...novel, A Separate Peace. John Knowles based a lot of this book on Phillips Exeter Academy, which is an impressive boarding school located in New Hampshire (Literature and Times). The author John Knowles connects his life to his novel, and the connection between his life and this work makes this story more believable and more interesting. John Knowles was born on September 16, 1962, in Fair Mount, West Virginia. As a child, John’s parents worked in a coal business in West Virginia. (Exeter.edu) His brother, James Knowles, attended the Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania and then college in Dartmouth. John’s parents thought that schools in New England would offer a better education than the ones nearby, so they decided to look at many catalogues of schools throughout this area. Out of the blue, John says, he, “pick[ed] up a catalog one day which was lying around the house, the catalog was for Philips Exeter Academy” (Exeter.edu). Phillips Exeter is an all-male boarding school in New Hampshire. After graduating high school in 1945, John decided to go to Yale, and there he earned a Bachelor’s degree in 1949. (NYT.com) Throughout his life, John wrote nine novels and eight stories. A Separate Peace was John’s biggest hit. This novel has received the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Art and Lectures. (“About the Author”). John Knowles passed away in 2001 at the age of 75 from a short illness. In the novel A Separate Peace, the...
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...From Innocence to Experience Transformations occur all throughout life, from developing pimples as an adolescent, to a midlife crisis that changes everything. In John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace, there is a transformation in all key elements of the book, from the rivers, to the tree, to the characters. Three specific young men experience change not just because of the transitions through adolescence. These changes also come about because of war, an injury, and guilt. All of these transformations are specifically seen in Leper, Phineas, and Gene. A minor but vital character, Elwin Lepellier, a young man still trying to mature, gets thrown into war and is devoured by its viciousness. Elwin Lepellier or Leper is introduced as a dreamy, eccentric, loner at Devon. He would much prefer exploring the world solo than being involved in a group. He may be a loner because he breaks down under pressure easily, which often times embarrasses him. When provoked by Finny to jump from the tree, he freezes. When the ball was pitched to him during blitzball, he refuses it. Leper would much rather stick to classic things like skiing (rather than walking) and enjoying nature such as the rivers and beaver dams. Though, after watching a video on the ski troops, Leper surprises everyone when he enlists for the army. Leper thinks the ski troops will be a great branch to join because he would be doing something he loved and supporting the war. Being the first boy from Devon to leave...
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...Is separate really equal? America is based off of their Constitution. We are known for our rights and freedom. Unfortunately not everyone has always been equal. In 1957, The Little Rock Nine started to change the segregation between races in school systems. Before Little Rock, there had been many fights for equality. Some of the main cases are Plessy V. Ferguson and Brown V. Board of Ed. After the Plessy V. Ferguson case it was agreed upon that every school would stay separate, but had to be equal, and this created the Plessy Doctrine. How could it be equal if they were separate? Even though they were supposed to be equal, the resources and education were dramatically different. Later in 1954 Linda Brown’s father decided he was not going...
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...human it allows us to survive. In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, we go through the book through the eyes of a boy, his name is Gene, Gene Forrester, 31 years old at the beginning of the book but when we look back at his time at Devon, he is a 16 year old boy who is thoughtful, intelligent and has a tendency to brood. His time at Devon shows what War does to people, and how Peace can protect people and keep younglings safe. His time at Devon is like a candle, flick its on, flick its out. The first example of War and Peace comes with Leper...
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...In A Separate Peace, John Knowles portrays the thought that choices have consequences. This book is about two friends who go to a tree to jump off this limb and one of them, Gene, jounces the limb and Finny falls of and shatters his leg. A while after Finny is going down these marble stairs and he falls and breaks it again. When trying to set it in place the marrow of his bone goes to his heart and kills him. Gene had to live with the consequence of his action. The way he presents the theme is through two characters and two settings/symbols. Leper Lepellier decides to be in the war and his consequence was the he goes psycho. Gene goes to check up on Leper at his house and see how he is doing. Leper is looking out the window so Gene comes in and talks about rooms of Leper’s house. Leper says what his favorite room is and why and Gene says something back that Leper gets mad about: “Force sprang into his expression for the first time. ‘What’s she got to be pleased about!’” (142). Leper changes into a meaner and fiercer person than before he signs up for the war and “escapes” it. This shows...
