Carol is a modern, college educated woman. In the novel we see a great distinction between small town existence and the sophistication of city life. When she moves to Gopher Prairie, she sets her mind on reform, intending to transform the small town into a place of sophisticated culture...
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I. SUBJECT Carol Milford is a student of Blodgett College, and the protagonist of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. Her ambition is to settle down in a prairie village and transform it into a place of beauty. She works as a librarian at St. Paul after her graduation. She marries the doctor Kennicott...
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In “Just Off Main Street” author Elmaz Abinader depicts the physical and social barrier between Americans and hyphenated Americans such as Arab-Americans who live in dual sensitivity facing identity crisis, racism and other various problems living in America. In the first part of the story...
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“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers...
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“The happiest topographic point on earth” “Where dreams come true” I bet at least one of you in this room thought instantly of Walt Disney World. Well you are right. I am here to inform you about the happiest topographic point on Earth. Disney World has a immense impact on me and my household and...
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It's true everybody has a bad day no matter what lifestyle you live or what part of the world you are in, it is Just something that everyone has to deal with. I was completely fine with that fact until my bad day came out of nowhere and practically slapped me right across the face due to many...
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Bandier grew up in a small Pennsylvania town, her father and uncle ran three businesses through which they served the neighborhood. From the store gate Bandier saw no difference between her father and the people on the streets. This idea soon changed when she met the two Barbie like girls in school...
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Many key developments in the short stories, "El Tonto Del Barrio," by Jose Armos, and, "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," by Leslie Marmon Silko, are made through the emphasis on cultures. Silko and Armos use ethnic traditions in the development of themes, through a combination of maintaining...
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On the evening of January 5, 1993, Tracie Reeves and Molly Coffman, both twelve years of age and students at West Carroll Middle School, spoke on the telephone and decided to kill their homeroom teacher, Janice Geiger. They agreed that Coffman would bring rat poison to school the following days so...
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