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- 131: ... In the story Red Dress by Alice Munro and the movie Rebel without a Cause by Nicholas Ray the issue of authority and respect comes up many times through the character actions. In Alice Munro s the Red Dress, the narrator and her best friend Lonnie have two totally different relationships with their respective guardians. The narrator, without the mention of her father, is in care of her mother, whom she thinks butts in too much into her business. She sort of resents her mother for being so too close and nosy about her private life. Her mother s stories, which at one point seemed interesting to her, is now become melodramatic, irrelevant, and tiresome . She knows that her mother only means well but sometimes she wishes she could be like Lonnie. Lonnie is ... for her, she is pretty much on her own. The narrator considers her as a Blue-Baby and privileged. The narrator also sees her mother as shameless and obscene ; she tries to direct her friend s attention away from her mother as much as possible. In the story, we are told by the narrator that she was never comfortable for a minute in high school and was close to despair ...
- 132: Creative Writing - The Case: An Original Mystery
- ... on a Saturday . . . . hold on Allison it will only take a minute . . . Hello?” detective Pat said. “ Hey sorry Sergeant McGurn but we need you to come down to the station as soon as possible . . . there's more trouble over at Gibbons. Meet me there.” “Hey sugar I have to go down to Gibbons there's more trouble, do you need a ride someplace?” said the exasperated homicide detective. “It's always something with you Pat . . . every time I come over you either get called in or you're so drunk that you can't even remember who I am . . . It's over Pat!” and ...
- 133: Music and Its Effect On People
- Music and Its Effect On People I think that music has quite an effect on people in today's society, but then again, I also think that today's society has a great effect on the way the music industry works. If no one likes a certain artist and no one buys their music, then obviously society has had an effect on the music business. It would be just the same for an artist who is an instant hit with everyone, if people like the music or don't like the music, then either way, they have had an impact on the industry. On the other hand, music also has a mentionable effect on our society, especially this generation, Generation X. These days, ...
- 134: WereWolf - Creative Essay
- ... frightened yelp, the boy continued his flight for safety. But no matter how far he ran, how hard he tried, the thing, the hunter was always only a few paces behind, pursuing relentlessly. The boy's clothes was torn and bloody, hanging in strips from his bruised body. Shurbs with thorny stems and low hanging branches slowed his escape, cutting him and barring his way. Making him more desperate, adding to ... He could not stop. It was gaining, only a few inches! Soon blood would be spilled! Blood will be spilled to appease the appetite of the beast! With powerfull hind legs, it lunged at it's prey from behind. Hands outstreached, claws grasping! A scream, his first and last emmanated from his throat before he fell victim to the predator! Tommy awoke disoriented and terrified, he shook his head, to discard ... and trembling from the aftershock of his nighmare, he groped his way to the bathroom. Splashing cool water on his face, he tried to convince himself that it was only a dream. That it wasn't real. But it had all seem so vivid and real. If this was the first time it happened, Tommy could have have handled it. But this same nightmare had plagued him ever since the ...
- 135: John DeLorean and His Acomplishments
- John DeLorean and His Acomplishments The Early Years... John DeLorean was born on January 6, 1925 in a blue-collar neighborhood on Detroit's near east side. He was the oldest of four sons. His father, Zachary, had immigrated from the Alsace-Lorraine region of France during his teen age years. His mother, Kathryn, had immigrated from Salzburg in ... manufacturing jobs, Kathryn as a tool assembler, and Zachary as a millwright in a Detroit Ford factory. The family lived in a small house, and for most of Johns childhood they were relatively happy. Zachary's drinking problem eventually led to a divorce when John was 17. Even as a young child, he was exposed to the underbelly of the automotive industry. When young John was 6 or 7 the family was awakened in the middle of the night by a squad of Harry Bennett's infamous Ford security officers. They searched the house with reckless abandon looking for stolen tools from the Ford plant. They found nothing, and were gone as quick as they came. When John was old ...
