waves of a stormy ocean. To the right stretched a limitless horizon. To the left we hugged the southern shores of the lake so close that we often came within earshot of it. These shores were perfectly level and different from those of all the lakes I have ever chanced to visit in Europe. Neither were they any more like the shores of the sea. Immense forests shaded them and formed round the lake as it were a thick belt that was seldom broken” (pg. 19). Alexis de Tocqueville not only admired the beauty
“Alice Liddell … was one of his photographic subjects and the model for the fictional Alice.” (Rodrigo A. Siqueira) She was a girl who he knew through her parents, who were old acquaintances. He, Alice and her sisters often went on pleasant trips to go fishing or on picnics. The children would come up with silly ideas and fun stories on these outings. Most of these provided the basis for his children’s books. “Carroll's comic and children's works also include The Hunting of the Snark (1876), two
food and gave the……. LIST OF CHARACTERS Major Characters David Pelzer - Main character and narrator. David suffers severe child abuse at the hands of Mother. The story details his harrowing existence in a small California suburb. He overcomes remarkable odds and survives unthinkable torture. At the beginning of the story he is a very small child; he is rescued as a fifth grader; in the Epilogue he is a grown man. Catherine Roerva Pelzer - David’s mother. When he is a small child she is referred
over Smithe to the glassy, cathedric heights of Erickson’s famous Law Courts. I’d hardly noticed the Mound previously, I admit. But having attained its summit, seen its oddly private views, standing just then listening to Oberlander speak – this “undisputed Queen of the landscape scene” as architecture critic Trevor Boddy has described her to me, and he means in the world – I suddenly see The Mound as representative of her. A subtle feature of the design that launched her towards the fame she now
“Hello” he said. She cringed, and then all the serenity seemed to disappear into the waves. She looked up at this tall handsome man and for some strange reason the tranquility came back into her life. “Sorry if I frightened you but your voice is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life.” He
1 (Drama) (1997) © 1999 by Raymond Weschler Titanic Major Characters Jack Dawson……………………………………….Leonardo DiCaprio A young, charming and talented artist who is travelling throughout the world, painting as he goes. He wins a ticket to go on the Titanic’s first voyage in a poker game, just minutes before it leaves England. Rose DeWitt Bukater………………………….Kate Winslet A 17 year old women from a rich family who is going to marry Cal (see below), a rich and disgusting man who she hates. She feels
Creole, or we talk about spaghetti and pizza and hot dogs... One could argue it's what makes us great. The fact that we don't have a cuisine is a measure of our democracy and of our ethnic heterogeneity.” Sidney Mintz, Anthropologist 2 I Content I CONTENT.................................................................................................................................. 3 II INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................
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Hana’s Suitcase Karen Levine Introduction Hana's Suitcase is a true story that takes place on three continents over a period of almost seventy years. It brings together the experiences of a girl and her family in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and 1940s and those of a young woman and a group of children in Tokyo, Japan, and a man in Toronto, Canada, in modern times. Between 1939 and 1945, the world was at war. Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler wanted Germany to rule the globe. At the center of his vision
Methodist Church which at that time was on the corner of Broadway and Ewing. Neither I nor anyone else ever told me how he met my mother. It could be they met in Marysville since mother was born there and lived nearby in Bald Butte or it could have been when the Pearce’s lived in the valley and Dad worked on a ranch also in the valley. I can only guess as to how they met. I have come to realize there were many things I was never told. Our house consisted of 3 small bedrooms, front room (small),
Anne of Avonlea Montgomery, Lucy Maud Published: 1909 Categorie(s): Fiction Source: Project Gutenberg 1 About Montgomery: Lucy Maud Montgomery CBE, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (November 30, 1874–April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Once published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl
WORK OF FICTION. Its principal characters are pure inventions with no relations on this earth, as far as I know. But the Congo in which I placed them is genuine. The historical figures and events described here are as real as I could render them with the help of recorded history, in all its fascinating variations. Because I wasn’t able to enter Zaire while researching and writing the novel, I relied on memory, travel in other parts of Africa, and many people’s accounts of the natural, cultural, and
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“I would get letters from brothers who were stationed in Vietnam, who were from places that I didn’t think had blacks,” Brown says. “They would write things like, ‘Hey brother, are you sure your father didn’t have a twin, because he sure sounds like mine.’ And some would say, ‘thanks for writing our story.’” “I realized after reading some of these letters, this wasn’t just my biography. It was the biography
stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing offlimits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And
Rondale Johnson December 29, 2010 The Souls of Black Folk O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand, All night long crying with a mournful cry, As I lie and listen, and cannot understand The voice of my heart in my side or the voice of the sea, O water, crying for rest, is it I, is it I? All night long the water is crying to me. Unresting water, there shall never be rest Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail, And the fire of the end begin to burn in the west; And the heart shall
Petals on the Wind Dollenganger #2 V.C. Andrews Copyright (c) 1980 ISBN 13: 978-0-671-72947-9 ISBN 10:0-671-72947-0 . O'er the earth there comes a bloom; Sunny light for sullen gloom; Warm perfume for vapor cold-- I smell the rose above the mold! --Thomas Hood . PART ONE Free, at Last! . How young we were the day we escaped. How exuberantly alive we should have felt to be freed, at last, from such a grim, lonely and stifling place. How pitifully delighted we should have been to be riding on
L'Assommoir by Emile Zola L'Assommoir CHAPTER I.................................................................................................................................................. 3 CHAPTER II............................................................................................................................................... 26 CHAPTER III ................................................................................................................................
• THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL : THE DEFINITIVE EDITION Anne Frank Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler Translated by Susan Massotty FOREWORD Anne Frank kept a diary from June 12, 1942, to August 1, 1944. Initially, she wrote it strictly for herself. Then, one day in 1944, Gerrit Bolkestein, a member of the Dutch government in exile, announced in a radio broadcast from London that after the war he hoped to collect eyewitness accounts of the suffering of the Dutch people
and King Oliver experimented with music so new, it didn’t even have a name. New Orleans, the devastated but recovering city, forever will be associated with the birth of jazz music, the first original art form developed in the United States, which went on to spread across the continent and around the globe during the 20th century. 3. Restrictions upon the use of African drums impacted