In a Silent Way

------------------------------------------------- Book two (chapter XII) The scene takes place in Black Hawk. Antonia has left the Harlings because she refused to obey Mr Harling who wanted her to stop going to the dances because it would dishonor the family. She set her mind to work for Wick Cutter, a married man with a bad reputation. Antonia has changed. She now cares about her appearance, wearing gloves, high heels, hats and pretty dresses. Jim is bored in the evenings. He has nothing to do. He therefore goes secretely to

(verses 137-144) 8. The Song of Spells (verses 145-164) Wisdom for Wanderers and Counsel to Guests 1. At every door-way, 1 of 23 3/13/07 10:27 AM Hávamál http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html ere one enters, one should spy round, one should pry round for uncertain is the witting that there be no foeman sitting, within, before one on the floor 2. Hail, ye Givers! a guest is come; say! where shall he sit within? Much pressed is he who fain on the hearth would seek for warmth and weal

"On the Road" is a novel that makes the reader want to go out there, seize the day, and live, live, live! Jack Kerouac, creator of the "beat generation" best sums up his philosophy as "everything belongs to me because i am poor". The failure of ideology and of the American Dream in the 1960s gave young dreamers who were eager to live just one way out: the road.    Kerouac presents Sal Paradise, a young and innocent writer, and Dean Moriarty, a crazy youth "tremendously excited with life" racing

How important was the maintenance of sexual purity in the lives of early medieval women? Virginity and the regulation of sexual practices are primary objectives of the Church. Main rules related to sexual practices are laid down at the beginning of the middle age, as evidenced by the writings of Tertullien, dated from the IInd century. Tertullien expounded different types of virginity, and presented them as applicable to all sexes, because it expressed God's will. “The first species is, virginity

overemphasized the brand as the paragon of performance driving. BMW, indelibly etched in performance-car enthusiasts' psyches as "The Ultimate Driving Machine" in ads for 33 years, is showing a different plume of feathers in a new ad campaign, the first from its new U.S. ad agency GSD&M of Austin, Tex. Rather than horsepower and curve-hugging handling, it's ballyhooing its design prowess and financial independence. In one ad, for example, it asserts that BMW's designers and engineers answer only to

Isola, 20th April, p.103). She lives in Chelsea, London artistic and literary district (cf. pp. 14-15 and p. 103 for physical description). She wrote humorous columns for the Spectator (a British weekly, the oldest in Britain, founded in 1828) during the war under the "nom-de-plume" Izzy Bickerstaff. (A pseudonym modelled on Joseph Addison's, Isaac Bickerstaff. Addison (1672-1719) was an English man of letters who founded the daily newspaper The Spectator in 1711 with his friend Richard Steel). These

angla« GO HOME » INTRO : Those texts deal with a burning issue, which is the problem of immigration, which is a day-to-day concern for occidental countries like the United States of America. The authors are rather critical about how the immigrants are treated by the natives. Does the American dream, which appeals more and more illegal aliens worth sweating for? We shall wonder how the narrator alludes to the theme of immigration. We will axe our essay around two keys stones. Firstly

Almost unknown as a poet in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson is now recognized as one of America's greatest poets and, as one of the greatest lyric poets of all time. Some critics have used her life to try to explain her poetry, which they assume is autobiographical. Writing poetry may have served Dickinson as a way of releasing or escaping from pain. In some poems Dickinson speaks of a loneliness due not to lack of friends or to circumstances but to the blessings of nature and thought, what today might

is in the hands of D. Minor, a Christian fanatic who gradually became domineering and abusive until he finally locked her up to control her. The beginning of the chapter focuses on the setting of this abuse and of the rescue. The atmosphere is “gloomy”, the house is shabby, closed to light ( like “a cave” ) , as if “against the glare of natural light”, so as to fend off the “outside world” , in a perversion of reality ( Fundamentalism ). Nathan’s overall impression generates anxiety and a series

to Brooklyn, to die there. He had lived in Brooklyn when he was a little boy (before the age of three), but doesn’t remember anything. He rents an apartment near Prospect Park. He wants nothing but being alone and quiet. He has sold his house after his divorce, and so has no problem with money. He was an insurance agent, but doesn’t know what to do now. His daughter Rachel (a researcher in bio-chemistry) comes to visit him and suggests he should “invent a project”. He feels irritated and says he