After a few beers at The Place, Billy rides back to Rocky's. ... Billy was now officially a "Hang-around" This is the precursor to becoming an official prospect, or a "known associate" That Sunday, on their way home, Rocky pulled over and made a phone call. ... This isn't no club, we are outlaws. ... " Billy wandered the bar alone watching and taking in all the details that he could. When it was time to leave, Billy witnessed Red Dog taking down his VIN number, and license plate number. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He decided almost at once to go back to the States and to get going on his book. ... Almost immediately Robert began taking long walks in Central Park just to mull things over. ... Haber brought Robert down to a Jazz Club on 27th and 10th that evening. ... One Sunday afternoon in early August Robert was sitting in Central Park reading McBride's "The Color of Water." As he leaned on his side to stretch his back, a gorgeous young woman approached him and asked if she could join him. ...

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(Line 31) Therefore, he was more informed on the academic aspects of ships rather than sailing them, and he is "cowed/ among the seadogs at the Sunday yacht club". ... (Line 29) According to Lowell's description of this father, Lowell's father tried very hard to adjust to civilian life and tried to do the "popular" things that other civilians did such as joining a country club and participating in sports such as golf and pastimes such as yachting. ... (Line 35) The image of a full grown man taking a bath and singing navy tunes is a ridiculous sight, perhaps one that would be comm...

• Word Count: 1915
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• Grade Level: High School

Most of the natives from Johnstown have jobs at the Cambria Iron Company, which is a head in advanced applications of the Bessemer process. ... The water began rushing through the valley, taking away all natural and manmade objects and throwing them at it as a wall of wreckage. ... Although this detail is left out, McCullough still devotes time and space to the religiosity of some members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in Pittsburgh. ... After what seems like forever (a week of clean up), the clergymen join an Army chaplain in conducting a Sunday service. ... No shelter awaited the...

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• Grade Level: High School

Holden makes up an excuse for leaving and does so, thoughtful of what he has been told, but without taking anything into deep consideration. Chapter 3 In chapter three, Holden goes back to his dorm in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing. ... He claims this dinner is made to sound nice for the parents that visited on Sundays, but really wasn't that nice. ... Chapter 6 In the sixth chapter Holden sits in his room until Stradlater comes back. ... Holden decides to go down to the Lavender room, a night-club at the hotel and asks for a drink, but as he had no legal proof that he was of lega...

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• Grade Level: High School

He will strive to look back no more. ... In his head he refers to them and himself as the Three Musketeers, and tells himself the story of how the Three Musketeers saved the life of a dumb college kid. ... Then, he is back in 1944, being shaken awake by Weary. ... Billy goes to 1957, when he gives a speech as the newly elected president of the Lion's Club. ... He leaps back to 1944. ...

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• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

On a bright Sunday in a ballroom in Manhattan in full view of 400 blacks Malcolm was murdered. ... One bullet passed through Kennedy's neck, and the other bullet hit the president in the head. ... Sergeant Shriver, to head the new Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). Johnson tried throughout his presidency to get people back on their feet economically and end the poverty in the United States. ...

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• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School