.... "special new-type bomb," to "special high-capacity bomb." That day, I learned for the first time to call it an "atomic bomb." ( 282) The importance of the name of the bomb may seem ineffectual, but he seems to dwell on finding out what caused this type of destruction. Something else that Mr. Shizuma wants to do is remember every little detail about what happens to everything from what angle the house was on after the bomb to what his wife cooked for dinner with the food rationing. He even likes to write how people cured themselves of radiation sickness and what the burns and other injuries look and act like. These things are like myself in the fact that he does not like to f ....

.... freedom and when he decides to tell the people about the King and the Duke's plan. 's character is mainly influenced by one of his friends, Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer is similar to Huck, in the way that he is always getting into trouble. Tom sees everything as a game and as an adventure, This sometimes makes things more difficult than they actually are. An example of this is when they are planning to rescue Jim. Tom wants to dig Jim out with a spoon and make this spectacular escape and Huck decides bake some tools used for escaping into a pie and get Jim out that way. Another example is at the beginning of the story when Tom decides to play a trick on Jim by hanging his hat ab ....

.... of Chinese immigrants in America, their hardship and difficulty in adapting American lifestyle and culture. For the younger generations, adapting the American culture and lifestyle is much easier than for the older generations. This is shown in the book and it also happens in reality, which is another reason why I like this book. This is a fiction novel, but the story told is like a non-fiction book; giving readers a sense of realism. As a Chinese reading , I understand the narrator’s feelings and predicaments. Although she is an Asian, her thinking lies more on the American side. Leila wants to move out to stay with Mason but yet she fears leaving her mother alone and ....

.... well as his son in anything they may need. Penelope, his wife serves as a symbol of fidelity, a perfect wife as well as mother, the only difference between her and the rest of the women is that she has lost her love to live as a result of Odysseus's absence. One woman that isn't really a human but a maternal shape and manages to have an impact on Odysseus is Antikleia. This is the mother of Odysseus who has an encounter with him in Hades. She tells her son of how his absence resulted in her death and how the zest for life that his wife once had is disappearing with time. All these women managed to have an impact on Odysseus, whether it was as a result of their innocence, ki ....

.... them again in war efforts. Paul then gets confined to a shell hole for a night. While in the hole, an English soldier falls in the hole and Paul stabs him, and finds what the real meaning of death means. Paul's group then has a stroke of luck when they were assigned to defend a village. Since there was no one in the village, they got to search all the houses , and keep whatever they found. But their luck didn't last long. The French came and started shelling the village. While trying to escape, Paul and his friend Albert were injured by a gunshot wound. They were bandaged up and sent back home on a train. Albert got the flu and was scheduled to be dropped off at t ....

.... and will discuss why these qualities are important to Locke's philosophy. Locke describes a primary (real or original) quality, as something an object has within itself. Any other object need not sense these primary qualities in order for that object to really exist. This is because whether something else perceives that object or not, it is still an entity. This object has bulk, figure, number, and motion. Motion can be classified as movement from one location to another, or that the object is at rest. Take for example a block of ice. Thoughts probably come to mind of something very cold, smooth, and semi-transparent. Notice that these are all sense orientated, becau ....

.... punishments to inflict both a mental and physical pain upon the sinner. Several punishments that Dante envisions for the various sinners are borrowed from forms of torture. The first physical punishment Dante borrows from that is his punishment for the heretics. The penalty in the medieval era for heresy was often public humiliation or to burn to death. For Dante, to be a heretic was to follow one’s own opinion and not the beliefs of the Christian Church. Dante’s punishment for the “arch heretics and those who followed them” was that they be “ensepulchered” and to have some tombs “heated more, some less.” Since the arc ....

.... Brown, partly because Brown is involved at the beginning and towards the end of the book. Ms. Brown became an important part of Irene’s life, not only by being one of the main reasons for her parents’ divorce, but also by helping Irene accomplish one of her goals. The time that occurred between these two events in the book connects Rattlebone and is a very good use of foreshadowing. Another example of Clair’s use of this writing method is the experience of the divorce between Irene’s parents. This long-term process displayed Irene’s parents as being unforgiving. At first his wife forgives James Wilson for the affair that he enjoyed with Octo ....