"When Meursault wakes up on Sunday he doesn’t feel well, but he’s agreed to go out with Marie and Raymond. Marie tries to cheer Meursault up and jokes that he looks like a “mourner at a funeral.” Meursault admits to feeling “limp.” Standing outside on the street, the sun glares into Meursault’s eyes. Marie is in good spirits, however, and soon Meursault is feeling better. Raymond arrives wearing a straw hat, looking very dapper, but Meursault is put off by his getup. Meursault recalls going to the police station the night before to testify for Raymond.
As they ran, the minute particles flicking up their legs looked magical, creating a scene of beauty. Tanned bodies lay on towels of every colour, browning, burning as time went on. Pages flew from books in the light summer’s breeze, as the heat melted the glue holding them together. With no more than thirty people, the beach was beautiful, peaceful, and perfect. Fathers and sons splashed in the ocean, playing games of mermaids, sharks; all whilst howling and creating ripples through the calm waters.
History [pic][pic] Richard Sears Richard Warren Sears was a railroad station agent in North Redwood, Minnesota when he received an impressive shipment of watches from a Chicago jeweler which were unwanted by a local cube jeweler. Sears purchased them, then sold the watches for a considerable profit to other station agents, then ordered more for resale. Soon he started a business selling watches through mail order catalogs. The next year, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he met Alvah C. Roebuck, who joined him in the business. In 1893, the corporate name became Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Cheever gives us an impression that Neddy belongs to the "jet set," his daughters playing tennis, himself and his wife enjoying an afternoon poolside with friends. His idea of swimming from pool to pool to reach his home is unusual, and perhaps a bit eccentric, not something an ordinary person might do. His reasoning is that "a long swim might enlarge and celebrate its [the day's] beauty" (Norton, p. 1863). Neddy likens himself to a pilgrim, an explorer, by taking such an unusual route home, and he imagines himself a sort of hero with "friends all along the way; friends would line the banks of the Lucinda river" (Norton, p. 1863). The first few pools he encounters stay within the
The most popular area was Ocean Drive commonly referred to as the strip. The strip contains a lot of shops and small restaurants serving anything from pizza to seafood. Hotels take up a majority of the strip. The Grand Beach Hotel, where my friends and I stayed during our trip is located in the center of the action on the strip. The popular nightclubs can be found on the strip also, the lines were so long you could start a club outside with all the people waiting to get in.
The government did not hire the necessary amount of agents needed to scour such a vast area. Gangsters were able to bribe agents, thus making even those federal agents responsible for carrying out the law corrupt. Proving, once again, that money talks. (5) During this time, officers made several arrests sometimes even by the dozens. Prisons were at capacity with prisoners arrested for alcohol related crimes.
Tom punches her and breaks her nose. Nick also attends one of Gatsby’s extravagant Saturday night parties where he engages in conversation with Jordan Baker and an unnamed man who is later revealed to be Gatsby. Gatsby then requisitions Jordan, and tells her an “amazing thing” that she cannot repeat to anyone. After attending a brief lunch with Gatsby and his shady business partner, Meyer Wolfsheim, Nick meets with Jordan and learns the “amazing” story: Gatsby met and fell in love with Daisy before The Great War, and bought his West Egg mansion simply to be near her and impress her. At Gatsby’s request, Nick arranges a meeting between Gatsby and Daisy.
Lucky seems happy to be working for Dove as well as living with him and there seem to be a light ahead for him. Yet after a couple of deals gone wrong, and the breaking of a rule Dove had made, Lucky is shot in the head. Firstly I want to discuss if his lifestyle was chosen by himself or if it just was a path he was set upon. Lucky is only fifteen years old. He’s living at home in the beginning, but gets kicked out by his parents because of his drug addiction.
-Industrialist argued that Prohibition helped the economy and reduce absenteeism and promote hard work. There was never an overwhelming majority that is in favor of prohibition. It wasn’t that effective to the big cities compare to the small rural towns in America. It wasn’t illegal if you purchase, sell or produce alcohol behind closed doors. Private delivery of wines were made to the rich whereas the poor produce wine themselves.
This piece had a thick texture and was performed by the University Choir which consists of about sixty singers. The most important person on the stage was the conductor which directed the choir in a graceful way. Three instruments were used in the piece: a piano, a violin, and a tambourine. The soulful piano started the piece. In the first movement the notes were played slowly with lots of rhythm as the female voices came in with a peaceful harmonized melody.