.... the self-styled "Prince of the Oyster Pirates." In his spare time, he attempted to further his education by reading the works of Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Rudyard Kipling, Friedrich Nietzche, and others. He joined the Klondike gold rush or 1898, returning to San Francisco penniless, but with a wealth of memories which provided the raw material for his first stories. Jack London fought his way up out of the factories and waterfront dives of West Oakland to become the highest paid, most popular novelist and short story writer of his day. He wrote passionately and prolifically about the great questions of life and death, the struggle to sur .....

.... or accepted (paradox), other epigrams and plain wit. Or: According to Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary wit is "the ability to relate seemingly unlike things so as to illuminate or amuse", it is more intellectual than straightforward humour which can include slapstick. An epigram is "a brief witty saying". ... Could also group by subject : wordplay, truth, love/marriage, diary, death, education, illness, Society, ... (Maybe too many groups this way, could perhaps cut them down). Examples: too many: to be winnowed: Play on words: Title: The Importance of Being Earnest I.5:5 Algernon: "As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my fo .....

.... Gatsby, Myrtle, and G. Wilson, Fitzgerald is able to illustrate the lack of spirituality in this novel. The main place in The that shows the lack of spirituality is the Valley of Ashes, where Myrtle and her husband, George Wilson live. It is a bleak, desolate valley including only one building, a car garage. One day while driving around Tom and Nick stop off at the valley to see Myrtle, Tom’s mistress. Nick describes this valley as being: "about half way between West Egg and New York... a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens" (27). The concern here is with the corruption of values an .....

.... he is in love with Hero. Leonato says that he'll wait to see what will happen. Act I, scene III Meanwhile Don John, Don Pedro's bastard brother, hides his hateful nature, waiting for the right moment to cause problems for his brother and Claudio, who he thinks has taken his place in his brother's affections. He hopes Claudio's desire to wed Hero will give him an occasion to cause some mischief. Act II, scene I Leonato and his daughter and niece are ready for the party to begin. While Beatrice complains that there is no man who can match her spirit, Hero obediently consents to her father's counsel to accept the Prince when he woos. All wear .....

.... you can’t keep yourself company for long. Before I met my first love, Michael, I was a wallflower. No one noticed me, or took the time to care about me. I coped with this by not taking the initiative to talk with people. I was introverted to an extreme. Michael helped me come out of my shell and yet, he did not push me. I was able to develop a part of me I had never gotten to explore before. I find it easier to say hello to a person on the street now, or tell a friend how I am really feeling, or share a joke with someone. In opening up, the loneliness as faded and it has been replaced by happiness. For most of my childhood, I was told how or .....

.... in The Scarlet Letter by their attitudes in the beginning of the novel. When Hester first walks into the scene, most of the townspeople are very harsh and strict in their religions. They believe that adultery is one of the worst sins possible. One unyielding woman says, “This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die. Is there not law for it? Truly, there is, both in the Scripture and in the statutebook. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives and daughters go astray.” Although a young woman and a righteous man try to intervene with the angry old women, their vo .....

.... Now, she is envisioned in a long loose fitting dress. Flower patterns cover the dress from shoulder to ankle. It conceals the bulges overhanging from different parts of her body, as the years have added the extra pounds. The dress is divided in the middle with a white belt and gold buckle. This is the kind of belt and buckle Drill Sergeant Mabel would wear during her inspection of Norma Jean’s house: "she inspects the closets and then the plants, informing Norma Jean when a plant is droopy or yellow. She also notices if Norma Jean’s laundry is piling up" (666). Everything must be in its proper place, having been ordered by Mab .....

.... for him, he was injured numerous times and he witnessed many painful images that made coming home and readjusting to life a difficult task. In 1919 Ernest Hemingway returned to his home in Oak Park, Illinois. He was only nineteen yeas old, and returning home seemed very boring compared to his experiences during the war. While he was away he experienced life in a different country and had romantic encounters with older women. Coming home seemed boring to him because he was returning to the same old town that he had grown up in. There was nothing exciting going on, he had just returned from the war and ordinary life seemed unexciting to him. Sh .....

.... praising this man. In the first stanza, Richard Cory is portrayed as the envy of all those around him, the object of everyone's attention. He refers to Cory as a "gentleman from sole to crown", and even uses language that sounds suited to describe royalty when he calls Cory "Clean favored, and imperially slim." The second and third stanzas go on in much the same way. In the second stanza, the narrator describes Cory's social standing. In the narrator's eye's, Cory continues to be the perfect, polite gentleman, as he was "always human when he talked.". Cory was certainly not the picture of a snobbish or rude man. Cory was also a very popular fe .....

.... person looks in the mirror she does not see a skeleton staring back at her, but the imaginary "fat"she has convinced herself that she has. It is hard to see when a person has gone to "far", because who is to say what too far is, because who knows what the perfect weight is. For that matter,perhaps there is no perfect weight. When a person gets too thin, though, it is not simply enough to tell her that she needs to eat, she knows that she is getting to thin, but she has starved her body for so long that her brain is telling her that she does not want to eat and that food isn't good for her. In this day and age when no one in Canad .....