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- 9761: Rheingold's Virtual Reality: Summary
- ... the University of North Carolina. At UNC, Rheingold docks molecules and visits a virtual building; at NASA, he pilots helicopter simulators and operates robots in virtual "outer space;" and in Tsukuba, Japan, he has a high-tech out-of-body experience, watching himself through the eyes of a telerobot. In Hawaii he operates another te lerobot at a Marine research center that is a machine gun. He gives us a brief ...
- 9762: Kafka's Metamorphosis: Existentialism
- ... not good. Gregor is taking over his father's responsibilities leaving nothing for Gregor's father to be responsible for. At the same time, Gregor is making plans to send his sister to a good school, but he fails to discuss this idea with her. To make things worse, Gregor even goes as far as to lock his own bedroom doors at night. He thinks that his family is content with ...
- 9763: Summary of Aycliffe's The Lost
- ... of lords. They die and don't decay. The other characters Aycliffe has in the book start out having an attractive sense of humor but, humor fades as the creepy crawlies take over. A prep-school teacher in Cambridge, Michael Feraru, inherits Castle Vliacu, his family's fortress in the Transylvanian Alps and hopes to turn it into an orphanage for Romanian children. Delightful letters pass between Michael and his love ...
- 9764: Bless Me, Ultima: Conflicting Lifestyles
- ... land in the same way they did. In marrying Gabriel she persuaded him to move into town and start a family. She wanted to take advantage of living near others, allowing her children to attend school, and living near a church. She led a very pious life and imposed this lifestyle upon all of her children, especially Tony, the youngest son. She brought religion into their home and taught it to ...
- 9765: Summary of Terkel's My American Century
- ... in the schools began having some racism problem. Ellis of course attended the meeting to try and solve this problem, and a curious thing happened. Ellis and Ann Atwater were elected co-chairmen of the school committee. He thought there was no way he would be able to work with this lady, but he was going to give it a try. It wasn't working. Atwater couldn't get the blacks ...
- 9766: Comparing "Witness for the Prosecution" and "Wine": The Keys to a Great Story
- ... the Prosecution" are believable through the author's vivid descriptions and through what Mr. Mayherne says about the characters during his interviews with them. For example the author described Romaine as a foreign woman with high cheekbones , dense blue-black hair, and a nervous twitch in her hands that is distinctly foreign. The narrator went on to say she is a strange, quiet woman, who is so quiet that she made ...
- 9767: Catcher in the Rye: Comparison of Holden and Me
- ... wasn't much in the mood any more to give old Jane a buzz." (Pg. 150) Holden also had a problem getting his motivation together in order to complete schoolwork and succeed in his prep school. I have similar problems with my motivation and find at times I must be in the mood to do something in order for me to accomplish it. This stems from our experience in the past ...
- 9768: The Fall of the House of Usher: Imagery and Parallelism
- ... by the house deteriorated along with the conditions of the people occupying it. We get to the present in both the story and this excerpt but evil things in rokes of sorrow, assailed the monarchs high estate(Poe, 126). This is what is happening to the Usher house now. The house along with its inhabitants are full of sorrow. Poe uses differing themes of fear, death, and freedom throughout the story ...
- 9769: Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... and a highly respected novelist, became his close friend and literary advisor. Twain purchased a publishing firm in Hartford, Connecticut that went insolvent in 1894. By this time Twain was having financial difficulties due to high living and failed investments such as the printing firm and a typesetting machine that he spent a fortune promoting (Twain). In 1894 and 1896, Twain wrote two new sequels to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ...
- 9770: Escaping the Fog of Pride and Prejudice
- ... of the evening at the Netherfield ball, Elizabeth is trapped with Collins. In the next chapter he proposes to her in a condescending manner. He believes that no woman would refuse him do to his high social position. Yet, Elizabeth does refuse him. Elizabeth is seeking a romantic marriage in which she will respect and love the one she marries. This is in contrast to her friend Charlotte Lucas who only ...
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