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- 501: Euthanasia: The Right to Die
- ... Candy looked a long time at Slim to try to find some reversal. And Slim gave him none. At last Canady said softly and hopelessly, "Awright -- take aim." " A day later Candy is talking with George and Lennie, and he says that he wishes that when the day came that he was no good to himself anymore just like his dog had been, that someone shoot him. Of course the most ... at the end of the novel. Lennie who is fond of things that are soft to touch is stroking Curly's wife's hair. He becomes carried away and breaks her neck and kills her. George, fearing Lennie's life, takes his gun and runs into the bushes with him. As the dogs and the men from the farm run after them George realizes that when they catch Lennie they would either torture him, or send him to a mental hospital. George knows that would just kill Lennie. So George takes his gun and kills Lennie with ...
- 502: Euthanasia: The Right to Die
- ... Candy looked a long time at Slim to try to find some reversal. And Slim gave him none. At last Canady said softly and hopelessly, "Awright -- take aim." " A day later Candy is talking with George and Lennie, and he says that he wishes that when the day came that he was no good to himself anymore just like his dog had been, that someone shoot him. Of course the most ... at the end of the novel. Lennie who is fond of things that are soft to touch is stroking Curly's wife's hair. He becomes carried away and breaks her neck and kills her. George, fearing Lennie's life, takes his gun and runs into the bushes with him. As the dogs and the men from the farm run after them George realizes that when they catch Lennie they would either torture him, or send him to a mental hospital. George knows that would just kill Lennie. So George takes his gun and kills Lennie with ...
- 503: Civil War - Gettysburg
- For five days Jackson had looked on Washington spread before him with the Dome of the Capitol in sight from his headquarters on the Georgetown Pike near 7th Street. Lee having recovered sufficiently from his wounds had resumed command of the army but ... a peaceful settlement to the War. Lincoln left the Capital for Canada, reluctantly, following pressure from Cabinet to avoid possible capture by the advancing Confederates who seemed unstoppable as the Union forces in and around Washington disintegrated into a disorderly rabble. Following his heroic retreat from Gettysburg Howard had been promoted to Lieutenant-General and assumed command of the defenses of Washington superseding Major-General S.P.Heintzelman who had very little combat experience. Howard had about 55,000 men but very little control and desertions were whittling this force away hourly. The Federal army was ...
- 504: The Dark Half
- ... They would be skeptical until they witnessed something themselves. Finally, he began to believe, but not until about three-quarters of the way through. Even then, he wasn't sure. Other similar things happened too. George Stark, the "villain" of the story, was Thad's penname come to life. Stephen King made that seem possible with his explanation that Thad had a brain tumor when he was a child. It was not, however, a normal brain tumor. The doctor removed an eye, some teeth, some fingernails, and parts of a nose. These pieces were what George Stark was. When Thad Beaumont stopped writing novels under the name George Stark, Something happened to the pieces and they began to grow into a person. The part of the story that could have been better was the fact that it is exactly like every other ...
- 505: Babe Ruth 3
- On February 6, 1895, George Herman Ruth, Jr., was born in his grandparents house in Baltimore, Maryland. Ruth as a young child. Ruth s dad worked as a bartender and owned his own bar. They spent very little time with George because they worked long hours. Eventually, his parents felt that they couldn t take care of George, and on June 13, 1902, he was taken to St. Mary s Industrial School for Boys. His custody was also signed over to the Xaverian Brothers, a Catholic Order of Jesuit Missionaries who ran ...
- 506: Isolationism
- ... insulate itself from European involvement. This tendency toward isolationism is clearly shown in treaties to resolve outstanding differences with European countries, territorial acquisitions, attempts to maintain neutrality in European struggles and broad policy statements by Washington and Monroe. Several treaties were established to resolve outstanding differences with European countries, which displayed the clear intention for isolation. Jays Treaty of 1794 was made by John Jay, the chief justice at the ... the new Congress at the time) urged for war and Madison was finally pressured into the War of 1812. U.S. efforts of neutrality were thus aimed towards isolation, but were unsuccessful for most parts. Washington and Monroe, two preeminent presidents, made policy statements conveying the importance of cautious efforts in world affairs. Washingtons Farewell Address, which was made at the end of this presidency, was prepared with the assistance of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. Although written ostensibly to guide future generations, the address actually set ...
