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Clean Well Lighted Place Cat In The Rain
1,154 words... himself with a shotgun. Ernest Hemingway takes much of the storylines of his short stories from his personal experiences. In "Soldier's Home" Hemingway expresses the alienation from bourgeois American culture that many returning soldiers felt. Harold Krebs, who is the main character in the story, feels this alienation when he returns to the U. S. He came back much later than the other soldiers. Everyone heard the same stories from all the soldiers, so Krebs felt the need to lie about the sto...
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Holden Sees Gold Ring
746 words"This fall I think you " re riding for- it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit the bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started. " Holden Caulfield's fall to psychological breakdown begins with...
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Music Hall York City
553 wordsOne summer my Aunt Janet invited me to go on a bus trip with her church to Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Radio City Music Hall is theater where musical shows are held, getting to go there would be a new experience for me. With out knowing the next sound, smell, touch, or taste, the visit to New York City became an adrenaline rush to my senses. My memory of that day starts on the bus sitting by the window, watching the birds fly through the sky looking for their morning meal. As the bus...
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Catcher In The Rye Looked Good
1,138 wordsThe theme that the world has an outward appearance that seems fair and perfect but really they " re as Holden put it "phonies. " This is shown countless amount of times in his journey through New York and even before he left. The setting is in the 1950 's; so I'm pretty sure that he didn't encounter any transvestites, lesbians, or anything that extreme of phoniest. Or on the other hand he could have liked them for being as Elmemson said a "none conformist. " But I doubt it, he seemed to like kid...
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Lee Harvey Oswald John F Kennedy
1,621 wordsAnd the Assassination of JFK The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been one of the most controversial cases in history. There are many theories to what really happened on that tragic day. What theory is the right Theory? Well, that depends on what evidence you believe is the Best evidence. (Lifton) The following presentation will address the Warren Commission and who they and how they involved in the investigation of the case. It will also discuss the facts of the case and determine...
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Back To My House Play Kickball Car
775 words"What happened"? my cousin screamed at me as she came running out the door. While she was yelling at me as I sat there and wondered to myself those same words. Those were the thoughts and words that ran to my head, and were said to me one Saturday afternoon when I wrecked my uncles car into my deck at my old house I was 11 years old entering the 4 th grade. All I wanted to do was play kickball. It was nagging at me like a sore tooth. My parents were out to dinner with my uncle and my cousin was ...
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Made Out Of Wood Ed Sullivan
1,784 wordsYouth culture in the nineteen fifties was a time that opened up the world to be integrated for whites and blacks. In this paper the fifties are analyzed through the clothing, styles, cars, family life, and most importantly entertainment. Talking to various members of my family I asked them if they could remember the way that the youth dressed in the nineteen- fifties. The responses were all similar. The popular man role wore tight white T- shirts which were described to me (I hate this expressio...
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Couple Minutes One Day Kara
682 wordsKara walked into the classroom five seconds before the bell rang and all the guys looked in awe. She was the kind of girl that everyone wants but nobody can have. I was among these spectators sitting next to an empty desk. She came and took the weight off her feet in chair to the left of me. I had never talked to her until one day she brought conversation upon me. She asked me how my day was going and I gave a typical response of Good. She introduced herself and asked for my name. I discovered r...
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Short Stories Living Conditions
1,655 wordsAccordion Crimes is a difficult book to place in a single time period because the story takes place over about 100 years, originating in a small Sicilian village, but the main setting and focus is the United States. The various settings introduced in the book influenced the characters in various ways, but one instance of influence was great enough to cause his death. The accordion maker was literally ruled over by his setting. The setting around him was one of oppression that worked against him ...
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Louise Reaction Free Free Life
476 wordsIn Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour, " there is much irony. The first irony detected is in the way that Louise reacts to the news of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard. Before Louise's reaction is revealed, Chopin alludes to how the widow feels by describing the world according to her perception of it after the "horrible" news. Louise is said to "not hear the story as many women have heard the same. " Rather, she accepts it and goes to her room to be alone. Now the reader s...
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Poem Tells Robert Pinsky Shirt
577 wordsBefore reading this poem one doesn't completely realize the details and stories behind an object as basic as a shirt. I had no idea that so much detail could be found in such a simple object, much less an entire poem. This poem presents a very good example of how we can easily overlook terrible things which happen, but choose to ignore. Even though we know bad working conditions exist in small countries which produce products we need, we choose to buy these products and support the inhumane work...
