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- 291: To Kill A Mockingbird: Great Quotes by the Characters
- ... died beholding to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew." Page 116 Chapter 11 Talking to Scout: Atticus turned his head and pinned me to the wall with his good eye. His voice was deadly: "First, apologize to your aunt." Page 138 Chapter 14 Talking to Jem: "Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but ... Hitler so bad an' turn around and be ugly about folks right at home-" Page 249 Chapter 26 Scout (talking to Miss Maudie): "Nome, I mean the folks on our street are all old. Jem and me's the only children around here. Mrs Dubose is close on to a hundred and Miss Rachel's old and so are you and ...
- 292: Catcher In the Rye: The Quest For Love
- ... maturity that they are destined for. He seeks children, free of impurities. At Phoebe's school, "....I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'Fuck You' on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant, and then ... dirty moron,' I said. 'You're a stupid chiseling moron, and in about two years you'll be one of those scraggy guys that come up to you on the street and ask for a dime for coffee" (Salinger 103). This is when Old Maurice's ego starts to bleed and he beats up on Holden much more. Old Maurice is ...
- 293: The Andromeda Strain: Summary
- ... on their face. Stone and Burton carefully took a scalpel, while being careful not to cut their airtight suits. With the scalpel Stone cut open a man lying on the street. All of his blood was hard, clotted solid. Then out of the corner of Stone's eye an old man appeared and stumbled. They quickly found him and took him ... computer began to pump gas in to the chamber. Port holes opened up around him and semi-automatic tranquilizer dart guns began firing. Thump, a dart slammed in to the wall by his head. He began to feel dizzy, the gas was getting to him. Just as he stopped he felt a sharp pain in his back and every move he ...
- 294: 1984: The Party's Methods of Controlling People
- ... at the poster, the muzzle of the gun, magnified by the foreshortening seemed to be pointed straight at you. The thing had been plastered on every blank space on every wall, even outnumbering the portraits of Big Brother."1 The telescreens are such a power tool in controlling the people. What ever the Inner Party wants the people to see and ... see. "The part starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, and every date has been altered. The process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. Reports and records of all kinds, of newspapers ...
- 295: A Comparison of "Of Mice and Men" and "The Great Depression An Eyewitness History"
- ... had to seek some other opportunity. It was very important to not let anyone know what had happened where you were previously employed. In 1929, Herbert Hoover was elected president. Wall Street was greatly affected by the greatest stock market crash in the history of the United States of America. This caused everyone and especially the banks to panic. Everyone was naturally ...
- 296: Native Son: Character Actions Defines Their Individual Personalities and Belief Systems
- ... which Bigger provides her in exchange for "love". An aura of death surrounds her even before Bigger murders her. Like Bessie, Bigger's mother appears trapped on a one way street going nowhere. Conflicts An interesting aspect of Native Son develops from the many levels of conflict occurring simultaneously in the book. On a superficial level personal conflicts arise, but deeper ... actions toward Jan and Mary portray his resignation to the social inequity of the color barrier. He acts simply, as a subservient "yessah". It appears the author believes the true wall of separation between whites and blacks is an almost impassable division. Jan and Max base their decisions on the equality of man. Having a moral basis for action leads them ...
- 297: Vonnegut's Portrayal of Society in Breakfast of Champions
- ... States is the core of a materialistic race of beings. Efficiency is rewarded more than honesty or integrity by a culture with a tendency to accept commercialized versions of reality. Wall Street and Hollywood have replaced family and self as the center of focus for many Americans (Brucker 1427,1429). "Money is the root of all evil" is no longer a widely ...
- 298: Silko's "Ceremony": Summary
- ... man for their sacred White "America". I'm half-breed. I'll be the first to say it. I'll speak for both sides. First time you walked down the street in Gallup or Albuquerque, you knew. Don't lie. You knew right away. The war was over, the uniform was gone. All of a sudden that man at the store ... some what better was by vomiting every time that he would feel that pain in his belly. "The swelling was pushing against his throat, and he leaned against the brick wall and vomited into the big garbage can." (18) What we are seeing here is that by him constantly vomiting it is a way for him to get rid of all ...
- 299: Alexander Hamilton
- ... this on March 1, 1782 Hamilton resigned from active military duty. After the British left New York Hamilton moved there with his wife and kids to a house on 57 Wall Street. Here he began a law office. Hamilton began to represent loyalists who were being sued by patriots who fled the city. The loyalists were being sued for rent an damages ...
- 300: Bill Gate's Biography
- ... more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com. Gates' previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks. Gates has ...
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