... Coolidge for a very long time and she automatically makes Sylvia her friend. Bea shows Sylvia the ropes; what to do, what not to do, where to go, where not to go. That kind of stuff. Bea is a good teacher, and a good friend to Sylvia. One of Sylvia's students is Joe Ferone. Joe is a rebel and a hoodlum. Joe barely ever comes to class. Sylvia really wants to help Joe. Sylvia tries to schedule after school sessions with Joe, but he never shows up. Towards the end of the story I get the feeling Sylvia was starting to fall in love with him. This story takes place in a New York City school in Manhattan, in the nineteen- sixties. The book covers the span of one schoo ...
... effects, and computer graphics , many of us continue to appreciate the excitement of the written word from those authors that produce masterpieces. The Iliad does just that. Homer’s use of language evokes the passion of his characters and their heartfelt emotions. The Iliad embodies action at it’s very onset, and although long in content, captures and to an extent , possesses it’s reader. I am sure that it is the style and meter, that Homer uses to convey his thoughts, that make the Iliad such a classic epic. Crawford pg. 3 In the opening lines of the Iliad, words of war capture the reader. Rage-Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doom ...
... search for some fundamental knowable truth(s) - he supposes the existence of an evil deceiver who may potentially deceive him in everything he appears to observe and think about. His consideration of this is valid and necessary, however I might point out one fault. The mere fact that he continues optimistically in his pursuits after the considerations in this section shows his implicit belief that he is not being deceived in his current or future deliberations on the matter. This simple fact seems to contradict the very essence of this meditation. The Second Meditation continues to address the issues of evil deception in body and mind, and aims primarily to draw ...
... Odyssey. Concurrent with the time’s belief that women held a subservient position in society to men, the male characters in The Odyssey often expected certain traits and actions that they didn’t expect from men. Also all the societies and lands Odysseus visited that were inhabited by mortals were dominated by men. In The Odyssey women are unequal, treated differently, and are considered inferior to men. Throughout the epic women are not given an appropriate amount of respect by men. The male characters of The Odyssey expect certain traits and characteristics of women that they do not expect of themselves. Men expect that the women in The Odyssey be ...
... obscene. The terms "mother" and "father" are extremely offensive and are rarely used except in science. Huxley uses Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, to portray the vulgarity when he explains the obscenity of life before Utopia to a group of students: And home was as squalid psychically as physically. Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion. What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene relationships between the members of the family group! (37) In an earlier passage, Huxley shows the effects of Mond's explanation on one boy, "The Controller's evocation was ...
... West Egg, and finally gets to show Daisy that has made it big. She falls back in love. Coincidence? No,Daisy just follows wherever the money goes. “ Daisy is like, she’s like... money”(chapter 8). My mom told me that when you put a daisy in a vase with water, it will shrivel up and die. That is just like Daisy’s character. She seems so sweet and good, but as times progresses you find out that she is just a selfish,and devoted to only being with the person who has money. Jordan Baker’s name is very symbolic. Her name combines two automobile makes. The sporty Jordan and the conservative Baker electric. The car is a representation of the persons image. Ofte ...
... of a chest wound, Leer a hip wound. Behm was shot in the eye. Haie Westhus was shot in the back. Berger received a wound to the pelvis. Last of all, Katczinsky with a splinter in the head. Here is Paul’s description of one of the few horrifying sights he saw with his young eyes: “Beside me a lance-corporal has his head torn off. He runs a few steps more while the blood spouts from his neck like a fountain” (pg.115). Another incredible moment is stated on page 117, it says, “I fall into an open belly on which lies a clean, new officer’s cap.” These physical and emotional terrors cannot be healed completely neither the ones who saw them nor the o ...
... game room. Lastly, towards the novel's end, Ender's empathy takes on a much more universal significance when it first allows him to win the war for humanity against the buggers, and then at last is put to a more peaceful use, when Ender becomes a "speaker for the dead". From the very beginning of the novel, Ender's extraordinary empathic abilities are quite conspicuous. The first time the reader encounters Ender, in fact, he is making a very perspicacious observation about the way adults lie to children. A woman in charge of the maintenance of a monitor attached since birth to the back of Ender's head had told him that it was at last time for the monitor to c ...
... he had read about and was taught about by his father, Atticus. But after the court convicts Tom Robinson of rape when Atticus had clearly proven that Tom could not have done it Jem sees his first real glance of corruption in the world. It upsets him as well as making him see and believe in evils in the world, such as racism. His beliefs in why Boo Radley stayed in the house all the time changed too. When he was young he thought Boo was just crazy and that's why he stayed in the house. But he comes to believe that Boo stays in the house because he doesn't want to come out, because he doesn't like the world outside. His interests change too. When he was young his ...
... stomach was turned as he wondered how hard the world was going to be from then after. Through out the story, I felt that Sammy was feeling trapped in life by his job. When Sammy made reference to him making a song up for when he was done ringing someone's groceries through the till, "'Hello (bing) there, you (gung) hap-py pee-pul (splat)!' - the splat being the drawer flying out.". Sammy knew he had been working there for a long time and was getting sick of working there. I believe Sammy felt as if he was placed in the job and was never going to move. Sammy was given the job from his parents knowing the manager. I don't think Sammy had the feeling that he wen ...
