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- 3991: John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer
- ... Jazz Era. Many of the poorer characters in Manhattan Transfer made references to people such as J.P. Morgan and other Robber Barons telling great tales of their fortunes and how they too would one day do the same. This is interesting because it shows that they are not just some unknown historical characters in our history book but instead real people that everyone knew. This book continues on until the ... with the newly landed immigrants. We see how they struggled to find jobs, suffered from persecution and lived in horrible conditions. One little episode shows how one of the newly landed immigrants got a one day job of moving coal for a rich lady. She had promised to pay him one dollar for his work but at the end of the day when he was finished she gave him 25 cents and told him to leave before she called the police. I believe this to be a reflection of how most of the rich ,including the ...
- 3992: Stephen Kings' It
- ... come back.So as soon as they get there they are attacked by an old enemy who is under the power of It.They stop him by luck and escape with their lives.The next day they go to the sewers where most It victims were found(Collage of this on last page).They travel in the wastelands for hours searching for the lair of It.They find a small door ... of terror...great...Stephen King is the master of modern horror...He writes like one possessed,never cheats the reader,always gives full measure...He is brilliant...dark and sinister." -The Washington Post Book World D)My Recommendations I clearly recommend this book to people not affected by foul language and horror killings.This book is for people at least 14 and up.The ideas and mind sketches etched by Stephen ...
- 3993: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Scarlet Letter: To Live With Fear
- ... first he said that McMurphy controlled his hand. Later on he admitted that it was he who raised it. He even talked to McMurphy one night, and began laughing at the situation at hand. One day when McMurphy and the Chief tried to help another patient who was being taken advantage of by orderlies, they were caught and sentenced to electro-shock therapy (EST). The Chi usually blacked out in a ... had become "bigger," even than McMurphy, who could not lift it. By confronting his fear and dealing with it, the Chief passed his test of maturity. Reverend Dimmesdale also lived in fear. Fear that one day he would be found out as the father of the child of Hester Prynne, and an adulterer. If he was found out, he could not serve his purpose on this earth: Relaying God's word ... it, (although it almost did overcome him: His health was failing rapidly due to his guilty conscience). He knew that he would be humiliated, and that he was to leave town with Hester that very day, but he confessed anyway. His confession shows his maturity and proves that he "passed" the test. A test of maturity is whether or not one is overcome by the fear they live with. The ...
- 3994: The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
- ... the one constant in this netherworld; whether looking at Croation terrorists, Norwegian neo-Nazis, Japanese war criminals, or American ultra-rightists...." (p. x, WACL is more than a club for aging facists and their modern- day hero- worshipers, it serves as the primary coordinating body through which anti- communist groups meet and debate and implement strategies to prop up anti- Communist authoritarian regimes and defe at popular movements for social and ... World Anti- Communist League. It is this group that President Reagan has praised for playing "a leadership role in drawing attention to the gallant struggle now being waged by the true freedom fighters of our day." A list of persons involved over the years with WACL is printed on the back cover of "Inside the League." Among the more notable: Yaroslav Stetsko, a Nazi collaborator who in July 1941 presided over ... decency and morality - how hard it must be for most Americans to believe that among the hands that have crafted our current foriegn policy are those bloodied through participation in the Nazi Holocaust and latter-day bloodbaths. But then history does reveal that the Nazi movement was, among other things, ardently anti-Communist. Why are these lessons so hard to recall, and why do so many voices that still cry ...
- 3995: Lyndon Johnson
- ... a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. During the next 4 years Johnson developed a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping ... In the late 1950s, Johnson began to think seriously of running for the presidency in 1960. His record had been fairly conservative, however. Many Democratic liberals resented his friendly association with the Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower; others considered him a tool of wealthy Southwestern gas and oil interests. Either to soften this image as a conservative or in response to inner conviction, Johnson moved slightly to the left on ...
- 3996: Helen of Troy: The Face that Launched One Thousand Ships
- ... of his Greek soldiers into battle with Paris, in what came to be called the Trojan War. Helen, the prime cause of the war in the first place, became known as "the face that launch’d a thousand ships" (Durant 83). After the Trojan War, Helen returned to live in Sparta as Menelaus’ queen. Due to her much debated role in the Trojan war, Helen has been the source of many ... a woman named Anaktoria. Alkaois, a Greek lyricist from Lesbos, alluded to the story of Helen of Troy as he expressed his views on morality through his works of literature. Monica Lewinsky is a modern-day female whose actions parallel those of Helen of Troy. Just as Helen’s affair with Paris caused the outbreak of a brutal war, Lewinsky’s relationship with a United States President brought on a social ...
- 3997: Henry David Thoreau
- ... life, were spent living in a shack in the woods near a pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David Thoreau did, and he enjoyed it. Thoreau wasn’t just a regular every day philosopher, but instead was a great transcendentalist. He believed in spiritual life of solitude, the simplicity that every man should live by, and materialism. Thoreau’s stay was a noble experiment in three ways. First ... he and Emerson had asserted that one can most easily experience the Ideal, or the Divine, through nature; at Walden Pond, Thoreau was able to test continually the validity of this thoety by living closely, day-to-day, with nature. Solitude was a noble thing in his experiment. His experiment was based on him leaving the town to find a place where he can’t be bothered by outsiders and by the ...
- 3998: Jean Toomer
- ... Governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction. The Pinchback's retired north and settled in the Negro community of the capitol. Thus, Toomer was born, as Nathan Pinchback Toomer into an upper class Negro family in Washington D.C. on December 26, 1894. Shortly after Toomer's birth, his caucasion father deserted his wife and son, and in 1996 Toomer's mother, Nina Toomer, gave him the name Nathan Eugene (which he later ... as well ... about the peasants of Russia or ... Ireland, has experience given him the knowledge of their existence. Cane is a book of gold...and Jean Toomer is a bright morning star of a new day of the race in literature." Thus, Cane forecast, by several years, what is now called the Harlem Renaissance and inspired an entire generation of African American writers, beginning with his contemporaries Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen ...
- 3999: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
- ... seemed to become a pert of the forest, and his well-being almost depended on it: "But I rely on my love for some things. Therein I am whole and entire" (Thoreau 248). After his day spent outdoors, he would return home to record his observations and thoughts, in detail, in his diaries. He lived without the common comforts or luxuries of the day: he did not eat meat, he did not work, and the only time he ventured into the town for anything but a walk or a visit with a friend was to get his shoe repaired ... guest in his moderately sized house when he wasn't traveling to places like Europe, St. Augustine or South Carolina (www.poets.org/LIT/poet/rwemefst.htm). Unlike Thoreau, Emerson enjoyed the luxuries of the day. Yet he also recognized the importance of preserving and appreciating the perfection and sacredness of nature. "In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in ...
- 4000: Life of John F Kennedy
- ... the government. He was making it impossible to proceed with what the military wanted to do. We can only guess what might have been the catalyst for his future demise. November 22, 1963 is a day millions remember vividly. Like any other day for most, but in Dallas Texas the President of the United States was coming to town. Riding in an open limosecene, President Kennedy and his wife in the backseat, Governor Connally and his wife in ... fast as to do so much damage? Why was the car going so slow? Why was the parade route changed at the last minute? Why were the extra police told to stand down on this day? A group of unidentified “hobos” were questioned and released, no arrests were made, and no one was detained. Why was this treated so carelessly? As news cameras filmed live, Oswald was leaving Dallas Police ...
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