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- 311: The House on Mango Street: Esperanza
- The House on Mango Street: Esperanza Sandra Cisnero’s The House on Mango Street, is a well-incorporated story told through vignettes, shorts sections that piece by piece fit into a puzzle and reveal a theme. This unique story is about a disadvantaged young Chicana girl ...
- 312: Robert Johnson
- ... mother described little Robert as a playful little boy, who "Always used to be listenin, listenin to the wind or the chickens cluckin in the backyard or me, when I’d be singin round the house. And he just love church… Little Robert set on my lap and try to keep time, look like, or hold on to my skirt and sort of jig up and down and laugh and laugh ... was intrigued by these men, and dreamed of one day singing the blues himself. His half brother Charles taught him the basics on guitar yet Johnson’s most influential teacher was the famous bluesman, Son House. Son House was a student of Charlie Patton, one of the first well known Delta Blues musicians. Son also had also learned quite a bit from a gentlemen referred to as Lemon, a name given to ...
- 313: The Town of El Dorado Springs
- ... cases, very conservative people. I went to high school there and then later on I was a teacher at the high school for nineteen years. I don't live in the town, I have a house about six miles out of town and I drive down and stay there weekends, but I know about most of the things that have happened there." I was to learn later that Susanna had always ... you around." I was surprised and pleased with the invitation. (Coming from the city, where people are usually a little paranoid, it was unusual for someone to invite a total stranger to stay at their house.) We arranged a weekend that was available for both of us. I would go down on Friday during the day to get a start on my research, and then meet her when she arrived after ... public park. So it was on July 20, 1881, that the town of El Dorado Springs, Missouri became a reality ("Spa" 3). Joshua Hightower, according to one account, was the first man to build a house in the town, to be close to the curing waters. He was a strictly religious man, slave owner and southern sympathizer, with a son who had been in the Confederate Army. The family suffered ...
- 314: In My Fathers House
- “ Maria and Oscie ” In the book In My Fathers House, written by Ann Rinaldi, there are two main characters whose names are Maria and Oscie. These two girls are sisters that live in a house that is being divided by the civil war. Their stepfather (Will McLean) is from the north and is known as a Yankee in the south. Most southerners disagree with his beliefs on slavery, but nevertheless ...
- 315: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... bungle raising your children nothing else matters much in life”(72-74). After her birth with John Jr. and her husbands’ victory, Jackie set a new goal for herself which was to restore the White House and leave remembrance behind of her family. In the book, “The White House: An Historic Guide (6-18), Jackie created a White House Fine Arts Committee to help her in restoring the White House beauty, and she hired a curator, which oversaw publication of a guidebook for visitors (16). She also restored and established the White House ...
- 316: Time For Reform? Considering The Failures of The Electoral College
- ... selected by the respective state in which a vote is cast) casts ballots for two individuals, the President and the Vice-President. Each state has the same number of electors as there are Senate and House of Representative members for that State. When the voting has stopped the candidate who receives the majority of the Electoral votes for a state receives all the electoral votes for that state. All the votes ... C. for tallying, and the candidate with the majority of the electoral votes wins the presidency. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, the responsibility of selecting the next President falls upon the House of Representatives. This elaborate system of Presidential selection is thought by many to be an 18th century anachronism (Hoxie p. 717), what it is in fact is the product of a 200 year old debate ... the Vice-President. Unfortunately their was no constitutional doctrine to affirm this assumption. As a result the ever audacious Aaron Burr challenged Jefferson election as President and the issue had to be sent to the House for resolution (Bailey & Shafritz, p. 61). Any debating on the issue was only incidental; when all was said and done the issue was decided by one man, Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, and the Federalists were ...
- 317: The Good Earth: Summary
- ... an American agricultural specialist who taught American farming methods to the Chinese. In 1931 she published her second book, The Good Earth, which is a collection of three novels- The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided. Her second book tells the story of a Chinese peasant named Wang Lung who went from rags to riches as a farmer. With an understanding of the farming lifestyle, Buck was able to recreate ... a son and a “handful a of silver dollars over and above what they needed” (32). Soon later they had another son and a daughter. During this time, Wang Lung purchases some land from the House of Hwang, where O-lan was once a slave. With this extra land, he would be able to make enough silver from his next harvest to join both pieces of his land. All hope ends ... the land after Wang Lung’s death. Moreover, their misfortunes take a turn once there is a revolt in the city and Wang Lung follows a mob. He and his wife find themselves in the house of the city’s wealthiest man, and they took the man’s riches. This was the answer to Wang Lung’s wish that “if I had the gold and the silver and the jewels, ...
- 318: Tar Baby
- ... characters were placed in a cage and left to see what would happen. L' Arbe de la Croix is the vacation home of Valerian Street a retired candy maker and his wife Margaret Street. The house is also occupied by a black couple, Sydney and Odine, who have been the long time servants of the Street's. During the time of the story the house is also occupied by Jadine, who is Sydney's and Odine's niece. Jadine was took in by the Streets and they paid for her to go to school and become a model. Jadine came ... room she opens her closet and sees a strange black man sitting there. She becomes hysterical and runs down the stairs in a panic. Sydney goes upstairs and brings down the intruder everyone in the house is startled by his appearance and ready to call the police. Everyone except Valerian. He invites the intruder to sit down for a drink and this makes Margaret crazy. She runs up to her ...
- 319: Fahrenheit 451: How Montag is Convinced to Change His Mind about Books
- ... the society he is living in. "Clarisse wonders whether Montag is actually happy leading a death-in-life, and Montag quickly realizes that he is not happy when he enters his sterile and fully automatic house" (Zipes 185). Clarisse opens Montag's eyes to a different world, a world full of books and people communicating with each other. In the novel Clarisse asks Montag if he is happy. At first he ... a year before. Clarisse has a really big impact on Montag. She is the one that starts all the thinking and questioning within his head. The old woman in the story refuses to leave her house when the firefighters catch the house on fire because she had books in the house. Montag is confused and cannot understand why the old woman was willing to die for the books. He cannot understand what is in the books ...
- 320: Comparison of Mexico and the United States
- ... the proportion of nationwide votes for each political party. Each state has at least two deputies and each territory has at least one. Congressmen may not be re-elected for the immediately succeeding term. Each house is the final judge of the election of its own members, an arrangement that has permitted the majority party to declare its own candidates elected, regardless of ballot results. A permanent Mexican committee of fifteen ... with the executive over the years. Annual changes in committee membership, low pay, infrequent meetings, and short sessions have discouraged the full development of congressional powers. The fact that the majority party leader in each house outranks the congressional president of each house (who is selected at monthly intervals) further restricts congressional autonomy. Potentially, however, the Chamber of Deputies could exercise great power over the executive through its functions of verifying the presidential electoral returns, passing the ...
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