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- 1511: Supertitions
- ... the number 13 is probably the most common of all superstitions. Buildings avoid numbering the 13th floor. Airplanes avoid the 13th aisle. And most common of all, Friday the 13th is considered a bad luck day. Psychologists believe that Friday the 13th will become a day of bad luck if people focus on the day because people will create their own bad luck by paying attention to the superstition BLACK CATS A black and white cat crossing your path means good luck. A black cat crossing your path will ...
- 1512: Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men: Go West Young Man
- ... standing on the edge of some crazy cliff…….…I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff……….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………that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.”(Salinger 173) Holden does not want children to be exposed to the evil things of the ...
- 1513: Jane Eyre
- The role nature played in Jane Eyre's life parallels itself in many people's lives. I cannot count the many instances that I was having a terrible day and the weather outside was absolutely dreary. Often, days began as sunny but turned cloudy and my mood coincided along with it. Nature constantly spoke to Jane; it reaffirmed thoughts and feelings for Jane and ... girl, Jane was treated harshly. Mrs. Reed cared little for Jane and this feeling was often reflected in her actions. Instead of punishing her own troublesome children, Mrs. Reed cast all punishment on Jane. One day Jane was placed in the red-room, so she curled up with a book. While slowly browsing through Bewick's History of British Birds Jane took a special notice of "the solitary rocks and promontories ... with a seclusion" that was not expected. (Bronte 91) The effect of nature in this passage foreshadows dilemmas Jane would encounter while residing there. After residing at Thornfield for several months, Jane finally took a day off and accomplished many errands in town. On her way back home, Jane happened by a stranger on a horse. They spoke and after some discussion, the gentleman discovered she resided at Thornfield. In ...
- 1514: Unidentified Flying Objects: Fact or Fiction?
- ... any vegetable growth for many years afterwards (Life 125). Many allege that not only have they been visited, but kidnapped too. One of my main research sources, a curious, but perhaps crafty David Jacobs, Ph.D., took 60 men and women who claimed abduction and put them under hypnosis in an effort to document and establish whether all this mumbo jumbo is true. Although generally most abductees remember nothing but the ... a few quotes of the literally hundreds of repetitive speech patterns in his book. I get the feeling this "Dr." Jacobs is trying to make a believable, sensational story by feeding the reader what we'd like to hear: Kind aliens, cross breeding, scientific experimentation, etc. (Although I found fault with one of my primary sources, it by no means typifies the value of other such publications. Each book must be ... quarantined the area, shipped everything away, and told the witnesses that it was their "patriotic duty" to keep the incident a secret. Nonetheless, Barnett and the students went public about it (Life 74). To this day, hundreds of reports and books detail this famous "Roswell incident" and claim that the government, again, is hiding undeniable proof of alien life. The Viking mission to Mars in 1976 is another prime example ...
- 1515: Slavey Then And Now
- ... slavery that goes on in today’s society? What about the people who are forced to do hard labor like many years ago? Many people do not realize it but indeed we do have modern-day slavery. What is today’s modern day slavery? There are several things that can be put into today’s slavery. This is one problem that is often over looked in today’s society. It may not have as much impact as it ... example in Sudan, as a result of an Islamic vs. Christian civil war, women and children that are mostly black and Christian are captured in raids. They are later sold as chattel slaves in “modern day slave markets”. Now the question that I have is, “ Does a human life have a price?” Well according to these people it does, and the price that they decided to put on a human ...
- 1516: My Perception of William Shakespeare's Othello
- ... the two seem inextricably intertwined. Military operations are Othello's primary priority. Othello had been a soldier since he was seven years old (" ...since these arms of mine had seven years' pith.....they have us'd/ Their dearest action in the tented field" 1.3.83-85). So Othello was not a newcomer to the battlefield. Yet, Othello encounters a battlefield the likes of which he has never seen when he ... as Othello who loves his wife in this way can be corrupted. In Act 2, Scene 3, Iago speaks of Othello's relationship with Desdemona and joyously proclaims that Othello's "soul is so enfetter'd to her love/ That she my make, unmake, do what she list,/ Even as her appetite shall play the god/ With his weak function"(351-54). Iago is absolutely determined to pervert this man who ... the rough and ready, good hearted soldier. In the same speech, he alludes to having had the opportunity to kill Roderigo, a man who has said evil things about Othello: "Nine or ten times/I'd thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs"(4-5). Clearly to me, Iago is lying about what he would actullly have done, yet he wants to show that he is a ...