- 507: Van Gogh
- ... the medium of sculpture is solids, the medium of music is sound and the medium of painting is color." Appreciation of art is the understanding, the awareness, the sensitivity to the work of the artist."(George, Lauren Kane) Vincent Van Gogh was indeed a brilliant artist. His work influenced and inspired many people. He tried to express his feelings through his paintings. Van Gogh once said, "there is nothing in the ... dusty, country road, careering his box of brushes, his bright colored paints in their tubes, his yellow folder of paper, his easel, the canvas on which he paints and his folding stool."(Luchner, Laurin and George Kaye) He would then start to paint what ever he felt like at the time. Through out his travels, he was continually painting, what he saw, experienced and his feelings about life. One picture the he drew was "a bridge over the lazy Rhone River."(Luchner, Laurin and George Kaye 57) Which he used to cross every morning to go to church. The picture was a drawbridge that went up and down so that the boats could go under it. Van Gogh would ...
- 508: The ABA and the Government
- ... GAO legislative staff monitors congressional and executive branch developments of interest to the organized bar and informs the constituencies within the bar about these developments. The GAO publishes and distributes two publications: the bi-weekly Washington Summary, which abstracts the Congressional Record and the Federal Register to highlight congressional action on legislation and proposed rules and regulations of federal agencies of interest to bar entities; and the monthly Washington Letter, which provides in-depth discussion of major governmental activities and legislation affecting the legal profession, as well as details of ABA involvement in the policymaking process. The GAO staff also sends out periodic memoranda ... and Governmental Priorities for the Association based on a survey of bar leaders conducted by the Governmental Affairs Office. Click here to access in-depth profiles of the ABA's 1999 Legislative and Governmental Priorities. Washington Letter The ABA's monthly newsletter reporting on and analyzing congressional and executive branch action on legislation of interest to the organized bar and the legal profession. Washington Summary The ABA's bi-weekly ...
- 509: The Great Gatsby - Male And Fe
- ... the interactions between male and female characters, Fitzgerald depicts a variety of social expectations regarding "typical" male behavior in the 1920's. In the novel The Great Gatsby, characters such as Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, George Wilson and Nick Carraway demonstrate behavior that acts to maintain and live up to expectations inherent in society. Through their controlling ways, these characters strive to define the "typical" man in the 1920's. The ... s depicted in The Great Gatsby is the notion that a "real" man should be in control of the woman in his life at all times. This notion is exemplified through the struggling relationship between George and Myrtle Wilson. Although Fitzgerald describes George as "one of these worn-out men...He was his wife's man and not his own." (144), a need for control takes over George when he discovers his wife had "some sort of ...
- 510: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall: Ellen Weatherwall
- ... was characterized by her beauty and delicacy. She is a prize to be claimed by a worthy man. She dreams of getting married and living happily ever after. She depended too much on one man. George is to give her his name, but if not chaos is to come again.: Such a fresh breeze blowing and such a green day with no threats in it. But he had not come, just ... But a whirl of dark smoke and covered it, crept up and over into the bright field where everything was planted so carefully in orderly rows. (Porter, 126) After she invests all her emotions in George, she is painfully denied when she loses. When the man she loves fails to marry her, he betrays her trust. He made her stand in front of the public with her white dress and be ... also keeps her love letters a secret to her children. She does not want them to see how silly she once was. (DeMouy, 47) On her deathbed she painfully tries to forget the memory of George. She imagines that she tells her daughter to give a message to him. She wants him to know that he is forgotten. Also, in spite of the jilting, she has a home, husband, and ...
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