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- 551: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... do. I ask for your help, and God's." His Beginnings Johnson's father was. Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. He was a farmer and schoolteacher. Both his father and his grandfather were in the Texas house of Representatives. Johnson's mother was Rebekah Baines Johnson. Johnson had a background in government and also in the Baptist church. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on Aug. 27, 1908, on a farm near Stonewall ... her parents Claudia bought a radio station in Austin which was losing money. After some time the LBJ Company Inc. owned a lot radio television stations. In 1937 Johnson was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Some years later, one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Johnson entered active duty and became a lieutenant in the Navy. He was stationed in New Zealand. He was the first person so serve in congress and in the military. Johnson received a silver star for gallantry in action from General Mac Arthur. In 1948 he became senator. In 1957 he became the Majority House Leader. First Term Johnson tried to become the Democratic party's nominee for the presidency in 1960. But, the Democratic convention chose Kennedy as their Democratic nominee. Then Johnson became the Vice President when ...
- 552: The Government's Spending Plan To Reduce The Budget Deficit
- ... Senate passed a spending plan intended to eliminate the budget deficit by the year 2002 by decreasing government spending while cutting taxes. The Senate's plan is less extreme than the plan passed by the House a week earlier, and both chambers hope to agree upon a compromise plan before the July 4 recess. This may prove a more difficult feat than it appears. While the two plans are similar in substance, they differ widely in the size of the tax cuts proposed. The House plan would cut taxes by $353 billion, while the Senate plan calls for a tax cut of $170 billion contingent upon the passage of spending reductions. Both plans exempt Social Security from cuts, increase military ... Senate passed a spending plan intended to eliminate the budget deficit by the year 2002 by decreasing government spending while cutting taxes. The Senate's plan is less extreme than the plan passed by the House a week earlier, and both chambers hope to agree upon a compromise plan before the July 4 recess. This may prove a more difficult feat than it appears. While the two plans are similar ...
- 553: Mother Teresa
- ... loved reading books, saying prayers, and thinking. She also liked to sing and write poems about her faith. Agnes learned her faith from her mother. There was a sign in the front room of their house that read: "In this house, no one must speak against another." Drana passed down to her children many values. She believed that the Lord’s work was reward enough in itself and that you should serve God in a practical ... hygiene and cleanliness. Through her students, Sister Teresa met many families of Calcutta and also learned about the poor amount of medical care. Many of these families had no income because the man of the house had been stricken with disease. In Calcutta, thousands of people died each year because they weren’t able to get medical care. The amount of poverty in Calcutta grew, and Sister Teresa knew she ...
- 554: A Rose For Emily 3
- ... everybody in the community had to come visit her at death. The men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant - a combined gardener and cook - had seen in at least ten years (Faulkner 55). The house was described as being a big squarish house that was slowly decaying. It reminded the town of the seventies and was said to be "an eyesore among eyesores" (55). The voice of the town identifies Emily as a "tradition a duty, and ...
- 555: Jane Eyre: The Settings
- ... in are perfectly attuned to her state of mind, but her circumstances are always defined by the walls, real and figurative, around her. As a young girl, she is essentially trapped in Gateshead. This sprawling house is almost her whole world. Jane has been here for most of her ten years. Her life as a child is sharply defined by the walls of the house. She is not made to feel wanted within them and continues throughout the novel to associate Gateshead with the emotional trauma of growing up under its "hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart." Gateshead, the first setting is a very nice house, though not much of a home. As she is constantly reminded by John Reed, Jane is merely a dependent here. When she finally leaves for Lowood, as she remembers later, it is with a " ...
- 556: Fantasy vs. Reality
- ... that bitter disappointment on Christmas morning when we finally realized that we were never going to be able to have what we want. This is the same exact feelings that the characters in Cisneros' The House on Mango Street. Unlike us, the disappointment for these characters last throughout their childhood. Esperanza, Rachel, Nenny, Sally, and Lucy are among the kids growing up on Mango Street. They all long for friendship, love ... all waiting for "prince charming" to come and sweep them off their feet. They believe that the right man will come and love them for who they are and take them away to a nice house. Marin says that she will move in and marry her boyfriend, but the harsh reality is that she will only be sent to a worse life. Cisneros uses the story of Rapunzel to describe Rafaela ... a fairy tale. Nothing about love that was told to her turned out to be true after she experienced what men thought of as love. In all respects, the "thing" that the characters in The House on Mango Street strived for was a better life. This proved true in the case of Esperanza. A fairy tale element that was used was the Old Lady who had so many children. The ...
