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- 1581: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For Themselves
- ... she felt that for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and moldy. She would not be lonely anymore. Janie married Logan in Nanny's parlor. Janie felt lonesome when she went to Logan's house "It was a lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been. The house was absent of flavor, too. But anyhow Janie went on inside to wait for love to begin." After two months have gone by Janie had to reconsider her marriage with Logon. "Janie waited a bloom ... Janie and Tea Cake decided to ride it out. The hurricane we much more then they had expected "Tea Cake touched Janie and said, "Ah reckon you wish you had of stayed in yo' big house 'way from such as dis, don't you?" Tea Cake was the only love Janie has ever had. After the hurricane has passed many, repair and work up was due. Three weeks or so ...
- 1582: Morality Or Murder In In Cold
- ... you should become. You should be striving for worthy goals. Emotional problems arise from being purposeless" (Victor Frankl, 1970). Bibliography Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Vintage International, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 1994. Coles, Robert. The Moral Intelligence of Children. New York: Random House, 1997. Frankl, Victor. "Quote of the Day." Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. 1998 ed. CD-ROM. Cambridge, MA: The Learning Company, Inc., 1998. Lickona, Thomas. Raising Good Children. New York: Bantam Books, 1983. Neumann, Erich. The Child. Boston: Random House, 1990.
- 1583: Ted Bundy
- ... name to Chris Hagen and settled in an apartment in Tallahassee, Florida (Reinhold.) Ted lived off of stolen credit cards for the time being. Bundy spent a considerable amount of time at the Chi Omega House on the university campus in Florida. On January 14th, after 3A.M. two sorority sisters were dead and three severely injured at the hands of Ted Bundy. The police were called and Bundy was eventually arrested again, "a college student pointed to Ted Bundy as the man who fled the Chi Omega House the night two women were killed and three others clubbed senseless." Bundy faced three trials, all spaced in three years, but it was the Chi Omega trail that sealed his fate forever. Bundy acted as ... was fighting an impossible battle. There were two events in the trial that swayed the jurors against Bundy. The testimony of Nita Neary, who pointed out Bundy as the man who fled the Chi Omega House the night of the murders. The other event that swayed the jury was the testimony of Odontologist, Dr. Richard Souviron. While on stand he described the bite mark injuries that were on Lisa Levy' ...
- 1584: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... retreat. The family seems to remain very involved within itself. Much of this is Spanish culture. In Spanish-speaking countries, it is not uncommon to find many generations of the same family living in one house. The Buendia house always has various relatives within it. Yet, this is not the only explanation. The incest of the family is a theme throughout the novel, and is a significant factor in the solitude of this family ... shows no emotion. After Jose Arcadio's violent death, Rebeca holes herself up in her home in which she and Jose Arcadio had lived happily. She refuses to come out, and as a result, the house rots, just as she, and is forgotten. Amaranta chose to seclude herself romantically. Though men proposed, she refused, and she remained alone until the day she died. Solitude, whether it be perceived or real, ...
- 1585: The Use Of Propaganda In The N
- ... began a new campaign. This time, it was aimed at women. Hitler wanted to encourage good health and child birth among women. There were two things that constituted this: having women take on a nursing, house-wife role and for them to make time for activity, such as sports. However, it would not be easy to entice women to compromise on giving up what they considered to be a trim figure ... we do not approve of or think not to be true. Works Cited Ausubel, Nathan. Pictorial History of the Jewish People. New York: Crown Publishers, 1953. Goldhagen, Daniel. Hitlers Willing Executioners. New York: Random House, 1996. Goldhagen, Daniel. Personal Interview. 25 December 1996. "Holocaust." World Book Encyclopedia. Http://haven.ios.com/~kimel19/index.html#index. Internet. AT&T Worldnet Service, Vrs. 3.0. Windows 95, disk. Levin, Nora. The Holocaust ... Jewry. New York: Schocken Books, 1973 Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. Computer software. Microsoft Corporation, 1996. Windows 95, 6.39 MB, CD-ROM. Rossel, Seymour. The Holocaust: The World and the Jews, 1933-1945. West Orange: Behrman House, 1992.
