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- 3071: Tom Sawyer
- ... hunt for Injun Joe begins. Tom is treated like a hero, but feels bad knowing that he broke Huck s oath. Becky and Tom soon become friends again after Tom takes Becky s punishment at school for being careless with the teachers things. Becky finds Tom to be very noble. Summer is coming near. Injun Joe is still at large and Tom and Huck are searching for treasure. While searching near ... from his Aunt Polly. Tom could make up lies like nobody else. He was very slick. Tom would use his adventures to escape the havoc of daily life. When Tom had a hard day at school or a problem with Sid, he would go on a treasure hunt , or go play Robin Hood in the woods. This book is known to have multiple themes but I tried to connect all of ...
- 3072: Summary of Willie Morris' "Good Old Boy"
- ... City was built on. Next, the book told about the childhood life of the author, Willie Morris. Willie, his dog Skip, and friends had many exciting adventures together in that small town. They ranged from school day pranks to having saved the town from a band of thieves. They usually spent a lot of their time in Bubba's Model A Ford. Bubba was about eleven or twelve and had a ... to have secret passages all under it. Billy decided that they needed to go see, but no one else wanted to go. Billy went alone the next day. Everyone noticed that he was not at school or at home so they headed to the only place he could have gone. When they got to the mansion, they went to the house and saw seven eight and a half foot tall Indians ...
- 3073: Examination of Puritan Philosophy in Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
- ... on Thomas Morton's character. He continues, "After this, they fell into great licentiousness, and led a dissolute life, pouring out themselves into all profaneness. And Morton became the Lord of Misrule, and maintained a School of Atheism." Morton and his fellows also resorted to trading with Indians, and as Bradford puts it, "(They) got much…they spent it as vainly in quaffing and drinking, both wine and strong waters in ... take over the plantation, as the servants probably didn't want to be sold in Virginia. Bradford also implies Morton is a pagan. He calls Morton "the Lord of Misrule", and said Morton maintained a "School of Atheism". He views Morton as worshipping the maypole, as Morton and his fellows danced around it endlessly, and posted poetry to it. To Bradford, the drunken, hedonistic lifestyle that Morton maintained stood against everything ...
- 3074: Critique of "The Invisible Man"
- ... education. He was then mocked by having to recite a speech he was to memorize, which showed the total disrespect the people who were giving the scholarship had for the future students. After getting into school, a simple job turned into an unforeseen disaster that would change his life forever. He was to chauffeur Mr. Norton, a founder of the college he attended. Mr. Norton was a well educated but very ... journey he stuck with his ideas. The Invisible Man has many ties with reality in the sense that it shows how cruel and brutal life can be. Our main character worked hard to get into school only to have it taken away from him. The same happened to him when he got a job at the factory. The final and most devastating blow is dealt by the Brotherhood. They took him ...
- 3075: Horace Mann
- Horace Mann was the father of the American School System. Horace Mann s had many reforms on education. He was born in 1796. Mann determined what the purpose of education should be based on his own experience and observation. Mann also had many ideas ... Mann thought also that schools should have nothing to do in their religion and politics. Ideally, this is what public schools and teachers try to do today. Religion is not a part of the public school today. During Mann s twelve years as secretary of the Massachusetts board of education he sent back reports to the board as to the condition of schools and what he thought should be taught in ...
- 3076: "The Glass Managerie"
- ... a very skinny, fragile shape. She looks very frail and breakable. Laura lacks self- confidence, so much that she can't stand to be in a room of crowded people, such as in her business school. She feels like nobody can relate to her and her struggles. She knows that she is never going to satisfy her mother's greatest wish for her, and because of that, feels like she can ... and always feeling like she does not please her mother. She could not even go to her business college because of her fear of people and not being accepted. She had no friends in high school and only once had feelings for a boy. Her disability is often difficult for people to look past at first, which made it hard for her to become comfortable with people. She has her collection ...
- 3077: A Separate Peace
- ... a fairy to everyone.” (909). Finny, more of a rebel, is very outgoing; he, however shows himself off as a perfect individual. One day at Devon, he gets into small dispute because he wore the school tie as a belt. This he frees himself from quickly, explaining, “It goes with the shirt and it all ties together…with what we’ve been talking about, this bombing in Central Europe.” (910). Complying ... He likes to be the best that he can. He likes being in difficult situations to see if he can get out of it, showing his ability to express himself. Finny, one day wears his school tie as a belt, but he easily solves of this problem by explaining that he did it to show the link between Devon and the war. (909-910). Finny, a natural person who shows himself ...
- 3078: Hudson Taylor
- ... to a fairly financially stable family. Except he was not saved yet when he was just a lad. Yet his mother prayed earnestly for a long time for the salvation of her only son. The prayer was answered by God, when Hudson accidentally picked up a Christian brochure and read of the saving love of Jesus and Christ and what Christ did on the Cross of calvary, along time ago for ... in order to save as much as possible. Hudson worked in the medical field gaining knowledge that would someday be very useful in China. Upon work He became ill with a fatal fever, which through prayer and meditation and the good medical uses, was restored to full health after a time period. During the time period Hudson saved his money he dealt with the issue of fully relying on and trusting ...
- 3079: Death of A Salesman: Summary
- ... his mind on driving anymore. He ask his son Biff, who just came home for a visit after being away for a long time. Willy thinks about Biff when Biff was a senior in high school fourteen years ago. Willy thought about how Biff was playing in a football game and how scouts from all over the country to offer him scholarships. But something happen that year, because biff never really ... and they talk for a bit. Willy is almost in tears and asks Bernard what happened to Biff after his senior year. Biff had flunked math and was ready to complete the credit in summer school, but he did not and became a drifter. Bernard tells Willy that after Biff went to go see Willy on a business trip, he came back changed. Willy refuses to talk about what happened on ...
- 3080: A Doll's House: Women Have Come A Long Way
- ... gather nuts and berries, while the men would go out and do the hunting and fishing. The male always dominated over the women and it was not viewed as “unfair.” Male children would go to school to get an education in history, mathematics, science, english/writing, while the female would go to school to learn how to cook, sew, clean, and do household chores. The male could then further advance his education by attending a college or university, whereas no college would accept a women student. “The history ...
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