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- 831: Wang Lung
- ... not capable of earning it alone, and therefore he did not earn it all himself. In the earlier years of his life, Wang Lung was humble man. He had little and he needed little. His house was small and it was made of "great squares of earth dug from their [Wang Lung and his father's] own fields, and thatched with straw from their own wheat." Then O-lan arrived from the great house. She took much of the responsibility that Wang had once had, which gave him more time to work his land and eventually buy more land. When difficult times fell upon the Wang Lung family and ... used to return to his land, it was O-lan's ingenuity in searching out the jewels that made Wang Lung a wealthy man. With these jewels, Wang Lung bought much land from the Great House and he also hired numerous men to work this new land. In his later years, Wang Lung became conceited and egotistical. He believed that he had achieved his wealth and prosperity alone and that ...
- 832: 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 ...
- 833: Serial Murderer Ed Gein
- ... had taken care of his part of the burning and went looking for his brother, but could not find him. Ed organized a search party, but they found nothing. On his way back to the house, Ed found Henry laying on a brush pile, dead. Ed attributed the death to heart attack or smoke inhalation, and the idea of an accident was accepted by all(Hensel). No autopsy was performed but ... vulva, lower vagina, and the anus with the lowest portion of the rectum. To accomplish this, the symhysis pubis had been split and the pubic bone widely separated” (Gollmar 72). Gein was found at his house having just finished supper. He was taken into custody. Now the search of Ed's collection would soon begin. The Gein house was without electricity, so before the search could begin, the authorities were forced to bring in many generators and flashlights. As they searched the house occasionally officers left and became violently ill because of ...
- 834: Maya Angelou's “No Loser No Weeper”
- ... in her life just bought thoughts of suicide. According to Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia most suicides oc-cur when the bonds between an individual and society are broken. She also explains how she lost a “doll once and cried for a week ,the doll could open her eyes and do all but speak”(Angelou 12). This part of the poem reminded us of an incident that happen to her when she was 8 years old. A friend of the ... found dead”(Brown 25). Because of this Angelou stopped speaking and didn’t speak for five years(Brown 25).Even presently she is known not to speak when she is depressed. So she lost her doll and can do everything but speak. This is example in which I believe she was depress. When Angelou comments,“A watch of mine once got up and walked away. I’ll never forget an ...
- 835: Civil War The Color Bearer Tra
- ... Confronted with a major career decision, Whilden elected not only to leave the law but also to leave the Palmetto State for the north. The 1850 federal censustakers found Charles Whilden living in a boarding house in Detroit, Michigan, where he worked as a clerk, probably in a newspaper office. Speculation in copper stocks and land on Lake Superior soon left Charles deeply in debt to his youngest brother, William, who ... South Carolinians had won a reputation for hard fighting on many a bloody field. That reputation was shortly to be put to its sternest test at a strategic Virginia crossroads village known as Spotsylvania Court House. The Fight at the Mule Shoe Following his repulse at the Wilderness on May 5 and 6, 1864, Union General in Chief Ulysses S. Grant ordered the Army of the Potomac to move southeast about 12 miles to the vicinity of Spotsylvania Court House (NPS Web Site), hoping to get between the Army of Northern Virginia and Richmond. General Robert E. Lee, however, was quicker, and elements of the Confederate First Corps arrived at Spotsylvania Court House just ...
- 836: The Crucible
- ... way to satisfy his selfish desires. Parris desired to own property as respected man did in the Puritan community. A way to grant this wish was to obtain the deed to the church, and the house he was given to live in. No pastor in Salem had ever before made a request such as this, and to break the precedent created, Parris used the pulpit as means to attempt to parallel ... major role, whereas Parris does not appear, although he is discussed. Hale seems to be regretting his actions in Act 1 that created the witch-craft frenzy now felt throughout the town. Hale goes from house to house, not with business of the court, but business of his own. As he says himself, "I am a stranger here, as you know. And in my ignorance I find it hard to draw a ...
- 837: Civil War
- ... 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 James River and to the west. Grant had finally broke through and Richmond ... 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 had arrived by train and were waiting there. However, the pursuing Union forces knew this also and took ...
- 838: Everyday Use By Alice Walker
- ... meaning of heritage. Instead of using it to complement her life into the right direction, she puts it on display. For example, when she and her mate come home, they start taking pictures of the house and everything around it. She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me. She never takes a shot without making sure the house is included. When a cow comes nibbling around the edge of the yard she snaps it and me and Maggie and the house. (2243) A second representation of her misunderstanding was when she was ...
- 839: 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. The ... 1795, which settled outstanding American differences with Britain. The treatyâ€"which many Americans felt contained too many concessions to the Britishâ€"touched off a storm of controversy. 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 pugnacity, Washington challenged the propriety of the House tampering with treaty making. His belligerence on this occasion ...
- 840: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby is A Pathetic Character
- ... Gatsby ever did in his whole life was based upon his pursuit of the dream. He moved to New York and bought his very expensive mansion because of Daisy. Jordan Baker said, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay."(Fitzgerald 83) He held many expensive parties in the hope that Daisy might show up at one of them. Jordan said, "I think he half expected ... go mad: """I don't want to do anything out of the way!"" he kept saying. ""I want to see her right next door."""(Fitzgerald 84) At Gatsby's reunion with Daisy at Nick's house, his nervousness shows his inability to handle adult situations. "Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes."(Fitzgerald 91) A mature adult would be able to handle this situation without running around the outside of the house in the rain and then arriving at the front door as if it was just a coincidence. Even in the situation of the reunion with the long lost lover, a mature adult would be ...
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