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- 781: Hammurabi
- ... of silver, but if he fails to cure him, the surgeon will have his hands cut off. More serious ones are like numbers 229, 14 and 3. 229 states that if a builder constructs a house, and that house later collapses killing the owner, the builder shall be put to death. Law 14 states that if a man has stolen a child, he shall be put to death. 3 states that if a man ... 2: "If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused in not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river ...
- 782: Merchant Of Venice
- ... as though Shylock is trying to elevate his own self-esteem, by acting contentious towards his servant. The way in which Shylock treats his own daughter is beyond comprehension. He virtually locks her in the house when he goes to the masque one night. Shylock redundantly enforces the importance that she lock the house up after he leaves. Lock up my doors, and when you hear the drum Clamber not you up to the casements then, Nor thrust your head into the public street But stop my house s ears (I mean my casements). Let not the sound of shallow fopp ry enter my sober house. (Act 2, Scene 5, Lines 30-37) He makes her captive in her own home and ...
- 783: Chinese Kinship Systems
- ... on the ideal of male predominance, is outlined impeccably in the writings of Baker, Watson and Xiaotong. There are also excellent examples of an ideal “jia” and its power structure in Wolf’s ethnography, “The House of Lim”. But Wolf”s ethnography also outlines examples whereby the ideal system of dominance is not always put into practice or is just not as smooth running as the writings of the 3 former ... completely mimic or mirror the ways of an ideal society. What in turn is created, in society, can be termed a “patrilineal modification”. Some examples of this type of modification can be found in “The House of Lim”, which I will turn to shortly. But first I would like to include a patrilineal anomaly that occurs outside of traditional society. This anomaly deals with the possibility of a family conceiving no ... son-in-law from outside of the integral kinship group. Once an agreement has been struck between the affinal and non-affinal parties, then the adopted husband will come and live in his wife’s house with his wife’s parents. Any children that are born into this union will assume the daughter’s parents surname, not his own (Xiaotong, 1983). This example is raised, because in and of itself, ...
- 784: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... political cartoonist, who, financially supported the family.1 Doyle had a pretty rough home life because his father was an alcoholic. As he grew up, Doyle had to take more of the responsibilities around the house into his own hands, because his father was either too sick or drunk to fulfill his daily work at home. Doyle’s mother, Mary Foley, was a homemaker who took care of her son Arthur and his brothers and sisters, and also worked and cleaned the house everyday.2 Doyle’s early education started when he was about seven years old. His mother spent lots of time reading with him and tutoring him, because this is what she thought he needed to become a cultured gentleman. When Doyle was ten years old he left home and went to the Jesuit Preparatory school named Hodder House. This was a boarding school for young boys. Arthur hated this school. Doyle once stated that Hodder House “was a little more pleasant than being confined in a prison.” While attending Hodder House, he ...
- 785: “A Raisin in the Sun”: Struggles
- ... family is in a constant feud about the ten thousand-dollar insurance check which is to be arriving in the mail shortly. Lena Younger, more widely known as mama, achieves her dream of buying a house and immediately puts thirty-five hundred dollars down on a new house and sixty-five hundred into Walter’s care. All hope is lost when Walter loses the money and the family ends up back to where they started, with nothing. Though the money is gone, this lifetime dream of Mama and Ruth is not destroyed. They keep their pride and dignity and contribute to sacrificing their time into working endless hours to keep the house. Ruth says, “Lena—I’ll work… I’ll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago… I’ll strap my baby on my back if I have to scrub all the ...
- 786: Of Mice And Men 4
- ... s home in the stable and they talk. "You got George. You know he s goin to come back. S pose you didn t have nobody. S pose you couldn t go to the bunk-house and play rummy cause you was black. How d you like that? S pose you had to sit out here an read books. Sure you could play horse shoes til it got dark, but then ... aint like that. We got a future. We got someone to talk about that gives a damn about us." " Some day were we re gona get the jack together and were gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an a cow and some pigs and an live off the fatta the lan , Lennie shouted." Curley s wife is probably one of the loneliest characters in the whole story ... only woman on a ranch full of men. The men are so lonely the have sheltered themselves from women and refuse to talk to Curley s wife. She also loves to hang around the bunk-house asking for Curley even when she knows he is not there. She tries to talk to Lennie but he says "If George sees me talkin to you he ll give me hell. Lennie said ...
- 787: Lizzie Borden
- ... 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 ...
- 788: Fahrenheit 451
- ... houses are fireproof, people drive jet cars, and firefighters burn books instead of extinguishing them! Montag was pushed by his curiosity to steal some books before the firefighters burn them and store them in his house. One day, Montag met Clarisse McClellan, one of his neighbors. Clarisse was a 17-year-old girl who had no fear of speaking her mind. "Let's talk about something else. Have you ever smelled ... him, Faber cannot, and they decide to attempt to give Beatty the another book. That night Montag returns to work and succeeds in switching the books, but they fire-station receives a call of a house with books. When the fire fighters arrive Montag realizes that this is his house and the switch failed. The men burn his house and all his belongings. Montag becomes enraged at Beatty and torches him with his flame-thrower. Then the mechanical hound is sent after Montag and ...
- 789: Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
- ... and graduated only in the middle of his class in 1825. Nathaniel had many famous classmates, including, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the (future US President) Franklin Pierce. After graduation, Nathaniel returned to his mother's house on Charter Street in Salem, Massachusetts, and began to write. Nathaniel sequestered himself in her house for the next twelve years. Critics were fascinated with this apparent isolation, and speculated at length of his activities during this time. However, history shows that this "isolation" period was not as reclusive as Hawthorne ... he would not be able to provide a life sufficient enough for Sophia. Through the help of some influential people, he was given the position as a Measurer of Salt and Coal, in the Custom House at Boston. Hawthorne would use many of these experiences at the Custom House in his later writings. Just prior to his marriage to Sophia, he searched for better paying work, and was certain that ...
- 790: Book Report On Of Mice And Men
- ... gave Lennie of his newborn puppies. Lennie was so overjoyed that he stayed out in the barn half the night petting it. While Lennie was in the barn something was going on in the bunk house. Carlson was trying to persuade Candy to let him shoot his dog. Carlson argued that the dog was old, sick and miserable and that ending its suffering would be the best thing to do for ... Candy wearily agreed. So Carlson took the old, weary dog outside put a gun to the back of the dog s head and pulled the trigger. A few minutes later, Lennie returned to the bunk house from the barn. Then he asked George to repeat their dream as he often did. So George began again. When we get enough money we are going to have a little house, a few acres of land, and a few animals. We will be our own bosses and do what we want to do. Candy was still in the room and got very excited at hearing ...
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