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Common People American Chinese
544 wordsI stayed in China for more than 20 years, and then came to the United States last year. During the last year, I kept comparing the two countries and found both similarities and differences. American people and Chinese people are all generally nice and friendly. Since I arrived here, I have had to use English and faced a completely new environment. Almost all Americans whom I have met are willing to help; they accompanied me to apply for my Wild Card (the student ID in our school), helped me answ...
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San Francisco One Day
1,014 wordsGo Ask Alice! Alice is fifteen, white, middle, class. She diets, she dates. She loves Roger but the most time he doesn't notice her. If she would ever sleep with a boy she would sleep with him. Alice hates her look. She wants to be pretty and slim. Lately she loses fascination about all things. School is boring and she doesn't even go to parties. Her parents want to move. Her Dad is invited to become the Dean of the Political Science at -. Alice is happy and is not hard for her to leave the old ...
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George And Lennie Curley Wife
1,086 wordsJohn Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, is about life on a ranch in the nine 1930 's. Two men -- Lennie and George -- are the newcomers on a ranch. Lennie is a giant man, much like a bear, who has obvious mental limitations. George is a friend, or the only friend, of Lennie's. George and Lennie travel together and George is Lennie's caretaker. They have a dream of buying a ranch together and living alone, where Lennie can't get into trouble. When these two arrive at the ranch, they are greeted ...
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Make Others Feel Lies To Make Others Feel Throw
402 wordsOne of his elements of his moral code is that it's all right to lie to make people feel better. One quote to prove that is, "Old Mrs. Morrow didn't say anything but boy you should have seen her. I had her glued to her seat. You take somebody's mother; all they want to hear about is what a hot-shot their son is. " There you can see that Mrs. Morrow was really happy to hear that her son was doing well at Peace, which made her feel better about her son. The point is that even though he lies, he som...
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Chili Judge One Cayenne Peppers Frank
809 wordsNotes from an inexperienced Seattle chili taster named Frank who was visiting Texas: Recently I was honored to be selected as an Outstanding Famous Celebrity in Texas, to be a judge at a chili cook-off because no one else wanted to do it. Also the original person called in sick at the last minute and I happened to be standing there at the judges' table asking directions to the beer wagon when the call came in. I was assured by the other two judges (native Texans) that the chili wouldn't be all t...
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Lone Ranger Indian Society
613 wordsLeandro The dos Santos Sophomore Seminar September 14 th, 2000 Analysis on "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" and "Smoke Signals" Sherman Alexie based on some short stories included in his book, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, " wrote the screenplay for the movie "Smoke Signals. " Both the movie and the book portray problems that Indians had to deal with, and how they dealt with it. The book is far more complex than the movie, showing a wider variation of characters ...
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One Of The Most Significant Status Of The Building Customs
721 wordsCircular Quays Customs House that is occupied at Sydney, Australia is very well known for its ancient heritage and significance in the whole state history. A former Customs House has been renovated and rebuild and is currently a very nice beauty of the region. In order to identify the heritage significance of the House we may take a closer look into the historical p revalue of the sight. It used to be a formal Customs House that opened the Australian gates to the people that were first settling ...
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Gentlemen Callers Fire Escape
1,445 wordsThe play The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses many symbols which represent many different things. Many of the symbols used in the play try to symbolize some form of escape or difference between reality and illusion. The first symbol, presented in the first scene, is the fire escape. This represents the " bridge" between the illusory world of the Wingfields and the world of reality. This " bridge" seems to be a one way passage. But the direction varies for...
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Man Vs Man Story Starts
599 wordsThe story starts as Jonas, a twelve- year-old boy, who is waiting for his life assignment. When he is given his assignment, he is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory. As the Receiver he has to get every memory from all over the world from the old Receiver he calls The Giver. The Giver: The Giver is the man who is the old Receiver. He is also the one who gives Jonas the memories. In the community were Jonas lives is everything is controlled, even peoples memory. The Giver is the only one who is n...
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Color And Form Madame Matisse Artist
700 wordsMatisse, Henri +mile Be t (1869 - 1954), French artist, leader of the fauve group, regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20 th-century art, a master of the use of color and form to convey emotional expression. Matisse was born in Le Cateau in northern France on December 31, 1869. The son of a middle-class family, he studied and began to practice law. In 1890, however, while recovering slowly from an attack of appendicitis, he became intrigued by the practice of painting. In 1892, hav...
