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- 5751: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... New Zealand teenagers is the same but now you get teenagers that start smoking below the age of 17. The schools are common places for smoking these days, they usually do it in the toilets, school hockey turf's or where teachers never do their duties. Holden smokes a lot in the book and he does it sometimes when he gets depressed. Depression was a big problem with Holden, whenever he ...
- 5752: Thomas Jefferson
- ... the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until Massachusetts paid for the Boston Tea Party of the preceding year. Jefferson and other younger members of the Virginia Assembly ordained a day of fasting and prayer to demonstrate their sympathy with Massachusetts. Thereupon, Virginia's Royal Governor Dunmore once again dissolved the assembly (Koch and Peden 20). The members met and planned to call together an inter-colonial congress. Jefferson began ...
- 5753: The Artificial Family
- ... the neutral character in the story who not only ties the two main characters together but is used to separate them as well. Toby is presented as a young college student who is in graduate school on scholarships. He is studying science and seems easy going. He is simple but not a flat character. He starts out not knowing love and ends the story knowing broken love. He learns what it ...
- 5754: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... a chorister at Luneburg and at 19 organist at Arnstadt. Subsequent appointments included positions at the courts of Weimar and Anhalt-Kother, and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death. Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom ...
- 5755: The Moon Is Down
- ... born in Salinas, California and was the third of four children. His parents were John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. He lived in Salinas Valley all during his childhood and teens. He attended Salinas High School and studied at Stanford College. He did not complete college. In August of 1929 he published his first novel Cup of Gold. In January 14,1930 John married Carol Henning. He was mostly remembered for ...
- 5756: The Impact Of Stalinism In 198
- ... because he was not allowed to play with the "common" children. He eventually invented an invisible friend named Franky to play with (Shelden 19). In 1911 Orwell was sent to St. Cyprian's, a preparatory school, on the Sussex coast. Known for his intelligence, Orwell was "distinguished among the other boys by his poverty and intellectual brilliance" ("Orwell, George." 1020). After attending St. Cyprian's he attended Wellington college for nine ...
- 5757: The Hundred Secret Senses By A
- ... bond as her mom is too busy with marriage and divorce and is now back to dating again. They shared a room and Kawn would ask her too many questions. Soon students from Olivia's school would tease her for having a Chinese sister that knew nothing and she hated Kwan for it. However, Kwan didn't mind and still was nice to her sister, she would tell her stories about ...
- 5758: The Great Gatsby 8
- ... to this part of the world. He although comes form a wealthy family chooses to make his own fortune He All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said Why ye-es with very grave, hesitant faces. (P.7) One the other hands though, Jay Gatsby is the dream killer who is involved with men like Meyer Wolfsheim. Wolfsheim ...
- 5759: The Glass Menagerie -x
- ... to find some relief. Stuck in a warehouse job, he uses his past to urge on future success. Believing he will better himself, he takes classes in speaking, hoping to recapture his good old high school days. Laura's admiration fuels his need, and he fails to realize what he'd done to the fragile girl. The Glass menagerie is a play that makes one to think about their current situation ...
- 5760: Chinese Shih Poetry And Philos
- ... i expressed the ideas of Taoism and Confucianism, respectively, while their fellow poet Tao Chien expressed both, through their poetry. Confucianism is based on the ideas of Confucius, the man who gave the school of thought its name. The main goal of Confucianists was to return a gentlemanly society to China. The core of Confucianism concerned social structure. Confucius taught that a man should respect and obey those of ...
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