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- 221: Summary of Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Summary of Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles is a novel in which his protagonist and other characters are confronted by an almost endless array of moral and socially acceptable choices. Thomas Hardy makes the reader to take a critical look at ... s decision making in the society in which they live. Thomas Hardy presents his reader with three major characters. They are the protagonist Tess Durbeyfield, Angel Clare (Tess's longtime love and husband)and Alec D'Urberville (Tess's seducer and husband). It is these three major characters whom Hardy chooses to place in the most precarious moral and social dilemmas. It is through these characters and their dilemmas that ...
- 222: History Of The Original Lincol
- ... over 7,000 doubled overnight. At 2:30 p.m. Douglas began speaking and the battle was on! The Little Giant, Douglas, displayed the art that marked him as the master “stump-speaker” of his day. He first criticized Lincoln’s background and political history. He talked about Black inferiority, and the social as well as political dangers of freeing Blacks. The highlight of his speech was the surprising argument he ... Republican Party and Lincoln’s connection to it. He argued that Lincoln did not deny being a part of that party. He talked of the Springfield convention and reminded Lincoln of his whereabouts on that day. Now I want to remind Mr. Lincoln that he was at Springfield when that Convention was held and those resolutions adopted. The point I am going to remind Mr. Lincoln of is this: that after I had made my speech in 1854, during the fair, he gave me notice that he was going to reply to me the next day. I was sick at the time, but I staid over in Springfield to hear his reply and to reply to him. On that day this very Convention, the resolutions adopted by which I have ...
- 223: All An Adventurer Must Know Ab
- ... the visitor to travel by train into IV1alaysia and Singapore. Domestic express trains comprise first, second and third-class carriages. Slower trains may have only third-class seats. The State Railway of Thailand organises one- day, two-day economy tours to various destinations on Saturdays, Sundays and official holidays. Other tours include trips to SuratThani (for Koh Samui), Chumphon and Chiang Mai. Railway schedules can be obtained from Bangkok Railway Station, Tel: 223 ... from 8.00 AM to 6.00 PM, Mondays through Fridays, and from 9.00 AM to 1.00 PM on Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays. Telegrams may be sent at any time of the day or night. Upcountry post offices maintain similar hours, except that they close at 4.30 PM. Telex and Fax All better hotels will offer complete telex, telegraph and facsimile ("fax") services. The GPO offers ...
- 224: F.D.R. And The Work Reform Programs
- F.D.R. And The Work Reform Programs The Great Depression was a time of doubt, unemployment, and above all, hopelessness. The people needed someone to save them from starving. So when a strong willed man full ... that they were back on their feet in no time. These programs were called “The New Deal.” One part of “The New Deal” was to help the unemployed and their rights as workers. When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, he immediately began to start new programs to help the people. The programs that were set up were to help the unemployed. The reaction of the people to this “New ... men were given a place to stay, cloths, food and also monthly payments for their work. The work that these men did was to restore beaches, forests, and parks. They were paid a dollar a day and they would receive thirty dollars a month. They sent twenty-five dollars home to their families, and kept the rest for their own expenses. This was set up to keep men in school ...
- 225: William Shakespeare’s Sonnet,
- ... gone or it may be too late. That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In quatrain one, Shakespeare has come to the understanding that death is upon him by describing the changes of autumn leaves, bordering on the aging process and his ... slow and discouraging process he is building on the hopes that someone will feel sorry for him and acknowledge the fact that he may die soon. In me thou see’st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest. The second quatrain is focusing on twilight and the metaphors adjoining death. This is the time between night and day symbolizing life and death, he is saying that I am close to death I don’t have much time. In the last two sentences of the quatrain, the end of the day resembles the ...
- 226: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... was the fact that Ozzy had a little too much to drink that evening as usual. Another thing that Ozzy has done because of the fact that it just made him mad is that one day Ozzy’s wife Sharon came home one day and found Ozzy on the floor underneath the piano with a shotgun in one hand and a bloody knife in the other with seventeen dead cats all around him. What happened is Ozzy had drank ... of them. He just didn’t care if they died or not. If that’s not enough for you to realize that Ozzy doesn’t care about what people think then listen to this. One day Ozzy was in a very expensive motel and once again was drinking heavily, and decided to take a trip down to the bottom floor on the elevator. Well on the way down he must ...
- 227: Dorothy Day
- Dorothy Day and Her Controversial Views Dorothy Day was a very compassionate women. She has made many contributions to our society though she could be considered a socialist and a pacifist. Her views on Christianity were to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." According to Day, as Christians and children of God, we should all be called to treat the poor as one of us, even though they might not deserve what they get. Many people feel that the poor ...
- 228: A Review: The Day of the Jackal
- A Review: The Day of the Jackal The Day of the Jackal, written by Fredrick Forsyth, is a fictional novel that displays the author's brilliance by setting a mood and connecting you with the characters. The Day of the Jackal takes place in post World War II in France. The Jackal is a professional assassin, whose name is not revealed, who is hired by a French terrorist group to kill Charles ...
- 229: Characters From Shakesperes Tw
- ... idle, extravagant, passionate young men, he spends much time sighing windily for an unattainable "beloved," and again, like Olivia, he's consumed with the sort of melancholy that was fashionable among aristrocrats in Shakespeare's day. Indeed, perhaps even more than Olivia, Orsino is a parody of an aristocrat, with his languid craving for music, his fanciful philosophizing on the nature of love, and even his spiteful, despotic willingness to "sacrifice ... headedness and self-restraint. But at least in the end Orsino, again like Olivia, recovers a kind of balance, and in his dealings with Malvolio and his quick acceptance of Viola as a bride (he'd loved her all along, anyway, in her guise of a page) he shows a basic strain of goodwill and good sense. Sebastian Sebastian is essentially a male version of Viola, with all the differences in ... quick and deep affection he conceives for the boy, and in his loyally following Sebastian to Illyria, even against the young man's wishes. His courage, of course, is clear from the fact that he'd brave such hostile territory to join his friend, as well as from his ready intercession in the duel between Viola and Andrew. Finally, his courage may be inferred from his outstanding feats in the ...
- 230: Creative Writing: Dogs and Cats
- ... them knew. They stared right back at the mangy cat with hate in their eyes. Its tail was curling back and forth. "Can't we wait this time?" "No." "But-" "We could stand here all day, but we'd have to leave sometime. What's the use?" Scampi smacked the tree with his little paw. Nature was most unjust. The cat began cleaning itself arrogantly. The nerve, thought Scampi. Here's this new cat ... can roam around like a king. "There's a chain of command around here!" Scampi snarled. "Okay, it's over." Mustard sighed and lay down. This was the third time in a week that they'd failed. He had been around long enough to know when he was beat. "No respect. Where's the respect?" Scampi circled the tree in a haze of anger, his tiny legs beating furiously on ...
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