Carrie shut the windows with her telekinetic powers and insisted on going to the prom. Chris got banned from prom, because she refused to attend detention. Chris told her boyfriend, Billy, that she wanted revenge on Carrie. They went on a farm to kill a pig and drained the blood into a bucket and placed it above the school’s stage. Chris got two of her friends to swap the election of king and queen, so Tommy and Carrie would win.
When Maggie Glenn, an upstate South Carolina photographer, takes an almost propagandist picture of Mr. Kowalsky looking sad staring at the river of where his passed daughter rests this story picks up fire and politicians from the surrounding area get involved to help get this man’s daughter out of the river, which maddens the locals who would not like to see the only free flowing river in the state be tampered with. Installing a temporary dam in the Tamassee River to retrieve the body of twelve year old Ruth Kowalsky seems like a good, safe way to securely recover this little girl’s body, but the law clearly states “certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.” Then it states “alteration of modification of the streambed will not
She refuses to eat until she can try some of the rampion plant from the forbidden garden. Her husband worries himself sick until he finally gives in and ventures into the night in search of his wife’s rampion. The first time he is successful and his wife is absolutely thrilled. She soon begins to crave this plant more and more. Her husband is again forced to go steal some of the plant from the garden next door in order to satisfy his wife.
The play opens with Elesin Oba, a local village chieftain as he walks through the local market, followed by a praise-singer. The king has died recently, and, as a horseman to the king, Elesin is to commit ritual suicide so that he may accompany him to the afterlife. The market women shower Elesin with praises and garb him. A young girl catches Elesin's eye, and although she is already betrothed, Elesin convinces the market women that he should be allowed to consummate a marriage with her on his final night. The second act begins immediately following the first, and we are introduced to the British District Officer, Simon Pilkings and his wife, Jane.
When Ron carelessly throws a burrito out of his car window at a passing motorcyclist, things get ugly and result in the motorcyclist kicking Ron’s dog Baxter off the highway bridge and into the sea. Devastated, Ron is unable to pull himself together in time to report the news. Seeing her chance, Veronica takes this chance to fill in for Ron’s news reporting. Not unpredictably, Veronica takes San Diego’s approval and is appointed co-anchorman, to Ron’s disgust. But Veronica seems to be getting too carried away, and one day she changes Ron’s news script, fooling him to say some very bad words on national television.
Mrs. Danvers almost convinces her to kill herself, and she only breaks away from the old woman's spell when rockets go off by the cove, signaling that a ship has run aground. Divers find wreckage of Rebecca's sailboat, with Rebecca's dead body in the hold. This discovery prompts Maxim to tell her the truth. He tells her that Rebecca was a malevolent, wicked woman, who only wanted to marry him to run
Irving wrote in a picturesque manner that made his stories so memorable that they have become an essential part of American folklore. Irving’s story is about an unattractive schoolmaster from Connecticut who is in a fight with handsome and athletic Abraham Van Brunt (Brom Bones), over the romance of Katrina Van Tassel. She is the eighteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy landowner, Baltus Van Tassel. During a party at the Van Tassel home, the people are telling stories of the headless horseman and why it is around. After the party Ichabod is chased by the headless horseman and disappears, never to be heard of again.
The elders, Howard and Ethel, are the first ones to rob Bobby, suggesting the elder generation relying on the efforts and losses of the next. They do a war dance, but the younger generation drums too quickly, leaving the elders breathless. This suggests that the cultural disturbance has grown too big for the elders to fight, so they just give up. Ethel would, if she had money, spend everything to get her son out of jail, again, indicating the impotence of the elders to protect or defend their offspring. The middle aged, Bobby Lee, Thompson, Alice, Betty, Marie and Eulahlah behave as if they have lost all hope except for the
Babo, acting as the leader of the revolt, ordered the brutal slaying of any non useful sailors. The blacks aboard the ship become the masters to the remaining Spaniards. Babo begins to use many of the same actions a white slave owner would do to a black slave. Melville shows “this slavery breeds ugly passions in man” (Melville 77). Since slavery in itself is evil, it can be argued that the “evil” actions of someone while under the direct effects of slavery can be justified.
The 1800s, an era of racial prejudice and discrimination, concentrated itself prominently in the southern states. Southern societies lived by the “one-drop rule” where “a person who looks white but has a ‘drop’ of black ‘blood’ is labeled black” (Peel par. 15). In “Desiree’s Baby,” this strict rule allows Armand Aubigny to betray his family when he discovers their black heritage (but, in reality, Aubigny has the black heritage). With the era of discrimination as a setting, Kate Chopin (the author), uses characterization of Armand Aubigny, parallel characters, and irony in “Desiree’s Baby” to convey the theme of how racial prejudice in any form will result in negative outcomes such as broken families.