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- 51: Personal Writing: History of Pete Dalberg Family
- ... the cabin. Very little of the land at that time had been cleared. I don't know how long they lived in that cabin but I don't think it was too long until a house was built. This first house that was built was a little closer to the creek than the house that we knew. Then later the house that we knew was built which was a big 2 story house. Of course it never had any electricity while we were there. My Grandparents lived on ...
- 52: Great Expectations - Chapter Summaries
- ... aunt’s school When Uncle Joe was a kid, he had parents who drank heavily and so Joe didn’t attend school Miss Havisham- rich and grim lady who lives in a large and dismal house barricated against robbers Pip is invited to play at her house, but he doesn’t know why Chapter 7 Setting: At Miss H’s Satis house: We meet Miss h and Estella * Uncle Pumblechook takes Pip to her house Miss H’s house had many iron bars and some windows were walled up Estella lets Pip in the gate; She ...
- 53: A Comparison Of Racism In Of M
- ... to quickly make an escape from home and makes a quick and poor choice to marry Curley. Discrimination against women is also demonstrated within the book when in conversation the subject of a particular whore house arises between the ranchers. This section also portrays to the reader women being treated as objects. During this section George is invited by Whit to visit a whore house in town. This also has the effect of showing us how lonely the ranchers must be. The whore house provides a un complicated sex service for the men, and in effect of this it gives the message to the reader that women were treated as sex objects. This section shows us again how ...
- 54: A Dolls House - Norma As A Dol
- Nora Helmer as a Doll In Isben's, A Dolls House Nora, the protagonist is treated like a doll - the property of Torvald Helmer. In Act I, there are many clues that hint at the kind of marriage Nora and Torvald have. It seems that Nora is a doll controlled by Torvald. She ...
- 55: The History Of The Barbie Doll
- The History of Barbie Doll® The idea of Barbie all started in 1959 when Ruth Handler, Barbie s creator, noticed her daughter Barbara playing with paper dolls and imagining them in grown up roles such as college students, cheerleaders, and adults with careers. Ruth realized that dolls on the market at that time were all baby dolls, and that there was a need for a doll that would inspire little girls to think about what they wanted to be when they grew up. Thus the idea for the Barbie doll, the teenage fashion model, was born. Ruth named the doll Barbie, after her daughter and now, 40 years later, this 1.9 billion-dollar-a-year industry is stronger then ever. The Barbie doll ...
- 56: The Fall of the House of Usher: Imagery and Parallelism
- The Fall of the House of Usher: Imagery and Parallelism In his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", Edgar Allen Poe presents his reader with an intricately suspenseful plot filled with a foreboding sense of destruction. Poe uses several literary devices, among the most prevalent, however are his morbid imagery and ... decrepit, decaying mansion of Roderick Usher. Usher summoned his childhood friend, the narrator, to his home by sending a letter detailing only a minor illness. After the narrator arrives and sees the condition of the house he becomes increasingly superstitious. When the narrator first sees his host he describes his morbid appearance and it arouses his superstition even more. Over a period of time the narrator begins to understand his ...
- 57: Henrik Ibsen A Biography
- ... in alcohol. His quiet mother found comfort in religion. He used them as a model for his plays. The blend of an overbearing husband and a submissive wife made appearances in his plays Brand, A Doll's House, and Ghosts. The bitter character of Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck was based on Ibsen's father. When he was sixteen, he moved to Grimstad to work for a druggist. He had wanted to ... least at times the model within himself." In 1877, Ibsen entered his second period of writing with his play Pillars of Society. Ibsen wrote a series of plays dealing with social problems, such as A Doll's House and Ghosts. He also wrote a series of plays dealing with psychological problems, such as The Lady from the Seas and Hedda Gabler. He wrote eight plays during of this period and ...
- 58: A Dolls House
- Social Criticism in A Doll s House In A Doll s House, Ibsen as he often does, criticizes society and the ways of life in that time. Ibsen shows this in Torvold s overwhelming power and control over Nora. This is also seen in ...
- 59: A Dolls House
- ... on page 28. Her attitude towards her children becomes obvious from the very beginning when she calls them “sweet blessings” and “darlings”. Nora thinks of her children as something sort of like a plaything, a doll maybe. Her description of their “red cheeks! -- like apples and roses” emphasizes the children’s doll like appearance, with an imagery of bright red cheeks like those painted on dolls. Nora even goes as far as calling her baby her “sweet little baby doll.” Her throwing the children’s things around shows her carelessness to realize that she is the mother of her children, not their owner like one who owns toys. She acts like a kid playing ...
- 60: The Brady Bill
- ... way toward even stricter gun control legislation in the future. Gun Rights vs. Gun Control The Brady bill, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, was first introduced by Edward F. Feighan (D-OH) in the House of the100th Congress as HR975 on February 4, 1987. The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee, and the debate began. Throughout the debate on the Brady bill, there was always a clear partisan split ... agreed that "the law is good but more is needed."2 It is without question that this public support played a significant role in the eventual passage of the bill. The Brady bill passed the House in the 102nd Congress After almost four years from its first introduction to the Congress, the Brady bill was reintroduced to the House in the 102nd Congress as HR 7 on January 3, 1991, sponsored by 76 representatives including Feighan, William J Hughes (D-NJ), and Charles Schumer (D-NY). The bill was referred to the Judiciary ...
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