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- 12071: The Scarlet Letter: Admitted, Hidden & No Guilt
- ... and less as time goes on. In the beginning she has no friends, but then the townspeople forget her past difficulties and start to appreciate her help. From the beginning she kept her head held high. “She was self-ordained a Sister of Mercy.” The letter “A” comes to stand as meaning able, instead of adultery as before. She willingly comes back to the town and lives there with the scarlet ...
- 12072: The First King of Shannara: Summary
- ... was on a plan to kill all the races and make the world all for the netherworld. Bremen knew that he needed help so he (hired) a man named Kinson Ravenlock. They go into the high northland and find out that the whole Troll nation was subverted by the now called Warlock Lord. So Bremen goes to Paranor to tell the Druids of the Warlock Lord¹s coming, but they wouldn ...
- 12073: Huckleberry Finn
- ... way it was meant to be lived. He found out that life on the river wasn't everything he thought it was, he now realizes that being under the widow's care and going to school to learn how to read and write is the wise thing to do. Even though society is still corrupt he will not let it rub off onto him to where he will be too "civilized ...
- 12074: The Godfather: Did The
- ... such Chicago mob bosses as Al Capone, and New York bosses like Joe Bonano. La Cosa Nostra as it was called "this thing of ours"(Roemer, 63). La Cosa Nostra was set up as the high ffb council, it was in charge and had the last word in all of the major Mafia activities. La Cosa Nostra particularly the groups in New York, did not favor drugs they too felt it ...
- 12075: Heroic elements in Beowulf
- ... and fiercely loyal. These land was a constant prey for the Vikings, Romans and Celts (Britons), who in taking away their territory, also wished to swipe away their culture. However, they could not steal their high spiritedness. The Anglo-Saxons kept on their traditional parties which consisted of music, dancing, and story telling. They were fascinated with tales of monsters, battles and fearless behavior. These tales were maintained by oral tradition ...
- 12076: Great Expectations
- ... were highly traumatic for Dickens, and his job was a misery--he considered himself too good for it, earning the contempt of the other children. After his father was released from prison, Dickens returned to school; he eventually became a law clerk, then a court reporter, then a novelist. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, became a huge popular success when Dickens was only twenty-five, and he was a literary ...
- 12077: Black Rain
- ... up the names in one paragraph, The name of the bomb had already undergone a number of changes, from the initial “new weapon” through “new-type bomb,” “secret weapon,” “special new-type bomb,” to “special high-capacity bomb.” That day, I learned for the first time to call it an “atomic bomb.” (Black Rain 282) The importance of the name of the bomb may seem ineffectual, but he seems to dwell ...
- 12078: Everything that Rises Must Converge
- ... the conflict between Julian and his mother. Ms. Chestny has been raised all her life too behave in the gentile southern manner. She was once the grandaughter of the governor so position and wealth rank high in importance. She dismisses the plight of blacks with the stereotypical southern response, "They should rise, yes, but on the own side of their fence" (O'Connor 408). This attitude most likely resulted from being ...
- 12079: A Rose for Emily
- ... to die because no one was quickly informed of the death, and know one knew how the tragedy occurred. When Miss Emily died Jefferson lost a monument of the Old South. This passage contains a high rate of symbolism, icing on the cake as far as the work is involved. "A small, fat, woman in black woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into ...
- 12080: A Review of Lawrence E. Walsh’s Iran/Contra
- ... the offices of the above individuals to come to this conclusion. Lawrence Walsh brings up several facts and a question of National Security that should be answered before another Watergate, or Iran/Contra occurs. One, high-ranking officials, including the President, committed themselves to two programs contrary to congressional policy and national policy. They skirted the law, some broke the law, and all of them tried to cover up the President ...
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