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- 1451: The Crucible
- ... with the devil, which in truth had never covenanted. At the time in Act Two that Hale enters there is a presence of guilt about him, which foretells what his mission in the Proctor’s house is, to question Elizabeth on the suspicion of practicing witchcraft on Abigail Williams. So, to begin to further his case in witchcraft he confronts Mr. Proctor about his lack of attendance to church and about ... held, along with Parris, who is also now trying to save the condemned, trying to convince the accused to save their lives by confessing to witchcraft. "Hale: Excellency, there are orphans wandering the streets from house to house; abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere, and no man knows when the harlots’ cry will end his life..." (130), this outake simply and directly affirms what Hale ...
- 1452: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... talk about his work on Planetary Motion, Gravitation, and other matters. In 1685 Newton finally plunged into his gigantic talks. He drove himself heartlessly, rarely eating and sleeping. Sometimes when he tried to leave his house and he started to walk towards the road a another idea would sometimes come to him, and he would run back inside of his house start testing it. As he walked into his garden a thought might suddenly occur to him. He would then run back into his house and start testing out his idea. Newton's book The Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy came out in 1687. It was written in Latin, which is the language which most scientific books were written ...
- 1453: Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and Anne Bradstreet: Relationships With Others
- ... he has but a little Money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro’ the Fear of Being thought to have but a little. Then I walked up the Street’ gazing about, till near the Market House I met a boy with bread…” (p. 241) Because of the skipping around, to often unrelated topics, it is very difficult to pay attention, read and keep straight as to what is Franklin’s point ... the marriage was some money from the parents. Franklin was willing to use Miss read for getting money from her parents. When they refuse to give it to him he first suggested to mortgage the house, and when he knew that that wouldn’t be done he basically left them and Miss Read. Jonathan Edwards looks on life as a chance to serve God. He serves God by working hard and ... confused because of her devotion to God. Her God who had given her everything can at any time take it away, and Bradstreet realizes this but can’t help but be saddened. She looses a house and she can handle it because as she so elequantly put it “Yet by His gift is made thine own; There’s wealth enough I need no more, Farewell, my pelf, farewell my store.”( ...
- 1454: THOMAS JEFFERSON
- ... and took her to live in his partly constructed mountaintop home, Monticello. Freckled and sandy-haired, rather tall and awkward, Jefferson was eloquent as a correspondent, but he was no public speaker. In the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress, he contributed his pen rather than his voice to the patriot cause. As the "silent member" of the Congress, Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years ... In 1800 the defect caused a more serious problem. Republican electors, attempting to name both a President and a Vice President from their own party, cast a tie vote between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The House of Representatives settled the tie. Hamilton, disliking both Jefferson and Burr, nevertheless urged Jefferson's election. When Jefferson assumed the Presidency, the crisis in France had passed. He slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the ... embargo upon American shipping, worked badly and was unpopular. Jefferson retired to Monticello to ponder such projects as his grand designs for the University of Virginia. A French nobleman observed that he had placed his house and his mind "on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe." He died on July 4, 1826.
- 1455: The Wind In The Willows By Ken
- ... the factory owners and businessmen. They developed a resentment and hostile attitude towards the upper classes. In this book, Toad most prominently exemplifies Grahame’s ideal life of leisure and freedom and subsequently has his house taken over by the rebellious working class Wild-Wooders. More importantly though, Toad exhibits many qualities, “that make him, for most readers, the most memorable figure in this book”. Yet many of these characteristics displayed ... submissive, and will take no action without your kind advice and full approval!” (129). Very shortly thereafter, Toad has reverted to, “I’m not going to be ordered about by you fellows! It’s my house we’re talking about, and I know exactly what to do, and I’ll tell you” (131). Toad’s deceitful nature shown here and the way he takes advantage or tries to manipulate one of ... The stoats and weasels resent Toad, and what he signifies, and take Toad Hall as an act of defiance or rebellion. However, in the end, it is the upper class that regains control of the house, and subdues the unruly society.