- 1586: Lyndon B Johnson
- ... intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. 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. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and ... other minorities. As vice-president, he also undertook some missions abroad, which offered him some limited insights into international problems. Presidency 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. In 1964, Congress passed a tax-reduction law that promised to promote economic growth and the Economic Opportunity Act, which launched ... Novak, Robert, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Exercise of Power : A Political Biography (1966); Geyelin, Philip, Lyndon B. Johnson and the World (1966); Goldman, Eric F., The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (1969); Johnson, Lady Bird, White House Diary(1970); Kearns, Doris, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976); Schandler, Herbert, The Unmaking of a President: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam (1977); White, Theodore, The Making of the President--1964 (1965); Wicker, Tom, ...
- 1587: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... been the single, happiest moment of his life." The family had moved to Iowa where Lionel was working on his Ph.D. at Iowa When Jeff was four, his father swept out from under their house the remains of some small animals that had been killed by civets. As his father gathered the tiny animal bones, Jeff seemed "oddly thrilled by the sound they made. His small hands dug deep into ... too. What he didn't realise was that Jeff's boyhood condition was far graver than his and that "Jeff had begun to suffer from near isolation." In April of 1967, they bought a new house. Jeff seemed to adjust better to this move and developed a close friendship with a boy named Lee. He was also very fond of one of his teachers and took her a bowl of tadpoles ... and worked on the school newspaper. However, his classmates considered him a loner and an alcoholic, who brought liquor into the classroom. He actually had a prom date, who he later invited to his parents' house for a seance. His classmates remember a stunt he pulled when he sneaked into the yearbook photo of the members of the National Honour Society. The yearbook staff caught the prank in time and ...
- 1588: The Merchant Of Venice
- ... wonder about how fair Shylock is, when Launcelot is deciding whether or not to leave him. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, Jessica. He mistreats her by keeping her as a captive in her own house, not letting her out, and not letting her hear the Christian music around her. He orders her to: "Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum... ..But stop my house's ears-I mean casements. Let not the sound of shallow fopp'ry enter My sober house." 3 Jessica considers her home to be hell, and she calls Launcelot, a "merry little devil". She even states that her father is Satan. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, by not loving her ...
- 1589: J.P. Morgan
- ... one of the largest and most successful companies on Wall Street. The firm also became the predominant force in US government funding. When Junius Morgan died in 1890, J.P. became head of the London house. Pierpont now was able to control all the dealing between the New York based firm and their oversees partner. Anthony Drexel also died in 1893, and Morgan reorganized the Morgan and Drexel firms two years ... company and funded the company with one hundred million dollars to reorganize the company on a national scale. After 1906, the company was revived and a commanding force it was also principally backed by the house of Morgan. The first time that J.P. was truly introduced to the general public was his aide to the government in 1895. At the time many people believed that Morgan as well as other ... found that that the "means employed were none the less effective, as well as profitable." The culmination of the government and public's suspicion of Morgan's activities were the Pujo hearings of 1912. The House Banking and Currency subcommittee headed by representative Arsene Pujo had been trying to establish that a "money trust" ruled over America's major corporations, railroads, insurance companies, securities markets, and banks. The investigation served ...
- 1590: Death of A Salesman: The Tragedy of One Man
- ... at the age of sixty- three and nearing retirement, Willy is seen as a man who gave all of his life to a business, only to be thrown in the scrap-heap and as a house holder whose pattern of life was interwoven with installment plans with which he could hardly catch up. In another time, Willy Loman might have been a happy carpenter. He can put up a ceiling which ... so many fine tools, all I'd need would be a little lumber and some peace of mind"(Meyer 1743). On the morning of the day which ends with his suicide, he admires his own house: "All the cement, the lumber, the reconstruction put in this house. There ain't a crack to be found in it any more"(Meyer 1744). Belittling Charlie, Willy says, "A man who can't handle tools is not a man"(Meyer 1730). But it is ...
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