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- 6291: Death Of A Salesman - Minor Characters
- In the play Death of a Salesman, the plot is affected by three minor characters: Ben, Charley and Howard. The minor characters help the story's protagonist, Willy, develop extensively throughout the course of the play; therefore, they are key elements in the advancing story line. This story line blends and contrasts Willy's closest companions, Ben and Charley. They represent two aspects of Willy's ideals. Howard, Willy's boss, functions in order to heighten the destruction of Willy's dream. The characters Ben, Charley and Howard are influential in the play's outcome and help develop the main ...
- 6292: Crohn's Disease
- Crohn's Disease I have decided to do my research project on Crohn's disease. The reason I have chosen this disease is because I heard about it on the television and I got interested in learning more about it. This disease is known not to be deadly, so people that have Crohn's disease aren't really scared that they might die. Crohn's disease affects the intestines; it can cause ulcerations in both the large and small intestines. It can also affect the digestive system anywhere ...
- 6293: Loving April
- ... the village after being abandoned by his father to a life of poverty and sadness. Tony is angry with everyone and is desperately lonely. April Dean, the deaf girl also needs friends. April who doesn't have many friends begins a friendship with Tony and this continues throughout the novel. " 'Why don't I have any friends?' April sighed." Page 83 It is evident that the main character has a primary element, one which clearly indicates that she has no friends. As the story goes on, April falls ... he wanted her." Page 103 This shows that April loves Tony and loves the thought of being with him. This continues throughout the story making the texts substantially interesting. In Loving April, Tony and April's growing relationship arouses deep prejudices which threaten to engulf not just Tony and April, but also the whole village. April and Tony fall in love which each other and their love is objected to ...
- 6294: Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises
- Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises In the novel The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway describes a couple who share a very strange and distant kind of love for each other. This story takes place immediately after ... she runs back to Jake. Jake knows that he will never be able to have her for his own, and he accepts this as fact. This is clear when the Count asks them ³why don¹t you get married, you two? (68)² To this question, they give a lame half hearted awnser which implies that it will never happen. He is tolerant of her behavior because he loves her unconditionally and is willing to overlook everything she does. Jake’s willingness to endure and forgive Brett¹s promiscuity and infidelity is an indication of the skewed values of the age. It was an ³anything goes² era right after the first war, and Jake¹s ...
- 6295: Lyndon B Johnson
- ... terms in the Texas legislature. His mother had varied cultural interests and placed high value on education; she was fiercely ambitious for her children. Johnson attended public schools in Johnson City and received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. During ... a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas. In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, reclamation, ...
- 6296: Why Gun Control is Needed
- ... and that was a talent even for a professional loader. We now have kids on the streets, in our schools, and in our homes with guns that can fire 180 rounds per minute. But, let's retrace our steps and Consider the times in which our framers lived. They were under constant surveillance by England, the Indians were in an uproar; Canada was upset about our borders; and, if it wasn't for hunting, many would have faced starvation! Guns were a necessity! Now, back to the present . . . children, teenagers, maniacs, criminals, gang-ba ngers, and those with a history of violence are carrying around guns that ... imagine 10-13 year-olds in control of these firearms then turning around and shooting other kids, teachers, and their families? Did they imagine gangs wandering around unhampered by law enforcement and military? Now, let's talk about facts. There are 1,000s of cases of domestic violence reported each year, be it rape, mugging, car-jacking, etc. and there is no control. Thousands are brutalized, injured, or slain because ...
- 6297: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein A romantic life full of pain and abandonment could only be given the monstrous form of "Frankenstein." Mary Shelley's life gave birth to an imaginary victim full of misery and loneliness and placed him as the protagonist of one of her most famous and greatest work of art. As most people would assume he is not just a fictional character but in fact a creature who desperately demonstrates Shelley's tragedies and loss during the age of "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." Since Mary Shelley's birth there have been numerous loss's in her life. One extremely dominating event in Shelley's life ...
- 6298: An Examination of Similes in the Iliad - and how Homer's Use of Them Affected the Story
- An Examination of Similes in the Iliad - and how Homer's Use of Them Affected the Story In the Iliad, Homer finds a great tool in the simile. Just by opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within ... a situation that is familiar, one is more likely to put aside contemplating the topic and simply inject those known feelings. This would definitely be an effective tactic when used upon the people of Homer's day. From the heroic efforts in the Iliad itself it is clear that the populace of his time were highly emotional creatures, and higher brain activity seems to be in short, and in Odysseus' case, valuable, order. It is also wise to remember that history is written by the winners. In the Iliad, there seems to be relatively little storyline from the Trojan's side. We are regaled with story upon story of the Greeks, their heroes, and their exploits, while the Trojan's are conspicuously quiet, sans Hector of course. It could almost be assumed that throughout ...
- 6299: Sexual Behaviour As The Means
- ... want to asking men on dates. With this sexual freedom problems have arrived. Rape and sexual harassment have increased leaving us to ask questions. Is sexual freedom much better than sexual repression? Both Aldous Huxley s novel Brave New World and George Orwell s 1984 present the issues of sexual repression and freedom. Both authors examine how sexual behaviour are the means of order in society. Brave New World s sexual freedom and 1984 s sexual repression are the means of order in their societies yet with this tragedies arise. In Brave New World Aldous Huxley examines a futuristic anti-utopian society. This society ...
- 6300: Judges
- ... was a mass murderer, and had eye witnesses seeing him kill a person, but had a virtual air-tight case for him that would get him out scot-free because he was the prime minister's son, there would be a jury. A judge also passes sentence, which is how long the accused, if found guilty, should be punished. A judge is looked upon as "god" to the accused standing before ... says mistake. The judge must listen and make his decision. Research on fifty judges from around Canada showed up the following information: All of them had a Law degree. 60 percent said that they hadn't planned on being a judge The first step to becoming a judge is work. You have to work hard to graduate from law school. Many judges said that they hadn't planned on being a judge, and almost all of them said that it was the right job for their abilities. Many say that emotion during a trial can kill a judge, but to look ...
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