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- 811: How to TP
- How to TP One dark, cold night I set out on a mission. My friend, Jaman, and I were walking down my street looking for a good house to TP. As we were walking, we met some girls who were also looking for a good house to TP. Together we had eighty rolls of toilet paper. Jaman and I always used to TP until my mom found out. We became so good that we could use five rolls and it would look like we had used ten. The three things to remember before TPing are how to pick a good house, when to go, and how to throw and or wrap the toilet paper. The first thing to learn before TPing is how to pick a good house. The best houses have lots of trees ...
- 812: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... economic help wasn't enough, the wanted to do more. Eleanor was among those sensitive, caring women. She and her friend, Jean Reid, taught classes on Manhattan's Lower East Side, at Rivington Street Settlement House. Jean played the piano, and Eleanor gave calisthenic and fancy dancing to the daughters of Jewish and Italian immigrants. She soon joined another reform group, the Consumers League. It investigated working conditions on young, female ... children working at tables until they dropped from fatigue. In the summer of 1902, Eleanor ran into her fifth cousin, once removed, on the train she was taking to get to her grandmother's country house near Tivoli. Her and Franklin D. Roosevelt chatted for the rest of the train trip. After that they started seeing each other all over. During the Christmas holidays 1902, Franklin invited her have lunch with him in New York. In 1903, New Year's Day, they saw each other again at the White House. During her absences in England, her uncle Theodore Roosevelt was elected vice-president to William McKinley. Only months later, McKinley was assassinated, and Theodore became president. So both Franklin and Eleanor being Roosevelts, they ...
- 813: The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- ... agrarian ferment largely subsided" (Barck 21). The end of the old era could now begin. It is ironic that McKinley's presidency ended in assassination, for without the sudden change of leadership in the White House in 1901, the transformation undergone by the United States may have appeared as gradual as it was intended to be. McKinley was president over the "closing years of the nineteenth century, marking] the end of ... much in the way of genuine learning skills at such an early age, Roosevelt, in a sense, "slept through [the war]" (Hagedorn 11). In another sense, he did not. Theodore Roosevelt was born into a house of strikingly opposite leaders. His father was a large, cheerful, powerful man, who tended to be joyful and move quickly. It is safe to say Theodore Roosevelt, junior, received his stature from the man bearing ... disarray of sorts as war broke out. TR, Senior was a Lincoln Republican and desired strongly a chance to fight, however his wife, her sister, and her mother, all staunchly confederates, resided in the same house. To compromise, TR, Senior hired someone to fight for him and served the army in a civilian sense. TR, Junior has always been known as a staunch militaristic man. Although his father was, in ...
- 814: The Watergate Scandal
- ... 1). Shortly thereafter, John W. Dean III told Cox and the Ervin Committee that the President had known of the cover-up and deliberately denied any knowledge of the break-in. Later, a former White House staff member, Alexander Butterfield, claimed that Nixon had secretly tape-recorded all of the conversations that occurred in his executive offices. Once Special Prosecutor Cox discovered this, he and the Ervin Committee tried to relinquish ... in danger of losing his job. He persisted in his struggle to obtain the tapes. On March 1, 1974, the federal grand jury indicted seven men. Of the seven of the accused conspirators were White House staffers, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and White House special counsel Charles Colson. They were indicted on a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice. (Watergate Scandal 2). President Nixon finally released edited transcripts of the conversations in the Oval Office. Judge Sirica was ...
- 815: Ted Bundy
- ... also physically mistreated animals including the family pet. Ted's grandmother suffered from depression. It got so bad that she was eventually treated with electroshock therapy. She also suffered from agoraphobia and never left the house. When Ted was three years old, his Aunt, age 15, said she awoke to find him slipping butcher knives into the bed beside her under the covers. She told him to leave and took the ... He also held a part-time job and made excellent grades. Ted just dated once during high school and was described as shy. It was around this time that Ted began sneaking out of the house and peeping into windows. He became a "Peeping Tom." He occasionally disabled a woman's car to make her more vulnerable, without actually doing anything to her(Time Life). He found these behaviors sexually arousing ... needed help to carry his books or load up his car. In July of 1974 though, he was able to convince a young woman to help him load a sailboat up at his parent's house. The girl was never seen again. That same day he abducted an 18 year old secretary while at a park. Ted had now abducted two people in broad daylight using his real name. People ...
