A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr New York: Vintage Books 1995. 502 pages. reviewed by Elizabeth Jung POLI 214 A Dr. Morgan Scott Roanoke College December 6, 2010 A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr’s book, is a gripping, suspenseful tale following the Woburn case. It is the true story of families from a small industrial town in Massachusetts suing two U.S corporations for leukemia deaths and other health related problems. It is also the true story of a Boston lawyer named Jan Schlichtmann who takes on the case for reasons only divulged at the end of the story.
16 October 2012 Literary Analysis on Theme The main theme in “The Devil and Tom Walker” written by Washington Irving is that greed brings a person to his/her downfall. Greed is shown many times throughout the story, but the main theme is shown when Tom’s wife dies because of her greed, and eventually Tom is subject to the same fate. Greed bringing a person to his/her downfall can be seen as the obvious theme in “The Devil and Tom Walker” because of several examples from the story. First, when Tom’s wife was informed of the hidden gold, she urged Tom to agree with the black man’s terms. When Tom refused, she decided to go get the gold herself and not share any with Tom if she succeeded.
Danielle Nicole Ford Forensic Science January 27, 2011 THOMAS CAPANO ACCIDENT OR MURDER Thomas J. Capano (born October 11, 1949) is a disbarred American lawyer from Wilmington, Delaware, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of his lover Anne Marie Fahey. The case made headlines because Capano is from a wealthy family and was a former deputy attorney general of Delaware. In 1994 Capano was a partner at the Wilmington office of the law firm Saul Ewing LLP when he became involved with Anne Marie Fahey, the 28-year-old appointments secretary to then-Governor Thomas R. Carper. Fahey did not want to continue her affair with Capano. Fahey had been attempting to end her relationship with the married Capano and had begun seeing another man.
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan has great importance to Jay Gatsby one of the novel's main character. Jay Gatsby is a young thirty year old man who became wealthy through organized crime. Daisy and Gatsby met in Louisville. Gatsby was a military officer who was about to leave for the first World War. Gatsby fell in love with Daisy almost immediately after meeting her.
In 1995, Sheen married Donna Peele. Sheen was named as one of many clients who visited brothels owned by Heidi Fleiss in her court case in 1995. Charlie's long-term relationship with former pornographic actress Ginger Lynn in the late 1990s garnered him as much media attention as his drug abuse. Charlie’s career “waxed and waned” as he struggled with top roles and minor parts as he was in and out of rehabilitation centers. On May 20, 1998, Charlie tried injecting cocaine, accidentally giving himself an overdose.
Ovalle-Perez, Tania Period 4 AP English Lit & Comp Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo are two American anti-war novels dominated by men but where women play significant side roles that affect directly and indirectly the protagonists, as controllers or captors (whether willing or involuntary), as objects of love, or as indifferent markers of time like the ticking of a clock. After Vonnegut’s main character Billy Pilgrim’s wife, Valencia Merble, dies and after Billy has been in an accident that left him with brain damage, Billy’s daughter, Barbara, takes it upon herself to care for her father. She is very uppity and sees herself as the head of her family because her mother is no longer around and she is the sole caretaker of her father whom she believes is incapable of caring for himself (Vonnegut, 28). Billy is patient with Barbara and does what he is told and for the most part tries to hide from her his knowledge of the Tralfamadorians. Barbara continually dismisses his claims that there is a place called Tralfamadore because she thinks he became senile as a result of an airplane crash which left him with a fractured skull (Vonnegut, 28-30).
F Scott Fitzgerald wrote ‘The Great Gatsby’ based on moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and social status. This classic and supreme novel uses setting as a means of the American dream, social division, consumerism/ corruption and the hollowness of the upper class. The narrator, Nick Carraway tells the story of Jay Gatsby who is chasing his love Daisy Buchanan and has been for years. Through Nick the pair meet again after the long five years he has been searching for her, and the affair starts. Fitzgerald uses the setting of east egg to represent the aristocratic society of old money.
The Great Gatsby portrays the demise of the American Dream through a self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, whose constant efforts to be superior and have it all bring about his downfall. Jay Gatsby is revered in the West Egg as being an Oxford man who came into a great deal of money after the death of his rich family. He lives in an embellished mansion
The Natures of Hell in the Third Policeman in Relation to Jean Paul Sartre’s Play, No Exit The novel The Third Policeman by Brian O’Nolan is a mystic classic wherein the unnamed narrator details his experiences with John Divney, Mathers, and other characters such as the policeman. No Exit on the other hand is a play by the French writer, Jean Paul Sartre, which makes a strong case for the existentialist philosophy of life. The play, which is set in one compact act, has four characters, namely; Valet, Inez, Estelle, and Garcin. The Third Policeman, which is set as a hell scene for a dead actor, the narrator, has a number of features that play out in Jean Paul Sartre’s play, No Exit. The features identifying hell in The Third Policeman and reinforced by the setting in No Exit relate to time, place, and people or the characters.
Real name- Rebecca Kiosha Bloomswood Know aliases- Black Star Identity- unknown Occupation-financial adviser at the Inc. magazine Citizenship- American Place of birth- Los Angeles Marital status- single Relatives- father (owner of Inc. magazine) mother (died when Rebecca was seven years old from fighting crime), aunt and uncle (are also superheroes, but are retired with exception of covering for Rebecca) Group affiliations- works alone Education- graduated from Ivy League university Princeton with a Masters in Finance (MFin) degree In order to save my father’s life, the only choice I have is to sacrifice mine. That’s also the only choice that the Evil’s cape has left me with. I looked at my father’s face one last time before I close my eyes forever. He was struggling; a pearl like tear is slowly rolling down his face. With the obnoxious high laugh of the Evil’s Cape, my whole life is flashing before me.