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- 1121: Raymond Carvers Cathedral
- ... his imagination. This brings to light just how important and self-fulfilling that imagination had once been to him and could be again: "So I began. First I drew a box that looked like a house. It could the house I lived in. Then I put a roof on it. at wither end of the roof, I drew spires. Crazy . . . I put in windows with arches. I drew flying buttresses. I hung great doors. I ... drawing and, without even opening his eyes, knows and feels its beauty because he was compelled to draw by his own mind, unaided by external imaginations. "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn't feel like I was inside anything." (190) The narrator's awakening has given him a freedom -- he is no longer "inside something," limited by the bounds of ...
- 1122: A Rose Of The South
- ... She never told the druggist what the poison was for, though he assumed that it was for rats. A few days after her cousins had left, Homer was seen coming into the Miss Emily's house. Neither one of them would be seen for quite some time afterwards. When Miss Emily was finally seen again, the town's people assumed that Homer had left; not realizing that she had killed him so that she could be with him life. A short time later the town began to complain of the smell coming from Miss Emily's house. They had no idea what the smell was really from, and just wanted to order her to clean it. Four men eventually went into her cellar with cleaning products and cleaned the cellar. The town ... about 50 years old when the people decided that it was time for Miss Emily to pay taxes. They sent her letters, but she would not acknowledge them. When they finally approached her at her house she would just repeat to them "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes.4" The years would go on and no one would see much of Miss Emily until they finally found her dead ...
- 1123: Causes Of The Civil War 2
- ... to escape from politics and religion in their mother country. In the colonies, the settlers had already become used to taking a share in government. Every colony elected an assembly. The Virginians set up their House of Burgesses twelve years after Jamestown was settled. The House of Burgesses was a promise of local assembly. The House was set up to make the settlers more free. The Pilgrims drew up the Mayflower Compact, a promise of election of governing officials, before settling in 1620. Unfortunately, these assemblies, when in action, made ...
- 1124: Abraham Lincoln
- ... Thomas Lincoln was entitled to Abrahams earnings until he came of age. Abraham began distancing himself from his father in his teenage years. As soon as Lincoln was legally able to leave his fathers house he did. In March 1832, Lincoln announced himself a candidate for the state legislature. Lincoln was twenty-three and had settled in New Salem, where he was a clerk in a small country store. He ... seat in the Senate. His opponent was Stephen Douglas. Douglas and Lincoln rebutted each other speeches, turning into a challenge by Lincoln that was known as the Lincoln Douglas Debates. Lincoln made his now famous House Divided speech. Lincoln said A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. Lincoln ended up losing the election to Douglas, but in turn gained a national name. In ...
- 1125: George Washington Carver
- ... not be found. This was the beginning of George Washington Carvers life. Since George was a very sick child and always having a whooping cough, he was given the job of working around the house and his favorite job, working in the garden. When George was not tending the garden or doing house chores he was always roaming the nearby woods and streams. He explored anything unusual such as reptile and insects. George kept his own frog collection and geological finds in a place where nobody could find ... Linda O. McMurry). A young educated man named Steven Slane was Georges private tutor. At the age of 12, he moved to Neosho to get a better education. In Neosho, George moved into a house with Mariah and Andrew Watkins in exchange in helping with the chores. He was more that willing to work hard for a great education. As he stepped through the door of a one room ...
- 1126: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... central Texas and worked his way through Southwest Texas State Teachers College, he taught Mexican kids and those who were in poverty. He was married to Claudia Taylor who helped in his campaign for the House of Representatives in 1937. He was elected to the senate in 1948 and became the youngest Minority Leader in Senate history two years in a row. Johnson was elected vice- president in the 1960 campaign ... Alaskan lands. To increase human and social services, he created the Department of Education, bolstered the Social Security system, and appointed record numbers of women, blacks, and Hispanics to Government jobs. After leaving the White House, Carter returned to Georgia, where in 1982 he founded the non-profit Carter Center in Atlanta to promote peace and human rights worldwide. The Center has initiated projects in more than 65 countries to resolve ... saxophone player. Frequently during his political career he has delighted listeners with an impromptu session on the sax. As a delegate to Boys Nation while in high school, he met President Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden. The encounter inspired him to enter a life of public service. Clinton attended Georgetown University and in 1968 received a bachelor's degree in foreign service. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied at ...
- 1127: Portrait of a Dancer
- ... as I walked in direct sunlight along the road leading to the water's edge. I was cooled by a gentle breeze as I drew closer to the small lapping waves and left the towering house farther behind me. When my grandfather had first moved into his new house, I was overwhelmed by its looming presence. All wood and glass and art deco elegance, it seemed too polished. He bought it so that his huge family would have the space to be together and ... feel relaxed fixing cereal at the perfect formica countertop in the huge spotless kitchen or taking a nap on the brand new, sweet smelling leather couch. Although I had learned to feel comfortable in the house, that afternoon I had needed to get out. I craved some fresh air and peace. These family gatherings were then, as they still are for me today, emotionally exhausting. Each member of this close- ...
- 1128: Term Limits For Legislators
- ... congressional careerism, is the drive to impose limits on the length of time someone may serve in Congress. Currently, advocates of term limits are calling for two terms in the Senate, and three in the House. It is possible, then, for a member to serve six years in the House, twelve years in the Senate, eight years as Vice President, and eight years as President, a total of thirty-six years. It is not unlikely, therefore, that there will continue to be career politicians. The ... No 2. July, 1994 15 ibid 16 Levine, 210 17 Petracca 18 Fund 19 ibid 20 ibid 21 ibid 22 Ehrenhalt, Alan The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office Random House, New York. 1991: 20 23 Jacob, Paul "Whose Government is it Anyway?" this article will appear in the Journal of the West Los Angeles School of Law. Bibliography AllPolitics - Ballots By States "Ballot Measures ...
- 1129: Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style
- ... shape of an enormous and deadly pendulum. It is altogether appropriate, then, that this chamber should be constricting and cruelly angular" (63). Setting is also an important characteristic is Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". The images he gives us such as how both the Usher family and the Usher mansion are crumbling from inside waiting to collapse, help us to connect the background with the story. Vincent ... art. There is a violent realism in his macabre writings unequaled by the Americans who worked in the same genre." Bibliography 1. Bloom, Harold, Ed. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 2.Buranelli, Vincent. Edgar Allan Poe. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1977. 3. Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature New York: The Viking Press, 1961. 4.Lawrence D.H. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 5. Wilbur, R. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 6. Pickering, James. Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories. NJ:Prentice Hall, ...
- 1130: Race Relations With Huck Finn
- ... Miss. Watson s run away slave in the story, is part of the black class. We see the sub ordinance that blacks were placed in America, because blacks were not allowed to be in the house, because they were uneducated, and had to be working in the fields. Another example of the classes we put each other into is when Huck, the main character, and Jim were heading south. Jim and ... is better than another group. These classes of society can show the relations between races. In this case, the whites thought they were better, and so, they would not allow blacks to be in the house, make them feel like objects, and not human beings and greatly persecuted and abused the blacks. Another point that is with the main theme of race relations is loyalty/friendship. Huck shows this by being ... does what he wants to any ways. The first thing is when his Father leaves him locked in the cabin. Huck obviously is supposed to stay inside, but he rebels and crawls out of the house. He had wore the ground a good deal crawling out of the hole and dragging out so many things (40). This shows him rebelling against his Father by not doing what he was supposed ...
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