- 557: Inform About Sex Offenders: Yes or No?
- Inform About Sex Offenders: Yes or No? 33-year-old Jesse Timmendequas lured 7-year-old Megan Kanka in to his house in Hamilton Township, NJ. Shortly after, Megan was strangled to death and raped. Jesse was living in a half way house and was on parole after his second sex offense. Mrs. Kanka feels that she as well as the other neighbors should have been notified about the fact that a repeat sex offender was being released ... the way he or she can play just because a sex offender is free. I feel that the police department has an obligation to make sure everybody that wants to know about the half way house does. It shouldn't matter who lives in the house. They just got out of prison, so they must have committed some sort of bad crime. Nowadays it is hard to actually go to ...
- 558: Phyllis Wheatley
- ... tragedies. These women, like the many viewers who watch Church-TV everyday, have lost everything and are left with nothing. In an attempt to fill the void in their lives, left by Bradstreet’s burnt house and Wheatley’s treatment as a slave, they turn to the Christian faith that at times seems as empty as the faith that can be commercialized and sold by dramatists on television. In analyzing "Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House" and "On Being Brought from Africa to America," I will consider Christian faith as means of coping with nothingness, rather than a pious way of life. While making references to Anne Bradstreet’s similar development ... European-base ways of life, Wheatley encounters feelings of resentment and isolation from her own people., leaving her with nothing, when she is nothing to anyone. Anne Bradstreet encounters Christianity after the burning of her house in July 1666. Within the body of the poem, she specifically sites material possessions that she has lost: "the trunk," "that chest," "thy table," and the "candle." The loss of material goods appears to ...
- 559: Analytical Essay On The Grass
- ... ll expect him this afternoon!" The filmmaker uses dark clothes, hard wavy hair and a heavy stamp to highlight Verena's character. She maintains an outwards appearance of control and decency. Further more, Verena's house is designed to convey her power and authority over the other characters. The wall paper is a vertical stripe to convey a prison like feeling and the colours are green and gold, the colour of ... the party to bring Dolly home, and to stop the revival meeting. Even the road she lives on is named after her- Talbo Lane. Verena is extremely domaineering over the people that live in her house, especially her sister. " Put on that new pink dress I bought you.... and hold your head up. It makes me dizzy to watch you...... and do something with that mop of hair." Verena treats her ... or when she has to talk to someone, as she has no confidence. She also has a breezy walk. Dolly's kitchen, pink with lots of open space, contrasts with the rest of Verena's house. Dolly is nearly totally dependant on Verena. Catherine, the housekeeper, and dolly's best friend has alot to say about the way Verena acts towards Dolly. " That one! Always...do this, don't do ...
- 560: The Ice Storm
- ... for them this particularly evening. Tonight s party will not be the usual fare. The Halfords are having a key party . A uniquely Californian invention, husbands place their keys in a bowl upon entering the house, and, after liberal doses of alcohol, each wife goes to the bowl and select a set of keys from it, at which point she is to leave with the owner of the keys. Ben and Elena initially balk at this, but, after a short, mostly wordless discussion in the car, decide to participate. Many cocktails numb the uneasiness those in attendance feel as the moment approaches. Meanwhile, outside the house rages an ice storm, called the worst in a century . Paul Hood, home from boarding school, travels to New York City to woo his high school crush, Libbets Casey (Katie Holmes) his amorous intent thwarted by his dilettante roommate and the obligatory chemical overindulgence. Wendy goes to the Carvers house, ostensibly to see Mike; however she ends up drinking vodka in bed with Sandy. Mike is out enjoying the clean air of the ice storm and marveling at its beauty. Mike is a dreamer, ...
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