Essays Tagged: "Kentucky"

Different symbols in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"

onless sails against the blue sky." She then relates the sea to her childhood in the tall fields in Kentucky, thinking about when she " threw her arms as if swimming when she walked, beating the tall ... good-bye to her family and stops swimming. As she is sinking, she thinks of her family and home in Kentucky, just as she had before her rebirth.Edna Pontellier is also able to become a new person bec ...

(3 pages) 130 0 4.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Barbara Kingsolver's "The Bean Trees".

e gains knowledge of the world around her. In the beginning of the story, Taylor leaves her home in Kentucky on a search to find a new life, and on the way picks up an abused baby girl, named Turtle, ... Turtle, in need of a good home. Taylor, being a new mother and believing that she had a bad life in Kentucky, had a lot to learn not only about motherhood, but about the world.A big way Taylor grew th ...

(4 pages) 53 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Detailed Analysis of "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver including themes, plot summary, major and minor characters and more.

and Genre: The Bean Trees - Historical Ficton-Author: Barbara Kingsolver - April 8, 1955; lives in Kentucky; still living-Publication Date: 1988-Plot Summary: The Bean Trees follows the story of Mari ... ublication Date: 1988-Plot Summary: The Bean Trees follows the story of Marietta Greer who lived in Kentucky, but eventually drove away. On her way west, she arrives in Taylorville where she changes h ...

(3 pages) 53 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

How Andrew Jackson was portrayed as both a states' rightist and as a nationalist

d the use of federalfunds to construct a road between the towns of Maysville and Lexington, both in Kentucky.Jackson vetoed the bill, calling it unconstitutional because it concerned only the state of ...

(2 pages) 21 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Central idea and important character aspects of the narrator in Sherwood Anderson's "I Want To Know Why"

s as idealistic as once envisioned.Sherwood Anderson takes us to the southern town of Beckersville, Kentucky during a time where slavery is abolished but black people still do menial work. There is no ...

(3 pages) 27 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Daniel boone

Daniel Boone and the Settlement of KentuckyWritten by George LeroeApril 24th, 2003AMH 1010Professor Charles DeusnerDaniel Boone and the ... by George LeroeApril 24th, 2003AMH 1010Professor Charles DeusnerDaniel Boone and the Settlement of KentuckyDaniel Boone will always occupy a unique place in our history as the archetype of the hunter ... oomy forest. After weeks of wandering, he at last emerged into the beautiful and fertile country of Kentucky. When Boone first saw it, it was a fair and smiling land of groves and glades and running w ...

(7 pages) 39 1 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Bean Trees

In the novel Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, Taylor goes through a lot of changes when she leaves Kentucky and adopts Turtle. She becomes an independent and responsible mother. Taylor also has to ov ... other. Taylor also has to overcome many obstacles that are in her way.Taylor always wanted to leave Kentucky she attended school just to finish it. She felt like she has stayed in Kentucky for too lon ...

(2 pages) 27 0 0.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The awakening

the images related to birds).Throughout the novel there are some flashbacks to Edna's childhood in Kentucky, a place similar to New Orleans, where Edna was also caged by the strict figure of her fath ... where Edna was also caged by the strict figure of her father and by society. However, Edna found in Kentucky a place of freedom in the blue grass meadow away from the ridged rules of society.Finally, ...

(7 pages) 92 2 3.5 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Abraham Lincoln

ln was born on Sunday February 12, in 1809. He was born in the town of Hodgenville, In the Heart of Kentucky. He was born to the parents of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, who which named him ... move to Indiana. Upon moving to Indiana, Abraham had attended school in Indiana just like he had in Kentucky only in Kentucky it was little schooling time he had spent. After moving to Indiana, Abraha ...

(3 pages) 35 1 4.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

A Bowl of Soup.

children alive.A simple bowl of soup. I sat in my cozy kitchen on a pleasant, tree-lined street in Kentucky and sadly acknowledged how rarely I notice all the miracles that every day bless my life.

(2 pages) 17 0 3.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

"The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver; "An Instant Bond"; Reflection upon relationships within the book.

their upbringings are uncanny. Taylor recollects "We had already established that our hometowns in Kentucky were separated by only two counties, and that we had both been to the exact same Bob Segar ... eparated by only two counties, and that we had both been to the exact same Bob Segar concert ad the Kentucky State fair my senior year" (96 Kingsolver). They were so close, and so similar, this was no ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Daniel Boone

oonesborough settlers of an imminent Indian attack, and by making the first permanent settlement in Kentucky. He moved from a hunter and trapper to a leader of the nation in a quest to explore the nat ... 0s Boone most likely knew the Blue Ridge and Alleghenies as well as any other, but still dreamed of Kentucky (Moize 822). After his fathers death in 1765 Boone decided to follow his father's independe ...

(5 pages) 26 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The berry patch

(3 pages) 1764 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Appalachia

ent defines Appalachia as parts of West Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi (ARC). It inc ...

(13 pages) 38 0 1.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Changing Moments

were traveling through Illinois, it was much like Wisconsin, but very long. Our first night was in Kentucky; as we got there, Sammy and I were in total shell-shock. We stuck out like a sore thumb. We ...

(1 pages) 1077 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Car Insurance Fraud

Car Insurance Fraud Are people paying too much for their car insurance? Kentucky's insurance rates are higher in Kentucky as opposed to other places and still rising due to ... ed to other places and still rising due to so many people committing insurance fraud. The ways that Kentucky's population commits insurance fraud are plentiful and creative. One type of insurance frau ... lmost anything when trying to get an insurance company to pick up the tab. An insurance adjuster at Kentucky Farm Bureau said "People stage accidents several different ways, such as waiting at an inte ...

(3 pages) 20 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Car Insurance Fraud

Car Insurance Fraud Are people paying too much for their car insurance? Kentucky's insurance rates are higher in Kentucky as opposed to other places and still rising due to ... ed to other places and still rising due to so many people committing insurance fraud. The ways that Kentucky's population commits insurance fraud are plentiful and creative. One type of insurance frau ... lmost anything when trying to get an insurance company to pick up the tab. An insurance adjuster at Kentucky Farm Bureau said "People stage accidents several different ways, such as waiting at an inte ...

(3 pages) 1151 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Abraham Lincoln : The views of an emancipator

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, in what is now known as Larue, Kentucky, to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when he was ten years old. He a ... thin the Confederacy and would cement the loyalty of the border slave states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri," but then Lincoln, along with his troops realized that this was not the right ...

(3 pages) 1252 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Family in The Bean Trees

origins who serves as the main character, talks of her family and her childhood in Pittman County, Kentucky. Raised by a single mother, she manages to get out of her somewhat backwards hometown. Her ... and losing it can be very difficult. Later in the story, we are introduced to Lou Ann Ruiz, also a Kentucky girl living in Arizona, who sees the pain of losing a part of your family. She is eight mon ...

(7 pages) 4077 0 0.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American