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- 24031: The Maturity Of Scout And Jem In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
- ... did one thing to help Tom Robinson, just who?" (215) Scout and Jem had believe that their father was not like any other fathers in school. They see him as an old man who cant do anything. However, when a mad dog appears on the street, Atticus, their farther, kills that dog with one shot. They are surprised to learn that he is the best shot in the town. Theyre attitude towards their father has changed. This is a sign of maturity. "The rifle cracked. Tim Johnson leaped, flopped over and crumpled on the sidewalk in a brown-and-white heap. He didnt know what hit him." (96) "Jem became vaguely articulate, you see him, Scout? You see him just stand there? All of a sudden he just relaxed all over. it looked like that gun was a part of him...and he did it so quick, like... I hafta to aim for ten minutes fore I can hit something,..."(97) Another incident which shows Scouts maturing is when she overhears her teacher saying that it is a good thing Tom Robinson was convicted because the black were getting too "high and mighty." This disturbs scout very much because the ...
- 24032: A Separate Peace
- A Separate Peace A Separate Peace is a novel about two boy's lives and how they evolve during the course of WWII. The story was written by John Knowles, who also left home to attend a school at the age of 15. The story involves many instances ... people and whenever one of his classmates such as Leper was being isolated from the rest of group, Finny would take up for him. Even though Gene made Finny break his leg, Finny still didn't hold anything against him and refused to believe what happened. Finny has always been friendly to others due to his outgoing personality. Finny is a competitive sportsman like person. Whenever Finny sees a challenge that ... the tree to be initiated. Finny will always stand up to challenges set by others and succeed in breaking them. Although Finny is not very smart, his athletic talents make up for it. With Finny's outgoing attitude and friendliness, he can usually talk his way out of most situations that arise while at Devon. When Finny died after breaking his leg, the world lost a great person.
- 24033: The Power Of One: One Person Can Change the World
- ... can make the difference. The problem is that when the odds seem insurmountable, it seems impossible to overcome them and most people will give up. The true heroes in this world are those who don't give up in these times when things seem impossible to do. The other thing I think is very important to note about the power of one person is that we need to look at what that one person is doing that is making a difference. One person can make a difference in someone else's life. I have had, in my life, many people that have made a huge difference. If someone changes your entire life or your outlook on it, your can definitely testify to the power of one. I think someone that can reach out to just one person's life is just as important as someone who can change the lives of millions. One last thing I think is important to note is that, in recognizing the power of one person to make ...
- 24034: The Sun Also Rises
- July s People is a story of a white family who experience life as black people would in South Africa at the time. They leave their home and their jobs in the United States and follow their ... and the fact that they are the only whites in a tribe complicates things. They depend on July to get tools, find shelter, and get food among other things. At the same time they don t trust him. They are always suspecting that he is stealing from them, they get upset when he takes the truck with out their permission, they feel like he is trying to cheat them in some ... him to take care of things. In this book the author, Nadine Gordimer, is showing us how even when you put different people together, and force them to live in the same conditions, that won t necessarily make these people equal. How these white people came into their village and thought of them as servants. But the other half of the problem is that these natives allowed for such treatment ...
- 24035: Old Man And The Sea, Santiago
- ... is blinded by everything but the end result. Every day he swears to defeat the fish before the day is through, but he never succeeds. "This will kill him, the old man thought. He can't do this forever. But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, towing the skiff." Santiago's desire to catch the fish beguiles him from all of his other functions. He is committed to the capture of the giant marlin. The tragic man has a powerful belief in his own freedom. The ... Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either of us." Santiago makes a decision to venture far out from shore and later regrets that choice. "I shouldn't have gone out so far." He faces the negative consequences because he has gone to far from shore and thus stays with the marlin until its subsequent demise by the sharks. Santiago ends up ...
