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- 5541: My Antonia
- ... come to town to earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help their fathers struggle out of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school." (Page 127) This was the way of life for most girls around the 1920s. The book My Antonia by Willa Cather, Refreshingly creates female roles and strong personalities. Frances Harling, Molly Gardner, And Lena Lingard ...
- 5542: Madame Bovary
- ... affair with young Leon. When Emma first meets Leon she becomes fascinated with Leon's mind. They share the same romanticized views and read the same sentimental novels. However, Leon deserts Emma to attend law school. She later, after having an affair with Rodolphe, encounters Leon in Rouen and has an adulterous affair with him. Emma uses Leon to in place of Rodolphe. Emma's affair with Leon does not last ...
- 5543: Mark Twain
- ... Apple pie, baseball, cornfields for miles, all American icons, were included in Twains stories. Twain wrote of what it was to be an American, what it was like for a child in this country, skipping school, down by the river, images familiar to everyone, especially to Americans. He discussed their relationships their hardships dealing with life, and all the time in his unique literary form that we have come to love ...
- 5544: Benjamin Harrison
- ... Little Ben. General Harrison went back to his work at the Supreme Court and his law practice. He also took over again his large Bible class in the Presbyterian church, where his wife taught Sunday school. In 1876 Harrison ran for governor of Indiana. The Democrats called him "cold as an iceberg" and nicknamed him Kid-Glove Harrison. The Democratic candidate, nicknamed Blue Jeans, won the election. Four years later the ...
- 5545: Essay On Two Poems Of Carol An
- ... poem. In this poem the poet tells us about growth in life. She shows this by using a kindergarten child who is developing and maturing while aging. The child experiences and learns many things during school life. The poet uses a tadpole as a metaphor for the child. As the tadpole grows up the child matures. The tadpoles changed from commas to exclamation marks . There is a sign of growing up ...
- 5546: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
- ... daughter. During her upbringing, Vivie was unaware of how her mother’s professional success was attributed to a lifestyle she would come to hate and reject later in life. Because Vivie attends a private finishing school, she rarely sees her mother only shadowing her mother’s disreputable background. It is this background and Vivie’s high morals and schooling that soon become the conflict that will drive that would end their ...
- 5547: Essay On Poems
- ... of mine was a short story called "The Friday Everything Changed" by Anne Hart. The changes in this story are good in a woman s point of view. The author Anne Hart talks about her school years in this short story. She talks about how a girl in her class asked a question that changed their lives forever. The question her friend Niles asked was "Why can t girls go for ...
- 5548: Essay Comparing James Joyce To
- ... between James Joyce and Gabriel Conroy is that they are both highly educated and intelligent. Both Joyce and Conroy attended prestigious universities. James Joyce attended Dublin's University College and Gabriel Conroy attended a prestigious school as well. "Thanks to her, Constantine was now senior curate in Balbriggan and, thanks to her, Gabriel himself had taken his degree in the Roal University." By receiving an education, both men were highly intelligent ...
- 5549: Billy Sunday
- ... it on his own. He worked for a Civil War veteran and his wife. Colonel and Mrs. John Scott took him in, loved him, worked him hard, and sent him to two years of high school. No one knows whether or not he graduated, but he was much better educated than the typical American was. In 1880, two months before his eighteenth birthday, Billy Sunday decided to give up the rural ...
- 5550: King Lear
- ... Rose is now viewed as a loving mother who is very protective of her children. She was worried about her father taking advantage of her daughters and that is why, “I send them to boarding school” (Smiley 207). Just as the appearances of Goneril, Regan, and Lear change from one book to the next as realities are exposed, so does the appearance of Lear’s formerly most prized daughter Cordelia. In ...
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