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- 1891: Brazil Context
- ... President under whom are several executive departments and independent regulatory agencies. The appointed heads of the executive departments form the Cabinet. The legislative branch, the Congress is made up of the elected Senate and the House of Representatives. The judicial branch consists of a system of federal, state, and local courts throughout the country, headed by the Supreme Court. There are many political parties, but ideologies are not well developed as ... participation in various strategic sectors. The National Privatization Program was enacted a few years ago to privatize many formerly state-run enterprises, most notably the steel and petro-chemical industries. In July 1995, the lower house of Congress has accepted the Constitutional Amendments that will open oil, mining, electric power, and telecoms to private and foreign investment. One of the largest successes of the recent reform is the real, Brazil's ...
- 1892: A Midsummer Nights Dream
- ... poor fancy's followers." Lysander has an alternative idea. (I i,line 157-159) Lysander says, "I have a widow aunt, a dowager Of great revenue, and she hath no child; From Athens is her house remote seven leagues." (I i,line 164- 165) "Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night, And in the wood, a league without the town." Lysander is a fool because he convinces Hermia to risk death and run away with him. Hermia is a fool because she risks death ...
- 1893: Biography Of Eugene Victor Deb
- ... he ate whatever he could find and slept wherever it happened to be. In 1883 the depression had been started and was cutting living standards. By January 1885 When Debs has sworn into the state House if Representatives, he had already made a bill which would require railroad companies to compensate their employees for injuries suffered on duty. In that year Eugene was elected to one term in the lower house of the Indiana legislature. On June 1885, despite Eugene was broke, he got married on Katherine Metzel in St. Stephen Church. However, Kate learned through the marriage what is it to be a wife of ...
- 1894: An Analysis of The Mayor of Casterbridge
- ... reputation, rapidly travels through the town. Henchard is soon bankrupt and forced by his poverty to become Farfrae's employee. He moves to the poorest section of town. Farfrae and Lucetta buy Henchard's old house and furniture. The Scotsman then completes his embarrassment of Henchard by becoming mayor of Casterbridge. Later, Henchard challenges Farfrae to a fight to the death. Henchard is on the verge of winning when he comes ... fears her secret affair with Henchard, if revealed, might destroy her marriage to Farfrae. She begs Henchard to return the damning letters she had written him years before. Henchard finds the letters in his old house and reads some of them to Farfrae. He intends to reveal their author as well but relents at the last minute. Later, he asks Jopp, a former employee, to deliver the letters to Lucetta. Henchard ...
- 1895: Of Mice and Men
- ... says that he will chip in money to buy the farm. The scene just continually goes on with the conversation about the farm. Later on Curly, who did not fight Slim, comes into the bunk house. He is still wanting to get into a fight because he can't find his wife. Curly then sees Lennie smiling over the thought of the future ranch, and Curly thinks that Lennie is smirking ... up for himself. Steinbeck seemed to have put many themes in his book. One of the most obvious themes was trying to overcome human loneliness. Every person has to have something to dream about, a house they want to live in, and a family they can relate to, but sometimes it doesn't work that way. An example of this would be Lennie and George. Here are two men who have ...
- 1896: Beware -- Witch Hunt In Sessio
- ... Republicans jumped on the bandwagon seeking to discredit a democratic administration and gain political points for future re-election and provide public assessment for a suspicious nation. Senator McCarthy, in conjunction with the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, in 1950 sought to destroy any hint of what determined was subversive activity detrimental to the welfare of this country. "On March 9, 1950, the Times reports a Senate subcommittee ... rights' or 'subject any individual to ridicule,' he asserted. Mr. Hoey further promised that he would not 'allow his investigation to become a public spectacle." (Katz, 94) "On July 13, the Times reports that the House of Representatives, by a vote of 327 to 14, had passed a bill designed to permit department and agency heads to deal 3wi3th persons who are bad security risks because they drink too much, talk ...
- 1897: The Picture of Dorian Gray: Corruption Through Aestheticism
- ... moral to be learned and remembered. Works Cited Auden, W.H. "In Defense of the Tall Story." The New Yorker. 29 November 1969. pp.205-206, 208-210. Bloom, Harold. Oscar Wilde. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. Ellman, Richard. Oscar Wilde. New york: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1987. Eriksen, Donald. Oscar Wilde. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977. Hart-Davis, Rupert. The Letters of Oscar Wilde. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962. Juan, Efifanio. The Art of Oscar Wilde. New Jersey: Princetown University Press, 1967. Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. New York: Random House, Inc., 1992.
- 1898: Social Darwinsim History
- ... 1984. Cooke, Alistar. "Money on the Land." Directed by: David Heycock, Chicago, 1984. Current, Richard N. et al. American History: a Survey. New York: Knopf, 1983. Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. New York: Random House, 1993. Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1969. Krucoff, Larry S. and Sol Tax. "Social Darwinism." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 1968 ed. Wyllie, Irvin g. "Social Darwinism ... 1984. Cooke, Alistar. "Money on the Land." Directed by: David Heycock, Chicago, 1984. Current, Richard N. et al. American History: a Survey. New York: Knopf, 1983. Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. New York: Random House, 1993. Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1969. Krucoff, Larry S. and Sol Tax. "Social Darwinism." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 1968 ed. Wyllie, Irvin g. "Social Darwinism ...
- 1899: A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man: Themes Developed Through Allusions to Classical Mythology
- ... oppression of his environment to gain spiritual enlightenment. Bibliography Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Adams, Robert M. James Joyce: Common Sense and Beyond. Random House, 1966. 232. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. ed. Dennis Poupard. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985. 16:234-37. Anderson, C.G. "The Sacrificial Butter". Accent. vol. 12. no. 1. Winter, 1952. 3-13. Rpt ... and The Artist. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977. 56-109. Pope, Deborah. "The Misprision of Vision: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". James Joyce. vol.1. ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. 113-19. The World Book Encyclopedia. New York: World Book Inc., 1987. 3. Wells, H.G. "James Joyce". The New Republic. March 10, 1917. 34-46. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. ed ...
- 1900: Athens Vs. Sparta
- ... worlds. He was outdoors in the community with the other men. The wife stayed indoors with her daughters and other female relatives. Neither did housework or shopping. Slaves took care of that. In a rich house their were different place to live for men and women. The Husband and wife would not converse very much. Another reason for separation was the age difference. The man was often married in his thirties ... out into the market to shop. Poor Athenians often married young and for love spite tradition common in richer houses. Sometimes men would not marry until they were over thirty which caused problems in the house. The child of thirty would want independence as an adult but the father still wanted to maintain his reign over his household. This caused a lot of fighting between father and son in Athenian households ...
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