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...position I found myself in. I’m a white male in my mid-30s and the America that existed when race was a prerequisite for using certain water fountains seems distant. Then last week, I was sitting across the table from a woman who lived her childhood partially according to Jim Crow. Growing up in Southern Georgia, Gayle was always reminded of the color line. “Whites lived on the East side, and we blacks lived on the West side”, and everything was separate; schools, restaurants, etc. Her father had been a sharecropper and together with Gayle’s mother raised her and two sisters and a brother there in their small Georgia town. Knowing better than to ask a Southern woman her age, I did get her to admit that “Integration finally arrived when I was in 7th or 8th grade in the late 1960s” but change was slow and “we still had separate proms in high school.” Two Supreme Court decisions stand as de-facto bookends of the segregation era, Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education. The former, in 1896 solidified “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites giving credibility to what became known as the Jim Crow laws that codified segregation (Schaefer p. 181). However, as a practical matter it gave the green light to inexcusable policies where property and services provided to blacks were inferior until 1954 and Brown. It chipped away at Plessy by allowing seven year-old Linda Brown admittance to a “white” school four blocks away, rather than having to attend...
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...In the novel The Assault, by Harry Mulisch, a young boy named Anton, endures a traumatic event. His house is set ablaze, and all of his immediate family is killed. As the novel follows Anton through the course of his life, he receives multiple explanations about the night of the incident. These explanations both simple and complex. In order for an explanation to be complex, the descriptions of the event need to be incredibly detailed, and the reasoning behind each action are required to be quite in depth. The novel ultimately states that complex explanations are more effective for reasons such that with simplicity, some truth is lost, and contextual evidence of why the event occurred is lost. With complexity, further details are gained about...
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...The setting in this play is mainly the small, cramped Younger family apartment. There’s five people residing in it, only containing a kitchen the size of a closet, a living room that doubles as the dining room and Travis’s bedroom, two separate rooms (one occupied by both Mama and Beneatha, the other shared by Walter and Ruth), and a bathroom that’s out in the hall due to them sharing it with their neighbors. This signifies how utterly poor, and displays the high levels of tension throughout the play. The tininess of the house even has Ruth consider aborting her unborn child, causing Mama to immediately buying the house in Clybourne park. The protagonist of the play is Walter Lee Younger, a dreamer who desires to be wealthy. He formulates...
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...The world is always changing, and it is only the people who acquire and unite both internal and external peace who can stay true to themselves through all the vicissitudes with which they are presented. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, a young man named Leper struggles with obtaining and maintaining peace both within himself and among his friendly companions. As the United States increases its involvement in World War II, boys from high schools all over the country are pulled into the army to fight for their nation. Leper’s whole life is transformed when he enlists in the Ski Troops and he is forced to develop his character as he undergoes the rigors of basic training which contrast starkly with his peaceful life at prep school in New Hampshire....
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...In the summer of 2010 leading into my junior of year of high school my mother and I had a lot of altercations. We kept having disagreements about what time I came into the house at night, me always having company, and me never cleaning up my room. My mother and I weren’t the only ones having this disagreement. I had four cousins who were having the same exact debates with their mothers, who were my aunts. My mother and Aunts all sat down and discussed the matter. They came up the solution of us having our own apartment. When they brought the idea to us five we all agreed that it were a great plan. Us having our own apartment meant that we could do what we wanted when we wanted without our mothers nagging us about every little thing. We knew we were going to have fun, but we also knew we had responsibilities that had to be taken care of. We all agreed to do our part and chip in where we were needed. It was time to prove to our mothers we were old enough and mature enough to be on our own and make the right decisions. Frenchie, Dj, Crap, Jamarcus, and I moved in on July 21, 2010. We were going to be staying in Hill Top Apartments, apartment 312. The apartment had 3 rooms, 2 bathrooms, a full kitchen, and a living area. Since Dj was the oldest he got a room to himself. Jamarcus and I shared a room and Frenchie and Crap shared the other. We had two cars amongst us, mines and Jamarcus’s. Since we were on our own we tried to save as much money as possible so we always...
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...buildings) Group H : (Storage buildings) Group I : (Hazardous buildings) 1.3.1 Group A : (Residential buildings) These are those buildings in which sleeping accommodation is provided for normal residential purpose with or without cooking or dining or both facilities. Buildings of group ‘ A ’ are further sub-divided as follows: i) Sub division A-1: Lodging (or) Rooming Houses: These include any building (or) group of building under the same management in which separate sleeping accommodation for a total of not more than 15 persons, on either transient or permanent basis with or without dining facilities, but without cooking facilities of individuals is provided. ii) Sub division A-2: One or two family private dwellings: These include any private dwelling which is occupied by members of a single family and has a total sleeping accommodation for not more than 20 persons. iii) Sub division A-3: Dormitories: These include any building in which group sleeping accommodation is provided with or without dining facilities for persons who are not members of the same family. iv) Sub division A-4: Apartment houses (flats): These include any building or structure in which living quarters are provided for three (or) more families living independently of each other and with independent cooking facilities. v) Sub division A-5: Hotels: These include any building or group of buildings under single management in which sleeping accommodation, with or without dining facilities, is provided...
