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- 9811: Willa Cather's "O Pioneers"
- ... and the Rocky Mountains on the west and extending from southern Texas up to the forested area in northeastern Canada. 7 The climate of the Great Plains is distinguished by its unpredictable weather, low rainfall, high winds and immoderate temperatures throughout the seasons. When the settlers from most European countries came to inhabit the new, unsettled land, they had no idea what was in store for them concerning weather and the ...
- 9812: 1984: The Party's Methods of Controlling People
- ... committing a thoughtcrime they will be punished immediately. "A new poster had suddenly appeared all over London. It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three of four meters high striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip. From whatever angle you looked at the poster, the muzzle of the gun, magnified by the foreshortening seemed to ...
- 9813: Morals And Psychological Aspects in Jane Eyre
- ... strongly support this moral foundation. As a child she was constantly accused of being dishonest. Mrs. Reed even informed Mr. Brocklehurst that she was deceitful when she met with him before sending her off to school. She tells him that he should "keep a strict eye on her, and, above all, guard against her worst fault, a tendency to deceit." This both infuriated and crushed Jane. She through experiences such as ...
- 9814: Hololiterature: a Holographic Interpretation of the Scarlet Letter
- ... First, an understanding of the holographic process is needed before any comparisons are possible. First and foremost a hologram requires a source of coherent wave- like energy. The second is a recording medium of extremely high resolution to record the microscopic interference patterns of light. The third major requirement is utter stability and freedom from vibrations. As for producing an actual hologram, here is described a two-beam transmission holograph. (So ...
- 9815: Hesiod's "Works and Days" and Virgil's "The Georgics": Working the Land
- ... the proper method of paying homage to these gods. The overall frame of mind held by Hesiod can be seen in lines 456 through 481. This passage begins with the work ethic held in such high esteem by Hesiod when he writes, "When ploughing-time arrives, make haste to plough."(pg. 73 l. 456) Constantly, Hesiod is making references to work ethic, describing idlers as men who will "wrestle with ruin ...
- 9816: The Fellowship Of The Rings
- ... ring off Frodo!", they yelled. But he was frozen in his steps. Determind to get it they approached him. In a brave attempt to protect the ring, Frodo ran up to them, held the sting high in the air, attempting to strike one of them. But he failed. And instead he took a wound in his side. He then somehow managed to mount back on his horse and ride away across ...
- 9817: Elie Wiesel
- ... He was a cultured man concerned about his community yet, he was not an emotional man. His parents were owners of a shop and his two oldest sisters worked for his parents. Elie was a school boy and interested in studying the Zohar the cabbalistic books, the secrets of Jewish mysticism(Wiesel 3). His teacher was a foreigner, Moshe the Beadle, a poor barefoot of Signet(Wiesel 3). He was Elie ...
- 9818: The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
- ... bond business. Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man. All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep school for me... Nick went to the east to make money. He was from the midwest, and even though his family was doing pretty well in the money department, Nick wanted to make his own money ...
- 9819: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- ... has the reputation as being the only man "who had shed so much blood of animals that had not shed the blood of man" (p. 28). He says this with pride, obviously not looking with high regard upon the savage slaughter of other men. But Hurry's response shows that he looks at this in a totally different perspective. He says that he is afraid that people will think that Natty ...
- 9820: Dandelion Wine
- ... a jigsaw puzzle, everything fit in its place. Douglas and Tom had been through a lot during the summer of 1928 and a lot had been through them. Now that summer was almost over and school was about to begin, they bottled the dandelion wine for the summer and all their problems had past for new ones to occur. Only the scense of it was left in there heads, "and if ...
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