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- 3391: Jurassic Park 3
- ... on Jurassic Park they were close but after a while they became friends again. She is asked to acompany Malcom and levine on the exploration of "Site B." Kelly and Arby are students at the school at which Levine tutered. Levine did not choose to do this. He was arrested for speeding at the school zone and had to serve community service. Kelly and Arby often ran errands for Levine. Kelly is the act now think later type of person. While Arby is the nerdy whimp type of person. He ...
- 3392: Abortion
- ... women to have control over their own bodies and life. One activist said, "If I hadn't had that abortion my life would have been a disaster. I wouldn't have made it to medical school. I was married at that point to a very ill man and it would have been terrible to have to have my baby. People who need abortions are in some kind of turmoil and it ... abort the fetus he suspected wasn't his. He successfully did so and Caroll believed Hollis set out intentionally to kill that fetus and that is in fact murder. Kristina Kleg a graduate from high school has recently become pregnant and decided against abortion. She feels that it's an innocent child inside of her. It has a brain and a heart therefore it also has a right to life. "Abortion ...
- 3393: Critical Biography On J. D. Salinger
- ... with a controversial look at society which is greatly enhanced by the integration of his own life experiences, dialect and religious philosophies into his stories. "Salinger was the greatest mind ever to stay in prep school." -Norman Mailer (qtd. in "Salinger" SSC 291) The story of J. D. Salinger begins in downtown New York, NY, where he was born on January 1, 1919. Little is known about his early childhood, but his parents; Sol and Miriam, were known to be of upper-middle class stature and the family dwelled in downtown New York. As Salinger began to attend junior high school, his grades began to drop so his parents decided to send him to Valley Forge Military Academy, which is located in Pennsylvania. While enrolled in Valley Forge, Salinger's IQ level was tested at 115 ...
- 3394: John Updikess Pigeon Feather
- ... is almost Joycean, and he has often imitated Joyce in the almost mechanical way of someone doing an exercise in a creative-writing class: how his virtuosity must have charmed his writing teachers! His evident school-brightness and the first-class education it brought him provided every opportunity for the overdevelopment of his onomastic tendencies. They are most obvious in his verse ("Conceptually a blob,/ the knob/ is a smallish object ... in "Flight," remembering what looks like this same girl and his mother's jealousy of her, reconstructs a glowing world of details about his grandfather and grandmother (who turns up in several other stories), of school and classmates, of dances and debates. It is a meticulous, loving and beautiful re-creation, and Mr. Updike's mind probes it with the delicacy of a surgeon, seeking what makes it in memory seem ...
- 3395: The Good Earth: Wang Lung - A Man of Determination and Loyalty
- ... land or spends it to benefit his children. If Wang Lung is going to buy new land he wants one of his kids to be literate. He decides to send two of his boys to school so he will have someone to go with him to the merchants to sell his goods. Wang lung wants to have a scholar in the family. In addition to sending them to school he makes sure they are dressed nice and well mannered. The children later grow up to be smart, kniving men. Though it may not work, Wang Lung tries his best to get the most out ...
- 3396: Goals and Accomplishing Your Dreams
- ... we choose to be drug addicts, alcoholics, or thieves will change the way people treat us and look at us. I know that things such as drugs will only hurt me, and my performance in school. That is why I have made up my mind to never compromise my life or values due to peer pressure. There is only one way for me to get where I'm going and that is through hard word and determination. I must get my high school diploma as well as go to college. The truth of the matter is that good people sometimes fail. But if they really care, they will not go down without a fight. Many times the people ...
- 3397: Jane Eyres Struggle For Love
- ... At Lowood, Jane is repulsed by Mr. Blocklehurst and his "two-faced" character and coarseness. However, while at Lowood, Jane finds her first true friend in the form of Helen Burns, another student at the school. Helen teaches Jane of love in the form of religion. By means of instruction as well as by example, Helen is able to convey this message. When Jane is punished in front of the whole school, she tries to accept it as though it has some higher purpose. However, Jane still desires human affection and is deeply hurt when she is scorned. Jane goes as far as to say, "If others ...
- 3398: Jane Eyre 2
- ... nightmare. Late at night she is taken back to her room by Bessie, the nurse. She isn't well so Bessie call's the apothecary. To him Jane says that she wants to go to school. For weeks nothing happens. At one day Mr. Brocklehurst arrives. He is the head of Lowood Institute. Jane goes to Lowood and meets Helen, a very intelligent child. Helen dies of tuberculosis. Many other children ... John Rivers and his two sisters Diana and Mary take her care of. After many weeks she wants to pick up her life and becomes a village teacher. Mary and Diana become both governess . The school is a success thanks to Jane. One day Mr. Rivers arrives and wants to tell Jane something. He tells her that he is her cousin and that she has inherited a fortune from her deceased ...
- 3399: To Kill A Mockingbird-racial P
- ... pressure because he is defending Tom, but he is a strong man and won't stoop down to the other naοve resident's level. The pressure Jem and Scout get from the other kids at school is very different yet similar to the pressure Atticus receives. At school, the kids taunt Jem and Scout calling them and their father nigger-lovers and the kids just expect them to take it. Jem being the mature child of the family, ignores them, but Scout doesn ...
- 3400: Maria Mithchell
- ... sky. He also encouraged her toward teaching and passed on a sense of God as in the natural world. By the time Maria was sixteen, she was a teacher of mathematics at Cyrus Pierce's school for young ladies where she used to be a student. Following that she opened a grammar school of her own. And only a year after that, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at Nantucket's Atheneum during the day when it opened to the public ...
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