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- 791: Wuthering Heights
- Like the world of Transylvania, the Gothic setting in Wuthering Heights suggests a wild and primitive landscape unconstrained by Orthodox norms. The reader is first introduced to Wuthering Heights, the house and its surroundings, as it appears to the middle class, Mr. Lockwood, on a stormy night. Thus, Lockwood serves the same role and Jonathan Harker as he is the bridge between the world of 19th ... species of churlish inhospitality," (WH-p.29) for leaving the gate locked during a storm, Mr. Lockwood is let inside, by a woman whom he thinks is Mrs. Heathcliff. His experience here within this Gothic house in quite unpleasant, paralleling Harker's in the Count's dark castle. While waiting for Heathcliff in silence he notices how the women "kept her eyes on [him], in a cool regardless manner, exceedingly embarrassing ... Thus, the two houses represent opposite morals and values; one presenting calm, the other representing the storm, the typical gothic anarchical symbol. The wild and primitive landscape of Wuthering Heights represents the storminess of the house, and inflicts unorthodox norm on those who inhabit it. Like Dracula who seems an extension of his dark world, Bronte's hero/villain Heathcliff, is clearly as much as a creature of storm, as ...
- 792: Tortilla Flat
- ... soldier home from the War. II. Pilon Lured by Greed III. Pilon's Evil Nature IV. Jesus Maria Corcoran, Vehicle for Evil V. Jesus Maria's Accident VI. Candle for St. Francis of Assisi Starts House on Fire VII. Pirate Drawn-in--Not Robbed VIII. Mystic Treasure - The Grail IX. Vacuum Cleaner Episode X. Paternal Ethics--Corporal's Baby Dies [Helen of Troy-Paris/Criseyde-Diomede/Lancelot-Guinevere] XI. Brutal Solution ... Holy Vision [Grail] XIII. Gang Robs Food for Helpless Woman and Children XIV. Various Acts of Love Thwarted-A Turn to Evilness [Camelot] XV. Devil in the Shape of Torelli [Chronos]; Crime Against Danny's House; Danny Takes Pilon's Shoes XVI. Party at Danny's [Apocalytic-Black Bird Hovers over Danny] XVII. Danny's Friends Depart Alone-Burn 2nd House (Talisman) [Beowulf/Gilgamesh] OUTLINE OF LECTURE: 1. Students each give one point they know about Steinbeck's life. Call on Michael Greene, Dawn Dunaway, Bobbie Seebach, Kristen Dorman, Don Hammons, John Lam. 2. Reading ...
- 793: Problems in Air Traffic Control and Proposed Solutions
- ... and internal union input. NATCA actively lobbies their concerns how ATC reform should occur. James Poole is the Vice President of NATCA's Great Lakes Region. In September of this year, he testified before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's Aviation Subcommittee. He presented an air traffic control system that was "in a state of distress" . He went on to say the numerous equipment outages nationwide is an indicator ... the annual appropriations process. Transportation Secretary Peña transmitted proposed legislation to create the United States Air Traffic Service corporation (USATS) on April 6th. On May 3rd, President Clinton wrote to Senate Republican Leader Dole and House Speaker Gingrich, urging them to enact the USATS legislation now. The FAA says the "now" is critical. They believe the proposed budgets they're seeing would have a drastic impact on the services offered to ... nation's air traffic control system is not just one plan laid out by one person or group. On Capitol Hill, where the final formula will be decided on, there are several bills before various House and Senate committees. Some call for an air traffic control structure that's totally separate from the federal government, another calls for the government to run a quasi-independent ATC system, plan. Whatever the ...
- 794: Bless Me, Ultima
- ... be Rosie's, the local whorehouse. To Antonio, Rosie's tempted his brothers and was the cause of their sins. In one of Antonio's dreams, three figures "silently beckoned" (pg. 65) Antonio into the "house of the sinful women" (pg. 156). Antonio saw his brothers entering and he told Andrew, the last of the three to go in, not to enter. Andrew told Tony that he would wait until Tony lost his innocence and only then would Andrew go into the bordelo. So , to Antonio, seeing Andrew in the "evil house" (pg. 156) was a confirmation of Tony's lost innocence and Tony wanted to stay innocent forever. Another example of the evolution of Tony's sense of good and evil through the utilisation of setting is Tony's own home. To him, his home provided him with warmth and safety. This was due to the people who lived in the house. Antonio's father creates a sense of protection in the home. When Tenorio and his men come to he house to take Ultima away, Tony's father "would let no man invade his home" ( ...
