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- 5731: Jack London 2
- ... London was born in San Francisco and abandoned shortly after birth by his father, London took the name of his step-father. Because of his family s poor financial condition, London was forced to leave school at the age of fourteen and find work. He labored for several years as a cannery worker, a longshoreman and as a nocturnal scavenger of San Francisco Bay, becoming the self-styled "Prince of the ...
- 5732: I Aint Got Time To Bleed
- ... SEAL, being a pro wrestler, and his political career. It is a very interesting book because you learn about the real Jesse Ventura and understand his views a lot better. After he graduated from high school Jesse Ventura and a friend of his went to the Navy Recruiting office and signed up because they both wanted to become SEALs. When they went to basic training each part of the Navy presented ...
- 5733: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing
- ... after getting her job she becomes pregnant. Through her months of pregnancy she tells no one and no one helps her. She teaches herself how to deal with being an expectant mother and stay in school, and on top of all of this, continue work on the railway. She is completely self- sufficient. I had had help in the child s conception, but no one could deny that I had had ...
- 5734: Hunger Of Memory 2
- ... private and the outside of his house to be public. His family and the Spanish language belong to his private society. It contains a feeling of intimacy and a sense of belonging. The los gringos, school and the English language are associated with the pubic society. Several other kinds of separation emerge from this separation of public and private society. There are separations of sound and word, female and male, and ...
- 5735: Human Comedy 2
- ... the book's main themes, that the quality of life is very important. Main Characters Homer Macauley: This responsible young man has become the man of the house by supporting his family with an after school job. But with this job comes responsibility and the hardships of growing up. Homer learns to deal with the problems of the world and with the acceptance of death. Mrs. Macauley. She is the all ...
- 5736: How John Donne Showed His Love
- ... God or his lover. Whether you think Donne s poetry is perverted or not one can hardly call his work anything but genius. He is after all considered to be the leader of the metaphysical school of poets. As Herbert Grierson explains, Metaphysical Poetry has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe and the rτle assigned to the human spirit in a great drama of existence (147-148). As ...
- 5737: Dylan Thomas
- Thomas Dying Light Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on October 27, 1914. After leaving school, he worked briefly as a junior reporter on the South Wales Evening Post. In November of 1923 he moved to London and in December of that he published his first book, Eighteen Poems. In April ...
- 5738: To Kill A Mocking Bird
- ... on their word, but Tom was way more convincing than everybody else even the victim. I dont nessicarily like this part it just sticks out in my mind. Its when she goes to school and gets into fights and her teacher tells her she read all wrong. I just think its funny how shes always fighting boys. Shes a feisty little thing and she was only ...
- 5739: Dorothea Lange
- ... to the United States as immigrants. When Dorothea was seven years old, she suffered from polio. In 1907, her father left her family. And soon, her mother became an alcoholic. Dorothea was lonely in high school until she began studying photography. At the age of twenty-three, Dorothea left home, and in 1918, began an around the world trip. She taught Ron Partridge photography and people started calling him her assistant ...
- 5740: Blind Idealism In Twain's "War Prayer" and Howell's "Editha"
- ... the spiritual component of idealism. The people are caught up in the ever spiraling emotional frenzy that is permeating though out the nation: "young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion." Critics of the conflict are dismissed as radicals; and negative consequences are ignored. Understanding, sensitivity, or sympathy for ...
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