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- 12141: A Separate Peace: An Analysis
- ... to have too much fear. Gene the scholar, Finney the athlete. So different yet so alike. Finney is always pushing the limit, living on the edge. Like when he decided to try and break the school swim record. He just went and did it. It was unofficial, but he did it. Gene tried to talk him into doing it again so it could be official. Finney wanted no part of it ...
- 12142: The Webb Story and the Efforts to Rebut It
- ... more dramatically than Jesse Katz. "We fell short of my standards," he wrote in the San Jose Mercury. Reversing himself, he now wrote that the original Webb story on crack and the Contras "strongly suggested high-level C.I.A. knowledge of that connection." "I feel that we did not have proof that top C.I.A. officials knew of the relationship," he added, converting his original defense of the article ...
- 12143: Mother/Daughter Relationships in Beloved
- ... mothers and daughters share is a bond that affects their entire lives. Lessons on life are learned by each individual during the first few days of the daughters life. The mother is filled with high expectations for the daughter. She hopes that her life will be better than her own. She hopes that all that she can give her daughter everything she never had. Finally, she hopes that she will ...
- 12144: Gulliver's Travels: Political Satire
- ... not want Gulliver associating with their enemies across the water just as many frowned upon Swift's relationship with the French. Finally, "The English political parties are satirized in the description of the wearers of high heels and low heels, and of the controversy on the question whether eggs should be broken at the big or small end. These are just some of the important references made in the first book ...
- 12145: Kennewick Man
- ... present for several years before death (The Kennewick Man). Next while he examined the skull he noted that it was long and narrow with a protruding nose and receding cheekbones, also that it had a high chin and square mandible. Many of these characteristics are not common of modern American Indians and are common to caucasoid peoples. This led him to believe that the skeleton was Caucasian not American Indian (Slayman ...
- 12146: Daily Life of the Aztecs
- ... On the fourth night there would be a bed made for them. On the fifth day the couple bathed themselves and a priest came to bless them. War was common in the Aztec society. When high tensions came up between cities, any wrong move could start a war; wars started after negotiations did not resolve the tension. The dress of a warrior consisted of a round shield made of wood, and ...
- 12147: Huck Finn
- ... Finn had to make in the novel. Huck Finn is not your typical type of main character. Huck Finn is the type of boy who is always getting into trouble. He often plays "hooky" from school, smokes cigarettes, and uses profanity. Huck is living with the Widow Douglas, who tries to "civilize" him, and he doesn't like it. Huck is a young boy, but has a good conscience. He displays ...
- 12148: The Worn Path of Life
- ... the top, turns a moment to see where she's been. "Up through pines. . . now down through oaks." It's as though Ms. Welty is illustrating to us how important it is, no matter how high or how steep the hill, to pause occasionally and reflect on how far we've come. A thorn bush catches Phoenix's skirt on the way down the other side of the hill and after ...
- 12149: The Crucible
- ... place in the late seventeenth century. The people of Salem were colonist from England seeking religious freedom. Salem was a Puritan town and had a strong theocracy. The moral standards of the people were very high. A fear of the unknown hung over the population. The setting of The Crucible helps add to the conflict and sets up a fertile environment for associated guilt (Weales 58). Examples of associated guilt as ...
- 12150: A Changed Man
- ... in Kumalos mind. After life in the city for some time, he is finally able to look at the Zulu tribal system objectively. Kumalo sees faults in the figurehead chief and powerlessness of the school, and is left with little hope left for a new, stronger Zulu society. It looks as though the white man has succeeded in the breaking down of the tribe, but something has changed. The patterns ...
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