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- 1211: Building Blocks of a Family
- ... idea to check his assignments everyday. This wears down on Daisy and she becomes less involved in her daughter's life, and short towards her husband. "By the time her husband, Matt, came home, she'd be snappish. She would recite the day's hardships… Matt would look surprised and confused, and Daisy would gradually wind down. There was no way, really, to convey how exhausting all this was." (Schwiebert 287) The lines of communication were broken. People ... anything that Daisy was doing getting through to him? Was it her fault? "Had she really done all that she could have? She longed - she ached - for a time machine. Given one more chance, she'd do it perfectly…" (Schwiebert 288) Daisy felt useless. She carried all the blame, and thought that she was the reason for Donny's downfall. Maybe if she had done things differently, it wouldn't ...
- 1212: John Coltrane
- ... also Monk, with his spare and unpredictable chords and clusters. Davis, characteristically, paid the tersest homage, when, on being told that his music was so complex that it required five saxophonists, he replied that he'd once had Coltrane. In the late fifties Coltrane released a number of sessions for Prestige (and, more notably, Blue Train and Giant Steps for Blue Note and Atlantic respectively) in which he was the nominal ... absolute purity through the abnegation of sentimentality. Sonny Rollins, the contemporary tenor most admired by Coltrane, always had a richer tone, and Coltrane himself said of the mellifluous Stan Getz, "Let's face it – we’d all sound like that if we could." Despite these frequent and generous tributes, Coltrane's aim was different, as is clear in his revival of the soprano sax. Rather than lushness he sought clarity and ... and more clearly what we are. In that way, we can give to those who listen the essence, the best of what we are." The continuity of Coltrane's influence has been carried into present day. Coltrane's works have been increasingly used by acclaimed directors. His works can be heard in Spike Lee's "Mo' Better Blues" and Oliver Stone's "The Doors." This renewed interest can be attributed ...
- 1213: Harriet Stowe
- ... as His instrument. First printed as a serial in the National Era, an abolitionist paper, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was later printed as a book in 1852. It sold 3,000 copies on the first day, 300,000 the first year, and eventually sold more than 3,000,000 world wide and was translated into twenty-two different languages. Her admirers included Jenny Lind, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, George Eliot and ... Simon Legree paused in the midst of a deadly beating: "Tom looked up to his master, and answered, `Mas'r, if you was sick, or in trouble, or dying, and I could save ye, I'd give ye my heart's blood; and, if taking every drop of blood in this poor old body would save your precious soul, I'd give 'em freely, as the Lord gave his for me. O, Mas'r! don't bring this great sin on your soul! It will hurt you more than 't will me! Do the worst ...
- 1214: Roadkill Horror Story
- ... The mayor finally settled on The Highway Sanitation and Animal Removal Patrol. When Richard posted the job opening on the MorneauVille police station's bulletin board, the next morning only one man applied. Until that day Jeff's primary responsibility around the station house had been a janitor, cleaning up the mayor bathroom. During those six months Jeff had redefined the boundaries of his duties as originally envisioned by the sheriff ... Jeff chose not to inform the sheriff that he had chased the fleeing creature a good quarter mile before catching up with it. Richard took one look at the ruined dripping grill and the next day Sussex County's newest employee had his cow catcher. Tonight the cow catcher had surely done its work. The truck had caught its target dead center without Jeff's hitting the brake, and the pickup ... as he swerved the rear of the truck dove-tailed into the muddy trench along the side of the road. Jeff cut the engine and laughed a squeaky cackle. "Goddamn, that was close! If it'd been a snake, it'd bit him," he said. From behind the wheel he examined the dark lump that lay motionless near the front tire. He took his high beam flashlight from the glove ...
- 1215: What Role Will Poetry Play In
- ... song lyrics. Although not one of the most obvious forms of poetry it is becoming increasingly popular especially with young people who are exposed to it regularly. For example every time you buy a C.D album or tape you can read the lyrics of the songs printed inside. A favourite of mine is a song called Pockets by Beautiful South ; 'Here comes pockets His trousers hold a thousand deadly sins ... poetry with great impact in today s society is commercial poetry. This is used in advertising regularly, it seems that big companies have recognised that we remember things better if they rhyme. A mars a day helps work, rest and play We are exposed to advertising jingles everywhere on television, in magazines, on radio and on billboards. So it is not surprising that most us are able to recite or remember ... Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the kings horses and all the kings men Couldn t put Humpty together again.' Then at school we learn to spell difficult words like difficulty through rhyme. 'Mrs D Mrs I Mrs F F I Mrs C Mrs U Mrs L T Y!' Later at GCSE we almost all study poems by Shakespeare, Keats, Chaucer or Wordsworth. Then some people go on to ...
