Landon's last resort for a date was Jamie Sullivan, everyone else was already asked or had otherplans. Jamie goes with Landon to the dance on only one condition, that he doesn't fall in lovewith her. Worried about what Jamie would wear to the dance, she wasn't very wealthy and couldn't afford to buy a new dress for the special occasion. Landon was scared to show up with Jamie because she wasn't very popular or liked, everyone considered her as the weird one. she was the outcast. The day of the dance Landon helped decorate the gym and he also had to be at Jamie's a half an hour early so Hegbert could talk him. Landon figured it was going to be abouttemptation and how horrid it is. Landon showered, put on his best suit and was off to pick upJamie's corsage, then to pick her up. It was the first time Landon had seen Hegbert out of thechurch and he looked much different. Usually he is wearing nice, dressy clothes, but when he answered the door he was seen in overalls and a T-shirt. Hegbert asked some weird and ridiculous questions about his future and stuff. Soon, but not soon enough for Landon, they wereoff to the dance, something the two of them had both been looking forward to. Landon wasn't inthe best mood when he got there and it only seemed to get worse. Although Jamie was having afantastic time, and loved the decorations, the music and everything else about the dance, Landon was somewhat depressed but still managed to hit the dance floor. Much to Landon's surprise Jamie was quit the dancer and followed his lead through well over a dozen songs. Towards the end of the dance Eric and his woman, Angela, show up to make things more interesting and spike the punch. Angela ends up getting drunk and blowing chunks in the bathroom while Eric.
somehow is nowhere to be seen, he does that all the time. Of course, Jamie being the person she is, was the one to find her and help her get her head out of the toilet bowl.
Summary of Joy luck club Jing-mei Woo's mother and father, Suyuan and Canning Woo, emigrated from China to live in San Francisco in 1949. ... Suyuan packed as much as she could and began to walk to Chunking with her children, a few belongings, and some food in a wheelbarrow, but she arrived in Chungking with only three silk dresses. ... Jing-mei remembers her mother's critical attitude toward everyone. ...
Text Summary Main Characters: Sula Peace- Seen as a "wild and defiant- girl. ... Basic Novel Summary: Toni Morrison's novel Sula chronicles the lives of influential woman living in the mostly black community of "the Bottom- from 1919 to 1965. ... Nel's positive feelings toward Sula are short-lived and end sharply when she walks in on Sula having sex with her husband, Jude. ... After Nel leaves, Sula resents Nel for allowing Sula's affair with Jude to overlook the value of their friendship, "So she will walk on down that road, her back so straight in that old green coat, th...
"The Worn Path" Summary Do you have such strength, determination, and strong will as Phoenix Jackson, an old colored woman in the story "A Worn Path". ... She was determined to walk a long path through the woods to get to town for her grandson. ... Then, she remembered she came for the soothing medicine for her grandson. ...
Chapter Summaries with Notes Act One Scene 1: The Coin Spin Summary Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two well-dressed Elizabethan men in the middle of a coin-spinning game. ... He asks him what the first thing he remembers is, but Rosencrantz doesn't understand. ... He suddenly remembers "we were sent for," by someone, which will gain importance as the play progresses. ... Guildenstern becomes more and more tense, demanding what the first thing Rosencrantz remembers from today is. ... They don't know where to go now; Rosencrantz doesn't even remember ...
ARTICLE: "Leaders as Value Shapers," by Kevin Freiberg, Business Ethics Annual Editions 2002-2003, 2002, pp. 96-98 SUMMARY The course of a firm is directed through great leaders that understand that their capacities to shape values and educate through vivid, living, personal example. ... "As leaders we also need to remember that our walk talks. ...
Summary The morning reveille, a hammer banging against a length of rail, is sounded at five o'clock. ... Summary Shukhov considers going to the dispensary to report that he is ill. He thinks of which guard is on duty and remembers that it is "One-and-a-half Ivan," the most good-natured of the guards. ... The Tartar, another guard, walks in and pulls down his blanket, reads off Shukhov's number, and tells him he has received three days' penalty with work. ... Summary When Shukhov finishes eating, he heads back to the barracks. ...
The Dead Summary One night around Christmas time, Gabriel Convey, a youngish writer with gilt-framed round glasses, goes with his wife Gretta to the Christmas dance held at the home of the Misses Morkan: his aunts, Kate and Julia, and their niece, Mary Jane. ... Gabriel remembers how Gretta nursed his mother through her long and ultimately fatal illness. ... While he was imaging his past with his wife and desiring her, his wife was remembering another man with whom she had truly been in love. Gabriel imagines himself as foolish, clownish; he tries halfheartedly to comfort Gretta, then l...
