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Boo Radley Heck Tate
2,063 words... away from fishing to accompany him to Helen Robinson's house, and how Helen collapsed at the news. Meanwhile, the news occupies Maycomb's attention for about two days, and everyone agrees that it is typical for a black man to do something irrational like trying to escape. Mr. Underwood writes a long editorial condemning Tom's death as the murder of an innocent man, and the only other important reaction comes when Bob Ewell is overheard saying that the death makes "one down and about two more...
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Falling Leaves Return To Their Roots
1,094 wordsFalling Leaves The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mah, is a story of a young Chinese girl growing up in an environment that most people would crack under. Under the reign of a evil stepmother, Mah's life was worst than most young unwanted Chinese daughters during the early 1900 s. However, due to her strong will and the influence of a special Aunt she is able to over come such a horrid childhood. Today she is a medical doctor in America. However, if she did not have the s...
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Jem And Scout Scout And Jem
483 wordsTo Kill A Mockingbird is a novel of many lessons, by Harper Lee. Scout and Jem are the main characters about six and ten at the beginning. One of the lessons they learned was about judging people before you really know them. 42 A lesson Scout learned from Boo was about judging people. All the kids in the area thought Boo was very mean and hurt people. Boo was a really nice person but Scout didnt think this. He saved their life risking his own. He put gifts in a tree so Scout and Jem could find t...
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Frozen In Time Trench Coat
3,095 words... penetrate through most materials I know of, clothes have no chance!"So, you said a lead. I mean, I could have said it was a girl who led it, but, who?" Coleby feels Derek is leading no-where usefull. "Ah, the lead. " Derek grins. "There was a finger print on the material. The person it leads to could have in no way been the suspect, but it could very well become obvious who is. "Samantha, " commands from behind coleby, a voice very well recognized. Coleby turns to see a man about 6 ' 2 " wit...
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Uncle Toms Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
1,922 wordsToday, the majority of American women earn a wage outside the home, regardless of marital status, age, or race. Career Girls and Working Moms have become an accepted part of the American culture and economy. Behind our cultures acceptance of women at work outside the home is a long and complex history. Opinions about the kind of work women should do, and the meaning of that work to individual women and American society as a whole have fluctuated throughout the centuries. Harriet Beecher Stowe's ...
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1,219 wordsThis is a story about a young boy named Tom Sawyer who is very mischievous and likes to go on adventures. He lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Tom also had two friends named Joe Harper and Huck Finn. Becky Thatcher is Toms girlfriend and Injun Joe is the towns thief and murderer. This story took place in the mid- 1800 s in a small village in Missouri along the Mississippi River. The story begins when Aunt Polly has to punish Tom Sawyer for playing hooky from school. She orders ...
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Aunt Harriet And Sophie Harriet And Sophie David
637 wordsJohn Wyrndham the author of The Chrysalids is an extraordinary writer who has created this book in the state of two totally different worlds. Wyrndham has based this book on the different views toward blasphemies and how the characters all have a different approach on the subject. The three greatest ranges in different reactions to Blasphemes would come from the characters: Joseph Strorm, Aunt Harriet, and Sophie Wender. Joseph Strorm is the character in the novel that has the greatest disliking...
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8,644 wordsJOSEPH CONRAD: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES Joseph Conrad didnt set out to become one of the great English novelists. He didnt set out to be a novelist at all, but a sailor, and besides, he wasnt English. English was his third language and he didnt begin learning it until after he was 20 years old! He was born Jozef Terror Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, in an area of Poland that was part of Russia and is now part of the Soviet Union. The Poles were fighting for independence from Russia, and both paren...
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Jane Eyre Loving Relationship
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387 wordsText: Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. 1903. New York: Puffin Books, 1994. Setting: A farm in the small town of Riverboro in York County, in the late 1800 s or early 1900 s. Major Characters: Rebecca Randall ~ a girl who grows up with a vivid imagination, and a lot of troubles. In the beginning she is ten years old, and by the end she is 17. Aunt Miranda ~ Rebecca's aunt who she lives with and is very strict, harsh, and demanding. Aunt Jane ~ Rebecca's other aunt whom she also l...
