* Chief Tom Evers – Mr. Dees’ former student in Calculus, investigator of Katie Mackey’s case…
Penny, Connor, her winery manager, her neighbor Antonia and Chantal her daughter are off to Napa Valley to look into possibly investing in railroad that will bring wine country tourist to their wineries. At first winery they stop at, Chantal gets into a heated argument with another possible investor, Tara. Shortly after taking off for the next winery on the tour, someone pulls the emergency cord and Penny and Connor go to try and learn what happened, when they realize that Chantal is missing. As they try to enter the caboose, they find the entrance blocked. When they do get in they find Chantal unconscious on the floor, with a cut to the head. When Penny looks…
P0 = d0*(1+g) / (re – g) = 1.50 * (1.01) / (0.0440 – 0.01)…
Three of the main characters are Alexis Frost, Nick Walker, and Ruby Mclear. Alexis frost is a 16 year old girl who was joined the research program at the CIA. The two friends is made at this establishment are Nick Walker and Ruben clear. Alexis is tall beautiful and has a secret that she does not want anyone to find out. Nick Walker a 16 year old boy who wants to join the military. he only wants to join the military to avenge his father died in the war in Iraq the only…
detectives Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) are the department's stars because of their record in bringing fugitives to justice. Hartnett seems ideal for this line of work. He has a slow-to-wake innocence that suits a character whose detective skills always appear to be two or three scenes behind ours. The character's smarts are slightly below average, and Hartnett doesn't have the seriousness to raise him up. He's almost too innocent. At the time of the infamous "Black Dahlia" murder, where the dismembered body of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner) is discovered in an open field, Bucky and Lee are working another case, tracking a child rapist. However, Lee becomes obsessed with the Short killing and aggressively pursues a seven-day transfer for himself and Bucky to the taskforce. Bucky agrees unwillingly, however, believing it's more important to get their original prey off the streets. Investigating Short's past leads Bucky to Madeline Linscott (Hilary Swank), with whom he begins a relationship. Meanwhile, sparks are flying between Bucky and Lee's girlfriend, Kay (Scarlett Johansson), but neither act on them out of respect for…
After David and Jennifer are introduced to the peaceful, harmonious town of Pleasantville, however, the flawless, isolated, but ignorant community is turned upside down and ruined. When Bud tells Skip that his sister wouldn’t want to go out with him, for example, Skip suddenly can’t make a shot, and is thus unhappy for the first time. When Betty Parker learns about sex, a tree catches fire, and funnily the firemen do not know what to do, and only respond when they think that there is a cat stuck in a tree.…
She kept this secret to herself, and only to herself until an argument between her and Allison occurred when Connie thought Allison was having sex with one of her friends, and so she lashed out the truth to Allison. As a child, Allison was always teased about being childish, and not interested in boys, and always into books. But as she grew up she was full of conflicting sexual emotions, and after graduating high school, she left Peyton Place to pursue a writing career in New York. Connie Mackenzie, to her neighbors, was a beautiful, young, widow that owned her own thrift store. Many eligible bachelors Everyone had a desire for her and wished to have her, until Thomas Makris, a teacher from New York City arrives into town to take the job of headmaster at the Peyton Place grade school. Thomas pursues Connie and terrified that he knows her secret, she avoids him. He shows up at her house one night and persuades her to a date, which leads to him raping her. They stay together and end up in marriage. As the third main female character, Selena Cross is probably the most significant. She was the same age as Allison. She lived in a shack with her little brother Joey, deranged mother and alcoholic stepfather, Lucas…
Three individuals take them into the woods where they hold them prisoner until they get the money they need. The teenagers have issues of their own. Jesse is the average girl, and nobody pays much attention to her. Dexter is the teen that separates himself from everybody as a result of his disability. Glenn is the boy that solely cares only about himself and Bruce is his little brother that cares about others.…
