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- 2521: Thomas Edison
- ... Edison used rain-forest nuts to make phonograph needles. Japanese bamboo was used to make filament (wire) for his light bulb. The hair of the Amazon was used for a wig for the first talking doll. In the doll's chest was hidden a tiny phonograph speaker. In 1915, Edison was appointed president of the U.S. Navy Consulting Board. He believed that electricity would make weapons more powerful. He claimed to have made ...
- 2522: Charley Skedaddle
- ... was caught by the Confederates but they released him. He finds shelter with Granny Jershua. It is with her he grows up and learns about life and its responsibilities. When he arrived at Granny’s house he was a coward who did not feel worthy of any respect. We see a different Charley leave Granny’s house. It is someone who is confidant and worthy of respect from others. Charley and Granny each helped the other. Granny became the grandmother he never had and it felt good. His maturity is proven when ...
- 2523: Canterbury Tales - Medieval Ch
- ... taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, joined a community of monks. Their lives were spent in communal worship, devotional reading, prayer and manual labour all under the authority of the abbot of the monastic house. Particular monks often had particular jobs- the cellarer or the infirmarer for example, and these like every aspect of monastic life were laid down in the 'Rule'. Monks were nearly always of noble extraction (one ... integral part of the local community -- it probably owned most of the farming land in the area- and the fortunes of the people in any area were bound up with the spirituality of its monastic house. The monks were on the front line of the spiritual battle-it was they who did battle in prayer for their community, who warded off devils and demons and who prayed tirelessly for the salvation ...
- 2524: Cabalgata
- ... in a trailer (parade trailer). It was funny because they started joking around about all the guys sleeping together. Sixteen guys slept on that trailer, all bunched together. Some other people slept inside the ranch house on the living room floor, bed rooms, and any place else where there was space. If you walked around the house you weren’t able to see the floor. Most of the younger guys slept outside on sleeping bags. in 1996, when I went, at about 6:00 a.m (Day 1) people started waking up ...
- 2525: Legalizing Idustrial Hemp
- ... in the Garden and How to Attract Them. New York: Reynall and Hitchcock, 1939. Miller, Richard Lawrence. Hemp as a Crop for Missouri Farmers: Markets, Economics, Cultivation, and Law. Report to Agricultural Task Force, Missouri House of Representatives, Summer 1991. "Mississippi Potency Monitoring Project, Report #50." Nartional Institute for Drug Abuse, University of Mississippi. June 30, 1994. February 25 16:03:55 1998. "New Billion-Dollar Crops." Popular Mechanics February 1938 ... Ed. Hemp Today. Oakland, Ca: Quick American Archives, 1994. Roulac, John W. Industrial Hemp. Ojai, CA: Hemptech 1997. Turner, Craig. "Legalize Hemp? Other countries say yes." Boulder Daily Camera 22 May 1994. United States Congress. House of Representatives. Committe on Ways and Means. Taxation of Marijuana. 75th Congress. 2nd session. Hearings on H.R. 6385. April 27-30, and May 4 1937. Wirshafter, Don. Fats and Oils: The Complete Guide to ...
- 2526: Child Abuse
- ... her husband so she would take the blame and frustration out on Nadine. One of the neighbor phoned the child welfare authorities regularly but nothing was done. When the authorities showed up at Nadine's house they never seen Nadine. 3 Matthew Vaudreuil murdered by his mother Verna at age 5. Verna was mentally disable and suffered sever abuse herself. So when Matthew was born Ministry care knew that she couldn ... same thing to her sister if Kim didn’t cooperate but Kim didn’t want her sister hurt so she let him continue on, she was used to it already anyway. He came to her house to help her family but while he was there he never paid much attention to Kim. Then finally one day when he came to the back yard he tried to have sex with her but ...
- 2527: Bird Imagery In The Awakening
- ... see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth" (83). Mademoiselle Reisz understands that Edna cannot fight society and uses birds to demonstrate this knowledge. Finally, Edna moves to what she calls her exhausted "pigeon house." The name that Edna chooses for this house implies the defeat of a bird that, in turn, implies the defeat of Edna. During Edna's escape, birds gauge her success and continue to mirror her actions. Later, when Edna realizes the hopelessness of ...
- 2528: Beloved
- ... world. There was also, the loneliness of each main character throughout the book. There were also other areas of the book where the idea of detachment from something was obvious. People’s opinions about the house made them stay away and there was also the inner detachment of Sethe from herself. The theme that Toni Morrison had in mind when the book was written was isolation. One of the main characters ... her separation from society because of the children at school. There is also the detachment of Sethe’s family from the rest of the world because of her past and what people think of the house and the family. Isolation can be a very powerful theme in literature.
- 2529: British Literature Women Of Lo
- ... again later that afternoon. When they do meet they realize a sheep has been stolen and they suspect Mak. In the meantime, Gill and Mak are preparing their scheme. Soon the shepherds arrive at the house. Gill is moaning and Mak is pretending to sing a lullaby to the “baby.” The shepherds search the house finding no lamb and believing that the baby under cover is really a baby, they wish the family well and go to leave. . When we had long napped, me thought with a gyn A fat ...
- 2530: Moll Flanders 2
- ... Here I continu'd till I was between 17 and 18 years old, and here I had all the advantages for my education that could be imgin'd the lady had masters home to the house to teach her daughters to dance, and to speak French, and to write, and others to teach them musick; and as I was always with them, I learned as fast as they; and tho' the ... by instruction and direction.". Here she learns many different skills that could help her through out her life span but not once does she use these skills to make a good living. In this wealthy house she falls in love with a gentleman (older brother). Not once but in many different occasions she lets him make love to her and then takes the money that he offers to her as if ...
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