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- 1601: The Potential For A U.N. Peace
- ... longer accept refugees unless other European nations begin admitting some("Day by day" PG). Immediately, Germany agreed to accept some refugees if other European nations would follow (PG). At around the same time, the White House announced that additional monies would be used to help the refugees (PG). The very next day, NATO announced plans to create an airlift campaign to bring in refugee supplies and to temporarily settle 20,000 ... is not out of the woods yet. Again, the Wag the Dog theory, while pertaining primarily to diversion from a sex scandal, is relevant. At least that is how it is perceived. However, some White House watchers contend that perhaps Clinton had wanted to cover up something significantly more serious than an a sexual liaison. Chinagate has been given little attention but it has been alleged that Chinese money had helped ... the Kosovars (A13). Ministers from the Group of Seven rich countries who attended were from the U.S., Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada; Russia was expected to be present at the Petersberg guest house just outside Bonn ("G8 close" PG). They agreed that deployment in Kosovo of any international civil and security forces should be something that had to be endorsed and adopted by the United Nations (Pisik ...
- 1602: Hedda Gabler By Ibsen
- ... motivations of Hedda Gabler through his use of theme, setting, and current events. Works Cited Hemmer, Bjorn. The dramatist Henrik Ibsen. http://odin.dep.no/ud/nornytt/ibsen.html Ibsen, Henrik. Four Major Plays: A Doll s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Mazer, Cary M. Hedda Gabler. http://www.english.upenn.edu/~cmazer/hedda.html.
- 1603: Alice in Wonderland: Summary
- ... best way to dry off. They keep fighting over who is right until she walks off in a fury of anger. In an immediate, yet magical shift, Alice suddenly finds herself at the white rabbits house. The rabbit mistakes her for his servant, Mary Ann. He sees her and tells her to fetch his gloves and fan. She soon finds the fan and gloves, and is drawn again to another bottle ... with Alice. But before he leaves he gives her some advice; “one side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you shorter.” Meaning the mushroom. Soon, Alice finds herself at the house of the march hare. Since it was may, the hare should only be mad in march, but again she was wrong. She takes a nibble of the mushroom making her self taller. Being taller, she feels that she has more self confidence. At the hares house there was a tea party going on. It turns out that it was a mad tea party. It is always six o’clock, with no time to wash dishes, it was always tea time. ...
- 1604: How Society Effects Human Natu
- ... The bishop represents charity and love. Everything he's ever had, he gave to charity. When the bishop first met Valjean, he said, "You need not tell me who you are. This is not my house; it is the house of Christ. It does not ask any comer whether he has a name, but whether he has an affliction. You are suffering; you are hungry and thirsty; be welcome. And do not thank me; do not tell me that I take you into my house..... whatever is here is yours." (pg. 15-16) The bishop didn't look at him as a convict; he looked at him as a fellow brother. Later, when the bishop found out that Valjean ...
- 1605: 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, ...
- 1606: Creative Writing: Stanley
- ... dollars, and immediately called his drug dealer. He again almost pissed himself to find him home and in business. Stan punched-out of work, got in his car, and tore-ass to Ronnie McDavis's house. When Stan arrived at Ronnie's house, he saw the wonderful beast of a dog that Ronnie and his grotesquely fat wife Angela raised. The dog was about as obese as Angela was, but with more manners. Stan knocked on the door ... of this happening: his flesh falling off, his skin burning, all of it. He was watching his own decent into hell. He accomplished nothing in his life, no good job, no good wife, no good house or car. It wasn't even from the weed. It was because he didn't care. These days, does anyone?
- 1607: Chrsanthemums
- ... to each other’s sense of accomplishment and agree to celebrate with a night on the town. Elisa is earthbound, rooted securely in her garden but also held down by her connection to it. Their house is described as “hard-swept” and “hard-polished,” and is the only outlet for her talents. However, Elisa needs something more in her life than a neat house and a good garden. Their marriage is childless and conventional and she has begun to sense that an important part of her is dying and that her future will be predictable and mundane. Elisa is ... her special skill and excited by the chance to share, at least in her imagination, a totally different kind of life. As she prepares for the evening, the effort she usually puts into scrubbing the house is redirected into her transformation to make herself as attractive as she now feels. Her husband is both surprised and pleased by her appearance, and their conversation is mixed with pleasantries and unexpected delight ...
- 1608: Sociology: The Comparative Method
- ... it was considered quite an honor for a family with a young boy under the age of 10, to be given the privilege on an older man of high society taking their son into his house. The young boy would go and live with this older man. The older man would have sex with the young boy on a regular basis until the boy developed facial hair. It was not until ... thanks to the comparative method, that the constructed truth that all people view morale issues the same is not a correct one. Another quick example of a cross-gender comparison would be that of the house-wife. Still today most men view the role of the married woman as one that involves being a house-wife, in the traditional sense of the term. However, women today certainly would not view themselves in the same manner. The data collected from a comparison such as this could help to dereify this ...
- 1609: Ethan Frome: Themes
- ... becomes sick, and all she does is complain and bicker about life. He spends most of his money paying for Zenna’s medicine and doctor bills. Although, soon someone is needed to help around the house and this is when Ethan Frome meets the woman of his dreams. Mattie Silver who is Zenna’s cousin moves in. Throughout the book Ethan yearns to be with her but cannot because of his ... Zenna. Every waking moment he dreams of being with her. He even goes as far as lying to his wife to be alone with Mattie. Zenna is not very fond of Mattie, especially of her house cleaning skills. He does this when he tells his wife that he has to get money from Mr. Hale as an excuse not to give her a ride to the flats when she has to ... which is that you cannot always have what you desire. When Zenna had returned from Bettsbridge, she tells Ethan that her condition has worsened and that she has hired a girl to help around the house. She also informs him that Mattie will have to leave the next day. This makes Ethan very angry. Ethan than contemplates the idea of risking everything and leaving his wife, and moving west with ...
- 1610: To Kill A Mockingbird: Childhood Experience
- ... the first part of To Kill a Mockingbird, the main characters Scout, Jem, and Dill thought that the Radley family and their member, Boo Radley, as strange and unnatural human beings. They described Radley's house as “That is a sad house....” (Harper Lee, 48). This is a “fact” they heard from their neighbours. Until one day, their neighbour Miss Maudie's house was found on fire. While Scout was standing outside in the cold watching the fire, someone from behind her and put a blanket around her shoulders. Later, Scout and Jem realized that there was ...
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