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- 651: Jane Eyre 2
- ... her husband s request, Mrs. Reed does not treat Jane like a human being and is constantly criticizing and punishing her. In one example Jane was keeping to herself, reading a book when her cousin John Reed decided to annoy her. John then grabbed the book and threw it at her knocking her down and cutting her on the head, which bled and was very painful. Mrs. Reed then punished Jane by sending her into the red ... to Moor House. At Moor House Jane is at first disliked because of her begging and poor first impression, but Jane is soon taken into liking by all three members of the Rivers family, St. John, Diana, and Mary. While at Moor House, St. John gives Jane a teaching job at Morton. The job is a very frustrating job for Jane because many of the children were ignorant and refused ...
- 652: The Crucible
- John Hale is the minister of Beverly, which has been summoned to Salem to discover and extinguish supposed witchcraft in the town of Salem, Mass. in the colonial period. Hale overgoes a gradual change of character ... gradual change it is, the change drastically changes his views and ideas of what is God’s will and where his priorities lie. The end of Act One exhibits the audience a zealous priest, Reverend John Hale, looking for evidence of witchcraft, real or make believe. Most convenient for Hale the town of Salem has more than enough evidence for him to become ecstatic about. Although he does express that, "We ... of the justice of the court, but since this is a play and not a novel, his actions shown on stage assert indecision and hesitation. Another very important factor in Hale learning the truth is John Proctor himself. While Elizabeth is being accused and arrested he repeatedly and aggressively challenges Hale’s belief, slowly destroying Hale’s faith in the holiness of the court. "Hale: Proctor if she is innocent ...
- 653: Serial Killers in the U.S
- ... been reported because of lack of evidence or the person murdered is never noticed to be missing. The U. S. has had more than 150 documented cases of serial killers since 1800. Retired FBI analyst John Doug-las believes that at any one time, there may be from 30 to 50 serial killers active in the U. S. Good locations for serial killers include any city or area large enough to ... is hard to predict whether a person will become a serial killer. A set of childhood characteristics believed by many to be symptoms of violent behavior has been named the "McDonald Triad". Named after psychiatrist John M. McDonald, it speculates that three factors in a person's childhood may determine violent behavior. These three fac-tors presumably linked to homicidal behavior are bedwetting, firesetting, and torture of small animals. There is ... switched over to killing because it gave him more excitement and power and got him newspaper and TV coverage. A leader in the field of understanding and profiling serial killers has been FBI Agent, retired, John Douglas. He has learned that serial killers all leave signs at their crime scenes and that their behavior reflects their personality. The method chosen to kill, the position of the body, the type of ...
- 654: The Computer Underground
- ... the message section of the "home board" contained a lively debate on the desireability of a retaliatory response, and the moderates prevailed. Influenced especially by such science fan- tasy as William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider (1975), and cyber-punk, which is a fusion of ele- ments of electronic communication technology and the "punk" sub- culture, the hacker ethic promotes resistance to the very forms that ... credo). Phreaking broadly refers to the practice of using either technology or telephone credit card numbers (called "codez") to avoid long distance charges. Phreaking attained public visibili- ty with the revelation of the exploits of John "Cap'n Crunch" Draper, the "father of phreaking" (Rosenbaum, 1971). Although phreaking and hacking each require different skills, phreaks and hackers tend to associate on same boards. Unlike hackers, who attempt to master a computer ... 1976. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. New York: Basic Books. Bloombecker, Jay. 1988. Interview, Hour Magazine. NBC television, November 23. Bordieu, Pierre. 1989. "Social Space and Symbolic Power." Sociological Theory, 7(Spring): 14-25. Brunner, John. 1989. The Shockwave Rider. New York: Ballantine. Callinicos, Alex. 1985. "Posmodernism, Post- Structuralism, Post-Marxism?" Theory, Culture and Society, 2(3): 85-101. Camper, John. 1989. "Woman Indicted as Computer Hacker Mastermind." Chicago Tribune, ...
