...Dad’s home! At least for her cousins. The family celebrates with beef soup. When dad and Turtle star talking about how she is hard shelled like a turtle but maybe soft on the inside. Summary Ch. 11 Turtle finally realized that the Diaper Gang was a great idea. Every mom in Key West wants some of their secret formula. Minnie has too much laundry today so she has to make Turtle go over and make lunch for Nana Philly. Turtle wants to get to know mean old Nana Philly better. Turtle and Nana Philly had a great time and she wants to get to know her better. Nana Philly and Turtle are a lot alike. They both hate Shirley Temple. :) Summary Ch. 12 Someone stole Turtle’s shoes last night! Minnie wants to give Smokey away because he used a skirt as a litter box. Turtle begs Aunt Minnie but Smokey is still going. Summary Ch. 13 Turtle gives Smokey to Nana Philly because he can’t stay with Turtle. Turtle goes to feed Nana Philly lunch. They are becoming closer and closer. Turtle finds a Treasure map!!! She doesn’t know if it is real or not so she justs puts it back and tries to forget about it. Turtle is thinking that the Diaper Gang could help with the...
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...Hanna Britton 859109 American Literature Book Report Moby-Dick Herman Melville Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is about a boy named Ishmael and a Captain named Ahab, as they set off on a journey to catch a white whale. “There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.” This is one of the quotes in the book that really stick out. It can be applicable to a lot of people throughout the ages. Moby-Dick is very much a classic as it was written awhile back. Herman Melville set the time around the same time he published Moby-Dick in Pittsfield, Massachusetts around 1850. Ishmael, the narrator, does have experience as a sailor but this is the first time he goes whaling. While staying at a whaler's inn he meets Queequeg, a harpooner from the south and also a cannibal. After a while the two men become friends and begin looking for work on a whaling vessel together. In Nantucket, they end up getting a job on a boat called the Pequod. The captain of the Pequod is Ahab, who has recently lost a leg in a fight against Moby Dick. The Pequod sets out and as the ship reaches warmer and calmer waters, Ahab makes his entrance to the rest of the crew. He tells them his intention to kill Moby Dick, the great white whale that took his leg. Ahab sees Moby Dick as a main symbol...
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...Name Lecturer Course Date Summary The boy was shy and weeping as he attended his mother’s funeral and was greeted by Siddhartha as his son as he entered Vasudeva’s hut. As the days progressed, he sat beside the dead woman’s corpse refusing to eat or sleep. Siddhartha honored the boy's grief by letting him do whatever he wanted, and letter learned that the boy was spoiled by the city life. As time passed, the boy remained a stranger to Siddhartha when he refused to work, displayed a proud and stubborn heart and lack respect for his elders. Siddhartha waited for a long time for his son to understand, accept, and even return his love. Vasudeva advised Siddhartha to return the boy to the city and with one of the servants or even his teacher but be in an environment he was used to. However, Siddhartha could not follow his friend's advice to give up his son. He, therefore, let his son order him around and do his chores. One day, Siddhartha lost his patience when the boy turned openly against him. He had given the boy a task of collecting brushwood, but the boy refused and instead shouted his hatred and contempt to his father’s face. The boy later ran off and did not return until tale in the evening. The following morning the boy was gone and stolen the money and the boat. Siddhartha saw the boat on the opposite side of the shore, and he knew the boy had run away. Siddhartha and Vasudeva built a raft and crossed the river, and Siddhartha went after the boy. On reaching the main gate...
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...taking a step into the adult world, is something that we all go through. Growing up is a very important part of life. Someday we’ll all become adults, and if you don’t develop yourself personally, you will remain having a childish personality and not have the skills life requires of you to live a life as a normal human being. Personal development is a theme that is very prominent in the short story “Indian Camp” written by Ernest Hemingway in 1921, where we meet the young boy Nick who’s on a mission with his father at an Indian camp. He gets introduced to the realities of birth and death in only one day, and when the day is over, he has got numerous of experiences and has obviously grown mentally. He has taken a little step further into becoming an adult. In my analysis I will make a brief summary, an analysis of the short story, where I will focus on Nick Adams development through the story and discuss which kind of initiation he goes through. Finally to sum up, I will make a conclusion. Nick is a young boy accompanying his father and his uncle George to an Indian camp on the other side of a lake. Nicks father is a doctor, and the reason why they are visiting this Indian camp, is because the father is summoned by the Indians to help a young woman who’s been in labor for 2 days, still unable to deliver her baby. When the father arrives, she is lying in a bottom bunk; her husband, who cut his foot badly with an axe three days before, is lying in the bunk bed above her. The doctor...