- 1216: Beowulf
- ... that has been in English classes around the United States for almost as long as there have been schools around. Beowulf is not an actual picture of historic Denmark, Geatland, or Sweden around 500 A.D., yet it is on a general view, a self-consistent picture, a construction bearing clearly the marks of design and thought. Beowulf to us can only truly be enjoyed if one reads it in the ... the poem, and the Danes, Swedes, and Geats provide the necessary background for Beowulf’s long and eventful life. Both history and legend place the Danes and Swedes within the fifth and sixth centuries A.D.. The North Germanic “Heroic” ages reflect much of the medieval Icelandic prose and poetry. The Danes lived in what is now called Denmark and the southern tip of Sweden. Hrothgar, whose great hall was somewhere ... loyalty that he possessed. This tells us that we as people should not always think of ourselves and try to face our problems in life as best as possible. The challenges that we face every day are much like the ones that Beowulf had to deal with over 1000 years ago. The poem Beowulf is a wonderful piece of work that teaches us that we must strive for what is ...
- 1217: Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations Speech and Yezierska’s The Bread Givers
- ... say yesterday that poverty is an ornament on a good Jew, like a red ribbon on a white horse?,” but he has a classic response for her: “ You compare a man who works for G-d, a man who holds up the flames of the holy Torah before the world, to this schnorrer?” (70). Apparently, if a man is poor, unless he is the spitting image of Reb Smolinsky, he is ... the Jews as the primary reason for existence. Scholarship was, above all else, honored among the Jews –scholarship not as a “pure” activity, not as intellectual release, but as the pathway, sometimes treacherous, to G-d. A man’s prestige, authority, and position depended to a considerable extent on his learning. Those who were learned sat at the eastern wall of the synagogue, near the Holy Ark. Women often became the ... it, and this consequence of the laboring end of the world, there is no international tribunal which can bring the moral judgments of the world to bear upon us the great labor questions of the day.” The problems of labor and attaining work are prevalent throughout the novel and addressed here, implying that if the League is entered, labor problems will be solved. The phrase, ‘international character for the rights ...
- 1218: Frederic Douglass
- ... obey order. Luckily for Frederick he was picked to be Daniel Lloyd's friend, the youngest son of the plantation's owner. Frederick also found a friend in Lucretia Auld, the master's daughter. One day in 1826 Lucretia told Frederick that he was being sent to live with her brother-in-law, Hugh Auld, who managed a ship building company in Baltimore. When Frederick got to the Auld home his ... B. Hayes, was signed in Douglass was given the ceremonial position of marshal for Washington, DC. He enjoyed this post that had a large staff responsible for the overseeing the criminal justice system in Washington D.C. As he got older Douglass settled down doing fewer speeches each year and concentrated on being Marshall. This was until he was appointed to the post of recorder of deeds for Washington, D.C., after the election of 1880. He held the job for 5 years over seeing the department that made records of property sales for the capital. This job left him time to write. He ...
- 1219: For The Love Of The Fish An Es
- ... of society. He protected the fish like no one had protected him, yet he still loses them to a force that cannot be controlled or stopped. It blew for five days, and on the third day the river began to rise. She s up to fifteen feet, my father said one evening looking over his newspaper. Which is three feet over what you need to flood. Old Dummy is going to ... his marriage. As long as he had the fish he was needed, and happy being apart of a community that never judged him. When Dummy lost this he lost his life, love, and sanity. He d changed a lot, Dummy had. He was never around any of the men anymore, not if he could help it. No one felt like joking with him either, not since he d chased Carl Lowe with a two-by four stud after Carl tipped Dummy s hat off. But the worst of it was that Dummy was missing from work a day or two a week ...
- 1220: Joan Of Arc
- Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, first known as Jeanne d'Arc, was born in the village of Domremy, in the Champagne district of northeastern France. She was born on January 6, 1412 and died May 30,1431 at the age of 19. Joan is a ... story of her life. Joan was not a well-educated woman. She had never learned to read or write but was skilled in sewing and spinning. Her deeply religious mother and father, Isabelle and Jacques d'Arc raised her. Joan's father was a small peasant farmer, poor but not needy. Joan was the youngest of a family of five. She grew up herding cattle and sheep and helping in the ... Which is a step towards canonization, or sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1920, almost 500 years after her death, the Catholic Church canonized Joan, or declared her to be a saint. Her feast day is celebrated the day of her death, May 30. Today many authors write about Joan of Arc. Patriots, people studying the super natural, supporters of women's rights, and many more admire her.
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