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- 391: The Presidency of Gerald Rudolph Ford
- ... Rudolph Ford became the first vice president in American history to succeed to the nation’s highest office because of the resignation of a president. Ford was also the first man to occupy the White House without being elected either president or Vice President. Both events resulted from two of the worst scandals in a American political history: the forced resignation of Vice President Spiro T AGNEW after he pleaded nolo ... a charge of income tax evasion, and Watergate affair, which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Ford’s rise to become the 38th president followed a long career in the U.S House Of Representatives, where he was liked and respected by his colleagues. When he became president, his decency and integrity went far toward healing the wounds of Watergate. Inheriting a crippled economy ravaged by inflation and ... Mich.). he defeated an isolationist republican, Rep. Bartel J. Jonkman, in the primary and then defeated the democratic candidate in the general election. Ford first received national attention when he was elected chairman of the House Republican Conference in 1963. His victory was considered the first step in rejuvenating the “Old Guard” image of the congressional Republicans. Two years later, Ford challenged the reelection of House Minority Leader Charles A. ...
- 392: ... novel. He served as a model for the character Atticus Finch. Lee’s older sister had many of the same qualities as the character Boo Radley. Her sister was a recluse who rarely left the house. Another influence on Lee’s novel was the Scottsboro case that took place in Alabama when Lee was only five years old. The Scottsboro case was the case against nine black men raping two white ...
- 393: Reasons, Causes And Details Of Plantation Slavery
- ... pay was another favorable prize, but few slaveowners used this method. There were many different types of work slaves did depending on their role. A slave was considered lucky if he got to be a house servant. House servants were considered the aristocrats of slavery. They were the best behaved and most submissive, occasionally even the mixed offspring of the master himself. The house servants were raised in belief that they were superior to other slaves in status and importance. Intimate friendships often formed between master and messenger. Young black boys and girls were sometimes adopted into the ...
- 394: The John F. Kennedy Assasination Conspiracy
- ... wait for another (Lane, RTJ, 164). This would certainly be strange behavior for a man who was attempting to make a getaway. 12:54 p.m. - Oswald exits cab and walks six minutes to his house. 1:00 p.m. - Oswald enters his house. 1:04 p.m. - Oswald exits his house. 1:07 p.m. - Oswald is seen by his housekeeper, Mrs. Earlene Roberts, standing on a nearby corner. She claimed he appeared to be waiting for a northbound bus. 1:15 p.m. - Commission ...
- 395: Jon Bennet Ramsey
- ... critical time period that the police made the biggest mistakes, which may be the reason why the case has yet to be solved and probably never will. First off, when police were dispatched to the house that morning, they were told that there was a child missing, and there was a ransom note left behind. Any person with the slightest bit of common sense would believe that a crime has now ... of anyone who need not be there, sealed off, and properly searched. Instead friends and family were allowed in an out as they pleased. The fact that they didn’t seal off and search the house could have ruined potentially crucial evidence. Instead of the police searching the home, they allowed John Ramsey to search the home with a family friend by the name of Fleet White. During the search of ... This too was ruined because of police stupidity when Boulder detective Linda Arndt decided to cover the body with a blanket so that Patsy wouldn’t be so upset. The Ramsey’s then left the house to stay with friends. Police decided (now just a little too late) to treat the home as a major crime scene. This had been the only murder in Boulder that year, so the police ...
- 396: Emily Dickinson
- Emily Dickinson is one of the most well known poets of her time. Though her life was outwardly uneventful, what went on inside her house behind closed doors is unbelievable. After her father died she met Reverend Charles Wadsworth. She soon came to regard him as one of her most trusted friends, and she created in his image the lover ... six of her poems were even printed; none of which had her consent. It was not until her death of Brights Disease in May of 1862, that many of her poems were even read (Chelsea House of Library Criticism 2837). Thus proving that the analysis on Emily Dickinson s poetry is some of the most emotionally felt works of the nineteenth century. Miss Dickinson is often compared with other poets and ... that she was able to see into this character of nature more deeply than any other (84). Miss Dickinson s poetry style contains flashes of wholly original and profound insight into nature and life (Chelsea House of Library Criticism 2841). At first impression her tiny lyrics appear to be no more than the jottings of a half-idiotic school-girl instead of grave musings of a full grown, fully educated ...
- 397: Interplay Between Fantasy And Reality In The Gothic
- ... will study the interplay between the elements of realism and fantasy via the use of the following texts: Angela Carter's' The Bloody Chamber focusing mainly on "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Lady of the House of Love". Stephen King's The Shining, there will also be references to Stanley Kubrick's film version of The Shining and Wes Craven's modern gothic film The People Under the Stairs. The most ... existing within our own safe environment. This in turn leads to the inevitable "well, maybe something like this could really happen. Oh God! What if something like this is happening right now, maybe in the house next door!" The last part of this thought is becoming even more appropriate nowadays as modern gothic texts are being set in perfect suburban neighbourhoods. All of this is null and void if the gothic ... with its turrets of misty blue, its courtyard, its spiked gate" ( Carter "The Bloody Chamber" : 13 ). "…The great bulk of the mansion above them, whose façade loured over the village." ( Carter "The lady of the House of Love" : 99 ). The whole valley floor was spread out below them, the slopes they had climbed … falling away with such dizzying suddenness that she knew to look down there for too long would ...
- 398: Go Ask Alice
- ... is a big deal. On September 30th her father was invited to be the "Dean of Political Science at --------- ". She says that she is gonna become a new person by time she gets her new house and that it is gonna be so great. Good maybe now she will quit crying about her dull life. She says that she is gonna exercise every morning, eat right, clean my skin (what she never had a bath before), be optimistic, cheerful and positive. Why couldn't she of just done all that in the house she lived in before she moved. Sorry I am being so negative, but this girl is a little cry baby and she is to dramatic. On October 10th I found out that she has siblings named Tim and Alexandia that she is gonna stay with while her parents go house hunting. They bought a Spanish type house and they took pictures. She said it will take three or four days for the pictures to get back. That kind of gives you some perspective on ...
- 399: The Watergate Affair
- ... s administration and the ability to run an effective government which forced the first resignation of an American president. The history of the events at hand is as follows. The Nixon Administration financed a White House Special Investigative Unit called the plumbers. This unit was initially established under John Erlichmann a top White House aide, to “plug” leaks from the White House to the press and consisted of former FBI and CIA operatives. It comes to fact that these plumbers were involved in illegal break-ins and wiretapping before the Watergate scandal. On June 17, 1972, ...
- 400: Analysis of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
- ... after another. The poem seems to get faster and faster as life goes through its course. In lines 17 and 18, however, the poem seems to slow down as Dickinson writes, "We paused before a House that seemed / A Swelling of the Ground-." The reader is given a feeling of life slowly ending. Another way in which Dickinson uses the form of the poem to convey a message to the reader ... life going by. Another instance of repetition occurs in the fourth stanza. Dickinson repeats the word "ground" in lines 18 and 20 to help remind the reader that she is describing a grave, not a house. Figurative language is also used as Dickinson creates two instances of perfect rhyme. The first time perfect rhyme is used is in lines 2 and 4 with the rhyming of the words "me" and "immortality ... which also gives the poem a more affable mood. Another way in which Dickinson makes death a more agreeable subject for the reader is in the fifth quatrain as she compares the grave to a house. In line 17, she writes, "We paused before a House." As she does so, the reader gets the image of a young lady being dropped off at her home by her suitor. However, as ...
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