... and F. Scott Fitzgerald lead, and experienced a number of mental breakdowns which caused her to be hospitalized in mental facilities (sanitariums) for the remainder of her life. Myrtle Wilson's sister, Catherine, declares that Myrtle was "crazy about [George, her husband] for a while" (p. 39). Myrtle Wilson vehemently denies being "crazy in love" with George, but rather, that "[t]he only crazy I was was when I married ... plan?" (p. 16). Daisy and Jordan are so bored and complacent in their "perfect" world that they are completely disconnected from the vitality and meaning of existence....

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... income for a family is $52,413. Males have a median income of $39,790 versus $33,747 for females. The per capita income for the city is $21,553. 10.1% of the population and 8.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 11.9% are under the age of 18 and 11.0% are 65 or older. Kearny is a town located in Hudson ... 18 and over, there are 94.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $59,800, and the median income for a family is $72,568. Males have a median income of $49,937 versus $39,370 for females. The per capita income for the ...

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... passed through generations with obvious negative and traumatic consequences. One of the novel's most controversial aspects is the process of "testing". The "test" consists of inserting a finger into a vagina to make sure that the hymen is not broken and the mother will be sure about her daughter's virginity. The act is again a proof for the obsession of female purity in which a woman's body becomes a ... symbol of honor and pride for husbands and families. Sophie's mother becomes obsessed with protecting her daughter's virginity and begins testing her with this humiliating ... and then...

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... solve by himself. The theme of this novel is how innocence is corrupted by society. Holden thinks everybody who is grown up is a phony because their behavior and advice are all false. The title of this book is based on an old game where someone catches children from falling off a cliff. This symbolizes that Holden wants to be the catcher in the rye because he wants ... to protect the vulnerable, especially to prevent small children from losing their innocence and becoming corrupted by society ... this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, nobodys around- nobody big, I mea...

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... husband. Rudy was kind to her and advised to get a divorce and offered to file it for her. She declined saying that Cliff loved her and wouldn't do it again. Rudy was at the hospital again and saw Kelly, she was mostly recovered and going home soon. They were both becoming close friends and Rudy again asked ... but he managed to give her his card and told her to call if anything else happened. Cliff was supposed to pick her up soon so she asked Rudy to leave her, so he wouldn't see them. Rudy took the bar exam and was unsure of how well he had done. He was glad to have it ... live with ...

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... ;catch" children from falling off a metaphorical cliff into the corruption of adulthood. At the conclusion of the novel, Holden realizes the true nature of innocence while watching Phoebe reach for the golden ring on the carousel. Walking down the streets of New York on a cold miserable day, Holden and the reader get their first glimpse of the novel's central motif "the catcher in the rye" and his perception of innocence: " ... little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody ...

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Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead Standing naked on top of a cliff, Howard Roark envisions what the trees and granite around him can be made into. He is an architect, ingenious and creative. None of like any other at the Stanton Institute of Technology. He had been pondering about his life and the events of that morning. He had just been expelled by the dean for being creative and a nonconformist ... to compromise with those clients led to his company's downfall. In a granite quarry in Connecticut, Roark meets Dominique Francon, Guy Francon's daughter. There is an immediate attraction and Dominique...

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... to New York City. Her first national publication came in 1941 when The New Republic printed "My Life with R. H. Macy", a short story based on her experiences working at Macy's Department Store. She continued to publish short stories regularly over the next few years and also gave birth to a son, Laurence, and a daughter, Joanne. In 1945 Jackson and her family left New York City for ... , Peter. "A Marxist/Feminist Reading of Shirley Jackson's `The Lottery` ." The New --- Orleans Review. Spring 1985. p. 225. Nebeker, Helen. " `The Lottery`: Symbolic Tour de France," American Literature: D...

