.... dreams she will become. "In all my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would become perfect...my parents would adore me" (143). This shattered dream will start when Suyuan pushes June to be successful in areas such as dance, academics, trivia quizzes, and piano. After failing the tasks, June begins to feel resentful towards her mother to becoming a child prodigy. She starts to see her mothers hopes as expectations, and if June did not live up to this, she would feel like a complete failure. In one incident, during a talent show, June performs a piano piece filled with mistakes. Ultimately being embarrassed, June believed that her moth .....

.... acted naturally, everyone has to once and a while spoils him or herself. She had for so many years worked and taken care of her children without ever thinking of herself. I think she needed to spend the money on herself to be able to cope with her everyday life. She always put her children first, but this time she thought of her own self-identity. The Need of Spoiling Yourself A dilemma that many people are familiar with is the questions whatever to save or to spend the extra amount of money they have in their pockets. Everyone has a desire to spoil themselves every once and a wile, because of the need of feeling important, attractive and apprecia .....

.... to escape religious persecution. These Jews were called conversos. The twist to this tale is that these conversos actually were only putting on a front. They still considered themselves Jews. They practiced in secret.1 The Spanish made every attempt to search out and punish these conversos. Some Jews chose not to convert and they moved to Portugal. . Unfortunately, Portugal, in 1497, expelled the Jews from its borders as well. Anti-semitism was growing in Western Europe and the Jews needed to escape. The prime choice seemed to be so obvious. The Jews went to the New World. The immigration of the Marranos to the new world might have begun w .....

.... The three little words contained in the title give rise to many interpretations. An image generated by the title could be that of a gossip. Since a gossip is someone who tells people's secrets, or in other words is a secret sharer if the word secret is taken for a noun, it is a possibility that this image might come to mind. Another image is that of a person who shares in secrecy, therefore becoming a secret sharer, if the word secret is taken for an adjective. This could be an image of a miser, who generally does not share his wealth, but does so only in secrecy. A secret sharer could also be an imaginary friend. It would be a person who i .....

.... and travel to Mt. Doom to throw the evil ring in the volcano or for Frodo to carry the burden of doing it himself. Frodo’s decision was to be the ring-bearer and travel to Mt. Doom with his companions. Frodo’s companions are: Gandalf the wizard, Aragorn "Strider" (the true king who was exiled from his own kingdom) a ranger, Legloas the elf, Gimli the dwarf, son of Gl¢in, Boromir, Pippin, Merry, and of course Sam who would follow his master Frodo anywhere. Who are the main characters and what are their roles: The main characters of this book are: Gandalf, Aragorn, Legloas, Gimli, Boromir, Pippin, Merry, and Sam. First is Gandalf. In this Boo .....

.... philosophical optimism. On page 1594, Candide is asking a gentleman about whether everything is for the best in the physical world as well as the moral universe. The man replies: ...I believe nothing of the sort. I find that everything goes wrong in our world; that nobody knows his place in society or his duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless quarrels...-it's one unending warfare. By having this character take on such a pessimistic tone, he directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide. In the conclusion (page 1617) an old turk instructs Candid .....

.... free white women of the North were entirely different creatures than the slaves of the South. As a result of the explosive Industrial Revolution, massive economic growth and the birth of a new middle class in the early part of the nineteenth century, Northern women were experiencing a total reform of society. Nancy Woloch states in Women and the American Experience “middle class Americans had rising incomes, expectations, and living standards� (p.67). The atmosphere was charged with growth and transformation. It was out of this shift in society that the “cult of true womanhood� was born. This idyllic view of women’s appropriate sph .....

.... while living in the Victorian era. Her approach in advocating social reform is to establish Jane as a model for readers. Readers are meant to examine Jane's life, especially the manner in which she handles problems or confrontations in her relationships, and to follow her example in their own lives. Just as we see Jane as a model of a woman successful in asserting her self-worth, we are also given a warning about the possible outcome of failure to realize self-worth in Bertha Rochester. This facet will also be discussed briefly. Bronte uses the motivation of personal experiences to create the life of Jane Eyre in which we see the quest for so .....

.... started while visiting a concentration camp in Dachau. "The imprint of Dachau branded me indelibly and caused me to suffer the miscarriage of my hopeful philosophy. If man was good, then Dachau could never have happened." (p.10) The second imprint on Pat's life came after Martin Luther King Jr's assassination. Pat noticed that the white students reacted passively to the event. "Since the faculty was all white, the black students walked the halls in silence, tears of frustration rolling down their cheeks and unspoken bitterness written on their faces in their inability to communicate their feeling .....

.... within him asking: Does he know?" (97). The relationship between his parents is strained due to Susana, his mother, defending the boy. She asked Stanley "Why do you persecute the boy so much?"(98). Stanley and Susana wed because they "sinned" (98) and John was "the result of that sin" (98). The line "And he had been saved. John must not tread the same road" (99) means that his father was afraid that John would make the same mistake, which he has. Perhaps that is why he is so strict on his son. John was a very selfish young boy. He is concerned more about himself and what he is losing than what is important. He sneaks out of his hut to go to the M .....