... them. I not only couldn't put them down, but they also left lasting impressions on me in many different ways. The books are The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Things They Carried by Tim O"Brien and Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. I happened to read all three of these books in the ... last few months, and all of them shocked me with their depth, meaning and significance to my life personally. I read The Great Gatsby first in probably around eighth ... 's observations of his neighbor and especially his distanced involvement in his love life and ways of the upper class left me as...

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• Grade Level: High School

... folk that follow the same Irish order... and every one of them maketh war and peace for himself without any licence of the King...". The Earls of Kildare (House of Fitzgerald) who supposedly represented royal authority in Ireland, were themselves displaying no loyalty by this time and by 1534 the Earl was in open rebellion against the king. Henry VIII had ... to answer charges of treason. On the last occasion he died while under arrest in the Tower of London. Before he travelled to England he left his son "Silken" Thomas Fitzgerald behind him as his deputy. When he heard rumours of his ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The movie examines the controversial life of a priest and a nun. The story resolves around the two main characters Father Patrick Fitzgerald and Sister Mary Hays. The action starts off in one of few markets in the village of Limerick Ireland. Patrick Fitzgerlad is slowly taking over his dad's job as head ... this, the main twist or (plot point occurs) when several priest of the Limerick Catholic Church go to a local food drive to try to help out the poor. Father Patrick Fitzgerald meets a nun named Marry. They start talking for awhile and after the food drive is over; the two secretly excha...

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• Grade Level: High School