Grapes of Wrath, Chapters 1-11: 5 out of 8 questions 1.What does the setting of the opening scene suggest about the rest of the novel? ... What important qualities does the land turtle have as described in Chapter 3? ... What is the function of the other short chapters (1, 3, 5, etc)? What does Chapter 7 imply about used-car salesmen? ... Old Tom is described having a face, "squared by a bristling pepper and salt beard, [which] was drawn down to the force-full chin the skin was brown [over his cheekbones] wrinkle in rays around his eye-corners from squinting eyes were brown, black-coffe...

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What is time? ... The most relevant to our discussion are: 1 a: the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues : DURATION b: a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future 2: the point or period when something occurs: OCCASION 3 a: an appointed, fixed, or customary moment or hour for something to happen, begin, or end b: an opportune or suitable moment 4 a: an historical period : AGE 8 a: a moment, hour, day, or year as indicated by a clock or calendar b: a...

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One loses this gradually and unconsciously and realises it only much later during examining his wrinkles in the mirror. ... From time to time a huge misshapen cloud stretched a long arm across and hid it."" Chapter 17 shows already the dead nature in wintertime. ... - Mark 8: 36) He achieves his goal because Dorian is lost. ... In the first chapter (The Decay of Lying) the thoughts about art are similar to Lord Henry's. ...

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The chapter then ends with Jerry vomiting in the toilet. ... "Like a toy boat caught in a whirl pool" Page 8-"His body seemed to telescope into itself, but all the parts didn't fit." ... Because of this I was unable to find any for this chapter. ... Jerry is now, for really the first time, given a bite of reality. ... Chapter5: This chapter, in my opinion, was rather slow moving. ...

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Unfortunately, the city of angels has hosted some of the worst chapters in our young nation's biography. ... The suit was accessorized with a four foot long pocket watch chain and a very wide brimmed, low crown, pancake hat pulled down low.# The zoot-suiter acted as cool as he looked, taking great pains not to wrinkle or soil the suit that gave him such pride while frequenting the dance halls and clubs of downtown L.A. The female counterpart to a zoot-suiter wore short skirts and tall hairstyles made popular at the time. ... During this time L.A. was inundated with 50,000 servicemen t...

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This early religious painting was made from 1598-99 in Palazzo Barberini, Rome, illustrating the Old Testament account in the Book of Judith (13:7-8) where the young hero kills Holofernes, an Assyrian general, in order to save her hometown. ... From his second marriage came Ludorcio, Drancesco, Giaconco, and Caterina and in 1563 he married for a third time, resulting in two more daughters; Caterina and Margarita. ... He received training during this time, learning how to prepare colors, to draw, to paint in fresco, and in fields like anatomy and perspective. ... He ran through his inheritanc...

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They mention that their hair has grayed (and often thinned), they have more wrinkles, they are paunchier, the may have "lost a step," they tire more easily, and they rebound less quickly. ... Floaters, which can appear abruptly as annoying, blurry floating spots in the visual field, are particles suspended in the gel-like fluid of the eyeball; generally, they do not impair vision and dissipate with time. ...

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