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- 3821: A Thousand Acres: The Monopoly Game
- A Thousand Acres: The Monopoly Game Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, encompasses the farm life and hardships of a wealthy retiring Iowa farmer, Larry Cook and his family. For his daughters Ginny and Rose, the farm and life on the farm was all ... their lives revolve solely around the farm and that they have no other life. The scene is that of the "Million-Dollar Monopoly Tournament." If the reader reads through the monopoly scenes narrowly and doesn't give them any critical thought, it seems as though there is no correlation to them and the book. While the game may have only lasted for two weeks for a couple of hours each night, it didn't stop them from playing in spite of all the work that had to be done (81). The tournament is significant to the book in that it illustrates the another aspect of their lives that ...
- 3822: The Great Gatsby
- ... to the American dream in the 1920s, a time period when the dream has been corrupted by the avaricious pursuit of wealth. The pursuit of the American dream is the sublime motivation for accomplishing one s goals and producing achievements, however when tainted with wealth the dream becomes devoid and hollow. When the American dream was pure, motivation and ambition were the driving forces. "He stretched out his arms toward the ... nothing except a single green light" (Fitzgerald, 26). This shows how Gatsby was striving for his goal, trying to accomplish it but not finding it to be within realistic reach. This quote relates to Gatsby's daily agenda and how in his earlier days he upholds the pure American Dream: "No wasting time at Shafters, No more smoking or chewing, Read one improving book or magazine per week, Save $3.00 ... are endless; one could accomplish anything through hard work. These are the times of the 'roaring twenties'. Cars are the things to have and a party is the place to be. Everybody wants something. Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby, describes the events that happen to eight people during the summer of 1922. In the book, people go from west to east because something they desire is in the east; ...
- 3823: "The Stranger": Analysis
- ... getting an education and preparing himself to go to college. The fact that he lived in North Africa, he wrote lots of fiction books, dealing with moral problems of universal importance. 1. I think Albert's prospective in life was to just be able to write books for people that actually would deal with the reality and difficulty of people facing everyday life. Also, the difficulty of people facing life without ... will always come through it. II. Characters A. The plot concerns a man, an apparently ordinary man, who, without any real compelling reason, commits a murder, and his apparently insensitive reaction to it. This isn't because he is without feelings, but because he is beginning to realize that life isn't everything that he had previously thought it to be. This series of events starts with he death of his mother, and although he loved her, he finds he does not experience much genuine regret ...
- 3824: Taming of the Shrew: Shakespeare's Preamble of Katherine and Bianca
- Taming of the Shrew: Shakespeare's Preamble of Katherine and Bianca The Taming of the Shrew brings out the comedic side of Shakespeare where irony and puns carry the play throughout. In my paper, I will concentrate on one the irony's of the play, the introduction of the two sisters. These two sisters begin off with the elder, Katherine, viewed as a shrew, and Bianca as the angelic younger of the two. However, as the play ... first two acts. Although even her father calls her a shrew, Katherine has a deeper character than the epithet would imply. From the beginning we see that she is continually placed second in her father's affections, and despised by all others. Bianca on the other hand, is identified as the favorite, playing the long-suffering angel, increasing Baptisa's distinction between the two. As Katherine recognizes her sister's ...
- 3825: Dandelion Wine The Effects
- ... Wine friendship is one of the main and supporting themes that intertwines throughout the book. Friendship can come in all shapes and sizes, but when you lose a friend there are many affects. People can t imagine surviving high school and adolescence without their friends. John the best friend of Doug moves away, the aspects of losing his best friend were devastating bringing a turning point in to Doug s life with many affects. It was a sunny day until a sudden cloud came over Doug s head, when the reality of John moving hit him (Bradbury 103) John took the yellow and green train ticket solemnly from his pocket and they both looked at it (Bradbury 103). With this type ...
- 3826: The Witness
- ... in Quarter Close. The brick residence stood silent and dark in the early hours of the morning, looking much like the rest of the houses in the Grove. However, inside this house lay the prosecution's sole witness in the most important case in the history of the state. Without him, the trial could not go to court. His life was in danger. Joel Granger stepped from of the car with two colleagues and the three men made their way slowly and quietly to the boy's bedroom window. Joel stood watch with his pistol at the ready. The FBI didn't normally do this sort of thing, but in this case there was no other choice. His colleagues quickly snatched the sleeping boy from his bed, covering his mouth, and threw him into the waiting ...
- 3827: Impacts Of Birth Control
- ... A major problem with the French and English governments allowing men to go to the whorehouses was that there was rapid spread of VD. A soldier that is suffering from herpes, syphilis, or gonorrhea doesnt fight too well. President Wilson was very concerned about the American soldiers getting sick and not able to fight. He also wanted to stop the spread of VD Wilson decided that during boot camp the soldiers would be taught about VDs, and the effect of them. The recruits had to take a sexual education class. In the class the men were shown pictures and movies that showed what various vaginal diseases looked like, and what they would do to a mans sex organs. This was an effective in stopping the American soldiers from going to the French whorehouses. Another program the U.S. Government instituted to stop the spread of VD was to give out condoms to the soldiers. The government, however, wasnt condoning sex with the free condoms. Printed on the condoms was for prevention ...
- 3828: Buried Child
- Its amazing what a secret can do to a person. Keeping secrets among friends can be fun, or helpful when you need to confide in someone you trust. Other secrets can do more harm than good ... Buried Child," this is the case. The family is permanently altered by their secret, which becomes a growing moral cancer to them, leaving each impotent in their own way. The play takes place on Dodges farm. About thirty years ago, the farm was fertile and prosperous. Dodge and Halie didnt have a wonderful marriage, however. Things took a turn for the worse when Halie became pregnant with someone else. It is suggested that Tilden is the father. The evidence to support this includes the ...
- 3829: The Motif Of War In A Separate
- World War II started in 1939 and did not end until 1945. It was the result of one person's need for power and control over the rest of the world. We saw this power as a threat, which exploded into an outbreak more devastating than anything else we humans had ever seen. War is ... in the school. Throughout their other years at Devon, there were always maids to clean up the towels in the change rooms and to keep the school especially nice. Since it was wartime, the school's budget was most likely cut to have more money go towards the war effort. Although there were many references towards real warfare, much of the novel deals with indirect representations of war itself. War was ... one of their war-like "games" was called Blitzball. This game all started when their summer athletic program disgusted Phineas. He found an old medicine ball and made up a game on the spot. "'Let's make it have something to do with war,' suggested Bobby Zane. 'Like a blitzkrieg or something.'" They later renamed it Blitzball in order to keep it simple. A blitzkrieg is a German word meaning ...
- 3830: Federalist Party
- "Seldom in the nation's history has there been a period so extraordinary in accomplishment as the first decade under the Constitution...." This paper is going to be a step by step evaluation of arguably the most important decade in ... while $40 million was in the form of securities held by citizens of the United States. The interests owed to the bankers were being payed off by loans from the bankers themselves. The government didn't even have enough money to pay the Barbary corsairs for release of captive sailors! When Congress couldn't come up with a solution that was satisfactory, they turned to Alexander Hamilton with the dilemma. He soon proceeded to draw up a full report entitled "Report on Public Credit." In this paper Hamilton ...
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