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- 1761: Twister
- ... off. Bill then goes to the truck and heads off towards Wakita with the rest of the crew. When they finally get to the town, the entire place is wiped-out. They drive to the house where Joe's aunt lives and finds that the house is barely standing. They holler for Meg (Joe's aunt) and find that she is in the basement with a bookshelf on the top of her. Bill pulls the book shelf off of her and safely gets Meg out of the house. They call an ambulance and they tell Joe that Meg has a broken wrist and a bump on the head. One of the chasers comes into the ambulance and tells Joe that the storm ...
- 1762: Violence on the Tube
- ... to imitate the aggressive behavior they see on television, whether the models are cartoons or real people. In one such experiment, a child watches a film where an adult beats up on a life-size doll. The child is then put in a room with the same doll and is observed. The child almost always beats up on the doll in the same ways as seen in the film. The expression of “skills” may be inhibited by punishment or by the expectation of punishment. Conversely, media violence may disinhibit the expression of aggressive impulses ...
- 1763: The Works and Life of Charles Dickens
- ... s youth. Other times though, the problems are so outdated that someone of our time would not comprehend these troubles. For example, in Dickens' Oliver Twist, Oliver was forced to grow up in a "poor house" where today there are no such institutions. Dickens' novels are not works that can be read with ease. By contrast, Dickens' works all end with a moral which is very apparent by the time the ... never give up on your dreams. These two themes are obviously applicable to today's society. In Oliver Twist, Oliver is a pauper who is faced with many difficult situations. Growing up in a "poor house," Oliver is sold as a servant after begging for food. Once sold, Oliver finds himself working in a funeral home where he is faced with the difficulty of distrust and lack of faith in him ... the truth about the robbery, Sikes (the robber) would have never been caught and Oliver would have never had the chance to be adopted. He would most likely have ended up back in the poor house or a pauper for the rest of his life without an education. A stylistic element that often appears in Oliver Twist is the need to make moral choices such as whether it is correct ...
- 1764: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... months. In 1911, feeling too restricted by building primarily suburban structures, Wright began the construction of his new home and studio, located on his uncle’s Wisconsin farm, called Taliesin (Welsh for ‘shining brow’). “No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.” (Frank Lloyd Wright, pg.96) In 1909, the first phase of Wright’s career ended sadly, when he left his lover, Mamah Borthwick Chaney, the wife ... creative powers to be as strong as ever, and Wright entered the most productive phase of his career, with designs for Broadacre City, “Fallingwater,” the S.C. Johnson and Son Administration Building and the Usonian house. The ideas that Wright conceived between 1922 1932 formed the basis for much of his later work. Whenever Wright faced personal dilemmas, he always seemed to emerge with wonderful new architecture. From 1936 to ...
- 1765: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hated dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his ...
- 1766: The Theme of Death in Poems
- ... was passing them; time was passing by, past her life. Her life has now past her by, and she is arriving at her final destination, which was her grave, yet she describes it as her house. In the end she is looking back, and sees how centuries have passed, yet she isn't passing by anymore, and to her this hundred years seems as no time at all. Finally she accepts ... the little girl many times mentioned how white cousin Arthur was. She mentioned to white, frozen lake of the loon that was a marble topped table. The color of Arthur was also white, like a doll that hadn't been painted. She played a lily in his hand, yet another personification of innocense by the color of the flower. This defining of the color is symbolic, or the youth and innocence ...
- 1767: Lord of the Flies Response
- ... hurt their the civilization severely was, when they were building the shelters. Everyone was supposed to help, but only two people (Ralph and Simon) could honestly say they helped build all the houses. The first house looked great with everyone helping to make it. The second house looked okay but some people forgot about their jobs and wandered off. But the third house was no more than a horrible shack considering only two people worked on it. These were the kind of things that killed the boys' civilization. Later on in the novel, Jack put his rebellion ...
- 1768: I Know WhyThe Caged Bird Sings
- ... Christmas, Maya and Bailey's parents sent them presents. The children went outside to cry, wondering why they were sent away. Momma thought they were being ungrateful. Later they destroyed the blond, blue- eye China doll their mother sent her. - Big Bailey, the children's father visited Stamps. Maya was surprised how big he was, how handsome he was, him owning a car, and how he spoke like a white. He ... boyfriend, Mr. Freeman. Chris Corey pg. 6 7) Plot "I" 2 - Vivian worked in a gambling parlor. Mr. Freeman always waited for her to come home at night. One day after Vivian had left the house, Mr. Freeman molested Maya. He threatened to kill Bailey if she told anyone. He avoided her for weeks before he did it again and ignored her for weeks after that. - Maya began to read a ...
- 1769: Personal Writing: An-Yang
- ... annoyed me to no end). My grandparents are separated- my grandfather lives with us, while she lives in a separate apartment by herself in Glendale. My family and I used to eat lunch at her house every week. I remember trudging up the dank, squeaky stairs with my siblings, yelling "An- yang!!"(grandmother) all the way. She would yell in a similar fashion "Ah! Shua- nging!" (ah, children!) Smells of old ... dilapidated couch, whose colors were made indiscernible by time, and was looking around her room. My gaze swept from the thin, worn carpet, bare in some places, to the scarred wooden dresser, to a dirty doll with an eye missing. (My grandmother could never bear to throw anything away). She came and sat down next to me, taking my hand in hers. The tight braid at the nape of her neck ...
- 1770: Albert Einstein
- ... which he returned to his original curiosity, religion. While Einstein was visiting America in 1933 the Nazi party came to power in Germany. Again he was subject to anti-Semitic attacks, but this time his house was broken into, and he was publicly considered an enemy of the nation. It was obvious that he could not return to Germany, and for the second time he renounced his German citizenship. During these ... An Impact Biography, 1920. - Dukas, Helen and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Albert Einstein: The Human Side, Princeton: University Press, 1979. - Einstein, Albert, Carl Seelig, ed., Ideas and Opinions, New York: Bonanza Books, 1954. - "Einstein, Albert." Random House Encyclopedia, Random House Press, 1990 edition. - Hunter, Nigel, Einstein, New York: Bookwright Press, 1987. - Nourse, Dr. Alan E., Universe, Earth, and Atom: The Story of Physics, New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969. Word Count: 1594
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