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- 1941: My Friend April
- ... walked April to her house because I she had to be home before I did. As I was leaving April guaranteed me that she would be over first thing in the morning to start our day of fun. I was so excited that I ran home, chasing fireflies and skipping through the neighbor's yard. After getting 'tucked in,' the process where my mother wraps my blanket around me and tucks them under my body, I was ready for bed. The only thing I could think of that night was all of the fun things that we were going to do that next day. I left my window open so I could listen to the sounds of summer while trying to fall asleep. I awoke early that morning to hear loud sirens and to see flames towering above the ... our neighborhood had taken the life of my best friend, April. Immediately I started crying. I felt helpless. I had no one to talk to. I ran outside hoping to see April to start our day of fun like she promised. I looked toward her house and saw nothing but a heap of burnt wood and glass. The ashes were still smoking and the smell of smoke was still in ...
- 1942: Unity Amid Diversity
- ... to come. Along with the Civil Rights Movement came several organized protests, boycotts and marches. Each one represented a certain ethic of morality towards African-Americans. One of the first effective protests was the “One day bus boycott (Robinson).” After Rosa Parks’ refusal to leave her seat on the bus, many prominent equal rights activists started planning a boycott supporting her refusal. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the leader of this particular protest and got it underway. By word of mouth, the black population of Montgomery, Alabama was not to step foot onto a bus on the day of Monday, December 5, 1955. They were to instead get a ride from the Negro taxi drivers that were hired at a reduced rate or from the two hundred private cars that were offered free to bus riders on that day. The city was anxious to see if the Negroes of Montgomery were going to cooperate. They were afraid that it would be a huge failure. However, sure enough, on that cold and snowy Monday ...
- 1943: The Works of Clive Staples Lewis
- ... and then he met her" (“Richard Attenborough,” Shadowlands.). The movie takes place in the 1930's while Lewis, played by Anthony Hopkins, is teaching at an Oxford college and living as a bachelor. Then one day he receives a letter from a poetess, Joy Gresham whom he had been writing to for quite some time. The letter told him that Joy was coming to visit England and wished for her and ... s perspectives on the universe, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966), Spenser's Images of Life (1967), Selected Literary Essays (1969), and Present Concerns (1986). C. S. Lewis wrote two autobiographies that allow present-day readers to peer into his mind and writing. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life was published in 1955 and described his miraculous conversion from atheism to Christianity (“John Visser,” Literary Works. Online ... the majority of the story takes place in a neighboring land of Narnia called Calormen. It has a Turkish flavor with men in turbans and Turkish style buildings. A poor abused child called Shasta works day and night for his father until a talking horse comes with its master to rest the night at his house. The horse, Bree, convinces Shasta to take him away to Narnia from where he ...
- 1944: Cloning
- ... value judgments pertaining to human conduct in the area of biology and includes those related to the practice of medicine, has been an important aspect of all areas in the scientific field (Bernstein, Maurice, M.D.). It is one of the factors that says whether or not certain scientific research can go on, and if it can, under which rules and regulations it must abide by. One of the most recent ... responded to Dolly with a mixture of fear and excitement, questioning the benefits and the disasters that could happen in the future if research was to continue. From a poll taken by Maurice Bernstein, M.D., the results showed that 72% of the votes said that cloning should be prohibited by law. They believe that cloning for any reason would be an unethical and immoral thing to do. A common misconception ... in jeopardy of extinction. This would help their species survive and hopefully end extinction of many of the beautiful plants and animals that were once plentiful on this earth. CLONING BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Bernstein, Maurice M.D. “Cloning of Humans.” Feburary 27, 1997. http://www- hsc.usc.edu/~mbernste/ 2. Bernstein, Maurice M.D. “-The Ethical Issue- Cloning of Humans: Will it be Ethical? Should it be Done?” http://www-usc. ...
