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- 1721: Creative Story: Neolithic Park
- ... began to figure how many weeks he thought it would take him until he could save enough money for a decent car. Still figuring, he put the car in drive and headed for Chris's house. When he arrived, Chris was waiting by the door, and as he approached the station wagon, Brian could see him jokingly mouthing the word 'parentmobile'. "At least I'm sixteen." Silence filled the car for ... cool." Once again, his impression had failed miserably. "You're getting better at that, you know." "Thanks for the encouragement. Oh, by the way, you need to pick up Nancy and Sarah from Sarah's house." "Nancy and Sarah? Oh, you mean the Nancy and Sarah a year older than us. Where do they live?" "Oak street." "Thanks for telling me so soon so that I have to turn around to ... a knowing smile on his face instead of a faraway look. "Don't you mean your '15 Vette, Chris?" he said through his quiet laughter. "I get it. Turn at the next street. Nancy's house is the third one on the right." "All right," he said, as he pulled the old, beat-up station wagon to the front of the Victorian-style white picket fence, "You can run up ...
- 1722: The Time Maching (analysis)
- The Time Machine Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, Kent, a few miles from London, the son of a house-maid and gardener. Wells died in 1946, a wealthy and famous author, having seen science fiction become a recognized literary form and having seen the world realize some of science fiction s fondest dreams and ... not a comfortable ride especially when he said "I remarked indeed a clumsy swaying of the machine, for which I was unable to account." There is evidence that the laboratory and the time traveler's house was torn down when he saw the brief picture of scaffolding. A snail went across the room at a speed that his eyes could not keep up with. After his house was gone he was in the open air and saw huge buildings erect themselves all around him. Wells was right in his assumption about these buildings because skyscrapers do exist in our time. He ...
- 1723: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... Kennedy’s development as a political liberal, 5 a person who believes that the government should directly help people to overcome poverty or social discrimination. The president and Mrs. Kennedy attempted to make the White House the cultural center of the nation. Writers, artists, poets, scientists, and musicians were frequent dinner guests. On one occasion the Kennedy’s held a reception for all the American winners of the Nobel Prize, people who made outstanding contributions to their field during the past year. At the party the president suggested that more talent and genius was at the White House that night than there had been since Thomas Jefferson had last dined there alone. At a meeting with the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Nikita Khrushchev, Kennedy asked the name of ... was employed in the warehouse, was arrested in a Dallas movie theater and charged with the murder. On November 24 the body of President Kennedy was carried on a horse-drawn carriage from the White House to the Rotunda of the Capitol. Hundreds of thousands of people filed past the coffin of the slain president. The grave was
- 1724: Moses And Exodus Religion
- ... Prophet of the Lord is among you. I reveal Myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. Why when you were not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?" (NIV) The definition of ... a good enough definition to go on because they were visited in dreams, and the things they preached and talked about came true. Bibliography The Holy Bible. New International Version. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1986 Heschel, Abraham J. Prophetic Inspiration After the Prophets. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House Inc, 1996 Spinoza, Baruch. Theological-Political Treatise. Translated by Martin D. Yaffe. Pre-publication draft. 1998
- 1725: Stephen Crane
- ... June 1893. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Critcism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 11. Detroit: Gale, 1983. 121. Karlen, Amo. “The Craft of Stephen Crane.” Georgia Review Fall 1974: pp 470- 84. Rpt. in The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism. Moses, Edwin. “Stephen Crane.” Magill’s Survey of American Literature. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 2. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1991. 427-41. Peden, William. “Stephen Crane.” Encyclopedia Americana. 1998 ed. Pizer, Donald. “Stephen Crane’s Maggie and American Naturalism.” Criticism Spring 1965: 168-75. Rpt. in The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism. Ed. Harold Bloom. Vol. 10 New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989. 5858-53. Parra 10 Quinn, Arthur Hobson. “The Journalists.” American Fiction: An Historical and Critical Survey. New York: Appleton Century-Crofts, Inc., 1936. 521-49. Seymour-Smith, Martin. “Stephen Crane.” Funk and ...
