The U-boat then surfaced and machine-gunned 300 Canadian survivors who included nurses and the wounded. The brigadier-general tells this story to motivate the Canadian battalion prior to the offensive so that they will avenge their murdered comrades. The allies attack The narrator's ears start to bleed from the force of explosions The Germans come running out screaming for mercy, trying to surrender - the allies mow them down The narrator is shot in the foot which has cut an artery, he is happy he is wounded as he can go home now The narrator goes looking for a dead means corpse so he can take his water bottle, he finds Broadbent in a nearby shell hole, his leg hangs by a small strip of skin, Broadbent dies shortly after While waiting for the hospital ship to arrive and take the Narrator home, he talks with an orderly who soon reveals that the story about the Llandovery Castle was a lie and that when the ship was sunk it was carrying supplies and war material and was in actual fact not a “hospital ship” that was carrying 300 wounded. The narrator realises that the battalion was lied to by the brigadier
The story begins with a car chase and a man named Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) confessing the story in a Dictaphone. Neff in a door-to-door insurance salesman who ends up in the Dietrichson house, when he finds out the head of the household, Mr.Dietrichson isn’t home, the wife, Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) is introduced to the story. She and Neff have instant chemistry, soon after they have a talk; she comes over to his apartment and have an intimate talk about how she feels trapped in her marriage. Soon, they plot a murder on Mr.Dietrichson after he signs the insurance claims the following night. After the murder, Neff begins to care about what might happen to Lola, Mr.Dietrichson’s daughter, both of whose parents have been murdered.
For my report I have read the second half to the novel Player One by Douglas Coupland. The ladder half of the book is split into two chapters. The first, Hello, My Name is Monster the nuclear fallout on the airport becomes so violent the mysterious sniper has to seek safety inside the hotel lobby where he is caught and taken prisoner by the other characters. Rachel, the socially challenged bombshell and Rick, the down on his luck bartender have sex which sets Rachel on track to her life goal of reproducing. The sniper, Bertis, explains his motives to the group and a teenager, Max, blindly finds his way to the hotel lounge after chemicals get into his eyes and all over his skin.
The Embraer 145 commuter jet was carrying 14 passengers. The captain gave the passenger a password to get into the cockpit, but the co-pilot and flight attendant were still doubtful, the recording shows. As the minutes ticked by, a controller told the co-pilot to consider declaring an emergency, which would give the plane priority over all
Hickock is successful; a young attorney by the name of Russell Schultz takes on their appeal and puts their case through the legal workings, giving Smith and Hickock almost two thousand more days in the Corner before they are finally executed on April 14, 1965. Capote and Dewey both witness the execution. Hickock gives his injured eyes to medicine, as some sort of twisted joke, and Smith makes a short statement apologizing for his act. Dewey notes that he cannot feel vindicated by Smith's death, because of the overwhelming ' 'aura of an exiled animal" that surrounded the killer in life and during his
However, her college experience is where she first interacts solely with the predominantly American culture. In order to pay for school and get good grades, Sara must ignore everything else, including her family, to work and study. Slowly and painfully, Sara learns to talk, dress and act like her American peers. She leaves college with her teaching degree and a thousand dollars, which she won in an essay contest. Feeling successful, Sara returns home to find her mother fatally ill. After her mother's death, her father remarries only to find his new wife, Mrs. Feinstein, is a gold-digger after his late wife's lodge money.
The great author, Fitzgerald, whom wrote the Great Gatsby, wrote about 2 women whom hold men’s hearts. Mrs. Daisy Buchannan was born into money and was wanted by men everywhere from her charm and beauty. Daisy fell in love with Jay Gatsby, yet loves her cheating husband, Thomas Buchannan. She is a bright woman with a wonderful charm. She loved Jay even after she was married yet she loves Thomas who has cheated on her everywhere they go.
This is tied into the 1920s though the new morals and standards of young women that were coming to power in the 1920’s. As they were in the hotel, Gatsby springs up and says “She never loved you, do you hear? He cried. She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me” (137) Gatsby is telling of how Daisy Buchanan is no longer loyal to Tom and how she now wants him back because he has run into money.
Tom was a born into wealth and so was Daisy, she married him because her name is more important then love. The difference in wealth between Gatsby and Tom made Daisy choose whom she wanted to end up for the rest of her life. “Girls only love men with money.” This quote is true for this book because when Gatsby gets wealthy Daisy starts to fall back for him. There was this one scene where Gatsby throws all of his shirts in the air as if he doesn’t care about these expensive shirts. Daisy grabs all of the shirts and starts to cry because she loves wealth and expensive cloths.
She would daydream of fancy dinners, shinning silverware and delicate furniture. Her desire for wealth is so strong that she can’t even visit her wealthy friend Madame Foresteir without being overwhelmed with jealousy. There was only one time where she was truly happy and that is when she had on a dress that her husband purchased and a diamond necklace that she borrowed from her friend, Mrs. Forestier. Her happiness was short-lived when she and her husband had to spend the next 10 years paying for the necklace that she had lost that night. What use to be a very poise and gentle women had “become the women of impoverished households- strong and hard and rough” (Maupassant 42).