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- 2911: Beloved
- ... she is committing murder which she does not admit to. Throughout Beloved, Sethe's character constantly displays the duplistic nature of her actions. Shortly after her reunion with Paul D. she describes her reaction to School Teachers arrival “Oh, no. I was not going back there. I went to jail instead.” (Morrison 42) Sethe’s words suggest that she was making a moral stand by refusing to allow herself and her ... saying is that’s a selfish pleasure I never had before. I couldn’t let all that go back to where it was, and I couldn’t let her or any of ‘em live under School Teacher. That was out” (Morisson 163) It is apparent that Sethe truly loves her children, yet still shifts the burden of responsibility away from herself in the respect of her child’s death. She acknowledges ...
- 2912: Anti -semitism
- ... some background information on him. He was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. His father was a minor customs official and his mother was a peasant girl. He never completed high school and was a poor student. He twice applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but was not accepted for lack of talent. He read large amounts of books which helped him develop an ... is allot of people. These people could have made a difference in this world. There are allot of people who hate Hitler now because of what he did. Howard Ehrlich, a Jewish friend at my school, says, I hate Hitler for what he did to the Jews. He had a very anti-Semitic type of thinking that he developed on his own. I hope by reading this you have developed a ...
- 2913: Anne Frank
- ... in in the Netherlands, and she played with them everyday. Her friends and she played pranks on the other resident, like pouring water on their heads from the building above. Anne Frank attended the Montessori School in Amsterdam for the next six years, where she, made many friends and was an exceptional student. Under Nazi law it was made apparent to her and the other Jewish children that they were different. Therefore would have to attend Jewish Secondary School because in the eyes of Hitler Jewish children are not worthy enough to sit near the Dutch children. The transfer of a period of increasing travails for the Franks and the others against whom Hitler ...
- 2914: Jimmy Carter
- ... died 1983). Jimmy had 3 siblings, Ruth Carter (Stapleton), Gloria Carter (Spann), and William Alton (Billy) Carter. Jimmy Carter’s ancestry was English, his religion is Baptist. He went to the following schools: - Plains High school, Georgia (1929-1941) - Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia (1941-1942) - Georgia Institute of Technology (1942-1943? - United States Naval Academy, Annapolis (1943-1946 *class of 1947*) - Union College, Schenectady, New York (1952-1953) Some of Jimmy Carter’s favorites are: Sports and hobbies - Played Basket ball in Plains High school - Ran cross-country & played under-140 lb. football at Annapolis. - Life-long tennis player - Plays softball, billiards, bowls, fishes, hunts( especially wild turkey, quail, and dove) - Rode a motorcycle before entering politics - To keep in ...
- 2915: The Literary Contributions of King Alfred the Great
- ... of education. A scholar named Grimbald came from St. Omer to preside over his new abbey at Winchester; and John the Old Saxon, was brought from the abbey of Corbey to rule a monastery and school that Alfred's gratitude for his deliverance from the wars with the Danes raised in the marshes of Athelney (Keynes 26- 27, Stevenson 93,103) The real work, however, to be done was done, not by these scholars, but by the King himself. Alfred established a school for the young nobles of his court, and it was to the need of books for these scholars in their own tongue that we owe his most remarkable literary effort. Alfred emersed himself in his ...
- 2916: 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. believe it can Tom has many important decisions to make throughout the book. of Muff ...
- 2917: Good Versus Evil: Wars in A Separate Peace
- ... deals with throughout the book, the battles with Finny. We learn as the story begins that Gene and Finny are best friends. They go almost everywhere together and they even share a room at their school. We enter the story at what is called a "summer session" which could be described as today's equivalent of summer school. But, as the story unfolds, we are forced to ask ourselves, are they friends as the appear to be at the start of the novel or are they mortal enemies as Gene begins to hint ...
- 2918: A Separate Peace - Analysis
- ... as Gene wished he was, on one occasion Finny wore a bright pink shirt "symbolizing the first U.S. bombing in Europe. Gene called him a "faerie" but really envied him. Later Finny wore the school tie as a belt and when questioned he claimed that it represented "Devon in the war." Gene was hopeingly awaiting a scolding for Finny, but again, he got in no trouble. Another day the two ... Finny and Gene. One day, Finny wanted Gene to come jump off a high limb into the river with him, as they have been doing for several weeks now, and he claimed that Leper, the school nerd, would be jumping today as well. Gene burst out angrily at the idea because he was studying, and thought Finny was trying to wreak his studies, so he said no. Finny took no offense ...
- 2919: J.D.Salinger
- ... D.Salinger was born on the first of January 1919, in New York City, to Sol and Mirian Jilich Salinger. Salinger had one sister, Doris, that was eight years older than him. He attended public school on Manhattans upper west side. His grades where slightly above average. There are also reports that he tested to a 104 on an I.Q. test. Salinger was enrolled at thirteen, by his parents, in Manhattans "Highly rated" McBurney school. They where concerned about his grades. He flunked out one year later. Salinger was then enrolled in Valley Forge Military Academy in the Pennsylvania Hills. It was here that certain biographical facts begin to build ...
- 2920: Text and Traditions: Work Requirement One Historical Reconstruction
- ... as a trinity of matter, being vegetable, animal and human in nature, and proposed a ‘non-abstract theory of form, where the initiator of all existence is acknowledged as God. Epicureanism Epicurus set up a school in Athens that taught ethics, based on his writings and opinions, in the Hellenistic world. He proposed that the pursuit of happiness should be mans greatest concern, rather than modeling his life on the pleasing ... philosophy was that the pleasure seeking of mankind, would not only provide fulfilment for one's own self, but also lead to the advancement and development of society in general. Stoicism Stoicism was a famous school of Hellenistic thought. Its teachings were not just philosophical, but could be used by everyday people, in everyday life. The main goal for the tradition was to attain happiness and liberation from emotion, through the ...
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