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- 671: Herman Hesses Demian
- ... Demian had told him his version of the story of Cain and Abel. Sinclair also remembers Demian s interest that day in an old coat of arms that hung above the door of Sinclair s house. The emblem is that of a sparrow hawk. Sinclair feels propelled by this memory to paint the old emblem. After several days of painting, he finishes it to find a picture of a sparrow hawk ... to him often, continually gaining in meaning for him. The dream is of the woman who resembles Demian, but she is more feminine, almost motherly. This woman embraces him as he enters his father s house, first passing under the coat of arms which bears the sparrow hawk. The embrace of this woman fills Sinclair with every emotion, whether it is love or hate, sacred or defiled, right or wrong. Too ... me along a path that would transcend and leave even him, the leader, behind. Sinclair finishes boarding school and during his break, before entering university, he returns to his hometown and visits Demian s old house. The old woman that presently lives there is not able to tell Sinclair where the Demian family now resides, but she does show Sinclair an album that contained old pictures of the mother and ...
- 672: Remains Of The Day
- ... with "sir," he is repressing his true identity. Ishiguro makes the reader wonder how on earth a person could get to be like this, for the sole reward of having the best silver in the house or the best-starched suits. The old service culture of butlers in England was destined to change dramatically after the two world wars; by the time Stevens decides to change his lifestyle the old ways ... England" (43). Indeed, Farraday judges the worth of Stevens, and Darlington Hall, according to stereotypical ideals of genuine Englishness. In a moment of panic, Farraday demands of Stevens, "this is a genuine grand old English house, isn’t it?…And you’re a genuine old-fashioned English butler, not just some waiter pretending to be one. You’re the real thing, aren’t you?" (124). The instance in which Stevens is ... taxes, doubtless Stevenswould not only repeat the lies to the media in order to defend his employer, but also make himself "believe" them in order to really be one with the employer, and thus the house. It is not just a job, but an almost holy sense of duty. This parallels Winston Smith’s job in Oceania, which not only requires him to repeat lies into a speakwrite, but to ...
- 673: Civil War
- ... with fellow General Johnston's (Johnston had been dispatched to Virginia after being ordered not to resist the advance of Sherman's Army) forces. Lee chose a small town to the west named Amelia Court House as a meeting point. His escape was narrow; they (the soldiers) could see Richmond burn as they made their way across the James River and to the west. Grant had finally broke through and Richmond ... Godfrey Weitzel who had been place in charge of the occupation of Richmond and taken his headquarters in Jefferson Davis' old residence. When he arrived there, he and Tad took an extensive tour of the house after discovering Weitzel was out and some of the soldiers remarked that Lincoln seemed to have a boyish expression as he did so. No one can be sure what Lincoln was thinking as he sat ... and Lee replied "Strike for your home and fireside" (Freeman, Douglas Southall, R.E. Lee: A Biography, Vol 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935): they did. Rebel forces reached their objective, Appomattox Court House, around 3pm on April 8th. Lee received word that to the south, at Appomattox Station, supplies had arrived by train and were waiting there. However, the pursuing Union forces knew this also and took ...
- 674: Richard Nixon
- ... his law degree from Duke University Law School in 1937. California Republicans persuaded Nixon in 1946 to be their candidate to challenge Jerry Voorhis, the popular Democratic Congressman, for his seat in the United States House of Representatives. He accuses Voorhis of being “soft” on Communism. This was damaging to him because the Cold War rivalry between the United States and USSR was just beginning. Voorhis was forced into a defensive ... as a new member of the United States Congress. He helped establish a program known as the Marshall Plan, in which the US assisted Europe rebuild itself following the war. He also served on the House Education and Labor Committee to develop the National Labor Relations Act. In 1948, writer and editor Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss, a high State Department official, of being a Communist. Nixon, a member of the ... presidency allowed him to withhold documents even if they were demanded by the courts. The public was outraged that Nixon fired special investigator Cox over the question of access to his records. This ordered the House Judiciary committee to look into possible impeachment. Nixon then agreed to produce the withheld documents as a result of the threat, but soon after it was revealed that some tapes were missing. All of ...
