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- 5871: Freud 2
- ... nervous system in the physiological laboratory under the direction of the German physician Ernst Wilhelm von Brόcke. Neurological research was so engrossing that Freud neglected the prescribed courses and as a result remained in medical school three years longer than was required normally to qualify as a physician. In 1881, after completing a year of compulsory military service, he received his medical degree. Unwilling to give up his experimental work, however ...
- 5872: A Rose Of The South
- ... would go on and no one would see much of Miss Emily until they finally found her dead in one of her rooms on a walnut bed. At her funeral the old men wore Confederate uniforms and the ladies showed up with curiosity to see Miss Emily; The last of the "Old South". After the funeral, they went to visit her house and discovered the mans body lying on the bed ...
- 5873: A Rose For Emily
- ... to the scene of the funeral. The two female cousins came to town and held the funeral on the second day. The ladies were "sibilant and macabre" and the old men were wearing their confederate uniforms. They waited until they buried her before they decided to enter her bridal room that has not been seen in forty years. The door had to be forced open, "A thin, acrid pall as of ...
- 5874: A Raisin In The Sun - Women
- ... family and her home. This is shown when she uses $3,500 of her late husband's insurance money to buy a house for the family. Beneatha, by contrast, looks outward towards college and medical school. Lena is very proud of Beneatha's plans to become a doctor. Beneatha knows that a doctor helps people and therefore wants to become one. She is committed to blacks improving themselves and society through ...
- 5875: A Raisin In The Sun
- ... most ambition to fulfill those. Walter's dream was to have an office and to be successful. He wanted to have a gardener and he wanted to be able to send his son to any school that he wanted. Walter's quest was to be a man, a man can be trusted and a man who stands up in the face of adversity. At the end of Act II Scene I ...
- 5876: A Prayer For Owen Meany
- ... Knowles and A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving are two novels that deal with similar themes. A Separate Peace deals with the events that alter the lives of two boys in a boarding school, while A Prayer for Owen Meany is the journey of two people from childhood to adulthood. Both works clearly define the true meaning of friendship and the obstacles it faces throughout the life. Due to ...
- 5877: 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 ...
- 5878: A Lesson Before Dying
- ... come to a close, Grant and the Reverend's strives to help Jefferson in their own ways, results in him finding himself, his true beliefs, and re-establish his self-dignity. Grant Wiggins, a black school teacher was chosen by Mrs. Emma, Jefferson's godmother, to make Jefferson understand that he was a man, not a hog. He took the challenge, not by free will but by his aunt, and by ...
- 5879: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... for satirical writing, as well as cartooning since she was a child. By the end of her undergraduate education, OConnor knew that writing was her true passion. She spent two years at the prestigious School for Writers at the State University of Iowa on scholarship, receiving a masters degree of fine arts in 1947 (Candee 318). In 1950, she had a near fatal attack of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE ...
- 5880: A Christmas Memory
- ... kites that they give each other each year represent a life of simple pleasures, when things were easier in Capotes world. This is why, in the end, Capote walks across the campus of his school remembering days gone by, longing for the past, and searching for, again, the simpler things in life and the meaning in a life void of happiness.
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