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- 2951: Ethan Frome
- ... failure to kiss her when he had the chance. Ethan, frustrated, asks himself, "Why had he not kissed her when he held her there? . . . a few minutes earlier, when they had stood alone outside the house, he would not have dared to think of kissing her" (29). As a cold, isolated, and grim figure, Zeena embodies her surrounding. She creates a loveless, desolate home for Ethan where he never learns to ... out loud and successfully deals him another blow below the belt. She signals her triumph over Ethan. Astonished, Ethan sweeps to Mattie's defense and vehemently cries, "You can't put her out of the house like a thiefa poor girl without friends or money. She's done her best for you and she's your kin but everybody else'll remember it. If you do a thing like that ...
- 2952: Ernest Hemingway
- ... home after his stay at the American Hospital in Italy. He returned to Oak Hill without any complaints. He lived with his mom until he refused to get a job was kicked out of the house. After that he moved to Chicago and got a job writing for the Toronto Star and was a sparring partner for boxers. It was in Chicago that he met a very pretty lady named Elizabeth ... she saw Ernest with his favorite 12 gauge shot gin whish was laid with silver. That shotgun had been made just for him. After Mary's shock was over she went over to her neighbors house and told then to call the press. When the press arrived she made an announcement: "Mr. Hemingway accidently shot himself while cleaning a gun yesterday morning at 7:30 a.m. No time has been ...
- 2953: Epic Of Gilgamesh
- ... Maretha, about the story behind the piano so that she can be proud of her grandfather. "You ought to mark down on the calendar the day that Papa Boy Charles brought that piano into the house...throw a party...have a celebration." Although their points of view are similar to their parents, they are very opposed in their strategies for dealing with racism. At a time when racism is at its ... their situation. Although she believes that blacks can find success; she feels that successs is limited to the boundaries in which blacks are born. She follows the idea that some blacks refer to as " the house negro mentality". This nickname was coined for those slaves who were comfortable with their lifestyles because they saw nothing good that could come from freedom. Berniece believes blacks must gratefully take what is handed to ...
- 2954: Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
- ... The Naked Maja, one of the few nudes in Spanish art at that time. In 1816 he published his etchings on bullfighting, called the Tauromaquia. From 1819 to 1824 Goya lived in seclusion in a house outside Madrid. Free from court restrictions, he adopted an increasingly personal style. In the Black Paintings, executed on the walls of his house, Goya gave expression to his darkest visions. A similar nightmarish quality haunts the satirical Disparates, a series of etchings also called Proverbios. In 1824, after the failure of an attempt to restore liberal government, Goya ...
- 2955: Interactive Television
- ... read the news paper, fold laundry or do other chores while watching the television. Four out of ten people leave their television sets on for most of the day like a light on in the house. This shows that some people pay little attention, if any at all to what they are watching. Interactive television is based on the belief that people will enjoy interfacing and communicating with the television. But ... why we're a consumer nation. Browsing in stores, and looking at all the shops in the malls is common. Some people base their whole lives on it. Shopping is an excuse to leave the house, and for some, the only excuse. Families and friends enjoy spending time together while going out to the mall. Some people think Christmas is the best holiday only because you get to go out and ...
- 2956: Computer Crimes: Laws Must Be Pass To Address The Increase In Computer Crimes
- ... then they were secretly returned to the shelves in the hopes that no one would notice them missing.(Phrack 12,p.44) Congress has been reacting to the outbreak of computer crimes. "The U.S. House of Judiciary Committee approved a bipartisan computer crime bill that was expanded to make it a federal crime to hack into credit and other data bases protected by federal privacy statutes."(Markoff, B 13:1 ... York Times, Jan. 26, 1993, B, 1:2. Carley, W. "As Computers Flip, People Lose Grip in Saga of Sabatoge at Printing Firm". Wall Street Journal, Aug. 27, 1992, A, 1:1. Carley, W. "In-House Hackers: Rigging Computers for Fraud or Malice Is Often an Inside Job". Wall Street Journal, Aug 27, 1992, A, 7:5. Markoff, J. "Hackers Indicted on Spy Charges". New York Times, Dec. 8, 1992, B ...
- 2957: Computers and Crime
- ... then they were secretly returned to the shelves in the hopes that no one would notice them missing.(Phrack 12,p.44) Congress has been reacting to the outbreak of computer crimes. "The U.S. House of Judiciary Committee approved a bipartisan computer crime bill that was expanded to make it a federal crime to hack into credit and other data bases protected by federal privacy statutes."(Markoff, B 13:1 ... York Times, Jan. 26, 1993, B, 1:2. Carley, W. "As Computers Flip, People Lose Grip in Saga of Sabatoge at Printing Firm". Wall Street Journal, Aug. 27, 1992, A, 1:1. Carley, W. "In-House Hackers: Rigging Computers for Fraud or Malice Is Often an Inside Job". Wall Street Journal, Aug 27, 1992, A, 7:5. Markoff, J. "Hackers Indicted on Spy Charges". New York Times, Dec. 8, 1992, B ...
- 2958: Censorship on the Internet
- ... How can we stay online? Who gives courage to the web's designers to put their opinion on the net? On the same day when the 1996 Telecommunication Act signed in law, a bill called House Bill 1630 was introduced by Georgia House of Representatives member Don Parsons. It is so repel that this law even limits the right of choosing email addressesIII. "Freedom of speech on the Internet deserves the same protection as freedom of the press ...
- 2959: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" are the best among his horror stories; and The Raven one of his best poems which among all these, made him very famous in 1845. "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Masque of the Red Death", made him a forerunner of symbolism, and impressionism. Poe antagonized many people with a scathing campaign against an American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for supposed plagiarism ... week, so he was unable to support his family, his aunt, Virginia, and himself. Lots of time they went without eating. But it was in one of those that his story "The Fall of the House of Usher" first appeared in 1839. He unsuccessfully tried to found and edit his own magazine which would have granted him financial security and artistic control in what he considered a hostile literary marketplace. The ...
- 2960: The vast cyber-frontier is being threatend with censorship from the government
- ... topics included in the bill is the censorship of pornography, which now is a strenuously enforced crime of distributing knowingly to children under 18. The congress overwhelmingly passed the bill with a landslide 414-16 House vote and a 91-5 Senate vote.2 It seems now that the wide bill might not be what it cracked up to be, as it stands now, anyone who might upload James Joyce's ... sex," said Carlin Meyer, a professor at New York Law School.27 "It is clearly a violation of free speech and it's a violation of the rights of adults to communicate with each other," House speaker Newt Gingrich shared.28 In a Time/CNN poll conducted by Yakelovich Partners, 1000 people were involved and 42% were for FCC-like control over sexual content on the computer networks, but 48% were ...
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