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- 221: A Comparison of Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe
- ... themes are similar in both men's work but also the details through which a story is written or shown. The similar themes and narrative techniques can be seen clearly in "The Fall of the House of Usher" and in Psycho. For both Poe and Hitchcock, madness exists in the world. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Psycho are two very similar studies in madness. Roderick Usher and Norman Bates are both insane. They have many common traits although they are also quite different. They are victims of their ... from the beginning, almost ghost-like, with his "cadaverousness of complexion" however, he is not a murderer. He suffers from a mental disorder which makes him obsessed with fear: fear of the past, of the house, of the dead. He finally dies, "victim to the terrors he had anticipated." The way in which madness is projected in both stories is quite similar as well. The short story and the movie ...
- 222: Spook: Summary
- Spook: Summary Mary Ann Nelson has never been to school. She is fifteen years old. Her and her mother, Muriel live in an old house. No one has ever seen what Mary Ann looks like in years because she always wears a hood to cover her face. The other children used to make fun of her. They called her the ... school. But she has to hurry because by law after Mary Ann turns sixteen she can't be forced to go to school. Lola and Her friend, Deputy Ross Walker, go to Mary Ann's house to see if she is alright and also to see if she is educated. when they arrive at the house Muriel comes out with a shotgun and asks them what they want. They tell her that they just want to check on her daughter. Muriel insists that Mary Ann is fine. After a lot ...
- 223: 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 ...
- 224: Watergate Scandal
- ... less of their government system. The scandal began on June 17, 1972, with the arrest of five men who were caught in the offices of the Democrats campaign headquarters. Their arrest uncovered a White House sponsored plan of espionage against the political opponents and a trail of intrigue that led to some of the highest officials in the land. The officials involved in the Watergate scandal were former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, White House Counsel John Dean, White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldman, White House Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman, and President Nixon. On April 30, 1973, nearly one year after a grand jury investigation of the burglary and ...
- 225: The Canadian Government
- ... give out awards and medals. The role of the Governor General is formal and symbolic. The current Govener General is Ray Hnatyshyn. The Last one was Jeanne Sauve. The Senate is, in essence, an independant House of Commons. It appoints its own Speaker and runs its own affairs. The Prime Minister (I'll call him the PM) chooses new members for the senate whenever a vacancy occurs. The Senate acts as a check on the power of the House of Commons by rejecting bills. The Senate may also introduce bills itself, pass them, and send 'em to the House of Commons. Elections for the House of Commons occur every five years, unless the PM wants one sooner. Elected members of the House of Commons (MPs) each represent a Constituency. How many members in ...
- 226: Silly Old Bear
- ... A perfect example of this is when a party is thrown in honor of Pooh for his bravery and assistance in saving Roo from drowning, saving Piglet from being surrounded by water in his own house, and finding the North Pole. Eeyore believes that the party is for him because he thinks that he is the one who had saved Roo and starts to give a speech. All of a sudden ... Taoist principles, the knowledge of the scholarly, such as scientists or in this case Owl, always wants to blame the ignorant or, using the term previously mentioned, the simple-minded(Hoff 31). When Owl s house falls down, Owl immediately asks Pooh if he had knocked down his house when, in fact, it is Owl s own fault for building his house in a place where it could easily be blown down. Another simple principle of Taoism is Inner Nature. This means that ...
- 227: Mrs Dalloway
- ... so trifling in single instances that no mathematical instrument, though capable of transmitting shocks in China, could register the vibration; yet in its fulness rather formidable and in its common appeal emotional. ...In a public house in a back street a Colonial insulted the House of Windsor which led to words, broken beer glasses, and a general shindy, which echoed strangely across the way. ...For the surface agitation of the passing car as it sunk grazed something very profound. (18 ... a sense of rhythm and percussion. A passage that nicely illustrates both sound in the prose and the sound of the prose appears when Peter Walsh is walking to the park after leaving Clarissa's house: A patter like the patter of leaves in a wood came from behind, and with it a rustling, regular thudding sound, which as it overtook him drummed his thoughts, strict in step, up Whitehall, ...
- 228: The Odyssey: Theme of Homecoming and Reunion
- ... and capable. He becomes not only the last hope of those still true and loyal, but he is the only one who can discern the proper course of action in the re-ordering of his house and his household. In the opening of the epic, the gods, at home upon great Olympus, sit in conversation reflecting upon the pride of men. One example being Agisthos, who is run amuck with greed ... scot-free. At the assembly, Telemakhos' remarks are quick and to the point. My home and all I have are being ruined...like a pack they came...these men [that] spend their days around our house killing our beeves and sheep and fatted goats, carousing, soaking up our good dark wine, not caring what they do. They squandered everything. In response to this, Antinoos gives a brash reply, claiming that it ... a trespass without parallel. Thus, cannibalism is one of the greatest acts of atrocious impiety; not only is it contrary to Zeus' holy laws, but it is against the natural order. For truly if the house of Atreus was ever cursed by the gods for Tantalus' insidious act of deceit, so much greater the offense of the Kyklopes. Son of Poseidon flaunts a smite-me' sign. Further, he scoffs at ...
- 229: Creative Story: Lobito
- Creative Story: Lobito Not once is there a boring moment in my house! That's because of my dog Lobito. Unlike other families that have a human sometimes being the clown of their family, in my family my dog Lobito is the clown. He has got to be ... that Lobito hates with all his heart. Being that Pinto is alot older and bigger than Lobbito , Lobito never dares raise a bark at Pinto. But don't ever tell Pinto to go outside the house, because as soon as Lobito hears the words Pinto outside, hell breaks loose. Lobito will come tearing around the corner like if he heard Puppy Chow was going to be on sale. He starts barking ... of the day. If this happens we don't even bother calling out his name because he'll never come. Another big part of his jealousy act is when someone brings a baby into the house. He starts the biggest and loudest barking his lungs will permit. We actually have to lock him in a room due to the fact that were scared he'll bite the baby out of ...
- 230: The Monkeys
- The Monkeys Once upon a time in a monkey house in the Philadelphia Zoo lived a group of monkeys who were not content with their situation living at the zoo. The monkeys had a pretty good life and could do almost anything they wanted whenever ... to eat bananas on Tuesdays and Saturdays, the rest of the days they were forced to eat celery. This irritated the monkeys to the extreme that they would rather be let free from the monkey house and fend for themselves rather than put up with a few restrictions which were placed on their lives. One day in the monkey house, however, there was a change that was not pleasing to the monkeys at all. A letter was left on the door of the monkey house which read as follows: Dear Monkeys, You guys have ...
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