The Pike

1.When does the novel take place? In answering, look for subtle clues in language and background information. What evidence leads you to believe this is when the novel takes place? When they talk about how his brother bought a $4,000 car which is very cheap, also the words that they use is 2.Where does the novel take place? Describe Pencey. What kind of school is it? How does Holden describe it? What kind of people go there? What does it look like? What is the general mood and feeling about…

Modern historical analysis is bases its existence off of one crucial element; evidence. The First and Second World Wars provide historians with in depth hard evidence from still-existing battlefields as well as thousands of written accounts of the events of a day’s fighting. The further back in history one goes, however, the more scant this history becomes. Amongst the most difficult time periods to analyze can be found in the Classical era; with limited surviving written resources as well as…

Philosophy is a very influential field of study. It allows for some professors to ask some very poignant questions. For instance, what would happen if a group of children were removed from civilization and placed into the wilderness on a remote island with no hope of rescue? Depending on the philosopher, one would receive conflicting answers to this question. The children would form a government and try to cooperate to survive, or the youth would devolve into a state of chaos with no laws or…

African background. “A third of his cargo had died of ship fever. Fined five thousand pounds of tobacco by the Lord Proprietarys’ magistrate for throwing their bodies too close to the bay; forced to scoop up the corpses— those they could find (they used pikes and nets)...He’d had to pile them in two drays (six shillings), cart them out to low land where saltweed and alligators would finish the work”(Morrison…

Inner Boston Harbor's Thompson Island is a gem of an easy access spot if you're looking for fishing the flats for striped bass or deeper and structured-waters on the same plus bluefish. Access is good: kayak fishermen can use the little-more-than-a-mile-from-the-island hand-carry at City Point, ditto the ramp at Malibu Beach, Neponset for powerboaters with trailers with four-wheel drive. In addition to flats fishing on the island's back side, Thompson holds within its contours two tidal…

died (“William Wallace”). Wallace was sliced open and his intestines and genitals were burned in front of him (“William Wallace”). Finally, he was chopped into five pieces and beheaded (“William Wallace”). His head was dipped in tar and placed on a pike on London Bridge (“William Wallace”). William did not die in vain in which Scotland attained…

Situated on about 1,000 acres of land and about 2500 acres of water, Portage Lakes State Park in Ohio is a wonderful park for fishing, camping, or to just get away from it all. Featuring a number of lakes for boating, fishing, and wildlife watching, Portage Lakes is a unique state park offering something for everyone in the family to enjoy. Portage Lakes State Park touches both Akron and Canton making it an ideal place to escape the hustle and bustle of city life in this serene area. Portage…

Alexander the Great believed to be one of the great kings of ancient Macedonia. In his short 13 year reign as king, he conquered more land than any other king in his time. At the age of twenty-two, he was crowned king of Greece. The impact Alexander the great had in his time is that he was the king of cultural diffusion. Alexander's conquests brought Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and Asian under one ruler. This spiked trade immensely in these areas and all the cultures from the world…

Eventually he gets to where he is at the present, roaming the streets with his troops Rose of Sharon and Junior. After giving some background of his companions, Jackson Jackson says they are in Pike Place Market negotiating, asking people for money, and they get about five dollars to buy some alcohol. On their way to 7-Eleven, Jackson Jackson notices a pawnshop, which he has never seen before, and sees his grandmother’s regalia hanging in the…

The murder scene takes place in a bedroom where Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) kills her supposed kidnapper (Neil Patrick Harris). Cronenweth explains how they lit this scene: “the first two-thirds of this scene are to lull the audience into a sense of romance so we chose to light it almost like a fashion shoot – a single source…