Full Circle and the speckled Band are two very different examples of murder mysteries. ... In 'Speckled Band' as the story comes form Dr Watson Conan Doyle sustained a sense of mystery in not telling us what Holmes is thinking directly, where as in the full circle the story comes from Kinsey Milhone and it is exactly what she is doing and what she is thinking. Sue Grafton wrote "The Full Circle" in the 1980's. ... Kinsey Millhone is a female private eye who needs to work for a living, as needs an income. ... She is willing to help the police and unlike Sherlock Holmes she work...

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The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove, a poor prepubescent black girl, who wants to be loved and cared for by her family and society. ... She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. ... Her mother, Pauline, reinforces this belief by dedicating her life to this rich white family and doting over their blond, blue-eyed little girl, while at the same time completely ignoring her own little girl. ... The first example would be to compare and contrast the treatment of beautiful light-skinned, light-eye...

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The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove, a poor prepubescent black girl, who wants to be loved and cared for by her family and society. ... She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. ... Her mother, Pauline, reinforces this belief by dedicating her life to this rich white family and doting over their blond, blue-eyed little girl, while at the same time completely ignoring her own little girl. ... The first example would be to compare and contrast the treatment of beautiful light-skinned, light-eyed...

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In the Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses abuse and hardship to show the tragic consequences that come from racism. ... The Bluest Eye shows ways in which white beauty standards hurt the lives of black girls and women. ... The characters in the Bluest Eye are faced both directly and indirectly by racism. ... Pauline is full of self hatred and takes all her anger out on her family instead of loving them. Toni Morrison shows us what racism produces in the Bluest Eye. ...

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Setting in "The Bluest Eye" Time 1940-41 The novel is divided into the four seasons Place Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's home town) It is more preciously set around Broadway, Twenty-First and Thirty-Fifth Streets. ... Autumn 1940 The European part of World War II had just begun full force Implicitly Morrison is using the Nazi Regime as a distant background to the novel's events Americans of 1940 treasure blonde hair and blue eyes in both dolls and little girls These features reflects the Aryan ideal The connection is reflected by the three prostitutes Sea...

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Pi remembered that tigers could drink saltwater, and the survival manual taught him he could poke a fish in the eye to paralyze it and that he could drink turtle's blood for water. ... He prayed to the gods of his three religions, and although it is expected for one to be depressed, Pi became grateful for and happy from the small things, such as a solar still full of freshwater. ... She finds this terribly funny. She giggles and buries her face in the crook of his neck. ...

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Dolores is fascinated by the dead whales, and goes to the beach to have an eye-to-eye encounter with one of them, which she describes; "The eye stared back at me without seeing. ... A cataract eye, an eye full of death". ... Still obsessed, she goes to Vermont to find him. ... Stronger now, she is able to tell him the truth about her life, and that she does not need him. ... While she had been in her grandmother's home, she also made peace with her. ...

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Beauty and Ugly: The Major Patterns in The Bluest Eye " Smiling white face. ... In The Bluest Eye beauty/ugly constantly shows up through both internal thoughts and narration or spoken through conversations. ... Head full of pretty hair, but Lord she was ugly."... She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen." ... (Morrison 11) The Bluest Eye is the story of a young girl so consumed with wanting to be noticed, wanting to ...

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She has sold over millions of copies of all of her hit songs and according to her she also sold her soul to the devil. ... She has also been spotted putting up the symbol of the all seeing eye of Horus in a super bowl ad as well as a photo shoot with fellow illuminati worshiper Madonna. ... "And round about the throne, were four beasts (creatures) full of eyes before and behind. ... The "All Seeing Eye" is originally symbolic of a higher or spiritual power or god. ... The "All Seeing Eye" is also known as the "Eye of God....

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It was Lindsey's first full year on the force, and no amount of training can prepare someone for four homicides in four weeks. ... " Turner and Lindsey crashed through the front door with guns drawn, only to find a young female receptionist staring wide-eyed at them. ... " she said. ... How did she know it was strangulation?... " he winced With a face of pure rage Turner leapt down all four patio steps and ran full speed after the receptionist. ...

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Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye provides insight into the injustices of racism and poverty in America in the mid-1900s through the perspective of nine-year-old Claudia and ten-year-old Frieda MacTeer. ... The Bluest Eye contains elements of ironic tragedy. ... Pecola lives in Lorain, Ohio, a county full of crime, poverty, and inescapable injustice. ... She clearly wants to belong to this society as she would do anything to be considered beautiful. ... In The Bluest Eye the morals the adults of the neighbourhood follow can be seen as...