- 1945: The Crazy Horse Electric Game
- ... good, under the agreement that he will clean up, and stay out of Lacey's (The bus driver) way. Willie finds out when Lacey says Human Relations Management, that he is a pimp. The next day Lacey and Willie go to look at the school. Willie goes in while Lacy stays in the car. It is a private school, and the owner, André, offers free tuition as long as Willie will ... until Lacey is flat out cold. Then Angle runs and calls the ambulance, and gets mad at Willie. She tells Willie that when Lacey wakes up he is going to kill Willie. So the next day Willie goes to the hospital. André had offered for Willie to stay in the basement of the school if he needed too a little while ago. Willie went in there, and he saw Lacey. At ... abused him when he was younger. Lacey told Willie that Then Willie asks if that was the reason that Lacey took him in was to make up for what happened to his son. The next day at school, Lisa told Willie to ask Lacey for a hundred and forty dollars, for a special course. She said to tell Lacey that all the students were taking it, and Willie was getting ...
- 1946: No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- ... maintains itself through "Big-Brother" tactics that include the use of censors, secret police, and ordinances like "TALKING POLITICS FORBIDDEN." The sweeping control that is present under this martial law is evident in the every day life of the Colonel and the people of his town. The first example of the nature of their lives is shown through the funeral. A poor musician has died of natural causes; the first in ... nothing the Colonel feels ashamed. The Colonel knows that the state of affairs is not in order and most likely there will never be anything for him, and yet year after year, hoping that the day will come, he waits for the letter. "Fifteen years of waiting had sharpened his intuition. The rooster had sharpened his anxiety." (p.20) He lies to the doctor in his claim that he "wasn't ... aware. His wife tells him to go sell their clock with firm reproach that they might eat. The Colonel ends up getting an overnight loan in the belief that the letter would come the next day. Hunger is a powerful force, and it drives the Colonel and his wife to contemplate selling the rooster or making stew with it. Somehow they always find just a little bit of money to ...
- 1947: Sorrow
- ... If they get a traffic ticket, they think the world is coming to the end. People who deal with sorrow like this are not being reasonable. Do these people believe these minor flaws in their day-to-day living are going to have a life long affect on them? They do not have to be sad, but they choose to be. One day I got my second traffic ticket in my first year of driving. As soon as I looked into my rear view mirror and saw the officer turn on his flashing lights, my heart sank ...
- 1948: Catcher In The Rye
- ... many of Salinger s short stories and especially his most well-known novel he writes about how the main character falls from his or her own innocence then rises to face their challenges. In J.D. Salinger s , Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield goes through a fall from his innocence throughout his journey to his safe haven, home. One example of when Holden fell from his own innocence is when ... rye is when Holden first sees the "fuck you" on the wall. Holden said, It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other 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 think about it even worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever d written it.(Salinger 201) Holden s final fall comes when he is in the Egyptian ...
- 1949: Catcher in the Rye: Holden Goes Through a Fall From His Innocence
- ... many of Salinger's short stories and especially his most well-known novel he writes about how the main character falls from his or her own innocence then rises to face their challenges. In J.D. Salinger's , Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield goes through a fall from his innocence throughout his journey to his safe haven, home. One example of when Holden fell from his own innocence is when ... rye is when Holden first sees the "fuck you" on the wall. Holden said, It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other 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 think about it even worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it.(Salinger 201) Holden's final fall comes when he is in the Egyptian ...
- 1950: ANwar Sadats DEcision To Make
- ... were supplying Israel with armaments. The three nations, Britain, France, and Israel attacked Egypt, and immediately defeated the Egyptians. The French and British protected and occupied the canal. The next war fought was the Six Day War(1967), which was fought between Israel and three other countries. In the south, Israel fought the Egyptians. In the central region, they fought Jordan, and in the north, they fought Syria. Israel managed to defeat all three countries without any trouble, and gain significant territory that would serve as its buffers in future years (Gilbert, pg. 67-68). On October 6, 1973, the Jews celebrated their holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur. This was the only war that the Israelis were not prepared for. The Egyptians and Syrians planned this surprise attack on Israel, knowing that they weren’t expecting the invasion. They didn’t think that the Arabs would have the nerve to attack on the holiest day. Since it is a fast day, that made it worse, since the soldiers were considerably weaker on that day. Nine Arab states helped along with the Egyptian-Syrian war effort. The Yom Kippur War ...
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