- 24036: Early Colonies
- ... establish a stable and progressive government. Many colonies were founded for religious purposes. While religion was involved with all of the colonies, Massachusetts, New Haven, Maryland, and Pennsylvania were established exclusively for religious purposes. Massachusetts's inhabitants were Puritans who believed in predestination and the ideal that God is perfect. Many Puritans in England were persecuted for their nihilist beliefs in England because they felt that the Church of England, led ... purpose was to make money or to populate the country. These economically motivated colonies include New York, New Jersey, the Carolinas, and Pennsylvania after its change in toleration. New York was established by Charles II's brother, the Duke of York. He announced that every Christian religion would be tolerated in New York in order to populate his colony and maximise his profit. New Jersey, in addition to New York, was ... to the pure democracy of today. Sources: D. J. Boorstin, The Americans, The colonial Experience, 1958 M. Boyd and W. Donald, American Civilization, 1968 Morison, Commager, Leuchtenberg, A Concise History of the American Republic, 1983 T. Sirevεg, American patterns, 1994 B. O'Callaghan, An Illustrated History of the USA, 1996
- 24037: Exxon Valdez
- INTRODUCTION On March 24, 1989 at 4 minutes past midnight, the oil tanker ExxonValdez struck a reef in Alaska's breath-taking Prince William Sound. Instantaneously, the quiet waters of the sound became a sea of black. "We've fetched up - ah - hard aground north of Goose Island off Bligh Reef, and - ah - evidently leaking ... has also established a $1 billion liability fund, which will be paid by the oil industry. Along with the OPA of 1990, the Exxon Valdez is also responsible for the creation of two Regional Citizen's Advisory Councils, one, which operates from Cook Inlet and the other from Prince William Sound. These councils are funded solely by assessments that are made on the oil industry. The councils include a number of ... which included oil spillage. So when you ask yourself, "How did the New Carissa run aground and leak oil with all these new rules and regulations," the image of another Exxon Valdez oil spill isn't to hard imagine. BIBLIOGRAPHY Birkland, Thomas A. 1998. In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez. Environment 40:4-11. Davidson, Art. 1990. In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club ...
- 24038: Cry, Our Beloved Country
- ... arthur jarvis had never been killed, james jarvis would never have been educated by his sons writings, and stephen kumalo. When we first meet james jarvis, he knows little of his sons life. He doesn't know his son "was on a kind of a mission"(p. 140), And this is why when harrison says,"...we're scared stiff at the moment in johannesburg."( p. 140) James is sort of surprised ... Jarvis is not just giving gifts in memory of his son, or just to give, but giving those who need help ways to help themselves. When james gave the money to the club, he didn't just decide to give it to them, but knew that if he gave it, the club would use it to improve the countrys' condition. In all of his donations, james uses this subtle method to ... learn of the problems in south africa through their sons, and after the realization, they both try to do something to improve the social, and racial differences which plague johannesburg. Cry the beloved country i s a book meant to teach the ways racial views can affect people in different ways. The representation shows how these south african problems "educated" james jarvis, and turned him into a compassionate, and understanding ...
- 24039: The Tories
- ... put all over his body, then he was tied up and carted around the town while the public inflicted punishment for only half an hour, not like the five hours that Hulton describes. He doesn t describe what this punishment is but I m sure it wasn t as bad as the near-death experience that Ann Hulton described in her letter. These two letters show how two people who support different causes can describe an event in a way that sort of supports how they feel about what is happening, whether it s totally true or not. Graebner, William, Leonard Richards. Silencing the Tories. The American Record. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Hulton, Ann. Letters of a Loyalist Lady 1767-1776, Cambrige, Mass., 1927, pp70-72. Force, ...
- 24040: The Sun Also Rises By Ernest H
- ... the dialogue was the only thing that moved the reader through the book. Hemingway used so much dialogue that it was difficult at times to follow who was saying what, but I believe this didn't matter because any of the characters, except for maybe Jake, could have been carrying on those conversations. I say anyone except Jake because he was different than all the other characters in more ways than ... if there was more there than what was just on the page. It was hard, for me, to see more than just the story, but perhaps Hemingway just wanted the reader to experience other people's lives. I say this because many of the experiences that occurred to the characters also took place in Hemingway's life and maybe he just wanted to share with us what it was like.
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