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- 941: Jay Gatsby Shattered Dreams
- ... a past” (156), he transforms himself into a self-made millionaire and builds an extravagant mansion, all for the love of Daisy Buchanan. He also strategically places the mansion across the lake from Daisy’s house. From his window, Gatsby can see the blue colored lights of her house. Gatsby seems to be caught in a conflict between materialism and idealism that created and still defines the American character. Starting from the first day that he meets her, Gatsby does everything within his power ... far as his feelings for Daisy are concerned, even though it has been five years since their first meeting, and despite the fact that she has married Tom Buchanan. He “revalue[s] everything in his house according to the amount of response it [draws] from her well loved eyes” (96). Inevitably, the two of them draw closer, but this in no way deters Gatsby from trying to make Daisy happy. ...
- 942: The Crucible - The Deteriorati
- ... trying to excommunicate John Proctor, there were not enough people at church to do it. The people were getting misled so far as to leave a dagger stuck in the door of their minister’s house: “Tonight, when I open my door to leave my house--a dagger clattered to the ground...There is danger for me.”(128) were Parris’ exact words. With the conveyer of God fearing for his life there was no longer anyone but Abigail to lead the ... Lynn, and upon my signature?”(85) said Danforth, describing the number of people that were in jail on charges of witchcraft. There were so many people executed that Hale commented “there are orphans wandering from house to house; abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere...”(130) Salem was turning into a ghost town. With Abigail controlling the community, the church no longer getting the ...
- 943: In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- ... was a very nice man. Then there is his companion named Richard (Dick) Hickock. He’s the one who comes with the idea of robbing the Clutter family and to kill any people in the house on the moment of the robbery. When they’re looking for the safe of Mr. Clutter, they find out that there isn’t any safe in the office of Mr. Clutter. They decide to tie ... safe but there isn’t one. They go upstairs to look for Mr. Clutter; they drag him out of his bed and take him downstairs. He tells them there isn’t a safe in the house and that he has no money in the house. Dick and Perry are very pissed of and take Mr. Clutter upstairs to Mrs. Clutter who sleeps separated from Mr. Clutter. They go into the room and wake her up, she’s scared by ...
- 944: The "Around The World" Party at College
- The "Around The World" Party at College As I approached the party I could hear the blasting music all the way from the street. When I reached the back of the house to enter I could distinguish the song that was playing; it was “It's good to be King” by Tom Petty. After waiting in a line to enter I was finally in the loud, crowded house. Upon my arrival the host of the party informed me that there were no cups left, and that I would have to look for one. So I handed him my money as I was shoved ... we all had in common was our goal to consume alcohol. As soon as I walked in the room I immediately could see and smell the smoke that was lingering in the air around the house. I was handed a cup by a friend. Looking into it to see if it had been used, we both shrugged and turned towards the basement. As I pushed my way through the crowd ...
- 945: Comparsion Between Hearst And
- ... stately Palace, encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall wherein are fertile Meddowes, pleasant springs, delightfull Streams, and all sorts of beasts of chase and game, and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure, which may be removed from place to place… Kane's house in Citizen Kane fits this description well it had meadows, springs, streams, and statues of all sorts of animals, whether chase or game. Hearst house in California's Santa Lucia Mountains also fits Samuel Purhas description of Xanadu. Hearst house is known as La Cuesta Encantada or The Enchanted Hill. The Enchanted Hill has 165 room's 127 acres ...
- 946: Planck v. Indiana
- ... pointed at him. The children were then forcibly removed from their parents custody, and at no time was any identification shown by the officers. Curt, Lance Planck's younger brother, resisted this removal from his house, and was threatened by an officer that he would be "dragged out of here." After this scene, Emily, Stephen, and Curtis Planck were loaded into a van and driven to an eye doctor in Anderson ... the above events, Mr. and Mrs. Planck were subsequently arrested, had their First Amendment rights violated, and had their home invaded by armed SWAT team members who fired a CS tear gas canister into their house. Simply, Mr. and Mrs. Planck and their children were targeted by the state selectively because of their religious beliefs which they manifested in home education and the practice of alternative medicine. The fundamental argument here ... Planck's exercise of these rights have been violated by the State of Indiana. The Plancks seem to have been happy before this fiasco started, but since they state has interfered and then raided their house with tear gas and pointed a rifle at Mr. Planck, that happiness has seem to been withdrawn. The State of Indiana should have the right to look after the children's health in an ...
