jeans or overalls instead of dresses‚ and getting in trouble for grass stains on my clothes from playing outside. Therefore‚ I can kind of understand the hardship Sister Hope faced when she was doing all the work‚ while the men just messed around in Louisa May Alcott’s short story‚ “Transcendental Wild Oats”.1 Especially‚ with all the work that needs to be done before winter or a big storm hits‚ and that fact it’s mainly her trying to keep the family together‚ along with she’s the only one supporting
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If you’re looking for a quick‚ entertaining and juicy read‚ the Pretty Little Liars series could be a good companion for a rainy afternoon. We won’t be chattin’ philosophy‚ science or complex issues by the close of the final (cliffhanger of a) page‚ but that’s not what this is all about. This was cotton candy: fluffy and fun. And with six additional books in Shepard’s series‚ there’s plenty more where this snack of a story came from.Pretty Little Liars is a series of young-adult novels by author
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Chapter 1 Assignment: Louisa W. Hamer v. Franklin Sidway Facts: William E. Story would gave his nephew William E.Story‚ 2d five thousand dollars when his 21 birthday‚ but William E.Story‚ 2d must avoid drinking alcohol‚ using tobacco‚ swearing‚ and playing cards or billiards for money until he reached 21 years old. Until his 21 years old‚ his uncle said he would gave the money later‚ because he want his nephew can much better to control the money. Many years ago‚ his uncle do not gave the money
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I would like to introduce myself; I am William Lloyd Garrison‚ born in Newburyport‚ Massachusetts on December 10‚ 1805. I was raised in a single parent home with my mother‚ who worked incredibly hard to support three children‚ as well as being a very spiritual woman (William Lloyd Garrison‚ 2004) (Garrison‚ 2004). Growing up as a child‚ I set certain ambition and goals for myself to accomplish in life. With hard work and tenacity‚ I was able to become a journalist‚ an editor of Liberator‚ which
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The character we chose to discuss is Jo March. We were mostly drawn to this young woman‚ since she has a passionate‚ stubborn‚ impulsive‚ and vivid personality. Jo has little patience and likes to see things go her own way. An example for that we can see when Amy asked her older sisters to join them and Laurie to the theater. As appose to her older sister Meg‚ who tried to decline her request very nicely‚ Jo answered impatiently to her sister‚ "’don’t be a baby and whine about it"’ (Alcott‚ 2004
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and the third is "Garnering." [edit]Book I: Sowing Mr. Gradgrind‚ whose voice is "dictatorial"‚ opens the novel by stating "Now‚ what I want is facts" at his school in Coketown. He is a man of "facts and calculations." He interrogates one of his pupils‚ Sissy‚ whose father is involved with the circus‚ the members of which are "Fancy" in comparison to Gradgrind’s espousal of "Fact." Since her father rides and tends to horses‚ Gradgrind offers Sissy the definition of horse. She is rebuffed for not
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Short Summary Mr. Gradgrind is a man of "facts and calculations." He identifies a student‚ called Girl number twenty‚ who replies that her name is Sissy Jupe. Gradgrind corrects her that her name is Cecilia regardless of what her father calls her. Jupe’s father is involved in a horse-riding circus and this is not respectable‹in Gradgrind’s opinion. He advises Cecilia to refer to her father as a "farrier" (the person who shoes a horse) or perhaps‚ a "veterinary surgeon." Sissy Jupe is a slow learner
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the uneducated daughter of a circus master‚ and the positive influence she has on the Gradgrind family. Thomas Gradgrind has a strong rationalist philosophy and believes that fact‚ and fact alone is the one thing needful but through the satirical way Thomas Gradgrind is described‚ Dickens makes his own comments regarding his conflicting views of this philosophy. Dickens introduces Mr Gradgrind as Thomas Gradgrind‚ sir. A man of realities. A man of fact and calculationswith a rule and a pair of scales
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on imagination. Dickens provides three vivid examples of this utilitarian logic in Hard Times through the characters of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind‚ Mr. Bounderby‚ and Mr. Gradgrind. Mr. Gradgrind educates his daughter‚ Louisa‚ with facts and facts alone. He raises her to disregard emotions and see everything in terms of statistics. He forces this type of education upon Louisa much like the marriage with Bounderby that ends up being nothing but a loveless marriage without any hope for improvement. Written
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teacher is Mr. Gradgrind. He says‚ ‘Girl number 20’ In Victorian Times teachers would not care about individual teaching but teach the class by ‘parrot teaching’. This is where the teacher states a fact and the children repeat. Some readers think this quote shows the reader that Mr. Gradgrind is not interested in the children individually‚ he is only interested in the fact that there are ‘vessels’ who need to be filled with facts. Although other readers believe that Mr. Gradgrind would prefer not
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