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- 911: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Views
- ... election may have been sufficient; however, in the creation of a new union and entire new government, bi-annual election would hardly allow for abuse of power. The concern of the oppostion that a beginning House of sixty-five would be too few to adequately manage public interests was answered with the estimation that with population growth, there would probably be two-hundred reps. in twenty-five years, and four hundred reps. in fifty years. In answer to the concern that the House would be too small to be sufficiently respondent to the interests of its constituents, the Federalists maintained that more focus should be on the issues of commerce, taxation, defense, etc., and they believed that one ... as proposed in the Constitution would be under rotation so that one-third is up for election every two years, allowing for a majority of experience, and enabling stability and continuity. The arrangement of the House and Senate as it were, would be effective in impeding passage of bad legislation, as a law must be conccured on by the people (the House) and then a state majority (the Senate). The ...
- 912: The Day The World Ended
- ... his manhood. She is the daughter of a local farming family a few miles down his road. An important comparison can be drawn with Miriam very early in the story. When Paul breaks his sisters doll, he is very upset. This sadness is derived mostly from the grief of his sister. After, he takes the doll, and smashes it, then burning the remains, sacrificing the doll. He hated the doll intensely because he had broken it. This can be seen as a metaphor for his and Miriam s relationship. He hates her because he thinks that he has broken her ...
- 913: The Jungle
- ... They are put in schools. Jurgis and Ona decide that they want a home because they do not like where they are staying now. They arrange to see one of the houses. They like the house and buy it. Although they do not really know what the contract says, Elzbieta signs the contract. At first, Jurgis was pleased with the job but soon learns that corruption, dishonesty, and bribery plague America ... to work at high speeds for long hours with low pay, and so is the rest of the family. He is cheated out of his money several times. Him and Ona find out that their house is 15 years old and not worth what they paid for it. This woman also tells them that they have to pay interest on the mortgage. Jurgis never knew about this. Now they are faced ... been reduced to ruble, and looks worn and unhappy. After two months of waiting, with bills piling up, Jurgis goes back to work to find his job filled by another man. Due to his large house payment and the need to eat, Jurgis takes the worst possible job in Packingtown, the Glue Factory. By this time he has taken to drinking and has started to move further and further away ...
- 914: The Scarlet Letter: Hester Prynne and Adultery
- ... land to a true puritan. However, she cannot escape being affected by that world, for it is all around her, even in the form of her own daughter. When Hester goes to Governor Bellingham's house, we recognize an irony in Hester's environment. "This was a large wooden house
the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed
it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful" (Hawthorne 1211). This does not sound like the house of a Puritan Governor. The irony is that it sounds like a house that Hester belongs in. It's different than the rest - elaborate and daring like her. Hester refuses to let Bellingham take ...
- 915: To Kill A Mocking Bir
- There were many differences between the To Kill a Mockingbird the movie and the book with the same title and story line. One difference was that the movie didn t show Miss Maudie s house getting burned down, and in the book, Miss Maudies house did burn down. Another was the emotional difference between the movie and the book. The third difference was that in the book, the pageant was described, but the movie did not show the pageant. In the book Miss Maudie s house burned down, while in the movie, it didn t. If the movie had shown Miss Maudie s house getting burned down, it would probably have been more interesting. The second difference was in terms ...
- 916: Death Of A Salesman
- They all return to the house. The fully paid for house. The sight of it brings back a slight sob to Linda's throat, when she reaches the cement stoop her sobbing once again becomes full. Charley looks to her but is at a loss for ... is Happy but Happy is just like is father and Biff fears nothing can be done to change the course of life Happy has chosen upon Willy's death. The small grieving party enters the house and each takes a seat in the living room. Linda has gained control over herself again. No one dares to say a word they each sit by themselves accompanied by their own thoughts. Biff' ...
- 917: Slavery and the Underground Railroad
- ... conductors often left a number of signs for the slaves to follow so they didn't go to houses that belonged to allies of the slave owners. A quilt on the clothes line depicting a house with smoke coming out of the chimney was a sign of a safe station. A white ring of bricks around the the top of a house's chimney was another sign of a good hiding spot. Shoppes that were safe often had a silohette of a fleeing man or woman on in sign. Other siggns were used to guide the slaves. There were knocks that slaves used when approaching a house,animal calls, and lights hung in windows. When a slave was moving to the next house along the railroad, this was called "catching the next train." There were also songgs that ave directions to ...
- 918: Case Dismissed
- ... s dead" (185). He indeed finds Mr. Wright upstairs dead by a rope around his neck. The next day they take Mrs. Wright in custody and send a group of people to check out their house for clues. The group includes the sheriff, his wife, Mrs. Hale and Mr. Hale. When they reach the Wright house, the men went upstairs to discuss the murder scene and look for clues. They leave the women downstairs to gather things and to look for clues. The women do indeed find the clues to implicate ... Mrs. Wright was a submissive woman toward her husband. He seemed to be a cruel man who wanted his wife to himself. Her submissiveness was the lead into her husband's murder. All around the house there are examples of her submissiveness to her husband. The first example is the kitchen, which the group entered has a few of those things. The stove for instance in unkept. Mrs. Hale went ...
- 919: Thomas Jefferson
- ... in its present form until a generation later. Jefferson's lifelong emphasis on local government grew directly from his own experience. He served as magistrate and as county lieutenant of Albemarle county. Elected to the House of Burgesses when he was 25, he served there from 1769 to 1774, showing himself to be an effective committeeman and skillful draftsman, though not an able speaker. The Revolutionary Era From the beginning of ... the foreign crisis of 1793, which also caused Jefferson to delay his retirement to the end of the year. Vice President During a respite of three years from public duties, he began to remodel his house at Monticello and interested himself greatly in agriculture, claiming that he had wholly lost the "little spice of ambition" he had once had. He was outraged by Washington's attack on the Democratic societies, which ... title to the presidency was not established for some weeks, because he was accidentally tied with his running mate, Aaron Burr, under the workings of the original electoral system. The election was thrown into the House Of Representatives, where the Federalists voted for Burr through many indecisive ballots. Finally, enough of them abstained to permit the obvious will of the majority to be carried out. Jefferson later said that the ...
- 920: Great Expectations. The Charac
- ... the paper. We will see this now, with the analysis of Estella. The first time which Estella appears in the novel is in chapter 8, in the first visit of Pip to Miss Havisham's house. The first impression Pip has about Estella is also characterized by ambiguity: he thinks she is pretty but she is proud. Miss Havisham obliges Estella to play cards with Pip. The first time which appears ... to the battle of sexes again since during the game Miss Havisham advises Estella to break men's heart and because it takes place before Estella's departure. When Pip goes to Miss Havisham's house for a new visit, Estella has gone abroad for her education. We have to give a jump to chapter 29 for the following appearance of Estella. Nevertheless, in the previous chapter, when Pip is said ... of the way of life she was leading. But it's in the last chapter of the novel when we see the consequence of Estella's decision. Eleven years later Pip meets Estella in Satis House. Pip thinks Estella has lost part of her beauty. Both of them talk and Estella recognizes she has thought about Pip. Due to Drummle's bad treatment, Estella has learnt to value what she ...
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