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...White Man’s Burden (Handout) Summary & Annotation: A straightforward analysis of the poem may conclude that Kipling presents a"Euro-centric" view of the world, in which people view society from only a European cultures point of view. This view proposes that white people consequently have an obligation to rule over, and encourage the cultural development of people from other ethnic and cultural backgrounds until they can take their place in the world by fully adopting Western ways. The term "the white man's burden" can be interpreted simply as racist, or taken as a metaphor for a condescending view of non-Western national culture and economic traditions, identified as a sense of European ascendancy which has been called "cultural imperialism". A parallel can also be drawn with the charitable view, common in Kipling's formative years, that the rich have a moral duty and obligation to help the poor "better" themselves whether the poor want the help or not until according to Europeans, "they can take their place in the world socially and economically." The term "white man's burden" is a phrase that became current in the controversy about the United States acquisition of the Philippines after the Spanish-American war of 1898. It was a concept that was the responsibility of white Europeans to bring "proper" European civilization to the nations (mostly brown, black, red or yellow) that did not have it. The underlying thought was that Europeans were correct in their beliefs and...
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...Passion or Person Would you give up your passion for another person? In summary, the story The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant is about a boy who has a passion for fishing, but really likes a girl and wants to impress her in any way he can. The boy should have caught the fish instead of pleasing and showing off to the girl. Also, the author of this story is Walter D. Wetherell. The two most famous books he has published were Soccer Dad and A Century of November (“Goodreads”). The conflict in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” helps the reader emphasize the narrator in the story by the river, how he wanted Sheila Mant, and letting the bass go. First of all, the river is the main setting of the story. He and his neighbor, Sheila Mant, lived on a river. The main conflict happened on the river as the boy brought Sheila Mant to a concert. He was reeling in the biggest...
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...Summary * Uncle George * smoker * Nick Adams * maybe 10 years old * father * doctor? * volunteer? * Indian lady * pregnant * sick – trying to have her baby since 2 days (being in labour, Wehen haben) * husband * smokes a pipe * axe -> foot (3 days before) * Indians * bark peelers * work for a logging company Way to the Indian Camp * Nick, father and Uncle George * 2 Indians pick them up * row across the lake in two boats * Nick asking: Where are we going… father: to an Indian Camp because an India woman is very sick * boats arrive – walk through a meadow to the woods * follow a trail -> logging road (much lighter) * Shanties – the 2 men enter the one nearest the road @ camp – sick woman * Indian woman has been in labor for 2 days * lying on the bottom bunk of a bead * cries out in pain * father explains Nick: her muscles are trying to get the baby out of her body * Nick: anything against the pain? – no anesthetic * husband is on the top bunk with a cut foot * father prepares: boils some medical instruments, washes his hands carefully * explanations to Nick: babies are supposed to be born head first, but sometimes become turned around * may have to operate * several men must hold the woman down * she bites Uncle George * boy is born * father -> Nick: do you like being an intern? – lies: yes it’s fine * Nick...
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...Summary of Indian Camp Two Indians stood waiting at the lakeshore. They are transporting Nick, his father and Uncle George. Nick's father is a doctor, and explains to Nick, that they are going to the Indian Camp because an Indian woman is very sick, while the Indians work very hard, rowing the rowboat. After the boat trip through the mist and darkness they reach the destination, and the young Indian pulls up the rowboat. Uncle George gives the two Indians cigars as thanks for the trip, he smokes a cigar with them. They follow the Indians, who carried a lantern, through a soaking wet meadow. They went into the woods to follow a trail that ran into the hills. They walked around a bend and a dog came out barking. Ahead where light from shanties. An old lady is holding a lamp in the doorway of a shanty. An Indian woman is lying on a wooden bunk inside. She has tried to give birth to her child for two days, and all the older women have tried to help her, but unfortunately without success. The men went further up the road to avoid the noise that the pregnant woman is making. The pregnant Indian woman had a husband, who recently has cut his foot very badly, with an ax. As some water is heating up Nick and his father have a conversation. The father tells him, that the woman is in labor, and that everybody wants the baby to be born. The woman screams in misery, and Nick can’t handle the screaming so he requests his dad to give her some anesthetics, which he can’t cause he has not...
