.... that everyone who ever kept them down is long dead. Sadie and "Bessie" tell the stories of their intriguing lives, from their Southern Catholic school upbringing to their involvement in the civil rights movement in New York City. "Sadie" is the older (103 years old) and sweeter of the sisters. The first colored high school teacher in the New York Public School System, "Sadie" considers herself to be the Booker T. Washington of the sisters, always shying away from conflict and looking at both sides of the issue. "Bessie" is the younger sister (101 years old) and is much more aggressive. A self-made dentist who was the only colored female at Columbia Univers .....

.... community that was suppose to be protected by the Chesapeake Indians who were know to help English visitors. The colony was made up mostly of people on the middle to lower social and economic ladder. These people were willing to work for a living, farming or do crafts to form an English society on American soil. Each colonist was in turn given 500 acres for their trouble. 150 persons intended to start the voyage to America in the spring but because of financial troubles only 118 were finally able to set sail. The voyage was an unhappy one because White and his chief pilot, Simon Fernandes, spent a majority of the time quarreling. Fe .....

.... returned. His fathers leaving had a big impact on King’s life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King recalls how his family life was altered: “After my father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My brother and I didn’t see a great deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low paying jobs.” Stephen’s first outlooks on life were influenced by his older brother, and what he figured out on his own. When he was seven years old, they moved to Stratford, Connecticut. Here is where King got his first exposure to horror. One evening he listened to the ra .....

.... life’s problems. By using these tools one is able to overcome anything that life throws his or her way. Delaying gratification as Peck puts it is "a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with."(p. 19) I feel Peck’s point is to save the good things for last so that you can always have something to look forward to and an incentive to finish whatever task is at hand. Good scheduling skills and the lack of procrastination are very important in delaying gratification. Responsibility is very important in solving life’s proble .....

.... it whether it is Alice in Wonderland or the plains of Africa. The parents, George, and Lydia, of the children do not have any rules or regulations on the children's behavior and the children do whatever they want. Having no limits or bounds, the children do as they please. When they are told not to do something they cry about it and do it anyway. George would not allow Peter to take a rocket to New York, Peter became extremely angry with this and never forgave him. One day Peter and Wendy turn their room into Africa and keep it that way for a long time. The Santa Clause in the room was turned into a Scrooge. The children's parent became worried because .....

.... level, some people use it in reference to death. One steals from those who have stolen from him, one wrongs those who have wronged him, but do we really have the right to kill those who have killed. Today, there is a big controversy over capital punishment whether or not it works, or if it is morally right. We have a certain privilege on our own lives, but do the lives of others belong to us as well? Do we have the right to decide the kind of lives others can or cannot live? We find someone guilty of murder and sentence him to death, does that not make murderers out of ourselves? Can justice justify our acts? Those who assist in the death penalty are they not .....

.... interested in making a living in society. He focused on discovering the "facts of life". Thoreau moved into the woods called Walden not far from his home. He felt that being alone with nature would enable him to think and write more clearly. One of the thoughts that came from his "higher thinking" was that "Our life is frittered away by detail". This quotation is important because it applies to all people, in Thoreau's time and in modern times. Thoreau is saying that all people, rich and poor, young and old, fritter their lives away with detail, instead of being concerned with the big picture. The important thing to Thoreau was having time to think about .....

.... his Uncle may cause confusion in his judgement of the truth so he is hesitant to kill him right away. Hamlet second-guesses himself throughout the play only to end up dying, but not before he kills Claudius. In Oedipus the king, a child is born to a royal couple, this king and queen want to know how their child will be in the future. So they ask an oracle to tell them the future and it tells them he will kill his father and marry his mother. They have the child taken away to be killed, so they save themselves, but instead the child ends up in a new castle and is raised by another couple as their own child. They never tell Oedipus that he is not their own. W .....