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- 201: Noras Pride
- Nora Helmer in a A Dolls House is a women ahead of her time. In order to protect her children from a false life, she inflicts tragedy upon herself by leaving every thing she has by walking away. She puts herself in ... lies to herself and the ones she cares about. Before she leaves her life is not her own person she is carrying on life as a role. Making others happy, instead of herself. A Dolls House by Henrik Isben is about a young woman and her life. The main characters name is Nora Helmer. She is married to a bank manager named Trovald. In the early years of their marriage just ... her dying fathers signature on the document. Nora was unlike most women of her time period. Most women would be afraid to do the things Nora did. In the end of the play A Dolls House after the truth has been discovered about Nora she makes a very courageous decision. It was not heard of for a woman to leave her family , but Nora did. She did this because she ...
- 202: The Detriment That Society Can Cause to its Inhabitants
- ... was defined as the superior and dominant gender in society that looked down on females. The female's role in life was to be the child-bearer, or the person who took care of the house and raised the children. That time period was the start of the women's rights movement where women were not willing to accept second billing to the male gender. They wanted equal opportunities and equal ... at that time was the frame of mind that the male gender was in. They were taught to take no help from people and to be self-reliant and self- dependent. In the play A Doll House, society's restraints and expectations on men and women created problems for many of the characters. At the beginning of the story, Nora reveals to Mrs. Linde that she has committed an illegal act ...
- 203: The Watergate Scandal
- ... reporters who researched deep into the story. There names were Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, they discovered that one of the suspects had an address book with the name and phone number of a White House official who could have been involved in the crime. The reporters suspected that the break-in had been ordered by other White House officials. In a press conference on August in 1972, President Nixon said that nobody on the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public accepted Nixon's word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars went to trial four months later, the story changed rapidly from a ...
- 204: The Watergate Scandal
- ... reporters who researched deep into the story. There names were Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, they discovered that one of the suspects had an address book with the name and phone number of a White House official who could have been involved in the crime. The reporters suspected that the break-in had been ordered by other White House officials. In a press conference on August in 1972, President Nixon said that nobody on the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public accepted Nixon's word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars went to trial four months later, the story changed rapidly from a ...
- 205: Charles Canady
- ... 1979, he became an attorney in Polk County; he worked there for 13 years before running for Congress. Rep. Canady married on Oct. 12, 1996. Charles Canady held his 1st public office in the Florida House from 1984 to 1990, he was honored as the Most Effective First Term Legislator. In that time he worked to reduce the size of the government of Florida's citizens. Canady also worked to on Florida's laws on criminal justice, he served as Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Criminal Justice from 1988 to 1989 and as a member of the Crime Prevention and Law Enforcement Study Commission from 1987 to 1988. He was also the Majority Whip from 1986 to 1988. In 1989 Canady got smart and switched his political party from Democrat to Republican. In 1992 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He promised during his campaign in 1992 to serve no more than four consecutive terms in the House. Charles Canady was first elected to represent the people of Florida's 12th District ...
- 206: Watergate Scandal
- ... reporters who researched deep into the story. There names were Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, they discovered that one of the suspects had an address book with the name and phone number of a White House official who could have been involved in the crime. The reporters suspected that the break-in had been ordered by other White House officials. In a press conference on August in 1972, President Nixon said that nobody on the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public accepted Nixon's word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars went to trial four months later, the story changed rapidly from a ...
- 207: Korean Traditional House
- The traditional Korean house is heated by warm air or warm water which passes through hollow spaces or pipes under the floor. There's nothing better than coming home to a warm floor on a cold day. That's one of the reasons Koreans don't wear shoes in the house. In prehistoric times, people in the northern part of Korea lived in pit dwellings with straw roofs. In the south, they lived in houses built on stilts. These early people's lives centered around a ... houses have no chimneys. The smoke from the fire hole, which is used for cooking and heats the floor of the main room, escapes through a hole in the roof above the kitchen. This nowa house is located in the mountains of Kangwon Province. Nowa houses are rare today. Not long ago thatched houses dotted the countryside throughout Korea. Today most thatched houses are found in "folk villages," living museums ...
- 208: Gun Control
- ... President Clinton has made gun control a major goal, while his drug strategy is almost invisible. During President Clinton's administration, the Brady Bill on gun control was passed. This bill was gridlocked in the House for seven years. The Brady Bill (named for James Brady, press secretary to President Ronald Reagan, who was seriously injured when he was shot during a 1981 assassination attempt against Reagan) was signed by President ... by the Democrat Party. As mentioned earlier, Clinton was able to get the Brady Bill signed into law, as well as get the ban on assault weapons passed through Congress before the majority of the House shifted to favor the Republicans. Laws passed in the States of Florida and Texas have gone in the opposite direction. The Right to Carry Laws, were designed to reduce violent crime by making personal weapons ... it tougher to have his political agenda on gun control carried out. Instead, the Republican congress attempted to reverse some of the laws passed by the previous session of Congress. In March of this year, House Republican leaders, fulfilling a longtime promise to the National Rifle Association, voted to repeal the ban on assault-style firearms. Representative Charles Schumer, chief author of the 1994 legislation (that banned the weapons), described ...
- 209: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... is restless and has decided to move East to New York and learn the bond business. The novel opens early in the summer of 1922 in West Egg, Long Island, where Nick has rented a house. Next to his place is a huge mansion complete with Gothic tower and marble swimming pool, which belongs to a Mr. Gatsby, whom Nick has not met. Directly across the bay from West Egg is ... sent overseas, and she had eventually given him up, married Tom Buchanan, and had a daughter. When Gatsby finally returned from Europe he decided to win Daisy back. His first step was to buy a house in West Egg. From here he could look across the bay to the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He expected her to turn up at one of his parties, and when ... few days later, in the rain, Gatsby and Daisy meet for the first time in five years. Gatsby is at first terrified, then tremendously excited. He takes Nick and Daisy on a tour of his house and grounds and shows them all his possessions, even his beautiful shirts from England. He shows Daisy the green light that he has been watching, and he insists that Klipspringer, "the boarder," play the ...
- 210: Korean Traditional House
- The traditional Korean house is heated by warm air or warm water which passes through hollow spaces or pipes under the floor. There's nothing better than coming home to a warm floor on a cold day. That's one of the reasons Koreans don't wear shoes in the house. In prehistoric times, people in the northern part of Korea lived in pit dwellings with straw roofs. In the south, they lived in houses built on stilts. These early people's lives centered around a ... houses have no chimneys. The smoke from the fire hole, which is used for cooking and heats the floor of the main room, escapes through a hole in the roof above the kitchen. This nowa house is located in the mountains of Kangwon Province. Nowa houses are rare today. Not long ago thatched houses dotted the countryside throughout Korea. Today most thatched houses are found in "folk villages," living museums ...
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