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- 2571: Herman Melville
- ... in American history. Melville's heritage and youthful experiences were fairly important in forming the conflicts his artistic vision deals with. Herman Melville was born in New York City on Aug. 1, 1819, the third child of Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill, in a family that was to grow to four boys and four girls. ("Herman Melville" http://www.comptons.com) His family had been among the Scottish and Dutch settlers ... s economy, while not restoring former prosperity, had at least started the Melvilles toward financial and social recovery. Gansevoort had become a persuasive orator in the presidential campaign of James Polk. Allan, long the problem child of the family, was making good as a lawyer on Wall Street. (Hillway 39) Encouraged by his family's enthusiastic reception of his tales of the South Seas, Melville wrote them down. The years of ...
- 2572: The Scarlet Letter: The Theme of Punishment
- ... pride and dignity. Hester knew that what was done in the past was wrong and that the scarlet A was the right thing to do, therefor it is worn with a sense of pride. The child, Pearl, is "a blessing and as a reminder of her sin." As if the scarlet A were not enough punishment there "was a brat of that hellish breed" which would remind Hester of what happened ... given away to Governor Bellingham yet Hester proclaimed that Pearl "is my happiness!...Ye shall not take her! I will die first!" Not a person in Boston, nor Hester herself thought highly of the little child and Hester refused to let Pearl go. Hester carried the kid around only because it was a direct reflection of her sin and to cast away here sin as freely as that to give it ...
- 2573: Warriors Dont Cry: Integration In Little Rock's Central High School
- ... difficult for Melba to live through the school year because people kept on abusing her, including needing a bodyguard at times. Melbas mother and grandma raised her in an African-American neighborhood. As a child, Melbas parents separated. Melba experienced a lot of racial differences as a child. In fact, a white man even raped her when she was little. She never really understood why whites hated her so much because of her skin color. When it came time for Governor Fabus to ...
- 2574: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... a special place, whether chosen by a conscious decision or not this is a place where one can go to sort their thoughts. Nature can often provide comfort by providing a nurturing surrounding where a child is forced to look within and choices can be made untainted by society. Mark Twain once said "Don't let school get in the way of your education." Twain states that this education which is ... We saw Huck grow up by having the river as a place of solitude and thought, where he was able to participate in society at times, and also sit back and observe society. Through the child's eye we see how ignorant and mob-like we can all be. Then nature, peace, and logic are presented in the form of the river where Huck goes to think. Though no concise answer ...
- 2575: Anne Hutchinson
- ... but inspired by love for God, waiting on Him. 12. Holy Spirit dwells within each Christian like a personal union. 13. The Law should be interpreted by each person as their own conscience dictates. 14. Child baptism is wrong because the child doesn't know what is being done to him or her. Sources: Colonial Period of American History, pps. 478-479. The Emancipation of Massachusetts, p. 219. Out of Our Past, p. 18. Four Women in ...
- 2576: Young Goodman Brown 3
- ... becomes nightmarish." (Shear 545) He comes back to the town "projecting his guilt onto those around him." (Tritt 114) Brown expresses his discomfort with his new surroundings and his excessive pride when he takes a child away from a blessing given by Goody Cloyse, his former Catechism teacher, as if he were taking the child "from the grasp of the fiend himself." His anger towards the community is exemplified when he sees Faith who is overwhelmed with excitement to see him and he looks "sternly and sadly into her face ...
- 2577: Silko's Ceremony: Gender Roles
- ... are Tayo's birth mother, Auntie, and Old Grandma. His mother left him when he was four years old and that began his sense of emptiness and abandonment. She could not bear to raise a child that brought the reservation shame by her mistake. Auntie raised Tayo and was the mother figure he lacked. She willingly accepted to take him, but only to "conceal the shame of her younger sister (29 ... nursed him because he was all she had left after Rocky got killed. He would wake up crying after dreaming about how much Josiah had loved him and always hugged him when he was a child (32). Now he realized that there was no place left for him and he would never find peace (32). Auntie may have been a mother figure to him, but to Tayo she was just someone ...
- 2578: The Infamous Watergate Scandal
- ... of those involved, John Mitchell. (Gold, 246-247) The next witness scheduled to appear was John Dean. In Dean's testimony he exposed that the Watergate burglary had been only a part of a greater abuse of power. He said that for four years the White House had used the powers of the presidency to attack political enemies. They spied on and harassed anyone who did not agree with Nixon's ... subpoenaed tapes. (Westerfled 51-54) "On July 27-30, the House Judiciary Committee, whose public hearings had disclosed evidence of illegal White house activities, recommended that Nixon be impeached on three charges: obstruction of Justice, abuse of presidential power, and trying to impede the impeachment process by defying committee subpoenas." (Watergate) Millions of people watched the committee vote on television. There were twenty-seven votes for the impeachment and only eleven ...
- 2579: The Infamous Watergate Scandal
- ... of those involved, John Mitchell. (Gold, 246-247) The next witness scheduled to appear was John Dean. In Dean's testimony he exposed that the Watergate burglary had been only a part of a greater abuse of power. He said that for four years the White House had used the powers of the presidency to attack political enemies. They spied on and harassed anyone who did not agree with Nixon's ... subpoenaed tapes. (Westerfled 51-54) "On July 27-30, the House Judiciary Committee, whose public hearings had disclosed evidence of illegal White house activities, recommended that Nixon be impeached on three charges: obstruction of Justice, abuse of presidential power, and trying to impede the impeachment process by defying committee subpoenas." (Watergate) Millions of people watched the committee vote on television. There were twenty-seven votes for the impeachment and only eleven ...
- 2580: Arthur Miller-BIO
- ... the age of seventeen that he read Tom Swift, and Rover Boys, and started to dabble into the books of Dickens
. He passed through the public school system unscathed. His family remembered him as a child handy with tools, he even built their back porch and planted roses in the back yard. In brief Arthur Miller was a very physical child. Some people say that some of the basis for his wonderful plays would never have been there if it werent for his extremely active childhood. With all of his great experiences and special childhood ...
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