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- 1521: Julius Caesar
- ... He was becoming a celebrity in Rome. Two years later Caesar had bribed the right people to become the high priest of Rome. This was a position of great political importance. He had a special house in Rome’s forum and he could grant great favors to his friends and creditors. In fact, on the day of his election he told his mother that she should not expect him home if ... had not been murdered. Works Cited Green, Robert. Julius Caesar. New York. Franklin watts publishing company, 1996 May, Robin. Julius Caesar and the Romans. East Sussex. Wayland publishing, 1984 Schlesinger, Arthur M. Caesar. Boston. Chelsea house publishers, 1987 Suetonius. The lives of the 12 Caesar's. Willamstown, MA. Corner house publishers, 1987 Blooming, Mike H. “Hero or Villain” 6 April, 1995
- 1522: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. When war came to Europe he backed Roosevelt's efforts to aid the Allies. During World ... and other minorities. As vice-president, he also undertook some missions abroad, which offered him some limited insights into international problems. The assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, elevated Johnson to the White House, where he quickly proved a masterful, reassuring leader in the realm of domestic affairs. Johnson had increased the number of U.S. military personnel there from 16,000 at the time of Kennedy's assassination ... DiBacco, Mason, and Christian Appy. History of The United States. Evanston: McDougal Littell, 1997 Grolier Online. Encyclopedia Americana: Lyndon B. Johnson. http://www.grolier.com/presidents/ea/bios/36pjohn.html, May 10, 1999 The White House Website. Johnson B., Lyndon, 36th President. http://www2.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/lj36.html, May 10, 1999
- 1523: The Mists of Avalon
- ... had known what she needed to know for someone of her station, but at Avalon she started at the bottom with no knowledge. Morgaine was placed in the lowest level of schooling at Avalon, the House of the Maidens. “Raven will take you to the House of the Maidens, and you will see me no more, save at the rites, until you are trained to take your turn with the older priestess, to sleep in my house, and care for me as a serving girl” (133). Morgaine was a naïve eleven-year-old who accepted things at first glance, never questioning things that seemed out of the ordinary. She was easy ...
- 1524: Jane Austen: Background of Her Novels
- ... to the playfulness and general epigrammatism of the general style". In 1809 Jane Austen, her mother, sister Cassandra, and Martha Lloyd moved to Chawton, near Alton and Winchester, where her brother Edward provided a small house on one of his estates. This was in Hampshire, not far from her childhood home of Steventon. Before leaving Southampton, she corresponded with the dilatory publisher to whom she had sold Susan (i.e. Northanger ... and Mary), visit the Mansfield neighbourhood, the moral sense of each marriageable member of the Mansfield family is tested in various ways, but Fanny emerges more or less unscathed. The well-ordered (if somewhat vacuous) house at Mansfield Park, and its country setting, play an important role in the novel, and are contrasted with the squalour of Fanny's own birth family's home at Portsmouth, and with the decadence of ... story of the unsophisticated and sincere Catherine Morland on her first trip away from home, for a stay in Bath. There she meets the entertaining Henry Tilney; later, on a visit to his family's house (the "Northanger Abbey" of the title) she learns to distinguish between the highly charged calamities of Gothic fiction and the realities of ordinary life (which can also be distressing in their way). Like Jane ...
- 1525: Obituary On George Washington
- ... astronomy, arithmetic and surveying. When George was 11 years old, his father died and George became very close to his older half brother, Lawrence. George liked to visit Lawrence, who was living in a small house their father built on the Potomac River. Lawrence named the house and its farm, Mount Vernon, after his commanding officer, Admiral Edward Vernon of the British Navy. George enjoyed listening to Lawrence talk about the time he served in the military with the British. He also ... George Washington and Martha Custis were married on January 6, 1759. He grew many food crops. He stopped growing tobacco and made wheat and corn his main cash crops. Colonel Washington was elected to the House of Burgesses and often went to its meetings in the Virginia capital of Williamsburg. By the early 1770s, George Washington and other colonists were becoming angry with England. Goods from England were expensive and ...
