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- 311: The Bluest Eye
- ... to handle and see sweet Shirley's face" (Morrison 23). Pecola loved Shirley Temple because she has beautiful blue eyes and people love her. Another figure that she idolized was the pretty picture of Mary Jane on her favorite candies. Pecola loved eating these candies and, even more, she loved looking at the face on the wrapper. She was mesmerized by the "blue eyes looking at her out of a world of clean comfort" (Morrison 50). Pecola longed for eyes like Shirley Temple's and Mary Jane's. She thought blue eyes would make her beautiful, and therefore, accepted by society. Pecola wanted to be beautiful. She saw the beauty in the dandelions and believed that she, too had beauty. She spent ...
- 312: The Catcher In The Rye: Summary
- ... dues to his liked instructors. Back at the dorm you meet Robert Ackley whom Holden dislikes with a passion. You are also introduced to Straddler, Holden's roommate, whom is going on a date with Jane tonight, one of Holden's old friends. Holden agrees to write a paper for Straddler, while he is on the date and gets immersed in old memories of his dead brother Allie whom he loves dearly. When Straddler arrives back at the dorm, Holden questions him about the date hoping that Straddler did not have sex with Jane. Straddler does not like the line of questioning and ends up in a fight with Holden, who lost trying to protect his old friend. This sets the scene for what life was like at Pency ...
- 313: The Bluest Eye: Summary
- ... attention. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of a little black girl who thinks that if she can live up to the image of the blue-eyed Shirley Temple and Dick and Jane that she will have the perfect life that they have. The importance of this book goes beyond its value as a work of literature. Morrison speaks to the masses, both white and black, showing how ... to be white means to be successful and happy. Then they look around at their own lives of poverty and oppression and learn to hate their own heritage for keeping them from the Dick and Jane world. Morrison does not solve these problems, nor does she even try, but she does show a reflection of a world that cannot call itself right or moral.
- 314: The Florence Baptistery
- ... Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York Greenhalgh, Michael The Classical Traditions in Art Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd 1978 Howard, Seymour Antiquity Restored, Essays of the Afterlife of the Antique IRSA Verlag GmbH, 1990 Turner, Jane The Dictionary of Art, vol. eleven Macmillian Publishers Ltd. Groves Dictionary Inc., New York 1996 Horn, Walter Art Bulletin vol. 25, 1943 Pg. 112-131 Weitzmann, Kurt Age of Spirituality, Late Antique and Early Christian Art Third to Seventh Century The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1979 Turner, Jane The Dictionary of Art, vol. seven Macmillian Publishers Ltd. Groves Dictionary Inc., New York 1996
- 315: Betsy Ross
- ... on March 3, 1782 (4. ushistory). Betsy was soon married for the third time to John Claypole, the cellmate of her late husband. John and Betsy had five children all girls, Clarissa, Sidney, Susannah, Rachel, Jane, and Harriet. Claypole and Ross were married happily until she was again widowed in 1817. Betsy continued making flags for the government for many years. She would live with one of her daughters until she ...
- 316: Chicago Politics
- ... shoes Daley left behind. It might have been possible to spare some of the Machine’s integrity had another candidate been given the position, but when Belandic took office, the cracks were already getting bigger. Jane Byrne defeated Michael Belandic in the 1979 election, an inevitable outcome to his poor performance as mayor in the previous couple years. Truly her inauguration marked the complete downfall of the institution that was the ...
- 317: Pride And Prejudice
- Prejudice The first sentence of the novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austin, foreshadows the end of the book. She writes, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a good wife". At first ...
- 318: Death, Rebirth
- ... apple’... Mr. Browne is tall but ‘wizened-faced’; Freddy Malins’ face is fleshy and pallid... Miss Ivors speaks ‘gravely’ to Gabriel; Freddy Malins’ mother is a ‘feeble old woman with white hair”; it is Mary Jane who explains the behavior of the coffined monks; Bartell D’Arcy, by singing the song of dead Michael Furey... and Gretta, who takes three “mortal hours to dress herself and who must be “perished alive ...
- 319: Pride And Prejudice
- Any man who tries to argue Jane Austen's ability to draw characters would be undoubtedly a fool, for the author's talent in that area of prose is hard to match. However even the most ardent fans of Austen will have ...
- 320: Defining History
- In the document, "Indians: Textualism, Morality, and The Problem of History," Jane Tompkins examines the conflicts between the English settlers and the American Indians. After examining several primary sources, Tompkins found that different history books have different perspectives. It wasn’t that the history books took different ...
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