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- 1841: Austen’s Marriages and the Age of Reason
- ... each other. Elizabeth is mindful of her father’s mistake in marrying her mother. The two had nothing in common with each other. One of the few times Mr. Bennet interferes with his wife’s business is when he backs Elizabeth up when Mrs. Bennet tries to force her to go back and accept Mr.Collins’ proposal. After Mr. Collins moves onto Charlotte, Mrs. Bennet continues to press Lizzy for information ... family in the world, though only a few weeks before, when Lydia had first run away, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune” (282). Mr. Collins observes that “Lydia’s sad business has been so well hushed up,”(293) that nobody except the Gardiners, Elizabeth, and Jane knows that Darcy was the one who saved them all. Finally, Elizabeth and Darcy are alone on a walk when ...
- 1842: The Jungle: Character Analysis
- ... meets Jack Duane, an experienced criminal. After being freed from jail, Jurgis and Duane team up in a luxurious, but risky life of crime. Jurgis learns about the connections between criminals, police, politics, and big business. He becomes a member of this complex network and moves into politics. He runs into Connor again, and beats him to a pulp a second time. Connor’s political connections cause Jurgis to lose all ... election are being received. The novel concludes on a positive note, showing that the Socialist party made significant progress all across the country. The Jungle is a novel that casts an evil light on America, business, and politics. It promotes the concept of Socialism, emphasizes corruption in our society, and makes wage-earners look like slaves. The book mentions nothing about the benefits of Capitalism. Jurgis and his family moved from ...
- 1843: Kafka: The Reality of Change
- ... family itself. After his metamorphosis Gregor learned disturbing information of the financial matters of the family. “He had always imagined that his father had been unable to save a penny from the ruins of his business; in any case, his father had never said anything to undeceive him” (Kafka 47), and he was shocked to learn the family had money. For five years he had struggled and remained a “slave” to ... earn their own keep. Gregor had slaved for them right up until the metamorphosis and now it was their turn to do for themselves. We watch “this petty bourgeois family that once had its own business” as it falls “in to the laboring class, where its strength, pride and independence are lost” (Eggenschwiler 210). They must begin, yet again, working their way back to economic freedom with no help from Gregor ...
- 1844: The Glass Menagerie: A Study in Symbolism
- ... is. The Victrola is a reminder of Mr. Wingfield; Laura often plays records to avoid the present and thinks pleasantly about the times she had with her father. When Laura stopped going to Rubicam’s Business College, she would spend many of her days at the zoo or park. She was a nature lover and thought of these places as very peaceful and beautiful, a sharp contrast to her real life ... self-esteem dropped from low to almost non-existent, and she could not face going back. Six years later, with pressure from her mother, Laura took another stab at education. She enrolled at Rubicam’s Business College. However, Laura only made it to the first test. As the test began, she vomited on the floor and had to be carried to the bathroom. Laura never returned to school, and once again ...
- 1845: Bacon’s Rebellion
- ... plantation fields but the had their own little farm that they use to support themselves and their families, they were almost the middle class however they had almost no say in the political or social business of the colony they were not really respected. The indentured servants were servants that were brought over to the colony by someone else and as a result the person has work from 4-7 years ... and at the end of his servitude would get a few acres of land and some money to start of his own farmer from his master. They had no say in the political or social business of the colony and have no respect they are only workers, however they one day will be free and will have something to work with and although will not be rich or powerful they will ...
- 1846: Japanese Americans During WWII
- ... II over 110,000 Japanese Americans living both in the United States and abroad were uprooted, without due process, and placed in detention camps, or internment camps. These Japanese Americans lost their homes and their business. They were only allowed to take what they could carry and forced into the most inhospitable areas our country had to offer. Our most hallowed judicial court, the US. Supreme Court, stated, in three different ... Clinton for an apology and some sort of financial compensation. They are still waiting. Conclusions During World War II thousands of Japanese Americans were physically taken from their homes, forced to sell their homes and business at a great loss, and thrown into a prison camp. There was no Due Process. It did not matter whether these people lived in California, Hawaii, or Latin America they all went to the internment ...
- 1847: Why the North Won the Civil War
- ... on the South, producing the highest uptrend the industry had ever, and would ever, see. In that decade alone cotton production figures increased by more than 2000 percent (Randall and Donald 36). Enormous amounts of business opportunities opened up, including, perhaps most importantly, the expansion of the Southern plantations. This was facilitated by the fact that a single worker could now do the same amount of work in a few hours ... the South would not readily accept change, and decided to take his inventive mind back up to the North, where it could be put to good use. He found his niche in the small arms business. Previously, during two long years of quasi-war with France, Americans had been vexed by the lack of rapidity with which sufficient armaments could be produced. Whitney came to the rescue with the invention of ...
- 1848: Who Didn't Kill JFK?
- ... still has not been solved. The public now more than ever, wants to know the truth what really happened in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. John F Kennedy was the son of a wealthy business man from Massachusetts, named Joe Kennnedy. Joe , John's father was a determined man, he wanted one of his four sons to enter into politics. Joe had both the power and money to help influence ... surprise when Kennedy asked Johnson to run on his ticket as vice president. Kennedy needed Johnson's southern votes to help him win the election. (marrs pg294) LBJ had many wealthy friends in the oil business. Johnson's oil friends were making illegal payoffs to him, for his lobbying aid. (Marrs pg293) Kennedy gained yet another enemy, the Texas oil men. Kennedy formed a plan which reduced the oil depletion allowance ...
- 1849: State Constitutions In Colonial America
- State Constitutions In Colonial America Before 1763, Britain was not deeply involved in the daily business of colonial governments. One reason for this was that many changes were taking place in English politics and society. In the beginning many of the colonies were considered the personal property of the king.(Hakim ... It also needed to be approved by the voters of the state. After the State constitution was approved then the state would be accepted into the union and it could go about doing its normal business. Also in each of the state constitutions there is a bill of rights. These rights are given to the citizens of the state by the state. They are similar to the ones mentioned in the ...
- 1850: Assassination of JFK: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman?
- ... film.) Lastly, one has to consider what the biggest motives would be to kill the President. One motive has to deal with President Kennedy trying to get out of Vietnam. This war was the biggest business in America at the time. It brought in over eighty billion dollars a year. Thus, since the President was trying to get out of the war, he would have been costing business men a lot of money. Also, vice-president Johnson would have profited a lot because he was the next to become president. Thus, people, including the vice-president, had motives to kill the President. As ...
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