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- 621: The Bill Clinton Story
- ... trial. (Grolier, 1) However, an impeached person would not be exempt from indictment, prosecution and imprisonment by the criminal justice system, which in the case of President Clinton such action would obviously be warranted. The House of Representatives has "the sole power of impeachment," that is, the bringing charges. The Senate has "the power to try all impeachment’s." A two-thirds vote is required in the Senate for conviction. When ... honor, trust, or profit under the United States." (Corwin, 3) A person convicted in an impeachment, however, is subject to further "indictment, trial, judgement, and punishment according to Law." Impeachment originated in England, where the House of Commons would present articles of impeachment to the House of Lords, which then tried the case (internet, 2) Since the adoption of the Constitution, only one president, Andrew Jackson (1868), has been brought to trial in the Senate on charges voted by the ...
- 622: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
- ... Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education. President Roosevelt's boyhood home is a popular related attraction at the Hyde Park historic site. The house, on a 188-acre estate, contains an office which the President referred to as his "Summer White House". From this room he broadcast the last speech of his fourth campaign for the Presidency on November 6, 1944. Famous guests at the house included King George VI of Great Britain and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill. The house contains abundant memorabilia from all periods of the President's life. As his wife Eleanor remarked, "He always felt ...
- 623: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Egaeus, William Wilson, Cornelius Wyatt, Montresor, Hop-Frog, Metzengerstein.” (Buranelli 19-20) Among these protagonists, the one Poe seems to represent more is the half-mad, Roderick Usher. In the story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe presents himself through the morbidly uncanny Roderick Usher. “All in all, he is an unbalanced man trying to maintain an equilibrium in his life” (Partridge N. pag). Usher was also a man ... as “a lost drunkard or the irreclaimable eater of opium” (198). Poe also used his memory of past events and places to set the backdrop for his pieces of literature. In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe uses his Gothic home as the backdrop and his family as its characters. “Poe often drew upon his memory for his settings, as in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’ which concerns the fate of a decayed aristocratic family and it moldering Gothic mansion” (Buranelli 28). Poe knew the feelings that came to a person when confronted with a relic from their ...
- 624: Creative Writing: The Date
- ... hands asking questions to one another beginning with " How about the bit when……….." now basking in the pleasure of each others company, a happy couple as they began the long trek back to Melissa's house where her parents where conveniently away for the weekend. Too involved with themselves were they that the tall, hunched over figure in the black trench coat silently watching them went unnoticed from across the street ... arms hung rigidly by his sides and a large bulge protrouded from above his belt possibly concealing a weapon. His vacant eyes never left the couple who were verging on running. Upon seeing Melissa's house at the far end of the street, the two terrified teenagers broke into a bolt sprinting as fast as they could. The heard the heavy, dull thud of Black boots crashing onto the pavement behind as their assailant began to run also. Dashing up the front steps they reached the house and Melissa unlocked the door with the man only seconds behind. Once inside, she slammed the door and locked it then both John and Melissa collapsed on the floor in a shaking heap of ...
- 625: Your Chemical World
- ... this documented history to our own world. By showing the uses of the chemistry industry in products we rely on every day it is clearly showed the importance of it. In every aspect of your house we can find evidence of chemistry. In the Vinyl siding to the roof shingles to the power that runs the very computer that I am writing this on. If peel back the skin further we can see that in every room there is also blatant hints toward chemistry’s uses in our house. In the kitchen we keep we see it in our refrigerator, in the family room the TV we religiously watch. In the Bathroom we can see it by staring in to the toilet, yes the ... atmosphere. Communication will be done almost solely on the computer. Access to information will be easy to get and very fast. Biomechanics could take over silicon for even fast transmission of data. Everything in the house form security to cooking utensils will be done on the computer. Transportation would idealistically be done in an unplugging manner, but at least for some time a hybrid between gas electric seems to be ...
- 626: Men And Women
- ... location. As a temporary fix to this problem, I simply sharpen about ten pencils all up front. A more expensive item is also being under utilized because it doesn't match the ambiance of the house. This item is the Dolby Surround Sound home theater system my dad bought a few years back. It is all setup fine except for a very critical part, the speaker locations. In order for the ... who has always looked at least ten years younger than her age, is always up on the latest diets. My sisters then follow it as well. For a while now, all the food in the house is non-fat or as low fat as it can come. My mother and sisters will not drink milk that has a percent in it. I drink a lot of milk yet I hate non ... so I might look a little huskier. My dad seems to grow a little pot gut, but that has never kept him from enjoying great food like hambergers and pizza. The latest craze in my house is changing any thing that has remained the same for too long. Our roof or shingles has been on our house for 29 years and has received some fading due to the long sunny ...
- 627: Charles Dickens
- ... Becomes editor for Daily News for a month. · 1847 - First sketches are published called Dombey and Son. · 1849 - David Copperfield is published. · 1850 - He edits a new magazine called Household Words. · 1852 - The novel Bleak House is published. · 1853 - Sketches of Hard Times appears in Household Words. · 1856 - Little Dorrit also appears in Household Words. · 1859 - Quits editing Household Words and start to edit his own magazine called All The Year ... March 1832, he joined the reporting staff of the True Sun where he became a Parliamentary reporter, taking down the speeches of the Reform Bill. Charles was a political reporter in the Gallery of the House of Commons for about four years and kept his job at the True Sun for eight months. He reassigned for work at the Mirror of Parliament where he did reported all the speeches made in the House of Commons but he, again, left that job for a better one at the Morning Chronicle. Dickens later started writing sketches that presented real people and incidents, under these sketches he signed them with ...
- 628: Great Expectations And Oliver
- ... and peril."7 Many of the settings, such as the pickpocket's hideout, the surrounding streets, and the bars, are also described as dark, gloomy, and bland.8 Meanwhile, in Great Expectations, Miss Havisham's house is often made to sound depressing, old, and lonely. Many of the objects within the house had not been touched or moved in many years. Cobwebs were clearly visible as well as an abundance of dust, and even the wedding dress which Miss Havisham constantly wore had turned yellow with age ... on the other hand, is a dreamer. His imagination is always helping him to create situations to cover up for his hard times. For example, when questioned about his first visit to Miss Havisham's house, he made up along elaborate story to make up for the terrible time he had in reality. Instead of telling how he played cards all day while being ridiculed and criticized by Estella and ...
- 629: The Black Cat
- ... love. Again the narrator is not in control of his body and is being controlled by the supernatural and shows signs of mental illness. Later that night, the narrator is awakened by fire in his house and immediately exited it. All but one wall of the house was destroyed. After the blaze was put out, a large crowd gathered around the remaining wall and were amazed at how a wall in the middle of the house could remain standing after a fire. The narrator approached the wall and thought that he knew what the audience is commenting about. He saw a gigantic cat with a rope around its neck. He ...
- 630: Hypocrites In Huckleberry Finn
- ... Grangerfords.Huckleberry is taken into the home of the Grangerfords where he sees much of the hypocrisy of Southern society firsthand, especially through false notions of aristocracy. Huck observes that "[He] hadn't seen no house out in the country before that had so much style."(97) The Grangerfords house, is seen as a grand house to those inside. This fancy house makes a visitor think of the sophisticated homes in town, however they are still back country people who only view their home as having style for the things ...
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