Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what truly involves the reader with Jake is O'Nan's arresting use of second person. "You like it like this, the bright languid days," the narrator instructs immediately. The reader watches Friendship through Jake's eyes; he smells death through Jake's nose. He contemplates hell through Jake's fears...
...quite Friendship Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War, A Prayer of the Dying is the story of Jacob Hansen, the town sheriff, pastor and undertaker, whose only purpose in the life is to watch over and attend to his people. As an all purpose civil servant for a disparate community, including everything from the spiritual colonists of the Wisconsin woods to simple, hardworking farm families Jake struggles to care for and understand everyone. Added to his cares is the livelihood of his own small family, and it is from his passion to love and protect all these people that...
...Friendship is hit with a sudden, unexplainable epidemic. The frightful disease gnaws through the community and as confusion and fear engulf the people, their troubles are compounded by a prairie fire that threatens to incinerate the town...
...Mairead C. McKendry '01 is a Winthrop House resident hailing from Lake City, N.Y. An economics concentrator, she plays varsity softball and JV ice hockey. Mairead and her sister each got the same tattoo in the same place, signifying their bond of friendship...
According to Sarah H. Wright of MIT's news office, Gates donated the money to the institute because of his friendship with the director of the LCS. Wright also said the research done at the LCS affected Gates' own work...