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- 231: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... stood up there at my genial and happy and self-satisfied ease, and begin to deliver it. Those majestic guests, that row of venerable and still active volcanoes, listened, as did everybody else in the house, with attentive interest. Well, I delivered myself of- we'll say the first two hundred words of my speech. I was expecting no returns from that part of the speech, but this was not the ... in twenty-four hours. I am going to move.' 'Why, you don't tell me,' said I. 'Who were the others?' 'Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, consound the lot-'" Now, then, the house's attention continued, but the expression of interest in the faces turned to a sort of black frost. I wondered what the trouble was. I didn't know. I went on, but with difficulty- I ... just as good as good can be. It is smart; it is saturated with humor. There isn't a suggestion of coarseness or vulgarity in it anywhere. What could have been the matter with that house? It is amazing, it is incredible, that they didn't shout with laughter, and those deities the loudest of them all. Could the fault have been with me? Did I lose courage when I ...
- 232: Character Study: Local Residents
- ... a nightmare. The busy road is only a couple of metres away from my front door. Even through the walls and double glazing I can still hear the traffic in the back rooms of my house. Sometimes I can’t sleep at night because of the constant thunder of heavy lorries along the road. The house vibrates, and windows rattle as the traffic roars by. This surely must cause damage to the structure of the house. The terrace houses hug the road and at night trucks speed through the village because the traffic is light. My fear is that one of these trucks could veer off the road into our ...
- 233: House On Mango Street
- ... should be standard for all others. Therefore, those that are not in the majority can be pressured into changing to blend in. Some people are affected in a different way. For example, Esperanza , in "The House on Mango Street" felt out of place, but did not try too blend in. Instead, she was determined to dream about the way of life that she wanted. She uses all of her experiences with society as food to nourish her dream of someday having her own house. Esperanza was shy and too trusting. Rachel and Esperanza were walking down the street in high heels when they were about 11 years old, and they ran into a bum on the stoop of a ... with them different cultures, social classes, and economic level. Family and culture are important parts of being. As individuals, people should embrace their ethnicity while respecting others that are different. Works Cited Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1984. Gomez, David F. "Yo Soy Chicano. "
- 234: Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude" and Allende's "The House of the Spirits": Satire
- Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude" and Allende's "The House of the Spirits": Satire A major preoccupation with contemporary South American novelists, as seen with Gabriel Marquez's "100 years of solitude" and Isabelle Allende's "The house of the spirits", is the traditional and long lasting conflict between the Liberals and the conservatives. Although a common preoccupation with Marquez, Allende, and various other Latin American novelists the manner in which this preoccupation is expressed varies considerably depending on the author. In "100 years of solitude", Marquez looks to satire in all it's forms, to express this preoccupation. This is contrasted with Allende's "The House of the Spirits" in which she uses conflict in ideologies between generations as her method of exposition, as seen for instance in the conflict between Esteban Trueba (a true conservative) and his grandaughter Alba. ...
- 235: As For Me And My House and Surfacing: Heros
- As For Me And My House and Surfacing: Heros The heroes of both As For Me And My House and Surfacing exist within dualistic realities; there is a constant tension between the rational and religious realms. In both books, this duality creates extreme emotional consequences that threatens the quality of life for both heroes ... escape or a resolution to the rational and religious paradox so that they can resolve both the inner and the outer turmoil present in their lives. The duel reality in As For Me And My House consists of the fundamentalist or doctrinal reality which is symbolized by the town of Horizon and the rationalist reality. The literal religiosity of the town is described by Mrs. Bentley in the following passage: "[ ...
- 236: The House on Mango Street
- The House on Mango Street Mango Street is a deceptive work. It is a book of short stories—and sometimes not even full stories, but character sketches and vignettes—that add up, as Sandra Cisneros has written ... young girl—a girl too young to know that no one may ever hear her—but whose voice is completely convincing, because it is the creation of a mature and sophisticated writer. For example, The House on Mango Street appears to wander casually from subject to subject—from hair to hips, from clouds to feet, from an invalid aunt to a girl named Sally, who has "eyes like Egypt" and whose ... this apparent randomness disguises an artful exploration of themes of individual identity and communal loyalty, estrangement and loss, escape and return, the lure of romance and the dead end of sexual inequality and oppression. The House on Mango Street is also a book about a culture—that of Chicanos, or Mexican-Americans—that has long been veiled by demeaning stereotypes and afflicted by internal ambivalence. In some ways it resembles ...
