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- 1021: Living With Parents Vs. Living
- ... spend. It will also determine how often your friends visitand how much freedom you have. Living with your parents is similar to living in a royal palace; you will enjoy the luxuries of an elegant house, clean laundry, and a slightly bigger budget, but you will also have to defer to the king and queen of the realm. You will quickly discover that if your sovereigns aren t happy, neither are you. While living under the rule of the parents, you will have to leave the house in order to socialize. Your friends will also fear the wrath of your sovereigns, and might visit you, but only for short periods of time. You will also have to wait until your parents go away on vacation to have a suitable house party. Living alone, however, yields much more room for fun. You can dine on pizza and beer every night if you wish and your friends can visit any time. The furniture will be of ...
- 1022: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... College and graduated after four years. After graduation, he returned to Salem. Contrary to his family’s expectations, Hawthorne did not begin to read law or enter business, rather he moved into his mother’s house to turn himself into a writer. Hawthorne wrote his mother, “I do not want to be a doctor and live by men’s diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer ... their quarrels. So, I don’t see that there is anything left for me but to be an author.” (“ American Writers II, pg. 227) For the next twelve years Hawthorne lived in his mother’s house. He Seldemly went out except late at night, or when going to another city. “ I had read endlessly all sorts of good and good for nothing books, and in dearth of other employment, had early ... Hawthorne soon realized that supporting a wife was not as easy as he anticipated it to be. He could never manage it by writing stories, so he decided to leave Salem and his mother’s house for a political appointment as measurer of coal and salt in the Boston customhouse. The contrast between his old ways and this new way of life was a shock for Hawthorne. He had hoped ...
- 1023: McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt
- ... of Hollywood Ten, the freedom of speech - the most vital freedom in democratic society, was violated because the speech and views of Hollywood Ten where different, or were thought to be different, from those of House Un-American Activities Committee. In another case, the Rosenbergs Trial, the basic rules of criminal procedure and burden of proof were buried under the anti-Communist hysteria and two possible innocent people were electrocuted. McCarthy ... where the rights of the individual are crushed beneath the juggernaut of oppression: it had no place in America where government exists to serve our people, not to destroy them (Kort 82). In 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), created by the House of Representatives to hunt out Communists, began conducting closed-door hearings to investigate allegations of communism in the movie industry. One of HUAC's complaints was that Hollywood had produced pro-Russian films such ...
- 1024: Ghosts and Poltergeists
- ... type in the word paranormal, what would come up? Lots of fake stories, without and legitimacy. But you might just find a story that is true, like the one about the spirit in the White House in Washington D.C. It has been scientifically proven that there is indeed ghosts in existence on this earth. The story of the ghost in the White House, is the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. It has been said that Abe paces the floor of his bedroom on the second floor, they say, on the night before any threaten great calamity to the United ... States actually happens. This worries tread was heard on the night before the United States entered into World War I and again on the eve of World War II. Another ghost seen in the White House is one of Dolly Madison’s cat. The cat has been said to be seen curled up in the sun on a window seat or just running around somewhere. Other famous and recorded stories ...
- 1025: Ethan Frome 5
- ... of Ethan and his wife. He married her because she had tried to help his mother recover from an illness and once his mother died he could not bear the thought of living in the house alone. His wife was seven years his senior and always seemed to have some kind of illness. It seemed all she ever did was complain, and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul. Since his wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to stay, they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate propensity to her cousin, Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone who cared for him was always happy and could share ... New paragraph) Ethan's second failure was not being able to stand up to his wife. His wife claimed that a new doctor said that she was extremely sick, and needed more help around the house. She told him without any discussion that Mattie had to go. Ethan could not find the words to make her alter her decision. His wife also decided that Mattie had to leave the very ...
- 1026: The Future Looks Bright For Ja
- ... drawbacks. They have a high fatality rate and are harmful to the environment. When burned, coal releases carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide contributes to the green house effect . Sulfur dioxide and Nitrogen oxide are responsible for acid rain. Acid rain causes major damage to the environment. The mining also leaves the land inhabitable for plant and animal life. Oil has similar effects ... easy to come by for the next sixty years. Natural gas, which is methane combined with ethane, is found where oil and coal are mined. Methane gives off carbon dioxide, which contributes to the green house effect, this causes a long-term issue. Methane on its own can be found all over the world in large amounts. It comes from other forms of energy and the majority is found in the ... of methane when burned, which gives off carbon dioxide, but it is the same carbon dioxide that was originally absorbed by the plant life. Biomass doesn t give off any new contribution to the green house effect . This form of renewable energy is still experimental. It is supported by many, including President Bill Clinton, but it still needs refining, persuasion, and is finacially returning. The other sources of renewable energies ...
- 1027: The Bubble Economy of Japan
- ... the enterprise. This enhance the accessibility to the land speculate market. Each size of this loan is very large. This is because the size of mortgage in Japan financial institutions are based on the collateral, (house) while in North America the size of the mortgage is based on the borrower*s income stream. Therefore the size of loan can be obtain by borrower is larger in Japan than North America. Also ... speculation had create many social problems in Japan. Firstly, land speculation had rise the rent and housing cost tremendously. As a result many young couples and low income families were unable to form their own house hold. In average the cost of a house in Tokyo had raise to about 500 million yen. The younger group with low income cannot afford it and the mid age workers may also not able to afford it. Primary is because they ...
- 1028: The Journey For Freedom
- ... Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband s death. (19) Louise was restrained in the house and only let out when properly supervised. When news of her husband s possible death came, the family and their doctor tried to break the news to her as gently as they could. Little did ... become a representation for their lives. Louise became infatuated with the yellow dress and the stories that her husband told her about his trips around the world. Since Louise can t go outside of the house it is her dream to do so one day. When her husband had supposedly passed on, she had the chance to live out the dream that she thought of every minute of every day. But ... to rip all the wallpaper off in order to free the woman who was trapped. You know the place is doing you good, he said, and really, dear, I don t care to renovate the house just for three month s rental. (247) Charlotte had begged her husband to remove the paper because it gave her an odd feeling. He didn t want to give into her demands because if ...
- 1029: Imperial Presidency: Overview
- ... be an act of aggression, and vice versa. Because of this, the presidency was able to gain a leg up on Congress. Schlesinger also discusses the actions taken within the inner sanctum of the White House. His focus is on the presidents from FDR through Nixon. Many of these men made many controversial decisions while in the oval office. Schlesinger goes over these actions with a microscope. For instance, he discusses ... the result of the actions. According to Schlesinger, the result of Nixon's extreme secrecy led him to be withdrawn from the rest of the country. He eventually created his own reality within the White House. It was a self- perceived reality where he could do whatever he wanted, right or wrong. This led to a somber, macabre mood throughout the White House, and eventually led to Nixon's downfall. He goes over the administrations of the modern presidents with a fine-toothed comb. He reviews their actions in reference to their specific nature (i.e., internal ...
- 1030: A Rose for Remembrance
- ... perceived as the town. The new Board of Aldermen, Homer Barron and in what is called by Faulkner “the next generation with its more modern ideas” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 81). The descriptions of her house “lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps--an eyesore among eyesores” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 80) showed a comparison of the past and present while also showing a representation of Emily herself. “The house smells of dust and disuse and has a closed, dank smell.” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 81). A description of Emily in the following paragraph discloses her similarity to the house. “She looked bloated like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that palled hue” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 81). It notes in the story that she had not always had that appearance. ...
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