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- 10631: Character Willie Stark in Jack Burden's Novel
- ... be little question that his methods of achieving his goals are reprehensible in an absolute sense-but also that they are conditioned by established practice and by the methods used against him. Just before his death, of course, Lucy Stark persuades her husband that his methods were wrong, and on his deathbed, Willie does tell Jack that things "might have been all different." Perhaps it is not so much the methods ...
- 10632: Houdini: Master of Escape
- ... new dress. Often when I here of Houdini I think, and even have been told, that he died in an escape accident. That is not only untrue it is nowhere near his true means of death. During a performance one night he broke an ankle. That is when it all started. He began feeling worse everyday. He had stomach pains. He waited to late. He had a ruptured appendix and gangrene ...
- 10633: Gatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream
- ... get what they want. Later, as we see in the Plaza Hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when he takes the blame for Myrtle's death. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes...but of course I'll say I was." (151) He also watches and protects Daisy as she returns home. "How long are you going to wait?" "All night if necessary." (152 ...
- 10634: The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings: Part I, Book II)
- ... Gollum, Balins (one of the dwarves that accompanied Bilbo in his journey in the book The Hobbit) tomb, elves, the last of the "Black riders" or at least in this book, and a near death experience. I think that in this book Frodo is somewhat a leader and also has to make many tough decisions. For example: When Frodo reached Rivendell Elrond gave Frodo the decision of staying in Rivendell ...
- 10635: A Farewell to Arms: Summary
- ... that he and Catherine were very close and would have to be, because now they had a major responsability together. How does the book end? Catherine ends up dying of multiple hemorrhages, and after her death Tenente describes saying goodbye as, like saying goodbye to a statue. He has nothing to do, no one to talk to, and nowhere to go. Finally Tenente walks, in the dark, back to his hotel ...
- 10636: Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
- ... to go unaccounted for leads to leads to a decline in their motivation. How can they want more than what they know? They see the streets in which they live in infested with drugs, violence, death and decay. It's as if they are living in a battle zone in their own community. Yet despite these factors and other barriers, there are those that whish for more and strive to achieve ...
- 10637: The Godfather: Did The
- ... prohibition on dealing drugs.(Anastasia, 114). If any of these acts would have happened a decade earlier it would not have been let go so easily and all of these would have been punished by death.
- 10638: The Narrative Of The Life of Frederick Douglas, An American Slave
- ... right to have, "a city slave is almost a freeman" (79). Freedom looks more and more precious the closer they are to achieving it until it becomes an obsession and they will fight to the death to become freemen. The literary work the Narrative expresses two main views of women, neither of which are to be taken as positive values even in the 1800's. In a very unfavorable light, Douglass ...
- 10639: Smee
- ... builds suspense; thus making the story interesting and frightening. In the beginning the author sets the scene by telling us a story within a story. A. M. Burrage takes us back in time explaining the death of a young girl. This young girl dies playing the game of hide-and-seek. The author then transcent you into the second story where much of the information is parallel to the first story ...
- 10640: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- ... the book. them down for years. 5. Man, that's like electrocuting a man I just thought this was a neat quote. It looks for murder. The reasons for both at shock therapy and the death sentence and activities are much more closely couples them both as cures. Cures for related than you might think; they are separate problems. 6. Think of it: perhaps the more insane This brings up an ...
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