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- 1271: The Spirit Catches You And You
- ... early signs of labor, she would walk down to the nearest river or stream and collect water to wash her newborn baby, after it is delivered. A long or hard labor could be eased by drinking water that had a key boiled into it. The Hmong believed that the key would unlock the birth canal. Soon after the birth, the father dug a hole in the dirt floor and buried the ...
- 1272: The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoe
- ... home to eat we met his wife and learn that he spends not enough time with his family and they really had it with this kind of situation. She also discovers that he again was drinking vine in the middle of the day. Upset she tells him to drink at least white vine so people can not see his red stained teeth. He leaves the house to go to work and ...
- 1273: The Journey For Freedom
- ... that she could get better but only if she could break the control from her husband. Irony came into Louise s life when she had heard the news of her husband s death. She was drinking in a very elixir of live though that open window. (20) She realized that she could now be free, free, free. (20) His reign of control was over. She could do the things she wanted ...
- 1274: The Idiot
- ... with her character is a false one, placed on her by the other character's interpretations of her. In the setting of her home, Nastasya Filippovna displays irrational, highly emotional and erratic behavior. She is drinking wine and has "oddly, brusque, rapid outbursts." She is: convulsed by fits of laughter her dark eyes glitter and two red spots had appeared on her ashen cheeks. The glum squeamish air of some of ...
- 1275: The Ice Storm
- ... his high school crush, Libbets Casey (Katie Holmes) his amorous intent thwarted by his dilettante roommate and the obligatory chemical overindulgence. Wendy goes to the Carvers house, ostensibly to see Mike; however she ends up drinking vodka in bed with Sandy. Mike is out enjoying the clean air of the ice storm and marveling at its beauty. Mike is a dreamer, a boy who seems out of it , but is more ...
- 1276: The Hobbit 2
- ... the otherhand, I like this book because the author uses characters that appear only in fairy tales, yet gives them a personality that shows maturity. I especialy liked the way Bilbo changed from a tea drinking home maker to a swash buckling adventurer. I would highly recommend this book for children of all ages as well as adults. It has a certain appeal that makes the reader want to continue reading ...
- 1277: The Essence Of Hamlet
- ... that Hamlet is concerned about the general appearance, or form, as opposed to the essence. He raises no doubts concerning Denmark's feats of excellence; instead, he is worried that, by their penchant for heavy drinking, surrounding countries will overlook whatever achievements Denmark may boast and ridicule their drunkenness. Can it, then, be said that Hamlet is more concerned with appearance and less with essence? Hamlet certainly seems to imply such ...
- 1278: The Choice
- ... Ed was thinking to himself about his problems. Dave appeared to help him out, At first, Ed was having doubt about him until Dave told him about his childhood ritual of eating chocolate cake and drinking milk in the night with his father. Dave offered his services to him and their first stop was to Ed s hometown in the year 1995. When they arrived Ed was shocked and angry to ...
- 1279: The Canterbury Tales And The P
- ... yet he lives a decidedly liberated or even sinful existence, which he freely admits. While chastising churchgoers for living sinful lives in order to persuade them to believe in his false relics, he brags about drinking liquor from the vine (Hopper, 351), and keeping a jolly wench in every town (Hopper, 351). Indeed, he introduces his tale with the rather open statement, For though I myself am an entirely a vicious ...
- 1280: The Sun Also Rises By Ernest H
- The Sun Also Rises In Ernest Hemingway s The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes is a lost man who wastes his life on drinking. Towards the beginning of the book Robert Cohn asks Jake, Don t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize ...
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