Polly O'Keefe Essays

  • Biography of Madeleine L'Engle

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    Two artistic parents raised their child to be one of America’s greatest authors. Madeleine L’Engle was born on November 29, 1918, in Manhattan to Madeleine Barnett and Charles Camp. Her full name was Madeleine L’Engle Camp but she was commonly known as Madeleine L’Engle, after her grandmother(Martin). Her father was involved in World War I, but retreated back to the United States, due to damaged lungs caused by mustard gas. Upon his return he wrote short stories, movies, and plays, as Madeleine Barnett

  • Essays on the Realistic Hero in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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    throughout the story, as a typical boy of his time.  He has a loving, happy home, with his devoted Aunt Polly to care for him.  He is restricted by his home routine of prayers, meals, chores, bedtime, ETCTERA, but when his routine life gets TOO dull, he has the nearby river and woods, where he can go to escape.  Though Tom is not " the model boy" of the village. He plays boyish pranks on Aunt Polly, Sid, his friends, and everyone in town.  He steals, lies, plays hooky, fights, and goes swimming secretly

  • Chocky - Tv Vs The Book

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    the Novel who was only talked about, whilst in the Film Piff was still around and living. Another change from the Novel was the way in which Chocky helped Matthew. Chocky gave Matthew the ability to draw properly, helped him to swim and then save Polly, and taught Matthew to do the binary code in both texts. However in the Film Chocky also gave Matthew super strength to play cricket, develop fast reflexes to play computer games and do the rubix cubes at amazing speeds. The Film Editor, Oscar Webb

  • The Maturation of Tom Sawyer

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    The Maturation of Tom Sawyer Tom Sawyer, a mischievous, brave, and daring boy that goes through adventures in love, murder, and treasure. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is about a boy maturing from a whimsical troublemaker into a caring young man. In the "conclusion" Mark Twain writes, "It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much farther without becoming a history of a man" Tom is now maturing throughout a span of adventures in love, treasure

  • Dodgeball

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    how strong you really are? In the movie DodgeBall, you have the tough guys of Globo Gym against the weaker guys of Average Joe?fs gym. The tough guys of Globo gym are led by White Goodman who is played by Ben Stiller (Meet the parents, Along came Polly). On the Average Joe team we have Peter LaFleur played by Vince Vaughn (Anchorman), Justin played by Justin Long (Ed), dodge ball legend Patches O'Houlihan played by Rip Torn, and Catherine Beach played by Christine Taylor. The movie has an amazing

  • Ibuprofen

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    do know is that people who have allergies to Aspirin should not take this medicine. (2) As of now we know that it may play a role in prostaglandin synthesis inhibition. (1) Prostaglandin are hormonal like substances that form in animal tissue from polly unsaturated fatty-acids. (3) They do affect several body systems including the central nervous, gastrointestinal, urinary, and endocrine systems. It has been shown to have very minor effects on smooth muscle contraction and the clotting ability of

  • Use of Storm Imagery in Villette and Frankenstein

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    initial exposition, Lucy tells of how "it was a wet night; the rain lashed the panes, and the wind sounded angry and restless" on the evening when Polly Home first arrived. This admittedly minor change in her life still presages, in its stormy accompaniment, the larger turning-points in her life that storms are to indicate. Indeed, Lucy's stay with Polly and the Brettons is immediately followed by her famous and unexplained "shipwreck" image that begins Chapter IV. Whether it represents forced incest

  • Flaws In Twains Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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    situation for Jim. As for the coincidence part, it appears most obviously as you read towards the end. For example Huck ends up at Aunt Polly's, and I was thinking, yeah...right those chances are about one in a million. And then after Huck tells Aunt Polly that he is Tom, Tom shows up...uh-huh, I bet. It is things such as those I just mentioned that make it very difficult for me to read a book without becoming frustrated. It is probably because I am used to real life and like it or not real life is just

  • Morrison's Bluest Eye Essay: Misdirected Anger Depicted

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    Misdirected Anger Depicted in The Bluest Eye In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison shows that anger is healthy and that it is not something to be feared; those who are not able to get angry are the ones who suffer the most.  She criticizes Cholly, Polly, Claudia, Soaphead Church, the Mobile Girls, and Pecola because these blacks in her story wrongly place their anger on themselves, their own race, their family, or even God, instead of being angry at those they should have been angry at: whites.

