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- 981: To Kill A Mockingbird: A Summary
- ... Rachael is Dill's aunt that lives in Maycomb. Dill is a friends with Jem and Scout. According to Scout they are married. (Boo) Arthur Radley is the person that takes Jem back to his house after Jem gets hurt by Bob Ewell. Tom Robinson is a black man that was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Bob Ewell is Mayella's father. He is out for revenge on Atticus for what ... spend the summer with his Aunt Rachael. Dill is fascinated by the neighborhood gossip about "Boo" Radley. Egged on by Dill, Jem and Scout try to think up ways to lure him out of his house. Soon it is Summer again , and Dill returns for another visit. The children's plans for making contact with Boo Radley grew bolder this year, and on Dill's last night they decide to sneak ... from a shot gun. Jem realizes that Boo is not a monster after all, but has been playing along with them. Scout does not figure this out until the winter, on the night that the house of their neighbor burns to the ground. While Scout is standing outside in the cold, someone sneaks up behind her and places a blanket around her. Later, Scout and Jem realize that there was ...
- 982: Creative Writing: The Search
- ... my nostrils and my thoughts again drifted toward home. It was cool, about sixty-five degrees with an overcast sky. It was a short drive, only ten minutes. We arrived at a homey, two level house at the back of a cul- de-sac that looked like all the others in the neighborhood. I stepped out of the car and hurried up the drive through the fine mist. The doorbell played ... tense, grasping the knob with his right. In a quiet voice, barely audible, he invited me in. Then the boy ran inside and up the stairs. The small front room reminded me of my parents' house, flowered curtains and brown furniture. It smelled of moth balls and potpourri. A large wooden television with a small screen stood across from the couch. I seated myself in the worn recliner, humming the tune ... doorbell played. After a few minutes, an old man came down the stairs, leaning on his cane. He adjusted his glasses, coughed twice, and shook his cane at me. “What are you doing in my house? Get out now!” He wore a tan sweater, unbuttoned, over his white tee shirt. He adjusted the belt on his trousers, pulled them up. "Sir, I am John Caulsworth, Federal agent. I am here ...
- 983: The Deterioration of Salem During the Witch Trials The Crucible
- ... 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 ...
- 984: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... College and graduated after four years. After graduation, he returned to Salem. Contrary to his family’s expectations, Hawthorne did not begin to read law or enter business, rather he moved into his mother’s house to turn himself into a writer. Hawthorne wrote his mother, "I do not want to be a doctor and live by men’s diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer ... their quarrels. So, I don’t see that there is anything left for me but to be an author." (" American Writers II, pg. 227) For the next twelve years Hawthorne lived in his mother’s house. He Seldemly went out except late at night, or when going to another city. " I had read endlessly all sorts of good and good for nothing books, and in dearth of other employment, had early ... Hawthorne soon realized that supporting a wife was not as easy as he anticipated it to be. He could never manage it by writing stories, so he decided to leave Salem and his mother’s house for a political appointment as measurer of coal and salt in the Boston customhouse. The contrast between his old ways and this new way of life was a shock for Hawthorne. He had hoped ...
- 985: Creative Writing: The Story of the Three Little Pigs
- ... a hut of grass. The middle child did make a hut of sticks, and he could be seen in the distance carrying a fagot across his back. The third and oldest pig did build a house of bricks for he did know much about architecture. 4. The wolf did look upon these happenings with slavering jowls, and dripping snout. How did resolve to blow down these lodgings and gobble the inhabitants on the morrow. And on that morn, he blew upon the hut of straw, and he did gobble the pig into quivering chunks. Then he went to the house that beheld the second pig, And he did blow it down, and he did devour the pigeon inside. When he got to the third house, the Great Pig Snortimer was awaiting him. This was the last and oldest pig, and he did wield a great Claymore sword. With one chop the pig did lop off the head of the ...
