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- 101: Catcher In The Rye - Holden
- ... is seen when Holden tries to erase naughty words from the walls of an elementary school where his younger sister Phoebe attended. "While I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'Fuck you' on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them- all cockeyed, naturally- what it meant, and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it. I figured it was some perverty bum that'd sneaked ...
- 102: The Christian Gospels
- ... Biblical and Gnostic. Together, these two beliefs form a basis for a number of new theories about how the Gospels were written. All the Gospels were written after the Roman sack of Jerusalem in 70A.D. The first to be written was the Gospel of Mark around 75A.D. This work was intended for the Jewish audience of Judea, which had just gone through a bloody war with the Roman Empire. With that in mind, Mark focuses his story on the Death of Jesus ... of their own by the Roman soldiers. The Gospel of Matthew emphasizes the truth that Jesus was of Jewish descent. Matthew lived in the area around Jerusalem and wrote his gospel around the year 85A.D. The people he preached to be in the midst of re-building their lives after the destruction of the Temple. For that reason, Matthew felt that he needed to show that Jesus was not ...
- 103: Of Mice and Men: Lennie and George
- ... bright. George didn't want him to blow the job opportunity. The logic between waiting until morning until going to work was, that way, all the other farm hands would be out working, thus they'd have a better chance of getting the job, since Lennie wouldn't have to confront to many people, which can easily make him "confused." During that evening, George had to take a dead mouse away ... any trouble, which plays an important role later on in the story. Also in the forest, we here the story of living "off the fatta' the land," for the first time. They dreamed of one day having a place of their very own, in which Lennie could tend to as many bunnies as he would like. Lennie was apparently obsessed with this dream, because all throughout the book, he nags George ... he is, was trying to find his wife, and he couldn't find her anywhere. When he walked into the bunkhouse and saw Lennie grinning, about the dream of the place that they would one day have, of course, he began to hit him, thinking that Lennie was grinning towards him. Lennie did nothing for self defense until George told him to. He then, almost mechanically, reached out and crushed ...
- 104: Robert Johnson
- ... Mrs. Julia Dodds. Roberts mother described little Robert as a playful little boy, who "Always used to be listenin, listenin to the wind or the chickens cluckin in the backyard or me, when Id be singin round the house. And he just love church
Little Robert set on my lap and try to keep time, look like, or hold on to my skirt and sort of jig up and ... the pain of injustice which Robert, as well as most other African Americans of the time, had been forced to endure all their lives. Young Robert was intrigued by these men, and dreamed of one day singing the blues himself. His half brother Charles taught him the basics on guitar yet Johnsons most influential teacher was the famous bluesman, Son House. Son House was a student of Charlie Patton, one ... s, "The high pitch delivery, the brilliant counter melodies between phrases." (Lomax, 13) And thus, Robert Johnson unknowingly inherited the powerful influence of a long line of famous Delta bluesmen. Son House recalls how, "Wed all play for the Saturday Night Balls and thered be this little boy standing around. That was Robert Johnson. He was just a little boy then. He blew a harmonica and he was ...
- 105: Beloved. Who Or What Is Belove
- ... survive, and she accomplishes this by making the ghost her playmate. In their own little world, both Denver and her mother acclimate themselves to the sin that they must live with. The appearance of Paul D throws everything into turmoil. To Sethe, Paul D is a man that knows what her life was like before she escaped, and might understand why she killed her child. This was a man that she could share herself with. In the stage when the ghost is still in its intangible form and Paul D presents himself at the house, Sethe almost lets the "responsibility for her breasts, at last [be] in somebody else's hands" (22). As soon as she has this thought, the ghost attacks and wreaks ...
- 106: Beloved
- ... survive, and she accomplishes this by making the ghost her playmate. In their own little world, both Denver and her mother acclimate themselves to the sin that they must live with. The appearance of Paul D throws everything into turmoil. To Sethe, Paul D is a man that knows what her life was like before she escaped, and might understand why she killed her child. This was a man that she could share herself with. In the stage when the ghost is still in its intangible form and Paul D presents himself at the house, Sethe almost lets the "responsibility for her breasts, at last [be] in somebody else's hands" (22). As soon as she has this thought, the ghost attacks and wreaks ...
- 107: William Shakespeare
- ... was baptized on April 26. It was customary to baptize infants within days of birth, and because Shakespeare died 52 years later on April 23, and-most significantly-since April 23 is St. George's day, the patron saint of England, it has become traditional to assign the birth day of England's most famous poet to April 23 ( Website). As with most sixteenth century births, the actual day was never officially recorded, but along with most remarkable men the power of myth and symmetry has proven irresistible, so April 23 it has become. Parents and Family Shakespeare's parents were John and ...
- 108: Phencyclidine: The Dawn of a New Age
- ... things, this one has a darker side. 15% of patients awake from their slumber with what appeared to be an acute case of paranoid schizophrenia (Peterson; Stillman, 1978). The drug is PCP, and to this day it is the scourge of the underground drug community, and the focal point of intense scientific research. Parke Davis and Company did not know how terrible, and wonderful, a discovery they made that day; but our world has been changed forever because of it.quite possibly for the better. The Dust of Angels Phencyclidine, more commonly known as PCP, is a polycyclic compound belonging to the arylcyclohexylamine class of ... effects which are more amplified than PCP without the psychotic aftereffects (although hallucinations are reported by patients during sedation, (Halberstadt, 1995)). In special cases, ketamine is still used as an anesthetic. (C.H. Badenhorst M.D, personal communication). Ten years after its initial discovery, phencyclidine found a new audience in the scientific and underground drug culture communities (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). At this time, a few Freudian psychologists carried out ...
- 109: Belove Analysis
- ... survive, and she accomplishes this by making the ghost her playmate. In their own little world, both Denver and her mother acclimate themselves to the sin that they must live with. The appearance of Paul D throws everything into turmoil. To Sethe, Paul D is a man that knows what her life was like before she escaped, and might understand why she killed her child. This was a man that she could share herself with. In the stage when the ghost is still in its intangible form and Paul D presents himself at the house, Sethe almost lets the "responsibility for her breasts, at last [be] in somebody else's hands" (22). As soon as she has this thought, the ghost attacks and wreaks ...
- 110: Son of Dallas Cop Says Dad Was 1 of 3 Who Shot Kennedy
- ... who died in 1971, was a member of an assassination team of three shooters, that he fired two of the three bullets that killed the president, and that he also killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit during the manhunt for Lee Harvey Oswald. Among the material: a rifle with telescopic sight that uses the same kind of ammunition as Oswald's gun; records showing that Oswald and White served together ... to be interviewed, family members say. According to Military records, both White and Oswald were among a contingent of U.S. Marines, who boarded the USS Bexar in San Diego that year for the 22-day trip to Yokosuka, Japan. In its final report, the Warren Commission published a photo of Oswald with other Marines in the Philippines. All but one of the Marines was squatting on the ground. Ricky White ... by riding to Red Bird Airport in South Dallas in a city police car driven by a friend and fellow officer who did not know what was happening. That officer, Ricky White says, was J. D. Tippit, who was shot to death at 10th Street and Patton Avenue in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas about 45 minutes after Kennedy was shot. Oswald was seen running from the scene of ...
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