- 136: A Separate Peace And A Real Wa
- ... it, a land of plenty. Nylon, meat, gasoline, and steel are rare. There are too many jobs and not enough workers. Money is very easy to earn but rather hard to spend, because there isn’t very much to buy. . .The war will always be fought very far away from America and it will never end. Nothing in America stands still for very long, including the people, who are always either ... life at Devon High School where there is an attempt to create, and exist in, a separate peace. There is however quite an opposition to this reality-known by Gene-that is headed by Gene’s best friend Finny. Finny has his own “reality.” Finny displays this reality throughout the whole book just as Gene acts throughout the whole book. From the perspective of the narrator, Gene, Finny’s world is one where there are a lot of things that Finny does to try and substitute for the real war. This world or “reality” that Finny creates and exists in is the separate ...
- 137: A Separate Peace - The War
- ... it, a land of plenty. Nylon, meat, gasoline, and steel are rare. There are too many jobs and not enough workers. Money is very easy to earn but rather hard to spend, because there isn’t very much to buy. . .The war will always be fought very far away from America and it will never end. Nothing in America stands still for very long, including the people, who are always either ... life at Devon High School where there is an attempt to create, and exist in, a separate peace. There is however quite an opposition to this reality-known by Gene-that is headed by Gene’s best friend Finny. Finny has his own "reality." Finny displays this reality throughout the whole book just as Gene acts throughout the whole book. From the perspective of the narrator, Gene, Finny’s world is one where there are a lot of things that Finny does to try and substitute for the real war. This world or "reality" that Finny creates and exists in is the separate ...
- 138: A Separate Peace And A Real War
- ... it, a land of plenty. Nylon, meat, gasoline, and steel are rare. There are too many jobs and not enough workers. Money is very easy to earn but rather hard to spend, because there isn’t very much to buy. . .The war will always be fought very far away from America and it will never end. Nothing in America stands still for very long, including the people, who are always either ... life at Devon High School where there is an attempt to create, and exist in, a separate peace. There is however quite an opposition to this reality-known by Gene-that is headed by Gene’s best friend Finny. Finny has his own "reality." Finny displays this reality throughout the whole book just as Gene acts throughout the whole book. From the perspective of the narrator, Gene, Finny’s world is one where there are a lot of things that Finny does to try and substitute for the real war. This world or "reality" that Finny creates and exists in is the separate ...
- 139: Suicide in Las Vega
- Suicide in Las Vega Hell is expensive. This is my first thought as my plane lands in Las Vegas. The Luxor hotel's glass pyramid seems dangerously close to the runway's edge, as do its chocolate-and-gold sphinx and rows of shaved palms. I wonder if these rooms tremble when jets land. Behind the Luxor are mountains kissed by dust the hue of bone; to ... country. This coincides with its enormous expansion, yet the most talked-about suicides -- those of tourists leaping from hotel balconies after losing everything they had -- are dangerous myths for a city poised to become America's newest economic icon. In fact, tourists taking their own lives surrounded by the glamour of the Strip comprise only a small percentage of the fatalities. The bulk are those who moved here for jobs, ...
- 140: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
- ... Battle of the Bulge. The youngster, an advance scout with the 106th Infantry Division, had been captured by the Germans after wandering behind enemy lines for several days. "Bayonets," as he wrote his father, "aren't much good against tanks." Eventually, the Indianapolis native found himself shipped to a work camp in the open city of Dresden, where he helped produce vitamin supplements for pregnant women. Sheltered in an underground meat ... women, children, old men; dead from concussion, fire or suffocation. Civilians cursed us and threw rocks as we carried bodies to huge funeral pyres in the city." Freed from his captivity by the Red Army's final onslaught against Nazi Germany and returned to America, the soldier - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - tried for many years to put into words what he had experienced during that horrific event. At first, it seemed to ... destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen," Vonnegut noted. It took him more than twenty years, however, to produce Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death. The book was worth the wait. Released to an American society struggling to come to grips with its involvement in another war - in a small Asian country called ...
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