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- 5321: Government Spending
- ... Chairman), talking of Clinton’s new budget. Among largest cuts within Clinton’s plan was the downsizing of 1/5 to 1/3 of all programs that he felt were not a priority to present day government. In addition, he wanted to close loopholes presented to corporate taxation, that would save an estimated $28 billion. He vowed to keep programs like education, crime prevention, and research or environmental grants, while increasing ... but Republicans have also tried using domination to force him to comply. GOP Presidential candidate Bob Dole said if Clinton was serious about the budget, "we probably could have had an agreement on New Years Day," 1996 (Hosansky 1449). "The President is sitting on his hands while the federal debt keeps going up and up and up into the stratosphere," said Congressman Jesse Helms, Rep -North Carolina. But one must remember ...
- 5322: The Yellow Wallpaper: Exemplifies Women's Position In the 19th Century
- ... to go out in the world and provide for their families while the wife is to create a loving home. Women typically should create a sacred refuge for her husband who has had a long day a work. It was widely popular obviously by the male population which was the mainstream of thought, that a woman staying home is the ultimate romantic life. In accordance with this Neandortholic view the woman ... night is when her husband is home. Her husband works in the daytime and is home usually in the night. Her husband forces her to rest, and he confines her to the bedroom. During the day her husband goes to work, that is why she sees the woman in the garden. When John is away the narrator is free. The woman will be free when all the wallpaper is stripped and ...
- 5323: Use Of Literary Elements
- ... are two that stand out from the rest by a great margin. These elements of the novel are the message that the book gives to reader as well as the style of writing that J.D. Salinger uses while writing the book. The messages can be seen clearly and are very important to the book, but they are not an original theme for a book. What does set the ideas in ... so much fame for this work, as well as the fact that readers of all ages can relate to the issues that Holden is confused about, not just teenagers around HoldenÕs own age. Overall J.D. Salinger did a great job with the technical part of writing this book and he did a even better job getting the messages that he wanted across to the readers.
- 5324: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911
- ... reading and doing research on the tragic fire, not only was I shocked about the fire, I could not believe the conditions in the factory that those women had to put up with every single day. One woman, Pauline Newman once worked for the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1901. One thing that really shocked me was when she said, “The corner of a shop would resemble a kindergarten because we were ... babies worked in factories for such little, little pay. Another fact that shocked me were the wages that those workers received. Pauline Newman says, “My wages as a youngster were $1.50 for a seven-day week. I know it sounds exaggerated, but it isn’t; it’s true. If you worked there long enough and you were satisfactory you got a 50 cents a week increase every year. So by ...
- 5325: Home Burial: Analysis
- ... The husband seems to not be phased by the great loss that they have endured. Later on in the poem the husband begins to talk again, stating: “We could have some arrangement, By which I’d bind myself to keep hands off, Anything special you’re a-mind to name. Though I don’t like such things ‘’twixt those that love. Two that don’t love can’t live together without ... without sex. He’s eluding to the fact that in order for the children to be made in the first place they had to have sex. Also saying that he could make “arrangements which he’d bind himself to keep hands off,” simply meaning that he will find other ways to release his need to have sex and not to bother pushing himself on her. The next part of that entry ...
- 5326: Shooting An Elephant: Inner Conflict
- ... still managed to keep his image as a subdivisional police officer plainly in sight for the Burmese to see as a figur of authority. Dealing with both inner conflict and the hostility he dealt with, day in and day out are bound to leave someone feeling torn. As a result, because of having to keep his own reflections to himself, Orwell's inner conflict did indeed exhibit the accuracy of the hatred between both ...
- 5327: “Shiloh”: Norma Jean Moffitt
- ... of the United States was talking in a folksy voice on the hot line to the Soviet premier about the bomber accidentally headed toward Russia”, so he was blocking out what really happened that tragic day (page 48). Leroy was putting all the troubles in their life in the back of his mind and not willing to deal with them. The statement about the dust ruffle for the bed “Now we ... Jean’s mother told her the awful story and about a dachshund that had chewed a baby’s leg off. Norma Jean believed her mother was punishing her, because Mabel had caught her smoking the day before. Norma Jean looked “small and helpless” to the writer, but Leroy took up for her mother and told Norma Jean that “she really did not mean it” more than once (page 52). Leroy sided ...
- 5328: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... beloved sister through a door rarely left “slightly ajar.” This seclusion gave her a reputation for eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps increased her interest in death (Whicher 26). Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the New England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be equal not ... in 1863, Dickinson writes of immortality and eternity, and although death does not “come in haste”, his eventual coming is inevitable since death in eternal, “ Since then-'tis Centuries-and yet, Feels shorter than the day, I first surmised the Horse's Head, Were toward Eternity-.” (Porter 170). Over all Dickinson's works can be seen as a study into the thoughts and emotions of people, especially in her exploration death ...
- 5329: Dante’s Influence on Italian Culture
- ... Middle Ages. It was during this time that Dante’s writings reflected many of his personal experiences, his political beliefs, and his philosophy of life. He addressed human affairs and problems that happened in every day life (Holmes 26). This is important since at that time, writers were primarily religious scholars writing about their religious beliefs, not political thoughts or common every day happenings. The Divine Comedy, written during his exile, is said to focus on “every aspect of earthly human life” (Dante: The Divine… Internet). The experiences in The Divine Comedy reflect Dante’s personal experiences during ...
- 5330: Literary Devices in Homer’s Odyssey
- ... of them when she has completed all her duties to Odysseus’ family. She says that when she finishes weaving his funeral cloth, she will choose. Every night though, she unwinds what she wove during the day showing her cleverness. Her actions show that she will stay loyal to Odysseus no matter what, but Odysseus has to worry about the suitors because they want to be King and will not let him ... continues on his way back to Ithaca. Fantasy comes into this story at the very beginning with the mention of the gods. These gods are fictional characters to the readers of this story in present day times. Ancient Romans believed in these gods and that they lived on this grand mountain called Olympus controlling everything that happened from hell to the seas to the heavens. Other fictional characters in this story ...
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