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- 1851: Chicago
- ... manage to communicate in English?, What did they do after coming here?, where did they live? etc. I found the answer after an easy try. It is Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starrs Settlement house, that was called Hull House lately.
- 1852: City Of Berlin
- ... and able to climb it's 285 steps, the view of the Brandenburg Gate is worth the effort. On your right you'll see the Reichstag, Platz der Republic which was built in 1898 to house Parliament. In 1933, the Nazis, who then blamed the Communists, burned it down. Damaged by allied forces in WWII, it was restored in 1970 as a museum. We're now coming up to the Olympic ... we proceed along the historic Unter den Linden; a tree lined street almost 1 mile long. Various eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings, which were leveled during the war, have been restored including the State Opera House, Humbolt University and several museums. The Berlin Cathedral, whom we see here, was also painstakingly restored after war-damage. Look up and notice the magnificent detail of the ceiling architecture. Before returning to the Ku ...
- 1853: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... re-arrested and put on trial again after new evidence was brought forward by the Defarges. When Dr. Manette was in prison he wrote a letter telling of an incident that accrued in a country house outside of Paris in 1757. The letter stated that the Evremonde twins, Charles Darnay's father and uncle, took the doctor to the house where there was a woman and her dying brother. The man told Dr. Manette that the Evremondes kill his whole family except for a younger sister who had been taken to a safe place. Shortly ...
- 1854: Summary of The Canterbury Tales
- ... if men asked him at certain celestial hours when there should be a drought or rain he could answer them correctly. This clerk was named Nicholas. He had a chamber to himself in that lodging-house, without any company, and he was very sweet. The Carpenter had a newly wedded wife, who was eighteen years old, who he loved more than his own soul. He was jealous and he kept her ... get the goodwives of the city. He then noticed the carpenter's wife and he thought she was so neat and sweet. That night the moon was shining and Absalom went to the carpenter's house and sang in the window. The carpenter woke up and asked the wife if she heard him singing and she told him yes. From day to day Absalom wooed her till he couldn't anymore ...
- 1855: Book Report on "The Lost World"
- ... studying the maps, and thinking they found it. A small building about the size of a two car garage was sitting by the river leading to the ocean. They determined that it was a boat house. Before they got a chance to celebrate and try to make their way towards it one of the already familiar group of raptors showed up. They were poking around their truck until they tried to ... desk which led to a maintenance tunnel. It was cramped but they were out. They waited until the raptors left until they took the now beat up, and low on gas explorer to the boat house. Inside the rusty old shack was their savior. It was an old but functional boat which they could take to the closest island of Puerto Cortes`. Practically the only good to come of this was ...
- 1856: Summary of "A Raisin in the Sun"
- ... that many people that are white beleive that they are better then those who are black. Travis who is stay in dismay and is confused waits at home while Walter goes over to the neighbors house to talk to them about what has happened. Walter is, in good reason, very angry and annoyed by the racist whites. He goes over and at first tries his best to stay calm over the ... totally against the Younger family. After the eventual calming down of the community and the lowering of racial tensions of the blacks against the whites, grandma Ruth who paid her own $10,000 for the house they live in dies in her sleep, but in the hapiness of knowing her family can get along by themselves. The Younger family is at first very upset and sad because of the death, but ...
- 1857: John D. Rockefeller
- ... Davison) Rockefeller. The family lived in modest circumstances. When he was a boy, the family moved to Moravia and later to Owego, New York, before going west to Ohio in 1853. The Rockefellers bought a house in Strongsville, near Cleveland, and John entered Central High School in Cleveland. While he was a student he rented a room in the city and joined the Erie Street Baptist Church, this later became the ... at Columbia University. In the arts the RF has helped establish or support the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Ontario, Canada, and the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut; Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.; Karamu House in Cleveland; and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. OTHER ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT In addition to creating these corporate philanthropies, Rockefeller continued to make personal donations. Among others whose activities received his ...
- 1858: Rand's "Anthem"
- ... emotion. The emotion is displayed at various time throughout the story; the encounters of Equality and Liberty, on the occasion regarding the discovery of the light bulb, and during the time the two find the house in which they will live in for the remainder of their lives. One day while Equality was tending to his job as street sweeper, he came across a beautiful young woman taking care of the ... and our light." The climax of the story shows the greatest emotion of all, the feeling of euphoria. They have a feeling of well-being that overcomes them. "I shall live here, in my own house. I shall take my food from the earth by the toil of my own hands. I shall learn many secrets from my books. Through the years ahead, I shall rebuild the achievements of the past ...
- 1859: To Kill A Mockingbird: Controversial Issues
- ... own "song" in a sense, and therefore, are characterized by other people's viewpoints. Throughout the novel, Scout, Jem, and Dill are curious about the "mysterious" Boo Radley because he never comes outside of his house or associates with anyone in the neighborhood. The children are, in fact, afraid of him because of all the stories they hear about him from the people in Maycomb. For example, Miss Stephanie tells the ... teeth, her hair, and her right forefinger." (pg. 39) These stories are based on the gossip that trail through their neighborhood. In realty, no one knew anything about Boo Radley; he stayed inside of his house and remained reclusive in Maycomb county. At the end of the book, Scout finally meets Boo Radley after he helps her and Jem escape Mr. Ewell. She finds that her beliefs about him are not ...
- 1860: The Jungle by Sinclair: A Man of Many Colors
- ... Eventhough he inevidably fails, he does everything in his power to be an ideal husband. Rudkis, like many other good-hearted people, had to circumb to the evil powers of greed. He buys an expensive house that he could not afford. He could settele for a house of lesser value that suits his needs just as well, but he doesn't. Eventhough he is somewhat conned into buying it, his greed still convinced him. Shortly after this, he is so eager to ...
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