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Brother Ptolemy Mark Antony
1,901 wordsCleopatra V was born in 69 BC, in Alexandria, Egypt. Despite what people say today, that she was glamorous and beautiful, she was far from it. She is shown on ancient coins with a long hooked nose and masculine features. Although she was not beautiful she was clearly a very seductive woman, and she used this to further Egypt politically. She had a beautiful musical voice. It is also said that she was highly intelligent. She spoke nine different languages, and she was the first Ptolemy pharaoh wh...
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Leonardo Da Vinci High Renaissance
892 wordsThe Last Supper was a very powerful Biblical event, in which Jesus and his disciples gathered for one final dinner together. According to the Bible, important events took place during the Last Supper, including an announcement by Jesus that one of his disciples would betray him and the first communion. To artists in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it was necessary to give proper deference to such notable occurrences. Both Leonardo da Vinci and Jacopo Robust, known as Tintoretto, took upon...
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Narrow Country Road Passing Motorists Car
1,835 wordsWalking, there is no end in sight: stranded on a narrow country road for all eternity. It is almost dark now. The clouds having moved in secretively. When did that happen? I am so far away from all that is familiar. The trees are groaning against the winds fury: when did the wind start blowing? Have I been walking for so long that time hysterically slipped away! The leaves are rustling about swirling through the air like discarded post-it notes smashing, slapping against the trees and blacktop, ...
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Mental Illness Yellow Wallpaper
1,114 wordsThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story of a woman with psychological difficulties whose husbands prescribed treatment of her mental illness sends her into insanity. The so-called treatment consists of the Rest Cure as developed by the notable Dr. Weir Mitchell, which includes complete bed rest, no work, and no emotional or physical stimulus an enforced idleness of body, mind, and spirit. The husband, John, takes complete control of all decisions on behalf of his wife concern...
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David Didn T
1,115 words? School Childhood Experience Strange Days? School is about to start, I wonder if James is going to be here today, ? David thought as he sat in his desk toward the rear of the room. He stood up and walked to the window at the back of the room. Looking outside through the window, David saw the large baseball field. Looking beyond the field he noticed the row of houses where James lived. The door to James? house opened and David saw James running to school. David went back to his desk and entertai...
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Radioactive Weasel Stage Band
1,422 words2 - 4 - 97 On My Time The best and worst two days of my life took place at Bogart's with my band Radioactive Weasel last month. We had practiced daily for near three years, and our group decided to pull together again and enter The Battle of the Bands. This was the first time we sparingly paid fifty dollars to perform anywhere. All the other competitions we had entered were mail in tapes and then wait for a response. We got out of bed at five in the morning, then raced to our drummers house. Loa...
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Death Of Her Husband Characters In The Story
692 wordsIn The story of an Hour, Kate Chopin reveals the complex character, Mrs. Mallard, In a most unusual manner. THe reader is led to believe that her husband has been killed in a railway accident. The other characters in the story are worried about how to break the news to her; they know whe suffers from a heart condition, and they fear for her health. On the surface, the story appears to be about how Mrs. Mallard deals with the news of the death of her husband. On a deeper level, however, the story...
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Streetcar Named Desire Stanley
656 wordsIn Williams? ? A Streetcar Named Desire? (Williams 2008 - 2075; additional references by page number only. ) the characters are extremely physical. The most physical of all characters in the play was Stanley Kowalski. Stanley is considered to be a brutal, domineering man with animal-like traits. The best relationship to illustrate Stanley? s brutality is the one between he and his wife, Stella. Stanley treats Stella badly. He beats Stella and is impolite to her in front of other people. He rarel...
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Dark Figure Neighbours House Felt
846 wordsThe solitude of the fearful evening added to frightful atmosphere of the cold winters night. The piercing wind breathed heavily through the city and the tiny droplets of rain danced on the roofs of every building like a concert of tap dancers. All were asleep cozy in their beds. Anxiously, she quickened her pace and faced down at her feet to escape any sights that might boost her rising fear. She muttered to herself, Nearly home and continuously ran the thought through her mind as an attempt to ...
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