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- 1471: Gender Roles
- ... in the family unit. When I was growing up a woman was never heard of having a job other than a school teacher or seamstress. Our(women's)job was to take care of the house. We had a big garden out back from which we got most of our vegetables…A garden is a lot of work you know…We also had to make clothes when there were none to ... women to make demands on man to which men adjusted even more reluctantly. This has been a accurate picture of the way in which we have structured our society, with women as keepers of the house who insist that the man wipe their feet on the door-mat, and men as keepers of women in the house who insist that their wives should stay modestly indoors. Today, people are far less willing to accept these artificial roles even reluctantly, and this includes the provision keeping women in the home and out ...
- 1472: Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Found at the scene of the crime two dead bodies stabbed brutally, and left to die at their house. This was the story that shocked the country in 1991. This was the start of the O.J. Simpson domestic abuse case that is still going on today. Unfortunately events like this happen many times ... on-eggshells existence and, perhaps above all, an illogical hope that something would change. "the abuser can make everything sound so good," says Florence A. Reid, 45, now living in transitional housing through Bradley- Angle House after 10 years in a violent marriage and another 13 year relationship, in an abusive relationship both with men who were full of promises after the pummelings. Even now, 25 years later, after dozens of ... t that be nice?" asks Reid. "Just live a normal life with the father of my children." "The first time I tried leaving my husband was 1972. I took the kids to a friend's house," she remembers. "He found me and brought a gun with him. Of course, I just went back." In 1992, after dozens of tries, Ruth left for the last time, with the help of a ...
- 1473: Ellis Island
- ... 400 feet wide and it looked like a Victorian seaside resort hotel.Baggage rooms filled the ground level. The great inspection hall was upstairs. Nearby on the grounds were hospital buildings, doctors quarters, a bath house, laundry, kitchens, a dining hall, a power plant, and dormitory space. On June 14, 1897 a fire started on the island.It ruined the total building. Two hundred guards, doctors, and immigrants were on the ... posts everywhere. The main building was 385 feet long and 165 feet wide. It contained enormous waiting rooms, offices, and examination rooms. Many smaller buildings nearby housed dormitories, hospital departments, a dining hall, the custom house, a telegraph station, docks, wharves, and housing for the staff. On December 17, 1900 still under construction the center reopened. The first immigrants to be treated through the new depot were 654 Italian passengers who ... and children of many ethnic and national backgrounds filled the center. Many people were driven from their homelands in hope of fulfilling their dreams of religious freedom, political freedom, and the opportunity to own a house and land. They were also driven by famine and economic hardship. Greeks, Poles, Russians, Slavs, Armenians, Italians, and many more were all tagged in a different color according to the language they spoke. The ...
- 1474: Animal Farm
- ... in beds and even drinking alochol. The pigs seemed to control everything while others suffered. Boxer died and was said he was taken to a hospital when they really sent him off to the slaughter house. One day the animals were talking and they noticed that the pigs began walking on two legs. They were all shocked and could not speak. Clover relized that the wall of seven commandments had looked ... even changed the rule of all animals were equal to all animals are equal but some more equal then others. The pigs have slowly over time began to turn nto humans. They lived in the house, ate out of dishes, got drunk, never worked and were using the other animals as laboreres. They began to wear Jone's clothes, smoked his pipes and even carried trotters. One day people came to visit the farm and as the animals looked into the house they were amazedto see the animals and the farmers playing cards and sharing beer. As the animals watched Napoleon and Mr. P made toats and then htey resumed their game. The rest if the ...
- 1475: Albert Einstein
- ... which he returned to his original curiosity, religion. While Einstein was visiting America in 1933 the Nazi party came to power in Germany. Again he was subject to anti-Semitic attacks, but this time his house was broken into, and he was publicly considered an enemy of the nation. It was obvious that he could not return to Germany, and for the second time he renounced his German citizenship. During these ... An Impact Biography, 1920. - Dukas, Helen and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Albert Einstein: The Human Side, Princeton: University Press, 1979. - Einstein, Albert, Carl Seelig, ed., Ideas and Opinions, New York: Bonanza Books, 1954. - "Einstein, Albert." Random House Encyclopedia, Random House Press, 1990 edition. - Hunter, Nigel, Einstein, New York: Bookwright Press, 1987. - Nourse, Dr. Alan E., Universe, Earth, and Atom: The Story of Physics, New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.
