.... two younger sisters, and their blind grandmother move into a crowded apartment in the German-occupied zone. Renée was disappointed in Paris when she arrived. She finds that everything seems to be smaller in Paris. Eventually, her new neighborhood becomes more of a home and helps Renée to miss Alsace a little less. Renée's parents had left Poland and then Hungary to find a freer, better life. They settled in France and thought they¹d be safe. Then Adolf Hitler, a German man who hated Jewish people, started trouble all over again. First, seven synagogues were blown up. Then, the Germans created a curfew prohibiting Jews to go during certain hours. Any .....

.... precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." (Melville 1) Ishmael tells the reader about his journeys through various towns such as New Bedford, Nankantuket. Eventually while in Nankantuket, Ishmael signed up for a whaling voyage on the Pequod. The Pequod was the whaling boat Ishmael sailed on where such characters as Queequeq, Starbuck, and the captain of the ship, Ahab, all journeyed together. Not long once at sea, the captain of the ship, Ahab reveals his plan to hunt down a white whale named Moby Dick. Ahab was veteran sa .....

.... "But Tom wanted to resk it; so we slid in there and got three candles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay." This shows that though it was wrong of Tom to steal the candles it honest of him to leave pay for the candles. I think that Tom and Huck are very smart boys, when Huck snuck out of the house Tom pretended that he was a cat to get Hucks attention. If he hadn't done this the widow might have caught them leaving in the middle of the night. Twain shows their resourcefulness when he writes, "Directly I could just barely hear a me-yow! me-yow! down there. That was good! Says I, me-yow! me-yow! as soft as I could, and then I put out the light and .....

.... her extreme devotion to her family. They come first in her life. She is the quintessential mother-woman. “[Mother-women] [are] women who idolized their children, [worship] their husbands, and [esteem] it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.” She gave up her individuality by taking marriage vows and became one half of the Ratignolle family. “The Ratignolles understood each other perfectly. If ever a fusion of two human beings into one has ever been accomplished on this sphere it [is] surely this union.” Madame Ratignolle has surrendered to her husband’s world as proper wi .....

.... Ralph thinks he is in paradise. There is a "long scar smashed into the jungle" where the plane dropped them the night before. The boys stand among "skull-like coconuts." This is a foreshadowing suggestion that the island is not quite what the boys had expected. Ralph is a strong and likable blond. He likes that there are no grownups around to supervise them. The boys have the entire island to themselves. But Ralph is a strange boy. He wears a belt with a snake-clasp that implies menace. Snakes are an important symbol that we will encounter again. Ralph then takes off his clothes which implies goodness and naturalness. He accepts the island as his home. The f .....

.... was Ralph. Ralph is a very strong and handsome 12 year old blonde. He is very likable and has shows good leadership in the beginning of the story. Ralph is elected leader on the island. Jack, a tall and thin red hair does not share common belief's with Ralph. Ralph becomes incredibly jealous when he does not get elected leader and picks on Piggy because he didn't get what he wanted. Piggy is the brainiest kid on the island. He does most of the thinking for the group but is blind as a bat without his glasses. Piggy unlike Simon will speak up more and always tries to think rationally. Simon is another smart character although he is very quiet. Simon is .....

.... many ways, Carver's life was the model for most of his characters – they also struggle through their lives. He married in 1957, when he was nineteen, and had two children by October of 1958. From that point on, his life was decided for years and years to come. Early on, Carver felt, along with his wife, that hard work would take care of nearly everything. "We thought we could do it all," he said in one interview, "We were poor but we thought that if we kept working, if we did the right things, the right things would happen" (Gentry 123). Somewhere in the middle of this life he realized, very much like one of his characters, that things would not chang .....

.... between democracy and ethnic conflicts or war, Cynthia Enloe goes into detail about ethnic differences leading to conflict. She also goes on to discuss the inferiority of ethnic groups leading to military servitude in order to advance their social or class status. One thing that she points out is that groups have also been stereotyped into being “prone to soldiering”. These people have been labeled as “Martial races.” An interesting point that she makes about Martial races is that they have traditionally been set on the regional peripheries of a state. This makes it seem as though the only reason for their being allowed to remain part of the state is to .....