- 1726: Night Creatures
- By: jon smith One day Carrie and Jerry were walking home from school, and there was an ambulance at the next door neighbors house. They asked what was wrong and they found out that Mr. Zooman (that is what the kids call him) had a heart attack (that’s what they thought). And what do Carrie and Jerry care about it? He was a weird person anyway. That night Carrie and Jerry decide to climb the big brick fence that surrounded the house. They just wanted to check out what was there. They got their flashlights and shovels and started walking toward the house. They climbed the fence and had a rough drop down the fence. They looked around and saw huge plans; they were shaped like animals. Jerry looked up and saw a lion with wings; it ...
- 1727: Christmas History
- ... out stockings in hopes of finding them filled with gifts. The custom of singing carols at Christmas is also of English origin. During the middle ages, groups of serenaders called waits would travel around from house to house singing ancient carols and spreading the holiday spirit. The word carol means "song of you." Most of the popular old carols we sing today were written in the nineteenth century. The hanging of greens, such ... alone on Christmas Eve. The extended family, master and servant, alike would sleep together on a freshly spread bed of straw. The Yule log was originally an entire tree, carefully chosen, and brought into the house with great ceremony. The butt end would be placed into the hearth while the rest of the tree stuck out into the room. The tree would be slowly fed into the fire and the ...
- 1728: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- ... of cardboard appeared on a bus shelter at Court Square, one of the main downtown bus stops. The sign read “PEOPLE DON'T RIDE THE BUSES TODAY. DON'T RIDE IT FOR FREEDOM ” In the house of young Dr. Martian Luther King Jr. on Monday, December 4th, Dr. King was making coffee in his kitchen. The Friday night meeting had taken place at his church in Montgomery and he feared that the boycott would fail. Dr. Reverend King took his coffee and sat down and waited for the first bus on the South Jackson l0 line to go by his house at 6:00 A.M. The South Jackson line carried more Negroes than any other line in town; “the first bus was usually jammed full with Negro domestics on their way to work “. Dr. King ... by. In a state of high excitement, King waited for the next bus to go by. It was empty. So was the third one. With sprits soaring high Dr. King drove over to Abernathy's house in his car and the two of them drove all over town looking at the buses. All over Montgomery the buses were empty of black people. It looked like the boycott would be one ...
- 1729: The Paparazzi And The Legislat
- ... 2448. There are many bills being made to stop the most aggressive of the paparazzi but many take away from the first Amendment, freedom of speech. Sen. Feinstein s bill, S.2103, differs from the House bills because it also provides for civil actions against members of the press for use of high-powered lenses, microphones, or helicopters used to trespass for commercial purposes. This provision attempts to supplement existing laws ... of trespass made possible by modern technology. Victims can recover compensatory, and punitive damages and may also seek injunctive and declamatory relief (Quill, 21). All three paparazzi bills-H. R. 2448 and 3224 in the House, and S. 2103 in the Senate-would, in their own way, create new criminal and civil penalties for commercially motivated invasions of privacy that result from persistent chases or other invasive methods used by photographers ... say that all incidents where a certain member of the paparazzi got out of hand were taken care of through the legal system. Paul McMasters, a First Amendment Ombudsman at The Freedom Forum told the House Judiciary Committee on May 21st that "State and local jurisdictions already have laws dealing with invasion of privacy, intrusion upon seclusion, trespass, harassment, and other problems taken up in the federal legislation (American, 30). ...
- 1730: Barnabas
- ... out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison" Acts 8:1-3. In Acts 9:26-27, "Saul tries to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing ... by martyrdom in Cyprus. Scriptures from the Holy Bible, The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962) 356. Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, The NIV Study Bible (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995) 1654. Scriptures from the Holy Bible, The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962) 356.
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