...Soma reduces one’s mind’s ability to have sad or angry thoughts, in turn making everyone happy. One of the most essential aspects of a socially stable environment is ensuring that everyone feels satisfied, something that soma succeeds in accomplishing. Furthermore, happiness will prevent discontent with the governmental system, which in essence will keep the World State safe from uprisings by the citizens. Lenina, one of the main characters in Huxley’s Brave New World, relies heavily on soma to maintain her jubilancy. Huxley aids in Lenina’s character development through her display of considerable discomfort on her journey through the Savage Reservation with Bernard, another main character. As she watches the savages perform a sort of ritual,...
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...The Crush I. How the boy showed his love towards his teacher by actions A. First Scene: In the classroom 1. Stared at his teacher even the bell rang already. 2. Gave his teacher a toy ring. B. Second Scene: At the boy’s house 1. Wrote ‘marry miss purdy’ on a piece of paper. 2. Felt so happy while eating dinner. C. Third Scene: Shopping of boy and his mother 1. Felt really sad when his teacher, Miss Purdy, told him and his mother that his boyfriend already proposed to her and is engaged to marriage. 2. Looked to the couple with angry eyes maybe because he found the fiancé of his teacher as a jerk as his fiancé refused to celebrate their engagement for him to watch football game at home. D. Fourth Scene: Back to the boy’s house 1. Crumpled the paper where he wrote ‘marry miss purdy’. 2. Sneaked at his parents’ room to know where his father hid his gun. E. Fifth Scene: Back to the classroom 1. Ignored his teacher. 2. Expressed his disappointment on the engagement of his teacher. F. Sixth Scene: Confrontation of boy to teacher’s fiancé ...
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...MARY POPPINS ANALYSIS Mary Poppins was actually Bert's nanny long ago and there is a special reason she returns to Bert's life. Let's break it down! Bert sings: "Because I was afraid to speak/When I was just a lad/My father gave me nose a tweak/And told me I was bad/ But then one day I learned a word/That saved me achin' nose/The biggest word I ever heard/And this is how it goes, oh/ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Bert explicitly says that, when he was young, he was a scared child who was afraid to speak and had an over-bearing father, until he – as a child – learned that magic word. It's a magical word that really only Mary Poppins knows or uses. There is really no way he could have learned it as a kid unless she taught it to him! In the movie Bert works as a one-man band, a sidewalk chalk artist, a super-chipper chimney sweep, and a kite salesman! The movie takes care to show how sucky all the jobs are, but no matter what, he manages to keep a smile on his face. It's as if someone taught him how to find the joy in hard work. Perhaps with a spoonful of sugar?! (Yes. The answer is yes.) In the very beginning, Bert predicts, "Wind's in the East/ Mist coming in/ like something is brewing/ about to begin./Can't put me finger/on what lies in store/ But I feel what's to happen all happened before." It seems vague, but really he's just being coy. It did all happen before, when Mary Poppins was HIS nanny. Bert NEVER questions Mary's magic not when she's flying, not when...
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...The book begins by Nick Carraway telling the story. In the summer of 1922 he moves to New York to learn about the bond business. He then rent a house net to Jay Gatsby in West Egg that looks nothing like his. In East Egg lives Tom and Daisy Buchanan, his cousin. In the first chapter it seems as if Nick is attracted to Daisy in a passionate way. Also Tom is known for having another woman Mrs. Myrtle Wilson who is also married. The very first two chapter of this book displays mystery and dishonest. Nick Carraway coming from a Midwestern family seems to be well educated but his thirst for wealth leads him to a web of troubled relationships. Gatsby, being the mystery man he is to Nick, somehow is related to everyone somehow. Tom is truly a jerk to everyone even his wife. Daisy is like a tease towards her own cousin Nick. Daisy is a very open person towards everybody when it come to her emotions. Last there is Myrtle, she is the other women of Tom and caused a big problem in the beginning of the story when she called asking to speak to Tom. From only the first two chapters I can already tell that this book is full of drama and backstabbing. Nick seems to be the main character in the book so far instead of Gatsby. It kind of seems like either Nick and Daisy are going to be in a relationship or very close cousins. By the middle I would not be surprised if Tom left Daisy and got married to Myrtle. In the next chapter I am wanting to hear more about Gatsby after all the book is called...
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...Twas the Night before Christmas Poem Make it Snow ! Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads. And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap. When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below. When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer. With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name! "Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!" As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The...
