... the women in Carrie's world have social standing only when the men want them to. Their values are determined not in relations to the content of their character, but on their abilities to role- play or when they are the objects of competition between men. In this regard, Carrie quickly learned the importance and role of artifice and performance in social relations. She cultivated them through listening to ... cousin, to organize for a reunion between him and Daisy. Gatsby's portrayal of himself to Jordan as a lovesick, hopeful romantic trying to win back the object of his love called for N...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... sometimes results in a total assimilation of the new culture and a new identity. At other times, it results in a total rejection of the new culture and full embrace of the culture of origin. Another option is to accept parts of both cultures as a part of one's identity (Kottak 92-94). In "Eight Morenos", the main character, Rafael Aguilar, exhibits feelings of hope, as well as anxiety when ... a hero when the world deems him a wretch... For the mass of men, the blame and the praise of the community are the very lords or life" (qtd. in Hollingworth 4). Avery large issue in migration is th...

• Word Count: 1974
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• Grade Level: High School

... imposing subject in his gold-laced uniform for the painter Gilbert Stuart. The portrait would appear in Melville's later novel,  Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background. Like the titular character in Pierre, Melville found satisfaction in his "double revolutionary descent." Allan Melville's family lived comfortably in New York. He had his children baptized in ... he was back in New York but still unsettled. If going west had proved bootless, there was another possibility open to venturesome young men: he could go to sea. Other members of his fa...

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... when playing tennis, which only adds to his list of dislikes as a character. Jordan comes along and he finds himself very attracted to her but in the end he thinks she is too close to Daisy and Tom so he breaks that off too. He contemplates his future: "a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair" (Fitzgerald 135) Nick learns ... about the Gatsby/Daisy story from Jordan who asks him to arrange a meeting and he agrees to it. This is where the events leading up to Gatsby's death begin. Nick arranges the meeting for ... ...

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... well. A brief statement, not found on the one 1776 document introduced the list. The statement read as follows, "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her." She then went into the list of the specifics, which included: Women not being allowed to vote, married women being ... . In this speech that Stanton delivered during lecture tours in the 1870's, she speaks of morality, motherhood, and the shaping of children's character (Dubois 131). She touched on...

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... well. A brief statement, not found on the one 1776 document introduced the list. The statement read as follows, "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her." She then went into the list of the specifics, which included: Women not being allowed to vote, married women being ... . In this speech that Stanton delivered during lecture tours in the 1870's, she speaks of morality, motherhood, and the shaping of children's character (Dubois 131). She touched on...

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... own people, demanding freedom, whether it be from the tyrannical rule of King George, or the tyrannical rule of man. In the first line of the second paragraph, the original copy read, "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal", while Stanton's copy read "that all men and women are created equal. As normal as that sentence may sound now ... well. A brief statement, not found on the one 1776 document introduced the list. The statement read as follows, "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, hav...

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... Rachel had died, she left a list of thirty-four books for Alexander and his brother (Hecht 8). The books in the list must have constituted to Alexander's "gold mine of knowledge- (Hecht 8). After, and mainly because of Alexander's abandonment, he spent most of his time working for Beekman and Cruger (Hecht 8). "The firm was located on the colorful waterfront of Christiansted, fronted with buildings of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Danish style, with colonnades ... been aptly described as having "blown Alexander Hamilton into history- (Hamilton 37). "Along with a passionate desire t...

• Word Count: 2091
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• Grade Level: High School

... controversy that arose from this practice. "My first rather bitter falling out with Villard was at a meeting of the Board of Directors. Villard presumed to tell me how to edit The Crisis, and suggested that with my monthly record of lynchings, I also publish a list of Negro crimes. I resented this, not only because it was logically silly, but because it was interfering with ... -for-arts'-sake proposed by contemporaries such as scholar Alain Locke and artist-activist James Weldon Johnson. DuBois saw himself as a gatekeeper--a protector of the Black race from those who would besmudge its c...

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• Grade Level: High School

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut I.Character List Billy Pilgrim - The main character of the novel. A weak soldier in World War II, Billy learns how to time travel, to the past and future, although has no control of when or where these travels will occur or take him. Throughout the novel, Billy talks of the bombing of Dresden, which he lived through as a prisoner of war. After the war, he settles ... in Vietnam. Montana Wildhack - an American star of pornographic films. She is captured by aliens and brought to Tralfamadore to be Billy's mate in the zoo. Trafalmadorians - aliens who are abl...

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... live in society as successful citizens (Nunan). Boot camps exist for everyone eligible in the corrections system. There are programs for men, women, and juveniles. As of June 30, 2002, there were more than 22,000 juvenile offenders in the custody of the 22 United States correctional systems that responded to the current Corrections Compendium survey on juvenile offenders (Saint, 9). That is ... offenders to be re-integrated into their communities with new sets of skills and values (Dale, 91). Reshaping attitudes, behaviors, and the character of youthful offenders in a yearlong boot camp...

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... the murderer and main character in the novel. He kills both Dorothy Kingship and her sister Ellen and is going to marry the third sister, Marion, when Gordon C. Grant - a disc jockey who helped Ellen to investigate the murder on her sister- finally exposes him. Bud was born on the outskirts of Fall River, ... , he learned from the elevator operator in her apartment house that he was just one of a series of young men, regularly replaced within five or six months. So he told her that his mother was deadly ill and then returned home, where he finally decided to go to college. He chose, as .....

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... the only two characters in the story. The lines of print on the page were at the greatest 12 and at the least 3, but with 6 of the pages having 9-12 lines of print. These characteristics would rate this story one level higher than Level H, the level that Fountas and Pinnell rated this book in their leveling book list. Because the story is printed in a basal, perhaps ... the publishers placed more lines of print on one page to save space and printing costs. For a Level J book, it is indicated in the leveling guide that the book length would ... the reader in the experience that both men...

• Word Count: 1992
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• Grade Level: High School

... famous for her work To Kill a Mockingbird. Critics say that Lee based the character of Dill, an extremely imaginative young boy on Capote. In Discovering Biography, Capote says, "(As a child) I was very insecure and lonely. I was an only child, very sensitive, intelligent, with no sense of being particularly wanted by anyone it was just total emotional neglect. I never felt I belonged anywhere. All my family ... all such efforts. Capote says, "I had to surrender my entire life for this experience. Try to think of what it means to completely immerse yourself in the lives of two men waiti...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School