... stung by a scorpion. Kino takes the baby to the rich doctor who will not treat him because they are poor. So Kino gets into his boat to find a pearl. He finds a pearl "the size of a seagull egg" , and they think there trouble is over. conclusion: Kino and Jauna ultimatly have to go to the capital to trade their pearl in. Some trackers follow them to get the pearl. What insues is a chase through the mountains ending up with the death of Coyotito. Finally , they come back home and destroy the pearl forever. thoughts: this book has a good message about greed and humans. It tells us it is human nature to want what someone else has. ...
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... to ascertain which of the two older women is the true antagonist and protagonist, as they both accomplish some unfriendly activities within the story line. As one of Alida's encounters as antagonist, she attempts to harness her jealousy, guilt and vindictive gratification regarding the fact that Grace double-crossed her in love. It seems that Grace feigned an illness one evening in their youthful years, begging off any further activities following a late night sightseeing expedition. What really occurred, which did not escape Alida's knowledge, was the fact that Grace had a rendezvous with Alida's fiancé, Delphin Slade. Alida barely controlled her anger ...
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... guilty passion “ (62). Hawthorne calls Pearl a “creature” which shows that she immediately has a label of an outcast or something other than human. Hawthorne’s use of the word “creature” implies that Pearl stands out in her society and shows the obviousness of her label as an outcast. He then calls Pearl a “lovely and immortal flower” which shows her physical beauty, which is ironic because he has already labeled her a “creature”. Hawthorne uses description and symbolism to show how Hester Prynne feels about her daughter. “But she named the infant “Pearl”, as being of great price, -her mother’s only treasure” (62). Hester feels proud to have her daughter because she ...
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... for the first time introduced to a girl whom he is later to fall madly in love with. It is here that he is referred to only as boy. It is here that he forms his “Great Expectations”. From these experiences Pip finds out about what he considers polite society, but Satis House is a place where society is anything but polite. This is exemplified by Estella’s blatant lack of regard for Pip’s feelings; she points out to him for the first time his faults such as his “coarse hands…. thick boots” and the fact that he is nothing but “a common labouring boy”. This not only points out Pip’s own faults but also l ...
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... the eyes of a telerobot. In Hawaii he operates another te lerobot at a Marine research center that is a machine gun. He gives us a brief history lesson on VR and the computer itself highlighting some of the pioneers like Doug Englebart of ARC(Augmentation Research Center). This is the place that invented the mouse and hypertext. His history lesson included the evolution of the technology used in virtual reality from television screen to the head mounted display to the virtual environment display which used the glove to a laser microscanner to paint images on your retina. He seemed to cover just about every aspect of virtual reality and many of its potential u ...
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... Also during these events she continues to work in the house as best she can when many other Mocondo villagers just become idle. Ursula ses her personal power when her 17 grandsons are executed and yet she remains calm and collected. Ursula not only uses her power to help herself she maintains it for nearly a century. Incredibly Ursula is able to maintain her power for more then three generations after the death of Jose. Ursula accomplishes this not by making decisions that are always necessarily agreed upon but by standing by her decisions and not wavering. When money is found in a statue of Saint Joseph, whose owner is unknown, Ursula decides to ...
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... this country ("Briefly" 146). Vonnegut's novel is an exhibit of the flaws of a robotic, self-destructive society (Allen 107). In Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut portrays a prefabricated, unfeeling society and an American culture plagued with despair, greed, and apathy. The issue of society's flaws is a major concern of Breakfast of Champions. Such problems arise and are dealt with as failure to communicate, ecological destruction, a contempt for art, and the government's inattention to important problems (Merrill 157). The experiences and trials of Kilgore Trout, an unknown science fiction writer from New York, and Dwayne Hoover, a Pontiac dealer from I ...
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... begins to hate the aristocracy when Dickens shows how the aristocracy exploited the common people. We see this in Dicken’s portrayal of Marquis St Evermonde. This aristocrat shows selfishness and dominance over the common people of France. He has no respect for the common people. This is apparent when he cold hartedly runs over an innocent child with his carriage. After he runs the child over, he does not stop his carriage, he throws a coin to the child’s parent, thinking that the coin is make up for the child’s life. This act portrays the nobility’s no respect for life. It also portrays the coldness and unsympathtic atitude of France’s nobiliyt. Dickens makes the r ...
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... it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plague commanded, he could be seen as well as heard (Orwell,pg6).’Any action against the government would be seen or heard by the telescreen. The Party even controlled the thoughts and ideas of the people. A thought crime is any thought or idea about going against Big Brother or The Party. To the government a thought crime is considered one of the worst felonies. “Thoughtcrime dos not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death (Orwell,pg27).”To prevent thoughtcrimes people must use the concept made up by The Party. This concept is called doublethink. Doublethink is having to different concept ...
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... death of his uncle. 42/1BC Division of the Empire. Antony received most of Gaul, but Cisalpine Gaul was redefined as part of Italia. Influence over government in Rome, possibly reduced, as Antony was absent in the provinces to collect taxes and appease veteran soldiers. Lepidus (Antony's ally) was allocated Africa to put him at a distance from Antony and Octavius who divided the European empire between them. Division of the Empire. Octavius received the two Spanish provinces, and Sicily and Sardinia. He settled many of his veterans in Italy, giving him significant influence over the government in the capital. He was also responsible for defeating Sextius Pompey w ...
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