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- 441: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... the engagement because she was seeing other men. Around a year later in Springfield on November 4, 1842 Abraham and Mary got married. In 1844, Abraham and his wife were able to purchase their own house in Springfield. It was a one-and-a-half story frame cottage. In May 1843, the Lincoln s had a son and named him Robert, after the addition to the family they made the house a full two story house. Lincoln had three more sons Edward Baker, William Wallace, and Thomas. Edward died at the age of three, the cause of death was either consumption or pulmonary tuberculosis. In 1832 Lincoln announced himself a ...
- 442: The Crucible 9
- ... Indeed, the State Department proceeded to hound and fire the officers who knew China, its language, and its opaque culture--a move that suggested the practitioners of sympathetic magic who wring the neck of a doll in order to make a distant enemy's head drop off. There was magic all around; the politics of alien conspiracy soon dominated political discourse and bid fair to wipe out any other issue. How ... the Democrats. But such was the gathering power of raw belief in the great Soviet plot that Truman soon felt it necessary to institute loyalty boards of his own. The Red hunt, led by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and by McCarthy, was becoming the dominating fixation of the American psyche. It reached Hollywood when the studios, after first resisting, agreed to submit artists' names to the House Committee for "clearing" before employing them. This unleashed a veritable holy terror among actors, directors, and others, from Party members to those who had had the merest brush with a front organization. The Soviet ...
- 443: To Kill a Mockingbird
- ... stages. Primitively, Boo is Scout’s worst nightmare. However, the author hints at Boo actually existing as a nice person when he places things in the tree. The secondary stage is when Mrs. Maudie’s house burned to the ground. As Scout and Jem were standing near Boo’s house, it must have been rather cold. So, Boo places a warm and snug blanket around Scout and Jem, to keep them warm. This scene shows Boo’s more sensitive and caring side of him, and ... save Scout and Jem. This stage portrays Boo as the hero and one who has indefinitely changed his personality and attitudes. After the final stage, Boo does not deserve to be locked up inside his house. Atticus Finch is a man of strong morals. He follows them exclusively, and does not hold up to the Finch family name, as defined by Aunt Alexandria. Atticus is the most pure and good- ...
- 444: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan
- ... 1928, Reagan enrolled at Eureka College, a small college in Eureka Illinois. He majored in economics, joined the college football, track, and swimming team; and acted in school plays. He washed dishes at his fraternity house and saved money from summer jobs to help pay for his expenses. One of those summer jobs he had was as a lifeguard on the banks of the Rock River. It was a role that ... mother. Patricia Ann Reagan was born by cesarean section seven and one-half months later, on October 22, 1952. The Reagan's lived in Nancy's apartment after their Arizona honeymoon, then bought a small house in Pacific Palisades at this time this presently guilt-edge community was one of the most reasonably priced residential areas in Los Angeles. They also traded in Yearling Row, Reagan's eight- acre northridge ranch ... life. He quickly recovered. Despite many doubters, Reagan jammed his programs through Congress in 1981, a major tax cut, forty-three billion dollars in budget cuts, indomestic programs, and cutbacks in environmental and business regulations. House Democrats resisted this reversal in tax and spending policies. However the country was in an economic recession. Reagan's appointment in 1981 of Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman justice of the ...
- 445: Bella
- ... in our colony was dirty gray, and I was born white. The leaders marked it at once as a tag, and my mother was shaking every time when I departed on a walk from the house. She left out, that her Bella – so I was called – is very clever and cautious. Once in front of the house a corpse of one of the oldest rats was laying, crushed by an automobile. Upon seeing the turned up, insipid muzzle with the intestines out of the stomach… mother never could get rid of obsess ... and independent, deferring from many other rats, who were primitive, as though programmed for eating, sleeping, having sex and dying. Cellar, in which one our colony was leaving, belonged to a large, not very aged house. When I just started the travels among its floors I was drawn by unconscious curiosity. Only later, I have understood, that most interesting and relevant of all occupations in life is analyzing the humans. ...
