.... decent, coming across the unexpected, and learning about the real world she never knew existed outside of Kentucky. The idea of “beans” is irrelevantly brought up several times. When Taylor is searching for a room to rent, she interviews a group of hippies who tell her that “…[they] eat mainly soybean products”(78). Soon after, when Taylor and Lou Ann become friends, they make fun of the hippies and call them, “bean turds”(79). The first words Turtle speaks are not the usual “mommy” or “daddy”, but rather when gardening, Taylor shows Turtle beans and tells her what .....

.... personal power when her 17 grandsons are executed and yet she remains calm and collected. Ursula not only uses her power to help herself she maintains it for nearly a century. Incredibly Ursula is able to maintain her power for more then three generations after the death of Jose. Ursula accomplishes this not by making decisions that are always necessarily agreed upon but by standing by her decisions and not wavering. When money is found in a statue of Saint Joseph, whose owner is unknown, Ursula decides to bury the money, which she believes, is not rightfully theirs. Her childre .....

.... of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. The turning point of his life was a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing. His years in the Klondike searching for gold left their mark in his best short stories; among them, The Call of the Wild, and White Fang. His novel, The Sea-Wolf, was based on his experiences at sea. His work embraced the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism in its exploration of the laws of nature. (Walcutt 1-2) He retired to his ranch near Sonoma, where he died at age 40 of various .....

.... when his friend and companion Kat died, and in the end Paul himself died. With these events in mind this is how the rest of this is organized: chronologically. Paul and his friends started to lose their innocence the day they enlisted after their school days. In school their master, Kantorek pounded into them an idea that they are men and are obligated to do their duty for the country of Germany. Kantoreks blind patriotism led all the boys, none more than twenty to enlist. He sends them off thinking he did Germany proud but at that expense he had sent the students to a hell on earth. .....

.... wrestling between two belief systems. On the one hand, Puritanism bestows doctrine which valued the greater moral good of the community over an individual’s well-being. In this sense, the community/society remains the central voice over any individual’s thoughts and/or feelings. Puritans believe that humans are born sinners, enslaved by evil, and therefore, predestined in the eyes of God. God is the center of all, who chooses the elected few to be saved, so everyone must contribute to a moral well-being of the community in order to ensure that those elected few will remain pure enoug .....

.... the story, while the other kids do not. Early in the story, when the hunters chase after a pig, they all where mud, clay, and charcoal as face paint to be “like things trying to look like something else-” (Lord of the Flies, William Golding, p. 66). Later, when Jack forms his own tribe they go hunting with masks of pig blood on their faces, as masks. Golding suggests that the children are able to disguise themselves behind these masks, and escape any punishment, therefore freeing them to do as they please. This shows that Golding wanted the reader to think that while the childre .....

.... If kids don’t learn about how slavery was then they won’t truly understand where racism comes from. In the book there is much violence. "It’s a dead man. Yes, indeedy naked, too. He’s been shot in de back."(pg. 50) The book is better with violence because it becomes more interesting to the reader. It becomes more of a real life situation than just a fairy tale world where nothing goes wrong, because in real life things do go wrong and people do get shot and killed. It is hard to read these kinds of things with death that are gruesome but it helps form feelings .....

.... then met by his uncle Pavel, Pavel shakes hands with Arkady but abruptly puts his hand away when he is greeting Bazarov. We can see from the actions of Pavel that he immediately doesn't like Bazarov. After Arkady and Bazarov leave to go to their rooms, Pavel begins to ask about the "hairy creature" that is visiting with Arkady, and Bazarov begins to mock Pavel by comments his European demeanor and finds him "terribly affected for someone living so far out in the country"(ch4). Arkady and his father are also having problems at this time, Nikolai tells Arkady of his relationship with Fenichka .....

.... age of ten years, he witnessed the shooting of a man over a parking space by Sonny (a powerful mob leader who Cologero admired).Cologero's father, Lorenzo wanted nothing to do with Sonny or the mob. As a result, when the police detectives questioned Cologero about the murder, Lorenzo insisted his son knew nothing of it.This led Cologero to believe that his father didn't want him to tell the truth. The detectives took Cologero outside to point out the murderer and Cologero denied that any of them were at the scene of the crime.Sonny then befriended Cologero and gave him the nickname "C".This .....

.... the front lines of the war in Italy. It was here where he saw many disturbing sights which probably had a hand in shaping his character. After extensive injuries from the war, Hemingway returned unhappily to Oak Park. The impression left on him by his participation in the war had greatly changed him. He began living at home again but refused to get a job, even when his mother ordered him to. Soon she kicked him out and he moved to Chicago. Here he made a living writing for the Toronto Star and working as a sparring partner for boxers. While he was in Chicago he met his first wife, the .....