- 1476: Gays In the Military
- ... a problem with order, morale or discipline they should be separated from service regardless of sexual orientation ( Wells, Davis 54-107). The idea that homosexuals pose a security risk is clearly unfounded since in a House Of Representatives Committee on National Security report proves gays are less of a risk. Of the 117 reported espionage cases between 1945 and 1991 only 6 involved homosexuals. The key to ending discrimination based on ... director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund states, "Homosexuals are being persecuted in the military for being different from the mainstream, just as blacks were maltreated in the 1940's and 50's" ( Duke A1, House Of Representatives 95-21). From the Revolutionary War to present day homosexuals have served in the military with distinction and pride. Yet although many have died in defense of the principles upon which our nation ... Accounting Office review found that out of seventeen foreign military forces only four explicitly ban homosexuals from service. This shows America is in need of a policy change and it must be fair and succinct ( House Of Representatives ). Many veterans and soldiers feel that even if the ban were lifted it would not improve conditions or increase acceptance levels of gays in the military. But lifting the ban would relieve ...
- 1477: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... months. In 1911, feeling too restricted by building primarily suburban structures, Wright began the construction of his new home and studio, located on his uncle s Wisconsin farm, called Taliesin (Welsh for shining brow ). No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. (Frank Lloyd Wright, pg.96) In 1909, the first phase of Wright s career ended sadly, when he left his lover, Mamah Borthwick Chaney, the wife ... creative powers to be as strong as ever, and Wright entered the most productive phase of his career, with designs for Broadacre City, Fallingwater, the S.C. Johnson and Son Administration Building and the Usonian house. The ideas that Wright conceived between 1922 1932 formed the basis for much of his later work. Whenever Wright faced personal dilemmas, he always seemed to emerge with wonderful new architecture. From 1936 to ...
- 1478: The Adults Are Always Right?
- ... that one hour out of our day to relax. They do, do a lot and I respect them and all, but give us some credit for a change. Is it our fault that almost every house has at least one television bigger than 22" and that basic cable comes with at least thirty channels? They keep telling us their stories about when they were kids, and it always has to do ... tells him to clean his room. Mark is watching "Honeymooners" reruns at the time and is too lazy to clean it. Besides it's the one where Ralph takes the gang to his boss's house for dinner, one of his favourite episodes, so he says he cleaned it. Mark's mother finds out the truth because his little sister Sarah ratted him out. Mark's mother doesn't think her ... can try to include kids in their activities, or reward them for what they have done. The better the job done, the larger the reward. This way kids are encouraged to do something around the house. The last point I would like to make is that kids want to be heard. A good example here is when it was time to go school shopping. Two weeks before school started my ...
- 1479: A Rose for Emily and Antlers: The Struggle against Loneliness: A Search for Human Affection
- ... sweet heart, Homer Barron, had disappeared (Faulkner, 411). As an elder lady she lived with a servant Negro man and occasionally had cousins visit her, but other than that, no one else ever entered her house and she was completely alone. Suzie’s established reputation is different from Emily’s honorable position. Yet, Suzie’s loneliness is still easily seen because of her small town and the distinct reputation she carries ... is very different. Emily’s lonely lifestyle is more extreme and so is the way she tries to find human affection. Throughout the story, the reader constantly questions the horrible smell coming from Emily’s house. When Homer Barron disappears conveniently after Emily buys arsenic, the reader is then led to believe that she kills Homer and this is what attributes to the foul odor around her house. This idea is not confirmed until the end when Homer’s body is discovered in her bed. Presumably, Emily kills Homer since he was not going to marry her as she hoped. The town’ ...
- 1480: Anne Frank
- Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in the German City of Frankfort. Anne Frank lived with her family in a nice house. Anne and her sister, Margot’s childhood was a secure place inhabited by loving parents, relatives and nurses. However, when the Nazis had gained power in some parts of Germany, everything began to change. The ... 5 months later, the Germans summoned 16-year-old Margot Frank to report for deportation. Otto Frank had contacts with some Dutch friends, and they were able to hide out in the attic of a house. The morning after Margot was summoned they left Amsterdam and went to the attic of the house called the Secret Annexe. In the Secret Annexe the Van Daan family accompanied them. There was Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son Peter. Some time after an elderly man, who was a ...
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