... This specific event perhaps shows that Sonny had more of an impact on Cologero than Lorenzo did. Early in Cologero's childhood, around the age of ten years, he witnessed the shooting of a man over a parking space by Sonny (a powerful mob leader who Cologero admired).Cologero's father, Lorenzo wanted nothing to do with Sonny or the mob. As a result, when the police detectives questioned Cologero about the murder, Lorenzo insisted his son knew nothing of it.This led Cologero to believe that his father didn't want him to tell the truth. The detectives took Cologero outside to point out the murderer and Cologero denied that any of them were at the scene of ...
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... Kimball O'hara became Kim, and under the hot Indian sun his skin grew so dark that one good not tell that he was of the Caucasian race. One day a Tibetan lama, in search of the Holy River of the Arrow that would wash away all sin, came to Lahore. Struck by all possibility for an exciting adventure, Kim attached himself to the lama as his chela. His adventures began almost at once. That night, at the edge of Lahore, Mahubub Ali, a horse trader, gave Kim a cryptic message to deliver to a British author in Umballa. What Kim did not know was that Mahbub was a member of the British Secret Service. He delivered the message as directed, and then lay in the grass and watche ...
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... connoisseur to judge the quality of the wine. The way in which Montresor manipulates Fortunato's ego is masterful. Montresor knows the servants have left for the evening because he ordered them not to abandon the house, but told them that he would not be returning until morning. He knew that during this time of merriment the servants would disappear as soon as he turned his back. He lures Fortunato deeper and deeper into the family catacombs where the cask of amontillado was supposedly stored. Fortunato had a cold in the catacombs' mold aggravated his cough. Montresor kept offering Fortunato the chance to turn around and go back, but he also kept mentioni ...
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... put and are always turned on. The Telescreens are constantly giving you information of the wars won and also telling you what to do and always watching every movement you do, no expressions are admitted in Oceania other than hatred or the one “Big Brother” tells you to. The second branch is called “The Ministry of Love” where people were punished, tortured and were taught to hate each other. The third branch is called “The Ministry of Plenty” where economic affairs were handled, they decided who got how much of something almost always being too little of a ration. The last branch is called “The Ministry of Peace” which handled all the war affairs such as where the ...
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... finished praying for help, she acts as if she has a heart of stone and that Macbeth is not a man if he is afraid of killing Duncan. This is a prime example of her deception towards him, and how she acts differently when she is alone than when she is around him. Another example of her being two sided is the role she talks about playing in Duncan’s death, and the role that she actually does play in it. There are a few times in the play, mostly when she is attempting to persuade Macbeth into committing the murder, that she says he should just leave the murder to her. Throughout the play she gradually decreases her role in the murder until it become ...
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... the color of the room. The next idea of Romantic Literature the each story dealt with was an individuals internal psychology. In Young Goodman Brown Goodman Brown ended up living a miserable life because he couldn't deal with reality. The dream that he had changes his mind and made him believe in things that were fake but when he woke he couldn't deal with the real world. He believed what happened in the dream was reality and what ever happens in reality goes against what he learned in his dreams. So whenever normal actions occurred in real life he questioned it and wondered what it really meant. In The Masque Of The Red Death Prince Prospero for some reason dec ...
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... a message given to him and journeyed to a place that he was not called to go to. But, being the bright and resourceful person he was, he was not discouraged and continued to persevere. Ray Kinsella was called upon by forces left unknown to the viewers and himself to go on both a physical journey as well as a journey of the heart. After hearing voices proclaiming, "If you build it, they will come," Ray risked the economic and emotional stability of the family he loved dearly to build a baseball field. At first, Ray Kinsella was highly skeptical, but eventually he realized the significance of his obscure calling. Upon the completion of the baseball field, "Sh ...
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... It was, and Jim thought that Della would maybe like it back, so he bought it for 2 cents and he was so happy and he thought he had the best present anyone could ever give their girlfriend. “Now,” Jim thought, “will this be a useful gift, and I don't mean in a few years, this time I want to get it right,” So Jim thought for two days straight. Finally he came up with an idea, “I'll make it into a wig, a girl can never have to many wigs.” So he went to the wig shop, which usually only made those white braided wigs that all the important men wore, but the wigmaker made an exception because Jim was a good friend and after all, it was for a girls birthday. The w ...
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... as the creepy crawlies take over. A prep-school teacher in Cambridge, Michael Feraru, inherits Castle Vliacu, his family's fortress in the Transylvanian Alps and hopes to turn it into an orphanage for Romanian children. Delightful letters pass between Michael and his love, Sophie Wandless, back in Cambridge, as he describes his travels through Eastern Europe, his frustrating encounters with bureaucrats, and the gloomy life in today's Bucharest. Meanwhile, he hires a research assistant, Liliana, to help him establish his bona fides as the owner of Castle Vliacu.. Liliana and her secret boyfriend, however, hope to lead him into opening not an orphanage but rather a ho ...
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... by Socialism, Fascism, or Communism. Socialism demands state ownership and control of the basic means of production and distribution of wealth. Both of these are going on in the book. The Inner Party controls business, and I don’t think that anyone can have private profits. They all have apartments, no houses or privately owned residents, and all eat and work in similar environments. All of these are signs of Socialism. There are classes of people, though, (the proles are different from the others), and this is not a trait of Socialism. Communism also calls for no private property while there is shared ownership of all money and business. Everyone works abo ...
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