.... of the nineteenth century, the picture had changed. America had spread westward and had filled with immigrants from Asia and Europe. While this was going on America was forming the modern day government and started to put proposals together to make this "Land of the Free" cost a little bit. Those fortunate and industrious enough to do so were accumulating vast fortunes. Despite America's great wealth, freedom from basic want was still only a dream for the working poor. Wages were low and manual labor was grueling. For them, the American Dream was to earn enough to free themselves from their employers and work toward making their .....

.... were segregated so the blacks and whites went to different schools. It was like the whites wanted to rid the U.S. of the blacks. In The , the Californians wanted to rid the "dirty" Okies from California because they were afraid of them. They were afraid that the Okies would take their land. Blacks were also beaten for no just reason. Racial group such as the KKK, beat up blacks because they hated the blacks. They wanted the blacks to go away or die. In The , Okies were unjustly beaten. The California police beat them for no just reason because they wanted the Okies to leave the state. The police killed Casey for no just reason .....

.... statement. s' father tells him what corruption has taken place behind the walls of Elsinor. He tells of his uncles' rage and what it has lead him to do. He tells of the serpent that stung him. He tells that the serpent goes by the name of Claudius. s' composure, wit, and strength would now be tested to their limits. With one wrong slip of the tongue, one wrong hateful glance, would go straight to his death. What could do, what will he do? A clever wit and common sense are his only hope to avenge his fathers' death. then lives in madness and by that madness hopes to force Claudius to confess his sin. Through the second act th .....

.... to put it back on, which eventually Hester does. Pearl is obviously a definite person, but she is also a definite symbol of many things. First, she is a distinct symbol of the relationship between Hester and Dimmesdale. She is a representative of the passion, which came with Hester’s sin of adultery. Second, she is an active reminder of Hester’s sin besides the letter A on her breast. And lastly, Pearl becomes mesmerized by her mother’s scarlet letter. She pelts the letter with flowers, “covering the mother’s breast with hurts for which she could find no balm in this world.” Pearl’s .....

.... itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever. (32) This statement explains that Gene must have something that is his "stamp." This stamp appears to define an individual-exemplifying what he stands for. It is found that this is true in the next paragraph where Gene continues, "For me, this moment-four years is a moment in history-war the war. The war was and is reality for me. I still live and think in its atmosphere" (32). Later in the same paragraph he goes on to say: America is not, never has been, and never will be what the songs and poems call it, a land of plenty. .....

.... at my first job. I was hired as a seasonal help, or until some of the older college help returned from school. So even thought I could be the best worker in the world I would have to prove myself to everyone. First impressions can be very important, but with the case of my boss, Ed, you have to talk to him for a while before you can begin to trust him. He had long dirty blonde (a color) hair and a beard, with an accent straight from the hills of West Virginia. But you shouldn't form an opinion about someone until you have a chance to get to know the person. He turned out to be the best boss that I have ever had, and he taugh .....

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.... ….. stepping to the agile melody of their leader's concertina". This is where Stephen starts to think of the dull "passionless life that awaited him". These troubles lead him into thoughts of the symbols of the church especially that of the Virgin Mary and how they are loosing their slots in his memory. These in turn are being replaced by images of freedom and the ease at which men of his kind can "fall". His thinking leads him on a walk that passes by the ocean. In this part of the book is where Stephen tries to apply his esthetic understanding to a girl that he sees at the beach. When he sees her his mind transforms into a pain .....

.... line sums it up. People are a part of nature. There is a birth, death, and renewal cycle that connects the two. Stanza six is a simple, believable explanation of death. It starts out in a conversation with a child asking what grass is. The line of answer is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Whitman 2747). When we die, we are buried in the ground. We are returned, in a sense, from whence we came. God did form Adam, the first man, from the earth. William Cullen Bryant says in "Thanatopsis," "earth that nourishes thee, shall claim thy growth, to be resolved to earth again" (Bryant 2673). The earth has now become our h .....

.... Boll writes " During the first years of our married liek my wife would often say too me " Do Laugh !"" This quote show that his wife never heard his real life. She had always heard his " fake " laugh. She is telling him to laugh on purpose. She is encouraging him to laugh so the she can hera his " real " laugh. Boll writes " SO our marriage is a quiet, peaceful one, because my has also forgotten how to laugh: now and again I catch her smiling and I smile too." This quote protrays that they have never seen eeach other smile. This shows that they have a very serious realationship. Finally the laugher is a very serious person. .....