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- 201: Psychological Origins Of Frank
- ... she was sixteen, Mary returned to London. Sometime later she and Shelley became lovers, despite the objections of Mary's parents and Shelley's wife Harriet. They eloped to Paris taking Mary's half-sister Jane with them. The trio then traveled to Switzerland, where Mary became pregnant and Jane and Percy became lovers. They soon returned to England to find themselves mired in scandal. Mary soon gave birth to a daughter, Clara, who died two weeks later. Mary threw Jane out of her home. Jane, who had changed her name to Claire and had begun to pursue Lord Byron, invited Percy and Mary to accompany her and Byron to Switzerland. There, the four spent ...
- 202: Henry VII
- ... direction, he grabbed the sword and beheaded her before she knew what was happening. The people, like I, were very pleased with the execution, though for different reasons. DATE: October 12th, 1537 My dear wife Jane has bore me a son today. He will be Christened Edward. I am tremendously happy. London has gone wild with excitement. I am so ecstatic, as now I have a son – an heir to the ... Lord has lifted the curse on me. I held up my tiny son for all to see, and I wept with joy. Amongst all of this excitement today, I have forgotten somewhat of my Queen Jane. She is ill with fever and is now becoming delirious. The midwives are gravely concerned. I am very worried over Jane, for I do love her. DATE: June 22nd, 1543 The ‘eternal’ peace has not lasted for long, less than twenty years – though twenty years in politics is eternity! A year ago I made a ...
- 203: Henry VIII
- ... of the Church of England. In 1536, Henry accused his second wife, Anne Boleyn of adultery, so Henry then executed her. A few days after that, he married a young woman by the name of Jane Seymour. Jane Seymour, Henry's third wife, was the mother of Henry's only legitimate son, Jane Seymour died after bearing this certain child. Edward the VI was Henry's only legitimate son. A couple of years after Jane Seymour had died, Henry decided to marry once again. He married a ...
- 204: Pride And Prejudice
- Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice portrays its characters in many different lights. There is a wide range of backgrounds and personalities of the people within the novel and also a wide range of character development ... speaking, she has a lot to offer such as musical talent and a wide array of knowledge. However, being unsociable, she has never been in any situation to show off her good traits. The point Jane Austen is making by using Mary as a flat character is that nothing can be gained by sitting around and being dull and unsociable. Life and everything that is exciting will pass you by before getting what is desired if no action is taken to enjoy it. Jane Austen’s use of flat characters is very important in Pride and Prejudice. Flat characters portray images of characters leading dull and boring lives, being miserable in marriage, not getting what is desired from ...
- 205: The US Monetary Policy
- ... 20%, the $20 billion of reserves can sup-port $100 billion of deposits in the banks. The banking system is thus, fully loaded up. Panel 1 also shows the financial position of a private citizen, Jane Q. Jane has assets of $5 billion, and a net worth of $5 billion as well. Now, imagine that the Fed sells $5 billion in government securities to Jane. Jane pays by writing a check to the Fed, drawn on her bank. The Fed then reduces the reserve account of the bank by $5 billion. The balance sheets of all participants are in ...
- 206: Pride And Prejudice
- Throughout Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the conflict between reason and emotion is conveyed through the marriage of several different characters. In the marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, it is quite clear that the two ... who is not only of a lower social class, but more importantly he assists a man whom he abhors vehemently. The marriage between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy is without a doubt the ideal marriage for Jane Austen. The joining of these two people exemplifies how Austen was in favor of marrying for love and nothing else, regardless of wealth and outward compatibility. Austen illustrates the importance of love and respect in ... effort to avoid each other. Elizabeth "can never quite become reconciled to the idea that her friend is the wife of her comic monster. And that, of course, is precisely the sort of idea that Jane Austen herself could never grow reconciled to" (Harding 294). To Austen, the only acceptable marriage is of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy since it is pure and true. The implementation of marriage in Pride and ...
- 207: Pride And Prejudice- First Impressions
- The novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was originally titled First Impressions. This is significant because it reflects the values and attitudes of 19th century England, and portrays the main themes of the novel. It is set in England during the ... a driving force in her behaviour to marry her daughters to wealthy men, who were financially stable and socially accepted, so her liking to Mr Bingley is reinforced by his interest in her eldest daughter Jane. “Mr Bingley thought her quite beautiful, and danced with her twice. Think of that my dear; he actually danced with her twice; and she was the only creature in the room that he asked a ... because of the amount of money he has. Mr Darcy feels as if he can be rude to anyone he likes, because the society of Meryton is ‘socially and financially lower’ then himself. After seeing Jane together with Mr Bingley at the dinner party, Darcy’s first impressions (which allow him to think that he has the right to interfere in their relationship) force him into believing that Jane (coming ...
- 208: Henry VIII
- ... of it was true but all the men and her were trialed and sentenced to death. On May 19, 1535 she was beheaded. On May 30, 1535, the next week. He married his 3rd wife Jane Seymour. This wife was the one he truly loved with all his heart. She gave him a son. In October of 1537 she gave birth to Edward. At last he finally had an heir to the throne. The sad this is that 12 days later Jane grew sick and died. The death of Jane Seymour didn’t keep him down. After that he was already looking for another wife. He had already betrothed his 4th wife 2 years before. His 4th wife was Anne of Cleves. When he ...
- 209: Western Films
- ... Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail (1849), Samuel Clemens' (Mark Twain) Roughing It (1872), Bret Harte's short stories, and other mythologies (tales of Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Jim Bowie, Gen. George A Custer, Calamity Jane, and outlaws such as the James Brothers, the original Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Billy the Kid). Westerns are often set on the American frontier during the last part of the 19th century ... of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1936). Cecil B. De Mille's stylish but historically imaginative The Plainsman (1937) starred Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane respectively, attracting a wider audience. Two years later, DeMille filmed a spectacular version of the building of the transcontinental railroad, Union Pacific (1939). King Vidor's great adventure saga of colonial America titled Northwest Passage ... biased view of Indians and starred Jack Palance as an Apache chief. Two 40s westerns were just infamous sex-westerns. Howard Hughes's B-grade The Outlaw (1943) was notorious for leering camera views of Jane Russell's cleavage. And the ambitious David O. Selznick production, a "Gone With The Wind"- type western titled Duel in the Sun (1946) was a saga of sexual longing critically renamed "Lust in the ...
- 210: The Catcher In The Rye - Fores
- ... traces of profanity can be seen scattered about the page in the form of "crap", "hell" and "goddam". Holden's first sign of distrust comes when he speaks to Ward Stradlater about his date with Jane Gallagher: "Listen. Give my regards, willya?" "Okay," Stradlater said, but I knew he probably wouldn't... "Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row." "Okay," Stradlater said, but I knew he wouldn't. (p.33-34) This is seen again when he doesn't trust Stradlater to stop his advances of Jane in the case that she says no. Holden gives up his faith in people to trust him when he boards a bus holding a snowball. The driver refuses to believe that Holden won't throw ... the future. Eventually he comes to the realization that he can't rub all the profanity away himself. Another example of Holden's attempt to shelter innocence is the fact that he never does call Jane, possibly for fear that she will scar his memories of her as an innocent child. The title of this novel presents this theme to the reader in that Holden wants to be "the catcher ...
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