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- 2101: A Critique of C. S. Lewis
- ... an analogy. Lewis states,"If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of those facts inside the universe- no more than an architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house."4 The concept of a good power or mind is misleading. When God is referred to as good, the immediate thought is a warm loving personality. Lewis referred to this good as representative of truth ...
- 2102: Eleanor Holmes Norton
- ... Center for Social Change, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Washington, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In November 1990, she was elected as the District of Columbia delegate to the United States House of Representatives. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is currently serving her fourth term in the House of Representatives. She is divorced and the mother of two children, John Holmes Norton and Katherine Felicia Norton.
- 2103: The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlo
- ... of them. First of all, John handles everything to an extent but he doesn t solve the problem at hand. He tends to run away from it. For example, when the narrator asks, why the house had stood so long untenanted, he just laughs at her and doesn t even investigate about it, which proves that he just let it go and does nothing about it. And that is what he ... This takes him a long time to realize that what he sees is in fact true, she is insane. The narrator however has more of an outgoing attitude. She wants to get out of the house and see people and she wants to do everything normally, but she is restricted to a limited amount of socialization. This gives her time to analyze her obstacle and overcome it quicker than John does ...
- 2104: The Yellow Wallpaper 5
- ... sense of guilt and shame for her negative view of her life, consciously repressing her innermost desires and joys. Her feelings are revealed through her bizarre relationship with the wallpaper in her room in the house she and her husband are renting for the summer. She develops an illogical perception of the wallpaper, ugly though it may be, symbolically putting her own views of herself onto it. Eventually, the woman loses ... and that she must take pains to control her emotions. Leaving much to be questioned in the reader s mind as to the health of her marriage, she abandons the topic and instead describes the house. All is well until she gets to the room where she and her husband are staying. This room s wallpaper evokes a sense of anger and passion from the woman as she calls it sprawling ...
- 2105: The Women Of Jane Austen
- ... compared. Jane is well aware of the societal structure in which she exists. Jane knows that she has reached the age where it is beyond proper, rather necessary, for her to marry. Her father s house falls to a male cousin, so she will be penniless after the death of her father. Also, she must be the first of her sisters to marry if the Benets are to obey societal customs ... feel something like regard and esteem for our cousin. (Austen 241) Charlotte is one of those women mentioned at the beginning of this paper that marries out of practicality, not love. Her husband has a house and a benefactress. She is rising to a respectable level in society and she will want for nothing that is essential for her or her future children s survival. It does seem a little underhanded ...
- 2106: Teddy Bear
- ... set up five new national parks. By executive order, he created the first 51 federal bird reservations and the first four national game preserves. The Roosevelt children and their friends became known as the "White House Gang." The President sometimes joined in the children's games. One day, he heard thet the gang was preparing an "attack" on the White House. he sent a message to the children through the War Department, ordering them to call off the "attack." Leaving the Presidency in 1909, Roosevelt went on an African safari, then jumped back into politics. In ...
- 2107: The Life of Henry Ford
- ... him 40 acres to build on. Henry bought a circular sawmill with a 12-horsepower engine to turn the trees he cut down into lumber. Then, he hired a man and they built a fine house with wide porches for Clara. "It's everything I ever wanted," said Clara. (Livingston, 33) Things went very well for a while. The crops flourished and they were making a good profit. One evening, Henry ... build a horseless carriage of his own. Clara didn't want to move, but she believed in Henry and decided to support him. He leased the farm to his brother and moved into a small house on Bagley Avenue in Detroit. He got a job repairing steam engines at the Edison Company. He had a shop in the backyard where he worked on his horseless carriage. He built a one-cylinder ...
- 2108: Mark Twains Greatest Downfall
- ... typesetter would be more successful. He put a great deal of hard work into this new project. He devoted about fifteen years and two hundred thousand dollars to Paige machine, using in addition, his publishing house as a private bank to finance it. His mistake was in backing the wrong horse in a race for the right purse (Kaplan 141). The Paige Typesetter was the major source for Twains near ... become a millionaire. His brain always hot with schemes; he lost the fortune earned by books in backing an impractical typesetting machine; then in 1884 he invested in the Charles L. Webster Company, a publishing house which made enormous profits from its sales of Grants Memoirs, but gradually failed and went completely bankrupt in 1894, leaving Clemens penniless (Kunitz 159). Most people do not remember Twain for his investment losses ...
- 2109: Mother Teresa
- ... The Motherhouse of the Missionaries of Charity was formed. They are able to buy a home for their convent located at 54 Lower Circular Road in Calcutta. This was well located for their needs. This house became the central headquarters for the Missionaries of Charity. On the same street, the sisters bought a house for abandoned and orphaned slum children. In 1962, Mother Teresa honored with the Padna Sri award given by the Indian government and the Magsaysay Award given to her by the SEATO nations of Southeastern Asia ...
- 2110: The Virgin And The Gypsy
- ... of cunning self sanctification , the opinion that the Saywell s bestow holiness upon themselves and create complete stability in which one could parish safely . The irony in this is that a flood wipes out their house and claims the life of the matter, as well as the fact that the rector is not entirely holly. He resents his own child and his lost wife. He acts as though they are evil ... It is a reminder that the truth will set you free, and lead you into making the right decisions. The flood is a symbol of re-birth, the flood wiped out the dark, dull stone house, and giving Yvette a second chance at the life she wishes to pursue. The characters are a very important role in the novel and are very diversified. Each character is unique and opinionated which adds ...
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