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  • Stanley's Brutality
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    Stanley's Brutality In the Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois's visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister's brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the reveling truth of why Blanche really came. Stanley Kowalski is a very brutal and barbaric person who always has to feel that no one is better than him. His brutish and ferocious actions during the play leave t...
  • Hole Stanley
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    I.S. 228 Justin Havens 703 12/24/04 Holes Louis Sachar Fiction Holes is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. Stanley has been sent to camp green lake (a juvenile center). He was arrested, and later guilty for stealing a pair of shoes. Back at school, there was a bully named Derrick Dunne. Derrick used to torment Stanley. The teachers never took Stanley's complaints seriously, because Derrick was so much smaller than Stanley. Some teachers even seemed to find it weird that a little boy like Derrick...
  • Joan And Peter Stanley
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    Stanley vs. Illinois 92 S. Ct. 1208 (1972) Nature of Case: The plaintiff is Peter Stanley. He said that his rights to equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment have been violated. He believes that the Illinois law that makes children of unwed father's wards of the state upon death of the mother violated his rights. Facts: Joan and Peter Stanley lived intermittently together for 18 years, in which they had 3 children. When Joan Stanley died, Stanley's children were declared wards of th...
  • Step Forward And Stanley
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    Lesson 2 Step 9 Stanley von Herschaur was robbed. People are going to die. Stanley was one pissed off customer to have been screwed like this by the stamp-collecting community. Maybe just the people that he had spoken to, clearly not everyone deserved 'death', maybe just deserved a hell of a beating. He knows what will happen, today he's drunk off his ass, tomorrow he's a committed revolutionary ready to bring about another Holocaust. Stanley was happy about one thing when the darkness enveloped...
  • Stanley's Home
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    The Adventures of Stanley Stick One beautiful yet windy day at around noon day Stanley Stick was just hanging around in his usual spot when all of a sudden it started getting very windy unlike anything he had ever seen before he tried to hold on as tight as he could but it was no use for Stanley he was blown around and around far from his home. When he awoke he was in a place he had never seen before. He saw a lot of people walking very fast around him and he got stepped on many times. Then alon...
  • Stanley's Great Grandfather
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    Holes Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day. Stanley eventually realizes that they are digging these holes because the Warden is searching for something. As Stanley continues to dig holes and meet the other boys at the camp, the narrator intertwines three separate s...
  • Reader Of Stanley's Ferocious Brutality
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    Brutality in Stanley Kowalski In the play A StreetCar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, brutality is shown very strongly by one particular character. The main character, Stanley Kowalski, shows his brutal emotions in many ways throughout the play. Stanley's brutality is shown clearly toward the reader in several places during the play. In example, the first act of brutality is evident at the poker game when he gets so angry he throws the small, white radio out the window. Another example of h...
  • Holes Stanley's Fate And Bad Luck
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    Holes response to Literature Holes is a book about a boy named Stanley Yelnats who is convicted of stealing a famous basketball player's shoes. His punishment for stealing a basketball players shoes is going to detention camp. Stanley believes that this all happened because of an ancient family curse or fate. This is true because both bad luck and fate led to detention camp where he turned his bad luck around once and for all. In the book Holes Stanley Yelnats gets sent to a detention camp becau...
  • Lago And Stanley
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    Comparison and Contrast: Stanley from A Street Car Named Desire Lago and Stanley are villains in Othello and A Street Car Named Desire. They both plan a tragic scheme to draw the main Characters, Othello and Blanche to their 'downfall' in their plays and they start it by their their hatred. Iago is absolutely inhuman being while Stanley showed his little conscience. They are both the master and are brilliant. Nevertheless Lago seem tp be much smarter than Stanley in compassion. Iago and Stanley ...
  • My Sugar Daddy Stanley Walker
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    Oral Interp. of Lit. Name: Alexis Walker Age: 35 Occupation: Married a rich older man, so I basically sit around and do nothing all day. Health: Smoker and boozer since eight Nationality: Black and beautiful Where do you live: New York, New York. I'm from the lovely borrow called Queens. I'm upper class, wealthy, rich, and all that jazz. My pent house looks over the city and I laugh at all the poor weaklings I see below. Family: I rid my parents off long ago. I have three stepchildren, but I cou...
  • Zero And Stanley
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    Holes The book Holes is about kids that do bad things and they get send to a detention center, Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake was once a very large lake, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now its just a flat dry land. During the summer the temperature hovers around ninety-five degrees. Stanley Yelnats was sent to Camp Green Lake when he stole shoes. Everyone in Stanleys family blamed it on his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig- stealing- great- great-grandfather when every s...
  • Every Stanley Kubrick Film
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    Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan on Thursday, July 26, 1928 to Gertrude Perveler and Jacques Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick has witnessed three wars, a slave revolt, and a superpower nuclear confrontation. Stanley has been to the edge of our universe and back, even though he has spent almost half his personal and professional life in the courtside just outside London, England. Stanley Kubrick arrived in Great Britain in the early 1960's as a filmmaker in total control of his perso...
  • Stanley Kubrick
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    Stanley Kubric was one of the great filmmakers, died in his bed of a heart attack on Sunday morning, March 7th 1999. When I first heard the report, I blinked twice in disbelief. It just seemed WAY too soon to bid good-bye to Stanley. Somehow, he was one of those people you get to think will always be there. And it's appealing to have known all these years that up there in Hertfordshire, he was working away on some new project or other. SOMEone had been doing something new and special. After all,...
  • Blanche And Stanley's Drinking Problem
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    The Play "A Streetcar Named Desire", written by Tennessee Williams, is about a woman named Blanche Duboise whose last hope of finding security becomes shattered by her malicious brother-in-law Stanley Kowalsky. This fictional play takes place in the late forties or early fifties in New Orleans, Louisiana. Blanche Duboise moves in with her sister Stella Kowalsky, and brother-in-law Stanley Kowalsky because she lost her family estate and had no where else to go. Stanley starts to dislike Blanche b...
  • Terrell And Jonathan
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    Momma was upset when she found out that I wasn't the only black kid in my school. One of the reasons that she moved to South Jersey was to get me away from the black kids, as if I weren't one of them. It was so bad that momma had me checking my skin color. Sometimes I even forgot that I was a black girl originally from Newark, New Jersey. But, I was thankful that there were other black kids in the school besides me. It felt good seeing other people that looked liked me. I was especially thankful...
  • Stella's Time Of Need Stanley
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    A Streetcar Named Desire In many modern day relationships between a man and a woman, there is usually a controlling figure that is dominant over the other. It may be women over man, man over women, or in what the true definition of a marriage is an equal partnership. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Stanley is clearly the more dominant figure over Stella. Throughout the play there are numerous examples of the power he possesses of her. Williams portrays Stella as a litt...

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