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- 2161: Haiti
- ... 1804, their were high hopes for this black republic. However, after two centuries of independence. the Haitian people are still struggling to achieve true democracy. Haitian politics has been marked by a series of coup d' etats, rigged elections, and martial law. The Haitian constitution adopted in March 1987, declares Haiti to be a republic with three branches of government: The Executive, Legislative, and the Judicial. The Executive is shared by ... and live by subsistence farming. Only ten percent of the population knows how to read and write. Most of those who do work for wages are employed in the agricultural sector, making sixty cents a day. Commerce employs fifteen percent of the labor force, while seven percent work in manufacturing. Women outnumber men as factory workers. Industrial wages of two dollars a day are the lowest in the Caribbean. The rest of the labor force is distributed among the service industries, mining, and public institutions. There are more than eight hundred self taught painters in Haiti. They ...
- 2162: Doris Lessing's Life and Her Writings
- ... ruinous or just ordinarily exasperating. The two speak in “ farmer’s language” which is all foreign to her (Lessing, 1252). A swarm of locust are said to be near by and should be in any day. To a farmer, locusts are detrimental. They consume everything in sight leaving him with nothing but a memory of the crop he once had. On the outside, the immediate conflict of the story is keeping ... where she published her first novel, The Grass Is Singing. Lessing said that “I’ve always been a writer... but not until I was quite old-twenty-six or seven-did I realize that I’d better...get down to business. I was working in a lawyer’s office at the time, and I remember walking in and saying to my boss, I’m giving up my job because I ‘m ... s is her use of inverted sentence structure as in the following sentence: ‘Beautiful it was, with the sky blue’.” Lessing also uses irony in her writing. Margaret’s feelings are paradoxical. Margaret, after a day of feeling revulsion for the locusts is now entranced by them (1256). Though the farm is now bare and desolate, Margaret forgets all of that for a moment. She watches the locusts the next ...
- 2163: Napoleon Bonaparte: A Great Mastermind
- ... favour. None of these men were to be easily cowed by a "wild haired little runt "of only twenty six. Yet, as Augereau one of the generals admitted , something about this Bonaparte frightened them. That day Napoleon issued the following order, "Soldiers! You are badly fed, almost naked. The government owes you a great deal, but it can do nothing for you. Your patience and courage do you honor, but give ... Pairs. He left his army in the hands of General Jean Kleber. Napoleon sailed home along with three other ships, and on October 16, 1799 he arrived in Paris. Napoleon then participated in the coup d'etat that ultimately led to his virtual dictatorship of France. Barley thirty years old, he became First Consul of France. As First Consul, Napoleon directly controlled the entire executive authority of the government. Napoleon had ... defeated the Prussians in the battle of Jena, and captured , Berlin. The Prussian king fled to Russia and Napoleon advanced through Poland. While away he was in constant communications with Paris. He received word every day of its internal affairs even though he was 1500 miles away. On February 8, 1997, Napoleon fought an even battle with the Russians at Eylan, Germany, and on June 14 he destroyed the Russian ...
- 2164: Stranger Than Fiction Brave Ne
- ... to the government and Ford is in question. And you know how strongly the DHC objects to anything intense or long and drawn out. Four months of Henry Foster without having another man - why, he d be furious if he knew... Sex is discussed openly in Brave New World, it is not seen as dirty, shameful or something to be discussed behind closed doors. From a young age children learn about ... encouraged to participate in sex play from a young age. Those who do not wish to participate are taken to a psychologist for an evaluation. One night stands in Brave New World are an every day event and a part of life. Even the religion in Brave New World is linked to sex. During their solidarity services they chant , Orgy- porgy, Ford and fun, Kiss the girls and make them One ... make their bodies more attractive to the opposite sex. The media bombards us with the image of the so called perfect people . Men with rippled abs and woman with a size three waist and size D chests. Those in our world who are not considered beautiful are belittled because of their appearance. Some people will go to such lengths that they starve themselves. We have been searching for a way ...
- 2165: Jessica Savitch: The Dark Side of a Golden Girl
- ... and Jessica Savitch, a twenty-three-year-old, ambitious, blond, is on her way to Houston, Texas. She has been hired to be a reporter for KHOU T.V., a CBS affiliate. On her first day, she tags along with reporter Judd McIlvain and announces her plans for the future. "My plans are to be a network anchor by the time I'm thirty. I'm going to replace Walter Cronkite ... the most intense relationship I was ever around," says Kershaw's friend, journalist Dick Williams. "For both Ron and Jessica, it would be more than love, more than hate, but an obsession," (Nash, 101). One day, Jessica shows up at work badly bruised. She and Ron have been fighting, and everyone knows it. They break up and make up repeatedly, a cycle that continues throughout her life. Jessica Savitch gets a ... are not invited. For the first time, she is featured on the cover of People Magazine. Ron Kershaw knows it is exactly how she wants it. "I was so proud of her," he says. "She'd made it," (Blair, 347).
