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- 721: Everyday Use
- ... from inheritance. The mother (or protagonist) describes the yard as being comfortable than most people know. She says, "It is like an extended living room." (351) Another prized possession of the family was the first house that they lived in. Apparently they felt comfortable living there, because when it was burned in a fire they moved to another one that was almost identical. Contrary to her mother and Maggie, the oldest daughter Dee, hated the house and the environment they lived in. The mother mentions in the story how Dee acted like she wanted to do a dance around the house while it was on fire. The mother also was sure that Dee would like the new house when she sees it as she states, " No doubt when Dee sees it she will want to ...
- 722: Civil War 3
- ... 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 JamesRiver and to the west. Grant had finally broke through and Richmond and ... 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 hadarrived by train and were waiting there. However, the pursuing Unio forces knew this also and took a ...
- 723: The Odyssey Report
- ... He address menelaos as "my lord" to give reverence to his kindness and to be polite. Telemachos is very complimentary to his host by saying "Zeus must have such a place" when referring to menelaos' house. He does this to let him know that he will be a good guest and that he is a proper gentleman. Menelaos shows that he to can be a good host and gives Telemachos food ... and leaned hard on it from above and turned it round and round". This is the punishment Polyphemos receives for his being a bad host. However Odysseus also receives a punishment for entering into Polyphemos' house without permission and being a bad guest. His punishment is the great loss of men which he receives, his quick evacuation of the island, and the anger he brings to Poseidon; which causes him to have the suitors come to his house and reek havoc in his kingdom. The final example of a guest-host relationship in which both the guest and host act unaccordingly is Odysseus and the suitors. Odysseus reaches his home and finds ...
- 724: Lizzie Borden 2
- ... earlier. The home had been locked up as usual, the maid Bridget Sullivan-an Irish immigrant, 26, that had been working at the household since 1889-was washing windows, and daughter Lizzie was inside the house reading a magazine. Even if both were involved for some reason in this shocking crime, what became of the blood so conspicuously missing from the bludgeoned corpses? Furthermore, the prosecution never proved the weapon was an axe. When Officer Mullaly asked if there were hatchets in the house, Lizzie replied with, "Yes, they are everywhere." Bridget and Mullaly went down to the basement and found four hatchets: one rusty claw-headed hatchet, two that were dusty, and one that had dried blood and ... to inform the court of their choice. Lizzie was legally free, but in the public's opinion, she was still guilty. After the acquittal, Lizzie legally changed her name to Lizabeth, moved out of the house on 92 Second Street. Emma and Lizzie inherited $200,000.00 each from their father's death; their first purchase was a lovely home on The Hill at 7 French Street, the most fashionable ...
- 725: Barbie
- ... company Mattel with her husband, understood that pretending how the future would be was part of growing up for kids. She did some research and found that there was room on the market for a doll like Barbie. Mattel had been making lots of toys before Barbie but when Ruth said that she wanted them to make a small doll for kids all the men in the staff had their doubts. Many different designs were done before the first Barbie was introduced on the 9th of march 1959. Barbie was named after Ruths daughter. Barbie was then a teen-age fashion model who was very different to the dolls the kids played with at that time. The buyers were at first skeptical to the doll but when Mattel started to make tv-commercials to reach out to the buyers it was an instant hit. Barbie is still the most popular fashion doll ever created. That is because she is ...
- 726: Mother/Daughter Relationships in Beloved
- ... a young Sethe her identifying mark. The one encounter Sethe remembers with her mother begins the cycle and gives her the first feeling of perceived abandonment. ...picked me up and carried me behind the smoke house. Back there she opened up her dress front and lifted her breast and pointed under it. Right on her rib was a circle and a cross burnt right in the skin. She said, This is ... At this point of the novel Sethes future seems to be set. She has her life in total perspective. Denver even begins to come around to the idea of having a man in the house. After the carnival, On the way home the...shadows of three people still held hands (Morrison 49). The three people were Denver, Sethe and Paul D. They looked like a real family. Soon after Beloved ... to the rocking chair down by the fire place. Then he moves to Baby Suggs bed. Next he moves to the storeroom and the cycle continues until he finally is moved outside to the cold house. It is in the cold house that he realizes that the moving was involuntary. He [Paul D]wasnt being nervous; he was being prevented. So he waited. Visited Sethe in the morning; slept ...
