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- 2231: The Conquest of the Aztec Empire
- ... combination of envy and fear had helped him to accumulate a large number of allies. Believing that Cortes was indeed Quetzalcoatl, Motecuhzoma greeted the Spanish with great deference. Cortes responded, "`We have come to your house in Mexico as friends. There is nothing to fear'" (Leon-Portilla 65). Nevertheless, Motecuhzoma was kept under guard by the suspicious conquistador. Instead of resisting, Motecuhzoma did everything he could to please the Spanish, ordering ... best serve Your Highness by obeying him and holding him for their lord, as they had before I came to this land . . . Many times I offered him his liberty, begging him to return to his house, and each time he told me that he was pleased to be where he was and he did not wish to go, for he lacked nothing. (Cortes 91) Motecuhzoma's weakness in cowering to the ...
- 2232: Stinky Solution
- ... recently could have passed such a bill that would help save one million lives over the next five years by cutting youth smoking in half, but they sided with the tobacco lobby instead (The White House n.p.) which demonstrates how the communities and families of this country are on their own in the battle against tobacco, a product which will claim four million lives during the next ten years (Hamilton ... Fatal Attraction. New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1996. Tanamachi, Cara. Cutting Teen Smoking Isn t Easy. Online. Internet. Available: http.//ash.org/jan98/01-21-98-4.html. Jan. 1998, n.p. The White House at Work: Fighting for Legislation to Reduce Teen Smoking. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Work/061998.html. June 1998, n.p.
- 2233: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... when the brigade hit the beach, and that if the exile force got into trouble, its members would simply melt into the countryside and become guerrillas, just as Castro had done . . . . As for senior White House aides, most of them disagreed with the plan as well, but Rusk says that Kennedy went with what the CIA had to say. As for himself, he said that he ". . . did not serve President Kennedy ... unrest." The CIA also now came under the supervision of the president's brother Bobby, the Attorney General. According to Lucien S. Vandenbroucke, the outcome of the Bay of Pigs failure also made the White House suspicious of an operation that everyone agreed to, made them less reluctant to question the experts, and made them play "devil's advocates" when questioning them. In the end, the lessons learned from the Bay ...
- 2234: Romeo And Juliet
- ... deaths of Romeo and Juliet. We must remember that both Romeo and Juliet are the heir s to their family as they are the only children in the family that will assume head of the house when their predecessors pass-on. "Doth with their death bury their parent's strife". (Romeo & Juliet, Prologue, l.8) Neither the Montague nor the Capulet families would have accepted the marriage. Keeping the marriage a ... these people gave them the wrong advice or betrayed them. A second reason why Romeo and Juliet s relationship was make even harder to proceed with, was because behind the closed doors of the Capulet house Juliet s father was making decisions about juliet s future that she could not control. He was deciding whether or not he was going to allow Paris to marry Juliet, and how soon the marriage ...
- 2235: Vietnam War
- ... US forces could retake the complex. South Vietnamese were assassinated by Communists for collaborating with Americans; then when the ARVN returned, NFL sympathizers were murdered. United States Marines and paratroopers were ordered to go from house to house to find North Vietnamese and NFL. The Tet offensive as a whole lasted into a fall of 1968, and when it was over the North Vietnamese and the NFL had suffered acute losses. The US ...
- 2236: Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry
- ... other hand, throughout this book the author presents truthful facts and I believe this would cause the readers to appreciate the theme. For example, the author tells of a time when a black family s house was burned down just because the father of the house believed that a store owner was cheating him with his money. Another example of racism shown in the story is the white children being able to attend better schools and take buses to school, while ...
- 2237: Anastasia
- ... became prisoners of a new government (King 298). To ensure their safety, the Imperial Family was forced to leave Russia and go to Ekaterinburg at once (Lieven 3). Here they were imprisoned in the Impatiev House. On July 16, 1918, all the members of the Imperial Family had been killed in the basement of the Impatiev House (King 376). Anastasia had been shot and beaten, but had enough might to suddenly sit up and scream until she had been silenced. The massacre had only taken 3 minutes and in that short time ...
- 2238: Rocking Horse Winner 2
- ... Truth The plot in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence reveals to the reader conflicts between Paul and his mother using different levels or forms of secrecy. There are secrets hidden throughout the house that leads Paul and his mother to an unpleasant life. The first level of secrecy is the actual secrets that Paul and Paul's mother keep from each other. The second form of secrecy is ... solve her problems. There is a miscommunication problem between Paul and his mother because Paul is able to gamble behind her back. Paul also hears the cry, "there must be more money" echoing through the house's walls (Lawrence 525). "Paul . . . takes upon himself the intolerable burden of attempting to solve mother's 'problem' . . . the lack of money" (Jinkins 88). He takes this challenge hoping to receive his mother's love ...
- 2239: Gender
- ... woman from surpassing them in the world. Most grown men view women only as housewives, incapable of nothing else. In the minds of some men women were meant to stay at home and clean the house, raise the children, and cook the meals. Even when woman decided to join the work force they had few careers to choose from. It was not until the late 1980s that woman were accepted ... continue. So due to men, the media, and American Society women in the past and still to this day remain our countries largest percentage of second class citizens. Often many of todays women raise, house and feed their families without the help of men, on an income of less than two thirds of that men doing the same job. For women to become equal in this society they need to ...
- 2240: The Aztecs
- ... 365- day wheel would align with the beginning day of the smaller 260 -day wheel every 52 years. Each year of the larger cycle would be named after one of four day names--rabbit, reed, house, and flint knife, for example--together with its number from the smaller cycle as determined by the system of rotation. The years were distinguished by their numbers--thus 1 rabbit, 2 reed, 3 house, 4 flint knife--until the 13 numbers and the four day names began to repeat themselves every 52 years (13 x 4 = 52). The 52-year period constituted a "century," and the change from one ...
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