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- 1551: A Rose For Emily: Comparison to The Sound and The Fury
- ... rules and regulations. This in turn gets some admiration from the people of Jefferson(the town) as it is "digging" into the future. But then Mr. Crierson died and all she was left was the house. This event made her "human" in the eyes of the town people now. The town turned to pity after almost having to use force to bury her father, which she clinged onto with nothing else ... by the new generation. Her painting pupils fell away and free postal delivery was introduced. She watched the future become inescapable to her. Then in her 70’s she fell ill and died in her house. After she was put to rest the town found out how complete isolation from the community can lead to madness and murder. For up stairs in the bedroom was Homer(very skinny) and evidence that ... a responsible person. Faulkners use of foreshadowing by inciting our anticipation is well put in the story. The best example is something I mentioned before when Emily bought poison. Another was the smell from the house. That was hard to pick up though the first time through. He used Colonel Sartoris as a symbol of the past. What I mean by this is Colonel Sartoris "gave" them tax free living ...
- 1552: Gender Socialization
- ... girl may wear a bow in their hair and flowered pajamas. As the boy begins to grow, he is given a miniature basketball and a hoop to play with. The girl is given dolls and doll clothes to dress them up in. Sounds pretty normal right? Why? As illustrated in the scenario above, gender socialization begins very early in life. Society has accepted such stereotype. We seem to accept that blue ... I help my mother to do housework while my brother never contribute anything and yet he is receiving a higher allowance. Why are the girls expected to do four times as much work around the house than the boys are? I did ask my mother that question. She says that it is a women's duty to do housework and not a man's. Though I might disagree with the morality ...
- 1553: Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
- ... trapped, unspoken resentment on Ethan's isolated and failing farm. Ethan has been caring for his wife for six years now. Due to Zeena's numerous complications they employ her cousin to help in the house, the animated Mattie Silver. With Mattie's youthful presence in the house, Ethan is awoken of the bitterness of his youth's lost opportunities, and a dissatisfaction with his life and empty marriage. Ethan and Mattie in turn, fall in love. However, they never follow their love ... t. For example, when he wants to impress Mattie with beautiful words of love, he mutters, "Come along." In their own ways, Zeena and Mattie are solitary figures, too. For years, Zeena rarely leaves the house. She's consumed by her illness. Mattie, on the other hand, seeks refuge from loneliness at the Fromes' farm. A year later she chooses to die rather than return to a world of solitude. ...
- 1554: The Chinese New Year
- ... with red color. Then everyone eats a piece of candy to start filling the next year with sugar, love, sweetness, and happiness. After the kids are ready, they greet their parents and everyone in the house with good morning, Happy New Years and Gung Hay Fat Choy. Chinatown is bedecked with lights and almost overnight, roadside stalls sprout pussy willows, mandarin trees and plum blossoms while food stores work feverishly to ... religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the ancestors, usually our great grand parents . It's utmost significance to go through the customary Chinese New Years traditions: house cleaning, decorations, lots of food, and more for their celebration. Chinese New Year is a time of special celebration and joy; therefore many old customs and performances are incorporated into the festival celebrations and competitions ... reunion dinner, a spring cleaning is performed inside and outside of the home. This ritual is not only to get the home ready for guest, but also to get rid of evil spirits. Then the house is decorated with kumquat plants, pussy willows, and on doors and walls are poetic couplets written on red paper. These messages sound better than the typical fortune cookie messages, but are symbols of good ...
- 1555: “Style Critique on The Hot Zone”
- ... several civilian scientists track down the viruses in order to conduct tests and find the secret hiding place of the viruses. The height of the story occurs when Ebola Zaire is discovered in a monkey house near Washington, D.C. and the Army has to decontaminate the entire facility. Luckily, the airborne strain only affected monkeys and didn’t infect humans. Preston concludes with his own trip to Africa to look ... I’m breaking with Ebola. And a week later, I’ll be in the Submarine. Shit! Jerry’s in Texas. And I didn’t go to the bank today. There’s no money in the house. The kids are home with Mrs. Trapane, and she needs to be paid. I didn’t go the market today. There’s no food in the house. How are the kids going to eat if I’m in the Slammer?” Preston used their thoughts to make it more realistic and to give the human perspective. Their thoughts showed that some were “ ...
