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- 51: The Color Purple: Celie
- ... and they felt helpless to do anything about their situations. The book focuses mainly on a woman named Celie, who has lived a hard life already when, at the age of 14 she begins writing letters to God to have someone to confide in, and tell her thoughts and secrets to. In her first letter, she says I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign ... sister Nettie (she had run away after her father tried to get her, too, and ended up living with Celie for a short time until Mr. ____ tried the same thing), she finds all of the letters that Nettie had written her since she had gone. Mr._____ had told her that she would never hear from Nettie again, and every time another letter would come for Celie, he would hide it in ... upstairs, and not tell her about it. One day, Shug tells her to come with her after shed gotten the key for the box, and they find ... way down under his tobacco, Netties letters. Bunches and bunches of them. Some fat, some thin. Some open, some not. (129) Many years worth of letters, in which Celie finds out that Nettie became a missionary in Africa, and she has ...
- 52: Summary of Aycliffe's The Lost
- ... he thinks it's safer, her name is Sophie Wandless. This book is made up of a different way of writing, Sophie and Michael exchange information about each others and what's going on by letters, or postcards back and forth. We also learn about the characters from personal journal entries, letters to other people, and letters to them from other people. The evil beings in The Lost are not vampires, but strigoi, free-floating shades of an ancient family of lords. They die and don't decay. The other characters ...
- 53: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... correct" (Moldavia). Poe also loved debating. The student life at the University of Virginia in 1826 was very chaotic. In one student riot the students threw bottles and bricks at the professors. In Poe's letters to John Allen he often talked of violence on campus. He once wrote of how a student was struck on the head with a stone and then pulled out a gun and killed his attacker ... house. In a letter to John Poe wrote, "I have heard you say when you little thought I was listening and therefor must have said it in ear that you had no affection for me" (letters 203). Poe then resorted to gambling again and became even more into debt. Poe then moved to Boston under the alias of Henri Le Renett (Moldavia). Poe then managed to published his first book Tamerline ... did try to quit drinking many times but he was never successful. In a letter on July 22,1848 Poe wrote, "It has bean a long while since any artificial stimulus has passed my lips" (Letters 239). Poe also to go mad. Poe's madness was mainly credited to brain lesions or scars in the brain. A good example of Poe breaking down is when he arrived at John Sartains ...
- 54: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... not issue any applause of any kind, and I did not hear of that subject for some time. But when Mr. Darwin passed away from this life, and some time after Darwin's Life and Letters came out, the Rev. Mr. Twichell procured an early copy of that work and found something in it which he considered applied to me. He came over to my house- it was snowing, raining, sleeting ... very glad to have those verses. I am very glad and very grateful for what Mr. Birrell said in that connection. I have received since I have been here, in this one week, hundreds of letters from all conditions of people in England- men, women, and children- and there is in them compliment, praise, and, above all and better than all, there is in them a note of affection. Praise is ... is well, but affection- that is the last and final and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement, and I am very grateful to have that reward. All these letters make me feel that here in England- as in America- when I stand under the English flag, I am not a stranger. I am not an alien, but at home. DEDICATION SPEECH. AT THE ...
- 55: Various Works Of Ee Cummings
- ... his title. In the following poem, one may wonder what is being said. "l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness" (Cummings 1) For the inexperienced reader, this poem would look like meaningless letters put together in a non-sentence structure. When this poem is looked at from a puzzle point of view, one begins to put his puzzle together. When read appropriately, the poem then reads "a leaf ... pleasure, another may think that his poems have a deeper meaning. Not all of his poems are written like the two previously mentioned. Many are in a more modern style, yet all are in lowercase letters. In the following poem, the way that it is written shows another aspect of E. E. Cummings's remarkable talent for poetry. "n OthI n g can s urPas s the m y SteR y of s tilLnes s" (Cummings 42) In this poem, E. E. Cummings has a unique way of having the words sandwiched between the same letters. One may wonder how E. E. Cummings can manage to break away from traditional poetry, and still have a surprise waiting around every corner. Many of E. E. Cummings's poems do not have ...
- 56: Hemingway And Camus
- ... all editions have forty-one chapters to be found in five books. Here is what we have discovered: if you multiply 41 by 5 you get 205. And now if you take the number of letters in Frederic's name (8) and add that to the number of letters in Catherine's name (9) you get 17. 205 + 17 = 222. And if you grant that the time of the events in the novel, counted properly, is three years, then the pattern we have discovered ... is the product of 222 and 3 but the infamous 666 of Revelations 13:18? Imagine now our delight when we discovered a similar 666 pattern in The Outsider. If you multiply the number of letters in Meursault's name times the number of letters in `Albert' times the number of letters in `Arab' you get 216. Add to that the 6 of `Albert' and multiply by 3 (which is ...
- 57: Patterns In Hemingway And Camu
- ... all editions have forty-one chapters to be found in five books. Here is what we have discovered: if you multiply 41 by 5 you get 205. And now if you take the number of letters in Frederic's name (8) and add that to the number of letters in Catherine's name (9) you get 17. 205 + 17 = 222. And if you grant that the time of the events in the novel, counted properly, is three years, then the pattern we have discovered ... is the product of 222 and 3 but the infamous 666 of Revelations 13:18? Imagine now our delight when we discovered a similar 666 pattern in The Outsider. If you multiply the number of letters in Meursault's name times the number of letters in `Albert' times the number of letters in `Arab' you get 216. Add to that the 6 of `Albert' and multiply by 3 (which is ...
- 58: Viete
- Viete Viete is not regarded as having a direct role in fluid mechanics but is included because he is my son's favorite mathematician. Viete was the first to represent mathematical quantities by letters and introduced the plus (+) and minus (-) symbols. He derived a formula for p in the form of an infinite product. His substitution method for the solution of polynomials still goes by his name. Finally, he ... Spanish code in intercepted messages. Viθte introduced the first systematic algebraic notation in his book In artem analyticam isagoge (1591). He demonstrated the value of symbols by using plus + and minus - signs for operations, and letters to represent unknowns. He suggested using letters as symbols for quantities, both known and unknown. He used vowels for the unknowns and consonants for known quantities. The convention where letters near the beginning of the alphabet represent known quantities while letters ...
- 59: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... didn't have a good relationship. Benjamin thought his brother didn't pay him enough money and James was difficult to get along with. After four years when he was about 16, he wrote some letters to his brother's paper and signed them Silence Dogood. The letters were funny and sometimes made fun of the Boston authorities and society. His letters became very popular and everyone tried to figure out who Silence Dogood was. In 1722, James was sent to prison for making statements against the Boston authorities. Benjamin took care of the newspaper while ...
- 60: Aquired Dyslexia
- ... Rayner, Well and Pollotsek. (1980) Once the information is correctly converted to electrical impulses by the retina it is sent via the optical nerve to the brain. Many theories suggest that some of the component letters of a written word must be identified before the word is recognised. The early theory of letter identification was based on the fact that it was believed that templates were present in the brain to which the letters in written words could be compared. The main problem with this theory is that if letters do not appear to be the same we can still recognise them as the same letter. (e.g. A and a.) An alternative theory to this has therefore been proposed. This theory is based ...
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