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- 421: Jimi Hendrix: A Reflection Of A Man Through His Music
- ... but everyone found that better for the first time. Its just a phase, its only a very small part of us (Welch 109). On the other hand, another track on the album, Red House, represented something else entirely. Red House is a more traditional blues number, written by Jimi Hendrix, which is a perfect example of what Jimi began his musical experimentation with. Jimi showcases his blues guitar playing and singing on Red House. The lyrics tell the story of a man who loses his woman but who manages to keep his guitar, and if his woman wont love him any more, he says I know her ...
- 422: Their Eyes Were Watching God 5
- THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Plot (Synopsis) When Janie returns to Eatonville, the whole town seems to turn out to watch her walk down the street by herself and up to her own house. She had disappeared some years before, with a young man named Tea Cake. The townspeople wonder why he has not returned with her. In fact, the town is viciously curious, but only Pheoby Watson cares ... She marries Joe Starks, and they go to live at a new black settlement called Eatonville. Joe is an ambitious man. He becomes mayor of the new town, opens a store, builds a big white house, and runs the post office. He wants Janie to act like the wife of an important man, just as he directs. He also wants her to run the store and obey his other commands. Janie ... feels she has nothing to hide; she has loved, been loved, and dared to really live life. Pheoby is impressed by the story and admires Janie's determination. After Pheoby leaves, Janie shuts up her house and goes to bed, thinking about Tea Cake. Her life is peaceful. noon, she discovers that her two-hundred dollars are missing. All day and all night go by without a word from Tea ...
- 423: Black Boy By Richard Wright
- Black Boy By Richard Wright At Richards' grandmother's house. He sets some curtains on fire, which leads to the house catching on fire. The family moves to Memphis. Richard hangs a cat after his father tells him to (sarcastically) Richard's mother punishes him. At six while hanging out at a saloon he becomes a ... orphanage to live. His father has left the family for another woman. His mother is ill and can't work. Chapter 2 His mother takes Richard and his brother to live at their grandmother's house. They move to Arkansas to live with Maggie and her husband b/c granny's religious rules tie them down. Maggie and Richard's mother are sisters. Maggie's husband, a successful saloon owner, ...
- 424: A Holiday For Murder - Summary
- ... to break their chains. Lydia had a garden with a number of scenes that she had made the garden to look like. One of the scenes was the Dead Sea. Butler had been at the house for forty years. Part 1, Chapter 4. Two, David and Hilda, talking about the man's mother and how she was humiliated by his father with his affairs that he boasted about. The mother was ... to a lawyer. He is talking about making up a new will after Christmas. The old man talks about lowering the allowance of George in order to pay for the rising costs of maintaining the house. The old man called his dead wife a louse and then said that she transmitted it onto her children. The children started yelling at their father and he told them all to get out. The ... Hilda said that she was afraid for Simeon. Part 3, Chapter 3. Tressilian, the butler, is the narrator. Two of the servants talking and when one said that the police had shown up at the house, the Valet dropped his cup of tea and started to perspire. He became at ease when he found out that it was only to collect for the children's orphanage. At dinner all of ...
- 425: New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag
- ... crowded dive at 1:00 AM, where the cigarette smoke is so thick it makes its own weather; and the waitress is slinging bourbon and Fritos while some bad-ass Jazz Funk band rocks the house as hard as Blue Ridge granite, and the sweat flows down from the stage like the cloudy waters of Pamlico Sound. There's a word for how you feel when you hear live Jazzy-funk ... s all helped me to get into the proper frame of mind of experiencing true Jazz. The focus of this report will be on my life changing experience at a little place known as The House of Blues. This amazing combination of bar and stage created one of the most conducive atmospheres to music listening that I have ever been involved with. The stage, similar to the Fox, in Boulder and ... of every major Jazz/Blues artist that ever played there. Images such as Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Dizzie Gillespie, Buddy Bolden, Horace Silvers, and Jelly Roll Morton adorned the walls and ceilings of the HOB (House of Blues). Every beer on tap was a Louisiana original and the only kind of cooking done there was absolutely Cajun. On Thursday, April 11, 1996, I and 5 friends ventured into the legendary ...