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... fond of. Her name was Claire Hodgson, a pretty and brainy young widow from Georgia, who had come to New York in 1920 with her three year old daughter Julie. She was introduced to the Babe in 1923 while she was at a casino in New York. Shortly after their introduction they had fallen in love but couldn't get married because he was still ... 204 44 16 59 177 171 0.378 1922 110 406 128 24 8 35 94 99 0.315 1923 152 522 205 45 13 41 151 131 0.393 1924 153 529 200 39 7 46 143 121 0.378 1925 98 359 104 12 2 25 61 66 0.29 1926 152 495 184 30 5 47 139 145 0.372 1927 151 540 192 29 8 60 158 164 ....

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... daughter, Anna Eleanor. The very next year the Roosevelt's had a son, named James after FDR's father. Two years after James birth another son was conceived, but a few months after he died of health issues. FDR worked in a "law office." (Graves 30) but after only a couple of months he resigned and decided to go into politics. "Franklin ran for the state senator of New York on the ... , FDR was nominated to run for Vice-President of the United States. FDR gathered with "famous people who came to see him at all hours of the day and night." (Graves 39) One of these persons was Louis Howe, wh...

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... successful human being then you will not be successful. If you are treated as an animal (as those in the book) you will become a human but only to know what the rights and wrongs are for an animal. The human being is a species that needs to be cared for their entire child hood. There are only a ... that I would recommend this book to, and that is those who don't understand the amount of importance that there is in raising your young with the proper manners. If you treat your kids as though they have no importance in the world and don't teach them right from wrong, or allow schooling then...

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... -down chapter of his life meeting his cousin for dinner I myself have always imagined a bonds-clerk as a sickly, unhappy man with a family and no time for parties. But Nick is the polar opposite, in that, he is a healthy bachelor of a thirty year-old, and he has time for multiple parties. His cousin is Daisy Buchanan, wife of Tom Buchanan, a powerfully built ... with attending wild parties. Until that is, he receives an invitation from Mr. Jay Gatsby later that month. Then he sees what a party thrown by Gatsby is like, with all the rich and famous people attending this amusement park of ...

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... York Times for months at times. Her first book The Joy Luck Club is one of the best sellers. The Joy Luck Club is a first-person drama that takes place in San Francisco during the late 1940's and through the 1950's; told in four sections by 16 different narrators. The book centers on Jing-mei's trip to China to meet her half-sisters, twins; Chwun Yu and ... "Lindo, Ying-ying, and An-mei "were three of Suyuan's best friends and fellow immigrants before she had passed on. They told Jing-mei about how her mother had found the address of her half sister and urged her to go to China and tell...

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... the book. The first never actually takes place in the story, but is described many times throughout the first act and is the basis for the trials. It is Abigail's and all the other girls' need to be free and act like teenagers. The second is the result of the corruption of the trials. It is John Proctor's fight to convince the townspeople that the ... and as an outlet for their maliciousness. When Abigail uses this case to attack Rebecca Nurse, one of the best Puritans in the Salem, John Proctor begins his efforts to stop the injustice. This increases when Elizabeth Proctor is tried and ...

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... at ground zero is all fear, the building fearing collapse, and the people it supported fearing their lives, and the communication devices with fearing loved ones on the other end. Everything about the ruins invokes a feeling of fear. Hyacinths, which used to bring the narrator joy, no longer create such feelings, "I could not speak, and my eyes failed." (Line 39) Now she is stagnant and unsure of herself ... and the work around her. " I was neither living nor dead, and I ... knew nothing." (Lines 39-40) "I had not though ... ...

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... their way to find a hydrant to put out the fires. The happiness defied description when the blizzard had finally faded away, but just moments later the blizzard returned. The heavy snow hurled the people down to the ground helplessly, leaving ghastly piles of buried bodies under the snow. In spite of the damage and destruction left in the wake of the Blizzard of 1888, the destruction should also be viewed in a positive ... light: it prepared us for the unexpected. The author showed that after a tragic occasion comes unity ... ...

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... . "Since marriage was an ordinance of God and its duties commands of God, the Puritan courts enforced these duties- (39). Equally husbands and wives were assigned jobs by God, and it was vital for the Puritans to carry out their lives based on these jobs. "When husband and wife neglect their duties they not only wrong each other, but they provoke God by breaking ... his law" (pg. 30). The government and the entire society were both subjected by the laws of God. The husband was ... married, her property passed to her husband" (40) and in return he furnished her support. On top of this, h...