- 986: New Atlantis By Francis Bacon
- ... of man will not satisfy man nor laymen. Natural science finds its proper method when the 'scientist' puts Nature to the question, tortures her by experiment and wrings from her answers to his questions. The House of Solomon is directly related to these thoughts. "It is dedicated to the study of Works and the Creatures of God" (Bacon, 436). Wonder at religious questions was natural, but, permitted free reign, would destroy ... care of the sick. In other words, they had sought self preservation. As Bacon put it, "they had already prepared for death" (Bacon, 419). After the Feast of the Family, the father of Salomon's House has a conference with the travelers. The father says, "I will give the greatest jewel that I have. For I will impart to thee... a relation of the true state of Salomon's House" (Bacon, 447). The greatest 'jewel' is not one of monetary value but of knowledge. The father continues, "The End of our Foundation is the Knowledge of Causes and secret motion of things, and the ...
- 987: Jacqueline Kennedy
- ... after. Janet Bouvier, Jackie’s mother, was graceful and was the product of proper breeding. Jackie carried her mother’s hospitality, warmth, taste, and charm which later proved to be tremendous assets in the White House as the First Lady (Hall et al. 57). Even though Jacqueline later proved to be a stunning female, a series of nurses and governesses found her a handful. She was constantly asking questions and wanting ... having to deal with all the drama from the previous years. But the day after Thanksgiving in 1957, Caroline was born. When Caroline was three years old, the Kennedys moved to a red brick federal house in Georgetown. Caroline rapidly proved to be following her mother’s footsteps as an individualist. She had, in addition, the energy and outgoing charm of her father, whom she resembled in appearance. She had learned ... was elected President of the United States of America. John F. Kennedy, John-John, was born on November 25, 1960, one month premature. He was the first presidential baby to be born in the White House since Mrs. Frances Cleveland gave birth to a daughter, Esther, on September 9, 1893 (Hall et al. 163). At the Inaugural Ball, Jackie made quite an impression. She had designed her own evening gown. ...
- 988: Hiroshima, Account Of Father K
- Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge The Atomic Account Father Kleinsorge was a German priest that was in Japan for a Jesuit magazine. Before the bomb was dropped, he was relaxing outside of his three-story mission house in his underwear. That day, alarms went of several times, but all were false. Father always would go outside and scan the sky that would have a single weather plane flying over at about the same time each day. Then for a while it was quiet. Peace did not last long, however. A blinding flash surrounded the area. Father thought that a bomb fell on the mission house, so he ran outside into the garden. Before he recovered from the panic, he realized that he was cut with small debris. Also, most of the surrounding structures fell down. Not the mission house, because it was reinforced with steel beams. He heard screams of terror from people who got injured far more than he did. After a few days, Father Kleinsorge started feeling worse. He had nausea, ...
- 989: Internet Gambling
- ... companies would only take 2.5% of the action. They would act as a middle man of sorts. On the security side, one company has started making personal card readers that they send to your house and you hook it up to your computer. The only reason gambling laws exist are so politicians and government officials can make more money. It's all about power and control. Many people still fear ... gambling companies. It could become the same thing as what happened to Atlantic City. The companies that run the gambling can also cheat by writing in the programs to deal more 21's to the house. The governments biggest fear is that the technology has outgrown the regulations. Some of the other new ways that companies are going to try to use the Internet are through interactive t.v. Home viewers ... to gambling early on. The Internet will make it easier for minors to make bets on everything from sports, to craps. In gambling you may win, but even then your still losing something to the house. They always have a way of making money. In roulette, for instance, players can bet on black or red, but the house has green and the odds of the ball landing on green makes ...
- 990: Race Relations With Huck Finn
- ... Miss. Watson s run away slave in the story, is part of the black class. We see the sub ordinance that blacks were placed in America, because blacks were not allowed to be in the house, because they were uneducated, and had to be working in the fields. Another example of the classes we put each other into is when Huck, the main character, and Jim were heading south. Jim and ... is better than another group. These classes of society can show the relations between races. In this case, the whites thought they were better, and so, they would not allow blacks to be in the house, make them feel like objects, and not human beings and greatly persecuted and abused the blacks. Another point that is with the main theme of race relations is loyalty/friendship. Huck shows this by being ... does what he wants to any ways. The first thing is when his Father leaves him locked in the cabin. Huck obviously is supposed to stay inside, but he rebels and crawls out of the house. He had wore the ground a good deal crawling out of the hole and dragging out so many things (40). This shows him rebelling against his Father by not doing what he was supposed ...
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