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...Book Analysis & Summary Report Book Title: Turtle in Paradise Author: Jennifer L. Holm Date of Publication: 2010 Awards: Newbery Honor 2011 Central Character/s: 1. Turtle Curry – eleven-year-old; heroine; realistic; brave Other characters: 1. The Diaper Gang – gang created by turtle’s cousins: Beans, Buddy, Pork Chop, Kermit, Jelly, Ira. 2. Aunt Minerva – Minnie Curry; attentive; good mother; sweet 3. Sadiebelle Curry – Turtle’s mama; daydreamer; hard worker 4. Slow Poke – sailor; 5. Archie Meeks – salesman; slimy; dishonest; robber; 6. Nana Phily – old lady; grumpy; always upset 7. Mr. edgit – awful opinions; 8. Jhonny Cakes – rumrunner 9. Kermit – helped turtle to find a job 10. Miss Sugarapple – teacher 11. Uncle Vernon – Beans’ father Themes: 1. Family issues – Turtle’s mom needed to work to earn money 2. The Great Depression- Main cause of economic issues for everyone 3. Realistic beliefs – Turtle has her feet on earth Conflicts: 1. Poverty – the environment is dirty and depressing 2. Confusion – turtle does not understand daydreamers 3. Adventure – kids work for money and looked for a treasure Settings: 1. Aunt Minnie’s house – structure of the story 2. Nana Philly’s house – mean grandma 3. The streets – the diaper gang main place 4. The island - climax Detailed Summary of Main Events: Turtle is an eleven-years-old who will be living with her aunt for...
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...Peace Child Don Richardson Online Information For the online version of BookRags' Peace Child Premium Study Guide, including complete copyright information, please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-peace-child/ Copyright Information ©2000-2007 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale's For Students Series: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction, Author Biography, Plot Summary, Characters, Themes, Style, Historical Context, Critical Overview, Criticism and Critical Essays, Media Adaptations, Topics for Further Study, Compare & Contrast, What Do I Read Next?, For Further Study, and Sources. ©1998-2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: "Social Concerns", "Thematic Overview", "Techniques", "Literary Precedents", "Key Questions", "Related Titles", "Adaptations", "Related Web Sites". © 1994-2005, by Walton Beacham. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults: "About the Author", "Overview", "Setting", "Literary Qualities", "Social Sensitivity", "Topics for Discussion", "Ideas for Reports and Papers". © 1994-2005, by Walton Beacham. All other sections in...
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...“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. (Nguyen). Many African Americans had many troubles when trying to fight for their rights. Therefore three court cases have changed many perspectives on how black people should be treated. “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. (Nguyen). These cases influenced many changes in the civil rights movements for African American people. Plessy v. Ferguson case was about how the Court upheld a Louisiana law requiring restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and other public places to serve African Americans in separate, but ostensibly equal, accommodations. Thus, African American people staged boycotts with other white people who believed in and like black people. Although this helped many black people get the same equal rights as white people when being served at a public place. This also changed the way black people were looked at in the same way as white people. In summary the case judgement Plessy v. Ferguson helped colored people with getting the same rights as white people in public places (Plessy v. Ferguson). Brown v. Broad of Education case was about the unfair ways of how the different races were harassed in school. This happened because African American children were given poor learning environments and the...
