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- 7911: The John Scopes Trial
- ... The ACLU had chosen Scopes to be the defendant in order to test the constitutionality of the Butler Act. When word got out about the case, the famous orator William Jennings Bryan, also dubbed “The Great Commoner,” decided to offer his services to the prosecution as he saw an opportunity to attack evolution. Bryan, who had also been a major factor in the passing of the Butler Act, was a strong ...
- 7912: Oklahoma City Bombing
- ... that they were all innocent targets affected by the hostility of hate and terrorism. The primary individual responsible for this tragedy is a man named Timothy McVeigh. A 27yr old white man who possed a great hostility toward the government. He constructed a deadly bomb made of fertilizer and fuel oil, placed it in the back of a Ryder truck and drove and parked it at the state building. He was ...
- 7913: Analysis of Animal Farm
- ... Napoleon. Events in Summary: What happened first: The first thing that happened in my book Animal Farm was that the animals over took the Manor Farm. The "revolution," as they called it, was achieved with great ease. Jones had gotten so drunk at a bar that he did not get home until noon and then went to sleep until late that evening. The animal had gone unfed that whole day. Then ...
- 7914: The Political And Religious Wi
- ... one of the central beliefs of those who were Protestant (England at this time was almost entirely protestant), and it was Martin Luther who saw it as a guarantee of the covenant (Roots 191). So great was the adoration of this king that peasants would race out of their cottages to kiss his majesty (Chapman 81). The king even appointed a day, July Twenty-Sixth, in honor over his triumph over ...
- 7915: Fahrenheit 451: A Depleting Society
- ... in Fahrenheit 451 seemed overall boring. No reading, no thinking, and no discussions. A few ways society is progressing toward the society in the book are in the areas of entertainment, religion, and education. The great “parlor walls” in Fahrenheit 451 are probably the next step up from big screen TV. Before the television was invented, and shortly after, it wasn't used very often. People sat around and talked. They ...
- 7916: Young Goodman Brown: Everyone is Capable of Sin
- ... evil is totally turning away from god. By using symbolistic settings, Hawthorne sets characters up to create evil. Using symbolistic settings and leading citizens, Hawthorne says that everybody is capable of sin. Hawthorne wrote a great short story with one distinct message. Everybody commits sins, but not everyone accepts sins.
- 7917: The Fed and Interest Rates
- ... s "tailspin" at this time to, "Rising interest rates at home." It is certainly no coincidence that these two events happened at the same time. Alan Greenspan, the current chairman of the Fed comes under great attack and praise with every move the Fed makes. He is, in a sense, the embodiment of the Fed. He has been in charge of the Fed since 1987. Some economists blame him for the ...
- 7918: My Son's Story
- ... desire for her. His motives are not related to achieving ultimate peace anymore. Clearly the knowledge of Sonny's affair is tearing his family up inside especially his daughter Baby. She is slipping into deep depression, taking drugs and slitting her wrists. This, however, does not matter to Sonny. His family is being ripped from the seams and yet he continues his desire for Hannah, disregarding the pain and anguish he ...
- 7919: The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Isolation and Alienation
- ... up to catch a glimpse of the scarlet letter. After they had eyed it from the window they would “scamper off with contagious fear” (75) as if the scarlet letter burned like fire. Hester's great skill in needlework probably saved her from dying of loneliness because she hadn't “a friend on earth who dared to show himself” (75). And though Hester was most likely the best seamstress in Boston ...
- 7920: Banking And The Economy
- ... a two-second transaction versus an up-to-two-minutes one, and telecommunications costs are saved (Lunt, P., ABA Banking Journal, September 1995, p.46). We can plainly see that there are many factors having great importance, when dealing with the economy. There are many things we must take into consideration in order to make any kind of an informed economic decision. Bibliography Ammer, Christine (1977) Dictionary of Business and Economics ...
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