- 727: Jane Eyre
- ... places an advertisement as a governess. She gets one reply, from Mrs. Fairfax at Thornfield Hall. Jane becomes a governess there for Adele a little orphan and ward of Mr. Rochester, the master of the house. Mr. Rochester isn't home and there are strange things going on in the house. Many days pass away. One day when Jane goes out to the village to post a letter, she meets a horseman with his dog. The horse falls and the man is hurt and Jane helps ... cousin and that she has inherited a fortune from her deceased Uncle John. Jane wants to share it with her newfound relatives so that they need no longer be governess and come home to Moor house. For some months they all live quietly together. St. John Rivers, a cold man, wants Jane to be his wife. Not for love but he wants her to take to India, where he will ...
- 728: Black Pawn: White Pawn
- ... favor. The town officials had accepted every word poured from their mouth as the truth. Again Abigail made a devious move. Mary Warren, one of Abigail's pawns, was sent to give Goody Proctor a doll. A doll resembled a talisman of anyone the owner of the charm wished to inflict pain on. Cheever, an official of the court, later showed up at the Proctor's door with a warrant for Elizabeth's arrest. Abigail had blamed her for attempted murder by use of a doll. Abigail had made a sacrifice of one of her pawns to take out Goody Proctor. Abigail had punctured herself with a needle. Mary Warren, in her confession, had not mentioned Abigail's scheme of ...
- 729: Equality
- ... freedom. He is a a strong, tall young man who stands about six feet. However, in this society, anyone who is six feet tall was considered to be evil. His dream of going to the House of Scholars is lost and he is sent to the Hose of Street Sweepers instead. Here the rules are very strict. He is not allowed to laugh or sing for any reason. These are a ... in the pond also help him to believe in himself as a strong individual. Equality later realizes that he has commited sins as he was growing up. He thinks by showing his invention to the House of Scholars that he would be forgiven for his wrongdoings. He hopes to show his invention to society and find a way into the House of the Scholars. He also wants to prove that being tall does not make you an evil individual. He feels that he has sinned because he was sent to the Palace of Corrective Detention ...
- 730: Restore the Emperor Expel the Barbarians: The Causes of the Showa Restoration
- ... Japanese Politics (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1980) 113. Footnote6 Edwin O. Reischauer Japan Past and Present (Tokyo: Charles Tuttle Company, 1987) 170-171. Footnote7 Karel van Wolferen The Enigma of Japanese Power (New York: Random House, 1990) 375-376. During the Meiji Restoration Japan saw its mission to be to catch up with the already industrialized Western powers. Footnote8 Edwin O. Reischauer Japan Past and Present (Tokyo: Charles Tuttle Company, 1987 ... in 1889. It set up a British type parliament. The constitution did not provide the parliamentary government with power over the military branch. Footnote14 Karel van Wolferen The Enigma of Japanese Power (New York: Random House, 1990) 38. At the turn of the century Japan had started its colonizing effort in China and other parts of Asia. It was these efforts at Colonization that developed into the Russo-Japanese War (1904 ... Princeton University Press, 1966) 270-280. Footnote19 Tetsuo Najita Japan The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1980) 128. Footnote20 Karel van Wolferen The Enigma of Japanese Power (New York: Random House, 1990) 380-381. In her Book Karel van Wolferen writes, "The Success of the Meiji oligarchy in stimulating economic development was followed by a further great boost for Japanese industry deriving from the First ...
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