- 1517: The Black Panther Party
- The Black Panther Party On the day October 15, 1966, a revolutionary nationalists organization was founded by two men, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The name of their group was called the Black panther Party of Self Defense. The purpose of ... of human beings." Fifth, "We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society." Sixth, "We want all black men to be exempt from military service." Seventh, "We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people." Eighth, "We want freedom for all black men ... Nonviolence has died with King's death." This is our general consensus: no more hoses, whippings, and dogs. People shouldn't be asked to bleed peacefully, Malcolm has said. People are too busy singing; they'd better start swinging. Now people will see we're right and support us (Hilliard182). Malcolm X was quoted saying "there is no such thing as a bloodless revolution, and we were soldiers prepared to ...
- 1518: Toni Morrison's Beloved: Sethe, A Brave Mother In Love, Or Is She Selfish In Her Weakness?
- ... daughter from a horrific life, yet, Sethe refuses to acknowledge that her show of compassion is also murder. Throughout the work, seems to have two separate identities, which affect her actions. When reunited with Paul D., Sethe recalls her reactions to School Teacher’s arrival with no mention to her daughter’s death. “Oh, no. I wasn’t going back there [Sweet Home]. I went to jail instead” (42) Sethe believes ... a moral stand in not letting herself be taken into custody. In her statement she has done two things, she has disassociated herself from the act, and also morally justified what had happened. When Paul D, upon finding out what had really happened, confronts Sethe. She again ignores the issue. “…So when I got here, even before they let me get out of bed, I stitched her a little something… all ... is Sethe’s denial of freedom.” (Malle 216) Sethe’s guilt will not allow her to love herself, or let herself be loved. Sethe’s conscience is the ghost that plagues her house. When Paul D first enters the house, Sethe almost lets the “responsibility of her breasts, at last [be] in somebody else’s hands” (18). As soon as this thought occurs, the ghost attacks and wreaks havoc, the ...
- 1519: Theresienstadt
- ... was lice because of the close living conditions. Even though the S. S kept the delousing station running non stop, the second a person returned to their bunks the lice would be back within a day or two. Besides the lice, there were thousands of bugs infesting Theresienstadt. One woman remembers killing 120 bugs on her wall in one night, just to find another 50 the next day. Physicians removing plaster casts often found swarms of bugs living underneath infesting the persons arm. Keeping clean in Theresienstadt was close to impossible. A resident would be considered lucky if they could shower once every two months. The water was restricted to be on only three times a day for one hour. During this time thousands of people would have to do their laundry and bath. Laundry was done once every three months at most, and the clothes would be dirty within a ...
- 1520: Greek Olympics
- ... the arriving guest are poets, philosophers, princess, politicians, historians, soldiers, sculptors, and horse breeders. There were ever hobos from Elis and nearby Pisa. There were fishermen from the coast and off shore islands. On second day early in the morning of the Olympia festival the low stands around the hippodrome began to fill up with crowds eager to see the chariot and horse races. They pushed and shaved and elbowing their ... stadium to watch the athletes compete in all five events of the pentathlon. The five events of pentathlon-the discuss throw, long jump, javelin throw, stade race, and upright wrestling. The morning of the third day of the Olympia Festival was the most solemn ritual of all, the official sacrifices to the god Zeus. Early that morning a procession formed headed by the purple-robbed Hellanodica. Priests and attendants and a ... was made of ashes 20 feet high, which were the piled-up remains of many sacrifices made over the years. When the sun just started to rise over the eastern horizon it marked the fourth day of the Olympic Festival and the beginning of the first of three foot races. They are Long Race or Dolichos, the Stade Race, and the last was the Double Stade Race or Dialos. The ...
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