... the reader is left awe of how real her images become as the stories progress. One thing her writing has taught me is never to sit down with one of her novels and expect to walk away unaffected. The wonderful messages in her writings “will find a place in your soul, and stay there,� as so elequently stated by critic, Christopher Tilghman. Katie is the narrator of the story. About twelve years old, Katie is waiting for puberty to hit, waiting for prince charming, waiting for her father to come to his senses. Her father is a highly ranked and respected serviceman who moves his family to a Texas army base aft ...

... time period. “ A respectable Army and Navy, as well as the Judiciary, Legislative, Executive and other establishments of the Government, have, during the same period, been organized and respectably maintained. Forts, navy yards, and dry docks had been constructed. In 1789 America's coastline was marked by only eight or ten lighthouses; in 1839 by two hundred and fifty. Harbors had been improved, rivers and lakes rendered more navigable, roads and public buildings constructed. From a mere seventy five post offices, scattered bout the Union, the number had soared to over twelve thousand. There were now twent ...

... "...He's normal! He's normal! He'll grow up like other people. Better than others." Charlie had dreams of how his mother was ashamed of him. His mother always thought her son was normal and would grow up and be somebody. Charlie's sister also ignored him. To her, Charlie was dumb and could not do anything. Charlie had dreams of his sister yelling at him and making fun of him. He also had memories of the night his parents took him to the Warren Home. He was terrified and his dad would never answer his questions. Charlie remembered his childhood and through his memories, he felt guilty for hurting his fami ...

... be better off existing like the civil man. The civil man brought about modernization’s that the writer might not have wanted to see modernized, but it all happened for the best. Without the development of the civil man we would be living in harmony but no one would be truly happy due to the lack of knowledge and communication. Being discussed in this essay will be the advantages and disadvantages of living as a civil man as opposed to savage man. I hope to show that one is more suitable than the other is due to the fact that there is now more knowledge than before and without it savage man would not survive. ...

... the atmosphere. Their recommendation contained two parts. The first was to implement a program which collected microorganisms from the upper atmosphere. The project was named Scoop and was a series of seven satellites, the seventh bringing back Andromeda which caused the suspension of the program. The second part was to build a major research and containment facility where a microorganism could be isolated. They named the facility Wildfire. The outbreak starts when two people are sent out to search for Scoop VII. When the two men sent neared Piedmont they noticed vultures circling the town, watching, waiting. ...

... Hardy is not only able to signify feeling, but show Tess's change of emotion by using it in parallel with the changes nature undergoes. In this way, the various images of nature are used to interpret Tess's divergent and varying feelings. The first images Hardy uses with Tess are those that portray a sense of innocence and purity. By saying, "every girl carried in her left (hand) a bunch of white flowers. . . their hair reflected in the sunshine every tone of gold. . . each had a private little sun for her soul," (24) Hardy is able to immediately present Tess as a naive, and untouched girl, even though he doe ...

... service. The charter contains the events which lead to the MacKenzies gaining there coat of arms. It tells the story of Cailean who saved the King in the forest of Mar,(McNie,1983). The King was out hunting and his hounds when a furious stag charged at him. Cailean stepped in front of the charging deer and shot it in the forehead with an arrow. For his bravery the King granted for arm's a stags head bleeding from the forehead and as a crest a Dexter arm bearing a naked sword, and the motto "fide parta,fide aucta," which has since being changed,(McNie,1983). A later Earl of Cromarty said that Ceilean ...

... at his beck and call. Despite his advantages which he has received in life it does not reflect his image which is ugly. People are constantly striving to be like him because of his social status. He is the apex of the society, a very powerful individual, with enormous wealth. He is openly aggressive towards people especially his wife whom he is abusive towards. He also shows abusive actions towards his mistress Myrtle when he meets with her in New York. Tom believes solely that he is more important than anyone else. He also has much hate towards Gatsby when he first meets him, since Tom is particularly jealous of ...

... old man because his parents forced him to, actually he was told to stay away form the old man because he was bad luck, but because he wanted too. He liked to be around the old man and listen to what he had to say. When the old man would look at Manolin he would see himself at a younger age, someone who cared more about the elderly and their heritage than the new ways bestowed on them. Manolin symbolized the disciples of Jesus. The ones who would follow him to his death and then go out and preach his ways. He believes in the old man and takes charge and tells all the other fisherman to stay away from Santiago aft ...

... (562) showing that power is exclusively held in the hands of males in families. Women, as inferior housewives, must submit to their husbands' power over them because as men in the work force, they link to the community economically and provide for family. Mrs. Hutchinson, however, rebels against this male domination. Arriving late, she raises suspicions of resistance to everything the lottery represents. When her family name is called, she pushes her husband, "Get up there, Bill." (561) In doing so, she acts rebelliously, ironically contradicting custom by reversing the accepted power relation between husbands ...