- 446: Aristotle: A Comprehensive View on Nature and Society
- ... form can be seen as the actuality of the substance while matter is the potential for that form to exist. The best way to illustrate this is through the analogy of the building of a house. The materials, bricks and wood, should be seen as the matter, the potentially to become a house. The end-result, the house, is the form, it is the potential made actual. The building of the house itself, the movement, is analogous to the four types of causes Aristotle says exist in substances. In the case of ...
- 447: To Kill a Mockingbird: An Analysis
- ... stages. Primitively, Boo is Scout's worst nightmare. However, the author hints at Boo actually existing as a nice person when he places things in the tree. The secondary stage is when Mrs. Maudie's house burned to the ground. As Scout and Jem were standing near Boo's house, it must have been rather cold. So, Boo places a warm and snug blanket around Scout and Jem, to keep them warm. This scene shows Boo's more sensitive and caring side of him, and ... save Scout and Jem. This stage portrays Boo as the hero and one who has indefinitely changed his personality and attitudes. After the final stage, Boo does not deserve to be locked up inside his house. Atticus Finch is a man of strong morals. He follows them exclusively, and does not hold up to the Finch family name, as defined by Aunt Alexandria. Atticus is the most pure and good- ...
- 448: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Politics
- ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti has chosen to express his political views through his poetry. Additionally, Ferlinghetti became more vocal with the use of protests and further publication of controversial and/or anti-government materials through his publishing house, New Directions. By using poetry, Ferlinghetti was able to reach a vast audience including those whom he was criticizing. Through his poetry, Lawrence Ferlinghetti blatantly and subtly criticized the American democratic system and politicians. In ... writings.” Since his involvement in the obscenity trial, Ferlinghetti became quite cynical of the government. After the trial ended, Lawrence Ferlinghetti canceled all government grants coming to him and to any writers under his publishing house. Currently he still disallows the acceptance of government grants to any of his writers (Alspaugh 1146). Economically speaking, Ferlinghetti did benefit from the trial. The publicity created by the trial attracted new names to New ... expressed his opinion about the Government in “The World Is A Beautiful Place” by making a blunt statement of his beliefs. Not only did Ferlinghetti attack government (specifically his target in this poem was the House Un-American Activities Committee), but he attacked segregation, high ranking officials, and the lack of diversity in society. The following excerpt contains examples of each. Oh the world is a beautiful place / to be ...
- 449: Tom Sawyer
- ... they went to go and find buried treasure. Tom and Huck dug under trees all day and night but found nothing, then Tom said that they should go and dig for treasure in a haunted house. They went back two days later and went to a haunted house. Both the boys were scared but they both went inside anyway. The boys dared each other to go upstairs, so of course they went up and looked in closets for treasure but found nothing. Suddenly ... watching to see if he would lead him to the treasure. When Huck has just about given up, Injun Joe and another man left the tavern with so bags. Huck followed them to Widow Douglas' house and listened in on their plan. Injun Joe was going to hurt Widow Douglas because of what her deceased husband did to him. Once Huck had heard the plan he ran to the Welshman' ...
- 450: Death Of A Salesman: The American Dream
- ... because they lead very average lives for the time, and any depth is ignored on their part. This little scene exemplifies this point by showing a focus in their lives, being the mortgage on the house. For twenty-five years Willy and Linda have been working to pay off their mortgage, and once they do that, they will attain a sense of freedom, or the "American Dream". That dream, especially pertinent ... dreams. Their last payment on the mortgage gives closure to this life filled only with dreams, and will allow them to realize some of their idealistic thoughts. Their entire lives have been concentrated on this house, their one meaningful possession, therefore this last payment is an accomplishment beyond any other. Willy is a salesman, always traveling from state to state staying in motels away from home. This increases the importance of a house to him because it is not only a place of habitation but a representation of stability in his life. It is a concrete item which cannot be taken away from Willy once he has ...
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