- 1456: Character Sketch of Mr. Pignatti
- ... ever you want" he says with a big smile,. Mr. Pignatti gives Lorriane and John something that there parents don't, freedom. For the reasons listed above John and Lorriane often go to Mr. Pignatti house. John and Lorriane love the pig man, they find many qualities in him that they don't find in there own parents. It nice to get away from the nagging sometimes. At first John and ... over exerts him self and has a heart attack. Mr. Pignatti must stay at the hospital to recover, amazingly he gives the keys to John and Lorriane! Their parents would never let them have the house for a week. Mr. Pignatti comes home and day early and finds his house a mess he is very devastated. The next day John, Lorriane and Mr. Pignatti go to the zoo to visit Boob. When Mr. Pignatti finds out Boob died of Phunemonia he has a second ...
- 1457: Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal of William Randolph Hearst?
- ... discover the meaning of Kane's last word, "Rosebud." He begins his search by going through the records of Kane's boyhood guardian, Thatcher. The scene comes to life in midwinter at the Kane boarding house. Kane's mother has come into one of the richest gold mines in the world through a defaulting boarder, and at age twenty-five, Kane will inherit his sixty million dollars (Citizen Kane). His mother ... Alexander and entered into a relationship with her. Then he made his incredible bid for governorship on an independent ticket, an office which, for him, would have been the easy first step to the White House (Citizen Kane). Once again, the detailed similarities to Hearst's life were astounding. Hearst sought public office after his dominance over the newspaper world was assured. The key office he sought, and which was denied ... was all an invention by Hearst and his constituents to promote the newspaper's circulation. If the press could do that, he believed it could do anything, even send a Mr. Hearst to the White House who had not the slightest experience as a political leader. And it very nearly did (Swanberg 245). When he realized that his newspapers were a source of infinite power, that he could manipulate the ...
- 1458: Thomas Jefferson
- ... Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill allowing owners to free their slaves. The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of ... had he wanted to be a political leader, he could have easily attained a position in government. Instead, he chose to return to Monticello and give his public service to Virginia. Returning to the Virginia House of Delegates in October 1776, Jefferson set to work on reforming the laws of Virginia. He also proposed a rational plan of statewide education and attempted to write religious toleration into the laws of Virginia ... States. Bibliography Daugherty, Sonia. Thomas Jefferson: Fighter for Freedom and Human Rights. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1961. Koch, Adrienne, and William Peden. The Life and Selected Writings Of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Random House Publishers, 1993. McLaughlin, Jack. Jefferson and Monticello The Biography Of A Builder. 1st ed. New York: Henry Holt and Company Publishers, 1988. Randall, Willard Sterne. Thomas Jefferson A Life. 1st ed. New York: Henry ...
- 1459: Critical Analysis Of The Jungl
- ... leaving only one option, one alternative, to being held captive by capitalism. Throughout the entire novel, life goes downhill for Jurgis Rudkis. At the beginning, he and his family are relatively happy. They buy a house and all get jobs. But as the story progresses, their situation constantly gets worse. First, the growing payments on the house cause Ona, Jurgis s lover, and her brother to have to get jobs. Jurgis s father is then killed because of the bad working conditions. Spraining his ankle at the plant, Jurgis is unable to ... has been seduced and he goes and beats up Connor, the man who seduced Ona. For this he is placed in jail. When he finally gets out, he finds that his family has lost the house and that Ona is dying in childbirth. After her death, he gets drunk and disappears for a while. When he returns, he is in and out of different jobs until eventually he is going ...
- 1460: Compare & Contrast: "The Devil and Tom Walker" and "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
- ... real detail he gives about the surroundings is that he lives on the Cross Corners of New Hampshire and that he's on a farm. The story doesn't give much description on what his house looks like or the scenery. Also, in “The Devil and Daniel Webster” it tells the story at a quicker pace. Jabez meets the Devil and makes a deal before the story and plot really develop very much. In the “Devil and Tom Walker” the story goes into a lot of details about how his house is raggedy, ugly, and trashy looking. No man traveling ever stops at their house. His wife hides things, is mean, and a loud-mouth. The story describes how Tom walked through the murky swamp and how he met “Old Scratch” unlike “The Devil and Daniel Webster” when all ...
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