.... and settings at the norm for Jakes; however, this story rivets primary attention on Paul Crown, a young German immigrant. Paul leaves behind a Germany of cholera, poverty, and political upheaval only to face problems of equal magnitude in America. Undaunted by a difficult ocean crossing, Paul arrives at Ellis Island penniless but naively optimistic about his future. He makes his weary way to the opulent home of his uncle, Joe Crown, a well-established brewer in Chicago. Jakes uses the Chicago setting as a backdrop for his "class struggle" motif which is central to the plot of his story. Pual's uncle, Joe, and cousin, Joe Jr. .....

.... girl in Vietnam. The role of Rat Kiley seems somewhat minor and irrelevant. Upon the second and third times through, however, his role as the storyteller stands out. It becomes more evident that he holds Mary Anne with the highest regard. He romanticizes her relationship with the war. He is so amazed with the fact that a girl can be seduced by the lure of the wilderness that he begins to talk about her with the listeners as if she were the attractive girl from school that everyone knows but nobody dates. " 'You know…I loved her. Mary Anne made you think about those girls back home, how clean and innocent they all are.' " (123) Rat is pushing .....

.... algebra. Euclid wrote the problem of dividing geometric figures, such as rectangles and triangles, in a book called "On the Division of Figures." Euclid's name will be known throughout mathematical history because of his work on the Elements, which has been and will continue to be an important part of mathematics. Archimedes was born in Syracuse in 287 BC and is thought of as the greatest mathematician, engineer, and physicist of ancient times. He was often asked by King Hieron to solve problems or assist in the safekeeping of Syracuse by developing different defense mechanisms. His mathematical works are concerned with many topics including pla .....

.... the story of Adam and Eve to the man who hung himself. As Marlow and his companions walked through the countryside, they eventually wound up in a different location, an “inhabited devastation” where there are people, a place where sinners reside. This is a large contrast from where Marlow started out, which was seemingly the Garden of Eden. Reading the section of the story that I did consider the Garden of Eden, I felt quite empty, as if it was a place where only Marlow and his companions were. Conrad used detail in this section which really made me pick up on this feeling of loneliness. When we finally arrive to the “inhabited .....

.... can be used in the job place or when talking to someone else. The book talks a lot about control. People control the conversation too much. We do this without knowing it. Sometimes people control the conversation by talking Sarcastically: ‘is that what you're wearing -- polka dots and plaid? Ooh, you ought to get a lot of compliments today.' Blaming or Accusing: ‘Your finger prints are on the door again, - why do you do that?" Name Calling: "How dumb can you be?" Threats: "Touch it again and you'll get it!" Commands: "Pick it up, now!" Lecturing, Warnings: "watch it you'll burn yourself." and Comparisons: "Why can't you be .....

.... The Prejudice white people were the modern Gestapo of America. The Black American blue collar workers also believe that they are being held down by the white collar workers who are the white business men. The Youngers, specifically Walter believe “no matter how hard black folks work they can't get ahead in this world.� He also believes it is so much harder for black people to get anywhere that he would lose all of the money Mama had given him, trying to spread it around getting the businesses going. The predominately white workers are trying to keep it predominately white. The Black Americans are predominately the most .....

.... Burden's parents have died leaving him to go to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Right from the start Cather plants the seeds of abandonment, with the finality of death, in Jim's life. When he arrives in Nebraska he is very numb to life, but he is soon caught up in daily life on his grandparents farm. He is blissfully happy when he first meets Antonia. They become great friends and share numerous adventures. Cather uses brief, beautifully descriptive and nostalgic recollections of situations and feelings to increase the pain and sadness of the separations that she places throughout the book. An excellent example of this is the way Cather build .....

.... girls walking into a grocery store wearing only bathing suits and immediately catching the eye of a young, nineteen year old named Sammy. The girls and Sammy are innocent yet in different ways. The girls seemed to be different to Sammy as they looked and acted as though they did not live in his town. The girls were ignorant of Sammy's local culture as they seemingly had spent the day at the beach, and had not lived in his town nor spent much time in it at all. "The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just un .....

.... different from an Indian except for his racial heritage. For Kipling's imperialist ideology, it is a narrative strategy to represent Kim's authority over the native inhabitants of the colony. Kim’s malleable social status is important because it has powerful ramifications about the colonial power-dynamics within a particular historical milieu. The Hindu caste system and various stereotypes also play an important role in Kipling’s story. For example, every person Kim encounters is immediately identified as either a member of a certain caste, religion, or race. Kipling depicts these stereotypes as they emerged out of colonial racial attitudes abo .....

.... number between 200 and 290 and a book on Hinduism would have a different number, but would also have a number between 200 and 290. As a result of his system, which is widely used in libraries still today, each book has its place making it “easy for the librarian and the user to understand� (Gale Research, 1). Like the Dewey Decimal System Maycomb also had its classification system. In the book, Jem confused the Dewey Decimal System with John Dewey’s philosophy of education. This is clear when Scout says, “What Jem called the Dewey Decimal System was school wide by the end of my first year, so I had no chance to compare it to any other teachin .....