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- 711: Absinthe Vines
- ... pills. Unfortunate for him, they never saw obesity. Rarely even were they husky. He tried anyway. Pick up a job here, mug an old lady there, just to get by and wipe away the spider's web of insomnia. Still worse than his sleeping habits, however, were his spending habits. He had bar tabs in at least five different counties he would never see again, and he thanked his lack of a fixed address for that. Right now he was in a different situation. Hyper obesity reigned king in his mind, and he wouldn't be going on a diet anytime soon. Money was all his to enjoy, because of one simple factor: Travis had a paying job. The bar was a dismal little place in the East Side of ... was off doing god-knows-what with god-knows-who. All of his past experience with alcohol had been rather one sided, but hell, he'd seen Cocktail, he could fake it. Usual customers didn't demand this kind of improvisation, anyway. Beer was the word of the day. Draft, light, and others came straight from the keg, and they emptied as fast as he tapped them. However taxing this ...
- 712: Themes Of The Love Song Of Alf
- In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot uses allusions as well as imagery to develop his theme that life is too short to allow fear s hesitation to stop us from living true to dreams of happiness because we will all ...
- 713: Great Expectations: Life Story of Phillip Gargery
- ... they died, so I lived with my sister, Mrs. Joe, and her husband, Joe Gargery. I had it rough. My sister was really mean to Joe and I . I think it was because I wasn’t her child. Joe didn’t want to even marry her, but he was basically forced to. So he had it bad too. She would often yell at us if we did one little thing wrong. It was rough. I was always part of the lower class, because we didn’t really have money. That was because Joe was a blacksmith, which back then wasn’t too great of a job to have when you needed money to get by on. Although Joe didn’t ...
- 714: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan
- ... Ronald Reagan The life of Ronald Wilson Reagan is a story of unlikely successes. Born into a poor family, he came of age during the hard economics times of the Great Depression of the 1930's. Yet he was able to achieve great successes in two quite different fields-as an actor and in politics. Ronald Reagan is one of America's most interesting Presidents because of his varied background. "Neil Reagan had been expecting a baby sister when Ronald was born on February 6, 1911, in the front bedroom of a five - room flat above the ... named Harry Terry got stuck in Tampico. Terry performed a delivery that took such a toll on Nelle Wilson Reagan that he advised her not to have any more children. So Ronald whose brother wouldn't look at him because he was a boy, became the second and last of the Reagan's children. John Edward Reagan, who was of Irish-American ancestry, earned his living as a shoe salesman. ...
- 715: Magic Johnson
- The L.A. Lakers in the 1980’s were a basketball powerhouse with household names such as James Worthy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kurt Rambis who would doubt it. They had class and displayed it on the court. Kareem could pull up for ... young player who had it all, a flashy smile and a great no look pass. That certain player was a true point guard, Earvin Johnson Jr. There are five magic parts to Earvin Johnson Jr.’s life. On August 14, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan, Christine and Earvin Johnson gave birth to their third child, a beautiful baby boy named Earvin Jr. Earvin Jr. was born into the middle of a family ... bathroom. "The place turned into a real madhouse before school every morning, when we all lined up to use the bathroom. You learned to be quick." said Earvin once. (Johnson, p.4) Both of Earvin’s parents played high school basketball. Earvin played basketball a bunch with his older brother Larry. (Brenner, p.44) Earvin would wake up early and play basketball before school started. "People thought I was crazy," ...
- 716: The Vikings
- ... Holy Isle of Lindisfarne, which is located between England and Scotland Irish monks had built a monastery; there they wrote many holy and beautiful books, called the Lindisfarne Gospels. These monks were peaceful people, wouldn't hurt a fly, pity they were chosen by the Vikings, on the 8th of June in 793 to be the first major victim of one of their raids. Their arrival was seen first far off ... see dragon head carvings on their well crafted ships slowly coming closer and closer to the shore. As soon as they got out of their boats the Vikings poured onto land ripping off the monk's clothing and tearing their bodies apart with their sharp swords, and sometimes drowned them. Viking raiders tipped over the cross of Bishop Ethelwold, which was built out of stone. Before they left that hot day the Vikings had taken all of the monk's treasure, set each building aflame, and killed the monk's cattle to feed themselves on. Then, in an instant they got into their ships and left. This was the first major Viking attack, as ...
- 717: Magic Johnson
- The L.A. Lakers in the 1980’s were a basketball powerhouse with household names such as James Worthy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kurt Rambis who would doubt it. They had class and displayed it on the court. Kareem could pull up for ... young player who had it all, a flashy smile and a great no look pass. That certain player was a true point guard, Earvin Johnson Jr. There are five magic parts to Earvin Johnson Jr.’s life. On August 14, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan, Christine and Earvin Johnson gave birth to their third child, a beautiful baby boy named Earvin Jr. Earvin Jr. was born into the middle of a family ... bathroom. “The place turned into a real madhouse before school every morning, when we all lined up to use the bathroom. You learned to be quick.” said Earvin once. (Johnson, p.4) Both of Earvin’s parents played high school basketball. Earvin played basketball a bunch with his older brother Larry. (Brenner, p.44) Earvin would wake up early and play basketball before school started. “People thought I was crazy,” ...
- 718: Huckleberry Finn
- The narrator (later identified as Huckleberry Finn) begins Chapter One by stating that the reader may know of him from another book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by "Mr. Mark Twain," but it "ain't t no matter" if you have not. According to Huck, Twain mostly told the truth, with some "stretchers" thrown in, though everyone--except Tom's Aunt Polly, the widow, and maybe Mary--lies once in a while. The other book ended with Tom and Huckleberry finding the gold some robbers had hidden in a cave. They got six thousand ...
- 719: Depression
- ... These unexplained factors involving the cause of depression, and the wide range of effects that depression produces, make it a sophisticated mental illness to diagnose. Depression has been documented since the ancient times. The Magill’s Medical Guide discusses how the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates described the symptoms of his “melancholy” patients to what we call today, clinical or endogenous depression (Dawson 199). It hasn’t been until recent times that any mental illness has been understood as a disease. Depression wasn’t regarded on the same level as other diseases until the publication of Pinel’s Traile medico-philosophique sur l’alienation mentale ou la manie in 1801 (Murphy 127). This documentation caused extensive research on ...
- 720: The Role of Fate and Hubris in Oedipus the King
- The Role of Fate and Hubris in Oedipus the King Sophocles's Oedipus the King is indeed a tragedy. We can tell what a doomed life Oedipus is leading, but it is hard to pin down a direct antagonist, or force in conflict with the main character. Yet when I looked hard enough I found the two culprits behind all of Oedipus's misery. Oedipus's fate and hubris prove to play the roles of the antagonists in this story. It all comes down to Oedipus being a good person. He is noble and trys to bring justice to Thebes. ...
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