- 2166: Terry Fox
- ... of very supportive friends and family Terry had a dream, that night, and in life. "I had a dream that night, that I would run right across Canada. I didn't even know if I'd be able to walk, but it was something that never left me, that dream, that fantasy" (Brown 12). Fortunately, Terry made it though the operation successfully, and in no time was up doing the things ... work Terry always saw sunshine ahead and never wanted others to feel pity or compassion for him, he instead told them that he was doing what he loved (Brown 14). Terry ran 26 miles every day for 143 days. Unluckily, Terry was admitted to a hospital Monday, September 1, 1980 after a severe collapse (Brown 72). There the doctors did extensive tests especially on his lungs and this was the exact ... passed on June 28, 1981. To date over $200 million has been raised and the numbers continue to grow with every annual Terry Fox run. In fact the Terry Fox run is "the largest single-day fun-raiser for cancer research in the world" (T.F. Foundation). The Terry Fox foundation keeps records of the results, successes, notable events and fundraising of the annual Terry Fox runs. Sep. 13, 1981 ...
- 2167: John F. Kennedy
- ... his congressional district therefore he began his campaign two years before the election, meeting with hundreds of thousands of people in Massachusetts. "Kennedy defeated Lodge by 70,000"1 votes despite the fact that Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Presidential candidate, carried the state by just over 200,000 votes. As a candidate for the Senate, Kennedy promised the voters that he would do more for Massachusetts than Lodge had ever ... quarantine zone, while Khrushchev and Kennedy discussed the issue through diplomatic channels. Khrushchev, realizing his weak military position, sent one of two messages to Kennedy in which he agreed to remove the missiles. The following day, before the United States could respond to the first note a second was sent by Khrushchev to try and negotiate terms. Kennedy responded to the first message and an agreement was met for the Soviet ... on a horse-drawn carriage from the White House to the Rotunda of the Capitol. Hundreds of thousands of people filed past the coffin of the slain president. A state funeral was held the next day where "representatives of 92 nations attended."7 It has been estimated that as many as "1 million people"8 lined the streets of Washington as the funeral procession made its way slowly to Arlington ...
- 2168: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... favour. None of these men were to be easily cowed by a "wild haired little runt "of only twenty six. Yet, as Augereau one of the generals admitted , something about this Bonaparte frightened them. That day Napoleon issued the following order, "Soldiers! You are badly fed, almost naked. The government owes you a great deal, but it can do nothing for you. Your patience and courage do you honor, but give ... Pairs. He left his army in the hands of General Jean Kleber. Napoleon sailed home along with three other ships, and on October 16, 1799 he arrived in Paris. Napoleon then participated in the coup d'etat that ultimately led to his virtual dictatorship of France. Barley thirty years old, he became First Consul of France. As First Consul, Napoleon directly controlled the entire executive authority of the government. Napoleon had ... defeated the Prussians in the battle of Jena, and captured , Berlin. The Prussian king fled to Russia and Napoleon advanced through Poland. While away he was in constant communications with Paris. He received word every day of its internal affairs even though he was 1500 miles away. On February 8, 1997, Napoleon fought an even battle with the Russians at Eylan, Germany, and on June 14 he destroyed the Russian ...
- 2169: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... favour. None of these men were to be easily cowed by a "wild haired little runt "of only twenty six. Yet, as Augereau one of the generals admitted , something about this Bonaparte frightened them. That day Napoleon issued the following order, "Soldiers! You are badly fed, almost naked. The government owes you a great deal, but it can do nothing for you. Your patience and courage do you honor, but give ... Pairs. He left his army in the hands of General Jean Kleber. Napoleon sailed home along with three other ships, and on October 16, 1799 he arrived in Paris. Napoleon then participated in the coup d'etat that ultimately led to his virtual dictatorship of France. Barley thirty years old, he became First Consul of France. As First Consul, Napoleon directly controlled the entire executive authority of the government. Napoleon had ... defeated the Prussians in the battle of Jena, and captured , Berlin. The Prussian king fled to Russia and Napoleon advanced through Poland. While away he was in constant communications with Paris. He received word every day of its internal affairs even though he was 1500 miles away. On February 8, 1997, Napoleon fought an even battle with the Russians at Eylan, Germany, and on June 14 he destroyed the Russian ...
- 2170: The Use of Characters By Hawthorne and O'Connor to Teach Morality
- ... it is too much of a risk to travel that way. The family overrules her and June Star, one of the children, even comments “She wouldn’t stay home for a million bucks, afraid she’d miss something. She has to go everywhere”. The next day the grandmother is the first one in the car, which is odd because she did not even want to go to Florida. She is dressed in her Sunday best. “a navy blue straw sailor hat ... would not talk about my native state that way”. Also later in the trip, they see a poor, Negro boy on the side of the road and the grandmother says, “If I could paint, I’d paint that picture.” this shows again her putting herself on a pedestal above other people. An important stop the family makes is at Red Sammy’s Famous Barbecue. The grandmother’s conversation with Red ...
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