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- 1041: The Political Career of Richard Nixon
- ... Europe 2. Vietnam C. Domestic Policy 4. Nixon's Second Administration A. Reelection B. Watergate A few weeks after the United States entered World War II a young man named Richard Nixon went to Washington, D.C. In January 1942 he took a job with the Office of Price Administration. Two months later he applied for a Navy commission, and in September 1942 he was commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade. During ... Romney, Housing and Urban Development. John N. Mitchell was appointed attorney general; Winton M. Blount, postmaster general. The first changes in the original Cabinet were made in mid-1970. Elliot L. Richardson replaced Finch. James D. Hodg son succeeded Shultz, who became head of the Office of Management and Budget, a new agency created to replace the Bureau of the Budget. Later in 1970 Nixon dismissed Hickel, with whom he had ... cultural exchanges, and for accelerated negotiations to limit nuclear arsenals. In February 1973 it was revealed that the United States and the People's Republic of China would set up government liaison offices in Washington, D.C., and in Beijing. In May Nixon met French President Georges Pompidou in Iceland to discuss military, political, and economic relations between the United States and its Western European allies. War erupted in the ...
- 1042: Richard Lederer: His Works
- ... s School, in Concord, NH, where he taught English and media for 27 years. Richard Lederer said that he would have gladly served them for the rest of his days, but having earned a Ph.D. in English and Linguistics from the University of New Hampshire inspired him to write books on language. The enthusiastic and popular response to these books, beginning with ‘Anguished English', gave him the opportunity to leave ... to help us make sense of things, they themselves often make no sense what so ever. That's because language is blindly invented by men and women who seek useful means of communication during their day to day lives. They don't concern themselves with the practicality of their language in view of future generations. As such, language reflects the creative and fearful asymmetry of the human race, which, of course, consists ...
- 1043: Adam Smith
- ... ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence and political economy, or "police and revenue." In 1759 he published his Theory of Moral Sentiments, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures. This work, which established Smith's reputation in his own day, is concerned with the explanation of moral approval and disapproval. His capacity for fluent, persuasive, if rather rhetorical argument is much in evidence. He bases his explanation, not as the third Lord Shaftesbury and Hutcheson ... lucrative post as tutor to the young duke of Buccleuch and resigned his professorship. From 1764-66 he traveled with his pupil, mostly in France, where he came to know such intellectual leaders as Turgot, D'Alembert, AndréMorellet, Helvétius and, in particular, Francois Quesnay, the head of the Physiocratic school whose work he much respected. On returning home to Kirkcaldy he devoted much of the next ten years to his magnum ... on the ideas of great thinkers such as David Hume and Montesquieu. Nevertheless, The Wealth of Nations was the first and remains the most important book on the subject of political ecomomy until this present day. It has never, I think, been the good fortune of any founder of a scientific system to think out to the very end even the more important ideas that constitute his system. The strength ...
- 1044: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... meaning in the text. I don't know much about them. But I know one part of it fits in the mouth…If you had to wear this thing between your teeth, I guess you'd catch on in a hurry. When you felt it pull, you'd know it was time. You'd know you were going somewhere ( Cathedral 209 ) Both Marge and Betty both feel the pull of the bit between their teeth. Through communion, however, the woman gain a type of fellowship which helps them ...
- 1045: Ulysses
- ... his hero, a sense that life is a whole lot more than just a preparation for death; it is necessary, in order to have a life to be satisfied with, you mustn t "rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use When Ulysses says this, he means that your whole life, you need to be making progress, doing miraculous things. Not just living, [a]s tho to breathe were life! I ... that led me to these beliefs, happened my junior year in High School. I was at my friend Dan Bernstein s house, and we were swimming in his pool. It was a very hot summer day, and I was trying to teach him how to do an inward dive off of his diving board. As a competing diver, I had been taught to go into the water, and rip through to ... It turned out that all I had done was torn a ligament. After the whole ordeal, I thought about what happened, and what could have happened. And then coincidentally, I saw a quote the next day that really inspired me: If you had one day to live, who would you call, what would you do, why are you waiting? Since that day, I have been striving to make the absolute ...
- 1046: Alexander Pope's Literary Works
- ... Comical Poem." This poem has exalted an over all sense of worthlessness for common rules. The mentioning of Achilles and the ever-popular Aeneas, are symbols of Pope's Gothic style. Pope speaks (almost) G-D like throughout, "The Rape of Lock." Contrary to Keats, who is more down-to-earth with his sense of realism in his writings. In the beginning of Keats romantic premise to life in St. Agnes ... In comparison with Pope, Keats has distinguished himself in his writing. Pope relies on old myths and obscure legends in order to achieve his outcome of clarity. Each writer has their own hero of the day. In each writer's mind is the idea that one can be g-d through their own scripture. Each must be excused for not always being able to know what is still real and what is fiction in life. Their expensive minds have brought their own personal truth ...
- 1047: Everyday Use
- ... of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red-hot brick chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd wanted to ask her. She hated the house that much." The destruction of this symbol of poverty gave her a spark of hope that she and her family would move up in the world, that ... urge Dee had to improve everything she could. Her mother said, "Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made form an old suit somebody gave me." Even though she knew her family couldn't afford "nice things" she had a burning desire for them. This desire made her take the time and effort ... of them. Then, her mother told Dee that she wasn't able to have the quilts because she had promised them to Maggie. Dee was enraged and said, "Maggie can't appreciate these quilts! She'd probably be backwards enough to put them to everyday use." This statement clearly displays that Dee doesn't appreciate the usefulness of the objects, but only sees their value in dollar amounts. Later Dee ...
- 1048: The Catcher in The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
- The Catcher in The Rye: Unreachable Dreams Many people find that their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his psychiatrist. At first, Holden sounds like a typical, misguided teenager, rebellious towards ... start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.'" (173) Holden wants to protect the innocence of his sister and every other innocent child in the world. Before Holden meets Sally for ...
- 1049: British Imperial Regulations D
- British imperial regulations with the American colonies were closely tied in with the system of mercantilism. Mercantilism controls the relations between the leading power and the colonies under its empire. A nation would want to export more than ...
- 1050: Contributions Of Ancient Egypt
- Contributions of ancient egypt Many of ancient Egypt's contribution to society not only advanced them as a civilization but left an impressionable impact on the accomplishments of the modern day. Nestled within the fertile valley of the Nile, Egypt was protected on all sides from invasion and at the same time uninfluenced by many outside cultures. Although its overall isolation by the expanse of the ... established within Sumerian cuneiform. It was later that the Egyptians combined the Sumerian cuneiform along with an alphabetic system all into one that became the rough foundation for what is now known as the modern day alphabet. Although the Egyptians were but a step away form establishing a complete alphabet by separating the alphabetic system from the syllabic into 24 symbols they were to become ingenious for their advancement from the ... the rising of the Nile. This allowed the Egyptians to not only plant their crops on time to ensure large harvests but to also avoid the hazards of the rising waters. As for the modern day, this calendar created a way for getting into trouble when forgetting birthdays and other events such a paper due dates. Not all of the Egyptian's creations were trouble-making. The Egyptians established a ...
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