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- 1141: Easter
- ... in the sun and wrapped in a tie of roses, the pungent smell of vinegar to dye your Easter eggs and the spring air sneaking through he open doors and windows in your freshly dusted house. The memories are as fresh as yesterday, and as beautiful as a spring bride. The memory vivid and clear is of my Easters in Marietta, Georgia. The dogwood trees were in full bloom with their ... cloud castle. The day would start off waking up to the smell of fresh bread rising to the occasion in the oven, then the thrill of brightly colored jelly beans being hidden all over the house. It was a tradition; the Easter bunny would come in the middle of the night, hopping about delicately as not to wake my brother and me and spread the magical colored jelly beans about the house. My brother and I would race about the house as though we were searching for a million dollars that had been Hidden. Our dog, Ginger, ways managed to find the really tough spots were ...
- 1142: The Great Gatsby (the Light Ac
- ... bring that dream to fruition. Through Gatsby, Fitzgerald brings together both these ideas. Jay Gatsby thinks money is the answer to anything he encounters. He has the best of everything. The fanciest car, the largest house, and the finest clothes. Jay has everything except the object he most desires, Daisy. Gatsby believes he can win Daisy over with wealth, that he could achieve the ideal she stood for through his material ... were created by money. These shirts contribute towards Gatsby s vision of the American dream, that his money and belongings will create happiness for him. Another major object of Gatsby s dream was his incredible house. Jay states to Nick and Daisy, My house looks well, doesn t it? See how the whole front of it catches the light (95). Jay gave Nick and Daisy the grand tour of his house showing of all of his worldly possessions. ...
- 1143: Everyday Use
- ... grew immensely, and she tried to take advantage of those less educated than her. Dee always hated the way she lived when she was being raised by her mother. Dee was obviously overjoyed when the house that she hated so much, was finally destroyed. "A look of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red-hot brick chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd wanted to ask her. She hated the house that much." The destruction of this symbol of poverty gave her a spark of hope that she and her family would move up in the world, that eventually snowballed into a much larger hatred. ...
- 1144: P. T. Barnum
- ... P. T. Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut on July 5th 1810. He later called himself a "Yankee doodle dandy, plus one." He was the oldest of five, all raised in a typical Connecticut saltbox house, which is an average, large house, is that still stands today. His father, Philo Barnum, dabbled in several trades. His father owned his own dry goods store. Barnum's mom, Irena Taylor, was a housewife. The family was moderately well off ... moneymaker. They returned in 1848. Barnum celebrated his success by building a 3 story home on a 17 acre property he called Iranistan. It was lavish and expensive America had never seen a more expensive house. Unfortunately four years later Iranistan burned down. Except for a few photos and a recreation f the library in the Barnum Museum, it was lost. Tom Thumb toured on his own and Barnum looked ...
- 1145: The Neurosis Of Passion
- ... most emphatically. (Dickens, 27) This conversation not only records Mr. Wopsle and Mr. Hubble s judgements that Pip is an ungrateful boy tempted by gluttony, but that there is not a female presence in the house to speak of. Mrs. Joe then details each of the illnesses that Pip had "been guilty of", the nights he had kept her awake, and the injuries he had "done himself" with the implication that ... has with a female proves to be the most influential in his adolescent life, carrying through into his adult imagination. He is invited to play at the notoriously rich and insane, Miss Havisham s, Statis house. Miss Havisham is posed as Dickens characterization of the mad-love Victorian bourgeois female. As he looks upon her affected as though in a painting, he notes her jewels, her fancy gown, her trinkets and ... life. It is here that Dickens pursues the figurative and literal stagnation and immobility in his female characters. Miss Havisham, the love-mad woman is incapable of progressive motion, neither can she leave the Statis house nor can she allow her clocks to pass the minute that she was abandoned on her wedding day. This is the first effective instance of this paralysis of engendered women. In another case of ...
- 1146: Lincoln
- ... Thomas Lincoln was entitled to Abraham s 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 ...
- 1147: Robert Stevenson
- ... Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield walk through the city of London on every Sunday, but as they were walking they heard a scream from a from a little girl in one of the houses. The house belonged to Mr. Hyde. The city forced Mr. Hyde to pay some fines for his crimes. Then a well-respected man, Dr. Jekyll paid the fines to everyone s surprise. Mr. Utterson is suspicious about this whole ordeal so he goes to Mr. Hyde s house and tries to talk to him, but Mr. Hydes runs inside. He then goes around the block to Dr. Jekyll s house and talks to the butler and finds out that Mr. Hyde has complete access to Dr. Jekyll s house. Some time later a man is murdered and a maid identifies the murderer as Mr. ...
- 1148: Human Variations in High Altitude Populations
- ... group living in the Himalayas] seem to walk barefoot(Baker,261).” There have been no detailed studies of the Sherpa clothing Houses are another adaptation people have made. In the Andes there are two basic house designs. “The first uses adobe or sod and is a permanent building. This type is usually found in towns and represents a major investment. The second design is constructed of piled fieldstone, is semipermanent, and ... the upper walls sloping slightly inward. The roof is always constructed of grass and supported by tree limbs. The diameter is quite variable as is the height. The walls are made of fieldstone. If the house is to be occupied for an extended period of time the stones are carefully piled to eliminate cracks. Those large holes which remain and those at eye level are used as windows; that is, they ... group living in the Himalayas] seem to walk barefoot(Baker,261).” There have been no detailed studies of the Sherpa clothing Houses are another adaptation people have made. In the Andes there are two basic house designs. “The first uses adobe or sod and is a permanent building. This type is usually found in towns and represents a major investment. The second design is constructed of piled fieldstone, is semipermanent, ...
- 1149: George Washington: Summoned By A Country; One Man Stood Strong
- ... Their mother-son relationship had always been very strained, because Mary was so overbearing and domineering. At the end of his frontier service, in 1758, Washington began his political career, he was elected to the House of Burgess, “the legislation of the rich, the well-born, and the able (Meltzer 62). In these elections only white males with a certain amount of property could vote. The voters stood up in public ... to meet bills” (Meltzer 146). The Bill of Rights were high on their schedule. Washington, as chief execute officer, saw to it that measures adopted by Congress were put into effect. His attitude toward the House and Senate was to stand somewhat apart. Washington and Congress took care to respect the separation of powers. Both wanted to make no mistakes in the precedents they set. The first Congress turned out well ... bad, George had a hard time deciding his future. As Washington was reelected in 1790 the government moved to Philadelphia, only a few miles from Mount Vernon. George had a new capital built, the White House, but he died before it was finished. “Washington is the only President to never occupy the White House” (Sumner 7). In 1797 Washington retired and John Adams became President. “Washington's second term was ...
- 1150: Women's Rights in Afghanistan, China and Iran
- ... victims. In Afghanistan women are not allowed to work. They are ordered to remain in their houses, and employers have been threatened with dire consequences for hiring female employees. Women cannot venture out of their house alone unless accompanied by an appropriate male member of the woman’s immediate family. Afghanistan women do not have the right to quality health care if that heath care involves male providers. No women can ... severity of the situation cannot operate upon women. All women are also totally deprived of the right to education. This is the story of a 15 year old girl who was repeatedly raped in her house by armed guards after they had killed her father for allowing her to go to school: They shot my father right in front of me. He was a shopkeeper. It was nine o’clock at night. They came to our house and told him they had orders to kill him because he allowed me to go to school. The Mujadideen had already stopped me from going to school, but that was not enough. They then ...
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