- 655: Shakespeare
- ... less significance, some are crucial to the development of this tragedy. The substantial events that inspire the conclusion of Romeo and Juliet are; the Capulet ball, the quarrel experienced by Tybalt and Romeo, and Friar John’s plague. A servant to Capulet, who is incapable of reading the list of guests, asks for Romeo’s assistance. Romeo notices that Rosaline, his lover, is among these names. Benvolio challenges Romeo to compare ... Balthasar, a servant to Romeo, tells Romeo that Juliet has passed on. Romeo, who is told there are no letters from the friar, seeks a way to accomplish his suicide. Meanwhile, Friar Laurence, confronts Friar John, who was to deliver the letter to Romeo. Friar John informs Friar Laurence that he was seeking another Franciscan, who was visiting the sick, to accompany him to Mantua. He says, "Suspecting that we both were in a house/ Where the infectious pestilence did ...
- 656: Great Depression
- ... the men of rape) swore out new warrants against the nine men. On this note of legality I would like to bring up a famous man in the history of the USA his name is John Dillinger. John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1, lived up to the title bestowed upon him by J. Edgar Hoover’s Division of Investigation and cemented his national notoriety when on March 3, 1934, he broke out of ... involve Page 4 Federal agents at the time, the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act. It was an error that would set the stage for his ultimate demise outside of a Chicago theater four months later. John Herbert Dillinger’s career in crime had started inauspiciously enough with a botched robbery attempt of a grocer in his hometown of Mooresville, Indiana, on September 6, 1924. He had turned 21 years of ...
- 657: Jurassic Park 2
- ... Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton had many rich, and interesting characters. Crichton seemed to be able to make them come alive and jump out of the pages into three-dimensional people. One such character was John Hammond. This man had dreams of greatness. He had extravagant plans and the money to back those plans up. He had always been a child at heart and he was in love with dinosaurs. His company, The Hammond Foundation financed many different digs for paleontologists. When The Hammond Foundation finds amber with a mosquito locked in it, John Hammond realizes that perhaps his dreams of having a dinosaur park are possible. This is because the mosquito locked inside the amber contains the blood of a real dinosaur, complete with DNA. John Hammond has to hire people to do all of the technical stuff, but it is he who envisions the park as a whole. He sees the public paying thousands of dollars to come and ...
- 658: The Yellow Wallpaper, A Descen
- ... is unhappy and depressed. Her husband has adopted the idea that she must have complete rest if she is to recover. "So I am absolutely forbidden to work until I am well again" (Gilman 357). John does not even want her to write. "There comes John, and I must put this away - he hates to have me write a word" (Gilman 359). It is interesting that the room her husband chooses for them, the room the narrator hates, is the nursery ... her submissive behavior. "I do not like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened into the piazza and had roses all over the window and such pretty old fashioned chintz hangings! But John would not hear of it" (Gilman 358). Although she is practically a prisoner in the room, she is given no voice in choosing or decorating it. She attempts to justify John s treatment of ...
- 659: Declaration Of Independence
- ... It gave the 13 colonies freedom from England's laws. The man responsible for writing the Declaration was Thomas Jefferson. He wrote the Declaration between June 11, 1776 and June 28, 1776. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams looked at what Jefferson had written and made some changes to the Declaration. On July 4, 1776 Congress adopted the Declaration and it was signed by: John Hancock, Button Gwinnett, Lyman hall, George Walton, Wm Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thos Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Samuel Chase, Thos. Stone , George Wythe, Charles Carrol of Carrollton, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thos Nelson Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, ...
- 660: After The Bomb
- ... where the hospital. „« Pasadena ˇV here where his father use to work unfortunately he wonˇ¦t be able to go there coˇ¦z of the derricks along the roads. „« Via Carlotta ˇV here where Mr. John Billing lives, a retired DWP engineer (department of Water and Powerˇ¨. And here where Philip also found a child being threatened by Cayotes. And a dog who where protecting the child. „« Hardware ˇV here where Philip get a hose for the water supply to hospital from the neighbor of Mr. John Billings. „« Crest Highway ˇV here where Philip walks 1 to 2 days when headed to the hospital with Cara, Matt, and his mother. „Y Characters „« Philip ˇV he is the main character of the story ... bone when Philip found him with his wife. Mr. Giamo had a big help to Philip he made Philipˇ¦s feelings lighter for a moment, and he also made a stretcher for Philipˇ¦s mom. „« John Billings ˇV A retired DPW engineer he help Philip on giving a water supply to the hospital. „« Dorothy ˇV the wife of John Billing who took good care with the child that Philip found ...
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