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- 461: John Quincy Adams
- Hello, I'm John Quincy Adams. I grew up in Braintree, Massachusetts, and when I became an adult I traveled with my father on his diplomatic missions until I became interested in political journalism at Harvard and eventually became ...
- 462: Creative Writing: The Search
- ... was in just three months. I had a wife and three children, still do, and the same job I'd had since my graduation from Quantico. We were living just outside Portland. My oldest son, John jr., was in his third year at Washington. The twins were high school seniors at this time and my pride and joy, daddy's little girls. Carolyn and I had celebrated our twenty- fifth anniversary ... was lost in the search for my tie. Coffee stained and still unwashed, I found it laying on the laundry room floor. I swore to myself to let Carolyn know about that. I walked into John's empty room, knowing he owned some ties. It was just as he had left it, I guess, because I'd never really gone in his room. I picked the red one he wore in ... this, I felt for the guy. Aside from the killings, he was clean. Never even a traffic violation, then this. It didn't make sense, and I got an uneasy feeling in my gut. "Hey, John, I'm ready to move. I got two choppers lined up but no destination. Where to, boss?" "Steve, I don't know about this guy, there's something not right here. I don't ...
- 463: The Crucible 5
- ... in pandemonium yet certain characters are also fighting internal conflicts of their own. Miller uses three characters who manifest this internal battle ever so clearly. Such as Mary Warren who whole personality turns upside down, John Proctor who contemplates between the importance of his family and his own name and Reverend Hale who battles with himself wether to carry out his job requirements or do what he knows is right. Mary ... and does what she wants. Mary Warren, along with many other girls gets caught up in the hype of getting all the attention and exercising power via initiating and adamantly continuing these "witch trials". Finally John Proctor, the rationalist, shows that when people like Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor who are the saintliest of people are accused of being witches, something must be wrong. Mary Warren has a difficult decision to ... is now faced with yet another grueling internal conflict: to do what she knows is right and probably die for it, or to return to her old ways. Mary succumbs to Abigails "hypnosis " and accuses John Proctor of forcing her to lie. Clearly the battle which Mary faced from the very beginning was enormous. John Proctor a farmer and village commoner similarly is faced with an inner turmoil. He has ...
- 464: Pocahontas
- ... by Pocahontas, a nickname given to her meaning "little wanton" for she was a playful, frolicsome little girl. The settlers believed it to mean "bright stream between two hills." The Powhatans, were not savages as John Smith would later claim in his General Historie of Virginia...&c. Instead, they were a ceremonious people who greeted important visitors in a formal manner with a large feast and festive dancing. Although they did ... Little Pocahontas watched as these strangers built forts and searched for food. She eventually became quite familiar with them and brought the near starving settlement food from time to time. In December of 1607, Captain John Smith led an expedition and was taken captive by the Indians. He was taken to Werowocomoco, 12 miles from Jamestown and the official residence of chief Powhatan. He was treated kindly and a great feast ... beloved daughter be treated well. Argall returned to Jamestown with Pocahontas still as his captive in April of 1613. Pocahontas remained Argall’s prisoner for one year afterward. During this time, she became aquatinted with John Rolfe, a pious widower noted as the first colonist to grow tobacco as a crop. Pocahontas converted to Christianity and took the name Rebecca. She then married Rolfe in April of 1614 and from ...
- 465: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... players of the short films. In 1918, America's two favorite stars, Charlie Chaplin and Mary PICKFORD, both signed contracts for over $1 million. Other familiar stars of the decade included comedians Fatty ARBUCKLE and John Bunny, cowboys William S. HART and Bronco Billy Anderson, matinee idols Rudolph VALENTINO and John Gilbert, and the alluring females Theda BARA and Clara BOW. Along with the stars came the first movie fan magazines; Photoplay published its inaugural issue in 1912. That same year also saw the first of ... von STERNBERG became legendary for his use of exotic decor and sexual symbolism; Howard HAWKS made driving adventures and fast-paced comedies; Frank CAPRA blended politics and morality in a series of comedy-dramas; and John FORD mythified the American West.^American studio pictures seemed to come in cycles, many of the liveliest being those that could not have been made before synchronized sound. The gangster film introduced Americans to ...