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...A Summary of “Facing poverty with a rich girl’s habits” by Kim Strayer University English Composition April 17, 2016 A Summary of “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” by Kim This is a brief summary of Suki Kim’s essay, “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” in which she reveals how she came from riches to rags. Beginning with how she grew up in an ugly house in Queens, New York in the 80’s, which was clearly a downgrade from the mansion in which she stayed in up until the seventh grade. This was quite a shock to her considering her father was millionaire and lost his fortune literally overnight. Her father’s business had gone bankrupt and since this was an offense punishable by jail, she and her father packed up and fled to America. They came to America nearly penniless and while doing so still managed to secure a residence from another Korean family at the aforementioned ugly house in Queens. Even this posed quite the challenge since this was far from the chauffeured life that she was accustomed. From taking public transportation for the first time, to attending class in America for the first time she was in for quite the shock. She did not know any English and as a matter of fact her first word was F.O.B which was an acronym for “fresh off the boat”. She also had to come to grips with the fact that she was now being called Asian. This was not a term that she was used to being called. The fact that she was considered...
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...Assignment 1: Summary and Personal Response Chantel Kish Matt Norsworthy English 115 01/12/2016 I have chosen to read and review “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girls Habits” By Suki Kim. I think the most important point in her Essay is that it is possible to adapt and adjust to a new way of life and new things in life and succeed. It couldn’t have been easy to migrate from South Korea to a new country and not know a single word in the native language (English). I don’t think the adjustment to her new social class would have been as difficult as learning a whole new Language not to say changing social class wouldn’t be difficult. I have taken language courses before for enjoyment and leisure travel, but to be forced to learn a new language would be so challenging I couldn’t imagine the difficulty she had in school. It would also be so extremely difficult to be thrown into a whole new culture and not know what NORMAL is any more. Not only did she switch cultures she also changed her social status. Even though she “found it humiliating to wheel our dirty clothes to a bleak place called a Laundromat” (Kim 2004). She also realized very quickly that without maids and governess she was required to be more independent. Some of the other points she makes in the essay are that there were some racial tensions within her community; she was treated differently from Koreans that had been born in America. Some of her classmates called her a F.O.B. (short for Fresh off the boat), which was...
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...Characters: Santiago Shepherd boy, the protagonist of The Alchemist. He travels from Andalusia in southern Spain to the Egyptian pyramids in search of hidden treasure, learning life lessons along the way. Santiago is a dreamer and a seeker, and he stands for the dreamer and seeker in all of us. Old Woman A fortune teller, and possibly a gypsy, she interprets Santiago's recurring dream, but in a manner so straightforward that he finds it suspect and disappointing. Melchizedek/King of Salem An anonymous old man who is in fact a powerful figure from the Old Testament, he explains to Santiago what a Personal Legend is and urges the shepherd boy to follow his dream. Aside from Santiago himself, Melchizedek is the most important character in The Alchemist. Crystal Merchant A middle-aged resident of Tangier, he hires Santiago to work in his shop. The crystal merchant's Personal Legend is to make a pilgrimage (or haj) to Mecca, but he knows he will never fulfill this dream. He is Santiago's foil, a character who characterizes another by contrast. Englishman A bookish pedant obsessed with alchemy who hopes to learn the fabled craft from a famous alchemist rumored to live at the Al-Fayoum oasis that lies between Tangier and the pyramids. In The Alchemist, the Englishman stands for the limits of book learning. Camel Herder Once a prosperous farmer, his valuable orchards were wiped out by a flood, forcing him into a new line of work. He teaches Santiago the importance of living in the...
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...shrieking about finding a nest of earwigs in the corner of their tents or a trail of ants walking up along the tent flaps. Me and my partner were somehow blessed by god and were one (or only one) of the tents which weren’t infested with a hell hole of insects. Sadly, in exchange for this blessing, we had to be put with the worst tent with the worst cots which could and would fall apart any second. Everyday of this trip was just dodging yellow jackets left and right and at the same time trying to drown yourself in bug spray. Oh! Let’s not forget about the girl’s showers! BOY WAS THERE A PARTY OF MOTHS AND ANTS IN THOSE THINGS. The food served there was bad, if not worse, than the entire camp itself. The juice, no joke, had bugs swimming in it. The food was indescribable. How could you explain it other than it was just plain horrible? At least the trip back wasn’t so bad; excluding the point where it seemed that the boat would capsize in the windy...
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