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... he has to learn to survive and ultimately find love. With the help of his maid and blind teacher, he lives and learns in a secluded brownstone house. Using a magic mirror that the witch provided, he is able to view his friends. Curiosity strikes him, and he begins spying on a girl he casually met at the school dance. When her father breaks into Kyle's house, he makes a deal that brings the girl, Linda, to live with him. At first she doesn't trust him, but gradually, she begins to trust and possibly love him. Adrian, Kyle's new identity, takes Linda out to his families country house so she can enjoy the freedom. He shows her the mirror, and through it she see's her father, now ill. Adrian lets her go so that she may care for her father. He believes she has made her decision, so he ignores all her attempts to contact him. On the night of his two year deadline to find love, Linda gets in trouble. He rushes to rescue her, not even caring that everyone can see his beastly appearance. When he arrives, Linda's attacker shoots Adrian, causing Linda to confess her true feelings for him. As his life is slipping away, he asks for one final request; a kiss. The curse is removed as the clock strikes twelve, and Adrian and Linda are able to live out their lives, beautiful inside and out. In this book you see Kyle go from being a conceited jerk, to a perfect prince. In the beginning of the novel he rejects the "ugly" people and feels that the only way to make it far in life is to be "beautiful"...
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...up in West Egg, even though East Egg is much more glamorous. West Egg is considered home to the middle class, and even though Jay Gatsby is much higher than middle class, he has still found himself living there anyway. When it comes to Daisy’s husband, Tom, Nick and Gatsby seem to have the same view of him and they are similar in how they handle him; that is until Daisy admits she doesn’t want to be with him. When Tom acts like a jerk, both deal with it and act gentlemen like towards him; rather than calling him out on the things he does. One large similarity the two have is the fact that they seem to go above and beyond when it comes to pleasing others. One example of this is the fact that Gatsby made his house in West Egg for the pure fact that Daisy lives there as well, and he built his house just across the bay. When Nick is talking to Jordan, Jordan explains that Gatsby did in fact build the house to please Daisy, hoping that one day she would notice her. “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald 78). Almost everything Gatsby does is in...
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...Senator Arlen Specter. [5] During the Great Depression, which severely impacted Kansas and its residents, the Dole family moved to the basement of their home and eventually rented out the upper floors to raise money. As a boy, Dole worked as a soda jerk in the local drug store. Dole graduated from Russell High School in the spring of 1941[6] and enrolled at the University of Kansas the following fall. Dole had been a star high school athlete in Russell, and influential Kansas basketball coach Phog Allen traveled to Russell to recruit him to play for the basketball team. While at KU, Dole played for the basketball team, the track team, and the football team. In football, Dole played at the end position, earning varsity letters in 1942 and 1944. While in college, he joined the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, and in 1970 was bestowed with the Fraternity's "Man of the Year" honor.[7] Dole's pre-med studies at KU were interrupted by World War II. After the war, he returned to become a law student. Dole attended the University of Arizona from 1948 to 1951 and earned both his LLB and BA degrees from Washburn University in 1952. Dole was initiated as a Freemason of Russell Lodge No. 177, Russell, Kansas on April 19, 1955.[8][9] Dole grew up in a house at 1035 North Maple in Russell (38.895352°N 98.861034°W) and it remained his official residence throughout his political...
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...Essay of ”Prospect House” Life can be harsh, but it isn’t always your social background and social conditions which defines who you are and who you are going to be. As a known English idiom says, “He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom”. Despite the fact that some people live at “the bottom”, they can still follow their dreams and change their destiny, but it can be a very long, painful and confusing process, which demands a strong and determined individual, who is willing to work hard and keep on fighting for his dream. This is some of the characteristics we can recognize in the protagonist of the short story Prospect House by Frances Childs. We follow the Londoner Kim in her struggle to actualize her dream of becoming an actress. In Prospect House we see the story unfolding through Kim’s eyes and the story is told from her point of view. As a result of the story being told in first person, we can quite easily relate to Kim and thus we almost immediately sympathize with her, because we know her feelings and thoughts. We soon become aware of Kim’s unfavorable background. She doesn’t live with her family if she even has one. She lives at the Prospect House in Winchester, a home for single teenage girls and we get the feeling that she suffers from parental neglect. In lines 38-42 she describes their project worker, Linda, as a mother figure: “(…) Linda is a large, matronly middle-aged lady and comes round in the morning and shouts at us to get out of...
