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  • Amory
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    This Side of Paradise chronicles the life of Amory Blaine from his childhood up through his early twenties. Born the son of a wealthy and sophisticated woman, Beatrice, Amory travels the country with his mother until he attends the fictitious St. Regis prep school in New England. He is handsome, quite intelligent though lazy in his schoolwork, and he earns admission to Princeton. Though initially concerned with being a success on campus, after failing a class he gives himself over to idleness; h...
  • Antonia's Mother
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    The Homesick Garden By, Kate Cruise O Brien The Homesick Garden by Kate Cruise O Brien was a thoroughly enjoyable read. It tells the story of the life of a teenage girl, Antonia, whose life is turned upside down by the unexpected pregnancy of her unmarried aunt, Grace. The novel explores many controversial issues, including, alcoholism and child abuse. The story is told through the eyes of Antonia. Isolation: The theme of isolation is vividly captured in this novel. Antonia is fifteen years of a...
  • Good Friend
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    Nervousness; I sat in the car on my way to the first day of kindergarten. My stomach was filled with butterflies and my mind with fears and un explicable hopes. I remember begging my mom to keep me at home. I knew nobody in my class. All of my friends from my neighborhood were in the other class. Oh how I wished that I could be in that class! So, I looked forward to seeing them after the school day was over. This is so because I didn t know that there were any breaks in the progress of the schoo...
  • Fdg Parents
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    For this oral history paper I was very excited to find someone with a quite interesting and culturally diverse family background that I think would contribute a lot to the topic of prejudice and stereotype. This paper will discuss the views of stereotype and prejudice of my interviewee and also how the two factors have affected her life. Brown (1995) defines prejudice as a negative attitude, emotion, or behavior towards members of a group as a result of their membership of that group. This negat...
  • Chapter 3 When Roald
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    Boy - Tales Of Childhood By Roald Dahl Chapter 1 Roald tells about his dad, how he was nearly seven feet tall, how he became one of the richest men in town by starting up a shipyard business with a friend, and how his wife, Marie, died from her second birth. After his wife died, Harald Dahl (Roald's father) found that the two children needed a stepmother. He met a Norwegian lady called Sofia Magdalene Hesselburg and they soon fell in love and got married. During the next six years she bore him f...
  • Christopher And Peter Hitchens
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    Look who's talking There is always something terribly nostalgic about the sight of Christopher Hitchens - The Hitch - on one of his periodic forays to London. You would think that 20 years living in the States would have smoothed him down, tidied him up, but no - he still dresses like a scruff and talks like a toff, he still chain smokes and drinks far too much, he still orders vast meals and fails to eat them. He is one of the few remaining practitioners of the five-hour, two-bottle lunch. I kn...
  • Title Waiting For Icarus
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    In the poem Waiting for Icarus by Muriel Rukeyser, a woman tells the story of her relationship with a man. She loved him and trusted him but discovers that he betrayed her. The setting of the poem is on a beach where this woman has been waiting all day for this man to arrive. While she is waiting, she reminisces about the promises he made to her and about how he confided his dreams and ambitions to her. These promises and confidences made her feel close and special to him. He tells her of his pl...
  • Scout And Harm
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    The story of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is an insight into a little girls life. Through the eyes of Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout, her world, the township of Maycomb, is a place of pleasure for her, but that pleasure also contrasts with the pain and suffering she deals with due to the thoughts and actions of the townspeople. Even though she is extremely intelligent for her age, Scout can not understand why so many of the towns relatively small population feel the way they do ab...
  • Dorothea's Mother
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    Dorothea Lange was born on May 25, 1895 in Hoboken New Jersey. Her real name was Dorothea Nutzhorn. She attended a teacher-training school before studying to become a photographer with Clarence White. Dorothea opened up a photography studio in San Francisco, California in 1916. Dorothea took many pictures during the Depression and of the World War. Dorothea Lange led a very busy life. Dorothea Lange lived with her mother in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her mother Joan worked in a library in New York Cit...
  • My Mother's Best Friend
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    On Saturday August 3rd 1997 I woke up a ten-year old boy, got out of bed brushed my teeth and ate my breakfast in much haste. I was anticipating the day ahead of me; it was exciting because I was going over to my friends for a sleep over. My mother's best friend with whom she grew up owned the friend's house of which I was going to. Her name was Geri Pou drier and she was a great lady. She looked out for every one else before herself. She- baby-sat me when I was a toddler. I grew up with her son...
  • Mike's Friend Mike
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    Mike Protagonist H. .. well let's start this shit off with some bios... Of course all of these kids have just graduated from high school, and they " re looking for something to do over the summer. A relatively delusional kid, his purpose is currently fogged with unattainable dreams and a complete disgust with CU, the in-state college he will be attending next year. He's a smart kid, who knows math well but hates to be accredited as the math wizard. He has no job, though his friends do, and he sp...
  • My Mother
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    The idea of writing about some family-related memories appealed to me. I am an only child in a family with loving parents. Since I have no siblings, most of my memories involve my mother, a very important person in my life. My childhood was filled with my mother's care, love, and attention. She always tried to give me a many-sided education. Knowing that reading wasn't quite my favorite pastime, for my eighth birthday she gave me a thick book, called "The Prince and the Peasant". We read the fir...
  • Tantrum Before My Mother's Friends
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    My best friend once ashed me what it was like being brought up by a Chinese mother. Surprisingly, I could find no answer. I found myself describing my mother's beauty-the way my mother's hair was so silky and black, how her eyes were not small and squinty, but shaped like perfect almonds. How her lips and cheeks were bright red even if she put on no makeup. But unlike my friends, who see my mother as a Chinese mother, I see my mother as simply "my" mother. The language between any mother and dau...
  • Erich Thought Clyde And Jenny
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    A Cry in the Night 1. The title of my book is A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark. 2. The place settings of my book are Granite Place, Minnesota and New York City. The time setting is over a period of a year. 3. The main characters in A Cry in the Night are: Erich Krueger-Erich is a 34-year-old man that is a very good artist. Erich is a very rich man who's mother died when he was a little boy. Jenny- Jenny is one of the main characters in my book. Jenny looks just like Caroline who is Erich...

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