- 1556: Maggie, A Girl From The Street
- ... of the Streets, by Stephen Crane, takes place in the slums of New York City during the 1890 s. It is about a girl, Maggie Johnson, who is forced to grow up in a tenement house. She had a brother, Jimmie, an abusive mother, Mary, and a father who died when Maggie was young. When Maggie grew up, she met her boyfriend, Pete. In Maggie s eyes, Pete was a sophisticated ... filled with disease. Also, the people who lived in the tenement houses would often fight with each other. The houses were most often located in an alley with other dangerous sorts of people. The tenement house that the Johnson family inhabited was located in Rum Alley. Crane went into great detail in describing the tenement houses. Eventually they entered a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways ... The theatre made her think. She wondered if the culture and refinement she had seen imitated, perhaps grotesquely, by the heroine on the stage, could be acquired by a girl who lived in a tenement house and worked in a shirt factory. She also believed that Pete, a man who was older and wiser than her, was her one true love. Maggie perceived that here was the ideal man. Her ...
- 1557: The Alien And Sedition Acts
- ... Republicans viewed this bill as nothing short of an attempt to strengthen the federal government and subvert the power of the States. Edward Livingston, a Republican congressman from New York, in a speech to the House of Representatives on June21, 1798, remarked: "...by this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime ... the publication of "scandalous and malicious" writings against the government or its officials, under penalty of fine or imprisonment. John Allen, a Federalist congressman from Connecticut, supported the act in a 1798 speech to the House of Representatives. Said Allen, "The freedom of the press and opinions was never understood to give the right of publishing falsehoods and slanders, nor of exciting sedition, insurrection, and slaughter, with impunity. A man was ... all then give to faction [the republicans] body and solidarity." Hamilton's hope was not realized though, as the republicans were given body. Albert Gallatin, a republican congressman from Pennsylvania, in a speech before the House of Representatives in 1798, concluded, "...this bill must be considered only as a weapon used by a party now in power in order to perpetuate their authority and preserve their present places." Gallatin, for ...
- 1558: Canada- Facts And Figures
- ... and, farthest west, the Pacific, which is eight hours behind GMT. Political System Canada is a constitutional monarchy and a federal state with a democratic parliament. The Parliament of Canada, in Ottawa, consists of the House of Commons, whose members are elected, and the Senate, whose members are appointed. On average, members of Parliament are elected every four years. Charter of Rights and Freedoms Canada's constitution contains a Charter of ... which the official English lyrics are based was written in 1908 by Mr. Justice Robert Stanley Weir. The official English version includes changes recommended in 1968 by a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons. The French lyrics remain unaltered. French Language and Identity: A Vibrant Presence According to the 1991 census, French is the mother tongue of 82 percent of Quebec's population and is spoken at ... America Act to become the Dominion of Canada. The government of the new country was based on the British parliamentary system, with a Governor General (the Crown's representative) and a Parliament consisting of the House of Commons and the Senate. Parliament received the power to legislate over matters of national interest (such as taxes and national defence), while the provinces were given legislative powers over matters of "particular" interest ( ...
- 1559: Emily Dickenson
- ... Emily saw herself as a woman who had her own way of thinking, a way of thinking shaped neither by the church or society. By the time she was twelve, her family moved to a house on Pleasant Street where they lived from 1840 to 1855. Emily was already writing letters, but composed most of her poetry in this home. Emily only left home to attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for ... one, Emily and her family moved to the Dickinson Homestead on Main Street. This move proved to be very difficult for Emily. This was difficult for Emily because she became very attached to her old house, which shaped her writing and personality for fifteen years. They now lived next door to her brother Austin and his wife Susan and their daughter Martha. Emily and Susan became so close that many people ... poems. Emily died on May 5, 1886 at the age of 56. She had planned her own funeral. It was held at the mansion on Main Street and ended at the family plot near the house on Pleasant Street. At her request, her casket was covered with violets and pine boughs, while she herself was dressed in a new white gown and had a strand of violets placed about her ...
- 1560: Childhood’s Own World in The God of Small Things
- ... lucky rich kids with “porketmunny.” Now they are victims of racism, which in adults it is common in that time. They were victims without knowing it; even when they live with it at their own house they don’t know it. They don’t know that anybody in their family is supposed to love Velutha because he was a Paravan or Untouchable, a man from a lower caste. Hindus believe that ... about castes; they loved him just because he was good to them, because he loves them, because he was also a children. It can be seen at Sophie Mol’s welcome party at the Ayemenem House (166); here Rahel is playing with Velutha outside the house instead of being inside at the party. The twins fight hard to get out from these rude environment, but they can’t get rid of it even inside the Plymouth (68). The God of ...
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