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...being so small she could have been hiding anywhere from a tree to a log. The woods are very dark even when you turn around all you see is black. We all had the flashlights, and the flash on our phones, but it still sent shiver down our cold, sopping backs. At first we thought the only obstacle was trying to find Lulu, but as we got deeper into the dark, grim woods when we began to realize that another obstacle we were going to have to face was avoiding the shattered clear and blue glass throughout the woods, not getting separated from each other, and that we would not get so scared to the point we would scream and others might think there was an actual emergency. A few of us could not take the suspense anymore, and offered to go back to the house. We ended up staying as a group. After about seven minutes, we made the conclusion that Lulu either returned home or had run down the street to the...
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...setting of this drama takes place in the 1920s also called the Roaring Twenties. He rents a house in West Egg, part of Long Island which is popluated by rich folk. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a big mansion and throws parties every Saturday night. Nick becomes friends with Gatsby and learns about his extravagant life. As the play continues, the narrator meets the rest of the characters in they play. Nick's meets Daisy Buchanan and her aggressive husband Tom. He also meets Jordan Baker who becomes a love interest for Nick. Daisy's husband, Tom, has a lover named Myrtle and she lives with her husband at the industrial area between West Egg and New York. The title of this story is named after the character James Gats. He was raised in a poor family and longed for wealth and success. When he got old enough he joined the military and met a beautiful rich girl named Daisy. He couldn’t marry her because he wasn’t rich. Daisy fell for him because he was in uniform and had very good manners, so she couldn’t tell if he was poor or rich. After several years, he came back from the war, but Daisy got married with Tom. Gatsby's obsession was to become rich and win back Daisy. This obsession leads to Gatsby's downfall. Both Nick and Gatsby are similar characters. They both came from the West and worked hard for their money. They see Tom as the jerk he is and both of them keep composure as he bullies them around. Both of these men go out...
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...violence, hidden within the lines, where Poe, has more explicit and direct violence not hidden between the lines. In Oates's works such as ,” Where is Here?”, violence is not told to be happening within the context of the writing, but one has to look more closely to actually see it. For example, in Oates work “Where is Her?” in his writing it says,” This was one of my happy places!-at least when my father was not home. “. When Oates writes about it being peaceful when the father was not home. It suggests that the father in a way was abusive, or in any form violent because in the tex . “The father violently jerked his arm and thrust her away”.In quote to this shows one of the rare direct violence in Oates writing where the father directly jerks the mother's hand away, and where the mother walks away, KNOWING that a bruise the size of a pear would appear on her arm in the morning. In oates other story “Where Are You...
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...Libby is known as “America’s Fattest Teen” who had to be cut out of her house. Now she shedded off the weight and has begun her junior year of high school. She faces her childhood bullies while in the process of coming out of her shell. Jack is known as the popular jerk that can get anything he wants. What the world doesn’t know about...
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...The very appearance contrasted from Vanessa’s brick house with the green lawn and high fence. She described Harvey’s house to be worn out, “the rust corroded gate stood open and askew... tall uncut grass had formed.” The narrator describes to house to have an acrid sour smell, “pots of urine were overflowing.” Laurence expresses Harve’s abusive upbringing and environment evidently. For example, “his aunt with an explosive quickness that made [Vanessa] jerk in every nerve, snatched the wooden spoon and hit him across the face.” While Harvey did not flinch, Vanessa explains every nerve jerked just from watching it. Vanessa notices how in the household, not an atom of respect or trust was given for Harvey when the aunt “darts into where he was, like a giant darning needle” completely assuming Harvey was the one at fault with no evidence at all and makes a fool out of him, slapping him across the face in front of people. Internally, she has noticed the distinct difference between the way each of...
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...A hundred dead and dying flowers occupy the shelves in Alma’s garage. Countless sunlit mornings push past her window and beam in hot amber bars against her curling wallpaper. They coax her to the nursery, where she meticulously searches for the most colorful, healthy-looking plants. Petunias, violets, pansies—especially pansies—each blessed with the delightful promise of continual budding, would jerk and twist in their crates in the back of the car, waiting for their debut to new soil. Her son decided her future for her, so the foliage will now sit for a bone-dry day on the shelf; another, another. Cathy makes her tea at six o’clock each morning. She has never been to England and hates her “first generation American” title. She speaks with an English accent acquired from her parents, dead and gone, reads etiquette books from cover to cover, writes on fancy stationery to old acquaintances who seldom return a word. Her house seeps lace, buckles under...
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