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1,019 wordsThis book is a diary that goes through the last two years of a young teenage girl? s life, who got infected with the HIV virus after being date raped. The girl in the book is named Nancy and she is important enough to have her diary published because her life went from being a normal teenage girl with normal problems, to an abnormal girl with AIDS and abnormal problems. She agreed to have her diary published so that other people who think that AIDS and rape can? t ever happen to them can have a ...
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Back In Time Falling Leaf
1,134 wordsReturning To One? s Roots Falling Leaves? The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mah, is a story of a young Chinese girl growing up in an environment that most people would crack under. Under the reign of a? evil stepmother, ? Mah? s life was worst than most young unwanted Chinese daughters during the early 1900? s. However, due to her strong will and the influence of a special Aunt she is able to over come such a horrid childhood. Today she is a medical doctor in America. Ho...
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Wizard Of Oz Primal Scene
1,712 wordsFreud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz The film The Wizard of Oz is definitely about the concept of returning home. This is made clear throughout the film. Dorothy's entire time in Oz is spent trying to get back home to Kansas. Then when she gets back home she tells Aunt Em that all I kept saying to everybody was? I want to go home. ' This fits perfectly with the time, 1939, that The Wizard of Oz was produced. One reason was that due to the depression, many people were forced away from t...
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Martin Luther King Type Of Music
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Handmaid Tale Quot Quot
1,695 wordsEarly in? The Handmaid? s Tale? , Offred says, after having seen a group of Japanese women wearing short skirts, rather than the typical, compulsory dress of Gilead: " We are fascinated, but also repelled. They seem undressed. It has taken so little time to change our minds about things like this" This illustrates how the minds of the population have been manipulated to make them comply with the Government? s views. Like in most totalitarian societies, the Gilead Government uses propag...
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Aunt Reed Jane Eyre
931 wordsThe novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront&eur; consists of the continuous journey through Janes life towards her final happiness and freedom. This is effectively supported by five significant physical journeys she makes, which mirror the four emotional journeys she makes 10 -year-old Jane lives under the custody of her Aunt Reed, who hates her. Jane resents her harsh treatment by her aunt and cousins so much that she has a severe temper outburst, which results in her aunt sending her to Lowood boar...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Fa Mu Lan
9,191 wordsMaxine Hong Kingston (27 October 1940 -) Pin-chia Feng National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan See also the Kingston entry in DLB Yearbook: 1980. BOOKS: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (New York: Knopf, 1976; London: John Lane, 1977); China Men (New York: Knopf, 1980); Hawaii One Summer: 1978 (San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1987); Through the Black Curtain (Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1987); Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (New York: K...
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Muriel Rukeyser Poem Quot
8,423 wordsRuth Stone: Voice From Society's Margins, By Ruth Stone: Voice From Society's Margins, By Mary Ann Wehler Mary Ann Wehler Ruth Stone was forty-four when she published her first book, In an Iridescent Time, in 1959. In fact, Norman Friedman states in his essay, " The Poetry of Ruth Stone" (46) that Stone had mastered the elegant formal conventions of that era. Soon after, Harvey Gross deems in his article, " On the Poetry of Ruth Stone, " that Stone was versed in " balanc...
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Kill A Mockingbird Jem And Scout
507 wordsA common question asked today is what causes prejudice? Prejudiced people cause much pain and social injustice throughout the world. In the poem Prejudiced Man, by William Debolt, the poet clearly describes a prejudiced man and his behavior. The poem reads, Like a quarter moon/He looks in one direction/Among the shadows. Although this poem is short it accurately describes a prejudiced man. The beginning line Like a quarter moon describes a prejudiced person who only shows a portion of him. The p...
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Scout And Jem Jem And Scout
1,235 wordsA Untitled The Mortal Mockingbird A songbirds melody can evoke happiness in anyone, as can the smiling face of a child. The mockingbird sings for the sake of singing, and an innocent child possesses an innate joyfulness, as natural as instinct. Yet a mockingbirds song dies as easily as innocence. In the beginning of the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are portrayed as innocents, uncorrupted by our world of prejudice and racism. Their world is simple, sensible, a childs world. However...
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