Baker

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, two main female characters – Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker – both can be compared and contrasted in many different ways, but the most prominent are their differing personalities and similar background. Daisy Buchanan's personality is that of radiant sunshine. She is a lover who tries to be responsible for her actions, but sometimes gets lost in her indecisiveness and often has others make her decisions for her. She is quite a happy person on the…

In 1987, Baker International and Hughes Tool Company merged and Baker Hughes Incorporated was conceived. Baker Hughes Incorporated is one of the world's largest oilfield services companies. Operations of Baker Hughes are carried out in over 90 countries all over the world having its main headquarters in the America Tower in Houston. Services provided by Baker Hughes are for drilling, completion, reservoir consulting, formation evaluation, production and unconventional solutions. Baker Hughes's…

Orphan Train Molly can hear her foster parents between the thin walls of the small house in Spruce Harbor, Maine. The year is 2011 and Molly is finding herself in this book, Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. Molly is a “Goth” she shows herself off with a streak of white in her naturally black hair. Molly also wears black nail polish and black clothes with piercings. In this story Molly discovers herself through objects and people around her. High school is where it all started for Molly,…

Their is many ways to tell a lie and many are shown in the novel THE GREAT GATSBY. Jordan Baker is a example for just a few like when she lied about not moving her ball from a bad lie and everyone revoked their confession and it died away this would be a example of dismissal and which they act as if it didn't happen and won't admit to it dismissal is one of the more dangerous lies for it allows the dismissal of facts feelings and perceptions of all things this plays into Jordan's character quite…

“The Speech of Polly Baker” by Benjamin Franklin is a leading example of how American writers challenged notions of social injustice and attempted to bring social change. Franklin writes this fictional story about a woman being convicted for giving birth to an illegitimate child and criticizes the laws that punish them. Polly Baker has been convicted of this same crime four times previously but each time, argues that she is not the only one responsible for this transgression. Women are…

Fitzgerald devotes a considerable amount of attention to build up the relationship between Nick Carraway and Jordan baker, as well as providing Nick Carraway the ability to have more freedom in the way he expresses his thoughts and feelings. These concepts shift in the scene from the film directed by Baz Luhrmann, as it does not portray the intimate relationship between Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker. The main focus of the film is Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, and because of that, it does not…

as basic as writing and reading. We cannot always attribute ignorance to willingness, but also other external factors like society and time. As it is mentioned in the Nat turner graphic novel by Kyle Baker, slaves were not allowed to read or write any book whatsoever. In the preface of the book, Baker asks and answer a crucial question--- “If slaves were selected and bred for size and strength, slave masters must very quickly have found themselves by their bigger, stronger slave population.…

The South was seriously threatened by the way the North was getting around the slave law. Baker’s essay discuses how the bitter South found ways to fight the North and recapture and return as many slaves as they possibly could to the North. In Bakers essay, he brings up the “Gag Rule” which was adopted by the House and the Senate preventing abolitionist laws from being passed. The South refused to the let the North abolish slavery and these two texts tell tales of the vicious legal dogfight that…

Elizabeth Baker lived thousands of years ago, during the Middle Ages. She lived in a cottage with her entire family. They were bakers who went to church every Sunday and lived very religious lifestyles. When they were not walking to and from church, however, they were doing chores because they had no electricity to light their house at night. Elizabeth lived without electricity and air conditioning. Today we are fortunate to have these privileges but what would happen if the world ran out of…

Hannah Baker commits suicide because of bullying and her peers. Clay also attempts suicide over the tape that Hannah leaves him, but he doesn't succeed. Tony dies in a car crash. At the end Alex gets shot in the head and no one knows why. In the book quotes are…