Gilman is somewhat askew from the conventional. A house usually symbolizes security. Yet, in this story the opposite is true. The protagonist, whose name we never learn, feels trapped by the walls of the house, just as she is trapped by her mental ...
- 924: Color Purple 2
- ... not attracted to them she takes a very good care of them and acts like a mother. After Celie got married to selfish and nasty Mr.______, Nettie for a while stayed in Celie s new house. Mr.________ was in love with Nettie, but because she rejected him, he kicks her out of his house. This brought a lot of pain for Celie to see her dear sister leave, but she still dealt with it. For a long time Celie was Shug Avery s huge admirer. Shug Avery was a ... jazz singer. For Celie she meant an ideal image of a black woman. She would want to dress like her, act like and just be her. And ironically, two women are gathered together in the house of a man who is in love with one of them and who uses another one for self-serving sex and for doing all the necessary housework. Celie s husband Mr.______ did not even ...
- 925: The Crucible - Witch Trials
- ... side. To determine the cause of the east-west split, the historians examined many disputes, chief among them being the choice of ministers. Once Salem Village was granted the right to have its own meeting house, quarrels arose over who would preach in the pulpit. There were four ministers between the time period of when the meeting house was built and the end of the witch trials. The arguments over ministers soon became a power struggle. There were two factions that arose during this dispute, and it was noted that one group supported ... side. To determine the cause of the east-west split, the historians examined many disputes, chief among them being the choice of ministers. Once Salem Village was granted the right to have its own meeting house, quarrels arose over who would preach in the pulpit. There were four ministers between the time period of when the meeting house was built and the end of the witch trials. The arguments over ...
- 926: Isadora Duncan
- ... Dora was left with little money to support her four children; Augastin, Raymond, Elizabeth, and Isadora. She gave her music lessons, but still was not bringing in enough money to keep living in the same house. The family began moving from one apartment to another, learning to leave each one a day before the bills came around. Isadora started school at the age of five. In the late nineteenth century, students ... life, Isadora Duncan was happy, but still wanted more. She wanted to once again take up the profession of a dance instructor, starting her own dance school. At the end of 1904 Isadora bought a house in Grünewald, Germany, and with the help of her mother and her sister, she transformed the small villa into a dancing school. Isadora did not want rich students, for they had other opportunities to be exposed to art. She wanted to teach poor children, to give them something new that they might otherwise not have. She was able to clothe, house, feed, and educate her students free of charge, by only having a group of twenty students at a time. When one left, a new child came in to replace her. There were only six ...
- 927: Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union
- ... different colonies were assembled in Albany to consult with the chiefs of the Six Nations concerning the method of defending both their country and ours. Governor Hamilton received the order and introduced it to the house. He requested that there be proper representation for the Indians on this occasion. He also named the speaker, Mr. Norris, and Benjamin Franklin to join Mr. Thomas Penn and Mr. Secretary Peters as commissioners to act on behalf of Pennsylvania. The House approved the nominations and they met the other commissioners at Albany in the middle of June of 1754. When Franklin left for Albany, his natural son William took over Franklin's position as clerk for ... chance to achieve it was when he got the invitation from the Board of Trade for a meeting in Albany. Also called to Albany were Isaac Norris, at fifty-three, served as Speaker of the House and leader of the Quaker party, Richard Peters, private secretary to the Penn family in England, and John Penn, who did not have much experience in politics. The slogan "JOIN OR DIE" was printed ...
- 928: The Roots Of Communist China
- ... role in life to take charge and assert the necessary precautions to see that his people were treated the way that they needed to be treated. Bibliography 1. Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works, Manchuria Publishing House, 1948, Translated By Stuart Gelder. 2. Jerome Chen, Mao and the Chinese Revolution, Oxford University Press, 1965. 3. Stuart & Schram, Mao Tse- tung, Simon and Shuster - New York, 1966. Cf. Conrad Brandt, Stalin's Failure in China, 1924-1927, Harvard University Press, 1958. Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works, Manchuria Publishing House, 1948, p. 336. Translated by Stuart Gelder. Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works, Manchuria Publishing House, 1948, p. 428. Translated by Stuart Gelder. Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works, Manchuria Publishing House, 1948, p. 104. Translated by Stuart Gelder.
- 929: Joy Luck Club
- ... breakdown, for a period of time, when her second son -- with her second husband, St. Clair -- died at birth. She saw it as a punishment for her previous behavior. After leaving her first husband's house and returning home, she abandoned herself to whatever life offered her. She lived like a shadow, letting other people or events to decide for her. When she met St. Clair, she passively let him believe ... and when her husband died, she had to follow her son. Normally, in the case of Ying-Ying, she had to give birth to her first son and stay forever in her in-law's house, waiting for her husband to come back. Ying-Ying went against tradition by doing what she did. She chose not to stay in her husband's house, and to do every possible thing to return to her father's house. On the other hand, Lao-Tzu said that "the wise man is like water or like a springy twig; he is ...
- 930: In Cold Blood: Summary
- In Cold Blood: Summary Book Information: Title : In Cold Blood Publisher : Random House Original Publication Date : 1965 Book Outline: In a small town in Kansas a family of four were murdered for no apparent reason. The murderers ran for a few years and finally they were caught, tried ... for the crime. In the story a family was killed for no reason. This well respected farming family had no enemies, and no quarrels. Although they were wealthy, Mr. Clutter never kept cash in the house. The whole region and eventually the country was shocked by the randomness and brutality of the act, in much the same way it was by the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The two men in which didn't even know the Clutter family went into their house and shot all four of them. There were two main characters. Dick is the first one that I will talk about. Dick was 33 years old and he did not have the best character. ...
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