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- 321: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... achieving her Ph.D. on a Fellowship for the Rosenwald Foundation. Zora's efforts in obtaining her Ph.D. were lacking. Her education received a boost in 1939 when she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Morgan State College (Hurston 204). This was the pinnacle and end of her academic achievements. Zora Hurston's career was one of storytelling and teaching. Zora used her talents to create "realistic black ... not willing to give of their prestigious careers. Hence, the marriage only lasted eight months, ending in a divorce in 1931 (Lyons 62). However, Zora and Sheen remained life long friends and continued to write letters and back forth where Zora once wrote him, "Your own mother has never loved you to the depth I have, Herbert."(Lyons 62) In March of 1937, while writing Their Eyes Were Watching God, she ...
- 322: Bless Me, Ultima - Character A
- ... notices a “red spot on [Florence’s] forehead where he must have hit the edge of the culvert.” (240) Death, to a six year old, is a mystery while religion is accepted just like the letters of the alphabet. However, Tony’s questions of religion and reactions to death reflect a mindset of someone far beyond his age group. For someone of his age, Antonio has a strong yearning for knowledge. He is “driven by the desire to make [his] the magic of the letters and numbers” (64) and works hard, “eager to learn the secret of the magic.” (76) At school, while others “cry…and wet [their] pants” (58), Antonio spends his time in the corner “writing [his] name ...
- 323: Time and Fate in Romeo and Juliet
- ... In the meantime Friar Laurence will convey a message to Romeo in Mantua, telling him the plot. When she gains consciousness, Romeo and Friar Laurence will be there. Friar Laurence says, "Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,/ And hither shall he come; and he and I/ Will watch thy waking" (IV, i, l 114-116) Following Juliet’s intake of the poison, Romeo is anticipating news from Verona. Balthasar, a servant to Romeo, tells Romeo that Juliet has passed on. Romeo, who is told there are no letters from the friar, seeks a way to accomplish his suicide. Meanwhile, Friar Laurence, confronts Friar John, who was to deliver the letter to Romeo. Friar John informs Friar Laurence that he was seeking another Franciscan ...
- 324: Analysis of Children's Fairy Tales
- ... children's attention. Sometimes even objects like cars and trucks came to life. These books were packed with pictures. There were plenty more pictures than words. When there were words they were printed with huge letters which takes the stress off trying to figure out what the words say. If the children see lots of words with small letters they get discouraged. Old Stories ³New stories ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ -teaches ³-teaches -how to do things ³-how to do things -cleaning habits ³-cleaning -things not to do ³-coloured pictures -colourless pictures ³-lessons in life -lessons in life ...
- 325: Needham
- ... were playing professional ball in Europe under assumed names and getting paid for it. The public would be outraged. Needham acquired his information first hand; he uses actual quotes from his sources. He also uses letters written by the athletes and trainers of the time. The use of example evidence such as actual letters written by athletes is very convincing. Throughout his article Needham wants to convince his readers that college players are playing summer ball under assumed names and getting paid for it. He produces a letter written ...
- 326: Evolution Of Profanity
- ... a Cockney expression, "Gorblimey," which is a word used to swear to the truth, and is a shortened form of "God blind me." Also, in England, words such as "bloody," "blimey," "blinkin'," beginning with the letters "BL" are taken offense to because they, once again, refer to the blood of Christ and the crucifixion. The military has an interesting technique for swearing their brains out without offending anyone. "They use the ... charlie." Or instead of the horribly offensive blasphemous cuss word, they could say "golf delta." Most people are familiar with the swear words that are still used. These "four-letter words" aren't necessarily four letters long, but more or less, they get the same point across as their four lettered friends. Such words usually include crap, ass, shit, bitch, fuck, and damn. There are many variations on the usage and ...
- 327: Alcatraz Island (The Prison)
- ... visits (Corrections 54). Visits only lasted a half-hour and they had to talk over telephones through thick glass. The conversations were monitored and could be cut off at any time. Inmates could also write letters, but they were heavily censored and rarely mailed. The prison was extremely expensive to run. It cost forty-eight thousand dollars per inmate per year (Corrections 54). Today it would cost over one hundred thousand ... that didn’t calm them down they were locked in the damp, cold, basement of the old fort (Stuller 88). Normal inmates had to find a way to spend hours in their cells. Some wrote letters, read, painted, drew, and others planned escape, ways to get at enemies, and ways to get off the island. Inmates would memorize every move of the guards down to the second. They stole anything they ...
- 328: The Lottery
- ... Was this a barbaric tradition or was this ritual an honest attempt to better other villager\\'s lives? Shortly after the publication of \\"The Lottery\\" in The New Yorker, \\"a flood of mail - hundreds of letters-deluged both the editorial offices in New York and the post office in Bennington\\" (Friedman 63). Miss Jackson said that out of all the letters sent, there were only thirteen that were positive responses, and those were from her friends (63). _______________________________Note___________________________________________ The Lottery. Images such as the black box and characters such as Old Man Warner, Mrs. Adams, and ...
- 329: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- ... did. Duddy did not receive the same kind of love from his father or uncle as Lennie did. When Duddy comes back from work at, he asks, "Why [Max] didn't answer any of [his] letters?" He replies he wasn't "one for letters." "But Duddy remembered that when Lennie had worked as a camp counsellor one summer his father had written every week. He had driven out to visit him twice."(pp. 104 & 105) Duddy did not have ...
- 330: The Invisible Man: Summary
- ... heart. Dr. Bledsoe tells him that if he goes to New York and earns enough money, he will be readmitted to the college. The narrator agrees to this, and Dr. Bledsoe gives the him several letters of recommendation and sends him on his way.(Nadel 12) When the narrator gets to New York, the son of Mr. Emerson, one of the people Dr. Bledsoe wrote a letter to, tries to tell the narrator about the tyranny that he is being exploited by. But the narrator refuses to listen until he is shown the letter that Dr. Bledsoe wrote. He discovers that all the letters of recommendation are phony and that Dr. Bledsoe never actually intended for him to be able to re-enroll in the college. This realization finally causes the narrator to become at least partially disillusioned. Because ...
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