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- 981: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
- ... will lay the final pattern with these rocks They will lay it across the world And explode everything” (Silko 137). In order for Tayo to complete his ceremony he ironically had to use an ore rock, streaked with powdery yellow uranium (Silko 246). Uranium was a main component used to make the atomic bomb. When the atomic bomb explodes it kills all life forms in its path, leaving radioactive waste to ...
- 982: A Night To Remember
- ... either saw their spouse or friend drown in front of them. As the Titanic was in its final stages of being above the sea, some accounted that the huge ship looked like a gigantic jagged rock sticking out of the water. No one could save the Titanic now the only hope was to save the people who got off the ship with the help of the ship Carpathia who dropped the ...
- 983: Character Analysis: Catherine Morland
- ... to the common activities of young girls. While many girls are playing house with their dolls, Catherine's dolls are left untouched as she entertains herself playing cricket. Her most favorite thing being a hearty roll down the green slope behind her house. Catherine is never able to figure something out on her own. She needs to be taught something before she knows it. Sometimes she still doesn't learn because ...
- 984: The Lord of the Flies: The Evil of Mankind
- ... things." Once Ralph is named chief, the boys decide to take down the names of all of the children. Being of grammar school age, this is expected. The taking of names is comparable to scholastic roll call. Granted, these are little boys and in their minds a chief is a leader, but still, it is expected that when suddenly removed from society, any group would attempt to mimic that which they ...
- 985: Character Analysis: Catherine Morland
- ... to the common activities of young girls. While many girls are playing house with their dolls, Catherine's dolls are left untouched as she entertains herself playing cricket. Her most favorite thing being a hearty roll down the green slope behind her house. Unlike most girls, her thumb is far from green. She can be found in a garden only when picking forbidden flowers. Catherine is never able to figure something ...
- 986: The Lord of the Flies Character Analysis
- ... assault the hut on the beach where the remaining boys are housed. After all the confusion, the boys discover that Piggy’s glasses are gone. Ralph, Piggy, and Sam and Eric decide to visit Castle Rock (Jack’s Hide Out.) They are greeted with resistance. Piggy hears a roar coming toward him. It is a boulder, dislodged by Roger, that crushes Piggy under it. Sam and Eric are captured and Ralph ...
- 987: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie's Love Life
- ... met. Janie remarked, “Mah husband is gone tuh buy a mule fuh me tuh plow.” (Hurston 28). Instantly Joe stated, “A pretty Doll-Baby lak you is made to sit on de front porch and rock and fan yo’self.” (Hurston 28). Jody’s comments of how a women should be treated were completely different from his actions when Janie decided to run off with him. After they were married Janie ...
- 988: The Time Machine by H.G Wells
- ... his queer broad head in silhouette." When the arrive at the machine's location it is described as "Parts were made of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal". He probably chose these characters as witnesses because they hold higher education and people would believe them from there reputations. The psychologist would be beneficiary in convincing the other that its not a hoax ...
- 989: Biographical Influences in The Great Gatsby
- ... book is wonderful" Fitzgerald wrote to Edmund Wilson from France in the fall of 1924-"so is the air and the sea." I have got my health back-I no longer cough and itch and roll from one side of the bed to the other all night and have a hollow ache in my stomach after two cups of black coffee. I really worked hard as hell last winter-but it ...
- 990: The First Atomic Test
- ... two days, because it lies within the impact areas for missiles fired into the northern part of the test Range. In 1965, Range officials erected a modest monument at Ground Zero. Built of black lava rock, this monument serves as a permanent marker for the site and as a reminder of the momentous event that occurred there. On the monument is a plain metal plaque with this simple inscription: "Trinity Site ...
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