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- 761: India 2
- ... the president in government is mostly symbolic and ceremonial, nevertheless the actual executive power dwells on a council of members responsible to the parliament, which is made up of the Council of States and the House of People. The president is elected for a five-year term by an electoral college which consists of the elected members of the national and state legislatures and is eligible for consecutive terms. The House of the People consist of 545 members which are elected by universal adult suffrage, except for a couple members who are selected by the president to represent the Anglo-Indian community. Members of the House of the People normally serve for five years, which is the statutory limit for the duration of the house, but the house may be broken up upon defeat of major legislation which is always ...
- 762: Creative Writing: Huck's Rebellion
- ... of the courtroom with a paper in her hand. She looked at me and smiled as if she had no cares in the world. We left the building and started to walk back to her house. Aunt Sally says to me , “Now that you with me all your old ways are to end”. “You will be starting school soon and I expect you to do as I say”. I turned my ... t think that I will be able to stand it. I knew that I was a free boy, I made up my own rules and nobody was going to sivilize me no matter what! The house came into view after walking for a few miles. I entered first with Aunt Sally walking right behind me. She said , “Tomorrow were are going shopping to buy you some new clothes and shoes”. “The ... it look like a human figure. I looked out the windows to notice that the sun had set and my only source of light came from a candle. I was now ready to leave the house. Before I went I wrote to Aunt Sally to show that I appreciate her helping me. I placed the card under the sheets so that she would find it in the morning. I than ...
- 763: 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 ...
- 764: Rumors
- ... to avoid a possible attempted suicide scandal. They first lie to Charley's personal doctor, they lie about what happened to all of the servants, and they finally about a second gunshot heard in the house. When the Gormans first encounter Charley in his bedroom, they immediately call his personal doctor at the theater to tell him that Charley feels just fine. Chris relates the story to the doctor when she says, "Dr. Dudley, I'm afraid there's been an accident... Well, we just arrived here at Charley's house about ten minutes ago, and as we were getting out of our car, we suddenly heard this enormous... thud... It seemed Charley had tripped going up the stairs... no, wait, down the stairs. Down the ... not have enough money to keep her in service any longer, they will fall of out favor with their friends. For this reason, they find it necessary to fabricate stories to explain happenings in the house. As the night progresses, they consistently dig themselves into a deeper hole of lies. The situation eventually gets terrible when Ken tries to hide the gun so Charley can't find it to shoot ...
- 765: Everyday Use 2
- ... 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 ...
- 766: Robert E. Lee
- ... to Lee that the leader of the gang was called John Brown, a notorious antislavery fanatic from Kansas, who had been unable to rally the slaves to rebellion and was finally besieged in a fire-house. Lee was to lead the United States Marines, to suppress John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry. He asked Brown for his surrender, anticipating that this would not happen. When Brown refused to surrender ... offensive position. On April 9, 1865, realizing that further resistance was a waste of time, he surrendered his near starving, depleted army to General Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander in chief, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. He penned a farewell address to his men and set off the next day to Richmond, where his family had been living since they had abandoned Arlington. His home confiscated, his family impoverished, and ... general factotum. His salary was $125 per month, and he had one secretary to assist him. Nonetheless, Lee set to his task and began writing to other institutions begging for money. Once the President's house was ready, Lee's wife and daughters joined him there. Lee's sons were busy attempting to salvage the family estates, although Arlington was gone forever, forfeited for nonpayment of taxes during the war, ...
- 767: Australia
- ... Governments are paid through income tax. Australian governments at a State and Federal level are run according to the Westminster System, used in England. This means that there are two houses of Parliament, a lower house (The House Of Representatives) and an upper house (The Senate). Decisions put forward and approved in the House of Representatives must then be approved a second time by the Senate. The only exception to this is the Queensland Government, which has only ...
- 768: Creative Writing: Destroying Racism
- Creative Writing: Destroying Racism As the snow covered the house that my grandma occupies, I looked out the window to the neighbor's front door, their mailbox, and the circular driveway they had. It was just another home, where kids could build a snowman or ... family, just like any other. They went on trips in the summer, and spring, and this time came back to a message on the lawn. I sat there that day watching cars go by their house as if it were haunted or something. I guess it can happen anywhere. But this snow-covered house is still a reflection of America, white on top with a hatred burning underneath. I go to a college, where the races meet every day. Colored man helps white man; white man helps colored ...
- 769: Anthem 2
- ... he got scolded for learning faster then his brothers. Equality teachers told him that he had evil in his bones because he was taller then his brothers. Then at the age of fifteen when the house of vocations came Equality was guilty of the great transgression of preference because he wanted to be a scholar, but his selected vocation was to be a street sweeper. Every day while he swept by ... wrote this in the end of the ninth chapter when Equality begins to doubt everything he has learned in the city. The mountains represented a new beginning. In the mountains Equality and Liberty found a house left from the unmentionable times. In the house there are many things they have never seen before like mirrors, light bulbs, a library full of books, and nice clothes. They promise to never leave the house and they claim it as theirs. ...
- 770: George Washington
- ... of tobacco during the 1730s and '40s, combined with his marriage in 1759 to Martha Custis, a young widow with a large estate, made him one of the wealthiest men in Virginia. Elected to the House of Burgesses in 1758, he served conscientiously but without special distinction for 17 years. He also gained political and administrative experience as justice of the peace for Fairfax County. Like other Virginia planters, Washington became ... in Alexandria that adopted the Fairfax Resolves, calling for the establishment and enforcement of a stringent boycott on British imports prior to similar action by the First Continental Congress. Together with his service in the House of Burgesses, his public response to unpopular British policies won Washington election as a Virginia delegate to the First Continental Congress in September and October 1774 and to the Second Continental Congress in 1775. When ... 1795, which settled outstanding American differences with Britain. The treaty—which many Americans felt holded too many compromises to the British—touched off a storm of debate. The Senate ratified it, but opponents in the House of Representatives tried to block appropriations to establish the arbitration machinery. In a rare display of political argument, Washington challenged the propriety of the House tampering with treaty making. His unfriendliness on this occasion ...
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