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... as if Clinton were destined to serve in the armed forces. His father is Admiral George Clinton of the Royal Navy and his mother, Anne Carle who stood as the daughter of a general. Clinton moved around a ... the attack on Charlestown in the Battle of Bunker Hill that contributed to high British losses. The next assault proceeded to be on Breed's Hill, the British rallied and pushed the rebels back to Bunker Hill. Though not one of the ... on February 28, 1777, where he's deemed honor with the Order of the Bath in April. The honor is the fourth most senior of the British Orders of Chivalry...

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... -down chapter of his life meeting his cousin for dinner. I myself have always imagined a bonds-clerk as a sickly, unhappy man with a family and no time for parties. But Nick is the polar opposite in that he is a healthy thirty year old bachelor and he has time for plenty of partying. His cousin is Daisy Buchanan, wife of Tom Buchanan, a powerfully built ... a broken nose, a disgruntled photographer, and Nick's disillusionment with attending wild parties. Then he receives an invitation from Mr. Jay Gatsby. He sees what a party thrown by Gatsby is like - all the rich and famous people atte...

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... three areas, the eastern door, the central fire and the western door. "The Keepers of the Western Door" were the Seneca, who became the fur suppliers of the tribes. "The Keepers of the Eastern Door" were the Mohawks who specialized as middlemen with the European traders. In the central section of the house the Onondaga dwelled and were known as "the Keepers of the Fire." They were the keepers of the council fire and the wampum belt treaties. The Iroquois established ... themselves as a civilization when the ... ...

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... pleasure with a mystery man from the village. Ironically, it was this same "misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped" that allowed her individuality to persist (Hawthorne 39). The same community that tried to punish her for inconformity provided her with a vehicle that enabled her to be an outright nonconformist. And by making the commemorating mark of her sin beautiful, ... "she denied its literal meaning and thereby subverted the intention of the magistrates who condemned her to it" (Leone 93). ... York: Greenwood Publishing Croup Inc., 1995. Pg.2. Leone, Bruno. Readings on...

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... and these women artists were even more so ridiculed by the critics of that time. The challenges of their professional and personal lives proved to be too heavy a burden for the majority of these women, Mary Cassatt was the only one who maintained a successful career to the end of her life. Mary Stevenson Cassatt was the daughter of a successful Pittsburgh businessman. Her fathers' love for ... mother who often did paintings and sketches of her daughter. Such as The Artist's Daughter, Julie, with her Nanny (1884) (fig. 3), here she has painted a picture of her daughter and nanny. They ap...

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... after another seems to arise for Roberto. He has endless problems with the boiler in the building, a pregnancy scare with his teenage daughter and his mother passes away, just to name a few. His wife claims that by not accepting America he is making things harder on himself. "You"re just not adapted to the US," she tells him, "They"re not adapted to me," he ... that she was raised in it. Roberto and his wife, Aurelia, have much difficulty understanding their daughter. They have tried to instill traditional Cuban values within her. However, Aurelita has grown up on American soil and does...

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... achievement. After a second war against Great Britain, the War of 1812, the people of the United States were feeling confident about the future of their expanding nation. Thousands of pioneers struggled over a rough barrier: the thickly wooded Appalachian Mountains that extended down the continent. On the other side was the tantalizing west, stretching clear to the Mississippi River and beyond. Settlers" wagons jolted down ... however, that a practical canal route was surveyed. Seven more years went by before the first shovelful of earth was dug on the fourth of July, 1817. The canal wa...

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... Gibbons continued helping the Union cause and was an active philanthropist until she died in New York in 1893. Ella Palmer Ella Palmer, 1829 - 1909 Ella Palmer responded to a call to citizens to help the many Confederate soldiers who were suffering, lying on the floor and shivering without blankets in a makeshift hospital in Chattanooga TN. Accompanied by her five-year-old daughter, Palmer donated ... her worldly goods to the hospital and then took charge as it's matron. Palmer quickly organized two kitchens and a linen ... room, and ministered to the sick and dying at all hours. Though...

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