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- 951: Personal Writing: The Sightless Explanation
- ... officers began to question Miss Singleton and I. I listened to what Miss Singleton said. She would not tell the officers what was going on because she thought they were involved. The officers searched the house and found nothing. After they left, I stayed awake next to Miss Singleton that night so she could rest peacefully. I sat and thought about the events that had just occurred. I had little experience with what I was observing at Miss Singleton's house. It was difficult to view an elderly person living by herself with nobody to help her out. My family and I voluntarily felt inclined to donate our time to making her life easier when we ... everything she said. When she did something "they" did not like, she would be zapped. I knew something was not all in her head. I could not disagree with her. When I was at her house, she actually made me believe and hear some of the very things she did. After two months, I knew nothing would change. She acted and did the same things. I soon began to realize ...
- 952: I Believe: A Code of Ethics
- ... life. I do for mine. If that means that others must do without so that my family can prosper, than that is how it must be. Example: Suppose my daughter wanted a Tickle Me Elmo Doll this Christmas. And suppose I found myself at the door to Toys-R-Us, next to a wheelchair bound woman who was also trying to purchase an Elmo for her child. The two of us know that there is one Elmo left in the store. When the door opens, what do I do? To be perfectly honest I run as fast as I can and grab the doll. It would not matter to me that the woman was in a wheelchair and unable to race for the doll. My daughter wanted the doll and I would put her wishes above anyone else. Of course, this is a silly example but it illustrates how this rule works. The action would be the same ...
- 953: The Great Gatsby 7
- ... borrowed. The fantasy world that Fitzgerald gives Jay Gatsby also concludes with parties that are practically like movie-like productions. These parties are so fantastic that they last from Friday nights to Monday mornings. His house and garden is decorated with thousands of colored lights, enough to make a Christmas tree of his enormous garden. (39) Buffet tables are garnished with glistening hors-d oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads ... of wonder. (112) He devotes his life to trying to get Daisy back into his life by first becoming rich and then by getting her attention with his possessions and parties. He even builds his house directly across the bay and facing the Buchanan s house. Gatsby is also likened to a chivalric knight. His outrageous car may be paralleled to a great white horse of a knight. His quest for Daisy is identical to the quest of medieval knights ...
- 954: Edgar Allan Poe 4
- ... shape of an enormous and deadly pendulum. It is altogether appropriate, then, that this chamber should be constricting and cruelly angular" (63). Setting is also an important characteristic is Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". The images he gives us such as how both the Usher family and the Usher mansion are crumbling from inside waiting to collapse, help us to connect the background with the story. Vincent ... art. There is a violent realism in his macabre writings unequaled by the Americans who worked in the same genre." Bibliography 1. Bloom, Harold, Ed. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 2.Buranelli, Vincent. Edgar Allan Poe. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1977. 3. Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature New York: The Viking Press, 1961. 4.Lawrence D.H. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 5. Wilbur, R. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 6. Pickering, James. Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories. NJ:Prentice Hall, ...
- 955: George Washington
- ... when moved by emotion. In conversation he looks you full in the face, is deliberate, deferential and engaging. His voice is agreeable . . . he is a splendid horseman." Thomas Jefferson who served with Washington in the House of Burgesses, wrote: "On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in a few points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more ... when he was made a militia and helped to chase the French from Fort Duquesne for good. Washington resigned at war's end and retired to Mount Vernon. He was defeated in elections for the House of Burgesses in 1755 and 1757, but won in 1758 and was seated the following year from Frederick County. For 15 years he devoted himself to his legislative work and his farm. During this period ... for money." By 1774 he was in the forefront of the defense of Virginia liberties and was among the rebellious burgesses who gathered at the Raleigh Tavern on May 27 after Governor Dunmore dissolved the house. Washington signed the resolves proposing a Continental congress and non-importation of British goods. On July 18, he chaired the Alexandria meeting that adopted George Mason's "Fairfax Resolutions." Sent to the First Continental ...
- 956: Life In The British Colonies
- Life In The British Colonies Most of the New England towns were self sufficient. Early towns were built along a narrow road. Each family had a house with a small garden on the road. A meeting house stood in the center of the town. The meeting house was used for worship. They were also, used for town meetings. During the town meetings, male land owners could take part in the government. There were fields near each town which grew crops. In ...
- 957: Brighten Beach Memoirs: Neil Simon's Background Influence
- ... no. Lastly, everyone in his family was exepting to pitch in and help. Simon is like that and under stands his role and makes sure everyone in the play has their own role in the house because he feels that that Is right (Simon p 54). Responsibility and exceptingness of his less fortune Neil Simon always had a way to keep everything under control. Finally Simons responsibility helped out a lot and helped the family out in many ways. Living with a minimum amount of money and a small house, Neil Simon was accepting of his large family. For example Eugene always had many people in his house at once (Drama 42). This happened when all his family moved in together; Eugene lives with brothers sisters parents and cousins. Showing his acceptingness of his large family Eugene made jokes about ...
- 958: The Grapes Of Wrath 2
- ... been around for a long time either. He left because of conflicts he had with his belief in God. After they sit and talk for quite a while they decide to walk to the Joads house together. Although Tom's parents have no idea that he has been paroled. But as they reach the house the two of them notice that it is unusually banged up and empty. When they step inside, the house is vacant except for a couple of things that were left behind. Some of them were important to the family. Then they see a person coming towards them. It turns out to be Muley ...
- 959: Jay Gatsby: The Dissolution of a Dream
- ... moving one. Jay Gatsby is a crook, a bootlegger who has involved himself with swindlers like Meyer Wolfsheim, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. He has committed crimes in order to buy the house he feels he needs to win the woman he loves. In chapter five Nick says, "...and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes." Everything in Gatsby's house is the zenith of his dreams, and when Daisy enters Gatsby's house the material things seem to lose their life. Daisy represents a dreamlike, heavenly presence which all that he has is devoted ...
- 960: The Life Of Chief Seattle
- ... relations with the local whites that had been established by his father. Seattle learned early in his life that peace was preferable to war. Seattle moved to Port Madison Reservation and lived in Old Man House, just across from Bainbridge Island; "This was a community house measuring some 60' x 900' feet easily the largest Indian made wooden structure in the region". (4) When settlers first came to America they were meet by Indians. Once the settlers were able to make ... Chief Seattle spent the last years of his life at the Fort Madison Reservation and Agate Point on Bainbridge Island where he died on June 7, 1866 from fever or ague, at the Old Man House in Port Madison. "By his deathbed were his family and his best "Boston" friend, George A. Meigs, owner of the Port Madison lumber mill". (1) He was buried in the Suquamish Indian cemetery near ...
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