  • Longing to Escape

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    tug-of-war between escape and responsibility. In “The Boarding House,” Mr. Doran, a man of around thirty-five years old finds himself in a conflict over deciding what he should do about the ultimatum from Mrs. Mooney about the affair he has with Polly. He knew “the harm was done,” but “what could he do now but marry her or run away?” (61) Mr. Doran’s wild, irresponsible ways with women, that he tries to escape as a youth is resurfacing in his older days. Joyce uses this irresponsible act of

  • Heart Felt Wedding Speech from the Father of the Bride

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    21st in the morning at our home. That was not a pretty sight. GENERAL Ladies and Gentlemen I am delighted to welcome you here tonight to celebrate the Marriage of Polly and Justin. I know that many of you have travelled many thousands of Kilometres to be here with us, and I welcome you and thank you for being here. I know Polly and Justin greatly appreciate your presence and your sacrifice. As I look around the room I look and realize what dear friends we have, and I hope you have a really

  • The Bluest Eye

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    type of family the Breedloves are. Whether it was Claudia or another unknown third person narrator, a specific situation is described in a brutal manner of exactly what type of environment exists in Pecola’s home. The situation was where Cholly and Polly fight each other with little hesitation or thought, and the brief narration ends with how Pecola is affected by such actions. Claudia’s experiences are even more tied to Pecola’s life through the events that occurred with Maureen Peal. Claudia begins

  • Jack The Ripper

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    mocking, utterly superior Jack the Ripper, a multiple murderer whose arrogance and boldness deified the entire police department of London and held in terror a great city for as long as he cared to roam its streets and slay at will. Mary Ann “Polly'; Nichols, aged 42, was the first of the Ripper victims, according to dedicated Ripperologists. Her body was found on Buck’s Row by a patrolling constable at 3:15 a.m. on August 31st 1888. The ripper had slashed her throat twice, and her abdomen

  • Mark Twain's 'Life On The Mississippi'

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    Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi, when young Clemens was 4 years old. It was in this river town that he grew up, and from it he gathered the material for his most famous stories. The character of Judge Carpenter is somewhat like his father; Aunt Polly, his mother; Sid Sawyer, his brother Henry;

  • Tom Sawyer - No Average Young Boy

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    friend Huckleberry Finn, he lived everyday to its fullest. Tom had a little more schooling than Huck, but Huck was growing up on the streets and surviving just fine considering that his father was a drunk. Tom had a good home, being raised by his Aunt Polly, (his mother died so her sister took him in). He also lived with his half-brother, Sid, whose main objective in life was to make Tom’s miserable by ratting him out all the time, and his quiet cousin Mary. His antics were ingenious though. The way

  • The Adventure of Tom Sawyer

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    account of one young boy, the story of Tom Sawyer has touched many readers and lives on today as it did when it was written long ago. Tome Sawyer does not have many relatives, his mother died and him and his half brother Sidney live with their Aunt Polly and cousin Mary. The setting was in the small, poor southern town of St.Pettersburg, Missouri right by the Mississippi River. Tom has a love for live and would rather be doing what he pleases rather than what is expected of him. In all of his mischievous

  • Susanna Kaysen's Journal-Memoir, Girl, Interrupted

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    including Lisa, Polly, and Cynthia. Lisa never slept and rarely ate so she was always thin and yellow. She was very independent and often ran away. Even though she was always caught, she yearned for that freedom that she had tasted on the outside. Polly was a girl who had set herself on fire using gasoline at an age when she wasn't even old enough to drive. Her neck and cheeks were scarred the most, but strangely enough she was never unhappy. Kind and comforting to others, Polly never complained

  • A Comparison Of Contemporary And Romance Literature

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    life. He has had many memorable experiences. Rosicky has lived in London, New York, and now in Nebraska. Rosicky, formerly a tailor, now makes a living farming with his children. Rudolph, Rosicky's oldest son, has some trouble supporting his wife, Polly. Rosicky makes many sacrifices to help Rudolph's marriage stay together. He loans the family car and gives some money to Rudolph, even though Rosicky is very poor himself. Spring arrives, and his children are busy working the fields. When no one else

  • DETAILED Tom Sawyer Summary

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    such to paint. Tom tells Aunt Polly that it is done. She doesn’t believe it is true. She is very astonished that it actually is done and gives Tom a treat. He runs off and sees a girl outside that he immediately falls “in love” with. He hangs around her house all day until nightfall “showing off.” She throws him a flower. He wears it in his shirt with him everywhere. At dinnertime, Tom gets disciplined for stealing sugar. Sid laughs at Tom for this, and when Aunt Polly leaves he reaches for the sugar

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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    echoes turned them all too jeering laughter." reminds us of an existing love between the two children. Aside from his love for Becky Tom also loves his Aunt Polly and sees her as if she was his own mother. Even though Tom uses every trick in his book to manipulate or deceive his aunt, he doesn't mean to cause any harm towards her. When Aunt Polly accuses Tom of lying about his dream, he agrees but says that he kissed her before waking up.