4. It was not like huck should be happy, all pap did to Huck was beat him and take his money for booze. V. I think Huck made a good decision by changing names with Tom at the house they stayed at with Tom and Jim. Jim got put in a lock room because they knew he was a runaway. a. Huck was walking leaving town and saw Tom Sawyer, they talked and then went to a family home in the country and stayed there for a while.
When Hardwick had failed to show up for the citation hearing , Torick issued a warrant for Hardwick’s arrest. Torick proceeded to serve the arrest but Hardwick was not home. Once Hardwick came home and had realized that Torick had been at his house, he immediately went to pay the citation off, but once he arrived , the clerk had said that the warrant had to be processed for 48 hours before anything could actually happen. Weeks later once the warrant was surely processed by Torick, he intended to go arrest Hardwick at his home. Upon entering his house, he notices a “friend” of Hardwick’s sleeping off a hangover on the couch.
After calling the GM at home and explained the issue I was having he blamed me for ordering the wrong item. I was forced to continue braking down the product and sent the crew home when it was finished followed by canceling Sunday shift. Monday rolls around and I reorder the correct product and they rush the order to be delivered Tuesday 8:00 am. The GM approaches me late Monday morning to explain that he told me the incorrect item number according to his notes taken at the time of the meeting with the GM and the customer. He went on to discuss how he should have had me present in the meeting to go over important details to make the project on budget.
Leper escapes from the army and goes home. He sends Gene a letter telling him to come to his house and help him. When Gene goes to Leper’s house, Leper tells him, “…they were going to give me a discharge, a Section Eight discharge… is for the nuts in the service, the psychos, the Funny Farm candidates” (144). Leper is telling Gene that the army had labeled him as a crazy person and he would not be able to get a job because of it. Leper was not ready to go to war; he only wanted to ski.
I sighed and mumbled I don’t know sergeant. He stepped inside and closed the door behind him, then he began to give me some advice his father had given him before he left home. He said “take everything that bothers you and keeps you up at night and put it in a shoe box, place the lid on the shoe box and deal with it later”. That night I decided to take his advice, I put everything that bothered me about that day in a shoe box and put the lid on
Where many people wanted the abolition of discrimination in the south, Eleanor was in a position to do something about it. She “cited statistics to back up her findings (about discrimination) barging into the president’s room during cocktail hour when he wanted to relax, bothering him about the issue during dinner, handing him memos to read late at night.” While Franklin Roosevelt thought his wife was “outspoken” and “persistent”, he did not want to anger the men in power in the south. However, partly because Eleanor was so persistent, he made sure to include rules against discrimination in his New Deal. This would have been and important fact that could contribute to Gould’s Chapter of the Roosevelt Administration because the chapter explains, “What gains were made in civil rights came largely from the demands of African Americans themselves or the prodding of the First Lady” (91). The book also further explains about how Roosevelt was, “a hesitant and vacillating presence so far as civil rights were
Unlike Mildred he likes books. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 Montag is a firemen, and while on his job he likes to take a book, every single time. He hates keeping secrets from his wife, so one night " he reached up and pulled back the grille of the air conditioning system and reached and took out a book. He reached back again and kept pulling out books" (Bradbury 65). Montag thought for himself when he decided to show his wife the books, knowing there was a good chance she would "pull" the alarm on him.
A few other patients in the waiting room scoff at the notion he will ever be seen and they are right. Travis is told that his life-threatening situation “will be reviewed”. Before Travis has the chance to leave he goes into cardiac arrest in the lobby and then and only then is he admitted to the hospital for care. There wasn’t money or room for him, but the administrators could not let him die in the lobby. Even after the cardiac arrest and surgery, the administrators try to release Travis from the hospital.
This prompts Said to have a conversation with his mother about the kind of man that his father was. In the middle of the night Said goes to the house of Suha to return her keys to her because he knows that the next day will be his last. The coupling of these things forces Said to wonder whether or not what he is doing is the right thing to do. The next day the young men arrive at a compound where they are cleansed, eat a last meal and make Martyr videos. The movie Paradise Now acted as a supplement to the class material and the coupling of the two aided in a deeper understanding.
Throughout the entire scene, Benjamin attempts to escape and breathe fresh air, but even when he arrives at the front door, more people push him back inside; he is finally forced to retreat to his bedroom. Here he is isolated and attempting to flee from the adults who consistently instigate the conversations about his future. Rather than face reality, he retreats to his bedroom, mesmerized by the fish tank, wishing he could disappear. Watching the film back a second time, the conversation Benjamin has with Mrs. Robinson about the fear of being left alone in her house, especially stands out to the audience. Here we are introduced to diminutive signs of conflicting viewpoints.