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- 6311: Chaucer's "The House of Fame": The Cultural Nature of Fame
- ... even today. Certainly the academic institutions were still a main factor regarding the formation of the English canon. Like Geffrey and Chaucer who studied classical writers like Virgil, Ovid and Dante, students studied this at school as it was considered the most "valuable" of the texts, again reflecting the "older is better" idea of 'auctoritas`. According to Kaplan and Rose, Dr. Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets was the beginning ...
- 6312: Catcher in the Rye: How Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, and Violence
- ... so he does. Then the rest of them follow. In the book, Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year. In the novel, Holden Caulfield ...
- 6313: Frank Lloyd Wright 2
- ... the architecture, will be seen on the exterior and it echoes the similar look for the interior. The texture of the materials shows the patterns of ornamentation. It enhances the solidity of the architecture. Hillside school (Fig. 2), reveals the combination with geometric shapes and linear construction that creates a transition with the fluent shape of the natural environment. The integration with linear and flowing shapes makes the architecture to look ...
- 6314: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... equipment (2). Many events from Fitzgerald's early life appear in The Great Gatsby, which was published in 1925. Like Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Minnesota, educated at an Ivy League school, who moves to New York after the war. Like Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury, and falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a ...
- 6315: Summary of "A Raisin in the Sun"
- ... part of the community, and were taken as some. The first people of the Younger family to associate and try to become friends with the whites is the young Travis. As Beneatha is off at school Travis brings home a white friend one Friday afternoon to play with him. His parents have no objection, and think that he may be the most grown up in the family, because he is willing ...
- 6316: Jane Eyre: Changing Seasons and Weather
- ... pastures and purple moors, which coinsedently are at the peak of their beauty, colorful with fresh bracken and summer flowers. A month passes and Jane is living in her cottage and begins working as a school- teacher through the generosity of St. John Rivers. By the time Jane becomes familiar with her students and their families Jane remarks that It is the fifth of November and a holiday. St. John soon ...
- 6317: A Comparison of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Anthem"
- ... is able to preform his duties well. Later in the book he finds a mirror, and he describes himself as beautiful." He also seems to be of good intelligence because he describes his experience in school as easy and boring, and he said that he understood more that the teachers. In Handmaid's Tale the main character is a woman of who seems to be mildly attractive since she acquires the ...
- 6318: A Christmas Memory: Truman Capote
- ... the gifts he received from his relatives. Sook points out to him that the wind is blowing and they should fly their kites together. This was their last Christmas together. Buddy was sent to military school, prisons, and camps. He had a new home, but felt that it was incomplete without his friend. Sook remained in the small town and wrote him regularly. Queenie passed away during one winter and was ...
- 6319: A Case of Needing: Serious Revisions
- ... characters. Berry ultimately discovers that a drug-dealing musician was actually at fault for Randall's death. Why did Michael Crichton write this book? The answer seems fairly obvious. Still fairly immersed in his medical school learnings, Crichton must have seen it as a chance to demonstrate just how much knowledge he had gained during his time at Harvard. Numerous medical procedures are described in detail, supplemented by footnotes and appendices ...
- 6320: Huckleberry Finn: A Good Role Model
- ... thank you for the meal and if you get the chance, please let me catch a big catfish. The widow tells Huck that he shouldn't pray for material things. Huck disagrees because his Sunday School teacher teaches him to pray to God for what you want, and it will be granted. The widow tells him that the teacher is talking about spiritual things. He still disagrees, and is sent to ...
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