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Didn T Baby Girl
1,012 words? Please, Megan Renee Megan Renee? Please, just let me hold her, ? she pleaded, ? just once? ? ? I? m sorry, ? replied the plump nurse coldly, ? but I have my orders, and besides, it will only make things that much worse. ? To an outsider, it was a heart-wrenching scene. To the hospital, it was something that they dealt with on a daily basis. To her family, it was a mistake that never should have happened. To Sara, it was a day that changed her life forever. ? Katie, I can? t look-tell me what i...
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Great Expectations Nice Clothes
650 wordsThere are many things about the Victorian Age that are different from our way of life today. Evidence of this can be found in such elements of the 1800 s as courting manners, child- rearing, transportation, housing and careers. The novel and film Great Expectations give many examples of the contrast of the present and the past. Victorians were a very class-conscious society. These days, just about anyone can manage to have fairly nice clothes, a decent car, a place to live, and reasonable job se...
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Mice And Men Mentally Handicapped
1,379 wordsIn 1962 Kennedy was president, and Americans were looking to the New Frontier. A distant World War and depression still haunted our past. The baby boomers were typical displaced teenagers, and an author was honored. His influence had impacted society, especially the voice he gave to the oppressed. Even though what was considered his great work was decades behind him, John Steinbeck received the Nobel Peace Prize. He had shaped America with his writing. In Of Mice and Men, his literary voices as ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Put In Jail
818 wordsPrejudice comes in hundreds of ways. I cant list all of them but I can list the most important parts and say how it is harmful. Prejudice needs to stop. Im not saying its going to be easy but I wish that one day in the future there will be no prejudice. It is going to take more than individuals. It will take millions of people working together. Right now there is lots of prejudice and it is very harmful. In our life people make fun of other people constantly. If someone is not as physically appe...
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Love Mice Pet
348 wordsMy name is Lennie Small. My name is one of the few things I know. The name I should be given is stupid or ignorant because that is what I am. I admit it, I am not very bright. That is why I have my friend George. He guides me and allows me to utilize my strength. If I were by myself I would cause much trouble for I do not understand many things. I think I? m like the ox. They are big, strong, and stupid. They have small brains and big muscles. That is a lot like me. Strength is what is written o...
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Mice And Men Lennie And George
966 wordsOf Mice and men Of mice and men is the story of two opposites that attract. They are two very different people Lennie and George, yet they stick together like glue. These two characters have a lifetime to tell, while John Steinbeck articulately and so well detailed, makes the place, the characters and the situation come alive. The book is about two men, Lennie and George off to make their dream of fortune come true. I think it is important to explain their characters as to get a brief picture in...
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Soft Things Powerful Man
507 wordsIn the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there was a character by the name of Lennie, a mentally challenged man. Lennie who had the mind of a three-year-old and the body of a giant was a sweet, outgoing guy. Although Lennie never remembered anything, he always remembered the words of his father figure Georges words. One of Lennie's most passionate qualities was his love for animals; the way he cared for the touch of soft things made that love even stronger. In Lennie there was a special, ...
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Rose Of Sharon Dream
1,441 wordsThe Dreams of the Depression During the years of the 1930? s many people were affected by the economic disaster called the Great Depression. The long drought made farming unprofitable, and so the farmers, who have occupied the land for decades, had to leave. The banks that owned the land threw out the farmers in the rural South and Southwest. According to the handbills given to them, good jobs are plentiful in California. All of the farmers joined thousands of other poor families on a lengthy tr...
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Nurse Ratched Ken Kesey
816 wordsAt a point in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Harding says that the men on the ward as well as all the men in the world are victims of a matriarchy. Seeing how the main reference made to women in the novel involves the Big Nurse, Nurse Ratched, who is represented as a controlling and manipulative woman, one could say that Harding s statement could be justified. Through Nurse Ratched and her role in the book, all women are represented as controlling and manipulative people. The Big Nur...
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Holden Caulfield Pencey Prep
591 wordsPeople may not Phonies Phonies People may not be what they appear to seem like. For Holden Caulfield from the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, he calls these people phonies. Holden despise people who try to act like someone in which they are not. He encounters numerous amounts of phonies in his journey throughout New York City and even before he left the boarding school, Pencey Prep. Many characters in the novel share this common theme of phoniness. Holden sees Mr. Spencer, his pa...
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