;0) Key Concepts Love, Prejudice, Despair, Hope, Poverty, Sacrifice, Selfishness, Church Summary The film is a true story portraying the McCourt family battling unemployment, their father's alcoholism, poverty, prejudice and infant mortality over a 15 year period, from 1935 to 1950, initially in New York and then for most of that time in Limerick. ... Click here for a detailed summary Background The film is based on the book of the same name, which stayed at the top of the best-seller lists in the UK and USA for months from mid-1998. ... Frank McCourt's story resonates...

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Act I, scene i Summary The course of true love never did run smooth... ... Theseus admits that he has heard this story, and he takes Egeus and Demetrius aside to discuss it. ... At her house, Hermia and Lysander can be married "and, because the manor is outside of Athens, they would be free from Athenian law. ... Act II, scene i Summary In the forest, two fairies, one a servant of Titania, the other a servant of Oberon, meet by chance in a glade. ... Act II, scene ii Summary As Puck flies off to seek the flower, Demetrius and Helena pass through the glade. ...

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Introduction Raymond Carver is said to be one of the most influential American short-story writer and poet in the second half of 20th century, a major force in the revival of the short story in the 1980s (Kennedy, X. ... In this essay, we aim to analyze the main characteristics of short story which can be found and applied in Carver's well-known short story Cathedral. The short story Cathedral was included in Best American Short Stories, 1982. ... A third collection of short stories by Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?... Plot Summary The narrator's wife used to work ...

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Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. ... " When he learns what has happened on the island, the officer is reproachful: how could this group of boys, he asks-and English boys at that-have lost all reverence for the rules of civilization in so short a time? ... Golding's use of irony in the last chapter blurs the boundary between civilization and savagery and implies that the two are more closely connected than the story has illustrated. ... "Lord of the Flies" tells the story of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a...

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Short summary and more information about Wuthering Heights II. ... The wickedness of Wuthering Heights appals people, because it is pure wickedness, free from any taint of flesh. ... According to the critic George Sampson, Wuthering Heights is the combination of high imagination with pure ignorance, because Emily never knew what sexuality feels like but still she wrote the love itself instead of a love story. ... Short summary and more information about Wuthering Heights Giving a short summary is important to explain well enough because of the complex characters and non-chronological order ...

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"Railroads were born in England, a country with dense populations, short distances between cities, and large financial resources. ... In addition to the Homestead Act, there was the realization on the part of informed people that the era of well-watered, free land was drawing to a close. A warning had been given in 1880 by the Director of the Census that the era of free land was closing (Horn 130). The swift expansion across the Great Plains was, in part, a rush of American farmers who wanted to take part in free and cheap land in areas that were well watered. ... But, they also aggre...

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In this short story, Tolstoy instigates many questions in readers' mind about truth, injustice and fate as he resides his readers between both spiritual and materialistic worlds throughout the course of the story. ... The major characteristics of a short story are considered in which we discuss about plot, conflict, characters, themes, tone, and personal value. ... Biography Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy also called Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828 in Tula Province, Russia. ... During this period, he wrote many short stories such as G...

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After a few short weeks of knowing each other, the man, Maxim de Winter, asks for her hand in marriage, she accepts and he brings her to his estate called Manderley. ... In the beginning the narrator, whose name is never mentioned, feels like she could never replace Rebecca, but as the story unfolds she begins to see that Rebecca was potentially maleficent. ... Maxim proposes to her after a few short weeks by saying "I'm asking you to marry me you little fool.... "Rebecca is a lowbrow story with a middlebrow finish" (Charques 1). ... "Rebecca has been variously describ...

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Throughout his lifetime, Paul spoke out for Gentile Christians to be free from Jewish law. ... Their attempts are short lived and stopped by the arrival of the tribune and soldiers. ... The second story has Paul in the temple. ... In the first story, it is just the people in the story that are amazed by his changed character. ... In the third and final conversion story, Paul finally reaches the king with his story. ...

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The first publication of the short story "Cathedral" was in the March, 1981, issue of Atlantic Monthly. It was selected to appear in "The Best American Short Stories, 1982," and became the title story in the 1983 collection, Cathedral. ... was chosen for The Best American Short Stories, 1967. ... Plot Summary "Cathedral" opens with the narrator telling the reader in a conversational tone that a blind friend of his wife's is coming to visit them. ... Summary The narrator, or storyteller, of Raymond Carver's short story "Cathedral" opens by saying, "This blind man, an old friend of ...