To cope with her family problems, Tracy cuts herself. When Tracy starts seventh-grade, she is teased for her clothing. She becomes envious of popular girls, including Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed), and to win Evie's approval, Tracy changes her clothing style. This causes Evie to notice her and invite her to come shopping, giving Tracy a fake number to call her on. When Tracy calls the fake number and gets no answer, she goes to the shopping centers anyway to find Evie and her friend. They both tease her for only bringing ten dollars, which leads Tracy to steal a wallet from a woman. She goes back to Evie and her friend to share and they instantly become friends. Soon, Evie guides Tracy down a more hedonistic path. Evie, who lives with her cousin and legal guardian, Brooke, extends her visit at Tracy's house by telling Mel stories about the abuse suffered by the hands of Brooke's boyfriend. She gains further sympathy by claiming her mother is dead. Mel finds out later on that some of Evie's stories were true and desperately wants to help her. However, after Tracy begins to constantly pick fights with Mel about her boyfriend, Mel decides to send Evie…
Gary Soto’s autobiographical narrative “A Summer Life” recreates the feeling of guilt Sota felt after stealing an apple pie. The feeling is recreated through the use of allusions, imagery, and lively diction.…
“Life was good before I met the monster” said Kristina Snow. When her vacation is over she loses her old friends cannot keep up with her school work. Meanwhile to compensate with her loss of drugs she begins to date two boys both with different personalities. Bree only dated Brenden because he supplied her with meth. One night Brenden convinced Bree to do a line of cocaine and ends up raping her. Chase is accepting of Bree and loves her for who she is they soon fall in love, even though he feeds her habit. Kristina decides she doesn’t want to ruin Chase’s future of going to college, declining his hand in marriage. She than realizes that the monster is her and her addiction will never leave. “I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies” said Kristina Snow.…
Lindsey’s anguish persists as she attends a statewide gifted symposium during the summer following Susie’s murder. Upon arriving at the symposium, Lindsey continues her attempts to rid herself of the Walking Dead Syndrome by drawing a picture of a fish on her nametag instead of branding herself by…
1. The one aspect of Soto's life that was most interesting is when he had the three chicks. Soto had three chicks in his back yard that he was raising. He seemed fascinated by the way they just pecked around his back yard, blinked rapidly, and slept standing up. The chicks used to crawl on his shoes. He thought it was cute until one of the chicks defecated on his shoe. That angered Gary and he kicked sand in the chicks eyes. He immediately felt bad after what he had just done. This is the part of the story that made me laugh. It made me laugh because as the chapter went on, Gary became very protective of the chicks. When he kicked sand in the chicks eyes, it was very alarming. He seemed not to be a violent person.…
Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), the 16-year-old homeschooled daughter of zoologist parents (Ana Gasteyer and Neil Flynn), recently moved from Africa, is unprepared for her first day of public high school at North Shore High School in Evanston, Illinois. With the help of social outcasts Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damien (Daniel Franzese), Cady learns about the various cliques. She is warned to avoid the school's most exclusive clique, the Plastics, the reigning trio of girls led by the acid-tongued queen bee Regina George (Rachel McAdams). Regina was once Janis' best friend, but they have grown to…
Sara is Lauren's foster sister. The girls live with Lauren's Aunt Mel. Lauren is very jealous of Sara because she claims she grew up in a loving, picture-perfect household, unlike Lauren whose parents died in a timber mill accident. Sara is constantly sneaking out to meet older guys, which is another reason why Lauren is jealous of Sara. The girls are both seniors in high school and because of the old, traditional, boring town they have grown up in, they agree to help a girl, Roberta, in contacting the dead. Lauren, Sara and a few other girls, including Lauren's best friend, Ali, meet up at Lydia's house one Friday night when her parents aren't home. While proceeding with the seance, candles lit, lights turned off, Sara suddenly falls on top of the candles. Once the girls find the lamp in the never ending darkness, they discover that Sara is gone! It doesn't make sense to them. All of the windows are closed shut, doors locked and there is no Sara. The girls call the local sheriff and explain what happened. He comes up with the conclusion that one of the girls let her out and locked the door behind her. But who? Nobody will confess to it.…