- 237: Guilt As Reparation For Sin In
- ... of the Hathornes three children. When Nathaniel was four, his father came down with yellow fever and died in Surinam, Dutch Guiana. After his father s death, Mrs. Hathorne moved her family into her parents house in Salem (Shepherd iv). At the age of nine, Nathaniel Hathorne suffered an injury to his legs that kept him from attending school for about two years. This injury was a blessing in disguise. During ... Cowley 289). While living in Boston, Hawthorne meets Sophia Amelia Peabody and Reeves 3 becomes engaged to her in 1838. In 1842, Hawthorne and Sophia marry and move to Concord, Massachusetts, where they rent a house called the Old Manse from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nathaniel and Sophia s first child, a girl named Una, is born in 1844. Una proves to be the basis for Pearl s character in The Scarlet ... with his critically acclaimed book and new job, his first son, Julian is born (Shepherd vii). The better-known part of Hawthorne s life begins in 1849 when he loses his job at the custom house. He begins work on The Scarlet Letter and The Custom-House. (Shepherd vii). Hawthorne wanted it to be known that he was employed outside of his writing. In Hawthorne s time one had to ...
- 238: Whitewater Vs. Watergate.
- ... office building by people linked to the reelection committee of Nixon. But Watergate was so much more than a political burglary. The Senate hearings showed Watergate was composed of constant criminality by the Nixon White House, and was driven by an extreme commitment to maintain control of power by any means, including criminal conduct. It included the break-in of a psychiatrist's office for the purpose of smearing Daniel Elsberg ... when discussing Whitewater and Watergate. The scandals may be separated by two decades, but much irony is evident when they are compared. For example, in 1974, Hillary Rodham was employed as a lawyer by the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry, along with Bernard Nussbaum, former chief counsel at the Clinton White House. Now the first lady is a central figure in the Whitewater affair, and Sam Dash, the Senate Watergate Committee's chief counsel, is serving as ethics adviser to Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr. ...
- 239: The Effectiveness of Eisenhower's First Term: 1953-1956
- ... 55.14% of the votes. These votes turned into 442 electoral votes that constituted the landslide victory when compared to Stevenson's total of 89. In Congress the G.O.P. gained control. In the House, the Republicans achieved a majority over the Democrats by eight seats. In the Senate the Democrat and Republican seats were split 50/50, but since the Republicans won the presidency, a tie vote could be ... the road policy," since politically he was considered a liberal Republican with conservative domestic views and was liberal in foreign policy. In the midterm elections of 1954, the Republican party lost control of both the House and Senate to the Democrats. Still, after his party had lost the Congress, he continued to maintain his political support from both Republicans and Democrats alike. After Dwight Eisenhower was elected, his next priority was ... feeling of tranquillity that enveloped the United States and the Eisenhower administration. Even though the Eisenhower presidency looked calm on the outside there was a great amount of activism on the inside. Within the White House the Cold War continued. Throughout the 1953-54 years, Senator Joseph McCarthy, chairman of the Senate Permanent Investigation Committee, conducted hearings that looked into the Communist infiltration of America and the Armed Forces. Even ...
- 240: Real Ghosts - What Are Ghosts
- ... leave puzzling questions... Do spirits really haunt old houses? Can a human be transported back into the past? Are ghosts real? Return from the dead? A man named john thorne lived near an old haunted house. In 1958 he had an odd experience... He woke up in the middle of the night to find a strange woman in his bedroom. It was dark, but he could still see that she was ... The noise kept douglas and his parents awake night after night. The deen's talked about events with their neighbours. The neighbours laughed at first. But after they spent a night in the deen's house they stopped laughing. The neighbours also began to believe that something very strange was going on. But what? the deen family then called in the minister of their church, the reverend mr. Winston. The minister ... spirit. " but in a poltergeist case, people don't usually see any figures at all. What happens is just what happened in the deen's case. There are all sorts of unexplained disturbances in a house. Often these disturbances are blamed on a unseen spirit... A poltergeist. Hundreds of poltergeist cases can be found in the records of different psychical research organizations. Reports of such experiences go back to the ...
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