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Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye- Trace the development of the bullying. ... She believes that because she is 'different' she needs to be treated differently, in a way that includes mental torture. ... But even then she knows that she is being scrutinised and watched. ... There is nothing that she can do to please them, she is said to be a "goody-goody" when she gets full marks on her quiz, and "stupid" when she gets half marks. ... The marble season and the story of the blue cat's eye marble boost her confidence even more 'She doesn't know what power this cat's ey...

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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." ... This movie is about a man named Hal that only tried going out with dense, beautiful, skinny women instead of full figured, nice, intelligent women. ... Gracie was forced to change the way she dressed, the way she looked, the way she eats and even the way she walked. ... Unlike Benonca, Kat does give into the effects of per presser, she wears what she likes not what is popular. ... "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." ...

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Make eye contact to show that you are paying attention. ... When a person is talking to you, nod your head or acknowledge by saying something that tells the person that you understand them and that you know what he/she wants you to do. ... This tell the person that you are talking to that he/she has your full and undivided attention. Also you need to make eye contact with the speaker. ... If you fail to make eye contact you may give the speaker the impression that you are not interested in what they are saying. ...

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In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Pecola is raised by two individuals that have unfit parenting styles. ... (The Bluest Eye pg. 18) A child raised by a father like hers is not going to have a bright future. ... They don't experience life outside their natural environment and Esperanza's environment is full of negativity. ... He is full of danger. ... (The Bluest Eye pg. 129) Pecola is being taught that women are supposed to be abused by their husbands. ...

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My Eye Opening Experience The day after my sixth birthday I received a gift that was one of the best and worst things that has ever happened to me. ... Back when I was living in San Antonio I was a big Arnold Schwartzenagger fan so one of my gifts from my mom was that she was going to take my sister and me to see Total Recall at the theatre. ... Instead of a finger prick to test my white blood cell count it was a full tube of blood, I was not a big fan of this change. ... You could say this experience was a real eye opener for me and without it I wouldn't be me. ...

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"But I don't want to go home" exclaimed Amanda tripping as she unsteadily attempted to jump the small moat that contained hundreds of used cigarettes floating aimlessly like miniature swans. ... On entering the estate the eye would be flooded with so many colors that one could receive a rather unpleasant migraine on just looking around. ... Emerald green, her dress exposed her naked thigh for sally's husbands full viewing pleasure. ... Goblets of champagne adorned the marble bar where women possessing long hair stood and eyed bob cuts enviously. ... she blew a kiss back to he...

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In "The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison, the reader is led to question if society actually does try to predict events by seasons. ... Instead she compares childhood to the colorful dancing leaves of autumn, full of carelessness and lighthearted pleasure. ... She initially refuses but after Junior offers her a kitten, she accepts. ... However, once she met Geraldine, she saw that the prettiness of the house was just a cover. ... Because she didn't fit into the cookie-cutter shape of society, she was mostly left alone. ...

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Can she see me too? Does she know I am real? ... Is she also real, or merely photons of light bouncing from me to the glass, and like bees into their hive, through my pupils into my eye? ... I am now screaming at the full capacity my lungs will allow. ... I look at it, and the one-eyed Jack stares back at me. ...

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Later on, she begins to experience new feelings at Guangzhou that make her wonder if she is really Chinese, and finally, the eye-opener of acceptance of her Chinese roots. ... Jing-mei's height was also different in compare to the average Chinese height "I stand five-foot- six, and my head pokes above the crowd so that I am eye level only with other tourist"(Tan 266), another reason for her to believe she is not Chinese. ... At last, the recognition rises like a new day transpire that her family is really not that different than her, an eye opener of acceptance of her Chinese ro...

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I didnt care where we were going, just as long as she took me there. ... I waited untill my cup was full with sierra mist before I made my move to sit down next to them. ... As she got up to get her food, we made eye contact for a second, then she was gone. ... I had control to leave, to talk to her, or even pretend like the only time I remember seeing her was when we made eye contact. ... She smiled back, ackknowledging my presence as we passed by eachother. ...

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When ever an owl eye appears in the story the characters all notice the big eyes. ... TJ Eckleburg are big and he has these huge glasses he wears that refer to him not having good eye vision, as if he is blind. ... She is described as having a voice of an angel, or a voice full of money. ... She has the looks and the voice just like the Sirens, she is as deadly as they too. She takes what she wants and doesn't ask anyone. ...

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Of course she would terrify. ... Plath tells us how at the age of ten she almost died, she says it was an "accident" but the second time she meant it. ... ------- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? ... "The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth" also make reference to being burned. ... She goes on to make circus references in the lines that follow: "There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart--It really goes. ...

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Of course she would terrify. ... Plath tells us how at the age of ten she almost died, she says it was an "accident" but the second time she meant it. ... ------- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? ... "The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth" also make reference to being burned. ... She goes on to make circus references in the lines that follow: "There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart--It really goes. ...

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