- 947: Creative Writing: The Chicken
- ... went to her mothers chicken coup to feed and water the chickens and she saw some hens sitting on their nests and they wouldn't get up to eat or drink. She went into the house and told her mother that some of her hens were sick because they wouldn't get off the nests. Her mother just smiled and went with Sarah to tend to the sick hens. When they ... the hens weren't sick. She told Sarah that the hens were laying eggs now and that they wouldn't leave the nests very much until the eggs had hatched. Sarah went back to the house and got a basket to put her mothers eggs in. After they had pushed the hens over and removed their eggs, Sarah looked in Maryanne's coup and she wasn't there. She looked all ... she got in return. I hope a Fox did get her, thought Sarah, then she started crying even more... Sarah finally gave up the search and was getting very hungry. She started back to the house to eat breakfast when she noticed something moving over by the barn. It was Maryanne and walking behind Maryanne was nine little baby chicks. She ran to the house to tell her mother and ...
- 948: The Chronicles of Narnia: Book Report
- ... stuff to. Digory noticed a door across the attic. Back then the houses were connected together and they thought that if they would cross the rafters and open the door they could sneak into a house and the next and so on. The reason for all of this was that one of the houses down a ways was abandon. So they started off, one rafter at a time. They had to remain extremely silent for if someone would here them they would think it was a robber. They opened the door and began the next house. After a while they came to the one that they thought was abandoned, but after they opened the door and saw all the books they knew that they were wrong. They were in the forbidden ... to a park of which they never have seen with Digory and were jumping in puddles and fountains. They grounded her and told her not to play with Digory anymore. Meanwhile back at Digory's house Uncle Andrew was in his room dressing up and drinking alcoholic drinks. Shortly after that they left. Now it was up to Digory to think of a plan. He thought up an idea. It ...
- 949: Eloquent Boldness
- ... laid the foundation for an ethically compelling speech. On June 16,1858, Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, spoke out to over 1,000 Republican delegates in the Springfield, Illinois, state house for the Republican State Convention. At this gathering, Lincoln delivered an extremely courageous, “A House Divided,” speech. In this eloquent yet bold speech Lincoln uses evidence that appeals to emotion, evidence revealing credibility and evidence that appeals to reason in hopes of encouraging support in the Republican cause; the formation ... viable option. Lincoln’s credibility was strong before the speech, however, he further strengthened his credibility with the evidence given in two key passages. The allusion to Christ’s statement in the Synoptic Gospels, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Is the most credible allusion that supports Lincoln’s good sense and character that he could have used. This message, found in St. Matthew 12:25, is verbatim to ...
- 950: Great Expectations
- ... honorable. Pip associates with Magwitch, Orlick with Magwitch¡¦s bitter enemy, Compeyson. Orlick, in short, seems embarked on some great expectations of his own, sullenly tracking Pip¡¦s upward progress from the marshes to Satis House and on to London. Pip cannot rid himself of this obscene shadow. In Vol III, Orlick lures Pip to an abandoned sluice-house on the marshes, meaning not only to kill him, but to overwhelm him with accusations. Pip, he claims, has thwarted him at every turn. But the charge he makes with the greatest conviction is that ... The task facing Pip is to replace a fairy god mother by an excaped convict; or, the world of desire by the world of guilt. Chapter VIII, which describes Pip¡¦s fist visit to Satis House, brutally emphasises the difference between those worlds. While the encounter with Magwitch repeats a sense of guilt with is as old as life and consciousness itself, the meeting with Estella and MH is the ...
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