Each is middle aged and going through a period of reflection and question during which they are trying to figure out how they got to the current point in their lives and how to improve the relationships with those they care about. ... While everyone else was working to live, she was living on their work. ... They also show a wide range of the perspectives that could very believably be those of anyone living in a small town. ... A small town such as Empire Falls that isn't even close to flourishing doesn't provide much hope of escape from the life of scraping to get by that its reside...

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• Grade Level: High School

This quote shows how he isn't allowed to live in the bunkhouse. ... She's not aloud to talk to anyone because everybody thinks she's a tart. ... He was a very large, strong man who did not mean to harm anyone but didn't realize when his great strength began to harm others. ... Lennie grabbed a lady's dress because it was pretty and soft. ... Although Lennie liked soft, pretty things, he could not control his own strength, and had proven to be a danger to himself and others.  ...

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Morrison describes how African-American girls during this time period were encouraged to aspire to be white. ... Applying Frye's Fictive Modes to Morrison's young African-American heroine Pecola gives insight on how her traumatic childhood led her to escape from reality as a defence mechanism to the events around her. ... In her town she is seen as ugly and worthless. ... Her bliss is short lived as she is left with a friendship that is only imagined and does not protect Pecola from her insecurity about appearance that torments her constantly. ... Claudia further describes how Peco...

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"Lee had kept pretty still since he"d been shot, lying among the rocks, thinking his quiet thoughts." ... Kevin has two younger brothers and is a real rural, like Homer-but unlike Lee who lived in town above his parents" restaurant. ... He doesn't really talk to anyone about his feelings, instead he pours it into his writing-poetry in particular. ... Where Ellie is a rural, brought up on her parents farm as an only child outside of Wirrawee, Fis" family is wealthy-as both her parents are solicitors-and lived in town. ... It's frightening how fast we are going through the food. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

How about some soap? ... Maybe Lysander could impress a pretty girl. ... Lysander wandered alone through the forest for a long time, dreaming about how much fun he was going to have in town. ... But, where was town anyway? ... "How exciting!...

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Jessie (another brother) lived at Holland. ... She received the same as anyone else. ... Think he'd go to town and stay all day or to visit his married children. ... The next day he went to town, he lived about 9 miles out in the country from town, and ran into my mother and told her he's seen me go by carrying a suitcase and my coat. She hired one of her nephews, who lived in town, to drive her out to my brother's house to see if it was so. ...

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It regards them with scorn and ridicule and looks down upon them, which is contrary to their strict beliefs on how they should live and act towards others. ... This is because her partner in crime is the town's beloved minister. ... Hester, who is the town's criminal and enemy, is, in reality, perhaps the most innocent and righteous person in the town. ... Despite his long absorption in Puritan writings, it is pretty clear that Hawthorne had a typical nineteenth century view of his ancestors. ... So, by portraying Hester Prynne as the victim in the novel, and not a town enemy,...

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An 1870 survey showed that 7,000 of the working women could only afford to live in cellars and 20,000 were near starvation. ... Wages were slashed more than anyone had ever expected them to be, and grievance committees were done away with. ... Pullman workers lived in a company town described as, "bordered with bright beds of flowers, and green velvety stretches of lawn, shaded with trees, and dotted with parks and pretty water vistas," (Meltzer 148). ... Though was a section of the town that included this. ... The Pullman Corporation appointed all the town officials. ...

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Manson did not have a good childhood to begin with, and anyone can tell after reading about his childhood that it was no wonder he turned out the way he did. Growing up, Charlie lived with his grandmother and grandfather and his mother because she was only sixteen, so she still lived at home. ... Several days later my uncle had to search town for the waitress and take me home."" ... In 1947, Manson ran away to his mother, but she did not want him anymore and he lived through stealing and burglary until he was caught and the court arranged for him to be sent to Father Flanigan's Boys t...

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We often think about how many marks we obtain, but we forget the process we have passed; We often concern about how much money we earn, but we forget about the satisfaction of the job; We often care about how much inch of the screen of our smartphone, but we forget to look upon the sky to count how many stars in the sky. ... He did not allow anyone obeyed his rules, as he was a typical autocratic king. ... Once anyone clapped for him, he would take off his hat and bowed to his or her. ... 'A geographer is a scholar who knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains, and dese...

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• Grade Level: High School

." - Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Chapter 1 Mr Dashwood and his family live in an estate at Norland Park. ... Chapter 6 They have arrived at Barton and even though their cottage is small of size, it is very pretty. ... But Marianne keeps arguing that he is far too old and he has lived a life already; which is now practically over. ... The unknown man turns out to be Mr Willoughby, a man who does not live in the area but is here once a year to visit an old woman. ... Chapter 13 Everyone is planning to go to Whitwell, but plans change when Colonel Branson gets a letter and he has to go int...

