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- 641: Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
- ... Philadelphia with little money and no friends. He purchases some bread and eats it out on the street where he gets the first glimpse of his future wife. He goes to work in a printing house and begins a comfortable lifestyle and becomes friends with some supposedly respected people who want him to set up his own business. After this, Franklin left Philadelphia for London after being persuaded by the Governor. After arriving in London, Franklin discovered the Governor had not been completely straight with him, but he did find work at a famous printing house. Eighteen months later Franklin left London to return to America as a merchant’s clerk. It wasn’t long before Franklin and his boss both took ill and his boss died leaving Franklin out of a job again. He looked for work as a merchant clerk but instead returned to work at a printing house. Also during this time Franklin began to rethink his religious convictions. He vowed to operate honestly in all dealings and recognized the importance of character and reputation. Franklin conceived of the idea of arriving ...
- 642: Great Expectations vs. Oliver Twist
- ... 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 ...
- 643: Alcatraz
- ... one of the gun rooms, and a wooden stockade was built just to the North of the Sally Port. During the next three decades additional buildings were erected just north of the Sally Port to house up to 150 Army prisoners. These provided hard labor for construction projects both on and off the island. At various times "rebellious" American Indians were also held on Alcatraz. The largest group was nineteen Hopi ... grew. A prison stockade, known as the "Upper Prison" was hastily built on the parade ground and by 1902 there were 461 prisoners on the Island. In 1904 the upper prison stockade was expanded to house 300 inmates, and the lower prison buildings near the Sally Port were used for other purposes. With modern weaponry making Alcatraz more and more unsuitable as a site for a fort, in 1907 the Army ... San Quentin State Prison. There were several families that were housed on the island. The families were distributed in 64 Building, four wood frames houses, one duplex and three apartment buildings. Warden resided in large house adjacent to cell house, Captain and Associated Warden lived in duplex. The question that most people wonder, is how many guards actually upheld the island of Alcatraz, their answer is, 90 officers were required ...
- 644: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... until no one else remains. Death is king of all (Rogers 41). "The horror abysmal darkness, and absolute helplessness befalling the victims are described with vivid accuracy in tales such as 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Cask of Amontillado,' and 'The Premature Burial' (Perry XI-XII)." In "The Fall of the House of Usher," the narrator visits his insane friend, Roderick Usher. Usher's house is huge and gloomy (Rogers 20). His twin sister, Madeline, gets sick and dies. The narrator and Usher place her in a tomb in the basement of Usher's house. What they do not ...
- 645: Great Expectations vs. Oliver Twist
- ... 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 ...
- 646: 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 ...
- 647: Rebecca by Daphan du Maurier
- ... at Manderley and later proposes to her. After they arrive at Manderley, the newly Mrs. De Winter is unwelcome by the servants and is especially disliked by Mrs. Danvers. While spending much time at the house, Mrs. De Winter discovers information about the former Mrs. De Winter, Rebecca. All along, the young lady understands that everything she does is compared to Rebecca. She becomes furious and fed up with all the ... admits that Rebecca spirit is haunting them and keeping them from becoming close. Finally, Rebecca’s secrets are revealed about how she was killed. At the last scene of the book, Mrs. Danvers burns the house down. As the house tumbles to the ground, Mr. and Mrs. De Winter’s love is restored. This suspenseful, romantic book is a gloomy story that I would recommend to women about the age 15 and up. I ...
- 648: Wandering Girl, What Insights
- ... mission called "Wandering" until the age of 16. From there Glenyse went to work for the Bigelows, a white family who lived on a farm in the remote outback of Western Australia. The Bigelow's house was very grand and luxurious compared to her home at the mission. She thought she would really enjoy living on the farm, however she did not realise how much she would eventually come to hate the place. She was to face many challenges living at the Bigelows including loneliness, discrimination, the loss of her identity and living in unfamiliar and unfriendly surroundings. Living in the Bigelow's house was very lonely. It was a kind of loneliness that Glenyse had never encountered. At the mission she always had friends, and nuns and a priest who valued children and lovingly brought her up. However ... not to forget - If I ever needed him I knew what to do." (Pg.66) Glenyse lived in an unfamiliar environment where she was not familiar with the equipment the Bigelow family had in their house. Glenyse had never used equipment like a telephone or a percolator when she lived at the mission and as a result she did not know how they worked. Glenyse was never taught what to ...
- 649: 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 ...
- 650: Outsourcing
- ... lacks. In addition, the business competition has set the pace for an organisation to continue to strive for internal efficiency. It also needs to look for a way to transfer non- core activities or "in house" services and support activities to external specialist organisations who can deliver quality services at a lower cost. Fundamentals In deciding whether to use outsourcing or not, the main objective of outsourcing is based on the ... to deliver quality service and to perform at the required standard as agreed in the contract arrangement. To be able to do this, the organisation must ensure that it can maintain sufficient technically competent "in house" staff to oversee the contract service agreement. Before an organisation outsources its IT functions, it is very important that it prepares a sound full cost estimate for all existing internal computer systems so that it ... 2 The expertise for developing the required software product does not exist within the company. In the past, it was difficult to compare the cost of outsourcing a software product against the cost of in- house development, mainly because there was no functional sizing metric agreed upon prior to the start of the contract. As function points grow in popularity and gain wider acceptance as an accurate measure of software ...
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