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- 4601: A Separate Peace
- ... really shows what a strong character Finny has. Gene on the other hand is a definite conformist, he is constantly striving to be seen as great by others. This is why when Finny brakes the school one hundred yards free style record without any training Gene cannot understand why Finny whishes to keep it quiet. Finny loves Gene, and Gene doesn’t seem to understand why a great person like Finny ... my knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny, his balance gone, swung around to look at me for an instant with extreme interest, and then tumbled sideways.” Gene cripples the best athlete in the school and his best friend and this eventually leads to Finny’s death. Gene’s admission to being responsible for Finny’s fall hurts Finny so much that he refuses to listen to him, so Gene ... then, or after the funeral, because Gene had become an extension of Finny and “you can’t cry at your own funeral.” Gene does enter the war, Gene says that he killed his enemy at school, I believe this enemy not to be Finny but Gene’s “ignorant heart.” he realizes that Brinker was wrong about how wars are created, Gene now knows that wars are created by “something ignorant ...
- 4602: As You Like It
- ... with a scene depicting love-lost.Brotherly love ceased to exist and in the case of the brothers, Orlando and Oliver ,it breds evil. Oliver felt that he is “altogther misprized” by his “gentle never school’d and yet learned full of noble devices” brother, Orlando .In Oliver’s jealousy fit, he first tried to kill Orlando through manipulating Charles the wrestler and later, attempted to set fire to Orlando’s ... encounters such as the exchange between the courtly fool, Touchstone and the wish countryfolk, Corin also showed up the rotten apples of the human population. Touchstone displayed his courtly wit and an air of the high and mighty, representing the courts while Corin, humble and sincere embodied the goodness of humanity. The juxtaposition is obvious. Their exchanged also dwelled upon the courts and the countryside.During the exchange ,Corin made an ...
- 4603: Electronic Money
- ... that 40% of households will shop with a debit card by the year 2000. 23% of people today shop with a debit card. I find this to be a very good thing due to the high expense of the check clearing system. Costs will not only decline for individuals, but hopefully for everyone. It should be noted that although debit cards may be convenient and fast, they are not as safe ... point of view. CyberCoin can offer many great benefits to merchants. One benefit is that it offers the merchant a cost-effective way to get casual and spontaneous sales. These are estimated to be as high as 80-90% of the Internet digital goods market. It is a way for merchants to expand their market, because now customers have an alternative to high subscriptions, being low pay-per-view. Typically low amounts are not able to be processed on a credit card. The merchants generally have to pay anywhere from 3.25% to 3.5% in credit ...
- 4604: Character Development in Dead Poets Society
- ... of Charlie Dalton, the reader assumes that he is handsome and ?preppy?. The reader creates a picture in his (or her) mind of a very attractive, Matt Damon-type (he is so hot), above average high school male. Contradictory, in the movie, Charlie is shown as a rather average, scholarly gentleman, leaving no room for the imagination take over. Also, Knox Overstreet is described in the novel as a curly-headed, athletically ...
- 4605: Bornstein
- ... I am very aware that even in this modern age there are still gender differences and inequalities that are overlooked daily. Many of these have affected my own life. It wasn't long into junior high when I stopped playing sports to pursue more artistic interests. After doing this I felt very much like an outsider (at a time when fitting in was of most importance). I noticed that in most situations at school the guys would play the sports and the girls would cheer them on. In a small town like my own things like this were never questioned. Ideals like these seem horribly archaic as it silently ...
- 4606: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... enlisted in West Point on July 1, l830 (Asselineau 410). While at West Point, Mr. Allan, who had remarried, continued in not providing Poe with enough money. Poe decided to have himself kicked out of school. Cutting classes and disregarding orders were his solutions. He was court-martialed for neglect of duties in January, 1831, and left West Point the following month (Asselineau 411). "Poe was great in three different fields , and in each one he made a reputation that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us ...
- 4607: Death of a Salesman: Willy's Escape
- ... mistress while visiting him on one of his trips to ask him to come back home and negotiate with his math teacher to give him the four points he needed to pass math and graduate high school. This scene gives the reader a chance to fully understand the tension between Willy and Biff, and why things can never be the same. Throughout the play, the present has been full of misfortune for ...
- 4608: A Thousand Acres: The Monopoly Game
- ... life off of the farm for the first time. It is through these conversations that Smiley explores this notion. Pete told of his adventure hitchhiking across the country in 1967. He was just out of high school and on his way to San Francisco when a family who offered him a place to stay shaved his head and beard (82). This story has no significance to the novel itself, but is interesting ...
- 4609: Lizzie Borden
- ... an otherwise respectable late nineteenth century domestic setting is startling. Along with the gruesome nature of the crimes is the unexpected character of the accused, not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster- daughter, charged with parricide, the murder of parents, a crime worthy of Classical Greek tragedy. This is a murder case in which the accused is found not guilty for the violent and ... by hanging. The trial was set for June 5, 1893. This was the Victorian era, when women were "certainly not capable of killing anyone." You must remember that Lizzie was of a wealthy family of high status. After only an hour, the 12 jury members declared Lizzie to be not guilty. It is said that it only took 15 minutes to decide, but out of respect for the prosecution, they waited ...
- 4610: A Comparison of Huckleberry Finn and On The Road
- ... dishonest judge and fooled by Tom, who knew all along that Jim had already been freed by Miss Watson's will (Twain 278-279). Huck is concerned with being free from having to go to school, from having to report to Miss Watson, and from having to make the judge account for his money. Huck is concerned with adventure, and seeks it in the same haphazard fashion that the young Sal ... time, and the ability to make his own plans, however foolish, was more important to Huck than his newfound fortune. Huck would rather spend the day admiring the sunrise over the Mississippi than go to school or work. For example, as he and Jim were rafting down the river together, Huck describes the scene they saw each morning. The air was still, "just like the whole world was asleep, only sometimes ... watched everything. But Sal was more aware of the irresponsibility of his characters than Huck was. Huck was caught in his own illusion, but somehow Sal sensed that Dean was a "drop out" in the school of life. For example, Dean married three times with a few years( by the end of the book Dean was living with his second wife, Camille -who Sal had also slept with-without having ...
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