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- 19021: The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
- ... tough front as protection from her poor, modern day, New York City environment. She deals with the circumstances in her life that she feels she has no control over, with a hard, mean act. Sylvias cousin, Sugar, is smart but lets Sylvia bully her. Sugar holds herself back to avoid Sylvias anger and because they are close friends. Sugar easily figured the ten percent tip for the taxi driver on the way downtown. She also makes a rather insightful remark when she challenges the meaning of ... She sets the stage with little lessons built into her outings. Miss Moore obtains the parents approval to take the children on an excursion. The group includes Sylvia, Sugar, Mercedes, Fat Butt, Flyboy, Junebug, Q.T., and Rosie Giraffe. A mixed bag, but all share the same poor life. They are treated to a taxi ride instead of the usual subway downtown and the group is exposed to Fifth Avenue ...
- 19022: My Darling Clementine - The Ef
- My Darling Clementine to me didn't stick out as a particularly dark movie. I will agree that there were a lot of dark scenes in it but not enough to distract me toward the idea of this being a particularly dark ... the moral and physical issues behind the motives of the characters. And to keep that feeling going threw out the movie, even the day scenes are dark and gloomy to a degree. To me, that's dark. That is where a lighting style has been implemented to enhance a chosen mood for the story. That's noir. The image of a bright sunny day with blue skies, white clouds, green grass, and birds singing would have no place in a seriously dramatic fantasy like Batman. It just would not fit. ...
- 19023: Faust: Book Review
- ... book is a poem divided into two parts and has many adventures in it. The point of view is from the writer of the play, 3rd person narration. The theme of this novel is Don't always take the easy way out of things because in the end you will pay for them. This novel starts off with Mephisto the Devil asking God to be able to tempt a scholar named ... name just describe his great power and plans that he can give Faust. Mephisto fails the first time to get Faust to give in. He comes back the next day and tries again but doesn't gain his hand in this deed. After Faust calls on Mephisto they make a deal. Mephisto would serve Faust in this life and when Faust would die he would come to hell and help Mephisto ... Heaven. God forgives Faust for all he has done. He was doing it only for the good of the people. He wanted to learn more information and only good came out of his ideas. Faust's soul is reprimanded and he is in heaven. He finally gets to stay with his love Gretchen. This novel which is a poem divided into two parts is very good. You are always thinking ...
- 19024: Metamorphosis A Movie
- ... he makes is when Gregor works in a company where his parents have a very high debt, and Gregor works there in order to pay the debt. In his mind he admits, If I didn t hold back for my parents sake, I would have quit long ago (4). From this quote it is obvious that while trying to make his parents happy, Gregor has to live a sad live were ... in the company he has been able to move up the position ladder at a fast rate, he is not happy. What Gregor looks forward to in the job is the opportunity that once [he s] gotten the money together to pay off [his] parents debts (4) he would quit working at that company for good. Even if Gregor makes a sacrifice to save his family by paying what they owe ... them out, so all the income only came from Gregor. When he became a traveler salesman, he stopped having a social life. What he did in his spare time was that he read the time s table, so that he would not be late for his next trip. Little by little Gregor started loosing connection with other people at the social level. His only interest was to help his family, ...
- 19025: Washington Irving and His Works
- ... Washington Irving had other interests than just writing. Irving was an inventor. He invented ice drinks and the dumb waiter. Irving was also an entrepreneur. "Early in his life Irving planned to follow his father's footsteps in the family business." (p. 187) Irving had many writings in his literary career. His works include The Sketchbook, A History of New York, The Devil and Tom Walker, and Rip Van Winkle. Despite all of these well known works, Irving never won any awards. Irving's short stories are The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Devil and Tom Walker. The first semblance in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Devil and Tom Walker is that nature proves to be a problem to the characters. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the hollow is the setting for fear in Icabod's tall tales. Irving reflected on the dark setting many times in this story. "The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks." (Washington Irving. p. 57) In The Devil and Tom Walker, ...
