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- 2031: The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
- ... League" exposes the hidden nature of the League and documents in devastating detail a parade of League-affiliated authoritarian ideologues marching from the death camps of Nazi Germany into the parlors of Reagan's White House. The idea for the book came when Jon Lee Anderson was researching a series of columns on Latin American death squads for Jack Anderson, (Jon Lee's employer but not his relative). Enlisting the aid ... League (WACL), lead by a retired U.S. Major General, John Singlaub. Singlaub boasts WACL is the coordinating body for raising private aid for the Contras, a task support ed explicitly by the Reagan White House which has sent government officials and glowing letters of support to WACL meetings in recent years. WACL also serves as an umbrella for several Eastern European emigre groups founded and lead by Nazi collaborators, and ...
- 2032: Walt Disney
- ... scarce on the farm Walt resorted to drawing on toilet paper. For obvious reasons, those drawings did not survive” (Cole 13). From drawing on toilet paper, to painting with tar on the side of his house, Walt Disney’s creative skill began at an early age (DeWitt 10). Although Walt was the son of a poor traveling entrepreneur, Walt became one of the most successful and innovative people in the entertainment ... When Walt was a toddler, his family lived on an apple farm outside of Marcline, Missouri (Montgomery 7). Walt’s two older brothers ran away when Walt was very young because their father ruled the house with an iron will (Montgomery 7). When Walt was about five years old, Mr. Disney moved the family to Kansas City, Missouri. While in Kansas City Walt’s father bought The Kansas City Star paper ...
- 2033: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter." Here Montresor's family was once wealthy. Fortunato is now in this position. In "The Fall of the House of Usher" the family of usher is shown to have fallen greatly from its former affluence. Detective C. Auguste Dupin, from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," is stated that he "was of an excellent ... topic on his mind. "The Premature Burial" is completely about stories about, and the narrator's fear of being buried alive. This is the unfortunate fate of both Lady Madeline of "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Bernice in the story by the same name. The air of the stories of to make the reader almost claustrophobic. Few stories are as horrific as "The Pit and the Pendulum." Poe ...
- 2034: Driving Restrictions
- ... knew, he had the truck in drive, and started barreling out of the snow and into another neighbor’s driveway. I thought for sure that he was going to go right through the neighbor’s house. His reaction time to hit the brake was so slow and all I could think about was that he was going to wipe out someone’s house, not to mention destroy my husband’s truck. If he had to take the whole driving exam again, I would guess he wouldn’t have a license anymore. We need to realize that age is ...
- 2035: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... were provided. She called for the elimination of child labor and advocated more money for teachers' salaries. On the eve of the World Economic Conference, with foreign dignitaries trooping in and out of the White House, she addressed her press conference with an anit-isolationist plea whose intensity impressed the hard-bitten press corps. By the end of Roosvelt's first year, the mood of the country had changed. Eleanor shared in the adulation that flowed toward the White House from a reviving people. But it was more than that. She as much as her husband had come to personify the Roosvelt era. Bess Furman had ended her story about Mrs. Roosevelt's debut as ...
- 2036: James Baldwin
- ... was one of Rufus’ best friends prior to his death. Ida is Rufus’ sister, a black militant girl blaming the whites for everything. Vivaldo and Ida meet after Rufus’ death when she goes to his house to get Rufus’ belongings. Eric and Yves are the next two characters shown in the story. Eric is a white, Southern, homosexual. Eric and Rufus grew up together in the south defying the norms since ... this is where he meets Yves who soon become lovers. Throughout the story it becomes known that there is a dark secret that only Vivaldo knows. All of the couples end up going to the house of Cass and Richard simply because it is the symbol of stability in the story. Upon thinking, Cass realizes she was never happy and was nothing more than a conformist. Cass has a one night ...
- 2037: Usage Of Elements Of Fiction I
- ... on her taxes. This flashback is used to describe the lifestyle Emily has been living for the past years and also the appearance that Emily has taken on as a result of staying in the house. Emily's hereditary obligations that she had to the town are shown in the flashback of her buying arsenic from the druggist. The druggist tells Emily that by law she must say what the poison ... on in the story, we find out that Homer Barron, who was thought to have left, was actually poisoned by Emily so that he could never leave her. When Emily keeps her father in the house three days after his death, we are forewarned of her holding on to death and of her keeping with her the corpse of the one she loves. The smell that is described in the story ...
- 2038: Al Gore
- Al Gore U.S. Vice President. Born Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., on March 31, 1948, in Washington, DC. His father, Albert Gore, Sr., a congressmen from Tennessee, served in the House of Representatives. His mother, Pauline (La Fon) Gore, was one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. At once a Washington thoroughbred and a hometown Tennessean, Gore grew up accustomed to both ... government bureaucracy. Though it was Clinton who came under fire so often during their terms, Gore’s political image suffered some when he was investigated by the Justice Department for soliciting donations from the White House for the 1996 re-election campaign. As expected, Gore began another presidential bid for the 2000 election. With his moderate politics and his ability to distance himself from the scandals that shook Clinton, Gore faced ...
- 2039: Thomas Jefferson
- ... of income was his land. In 1767 Jefferson began work on his mountaintop estate, Monticello, near what is now Charlottesville, Virginia. He designed the mansion himself. He was serving as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the lower chamber of the Virginia legislature, when he married Martha Wayles Skelton in 1772. Jefferson took an active part in the events that led to the American Revolution (1775-1783). His literary ... in 1800. For vice president they nominated Aaron Burr. Jefferson and Burr each polled 73 electoral votes. President Adams came next with 65 votes. The tie in the electoral vote threw the election into the House of Representatives, where a deadlock ensued in the Federalist-dominated chamber until Jefferson won election on the 36th ballot. Burr became vice president. As a result of this election, the 12th Amendment was added to ...
- 2040: Turn Of The Screw- Henry James
- ... Middle Years. (Heller) The Turn of the Screw is a story related by a young governess, who describes the haunting events that took place while she was caring for two children in an English country house during the 1840s. The Turn of the Screw can be divided into main parts: a short prologue by an unnamed narrator and an autobiographical narrative by an unnamed governess. (Heller p.8) In the prologue ... At first his unusual wish makes her doubtful about taking the position, but becomes infatuated with him and accepts in an effort to please him. While the first impression of the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose; the house; and the children are all delightful, she eventually, discovers that two ghosts are haunting the children. From the governess s descriptions of the apparitions, Mrs. Grose identifies them as two deceased employees, Miss Jessel, the ...
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