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- 6681: So Far From God
- Eisenhower, John S. D. So Far From God: The U. S. War with Mexico 1846 – 1848. New York: Random House, 1989, xxvi, 436. Mr. John Eisenhower is a retired Army General from Westchester, Pennsylvania. He is also the son of retired General and later President, Dwight D. Eisehower. He is an author as well as a military historian. Mr. Eisenhower’s other works include, The Bitter Woods, published in 1987 and critically acclaimed by Life magazine author, S. L. A. Marshall as ...
- 6682: Andrew Jackson
- ... to pay long-overdue spoliation claims and reopening the British West Indian Trade. Even thought he personally agreed with the rebellion of Texas against Mexico. He didn't recognize the Lone Star republic until the day before he left office in 1837, and left the problem of Texas annexation to Martin Van Buren. Even though Jackson switched support form his successor Martin Van Buren to James K. Polk (probably due to ... Government. He even went so far as to call himself the elected representative of all American people. I think that Jackson's strengthening of the powers of the presidency are the biggest influence to this day. He used the power of the veto 12 times (more times than all of his successors combined). And his use of the powers of removal and of executive orders made a standard for a modern ...
- 6683: Jane Eyre: Ladies First
- ... promised to obey her dying husband's request to care of Jane and, also that Jane's uncle, John Erye has been trying to locate her. Soon after Sara Reed dies. On Jane's wedding day is ruin some news that Rochester is already married. They all go up to the top of Thornfield where they find Bertha Mason Rochester, a madwoman married to Edward Rochester. Jane being a witness to ... if it is loose her friendship with Harriet. But eventually Harriet marries Robert Martin. Emma marries Knightley in “perfect happiness” In Jane Eyre, Jane becomes good friends with St. John Rivers and his sister. One day St. John discovers that Jane has inherited twenty thousand pounds from her uncle and that St. John is a cousin of Jane. Jane gives half to St. John and his sister. St. John realized that ...
- 6684: Antigone
- ... himself to gouge out his eyes with his own hands- then mother…his mother and wife, both in one, mutilating her life in the twisted noose- and last, our two brothers dead in a single day, both shedding there won blood, poor suffering boys, battling out their common destiny hand-to-hand. (60-69) I, for one, I’ll beg the dead to forgive me— I’m forced, I have no ... to destruction. Admitting that you are wrong is not a bad thing. It can prevent a lot of heartache. Work Cited Sophocles, Antigone. Trans. Robert Fagles. Literature and the Writing Process. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X Day, and Robert Funk. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1999. 644-679
- 6685: The Creation of The Universe, The Earth, and Human Beings
- ... Creation of The Universe, The Earth, and Human Beings In the beginning there was only darkness. For many millions of years this darkness remained. There were no stars, no sun, and no earth. But one day something very special happened. The darkness created light. It was a very small amount of light but it was just enough. The light became the husband of the dark. After a long while both the ... other, however, because they both were equal in power. Dark had a little bit more strength but light had a little bit more cunning. They continued to fight for a very long time until one day the light was tired and she called to the dark. "We must create beings that will give more meaning to our lives for we must live together for eternity." The dark agreed and so it ...
- 6686: Marcus Garvey
- ... time is Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey achieved accomplishments in not just one, but many areas. His accomplishments ranged from a worldwide Black political organization, The Untied Negro Improvement Association, to the first, and to this day the largest Black-owned multinational businesses, the Black Star Lines. Marcus was criticized by many of his fellow African American leaders because many of his projects failed. In despite of that, Marcus Garvey talent to ... independence by providing money and labor to black business owners. It also helped to build factories in the United States, Africa, Central America, and the West Indies. He also founded the first and, to this day, the largest black-owned multinational businesses, the Black Star Line (BSL), which focused on purchasing boats and serving an international shipping triangle that would return black people to their homeland of Africa. The shipping triangle ...
- 6687: Monasticism
- ... monks protested aspects of his austere life-style devoted to prayer, study, fasting, chastity, self-denial, and mortification, he was not able to make all the changes he would have liked. A Monk’s Normal Day A monk’s day revolves around the Liturgy. The “hours” at which these celebrations occur, is known as the Liturgy of the Hours. They focus on meeting with God. All events marked with Liturgy, are part of the Liturgy ...
- 6688: Large Mouth Bass
- ... in the spring, when water temperatures begin to move past sixty degrees fahrenheit. The spring spawning urge in a bass is set off by both water temperature and photoperiod. Photoperiod is the proportion of the day in which the bass are exposed to sunlight. As the day light hours grow longer through the spring and early summer, so does the photoperiod. This process affects the temperature of different bodies of water in different ways. Small shallow ponds heat up much earlier in ...
- 6689: Anne Frank
- ... written while in hiding. Most of the families got separated, but Anne’s family never was. For this, they were lucky. In 1944, their hiding place was revealed, and they were taken into custody. The day after their arrest they were transferred to the Huis Van Bewaring, a prison on Weteringschans. On Aug. 8, they were transported from the main railroad station in Amsterdam to the Westerbork detention camp. For a ... men, 442 women, and 79 children a total of 1,019 people. This transport arrived in Aushwitz during the night of September 5. Right after they got there, men and women were separated. The following day, 549 people from this last transport, among them all the children less than 15 years of age, were sent to the gas chambers, where they would be killed. Women who had not been selected for ...
- 6690: Creative Writing: Hackers Manifesto
- ... re all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them ...
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