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- 6361: Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": Summary
- ... as children, experienced parental indifference or inconsistency. Though a successful tax attorney, he is jumpy around Conrad, and, according to his wife, drinks too many martinis. Conrad seems consumed with despair. A return to normalcy, school and home-life, appear to be more than Conrad can handle. Chalk-faced, hair-hacked Conrad seems bent on perpetuating the family myth that all is well in the world. His family, after all, "are ...
- 6362: Lost Heritage in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
- ... feet were always neat-looking, as if God had shaped them Dee next. A dress down to the ground Earrings gold, too (Walker 291) Also, Dee has a 'modern' education, having been sent "to a school in Augusta" (Walker 290). Dee attempts to connect with her racial heritage by taking "picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie She never takes a shot without making ...
- 6363: Lord of the Flies: Man Is Savage at Heart
- ... irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring" (Riley 1: 119). The novel shows the reader how easy it is to revert back to the evil nature inherent in man. If a group of well-conditioned school boys can ultimately wind up committing various extreme travesties, one can imagine what adults, leaders of society, are capable of doing under the pressures of trying to maintain world relations. Lord of the Flies's ...
- 6364: Lord of the Flies: We Hate Piggy
- ... the joy of readers in hating Piggy's character. In the beginning of the novel, when Ralph meets Piggy after the plane crash, Piggy regretfully tells Ralph what the kids used to call him at school, “ They used to call me ‘Piggy'.”(1) Ralph then shrieks with laughter and makes fun of Piggy's nickname, “Piggy! Piggy!”(2) Ralph goes on and on with giving Piggy a bad time, just as ...
- 6365: Irony of The Setting in "The Lottery"
- ... reader to focus on what a typical day it is in this small town. The time of day is set in the morning and the time of year is early summer. She also describes that school has just recently let out for summer break, letting the reader infer that the time of year is early summer. The setting of the town is described by the author as that of any normal ...
- 6366: In Contempt by Christopher Darden: A Review
- ... always believed that he could do anything that he put his mind to. She was the only person that believed he could be a lawyer and always introduced him as a future lawyer. In high school Chris followed in his brother's footsteps and joined the track team. This would be his ticket to a scholarship at Berkeley University, and the start to his law career. After completing college, he applied ...
- 6367: In Our Time: Review
- ... read The Sun Also Rises about ten times and gotten waylaid by Batman, Robert B. Parker, and the like each time. I think I read The Old Man and the Sea ages ago in high school, but it was so long ago that it has slipped completely from my memory. He is one of those authors that I always connect with my father and his college years for some reason, although ...
- 6368: Fritz Haber
- ... to attain economic success on an industrial scale." In 1911, Haber was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin. This new research facility was to become more famous than the school he had built up at Karlsruhe. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Haber was in charge of forming a center for cross-disciplinary research in chemistry and physics and as such, he ...
- 6369: Great Expectations
- ... were highly traumatic for Dickens, and his job was a misery--he considered himself too good for it, earning the contempt of the other children. After his father was released from prison, Dickens returned to school; he eventually became a law clerk, then a court reporter, then a novelist. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, became a huge popular success when Dickens was only twenty-five, and he was a literary ...
- 6370: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Insight About Life and World
- ... wasn't much in the mood any more to give old Jane a buzz." (Pg. 150) Holden also had a problem getting his motivation together in order to complete schoolwork and succeed in his prep school. I have similar problems with my motivation and find at times I must be in the mood to do something in order for me to accomplish it. This stems from our experience in the past ...
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