Chapter Summary: Barney Northrup

Acclaimed author, Dale Maharidge, sets out to explore the transition of a small rural town that began as a homogenous community descended from Western European immigrants and how it transformed as immigrants from South and Central America moved in. The relationship between the growing Hispanic population and the established European citizens consisted of mixed feelings. However, through Maharidge’s work, he is advancing the suggestion that the future of this small Iowan town depends on its ability to welcome immigration. Using kairos, Mahridge seizes the historical significance of the strike at Farmland, a meatpacking plant, to show how immigration may as well be Denison’s only hope. The Latino immigrants were willing to perform grueling work

Chapter one started off with an interesting case about a married couple, who are doctors and decided to work within the same hospital. Soon after they started to work there, their marriage started to suffer and in the end they decided to get a divorce. Mr. Whittamore decided that he was going to leave the hospital and was thinking about opening his own clinic, even though it was against his contract. He thought that he would go talk to Singson and explain the situation to him and see if the contract could be overlooked and allow him to open his clinic. Singson told Whittamore that the contract would stand. Singson responds made Whittamore upset and the conflict between Singson and Whittamore started. The chapter continued talking about the approaches that people may use in order to

It’s February now, and the groceries don’t last long, nor does the store of food they had packed away from the garden either. Upon entering the house one day, Owen notices a foul smell. They discover that the old chest freezer in the basement has died and all the pork meat inside had gone bad. Mardi tries to get by on discount food from the store, but eventually needs help. She is forced to apply for the free lunch program at the boys’ school. On the positive side, Mardi has been working more and is beginning to receive more consistent income from her writings. March comes and she wins tickets to an Uncle Kracker concert. She invites Pete, who is the carpenter that had started working on her house before her separation from Mr. Wonderful. They have a good time, however, Mardi is a little distracted and informs Pete that her divorce hearing is Monday. Monday comes and the divorce is finalized. The judge gives Mardi 90 days to refinance the farm in her name only and she is hopeful that she can keep it. She also has a surprise encounter with Pete at the courthouse. He informs her that he also, is getting divorced that day. Easter Sunday comes with Mardi and the boys trying out a new church, as they have started looking for a place to go regularly. The following weekend they go to the local Tractor Supply Store and purchase chickens to raise. Mardi also discovers that she needs a new water pump for her water well and

The chapter begins with a story about Rat Kiley’s friend Curt Lemon’s death and that he will be writing to Lemon’s sister about her brother and all of the things he has gone through at war before his death. The tone behind the letter is nothing but disturbing and inappropriate from Lemon’s sister’s viewpoint. There is

The first chapter of Billy Sunday gives us an insight of the early childhood of Billy Sunday. Billy and Ed Sunday departed on a train from Ames, Iowa to go to the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home’ at Glenwood, because Ms. Sunday, who lost her husband in the war, could not afford to keep her kids at home and take care of them. Ed Sunday was the brother of Billy. On the way to the orphan home, the train stopped in Council Bluffs and they had to take a freight train to rest of the way to the orphan home. In the end, the brakeman showed compassion to the boys by giving them the train ride for free.

Dick wanted to live a respectful and spectacle life, Frank as a good friend told Dick to make him a promise that if he wants to live a respectful life, he needs to stop gambling and start saving money to at least get a room. Henry, a friend of Dick, he is a bootblack just like Dick, he has no place to sleep and Dick being a good person offers him to share a room with him. As Dick starts to become a little serious about his future his fascination if he will ever learn to read and write, Henry was a son of a gentlemen that passed away at the sea. Henry had acceptable knowledge about reading, writing, geography and arithmetic. Dick asked Henry if he can be Dick’s private tutor and teach him how to read and write. As Dick advances in reading and writing, he offered Henry a place to stay, for Henry’s generosity Dick paid for there room’s rent. Dick and Henry also opened a savings account which assisted them so much in the future. Several months passed, Dick and Henry’s lives succeed and the more they saved the better there living conditions remodeled, but with great achievement comes with great

It was just a casual, beautiful day in New York. Nothing was out of the ordinary that day, that was until a man who was oddly lurking around. Drew Bell, which is a police officer who watches over New York, was on duty that day. She didn't think much of it at first but she still kept a close eye on him. She then noticed he started to look around to see if anyone was watching him, he didn't notice Drew so he continued on his way. She then just put it into conclusion that maybe he was just a homeless man looking for shelter, or food. So she then goes back to her duty. But little did she know he was nothing like that all, and that he would be the person to destroy New York.

