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- 1841: Alice Walker's Everyday Use
- ... all these questions is pride. Pride is often shown in a bad light. One of the first images that pops in my head at the mention of pride is horrible little Nellie Olson from Little House on the Prairie. It is thought of a being boisterous and self-centered. We often use the term when describing vain little debutantes. Pride is blames for failed marriages, unpaid debts, and even suicide. However ... silly and that is the mother. She describes herself as a large, sweaty, masculine woman that could kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. The reader is given the impression that the house she lives in is little more than a shack. Her furniture and belongings are not expensive. She does not come across as being lady like and she dips snuff. Her own daughter is ashamed of ...
- 1842: David And Solomon
- ... in Jerusalem for the next 32 years. Secure on his throne and dwelling in a magnificent palace of cedar and stone, David began to be concerned that he, the visible king, dwelled in a magnificent house, but the invisible King of kings still dwelt in an aging temporary tent, the Tabernacle of Moses. At first the prophet Nathan gave David approval to construct a temple, but the following night God intervened. Speaking to Nathan in a dream God laid out for David an amazing covenant whose promises continue to this present day. God committed himself to establishing the house of David forever, to a specific land and people ,Israel, and to a temple. David, a man of war, was not, however, to build the First Temple. That task was given to his son Solomon ...
- 1843: Carvers Cathedral
- ... being blind bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing eye-dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I look forward to”. (Page 98). The narrator felt that being blind was like being in a type of prison and the preconceived notion of self-imprisonment was frightening to him. He ... thought I would keep them that way for a little longer. I thought it was something I ought to do. Well, he said. Are you looking? My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But, I didn’t feel like I was inside anything. It’s really something I said”. (Page 108). By becoming blind he sees clearly how the blind man’s world really is ...
- 1844: The Call of the Wild
- ... dog named Buck. Buck was a dog of good breeding, living in Santa Clara Valley, where it was always warm and the sun always shone. Since he was born, he was trained to be a house pet. He was used to a fancy and easy life. Then suddenly he was stolen from his home, and as the book quotes "thrust into the merciless life of the Artic north to endure hardship ... the same time what he learned about the untamed wild and its harsh ways affected him like no other thing in his life. As Buck started to learn, he began to lose that aura of house pet. He started to behave like a wolf. An untamed beast from the wild. His long- time lost instincts given to him by his ancestors from generations ago started to come to him. In the ...
- 1845: Cao Daiism
- ... Qui (Four Great Commandments), which consists of obeying/respecting superiors, acting with humility, being precise in matters of money, and being sincere at all times. Members of the Superior Order can enter the Tinh-That (House of Meditation) to receive esoteric training provided they follow a set of eight regulations (having fulfilled moral and social obligations, etc.) and once inside they may not talk to the outside world (aside from close ... htm http://www.vietinfo.com/non_profit/religion/caodai/caodaism.html Raskin, Marcus G. and Bernard B. Fall. The Vietnam Reader: Articles and Documents on American Foreign Policy and the Vietnam Crisis. New York: Random House, 1965. Scigliano, Robert. South Vietnam: Nation Under Stress. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964.
- 1846: Canadian Confederation
- ... one level of government for the whole nation for they would lose control of their language and culture.12 Maritimers too were reluctant to lose their own provincial assemblies. The central government would be the House of Commons where members would be elected based on the concept “representation according to population”. The other part of the Parliament would be the Senate where members would be appointed on a regional basis by ... General on the Advice of the Prime Minister. The Senate was to be set up in order to protect the rights of the smaller provinces and act as a check on the power of the House of Commons. There was much discussion over the division of powers between the provinces and the central government. John A. MacDonald was determined to relinquish as little power to the provinces possible and as a ...
- 1847: Civil War-54th Massachusettes
- ... regiment to proceed to Beaufort, South Carolina. On May 28 the regiment marched from Readville through Boston and down to the harbor. Their procession through Boston passed Shaw's family home and the Boston State House amid crowds lining the streets. 1863 June On June 3 one of the companies sailed to Hilton Head, South Carolina. On June 10 some of the 54th troop were forced to loot and burn the ... of 1864. The 54th also fought at Honey Hill, South Carolina (November 30, 1864) and at Boykins Mills (April 18, 1865). On September 1, 1865, the regiment received discharge papers and marched past the State House in Boston on the very route they had taken when they departed for war. The Massachusetts 54th had refused pay rather than accept the $10 a month specified by the Militia Act (passed on July ...
- 1848: Book Report on Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
- ... He has no respect for women, for example; he is a despicable "voluptuary," and he satisfies his lust at any cost. He drives his wife to madness by bringing "women of ill-repute" into their house right in front of her. Even more shockingly, he rapes a mentally retarded woman, who later dies giving birth to his illegitimate son, Smerdyakov, who grows up as his father's servant. Fyodor is even ... with Grushenka that he vows he will kill his father if his father succeeds in seducing her. Indeed, once, when he suspects that Grushenka has gone to Fyodor, he bursts frantically into his father's house and beats his father viciously; thus the reader is forced to believe that Dmitry is capable of murder. Additionally, Dmitry vows that he will "murder and rob someone" before he will appear as a thief ...
- 1849: Charles Dickens 2
- ... to the retelling of his experiences. Dickens was saved from this situation when his father was released from prison. From 1825 to 1827, Dickens again attended school for two years of formal schooling at Wellington House Academy in Hamstead. For the most part, however, he was self-educated. In 1827, dickens took a job as a legal clerk. By 1829, he had become a free-lance reporter at Doctor’s Commons Courts. He had become a very successful shorthand reporter of Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons and began work as a reporter for a newspaper, in 1832. During his time as a reporter he would develop his skills to write very detailed and factual-like stories. In 1833, Dickens ...
- 1850: Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus"
- ... kneel's alone in the water, only surrounded by wilderness, as the painting progresses narratively from the left side to the right side, civilization seems to have advanced, human beings are present, there is a house at the base of the mountain in the distance, a statue in a courtyard, and there is a cow grazing in the field. With this description of the painting, the reader can hopefully grasp the ... the first half of the century, when the modernist movement began to progress, and both are symbolic of surrealism because they make the audience develop their own interpretation of the work. According to the Random House College Dictionary, Surrealism is a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects... I ...
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