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However, due to the agonizing Sausalito dance, Claudette was unable to follow the nuns expectations. This can be depicted when she thought that the brothers “didn’t smell like our brothers anymore“ (241) and that they “smelled like pomade and cold, sterile sweat.” (241). Her thought process on the brothers new scent clearly shows that she is uncomfortable around them. Additionally when the Sausalito commenced, Claudette “months at St. Lucy’s had vanished, and I was just a terrified…

1) In his essay “The Parallels and Differences Between the Birth Story of Lord Lao and Jesus,” Bidlack compares the similarities between Jesus and Laozi and why they are significant. Bidlack starts his essay by providing some background information about Laozi before discussing the similarities between the birth stories of him and Jesus. Laozi was a philosopher of ancient China and the founder of Daoism. As time went on he became looked as a deity and became known as Lord Lao. There are many…

What To Do After High School Most high school seniors believe they have to go straight to college right after high school. College degrees are not needed in some career fields, so why even get a degree that you don’t need? I believe in certain circumstances, going to college is a waste of time. Many work forces are looking for people with experience, and students just coming out of college don’t have that experience that supervisors are looking for. Students are looking for jobs or careers…

Much like Callaghan struggled to redeem control from under Parisian and Hemingway’s influences, John Glassco in Memoirs of Montparnasse endeavored to find and regain power over his narrative. Memoirs of Montparnasse was a delicate attempt to define himself and proclaim his Canadian identity amongst the modernist project in Canada. In Memoirs of Montparnasse, Glassco offers his readers an unconventional history of modernism with other opportunities in the ongoing battle to establish the ground…

Harper Lee uses characters and events in To Kill a Mockingbird to show courage throughout the book. Courage is shown through the characters by having them do the right thing even though it may go against society. Lee shows courage with the events by making them situations where not everyone is in agreement and the characters have to choose the right decision. They have to be brave and stand up for their beliefs even when the situation is very hard. In the book, Harper Lee, displays the theme…

once to her house. She liked him a lot. Also things were going through my head saying Tom would not do just a thing like they are saying he did. I did not believe one bit what they were saying. (Mr. Gilmer asked Mayella tell me in your own words (241). (she said that…

is really like. He slowly learned how different his culture was from this “Brave New World”. The feely only confirmed that this society revolves around things that John considers “base” and “ignoble” (page 170), leaving John feeling “defiled” (page 241), and starting his downward spiral. In “pained bewilderment” (page 162), he learned that the civilized world finds his culture to be “extraordinarily funny” (page 162) and that they do not care for his beliefs. When it comes to the fact that his…

In the story “White Angel,” by Michael Cunningham, love and death is widespread, and it follows the story of two brothers - a nine-year old narrator, Bobby Morrow and his sixteen year old brother, Carlton. Both brothers are outgoing, and they have a strong relationship together. Cunningham uses both point of views and symbols to promote the theme.The Morrow’s house, which borders the cemetery becomes the symbol of both love and death. Bobby and Carlton often visits the cemetery to smoke…

revealed the incompetencies of federal enforcement of monitoring nursing homes by analyzing federal sanctions from the fiscal years of 2000 through 2005 against 63 nursing homes in four states: California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas (GAO-07-241). Some key findings of the report revealed that “almost half of the 63 nursing…

To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee shines a light on social problems of 1930s Alabama. One element Lee focused on was the injustice of the legal system caused by these social standards. Lee uses the characterization of Mayella Ewell and societal gender roles, the conflicts initiated by the setting between 2 different races in Tom Robinson’s Trial with the Ewell family, and the conflict revolving around Arthur being Mr. Ewell’s killer, in order to suggest that no person…