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- 681: The Anti-Vietnam 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 ...
- 682: Government In The Usa
- ... The President is the effective head of the executive branch of government, head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. The Cabinet is appointed by the President. Its seat is the White House in Washington. In November of each leap year (next 2000) a President is elected to serve for exactly four years from a fixed day in the following January. The four-year rhythm has never been ... number of the people's votes receives the whole electoral college vote for the state, no matter how small the majority is. Congress The Congress is a bicameral instituion, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Its job is to make the laws work. The relationship between the President and Congress is one of working together and checking on each other. The Senate The Senate embodies the federal nature ... elected at separate elections, for example, one in November 1984 to serve for 1985-91, the other in 1986 to serve for 1987-93; and each senator is elected by and for a whole state. House of Representatives The House of Representatives has a fixed number of seats (435), and each state has one seat for every 1/435 share that it has of the whole U.S. population. Every ...
- 683: Personal Writing: My Dog Skippy
- ... like a Gray hound chasing the rabbit at a race track. One time my mom took Skippy along to Golden on one of her visits to her chiropractor. He ran his business out of his house that sat on a fairly large piece of land. My mom felt it would be OK to let Skippy run around the chiropractors land while she took her appointment. Later that evening my mom came to pick me up at my friend's house. When I got in the truck she told me Skippy never came back after her appointment. As we drove back to Golden to see if my dog returned I remember thinking I would trade anything if I could only have my dog back. As we neared the house I saw Skippy in our head lights waging his tail like an angel. When my parents decided to get divorced they wanted to sell our house and move to separate apartments. I didn't ...
- 684: Richard M. Nixon
- ... to Quakerism. Frank and Hannah's first son, Harold, was born in 1909, only a year after they were wed. In 1908, Frank bought a lemon ranch in Yorba Linda, CA, and built a small house there. Then, on January 9, 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon was born in that very house. Hannah and Frank would have three more children: Donald (born in 1914), Arthur (born in 1918), and Edward (born in 1930). The Nixon family lived on the edge of poverty. The lemon ranch didn't ... assigned to the labor committee. It was through this committee that Nixon met John F. Kennedy. Kennedy and Nixon both had different ideas, but they respected each others opinions. Nixon was also assigned to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). In June 1948, he was reelected without opposition. On July 5, 1948, the Nixon's second daughter, Julie, was born. That fall, Democrat Harry Truman was elected president. Unfortuna- ...
- 685: Personal Writing About My Mother and Her Stay In the Hospital
- ... get out of bed for a long period of time. When she was finally able to get out of the bed, she had to use a wheel chair. Once she was able to leave the house, the family started to look for a new place to live. We couldn't stay in the house we were living in because of the damamge to my mothers ankle. She would never again be able to walk up the steep stairs in the old house. We eventually found a house in Landisville, were we currently reside. My mother did as much as she could to get the house straightened up, with the help of a few very nice friends. ...
- 686: Obidiah
- ... 1:15). Here the tables are turned; Edom is now the recipient of all she has given in the past. From here on Jerusalem is seemingly seen or referred to in the masculine sense, ¡§the house of Jacob shall be a fire, the house Joseph a flame; but the house of Esau shall be like stubble¡¨; (Obad 1:18). ¡§And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.¡¨ For the Lord has spoken! The climax of Obadiah¡¦s ...
- 687: Fanny Emerges Victorious Simpl
- ... her cousins astray. It is Fanny who sees that Henry is trifling with Maria and Julia and she, as well as Edmund who is scandalised by the sketch of Mary s years at the Admirals house. Chapter 22: Fanny, having been sent into the village on some errand by her aunt Norris, was overtaken by a heavy shower close to the Parsonage ; and being descried from one of the windows endeavouring ... to come in. A civil servant she had withstood; but when Dr. Grant himself went out with an umbrella, there was nothing to be done but be very much ashamed, and to get into the house as fast as possible.[ ] The two sisters were so kind to her, and so pleasant, that Fanny might have enjoyed her visit could she have believed herself not in the way, and have could have ... is a pity, cried fanny, that the custom should have been discontinued. It was a valuable part of former times. There is something in a chapel and chaplain so much in character with a great house, with one s ideas of what such a household should be! A whole family assembling regularly for the purpose of prayer is fine! Fanny s relationship with Edmund is unswerving. At the beginning it ...
- 688: Return To Oneness
- ... which the doppelganger is destroyed, echoes Poe¡¯s belief that death is the return of spirit to unity and that this return to unity parallels a grand universal consistency. Another tale, The Fall of the house of Usher, is most readily intelligible as a fable of the split personality. The fissure which ran down from the top of the mansion to the bottoms and which the visitor first noticed when he approached to it is a manifestation that the dissolutionary seed has sprouted. In this decaying house lived Roderick and Madeline. The sister was so ill that the brother buried her alive and put the coffin away in one secluded part of the house. On a tempestuous night, the sister crept out and died in the embrace of his brother, who then also died. Roderick and his sister¡¯s deaths are simultaneous, and soon after this takes place ...
- 689: Streetcar Desire
- ... and libidinous way of life]: Piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers exchanged the land for their epic debauches, to put it mildly, 'til finally all that was left - and Stella can verify that! - was the house itself and about 20 acres of ground, including a graveyard, to which now all but Stella and I have retreated. She defiantly thrusts the papers of her family estate at Stanley: Here they are. All ... relationship with her. He prefers instead to retreat to his dependency with his mother: No, I don't think I want to marry you anymore...No, you're not clean enough to bring into the house with my mother. She covers his mouth, pushes him away and starts screaming hysterically, sending him running into the street. An inquisitive crowd gathers around the tenement. She retreats into the past, the darkness of the house and the shattered pieces of her fantasy world - she also closes all the shutters on the windows. A policeman knocks on the door of the Kowalski residence to investigate, but she assures him that ...
- 690: Events of The 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 ...
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