- 426: Calvin Coolidge
- ... West, when his health began to deteriorate, tried poorly to alleviate the scandal that have been plaguing his presidency. Praying by candlelight, Coolidge descended the stairs to the plain living room of his father's house, lighted only by two kerosene lamps. Upon an old wooden business desk, a copy of the US Constitution was found and Coolidge took the oath of office, as his father administered him as the next ... of the United States, Calvin Coolidge was considered to be a heroic president; not for what he did, but for what he did not do. Therein lies his political genius as Walter Lippmann, a White House advisor for Coolidge in 1926, pointed out: "... his talent for effectively doing nothing. This active inactivity suits the mood and certain needs of the country admirably. It suits all the business interests which wants to ... might perhaps cause the mute to speak (referring to himself)." (Bailey 78). The year after their marriage, Grace gave birth to their first son, John. Later that same year, Coolidge was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representative. During his two one-year terms in the House, Coolidge made very little impression to his fellow members, although his record shows he may have been mildly progressive. Coolidge then had a ...
- 427: Chapters 1-6 To Kill A Mocking
- ... who have unique characteristics. The theme of prejudice is also developed in this introductory section. The Finch family and some of their neighbours are introduced as well, along with important elements such as the Radley house. The Radley house is an important element of mystery in the beginning chapters. As Scout was describing the setting, she described the mysterious house by saying, The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end, (Lee 6). Dill, who was from Meridian, Mississippi, ...
- 428: Calvin Coolidge
- ... West, when his health began to deteriorate, tried poorly to alleviate the scandal that have been plaguing his presidency. Praying by candlelight, Coolidge descended the stairs to the plain living room of his father's house, lighted only by two kerosene lamps. Upon an old wooden business desk, a copy of the US Constitution was found and Coolidge took the oath of office, as his father administered him as the next ... of the United States, Calvin Coolidge was considered to be a heroic president; not for what he did, but for what he did not do. Therein lies his political genius as Walter Lippmann, a White House advisor for Coolidge in 1926, pointed out: "... his talent for effectively doing nothing. This active inactivity suits the mood and certain needs of the country admirably. It suits all the business interests which wants to ... might perhaps cause the mute to speak (referring to himself)." (Bailey 78). The year after their marriage, Grace gave birth to their first son, John. Later that same year, Coolidge was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representative. During his two one-year terms in the House, Coolidge made very little impression to his fellow members, although his record shows he may have been mildly progressive. Coolidge then had a ...
- 429: Cue For Treason
- ... threat to repossess their land. During this siege, Peter was tolled to stand on guard. He fell asleep while he stood on guard and awoke only to see Sir Philip and his army approaching the house. He alerted the others that Sir Philip was headed their way. To stall Sir Philip and his army, Peter threw a rock at them. Fortunately when they shoot at Peter, they only nicked his hat ... at the intended time or place. Peter decides that they should retrieve the play themselves. They followed the individual to where he is spending his days in London. When he and Kit go to the house to retrieve the play from the Yellow Gentlemen, Kit distracts the men while Peter climbs the wall to retrieve the play. This little conflict leads to another, as they find on the back of the ... pistol fires accidentally. Out of panic, Peter hits his head on the wall and falls unconscious. The conspirators take him to a remote island near Ullswater. Peter escapes and swims to safety to his parents house. There he reunites with Kit where they plan to tell the magistrate about the conspiracy to assassinate the Queen. Before they can leave the house, Sir Philip appears at the house with his small ...
- 430: Congresswoman Rep. Maxine Wate
- ... of feminine style rhetoric. The press conference was targeted towards the public and its purpose was to inform them that the investigation of the CIA/Contra connection had the support of the Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich and other political leaders. In a prior conversation with Gingrich, Waters reported that "the speaker said that something with the implication this profound, something this sinister must be examined. He said that he favored holding hearings - hearings that I have formally requested - by the Intelligence Committee of the House"(press release 9/17/96). The statement was very straightforward and to the point and she did not use any form of misleading language, however, the stylistic device that was used in the press conference ... also makes clear that she does not intend to back down from pursuing that investigation. She states that she is in it for the long haul. On March 16, 1998, Rep. Waters testified before the House Permanent select Committee on Intelligence on the CIA OIG Report of Investigation. The committee addressed the allegations of the connection between the CIA and Contras in cocaine trafficking to the US. Throughout the entire ...
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