- 816: The Use of The Second Amendment In The Home
- ... hide a weapon. For home defense, the shotgun is more effective with its wide blasting stopping power, while a handgun has to be aimed exactly on target. A big problem with keeping guns in the house is the curiosity and ignorance of children. Children are more capable of finding guns than they are given credit for. "Children under the age of 15 suffer approximately one-third of the deaths caused by ... hit by a rock, a nail, or being thrown into the fireplace. Children are unpredictable and they do not know the effect of a gun on themselves or their friends. Having a gun in the house can also be dangerous because of temperament, rage, and impulse because murder is usually a crime of passion. "If you or someone in your family has a hot temper that leads to rather violent reactions ... a criminal because most will leave at the sound of an alarm to avoid getting caught. The police can also be alerted with some systems so a burglar will probably go to another, less troublesome house. "Now there are all kinds of options available, including automatic dialing machines to alert a central monitoring station or the police" (Cox, 70). Neighborhood watch is a very effective means of security. In neighborhood ...
- 817: Franklin Delino Roosevelt
- ... would grow certain kind of crop it quickly drew many farmers back to their fields to regain their old way of life. The only way president Roosevelt was able to influence these programs through the house of representatives and the senate was the fact that he had become such a popular president that much of the popularity carried over to members of his own democratic party and at this time the ... know as polio, to todays standard the disease is all to curable but it left him with a bad legs. Roosevelt loved the out door and because of this he built a eight thousand dollar house in the town of Warm Springs, Georgia. This is where he spent much of this time in last years. So much so that the house quickly became known as the little white house. When he first moved to Warm Springs he fell in love with the mineral rich water that still flows to this day at an even eighty- ...
- 818: Adolf Hitlers Life And Times
- ... had been transferred to Linz the year before so everything was going well for young Adolf. After a year of living without dad the Hitler family moved to Hafeld where Alois Sr. had purchased a house. A month after his arrival Hitler entered the little county school at Fischlam bei Lambach on May 1, 1895. On June 25, 1895 Alois retired at 58 to a life of leisure and beekeeping. Now ... January 21, 1896 Klara gave birth to a daughter Paula, so Hitler was "thereby pushed farther out of babyhood and along the road which would make him a miniature adult." The five children in the house became more and more of a strain on Alois Sr.; his moods became more irritable and he was constantly angry at everyone. Alois Jr. was the first one to snap, then leave home. He moved ... in Berlin which was a regular hangout for Nazi party leaders, although Adolf wouldn't even allow the mention of Alois' name in his presence. When Alois left home, Hitler became the man of the house and therefore received the brunt of his father's anger. Although Alois Sr. never struck Adolf, his anger was a tremendous emotional strain on him. In July 1897 the Hitlers moved out of Hafeld ...
- 819: ABRAHAM LINCOLN One Of The Gre
- ... leader of the Whig party. September 9th, 1836 Lincoln receives his law license and in June of 1840 he argues his first case before the Illinois Supreme Court. After being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, he delivers a speech on the floor of the House against President Polks war policy regarding Mexico. In March of 1849 he makes an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the Illinois statute of limitations, but is unsuccessful and leaves politics to practice ... of widening the political and social gap between North and South and took the nation closer to the brink of Civil War. Lincoln is nominated to be the Republican senator from Illinois and gives the House Divided Speech at the state convention in 1858. “We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery ...
- 820: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... encounter with Red Sammy Butts serves as another way O'Connor expresses how trust and respect have begun to wear away. The grandmother makes the mistake of telling the children the story of a nearby house that has a secret panel. The children scream until the father, Bailey, gives in and takes them to see the house. On the way down the long windy road that leads to the house, the cat gets out of his cage and jumps on Bailey's shoulder, resulting in the car being overturned. As everyone is getting themselves together, a car with three men approaches. The grandmother recognizes ...
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