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…was Jane Franceseca Elgee. She wrote many revolutionary poems under the pen name ‘Speranza.’ William, Wilde’s father and a graduated surgeon, completed voyages to North Africa and the Middle East and was a leader in the Irish medical society. Oscar Wilde…

…. It was a place which reminded Holden of his elementary school days. The museum is like Allie who will never change and Jane who will not change because he never visits for fear that she will change. Though, he does visit the museum and realizes that though things…

…and study 15 hours or more a day. Because of his hard work, he was at the head of his class. He treated his pedigree lightly, but his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, came from one of the first families of Virginia; his father, Peter Jefferson, was a well-to-do…

…by the memory of his younger brother Allie's death, and his life is complicated by his burgeoning sexuality. He wants to see his sister Phoebe and his old girlfriend Jane Gallagher, but instead he spends his time with Sally Hayes, a shallow socialite Holden's age…

…Analysis Paper Jane Toomer’s “Reapers” The author of this particular work can be described in a few words, “very disturbed”. Jean Toomer seems to be using the world of the supernatural as a basis for her poetry. She seems to be very…

…and Jean Harlow in movies; the figure of a little blonde Mary Jane, on the candy she eats, and the blonde baby dolls she receives as gifts, are all ways of reinforcing the stereotype of beauty and goodness that a black child could never hope to achieve…

…The passage which best relates the theme of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austin, is on page 125, in the middle of the page. This is where Mr. Darcy is proposing to Elizabeth, and is informing her of the inferiority of her family and connections…

…the concept of death. Although the fourth line states “What should it know of death,” he does not acknowledge this thought, as it seems she does not know what death is. In lines 49-60: “The first to go was sister Jane; In bed she moaning lay, Till God released…

…of the most controversial topics known to mankind. Jane Roe, whose real name is Norma McCorvey, challenged the criminal abortion laws of Texas. This law forbade abortion except in the case where the mothers' life was in danger. Henry Wade, the Texas Attorney…

…, as in The Ox-Bow Incident. See also The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in which a black man was lynched for trying to educate his people. Lynching was named after a Virginia Justice of the Peace, Charles Lynch, who ordered the extra-legal hanging of Tory…