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- 1901: Gulliver's Travels: Summary
- ... the double meaning of things. Gulliver, being gullible himself, believes everything he is told, which symbolizes the irony of the English system. Works Cited Harold, Bloom, ed. Modern Critical Views, Jonathan Swift. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Brady, Frank, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretation of Gulliver's Travels. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1968. Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, and other Writings. New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1962. Harold, Bloom, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations of Gulliver's Travels. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Long, William J. "Jonathan Swift," English Literature. Boston, Mass.: Ginn and Company, 1964. Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, An Annotated Text with Critical Essays. United States: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1961 ...
- 1902: Effects Of Secondhand Smoke
- ... of secondhand smoke to children, there are ways to protect them from it. First, as a parent, don’t smoke. If you are a smoker, quit! If you can’t, don’t smoke in your house, in the car or near your children. Have a permanent place outside the house just for smoking purposes only. Make sure that your child's day-care, school or playgrounds are smoke free. Educate everybody you know about the hazard of secondhand smoke to children’s heath. Secondhand smoke ...
- 1903: Government Spending
- ... include a tax increase, but most cuts would not take effect until he is out of office, in the year 2001. Although Clinton is sometimes criticized for producing a stalemate in budget talks, the White House points out that the debt has gone down since Clinton took office, with unemployment also falling. Republicans are quick to state that Clinton originally increased taxes in 1993 and cut defense programs, but his overall ... plan to reform Medicare called Medical Savings Accounts, unless his programs are left intact (Hager 752). Under Federal law, the President is required to submit budget requests in 2 forms: Budget This year’s White House budget was a 2,196 page document that the GOP struck down immediately for not cutting taxes enough and neglecting to downsize the government (Hagar 752). "There is little or no change at all in ...
- 1904: Biography Of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... was unable to continue his writing while doing farm chores, and after six months he withdrew from the community. In 1842 he married Sophia Amelia Peabody of Salem and settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in a house called the Old Manse. During the four years he lived in Concord, Hawthorne wrote a number of tales that were later published as Mosses from an Old Manse, published in 1846. They include Roger Malvin ... guilt and anxiety in the human soul. In 1850 Hawthorne moved to Lenox, Massachusetts, where he enjoyed the friendship of the novelist Herman Melville, an admirer of Hawthorne's work. At Lenox, Hawthorne wrote The House of the Seven Gables, in which he traced the decadence of Puritanism in an old New England family, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, and Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys, which retold classical ...
- 1905: Jackie Kennedy Onasis
- ... Hugh Auchincloss’s friends. Jackie became the writer of a section in the Washington Times Herald called the inquiring Photographer. Jackie was soon introduced to another photographer, Charles Bartlett. Bartlett invited Jackie over to his house for a dinner party one evening. There she met a young Congressman named John Kennedy. Jackie and Kennedy went on a few dates but were not exposed to the public eye. In January 1953, Kennedy ... jr. was born.(Birmingham) In January, Jackie attended the inauguration party and became a role model for millions of women. Jackie not only had a fantastic sense of personal style, she was turning the white house into a showcase of art culture.(Klein) J.F.K. enlisted his wife in his public relations campaign.she traveled with him in Europe and dazzled the European public. She was her husband’s tool ...
- 1906: FightClub
- ... fat to make soap for the Paper Street Soap Company. He has no clue what Tyler is doing any more. He hardly sees Tyler and the "space monkeys" as they are called wander around the house. Tending to the garden, rendering fat, and doing Tyler's homework assignments. The narrator feels lost and betrayed. He and Tyler started Fight Club, but now Tyler is gone all the space monkeys are running around the house and he is lost. He finds Tyler. He finds him when he wanders into a bar and the bartender says to him "Welcome back Mr. Durden." Slowly at first then the flood gates in his ...
- 1907: Literature and Life: Of Human Bondage and Beyond
- ... identify with it. This quote describes the middle school years and my early high school years almost perfectly. Many nights I would find myself staying in, watching TV, doing one thing or another around my house. I would almost never leave the house and I had nothing that could even remotely be called a social life. My reason for doing this to myself was that I spent most of my time thinking about my future and wishing for ...
- 1908: Bill Clintons Lost World
- ... Calabresi. "The Republicans scheduled a vote and then tried but failed to find a way out. But the administration clearly hadn t done nearly enough work to muster support for the treaty." Adds TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "It s too bad that the President offered his most spirited defense of the treaty only after it had been defeated. If he d done that earlier it might have helped sway ... to risk any of his own political capital on going to bat for it. On the issue of the U.S. repaying its long-standing delinquent debt to the United Nations, for example, the White House periodically throws up its arms in exasperation but has for the most part declined to go head-to-head with the Republican legislators obstructing the funds. "Clinton has been accused of offering no overarching vision ...
- 1909: Aztec 2
- ... this paradise. The painting illustrates this fortunate land with its lake, rivers, and cacao trees as the habitat of a multitude of dancing, singing, and swimming people, all full of life. Another paradise was "the house of the sun," the kingdom of the sun god in the east. Those who had the privilege of arriving there were warriors who had died in battle and prisoners who had been killed on the ... shouts of joy. After a four-year existence in this place of dreams the dead were reborn on earth as colibris, (birds of Huitzilopochtli). The sun also had beneficial land in the west, "the corn house." Women gathered there who had died in childbirth. In the afternoon they took the sun on his way, at night they sometimes returned to earth and their ghostly apparitions scared women and small children. In ...
- 1910: Analysis Of 1 Samuel 1:28
- ... their empire by conquoring territory belonging to Israel. The internal crisis comes from Israel being a loose federation of tribes that cannot adequately defend itself from the Philistines. This combined with the corruption in the house of Eli (through his sons) make for chaotic times for the people of Israel. The story of the first two kings, Saul and David, details struggles and successes. The stories explain both sides of the ... France, R.T., eds. New Bible Commentary. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 1998. Kohlenberger, III, John R. and Barker, Kenneth L., eds. Zondervan NIV Bible Commentary: An Abridgement of the Expositors Bible Commentary. Chicago: Zondervan Publishing House, 1994. Tullock, John H. The Old Testament Story. (5th Edition) New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999. Barker, Kenneth L., ed. NIV Study Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing, 1995.
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