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- 941: The Catcher in The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
- The Catcher in The Rye: Unreachable Dreams Many people find that their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his psychiatrist. At first, Holden sounds like a typical, misguided teenager, rebellious towards ... start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.'" (173) Holden wants to protect the innocence of his sister and every other innocent child in the world. Before Holden meets Sally for ...
- 942: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... Follette Seamen's bill, designed to improve the working conditions of sailors. The following year he signed the Federal Farm Loan Act, providing low-interest credit to farmers; the Adamson Act, granting an 8-hour day to interstate railroad workers; and the Child Labor Act, which limited children's working hours. In foreign policy, Wilson was faced with greater problems than any president since Abraham Lincoln. He attempted to end U ... Nobel Peace Prize for 1919. The former president and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, whom he married in 1915, after the death of his first wife, continued to make their home in Washington, D.C. Wilson died there on Feb. 3, 1924. Bibliography: Baker, Ray S., Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, 8 vols. (1927-39; repr. 1968); Bell, Herbert C. F., Woodrow Wilson and the People (1945); Blum, John ... Washington (1896); A History of the American People (5 vols., 1902); Constitutional Government in the United States (1908); Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1966- ), ed. by Arthur S. Link, et al. Died: Feb. 3, 1924, Washington, D.C. Buried: National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. Vice-President: Thomas R. Marshall Cabinet Members:^ Secretary of State: William J. Bryan (1913-15); Robert Lansing (1915-20); Bainbridge Colby (1920-21) Secretary of the Treasury: ...
- 943: The Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II
- ... it traveled from east to west, from the city toward the hills. It seemed like a sheet of sun. John Hersey, from Hiroshima, pp.8 On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. On that day the United States of America detonated an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Never before had mankind seen anything like. Here was something that was slightly bigger than an ordinary bomb, yet could cause ... an excellent satire of the Atomic Age. It is essentially the story of one man, an author by the name of John (or Jonah) and the research he is doing for a book on the day the bomb exploded in Hiroshima. This involves him with members of the Dr. Felix Hoenikker family the genius who helped build the bomb and their adventures. In the book Vonnegut paints an imaginary world where ... a spring morning on his way to school. Anything can make me stop and wonder, and sometimes learn (17). And the Doctors farewell to the world is a game he has played, with himself. One day a Marine General asked him if he could make something that would eliminate mud, so that marines wouldn't have to deal with mud anymore. So Dr. Hoenikker thinks up ice-nine, an imaginary ...
- 944: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- ... told, or rather, expected to do. Janie didnt want to marry Logan, but if it made her grandmother happy, then by all means, why not give it a shot. If it meant that shed be secure. In her marriage to Logan, she found out that thats not what she wanted. Janie wanted love, happieness, comfort and enjoyment. She didnt want her first marriage to be like a prison sentence. Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated, did it compel love like the sun the day? This is asking if marriage made love for Janie as the sun makes the day for the world. Is the basis of love marriage...just as the basis for day is the sun. To Janie, this was not true. She did not feel as though she loved Logan, and ...
- 945: The Titanic
- The Titanic The Titanic was in many ways a historical icon. She served in the minds of many people and is today continuing. Since the discovery in 1912, lead by Dr. Robert D. Ballard in conjunction with the French team IFREMER, people around the world has wanted Titanic information. The Maiden Voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic was a historical event. The ship was sailing through heartship ... the tender Nomadic was chosen to bring passengers and mail to the Titanic. Here, the famous millionaire and his wife get on. This millionaire is Colonel John Jacob Astor and his wife, Madeline. The next day the Titanic was at Queenstown on her last stop before anyone would ever see her again for eighty years. The ship was tested on the way there. Captain Smith ordered the engines, "Opened full." The ship was performing twenty-one knots and running with power to spare. Set for New York, the Titanic is ordered, "Full Ahead," by Captain Smith. The very same day, J. B. Ismay is seen in the boiler rooms ordering the rest of the boilers lit to increase speed and get to New York a day early as to beat the record of the ...