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...owner stays in a house only five years, before moving somewhere else. Due to low interest rates, the majority of families in the USA own their own homes. Usually these are separate houses with yards. Houses in US are still very inexpensive compared to Europe. There is a dark side to families moving so much, and such distances. Family ties are not nearly so strong in the US as in other countries. Some parents and grown children living on opposite coasts may only visit each other twice a year. LIVING IN THE CITY Groups of owned apartments in one building (called “condominiums“ or “condos“) are not so popular as in the rest of the world. Usually they only are common in downtown areas. They are popular with people who want to buy their own home but don’t want to maintain a yard or a garden. Condominiums often have a lot of communal amenities, such as laundry room, swimming pools and fitness rooms. Young people, especially when they are single, normally can’t afford to buy a house or a condo right away. They usually live in rented apartments. There are apartments in older buildings, especially in big cities, but there are also a lot of modern apartment complexes. These apartments are almost always furnished, usually very nicely. AMERICAN HOUSES Houses vary greatly, but the dominant style of the last 30 years has been the ranch-style house. Houses are usually made of wood and built by carpenters. In the southern states, where wood is scarcer, brick and stucco houses are much more...
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...home on the joint tax return? According to Internal Revenue Code section 121 (a) & (b), individuals can exclude up to $250,000 gain from gross income on sale of a main home (or $500,000 for joint returns) as long as they have owned the home and used the home for a minimum of two years. The two years are aggregating which means your living period in the house does not need to be consecutive. However, the $500,000 limitation does not apply to the married couple in our case since Ted fails the use requirements mentioned above (section 121 (b) (2) (A) (ii)). Since Ted moved into the Richmond home on December 13 of 2010 and that the sale date is September 1 of 2012, his stay in the house is less than two years. The amount they can exclude should be the sum of each spouse’s limitation amount determined on a separate basis as if they had not been married (section 121 (b) (2) (B)). Since Ted would not have owned the house if he had not married to Ruth, the amount of gain they can exclude shall not exceed $250,000. Now let us look at how much gain will be realized on the sale. According to section 1014 (a) (1), basis of Ruth’s house, from which she inherited from her mother, shall be the fair market value ($315,000) upon Ruth mother’s death. Given that the selling price is $700,000, Ted and Ruth realize $385,000 gain. But the couple can only exclude...
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...PART 1- Essay Rust and Vreugd can be seen as a suburban house in the city centre of Cape Town. This is unusual as homes in the city centre today are found to be apartments, lofts, condos and penthouses. It is rare to find a suburban-style house in the city centre, built in the past 20 years. From this it can be said that a penthouse is the development of the suburban house in the city centre. Many factors lead to this development and change of “city houses”. It is essential to first look at the characteristics of a suburban house and a penthouse to see what the differences are between these two homes, including references to the examples. Rust and Vreugd is an old house in the City of Cape Town built in 1771.(fig 1.1) It is a great example of VOC architecture and is a monument and museum open to the public today. Done by architect Anton Anreith, it includes characteristics of the Cape Dutch style. It is symmetrical, has a stoep, voorkamer and achterkamer but has some features only found later in Cape Town. It is evident that towards the end of the 18th century the flat roofed type of house was generally employed in the town, whilst the thatched and gabled roof was commonly used in the suburban and country houses. The town houses were mostly two storeys while those in the country were one storey. It was designed on a grand scale and is larger than the average townhouse of its time. Its most distinctive features includes a highly ornamented classical façade, a stoep with...
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...Robertson Heights – Maple Ridge Housing Development Maple Ridge is quickly becoming the destination for families looking for affordable, single family houses at an affordable price. This trend can be seen in the new housing developments going on in Maple Ridge, although there is a nice selection of housing options in the city, there is definitely a focus on single dwelling homes and communities that are being specifically designed and targeted to young families looking to relocate to Maple Ridge. One such development is Robertson Heights. Robertson Heights Robertson Heights is an exciting and affordable single dwelling development that is quickly becoming a Maple Ridge favourite. Robertson Heights offers 128 individual homes and is built...
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