- 466: Watergate Scandal
- ... These five men and two co-plotters were indicated in September 1972 on charges of burglary, conspiracy and wire tapping. Four months later they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms by District Court Judge John J. Sercia was convinced that relevant details had not been unveiled during the trial and offered leniency in exchanged for further information. As it became increasingly evident that the Watergate burglars were tied closely to ... McCord a chance to speak publicly. In his first meeting with representatives of this committee he named two more people that he claimed were involved in the burglary and cover-up. Theses two men were John Dean and Jeb Margruder. Margruder was the second-in-charge of the CRP and Dean was a White House aid. After hearing these substantial accusations the Senate Watergate Committee promptly subpoenaed John Dean and Jeb Margruder. (Westerfled 37-38). After the next session with James McCord he took the whiteness stand and explained how Liddy had promised him an executive pardon if he would plead guilty. ...
- 467: The Painted Door
- ... to understand the different desires each character wants. Since there characters were produced so well, the reader is able ro accept and grasp the characters actions at the end of the story. The character of John, is a simple generous man who thinks he has to serve his wife ro pleaseher. He believes that hes wife cannot love him for who he is. So he works long hours to made up ... his wife does not need, but wants. He also has a commitment to his father, because of his father's age, and his distance away from him. In the story, a storm breaks out and John goes over to his fathers house to make sure he is okay. Like every other storm, when he leaves he always returns. When he returns, he sees his wife with the neighbour (intimately), and is ... but is looking for some wnjoyment in life, and to not be just a plain old house wife. Her husband neglects her, and she feels isolated and confined. She is concerned about her relationship with John and is wanting more attention. She knows that he is a good man, that is why she married him. During the storm she feels very lonely, and her neighbour Steve comes over to keep ...
- 468: Arthur Miller And His Distorted Historical Accuracies
- ... what Miller wrote is not fact by revealing where his play is historically flawed. Some of the more important discrepancies are discussed below: By examining Miller’s main plot relationship between characters Abigail Williams and John Proctor, we uncover many discrepancies, mainly that there was no relationship at all. To begin, there was never any love interest between the two of them and according to Susan Cocalis, Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; the two hardly came in contact at all. In fact, John Proctor was old enough to be Abigail’s grandfather. Where Arthur Miller represents Proctor as a 35-year old farmer and Abigail as a 17-year old, lust-crazed teenager, the reality is quite different. John Proctor was actually the owner of a tavern on the outskirts of town and aged 60. Even if you were to argue that Proctor and Williams made frequent contact (In Miller’s play, she ...
- 469: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck always makes it a point to know about his subjects first hand. His stories always have some factual basis behind them. Otherwise, he does not believe that they will be of any value beyond ... from the ground. This chapter ten scene is an allusion to the story of Noah's Ark: 3 ". . . the rest swarmed up on top of the load, Connie and Rose of Sharon, Pa and Uncle John, Ruthie and Winfield, Tom and the preacher. Noah stood on the ground looking up at the great load of them sitting on top of the truck. 4" Grampa's character is an allusion to the ... turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back into her past. The parallel is emphasized by the scripture verse, a direct quotation from Lot, which Tom uses to bury him with.5 Uncle John's character resembles that of the Biblical character Ananias because he withholds money from the common fund just as Ananias did. Both characters are similar in their selfish desires and they each undergo a ...
- 470: The Test Of Salem
- ... to a test. The court asks his wife if her husband has the affair and instead of the wife saying yes she says no, thinking it will save her husband. To your own knowledge, has John Proctor ever commits adultery and she is saying no. By these couple of scenes in the story it shows how irony can change the outcome of the story. Another example of irony in the story is when Abigail is trying to kill Proctor s wife by accusing her of witchcraft but instead gets Proctor killed. Abigail is in love with John Proctor in the story and the whole point of Abigail being in the woods is to make a love potion so John will fall in love with her again. Abigail is trying to hurt John. I do, sir. I believe she means to murder (104) John Proctor is telling the court that h thinks Abigail is ...
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