- 675: Creative Writing: American Dream
- ... that would revolutionize the computing industry. He kept it secret, only working on it at home. He didn't even tell Kyle about it. But one night, while watching a football game at Joel's house, he discovered that Joel had left his computer on and unprotected. Kyle sat down just to browse around, but upon finding the new program he saw that this could be the key to his new house. Kyle quickly copied the program onto a disk and took the disk with him. The next day at work Kyle took this disk to one of his superiors and by the end of the day Kyle had a new job, car, and house. All Joel had to say was that he was proud of Kyle, and that it was ironic that they were both working secretly on the same idea. They just chuckled and smiled together for ...
- 676: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement
- ... Although, it faded when the college students went home during the summer of 1965, other types of protest that grew through 1971 soon replaced it. All of these movements captured the attention of the White House, especially when 25,000 people marched on Washington Avenue. And at times these movements attracted the interest of all the big decision-makers and their advisors (Gettleman, 54). The teach-ins began at the University ... 25,000 in 1965 to 79,000 in 1966. The antiwar movement grew slowly during this period and so did the number of critics in Congress and the media. A ban on picketing the White House was recommended. Instead, President Johnson and later Nixon combated the picketers through a variety of legal and illegal harassment, including limiting their numbers in certain venues and demanding letter-perfect permits for every activity. (Gettleman ... of the most turbulent years in all of American history. The war in Southeast Asia and the war at home in the streets and the campuses dominated the headlines and the attention of the White House. To make matters worse, 1967 witnessed more urban riots; the most deadly of which took place in Detroit. It was also the year of the hippies, the drugs, and a wholesale assault on morality ...
- 677: 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 ...
- 678: Newfoundland
- ... servants, many of them in the homes on Rennie's Mill Road. Often the work meant long hours of difficult physical labour for low wages and limited freedoms, as defined by the lady of the house. Domestic workers were in a very vulnerable position in the household, reliant as they were on the goodwill of their employers. Sometimes, young women came to the city for the winter, returning to their home ... scrub [the wooden kitchen table] ... until it was as clean as a hound's tooth." Naomi got one night off a week, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. If she returned late to the house, the door would be locked and "you wouldn't get in at all." Most young women married and turned to the care of their own homes or, like Naomi, sought work as domestics in the ... the winter of 1972 after the federal government released the Royal Commission on the Status of Women report. The NSWC ran a Women's Centre from various rented homes in the city before buying the house on Military Road, which opened June 25, 1978. The actual purchase of this property is testimony to the dedication of the women involved. The Council had no money, so 20 women were asked to ...
- 679: The Indians and Losing Their Homes
- The Indians and Losing Their Homes As defined in Oxfords dictionary, home is a house or other dwelling where a person or a family lives; residence. But I believe that a home takes on a somewhat different meaning to that definition. A home is where one feels security, where one is comfortable from whatever it is that surrounds them. One’s home is not the address of your house or the location of your room, it’s the place in the world where one can feel secure and peaceful, not afraid or insecure. People like the Native Americans felt there home was in the ... scolded by his father more often than not. In his sister’s home he feels more free and secure, sitting at the piano and singing war tunes. Here is an example of one’s own house not being his real home. For Brother Vaughn, he couldn’t feel anything but apprehension in his father’s house, so he escaped from that world. He escaped to places like his sisters house ...
- 680: Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls"
- ... between the sexes when this story took place. The time when this story took place was a time when men and women were not equal. Mothers had traditional roles, which usually left them in the house, while men also had their roles, outside of the house. The male was the dominant figure in the house, while the woman had to be subservient. It was an off thing to see my mother down at the barn. She did not often come out of the house unless it was to do ...
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