... er een pistool eruit. Het had het al diverse malen gebruikt om zijn zogenaamde klusjes te klaren. Hij vergrendelde het pistool met de veiligheidspal en stopte het in z’n jaszak. Hij deed de doos weer op slot en liep zachtjes het lokaal uit. Bertus liep op zijn tenen om de congiere maar niet te wekken uit zijn verdoving, als die wakker werd waren de poppen aan het dansen. Hij trok de rits van zijn leren zwarte jas helemaal dicht en sloop de nooduitgang uit. De lamp buiten sprong aan. Zonder naar te denken zette Bertus het op een lopen en verdween in de donkere nacht. Toen hij thuis kwam sloop hij zachtjes naar d ...

... said, trying to keep my cool. Why and how did you choose Loomis Chaffee? Then they gave me that same old response. Well Mr.Spencer teaches at a prep school and. I didn't let them finish the sentence. “NO!� I exclaimed. I refuse to go to one of those prep schools, all of the little kids are phonies. But then as abruptly as that little conversation started, it ended. They said, “You are going come Saturday and you can't do a thing about it.� So then they say, “We will get you a train ticket for the earliest train out of Central Station.� I stormed out, knowing that I was defenseless against them I went st ...

... of the main characters is poor, without hope of improving their condition, and at the mercy of a quasi-feudal system in North America during the late 1800's. Being a sharecropper, Ab and his family had to share half or two-thirds of the harvest with the landowner and out of their share pay for the necessities of life. As a result of this status, Ab and his family know from the start what the future will hold -- hard work for their landlord and mere survival for them. No hope for advancement prevails throughout the story. Sarty, his brother and the twin sisters have no access to education, as they must spend ...

... is put in a hospital. They begin to have alove affair and Catherine becomes impregnated. With a baby on the way Fredrick feels a real sense of responsibility towards Catherine. When he finaly recovers from from his lengthy stay in the hospital he returns to front. When the two part it is very rainy, cloudy, and gloomy. Hemingway makes good use of weather in pursuit of verisimilitude. There is so much violence and death in the war Fredrick no longer wants to be a apart of it and deserts the army to return to Catherine. When they reunite the rain stops and there is light. They then escape to Switzerland by boat and beg ...

... marred by decades of despotic rule and swaggering, fornicating, testosterone-loaded men. Latin America's frightening history has been beautifully delineated be Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In using the tainted image of the Latin American male as their vehicle, this essay will deal with specific ills Marquez was concerned about in his respective country: the tragic results of machismo. Authoritarianism, or perhaps one of its greatest bi-products, machismo, is omnipresent throughout "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Machismo is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as: "exaggeratedly assertive manliness; a show of masculinity." ...

... and much of it refers to the problems of racism in the South during the early twentieth century. Harper Lee's effective use of racial symbolism can be seen by studying various examples from the book. This includes the actions of the children, the racist whites, and the actions of Atticus Finch. The actions of the children in this novel certainly do have their share of symbolism. For instance, the building of a snowman by Jem and Scout one winter is very symbolic. There was not enough snow to make a snowman entirely out of snow, so Jem made a foundation out of dirt, and then covered it with what snow they had. One c ...

... sentences and the smooth flowing of ideas. It seems that Hemingway adapted this style to his fiction writng. Hemingway demonstrates this talent in a short story called "A Clean Well-Lighted Place". When he was 19 Hemingway enlisted in the army. He was rejected due to a defective left eye. He then turned to the Red Cross in which he became a second lieutenant. The Red Cross brought him to the front lines of the war in Italy. It was here where he saw many disturbing sights which probably had a hand in shaping his character. After extensive injuries from the war, Hemingway returned unhappily to Oak Park. The ...

... anyone assuming that a new manager of a Taco Bell will perform exactly as the old manager did is ridiculous. The organization of workers must adjust and adapt to the new manager's way of business. Another more main topic of the novel is the Eight Basic Principles. Their research had shown that the excellent companies had been based on the basics. The companies had to try to keep things simple. Sometimes, to a big business, it might seem logical that business should be run more complex the larger it is. From their research, this is usually not true. The first pricnciple is a bias for action. This is basica ...

... the feel of being closed in and too small for its contents: "The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it...”(p. 33) Even the photograph on the wall is labeled as being "over-enlarged."(p. 33) Gatsby's party, however, spares no expense; much like his house. Fruit is sent in every Friday, caterers bring enough lights to "...make a Christmas tree of Gastby's enormous garden"(p. 44), and elegant dinner is served: "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs a ...

... opinion of what a woman’s “roles� in life was and how they should act, look, and feel. Second, is her independent nature. The last opposing power she comes across is her undying love for the charming Robert Lebrun. It is the unwritten rule that a woman should marry, have children, and be happy and content with that as their life. Society portrays this to be a woman’s rightful job and duty. A woman should act and look “proper� at all times. This is what Edna is fighting against in this novel. She feels that, though many women agree with this “known� rule, it isn’t fair. For six years ...