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- 2901: Drinking: A Love Story - A Review
- Drinking: A Love Story - A Review In Caroline Knapp’s autobiography entitled, Drinking: A Love Story, you learn from her own personal tewenty year battle with alcoholism, why people drink, why people become alcohlics, and how hard it is to break the cycle of alcoholism ... you’ to eachother or to the children. Caroline refered to one evening wher she was being questioned by her aunt at a family party, and all she desperatly wanted was to climb into her mother’s lap to escape. This wasn’t possible however, it was seen as inappropriate behavior, so she just stood there and froze. Later she compares the feeling of safty her mother’s lap would have provided to that of the comfort ...
- 2902: Babe Ruth
- ... swing of a bat. Baseball was now much more enjoyable to watch. Then with the invention of the radio, millions of people enjoyed listening to it. George Herman Ruth was born in the early 1890's to a couple of German immigrants who ran a local bar. His parents had there hand's full with the bar, and had very little time to tend to young George. His trouble making, and lack of time on his parents part eventually landed him in St. Mary's Boys school. It was here that he met the man who Babe claimed to be the greatest man who ever lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his punishments, and ...
- 2903: Of Mice and Men: Stereotypes and Discrimination
- ... common beliefs of the times, but a few are situational. To quote a quite distinguished reader, "Characters are ‘trapped’- either by what others think of them, or by their situation." A lot of the character’s feelings about themselves and what others think of them will lead to loneliness. Crooks is a character who is mistreated in many ways because he is black. Crooks is the stable buck of the barn. It’s not certain whether Crooks is his name, or his nickname, but we know he got kicked in the back by a horse and had a crooked back ever since. Nevertheless he gets yelled at by the boss every time something’s wrong. " ‘The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn about that,’ " says Candy, p.32. Crooks also isn’t allowed in the bunk houses ...
- 2904: Shane: No Ordinary Man and His Gun
- Shane: No Ordinary Man and His Gun Shane, from Jack Schaefer’s Book Shane, is no ordinary man and his gun was not either. It is hardly a gun it is a part of Shane, he handles it like another arm or leg. This essay will look ... quite average gun to be unique, how Shane handles a gun, and lastly how Shane handles his gun in that famous bar fight. Shane has no standard gun. When Bob Starett is snooping around Shane's room he found it, Shane's gun. The gun was a single action colt, the same model as an army issue only it had been modified. Bob explains what made it not so average “[It was] heavy like fathers, it ...
- 2905: The Fifth Child
- ... of the character Ben. Ben is portrayed as a selfish, brutal, belligerent child. He relates to society in a cruel, aggressive manner. Based on the authors analysis, the reader is lead to believe that Ben’s personality and behavior is a product of genetics, and that therapeutic interventions are not capable of changing this conduct to conform to societies norms. The author illustrates this conclusion by describing Ben’s personality from the time he was in the womb, through adulthood. As an unborn child, Ben was constantly kicking his mother and hurting her from the inside. As a young child, Ben’s siblings recognized his brutal personality and tried to avoid him. As a young adult, he showed no regard for authority, and exhibited cruel and unacceptable behavior. Harriet, Ben’s mother, tried to alter this ...
- 2906: The Bluest Eye 2
- ... to have the "bluest" eyes so that others will view her as pretty in the end that desire is what finishes her, she believes that God gives her blue eyes causing her insanity. She doesn't have many friends other than Claudia and Frieda. Throughout the book we see how Pecola is picked on by other children her age and then later on abused by Cholly, her own father. Her mother doesn't care for her either her actions toward Pecola are not without contempt. Cholly Breedlove is Pecola's drunken father. He has never known a loving family; his father deserted him and his mother who then left him to die in a garbage can. His great aunt saves him and raises him ...
- 2907: The Bluest Eye 3
- ... to have the "bluest" eyes so that others will view her as pretty in the end that desire is what finishes her, she believes that God gives her blue eyes causing her insanity. She doesn't have many friends other than Claudia and Frieda. Throughout the book we see how Pecola is picked on by other children her age and then later on abused by Cholly, her own father. Her mother doesn't care for her either her actions toward Pecola are not without contempt. Cholly Breedlove is Pecola's drunken father. He has never known a loving family; his father deserted him and his mother who then left him to die in a garbage can. His great aunt saves him and raises him ...
- 2908: Othello 9
- ... my inclining and the rest. Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it without a prompter" (I, ii, lines 80-3). The power shown here is quite astounding. The nature of Othello's character is of a dark man. A dark man, not only because he is black, but also because his whole person is very mysterious. He is mysterious in that he believes there is magic brewing everywhere. With this dark side he is also very outgoing, and not very bright. It is almost too easy for Iago to trick him into believing that Desdemona is unfaithful. Though he doesn't reflect too much on his past, it is apparent that he has been very successful in many battles and earned the rank of general. The fact that he is supposed to be a experienced soldier ... this man is still naive of the corruptness of other individuals. Othello has a trusting nature that will bring about his downfall. He put his trust in Iago during times of war and during Othello's marriage to Desdemona. Although this wasn't very bright of Othello, even if he was not as naïve or more cynical, it still would have been hard for him to discover that Iago was ...
- 2909: To Kill A Mockingbird 6
- To Walk in Another Man s Shoes You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view (30). Atticus Finch, a popular lawyer, and the father of the main character in Harper Lee s To Kill a Mockingbird, teaches this lesson to his children. This idea does not just apply to Maycomb County in the 1930s, but to everyone everywhere. This story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the great depression. Most whites are very prejudiced and don t care to hear a Negro s opinions or thoughts on anything. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee explains that a person has to try to see a situation from the other person s ...
- 2910: The Beginning of the Civil War
- ... state. One problem: there was no free state to accompany Texas into the Union. As the Missouri Compromise states that a slave state and a free state must enter the Union together (Stated on COMPTON’S ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE.). Then, in 1845, Congress allowed Texas into the Union. Congress also said that, with the consent of Texas legislature, it could be divided into five separate states. The Missouri Compromise line was then ... be banned completely in the land seized from Mexico. Calhoun said that the ban on slavery was unconstitutional. The constitution stated that slaveholders had the right to own property, which included slaves, since slaves weren’t human, according to the South. There were three candidates in the election of 1848: Lewis Cass Martin Van Buren and Zachary Taylor. Cass was representing the democrats and was a man who believed in Popular ... by the Free-Soil Party. Taylor was a war hero, a General from the Mexican War. He was chosen to represent the Whig party and, since he owned slaves, was pro-slavery (Stated on COMPTON’S ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE.). Gold was discovered in 1848 in California, and confirmed by Polk, which was a guess on his part. The California Gold Rush was on! Thousands upon thousands of people rushed to claim ...
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