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- 651: Summary of Cue for Treason
- ... Morton. Between chapter Eleven and Twelve, because the Yellow Gentleman steels the play from Peter, he borrowed the play but never returns. Peter and Kit decide to steel it back from the Yellow Gentleman's house. When Peter was claming out of Yellow gentleman's house, he heard Yellow gentleman's house, he heard yellow gentleman and the others people were talking about the plot that Sir Philip is in. They found the sonnet on the table of Yellow gentleman's table. Since word and wit ...
- 652: An Analysis Of The Jay Gatsby
- Jay Gatsby believes he can buy happiness; and this is exhibited through his house, his clothes, and through Daisy. He owns a large portion of finances due to some mysterious source of wealth, and he uses this mystery source to buy his house, his clothes,and Daisy, for awhile. Gatsby's house, as Fitzgerald describes it, is "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming ...
- 653: Great Expectations: Life Story of Phillip Gargery
- ... to get by on. Although Joe didn’t make a lot of money, he was a good person at heart. He was my best friend. And my sister didn’t work. She tended to her house, and did work there. Biddy, a friend of the family often helped us out here and there. She taught me how to read and write. I would often go and visit my parent’s tombstones ... I did what he said anyway, because I was afraid he would kill me, or hurt me very badly. So I got him what he needed. The next night, the town soldiers came to my house, and asked Joe to fix the handcuffs for them, because they found the escaped convict. I have never told on him, and that was the last time I’ve seen of the convict for a ... and she often insulted me, and the way I was. One day I was playing cards and she made fun of my hands. That hurt me very badly. My most memorable moment about Havisham’s house was when I got in a fight with a pale young gentleman. I won the fight, and he was casual about it. He didn’t really care, and in fact, I don’t know ...
- 654: The Crown Of Diamond: Overview
- ... came in and seeing the crown fainted. Arthur asked if he could leave for five minutes but Holder refused and called the police to take his only beloved son to jail. The police searched the house but could not find anything and advised Holder to get the help of Mr. Holmes the famous detective. Mr. Holder went to Mr. Holmes in a hysterical manner. He was calmed down and started to tell him his mystery. Then Holmes asked him whether any one visits them, no one replied Holder except for Arthur’s friend George Burnwell. He added that Mary does not go out of the house, which seemed strange for a young lady but her uncle thought of her as a pleasant and quite girl, and thought of his son of being guilty. Yet Holmes did not agree and told them if he were he would make up a lie and never keep silent. Mr. Holmes went to search the house especially from the out side knowing the police did not do that. After searching thoroughly, he found footsteps with drops of blood leading away from the house. He went back to Baker St. disguised ...
- 655: Pride And Prejudice - Marriage
- ... inherited a fortune. Their marriage was not a happy settled one. They were always in debt, and Lydia often writes to her sisters, Jane and Elizabeth, asking them for money. They were always moving from house to house, and they stay for very long periods with the Bingley’s, so much that even kind Mr Bingley thinks of telling them to move on. Bingley’s and Jane’s marriage is based on love ... Mr Bennet thinks the couple is so nice and easy going that people might take advantage of them. We later see that the Wickhams do take advantage. They spend long periods of time in their house and Lydia often writes to Jane asking for money. They first meet at the Meryton Assembly. Mr Bingley is a young man of large fortune, from the north of England, who is going to ...
- 656: The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time for the US
- ... 11 free. Northern states were afraid that if Missouri entered as a slave state it would give the south a majority in the senate. Southerners argued that since the north had a majority in the House of Representatives that it was only fair that they had a majority in the senate. Then in December 1819 three northern counties of Massachusetts broke away and asked to be admitted to enter the Union ... of new Republicans. A party formed by people wanting to stop the spread of slavery. IN 1858 Lincoln was the Republican nomination for senator from Illinois. When he addressed the state convention he said "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other." Lincolns opponent was Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln and Douglas had a bunch ...
- 657: The Boston Massacre
- ... benefit of England. But once again, they were only taking orders from England. Early on the evening of March 5, 1770, a crowd of laborers began throwing hard packed snowballs at soldiers guarding the Customs House. Goaded beyond endurance the sentries acted against express orders and fired on the crowd, killing four and wounding eight, one of whom dies a few days later.1 Here are the names of the people ... his door, wounded. Messrs. John Green, Robert Paterson, and David Parker; all dangerously wounded.2 There were depositions in this affair which mention that several guns were fired at the same time from the Custom House: Benjamin Frizell, on the evening if the 5th of March, having taken his station near the west corner of the Custom House in King St., before and at the time of the soldiers firing their guns, declares that the first discharge was only of one gun, the next of two guns, upon which he the deponent ...
- 658: The Failure of NAFTA
- ... The public also seemed to be on their side. Public opinion polls in both the U.S. and Mexico consistently found a majority of people opposed to NAFTA. Aligned against the people were the White House, the leaders of the Republican Party, big business, virtually all the economists, and a majority of the major media outlets. Some believe that it was the Democrats that put NAFTA over the top. Sixty percent of the Democrats in the House voted against Clinton. For it was actually Newt Gingrich’s aggressive intervention and the Republican vote that made the difference. Two years after the agreement was put into effect the results came in. The people were right. The business leaders, the economists, the White House, and Newt Gingrich were all wrong. Let’s look at the facts. President Clinton promised 200,000 additional jobs because of NAFTA by 1995 alone. In fact though over 200,000 jobs were lost ...
- 659: The Reflections Of Gore Vidal
- ... shock therapy to symbolize the pain and suffering a homosexual goes through. In another part of the story Vidal describes how Elliot was arrested because a young boy named André stole a camera in his house and told his parents that Elliot gave it to him for spending the night with him. André s parents immediately went to the police who arrested Elliot and put him in jail. Not long after ... invites him to a party in her hotel room. He accepts and is surprised to find his mother at the party. After conversing with his mother he leaves the party and walks past his old house, where he grew up. After arriving at the house he meets a young boy who claims his grandfather built the house. The man says that his grandfather built the house and they argue until Dunst 5 the boy is called home (49). Vidal ...
- 660: Famous People Of The Civil War
- ... all colors. Abraham Lincoln Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky in a log cabin. In 1830 the Lincolns moved from Indiana to Illinois. Lincoln was elected to the Illinois lower house in 1834 and served four terms until 1841. Lincoln became a lawyer and moved to Springfield the following year. There he met Mary Todd and they married in 1842 and had four sons. Lincoln served one term in the House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849. In 1860 he won the presidential election. By the time of his inauguration 7 states had seceded from the Union. The Civil War began when South Carolina fired on ... of years later he allowed blacks to fight in the army. Lincoln signed the 13th amendment in 1864 that abolished slavery. On April 14, 1865 Lincoln was shot while attending a performance at Appomattox Court House by John Booth. Thaddeus Stevens Thaddeus Stevens was one of the most influential Republican leaders during the reconstruction era. In 1861 he became chairman of the House of Representatives. He played an important role ...
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