- 19026: Killer Whale, The Mighty Dolph
- ... as the "saddle patch" for obvious reasons. Males weigh up to eight-thousand pounds while females weigh closer to four-thousand. The Killer Whale is also very easily identifiable as male or female. The male's dorsal fin can reach seven feet tall and stands straight up off the middle of his back. The female's dorsal fin is much shorter, usually about three feet, and instead of standing straight, forms a crecent arc on her back towards the tail. Although Killer Whales are not used for oil-based products they ... of their backs. Research soon found that fishermen were shooting them to keep them from eating all of a days catch. This was not the first time something like this was found. In the 1950's The U.S. Navy used machine guns to slaughter hundreds of Killer Whales off of Iceland to protect fishing. After these animals are killed, they are usually thrown away. The meat is very bitter ...
- 19027: Exploring The Mind
- ... their time. So with this limited knowledge, children will consistently react to situations in a similar way that can only be explained by an instinctive nature. Have young children changed their behavior since the 1700's? I suppose any child from any culture at any time in history would cry when it was upset, physically take whatever it wanted, need a certain amount of love and attention, and also be interested in exploring things outside of it's bounds. I feel that all of these instinctive behaviors seen in young children are emotions that I, as a young adult, have somehow came to deal wit as a part of society. Certainly other children ... take a toy or a piece of candy from another if they want it for themselves. This type of action shows no thought of well being for another and is undoubtedly self-interested. A child's motivation in this example does not vary greatly from an adults reactionary thought process in a similar grown-up scenario. Suppose I was to sit down in a coffee shop to study for an ...
- 19028: Massage Speech Format
- ... hours of sleep did you get last night? Not very many? Have you ever thought about why that might be? Your muscles might have been sore or just not been relaxed enough, or maybe there s a lot of tension in your life right now. Whatever the reason, think twice next time before allowing yourself to get less rest than you really need. A short massage can help you re rest and relaxation reach it s most high. Proposition: Getting a massage regularly has numerous benefits for all people. I. Although the sports massage is the most well-known kind of massage, there are several others that can produce different physical ... floated in a warm pool, to sitting on a chair, to creating your own massage by laying on top of a tennis ball. Transition: As you probably already know, massage is best known for it s physical benefits. The different methods are used to pin-point certain body parts directly. But mental and spiritual benefits can also be seen when undergoing massage on a regular basis. II. Athletes, business workers, ...
- 19029: Reflections On The Things They
- Reflections on "The Things They Carried" Analyzing the story s craftsmanship Tim O Brien wrote a story that is known as "The Things They Carried." It is a carefully crafted, detailed account of a Lieutenant and his men, the time period being right in the ... is the fact that the story is written in third person. The narrator is not actually in the story, merely telling us of the events, and yet we still get to see inside Lt. Cross s mind to more accurately picture his feelings. The narrator also, although letting us see the innermost, personal thoughts of Cross, always refers to the Lieutenant as either "he,", "him," or "Lt. Cross," never speaking of ... feeling for the main character, even! though it is not the main character speaking. For example, on the next to last page of the story, there is a large piece that speaks about Lt. Cross s feelings. "On the morning after Ted Lavender died, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross crouched at the bottom of his foxhole and burned Martha s letters. Then he burned the two photographs. There was a steady ...
- 19030: The Shawshank Redemption
- ... convict by the name of Ellis Boyd Redding(Morgan Freeman) who is able to get anything for anyone within reason. The story follows the prison life of Andy Dufresne and his eventual escape from Shawshank's walls. The movie follows a formalistic style of direction under Frank Darabont. He interweaves scenes with nice fluid shots. The shots are not jarring or rough cut. Darabont tends to take the story at a ... violence without actually showing it in the film. The screenplay written for The Shawshank Redemption is exact and precise, everything in the movie complements the development of characters and presents underlying motifs such as prisoner's dependence from long term incarceration, prisoner camaraderie, and feelings of hope in hopeless situations. The plot has a smart climax that is not fully understandable until the last few scenes. The ending is a total surprise as to how Andy escapes from Shawshank. The movie is brought together with the clever narration's by "Red"(Morgan Freeman). By having Red narrate, the audience quickly identifies with the prisoners, there are certain common traits that the characters and audience share that produce sympathy for the incarcerated criminals. The ...
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