7. Ruddick explores human psychology in the suspects of the murder. For instance, Mrs. Cox was accused of the crime since she was a few days away from being dismissed by Mr. Bravo. People believed that Mrs. Cox had a motive because she was putting her children through school, and she was paying a mortgage on a house that she rented out. Mrs. Cox had gotten an advance on her salary to pay off some debts and now she owed money to the Bravo family. Greed could be a factor in accusing Mrs. Cox of murder but Ruddick disproves that this was a reason for Charles’s murder. Ruddick discovered that Mrs. Cox came from a wealthy family that had roots in Jamaica. The Cox family owned three large plantations that exported different tropical crops. A few

In 1935,after a year of living down the street, Frank and Nora (Flynn) Young, and their two young children, Mary Ann and Pat, move back in with Nora’s parents and two sisters who are now living at 4133A Peck. Frank has a job working at a nearby tavern at 3516 Kossuth. It is not known if Frank is managing the tavern or merely working there. He has held this job since moving to North St. Louis. For Frank and Nora, 1936 is a year of change. For the third

Many years a young woman by the name of Martha moved to Montgomery to attend Huntington University. The young lady moved to Montgomery despite wanting to stay in New York but she knew of her father’s great love for his home state and her mothers legacy at Huntington. Martha instantly stuck out wearing all red and her décor also being red. Her cold attitude drove everyone away and caused every roommate she had to request a new room. The president of Pratt Hall where the red lady lived also tried to be roommates with Martha eventually the distant manner of Martha caused her to also move. This was the last straw for Martha since she felt the girl was her only friend she warned the girl she would regret this action. Martha would travel the halls

The chapter begins with Tom and Nick taking the train from East Egg to New York City. On the way, they pass a place called ‘the valley of ashes,’ an industrial wasteland that is full of ash and dust. In it, there is a large, old billboard with a huge pair of eyes advertising Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. As the train waits at a drawbridge, Tom realizes that they are not far from the home of his mistress. He decides to get off and visit her. Nick does not want to go, but Tom, who is already quite drunk from lunch, aggressively insists.

The narrator undergoes a complete personality makeover when Tyler emerges. When they first meet, the narrator thinks Tyler has a soap making business, and works as banquet server until he gets his business off the ground. The narrator is a more laid-back, average sort of man and Tyler is an aggressive outgoing, confident, attractive man, with out fear. He is everything the narrator would like to be. The first event that leads us into this plot, is that after meeting Tyler the very first day the narrator?s condo is bombed, he ends up with nothing and nowhere to live. He calls Marla then changes his mind and moves into what he thinks is Tyler?s House. This house should have been torn down because the electricity and leaky plumbing do not work correctly, and it has a dirty water problem in the basement. This abandoned house is a real sight and the total opposite of his former life conditions. The narrator goes from riches to rags so to speak and it leads the audience into believing the rest of this story. The narrators shattered reality continues, and gets the audience ready for the next chain of events.

I still think Prospect Avenue, is the best firehouse in the job. When the three companies rolled together, I was part of an unbeatable team whose tradition was written on an old, worn sheet hanging from a tired wall-high on the apparatus floor. “BE PROUD,” read the demanding motto.

Throughout the course of world history there has been various attempts to have a political revolution to form a society built through democracy. In some cases, like the United States, the challenge to build a functioning society through democracy has been successful. Yet, in the case of the French Revolution for democracy, the result was near disastrous. So what separated these two nations in their conquest for a successful political revolution? The answer lies within the structures and institutions established by the United States founding fathers. Both The Federalist Paper by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton and Democracy In America by Alexis de Tocqueville analyze how establishing these different structures will lead to a successful American government founded on democracy. In The Federalist Papers the authors use two different articles, Federalist Paper 10 and Federalist Paper 51, to demonstrate how the systems set in place would lead to set up a structure for a successful democracy. Federalist 10 focused on how the United States’ government needed to large in order to control factions while not completely destroying them. Federalist 51 focuses on separation of powers and checks and balances as a way to prevent a branch of government from becoming too powerful and infringing the rights of the citizens. In the case of De Tocqueville, he portrays how the people who settled the United States and the use of associations to combat the issue of individualism

The 1940s is often referred to as the most influential decade of mankind. Countless advancements were made in technology, medicine, and arts. Although this is true, if you were to look up “1940s” on Google the automatic search results yields suggestions such as fashion, hair, clothes, and dresses. These results stem from the shallow image oriented society of this decade, both through materialism and visual appearances. Understanding of his surroundings, Arthur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman in the final year of 1949. Ingrained within characters of the story are certain personality traits which define their identities. The identity of the individuals found in the play are not their own, rather the identity of the individuals found in the play are demonstrative of society and the culture.