- 795: Celine Dion
- ... it to Rene Angelil, who was a well-known manager in Montreal. Rene was very impressed by the control and strength of her voice, so he agreed to work with her. He even mortgaged his house to pay for the production of her first two albums! In 1981 French songwriter Eddy Marnay wrote La voix du bon dieu (God s voice) for Celine Dion. She added some more songs, and created ... country. Six days later she received a gold record in Quebec for her song Tellement j ai d amour. That same year she released the album Les chemins de ma maison (The paths of my house) in Quebec, and the single mon ami in a quittee (My boyfriend left me) in France. She ended the year with the Christmas album Chants et contes de Noel (Songs and tales about Christmas). In ... s not there (People Weekly March 3, 1997 p73+). Celine and Rene are also trying to have a baby, to make them even more of a family . Celine Dion and Rene are building a new house on Florida s Jupiter Island. The island made the news in 1997 when President Bill Clinton fell and injured his knee after a visit with resident Greg Norman. Celine s new house, which was ...
- 796: Christmas, Retailers, and the Santa Claus Conspiracy
- ... much easier -- "Christ"ianity, "Christ"mas - - what kind of minds are we dealing with?). It's far more likely that their first thoughts will be about buying the perfect gifts, having the most eye-damaging house decorations on the block, or having a hairy old fat man in red underwear arrested for putting their child on his lap and whispering to them to tell him what they "really" want (strangely enough ... to eat his veggies. As I understand it he's supposed to be a fat man wearing red underwear who is capable of sliding down your chimney unharmed in order to quietly slip into your house while you're sleeping. If he really existed I'd be sitting up with a loaded shotgun every Christmas Eve, not dreaming of gifts while this lunatic could be slicing the throats of everyone in my house! And to add to the horror he is said to use "elves" to manufacture "toys" in a little "workshop" in the North Pole. This entire elf story sounds like a softening cover-up fed ...
- 797: Grapes Of Wrath 3
- ... larger more wealthy corporations since his release from prison. The trucker tries to socialize with him at this point but Tom is too absorbed into his own interest in keeping to himself. Arriving at his house with Jim Casey, Tom visits the abandoned house with one corner having been knocked in by a tractor. His family had been compelled to leave their land through repossession by the large corporations another example in Tom's life how the larger are ... sizable impact on Tom's conscience that would lead him to an awakening. After visiting the land the Joad family had lived on for many years Tom and Jim traveled to his uncle John's house nearby. There Tom meets his family as they are making preparations to leave for California. Tom's family has already sold off every valuable possession they own while living under cramped conditions on old ...
- 798: Carbon Dioxide Poisoning
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Imagine that it is the first really cold night of the winter season. You begin to feel a chill in the house so you decide it's time to turn on the furnace. So you get up out of your chair and adjust the thermometer. After a while you notice that it has not really warmed up much in the house. So you decide to check it again just as soon as you get something for this awful headache that just came on. But, as you get up out of your chair you almost fall over ... the warning signs of carbon monoxide, deaths in the home due to carbon monoxide poisoning can be prevented. Sometimes, in a home the hot water supply is low, or the furnace fails to keep the house warm. A natural reaction in any of these situations would be to turn up the tempeture on both appliances. But, did you know that a low supply of hot water, and a furnace that ...
- 799: The Go Between
- ... one of the best houses in the area so the Maudsleys want to live there to rectify their social status. Leo and his mother live in Court Place. His father used to live in the house as well but he died while Leo was young. The name of the house is perceived as being upper class and it is the primary reason that Leo ends up going to Brandham Hall. Marcus assumes that Leo is rich because of the name of his house and thinks it would be suitable for Leo to come and stay at his house and that he might become a good friend. One of these confidences was our respective addresses; he told me ...
- 800: Orestes An Innocent Hero
- ... When his jealous wife Clytaemnestra and his cousin Aegisthus kill Agamemnon, the king of Argos, it is up to his long lost son Orestes, to avenge his death. To the people of Argos and the house of Atreus, Orestes was an innocent hero in yet another chess game played by the gods. Deep into the first story of The Oresteia, better known as Agamemnon, Cassandra, who has been cursed by Apollo ... case was also helped when Apollo came forward and became his witness, and took part of the blame as well. I come as a witness. This man, according to custom, this suppliant sought out my house and hearth. I am the one who purged his bloody hands. His champion too, I share responsibility for his mother s execution. Bring on the trial. You know the rules, now turn them into justice ... beaten them down with sleep. They disgust me. (Aeschylus, 234) There is also a kind of hero aspect, which is branded onto Orestes. Throughout The Oresteia , he is envisioned to be a Moses for the house of Atreus. This is more evident in part two of the trilogy called The Libation Bearers , which takes place several years after Agamemnon s death. Now that Agamemnon is dead, the evil Clyteamnestra and ...
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