- 1526: The Return of the Native: A Relationship Destined for Destruction
- ... After hearing of the circumstances surrounding his mother’s death, he quickly places all guilt on Eustacia: “‘ You shut the door –you looked out of the window upon her –you had a man in the house with you –you sent her away to die’”(Hardy 254). Clym immediately wishes punishment on Eustacia: “‘May all murderesses get the torment they deserve’”(Hardy 251). Shirley Stave believes that Clym: “…represents modern consciousness, Hardy ... better for me if I die, and it would certainly be better for Eustacia”’ (Hardy 242). He refuses to put aside memories of his mother: “He continually bewailed his tardy journey to his mother’s house” (Hardy 239). After the death of Mrs. Yeobright Clym begans to see her as a saint. He blindly looks pasts her evil nature and sees her as innocent: “Call her to mind –think of her ... death, Clym moves back into his mother’s home. Clym, although deeply saddened by Eustacia’s death, is quick to recover. His mother becomes, once again, the dominate love of his life. He arranges the house just as Mrs. Yeobright had left it creating a shine to her. Mrs. Yeobright finally succeeds in winning Clym over. She prevails over Eustacia and takes control of Clym. Mrs. Yeobright and Clym are ...
- 1527: Black And White Women Of The Old South
- ... derogatory names were what most white women came to stereotype as being the definition of the average black woman. So they to had it hard when they were being worked by the woman of the house. Being that the mere idea that if you were a black woman your mistress or lady of the house felt threatened by your presence, so they did there best to make sure the black women got to tired and to low of self-esteem to do anything. In are class we discussed how women ... husbands. And the slave will never be to her level, because the black slave will never be a lady. And in the book you can see how the white women lost there power in the house and that their system of life that they received didn’t prove to work out anymore for them so they had to attempt to adjust to a way life took would take them. I ...
- 1528: Frankenstein 6
- ... to the next room and tries to sleep, but is troubled by nightmares about Elizabeth and his mother's corpse. He awakens to discover the monster next to his bed and rushes out of the house. He spends the night pacing in his courtyard, and the next morning he goes walking in the town of Ingolstadt. As he walks by the town inn, Victor comes across Henry Clerval, who has just ... letter expresses her concern about Victor's illness and entreats him to write to them as soon as he can. She also tells him that Justine Moritz, a girl who used to live at their house, has returned to live with them following her mother's death. After Victor has recovered completely, he introduces Henry to the professors at the university. He finds, however, that the sight of any chemical instrument ... a family cottage to spend the night. They walk around the grounds a little while, but Victor begins to expect the monster's arrival and so sends his wife to wait for him in the house. As he searches for the monster, he hears Elizabeth scream and realizes that it was not his death the monster had been intending for that night. Victor returns home and tells his father of ...
- 1529: Jane Eyre: Changing Seasons and Weather
- ... with the summer’s rain. The rain is a direct expression of Jane’s situation in reality and it contrasts Jane’s previous summer stillness adequately. Jane is soon rescued by the Rivers of Moor house, in the town of Morton. After recovering from exhaustion in the care of Mary, Diana, and St. John the summer seems to brighten. She forges new friendships with the Rivers girls and the servants. Together ... by her almost immediate and negative response. Eventually the winter progresses and the reader is told it is nearing Christmas. Jane is found busying herself with the preparation of food and the decoration of the house, she juxtaposes the warm and welcoming atmosphere inside to the “wintry waste and desert dreariness without”. In retrospect the winter has brought positive and negative influence to Jane’s circumstance; Jane has furthered her relationship with the Rivers women and become an integral part of the running of Moor house, but she has become desperate for Rochester whom she left behind at Thornfield. Within the course of two letters to Mrs. Fairfax inquiring about Rochester, two months pass and Jane is confronted more dramatically ...
- 1530: Death And Bereavement
- ... to him softly. While I can see now that it must have been comforting for him to die surrounded by his family, it gave me the "creeps" to know that I was in the same house with someone who was going to die. I can remember praying that I would not be in the room when he passed on. I wasn't, he died in his sleep and I heard the ... I didn't really appreciate what death was. I do remember wondering what they were going to do with my grandfather, I didn't much care for the idea that I was in the same house as a dead body. As was the custom, my grandfather was laid out in the living room for viewing. It was a small town and it seemed that most everyone stopped by to pay their ... long before, next to his wife. I remember walking around the cemetery and feeling very uneasy that so many gravestones had the names of my relatives on them. After the funeral everyone returned to the house for the wake. I was surprised how festive the occasion was and remember thinking it morbid somehow to throw a big party after burying someone you loved, but now I can see it was ...
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