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- 2481: Such A Good Boy: How A Pampered Son's Greed Led to Murder: Summary
- ... Lords, Muir and Cousins. Darren hired lawyers for the three youths, which fueled the suspicions. Then, after a period of questioning, the police made a move. They moved on David Muir, finding inconsistencies in his stories. David cracked; he gave a full confession. However, this was not admissible evidence, but it confirmed the fears of the investigators that Darren had brutal planned the whole thing. They then went to Amanda, who ... in Canada, she worked as a reporter in her Native Australia, then in England, and in the United States. She now lives on an offshore island in British Columbia, where she studies cases and other stories. In Birnie's attempt to capture the elements of the case and deliver them without bias and with integrity, one can see she has succeeded in most areas. She used perspectives from almost every angle ...
- 2482: The Handmaids Tale
- ... a world where it would be safe for children, and women. It also eliminated sex. It was no longer for enjoyment, but a necessity for life. Before it had been out of control, "There were stories in the newspapers... but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others."(p. 53) People had the freedom to do whatever they wanted, and many took advantage of this, "We seemed to be able to choose, then ...
- 2483: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead
- ... where convicts, troublemakers and dissenters were to be sent. But, Dostoyevsky presents a camp that does not fulfill such horrid expectations. While many of the sections of the work deal with flogging and punishment, these stories are outweighed by stories of the freedoms that most of the prisoners enjoyed: money, vodka, harlots, special clothing, and special prison meals. While prisoners enjoyed such benefits, these were, however, few and far between. Dostoyevsky recounts how prisoners had ...
- 2484: "Managemment of Grief" and "A Pair of Tickets": Women's Images
- ... Images Both Management of Grief and A Pair of Tickets were written by women and about women. traditional, stereotypical literary image of feeble and delicate creatures who needed to be cared for. Women in these stories were faced with horrible tragedies, but the determining element in their experience was not so much what happened to them but how they took it. After reading first few pages of Management of Grief one ... occur indicating the inner strength of the mother who could go through unfolding, many leveled process of grief alone. They were from different generations and different cultural backgrounds. Although they both had their individual life stories, there was a connecting link between them. They were women, strong and brave, who reached the depth of despair and lived through it. They were mothers, who harbored in their hearts eternal feeling of grief ...
- 2485: "The Stranger": Analysis
- "The Stranger": Analysis I. Biographical Insights A. Albert Camus' cultures consist of being a novelist, literature and short story writer of many books. He wrote an essay on the state of Muslims in Algeria, causing him to lose his job and he moved to Paris. Albert Camus also joined the French resistance against ... forgive him, but in order for that to happened a man must repent and in so doing become like a child whose heart is open and ready to embrace all". A. The people in this short quote is Monsieur as the judge is talking to him. The judge don't think Monsieur believe in Jesus because Monsieur is always talking about how he does not care about anything and he rather ...
- 2486: Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization
- ... something unique, they saved civilization, not the masses of people, but literature, the content of classical civilization. (Cahill, p. 58) One reads of the time from Rome's fall to medieval times learning through the stories of the characters, most notable Augustine and Patrick. Augustine, his faith based on Roman Chrisitanity, looked into his own heart and found the anguish of each individual. (Cahill, p. 115) Patrick, the slave turned Christian ... alphabet and Roman literature with him. He also brings a more personal faith with him that pagan Ireland eventually accepts. Hungry for knowledge faith and literacy essentially become one. My other favorite part was the stories of the early Irish war heroes that became possessed by warp-spasm, particularly Cuchulainn. Cahill uses exerpts form The Tain to illustrate how they lived in fear of their mythological creatures, lived in fear of ...
- 2487: Mythic Heros: Sinbad the Sailor
- ... famed voyages, he was shipwrecked, alone, and faced with some hideous danger. On each and everyone, he overcame the odds, destroyed his foes, and returned home with riches beyond the imagination. As a child, the stories of Sinbad's voyages were wildly entertaining. In each one, there was adventure, danger, money, and the hero always came home in one piece. Now that I look back at the stories, there are some parts of Sinbad's fantastic tales that bother me. First of all, Sinbad never set out in search of adventure. These amazing things just seemed to always happen to him. He normally ...
- 2488: First Knight and The Ox-Bow Incident
- ... two totally different ideas. The last major difference between the Knights and the cowboys was one of ethics and morale. The two groups both showed a code of ethics that portrayed their moral throughout the stories. The Knights had a set of rules which they abided by and which didn't change at all in the story. On the other hand, the cowboys ethics changed often, throughout the "Oxbow." The cowboys ... s word was especially important, while the cowboys didn't trust anything that anybody said or did. They were always looking over their shoulder, never sure when another cowboy would turn against them. The two stories, "The Ox-Bow Incident," and "First Knight," contained some similarities and many differences. Most of their differences seemed to be based on the relationship between the characters, while they were similar in the fact that ...
- 2489: Alvarez Shows Language is A Tremendous Difference In Everyone's Lives In His Story
- ... she was raised. She was never allowed to experience anything of the sort, so it all seemed alien to her, just as her poem had to him, and the rest of the class. After a short time dating, Rudy began to try and introduce sex into their relationship. He had up to that point corrupted her to drinking, smoking, and doing a variety of drugs. She still hung onto the fear ... and love was a major difference in languages. Yolanda had acquired the idea that sex was an act of love, and should be treated as such, and introduced as such. Rudy was interested in the short term gratification of "getting laid." Rudy and Yolanda grew up learning different languages, and at the same time learning the cultural norms of the area in which they originated. They brought their values with them ...
- 2490: The Pearl: A Review
- The Pearl: A Review The Pearl is a story about an Mexican Indian man and woman, set in the early to mid-1900's, in Bolivia. It was written by John Steinbeck as a short fiction book that tells of the family's life just before, during, and just after find a great pearl. The book was an amazing and discussed many different ideas. The main idea discussed is whether ... pearl, for it has destroyed everything else. Without the pearl, probably none of this would have every happened and, most likely, Coyotito would still be alive. This was a very good book. It was fairly short yet it covered an amazing amount of material. The author developed his theme better than any other author in any other book I have read. The entire book was dedicated to his one theme. Every ...
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