- 946: Catcher In The Rye 2
- ... start to go over the cliff I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. (179) From this quote it is quite obvious that Holden is losing sight of reality and that he is becoming more unstable. But, since the ...
- 947: British Army In Wwii
- ... feeling amongst the ranks of the army, but instead probably a preparedness to take on anyone. Once war was declared and mobilization ordered, the recruiting offices were swamped with volunteers, rising to 33,000 per day in September 1914, who could hardly be accommodated in barracks or equipped. After the rush slowed, in July 1915 the National Registration Act provided for the listing of all men aged 18-41, and in October 1915 the 'Derby Scheme' provided for the enlistment of recruits for one day's service, then passing to the reserve for call-up when required, this brought in some two million men by the end of the year. Conscription was introduced by the Military Service Act of January ... until the Sherman appeared. No Allied tanks was able to withstand the infamous German 88mm Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Tank gun. The British Army did not receive a credible British Tank, the Crusader until after VE-day. It is almost impossible to list all the British Armies actions of this period, but the main theatres of war for the British Army were in Chronological order: The Battle of France The African ...
- 948: World War II in Europe
- ... town of Dunkirk, breaking through the Maginot Line. Cut off from retreat by land, the army was saved when 300,000 British and French troops were evacuated across the English Channel in a heroic nine day rescue effort aided by 600 private boats, known as Operation Sea Lion. In June 1940, Italy suddenly invaded France and declared war on Great Britain. France surrendered and Britain faced Hitler alone. As the German ... air force bombed British airfields, factories, and cities to prepare the way for German armies to cross the English Channel, Britain found leadership in its new prime minister, Winston Churchill. For months, London suffered bombing day and night by hundreds of German planes. The fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force, however, kept the German from gaining control of the skies over Britain and forced Hitler to abandon his invasion plan ... On June 6, 1944, the greatest naval force in history, 176,000 troops carried in 5,000vessels, crossed the English channel to land along a 60-mile stretch of coastline in France. Planning for the "D-Day" invasion of Normandy had been under way for more than two years. In August American and British troops broke out of Normandy struck rapidly eastward, entering Paris on August 25, 1944. In September ...
- 949: Beloved
- ... to the broader thematic content of the novel. The circumstances of Beloved's death are horrific. Life in slavery is equally horrific. For the former slaves that populate the novel, the past is unspeakable. Every day, Sethe beats back memories of her enslavement at Sweet Home. For a long while, Paul D can only verbalize his experiences through song. One of the most common forms of punishment for slaves was gagging with an iron bit. Sethe's own mother was forced to wear the bit so often that she has a permanent smile frozen on her face. Robbing the slave of the power of speech is a powerful way to make him or her feel like a beast. Paul D feels even less than the rooster that struts around him as he sits, mute and chained. Baby Suggs recognizes the importance of speech. She often tells her parishioners to love their mouths. Throughout Beloved, ...
- 950: Bouldering
- ... it would help him to learn to read. When Washington started working with his stepfather in the salt mines, he had to work from dawn to 9:00 PM, receiving very few breaks during the day. During his breaks he would study his spelling book, teaching himself to read. While working with his stepfather, a local school opened up for black people. But because of Booker's value to his family in the mines, he continued to work there at the request of his parents. Eventually, he talked his stepfather into letting him attend school a few hours during the day. Booker, however, ran into another problem. His stepfather wanted him to work until 9:00 AM and the young Booker found it difficult to reach school in time. He therefore did something that he was ... expected the best out of the boys that worked for her. She demanded that they be clean and well behaved. This stayed with Booker for the rest of his life. He notes, "Even to this day I never seen bits of paper scattered around the house or in the street that I do not want to pick them up at once." After working for Ruffiner for a year and a ...
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