Essays Tagged: "Peddler"

The Inventor of Blue Jeans, Levi Strauss.

February 26, 1829 to Hirsch Strauss and his second wife, Rebecca Haas Strauss. Hirsch, a dry goods peddler, already had five children with his first wife, who had died a few years earlier: Jacob, Jon ...

(5 pages) 104 0 3.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Levi Strauss

ian Alps. He was the youngest of his six brothers and sisters. Lob Strauss, Levi's real name ,was a peddler of dry goods for most of his childhood. Two years after his father died, Strauss immigrated ...

(3 pages) 109 0 3.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Who is more heroic, Odysseus or Achilles?

After Odysseus was tricked into serving the Greeks, he was sent to recruit Achilles. Disguised as a peddler, he approached Achilles, who was dressed as a woman hiding among the maidens, and displayed ...

(2 pages) 50 1 3.4 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Change Of Heart

in and shown generosity by a young woman, her kindness changes his bitter attitude about life. The peddler is a man who has fallen upon misfortune and now resorts to selling rattraps, begging, and th ... not everybody will rebuff him once a relationship is formed. By the end of the story, the rat trap peddler has a change of heart, therefore gaining a new perspective about the world around him, grati ...

(3 pages) 5701 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

My Crazy Day

both settled in Massachusetts.Sacco was a shoe maker that had one child and Vanzetti was a fish peddler in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They were both Italian Immigrants. As time went by, both Sacco ...

(6 pages) 10 0 5.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Pygmalion +

entury.Professor Higgins proposes a wager to his friend Colonel Pickering that he can take a common peddler and transform her into royalty. Eliza Doolittle is the pawn in the wager. But little does Hi ...

(2 pages) 1557 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

A Stereotypical Media

hillips E-mail: a65phalcon@hotmail.com A Stereotypical Media The media of today's society plays the peddler to the stereotypes that plague our country. However, the media is not solely to blame. Susan ...

(5 pages) 33 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Pygmalion

entury.Professor Higgins proposes a wager to his friend Colonel Pickering that he can take a common peddler and transform her into royalty. Eliza Doolittle is the pawn in the wager. But little does Hi ...

(2 pages) 15 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Symbolim In The Chrysanrthemums

sion being one, and her uneventful relationship the other. Elisa loves her chrysanthemums. When the peddler comes to Elisa's garden and tries to sell some repairs, she responds with little interest. W ... comes to Elisa's garden and tries to sell some repairs, she responds with little interest. When the peddler inquires about her garden she responds passionately. The peddler asks what kind of plants ar ...

(3 pages) 30 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

long morals

(1 pages) 0 0 0.0 Jul/2014

Subjects: Art Essays