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Multiple parts of narrative perspective are examined: how the narrative perspective is used to surprise the reader in different ways and how the irony, symbols, and emotions are used to help the narrator explain the characters and events throughout the story as well as understanding the psychopath himself. ... requires a detailed investigation into how narrative perspective in novels creates a view through which the reader sees and understands the novel's resolution. ... The weaknesses of this perspective and the book's course of time also influences how the reader is affected by Gre...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

In this research essay, I plan to reveal how much of a negative effect pageant moms do have on their daughters, and how the label "pageant moms" fits their type very well. ... Big hair, excessive makeup, fake smiles, expensive dresses and jewelry, and the obsessive pageant mom who is basically trying to live her life through her daughter. ... On VH1's Driven: Presents Stage Moms, the personal account of a young boy reveals how much "pageant moms" can really relate to their name. " She knows she's washed up and that's why she lives her life through his." ... (Beauty Pageants Expo...

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• Grade Level: High School

The surrounding land was pine forest, with no sight of a town anywhere. ... Our conquerors hastened our pace to insure we were in the gate before anyone tried to leave the encampment. ... I could not even find anyone to ask why I was not issued one. ...

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When a few of us went on a train trip to go see a couple of castles, we noticed that many students (including elementary students) use the trains as school buses to get to schools in different towns and that many adults use the trains as a ride to work. ... I also thought it was neat how in the downtown of all the cities and town we were in, most of the downtown areas where all the stores are, did not allow driving. ... Their houses seem to all be at least two stories and often the whole family, grandparents and all live in one house or the house is split into a couple of apartments. ... I&...

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"Life in the sector where Al lived his first ten years was harsh, but never drab, never stagnant. ... He was actually a pretty small guy, but learned on the street that smarts was what you needed to succeed. ... Al learned many things from Torrio, like leading a respected life, and how to separate his career from his home life. ... Al still lived at home and worked to support the family. ... Torrio decided he wanted to retire from his life of crime and live in peace. ...

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``It would be very difficult for anyone to insert typewritten words without the original printer using the same font and spacing.'' ... ``Pretty soon you're talking, `Hey, let's win two lotteries in two states on the same day,' '' he said. ...

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"Thank you but if I had banished him my father would still be alive and we wouldn't have to roam around to find work just so we can live and I curse myself for doubting you," hissed Rythian. ... "Ah yes I remember...I gave you the armor and you kissed me then we spent the night together our first time. how long has it been since that night three years?... "I am your uncle you remember how your mother said that her brother died in the wars?" ... You know it was your mother who showed my how to read the stars... there you see Orion the great hunter," said Ezio "oh yeah and there you see Pe...

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I lived in the darkness ever since my mother died and I don't know what to do. ... Living in a dark world where my thoughts wondered, I couldn't trust anyone. ... I came up the hill and looked at the town. ... You're just like everyone else in the town! ... " "How can you be so cold? ...

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From the overall summary of the book's plot, it is clear that Frankenstein is an intelligent man, highly respected about the town and has developed a good reputation. He is described as someone who is benevolent' - this means that he has no hatred or fury towards anyone; he is just a pure, kind-hearted man. Mary Shelley uses this subliminal' technique a lot; by getting the characters to talk about how likeable he is and how he is a wonderful person, it will subconsciously make you start to think and feel the same way. ... Frankenstein cannot bear the thought they he worked on ...

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The fifth and final character, the father, does not appear in the play: he skipped town long ago and hasn't been heard from except for a terse postcard farewell from Mexico. ... She catalogues the men and their subsequent fates, how much money they left their widows, how they died carrying her picture. ... She must stay fresh and pretty, Amanda says gaily, for the callers who will no doubt be arriving soon. ... Louis when he lived with his family and, at his father's behest, worked in a shoe factory. ...

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And in a very short time Joe owned one of the biggest shops (factories) in town and became a respected business man. ... The Kellers did not leave town, to the contrary Joe became a distinguished business man. ... But Chris threatened him his father if they did not bless his marriage, he would leave home and would take Ann to live somewhere else. ... He knew that Keller had offered to help him work in the town again instead of going back to New York. ... He is a very practical man who knows how the world goes on. ...

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A 75-page, leather-bound instruction book told homeowners how to assemble those 30,000 pieces. The book offered this somber (and probably wise) warning: "Do not take anyone's advice as to how this building should be assembled." ... One national magazine quipped, "the air temperature inside and outside of a 'General House' is pretty much the same." ... And we'd fall in love with them all over again How do you find Sears houses? ...

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They are common policemen, bothered by the worries of the day-to-day, eternally innocent, indifferent, and prepared to arrest anyone under any leader. ... "Nowhere," Antigone replies, musing on how beautiful the world is when gray, how lovely the garden is when not thinking of men. ... She recalls how she was such a beastly sister, flinging mud and worms at her, tying her to a tree and cutting off her hair. How easy it must be to never be unreasonable with all that "smooth silken hair" set around her head. ...

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So, the question is now, how could this one man and his political party (the Fascists) become so unbelievably popular within Italy in a post World War One era? ... When a man cannot earn a living simply because there is nothing he can do no matter how willing he quickly turns on the government for help. ... Mussolini, being quite clever and devious in his own way, knew how to deal with this problem. ...

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