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He finished a short draft, entitled, A Scullions Diary about 10 months later. This short novel was rejected twice, mainly on the grounds that it was only 35,000 words and used only a moderate part of all of the notes, journals and other things that he had collected and intended to use. ...

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A Time to Kill is a novel written about how a ten-year old black girl named Tonya Hailey's life was shattered when two rednecks beat and raped her, and then how her father took the law into his own hands and decided their punishment himself. Tonya was walking home from the grocery store when the two rednecks, Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard, saw her. They threw full beer cans at her, breaking her flesh right down to the bone. Taking turns, they straddled her and forcefully and brutally raped her. They tied her to a tree with ropes burning through her skin while they drank and laughed...

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Abstract This paper examines the proposal to redevelop an area in South Sydney against some general principles extracted from a selection of classic urban design theorists. The ACI site development is part of the largest redevelopment project in Australia at present, that is, the Green Square/South ...

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The inscription on the award was "for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America." ... His resume now includes several books: "All Over But the Shoutin" (1997), "Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg" (2000), "Ava's Man" (2001), "I Am A Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story" (2003), "The Prince of Frogtown" (2008), and "The Most They Ever Had" (2009). ... Rather than memoirs, Bragg refers to this as his mother's story, although he is definitely the narrator. ... I won't embellish the truth, but I will tell it in a way that engages the reader and p...

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Plot Overview IN THE STREETS OF VERONA another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the...

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Celie writes her story in the form of letters addressed to God. ... The following is a brief summary of Nettie's first letter to Celie: After Nettie had left their house (following Mr. ...

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It's only after you've lost everything that you"re free to do anything. ... And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. ... Only now the fingers were Nosferatu-long and the thumb was too short, but he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. ...

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Executive Summary The report highlights the different Technologies and methodologies. ... And also the fact that Java technology is free of charge while the .Net platform can put a dent in the wallet. ... The next section of the report covers the various features that are offered by The Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Clean Room; the report introduces these processes individually and then explains in detail how each of the processes works, it finally finishes with an analysis of the strengths and drawbacks for each of these processes In the next section the report concentrates ...

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One can argue that these headliners shouldn't be an issue and its the free market at work. ... The free market and competition usually takes care of these issues for organizations that profit for shareholders and the same holds true for nonprofits. First thing first, the public must understand that just because one works for a nonprofit does not mean they are working for free. ... We need to let the free market take its course, and allow these men and women to be paid fair salaries. ... In order to remain transparent and penalty free, it is a good idea for the board of directors to revi...

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Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. ... And in a very short time Joe owned one of the biggest shops (factories) in town and became a respected business man. ... Chris told him not to worry as he had nothing to fear; the court had freed him and he had a paper from court declaring his innocence. ... Keller was set free while Steve was convicted and put in jail. ... Keller had to make up that story about being sick to cover up for his crime. ...

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Starbucks Coffee Company is North America's leading roaster and retailer of specialty coffees. ... Schultz got his start with Starbucks Coffee & Tea, which doled out popular free samples of coffee brewed and sold at a shop in Seattle's Pikes Place Market. ...

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I liked this website because the author is writing straight to the audience giving his whole story about what he believes, and you as a viewer can't really give your two cents back until you have read all he has had to say. ... " The writer's message to the reader is simply that in guns rights, "everyone has a right to be free, and that includes the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, defense of family, community, state and country....

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Executive Summary Pakistan is going through a critical phase of its existence with the upsurge in crime, the chronic terrorism gnawing away at its security and the economic crisis which is affected by these problems. ... These issues all have to be studied and resolved in order for the housing finance to become a success story and dynamically impact the economy of developing economies such as that of Pakistan. ...

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His arrow missed, and pierced the flower instead, while "th'imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free."" ... The character of Theseus appears in Greek myth (he was a friend of Hercules and a giant-killer), but Shakespeare more likely got the idea for his character from Chaucer's Knight's Tale, which refers to Theseus and Hippolyta in the larger context of the story of Palamon and Arcite, two men in love with the same woman (a plot that resembles aspects of this play). ... Lysander's madness is reasonably short-lived however, and he is so...

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