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- 6211: Koreans: When and Why Did They Come?
- ... a land of opportunity. (Moynihan 46) Like the Chinese and Japanese who were before the Koreans, found plantation life hard an unrewarding. (Moynihan 47) The immigrants were drained by 10-hour work days and 6-day work weeks. (Moynihan 48) Their exhaustion was not related by conditions on the plantation, which in variably included squalid housing, isolation and poor food. (Moynihan 48) One person described his experience as follows: "I got up at four-thirty in the morning and made my breakfast. I had to be out to the field at five o'clock. I worked ten hours a day with a sixty-seven cent wage. My supervisor ... was very strick with us. He ... did not allow us to stand up straight once we started to work. He treated us like cows and horses. We ...
- 6212: Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
- ... and Sophia were married in 1942 and moved to Concord, Massachusetts, where they took up residence in the now famous "Old Manse". Hawthorne made colleagues and neighbors of some of the leading Transcendentalists of the day including, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott. Apparently, Hawthorne's views changed on Transcendentalism since his stay at Brook Farm. His later works show some transcendentalist influence, including a belief in individual choice and consequently an ... from her allowance for household expenses over the years. With the help of this money, Hawthorne resolved to try once again to earn a living through his writing. For the next eight months, Hawthorne worked day and night to finish, The Scarlet Letter. In 1850, he published The Scarlet Letter which sold well. However, it was pirated by two London publishers, and the financial rewards were not great for Hawthorne and ...
- 6213: Sheyann Webb
- ... in the spring of 1866. Afterward, Susan had trouble supporting the six childen. After the three older children married and left, Mrs.Moses was forced to send the three younger children to neighbors' houses. One day while dusting the funiture, Annie decided to take down her father's gun and clean it. A few days later, she saw a squirrel running in the field. Excitedly, she took down the gun and ... owner set up a shooting match with the well known sharpshooter, Frank Butler. Annie shot all 25 birds while Frank shot only 24. Later, Frank would say that he lost two things to Annie that day: the match and his heart. Annie and Frank went on the road as a team. Annie wanted a fancy name, so she settled on Oakley, a suburb outside of Cincinnati.Annie loved showbiz. She liked ...
- 6214: Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom
- ... up most of Nelson s time. Evelyn mothered two of Nelson s children, but the gradually grew apart. Now, Nelson was an influential political individual and bans and jailing began to follow him around. One day, a young woman came into his life by the name of Winnie and they got married. Winnie gave birth to two more of Nelson s children. As time passed, Nelson s spirit for freedom grew more and more each day. Though his life was full of bannings and jailings, he never gave up his fight, but he knew that the south African government was becoming agitated with him and the ANC. The South African government ...
- 6215: All Quiet on the Western Front: "The Cause of Death"
- ... where many men and women died because someone called them the enemy. The main character is Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old man who is swept into the war, along with his friends, not one day before he is out of school. They are sent to the front to "protect the fatherland" or Germany as it is called. Paul and his friends go from this idealistic opinion to disillusionment throughout the ... hero. When he heard the first shell, saw the first man die, killed his one of the enemy, he was never the same Paul again. The reader sees this when Paul goes home on fourteen day leave. He wants to "think (himself) back into that time,"(171) when he felt the exhilaration of picking up books and falling into an abyss of wild illusion. But when he looks at his books ...
- 6216: Battle Royal
- ... norms of society by accepting the idea of inequality. After the boy's speech, the white MC says, "Gentlemen, you see that I did not overpraise this boy. He makes a good speech and some day he'll lead his people in the proper paths"(182). By emphasizing "social responsibility" to his racial equals, the boy falls prey to the expectations placed upon him by the white race. The white men ... has lived his life in correspondence to how people think he should live, and he has sacrificed his own self-awareness on account of his fear of upsetting his superiors-the white race. On graduation day, he gives a speech that declares that humility is the only way that blacks will progress in life. He admits to himself that he does not believe this idea because of his grandfather's declaration ...
- 6217: Road Trips Revisited - A Route 66
- ... visiting the U.S.A. and taking extensive road trips across the country. I followed the same pattern each time, choosing a bunch of cities from a Rand McNally atlas that are less than a day's drive apart, arranging for a rental car and finding the motels and attractions as I went along. Many great memories, impressions, experiences and photos remain from those days. Though traveling off the tourist path ... our "Route 66 state-of-mind" it looked really unique. The town had actual meaning and there was plenty to explore. We drove up and down Andy Devine Blvd. many times that evening. The next day we drove off towards Oatman, a stretch I was especially curious about. We were unable to find out what the ruins just before the climb up the hill used to be. We assume it is ...
- 6218: Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie
- ... Laura,lives in a fantasy world in which she was a young beautiful girl,living in an area called Blue Mountain.She always told Laura and Tom about the many gentleman callers she received every day.Sometimes there were as many as seventeen a day,all prominent men on the Mississippi Delta.To make some extra money she sells The Homemaker's Companion that features the serialized sublimations of ladies of letters who think in terms of delicate cuplike breasts ...
- 6219: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Breakdown
- ... English language didn’t have any concepts for a lot of words. An example of what he had trouble with was certain sayings, including; I’m feeling under the weather today. Which, still to this day he says, “I’m feeling under the snow today.” Another concept he explained to me was a concept of goose bumps. He didn’t really know what those were until he had them and someone ... had never seen in Malaysia and couldn’t start to put any idea of a term for what those strange looking things were that he had looked at coming home from the airport that first day. He saw them as just straight, never-ending, black things that cars drove on. He didn’t know what to call them or exactly how to explain them, in Malaysia he was used to winding ...
- 6220: Things People Forget In The He
- ... man she hardly knew; she couldn t even recall his name. Now, Maria endures extensive treatment weekly of AZT to hinder the debilitating effects HIV has on her body. She will grow weaker until the day she dies, all because of an unprotected sex act ( Education ). This information heightens the need for education regarding the proper care and safety precautions one must take when sexually active with another person. With the ... that range from completely curable with little discomfort, to long, drawn out, and debilitating incurable diseases one must endure the entirety of their life. One could say that a person walking down the street each day puts himself or herself in danger; that there are risks everywhere, and this need not be taught at school, for it is common knowledge. This may be true, but the idea that one can protect ...
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