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Search results 2951 - 2960 of about 4850 matching term papers
- 2951: Kate Chopin's Controversial Views
- ... Chopin's true friends stayed by her and Frederick encouraged her to write again. She only wrote one more story, "Charlie" in 1900 which wasn't published until long after her death . After "Charlie" Chopin lived out of the public life until her young death at the age of fifty-four in 1904 (Boren 207). Chopin was a writer truly ahead of her time. It was not until fifty years after ...
- 2952: Harper Lee: Introduction To Harper Lee
- ... land for careers in law and medicine. Atticus settled in Maycomb, the county seat of Maycomb County, with a reasonably successful law practice about twenty miles from Finch's Landing, where his sister Alexandra still lived. Scout describes Maycomb as a lethargic, hot, colorless, narrow-minded town where she lives with her father, brother Jem (four years older) and the family cook, Calpurnia. Scout's mother had died when she was ...
- 2953: Mordecai Richler`s Solomon Gursky Was Here
- ... who is Richler's voice in the novel, exhibits many autobiographical characteristics: English speaking resident of Montreal, raised on Jean Mance street. He has a strong religious backround (Jewish), smokes a cigars, writes professionally and lived in London, England for a period. Moses and his father L.B. do not get along well. L.B., a failed poet, is resentful of his son's literary talent. This leads to leads to ...
- 2954: Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels
- ... they seemed like the greatest humans ever seen in court, even more dextrous than the Lord Edmund Burke" (162). As this quote demonstrates, Gulliver is terribly impressed, but his admiration for the Houyhnhnms is short-lived because they are so prideful. For instance, the leader of the Houyhnhnms claims that he has read all the works of Charles Dickens, and that he can singlehandedly recite the names of all the Kings ...
- 2955: Subject: Giovanni & Lusanna-by Gene Brucker
- ... social status would be greatly hurt to marry some one in the working class of Florence. This is another example of why today¦s society is so much different from how it was when they lived. Another strange thing about their society is the open humiliation that people were subjected to. It was said that Lusanna first husband was called a ¦cuckold ¦ to his face. People who were said ...
- 2956: Animals In The Eyes Of The Dragon
- ... of the novel, though, all of the animalsÆ roles fall into place. Frisky, NaomiÆs companion, is a strong-willed, over-confident, Anduan Husky who may have been the ôgreatest tracking dog that ever lived.ö This dog sums up the meaning of a manÆs best friend. Frisky, who can track a three-day-old scent in the middle winter, is the reason the story takes place as it ...
- 2957: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
- ... at him in shame for he knows the respect he will gain is shallow. The strangers who respect him look at his money, not at his heart. To Simcha, money is not everything. He has lived a life based on respect but for character, not riches. Simcha's words have impacted Duddy's life but not in the way he wanted, never like this in his darkest nightmares. There is no ...
- 2958: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- ... to use my pen instead of my presence. A second result was that Susan Anthony spent so much time at our house that the children called her "Aunt Susan." After Henry passed the bar, we lived briefly in Boston before settling permanently at Seneca Falls, New York. From my home in the small town near the Canadian border, the start of the struggle for women's rights began. Lucretia Mott and ...
- 2959: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... at the academy Poe was dismissed for neglect of duty, and his foster father disowned him permanently. Poe's third book, Poems, appeared in 1831, and the following year he moved to Baltimore, where he lived with his aunt and her 11-year-old daughter, Virginia Clemm. The following year his tale “A MS. Found in a Bottle” won a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. From 1835 to ...
- 2960: Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
- ... he who coined the phrase “Quick Henry, the Flit” which was to 1930s advertising what “Just Do It” is to 1990s advertising. Sort of. They later moved to La Jolla, California where Ted lived for the rest of his life. They loved children although they were unable to have any of their own. About five years after Helem's death he married Audrey Stone. He died in 1991 in ...
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