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- 291: The Partner By John Grisham
- ... daily basis; the good and the bad. Through out the book we read about the characters and experience their behavior and deeds to determine who is really good and who is automatically bad. In addition, John Grisham touches on the issue of justifying stealing. From the story we learn that such issues exists not just among crooks, but also among simple people who see money as the way of changing their ... a hard time putting it down. It has an unusual twist ending, which was so unexpected. However, I was a little bit disappointed with it. First, I couldn t help but compare this book with John Grisham s previous novels. In contrast with his previous legal thrillers, which usually set in the courtroom; The Partner is set just about everywhere else. I also felt the boob was lacking Grisham s famous ... though it's a departure from the usual Grisham fare and I hope he decides to write a sequel to explain the maddening ending. Why did you read this book? I read this book because John Grisham is one of my favorite authors, and I am trying to read all his books. When I read on the back of the book, I thought right away that I had to read ...
- 292: Best Evidence
- Best Evidence The book, Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, would be a tedious read to a person less familiar with the JFK assassination, but offers many important revelations to those who have read other books on the subject. The author, David Lifton, gives an insightful and highly researched look into one of the most tragic events in our nation's history. Lifton brings into question the sincerity of the Warren Commission's investigation of President Kennedy's assassination, as well as the use of false evidence and autopsy reports. The first faulty evidence described by Lifton is the Zapruder film. The Zapruder film is the only animated evidence available to ...
- 293: The Works of Clive Staples Lewis
- ... a professor, until she had to move to a rest home where she died when Lewis was 53. Lewis also considered marriage before Joy when he became a close friend with English poetess Ruth Pitter (“John West,” How Hollywood Reinvented C.S. Lewis in the film Shadowlands. Online.). C. S. Lewis actually began his writing career at the age of six. He invented an imaginary world called Animal-Land or as ... age of thirteen. He did not publish any of his poems until his Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics, published in 1919 and Dymer, published in 1926, both written under his pseudonym Clive Hamilton (“John Visser,” Literary Works. Online.). Lewis wrote theology, literary criticism, novels, and autobiographies, along with poetry. For a long time he was an atheist until he said, "In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in ... not by their physical appearances but by the meaning of being there. In 1947 he published Miracles, which was based on how people perceive miracles and whether a person should believe in them or not (“John Visser,” Literary Works. Online.). During 1949, Lewis came out with The Weight of Glory. This theology deals with how Christians value their worldly possessions. Another one of Lewis's more famous works came out ...
- 294: Presidential Anomalies
- ... election of 1840, candidate General William Henry Harrison was easily elected as the celebrated military hero of the most recent Indian Wars. The hero over the Indians at the battle of Tippencanoe, became president and John Tyler became vice president. During his inauguration ceremony the weather was cold and rainy. The new President contracted pneumonia and died only one month into his term. In 1860, candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected President ... right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; bind up the nations wounds.” Shortly after the war’s end, a fanatical Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, assassinated him. In 1880, Ohio Congressman James A. Garfield won the election despite a very slim lead in popular votes, however, won easily in electoral votes. He was in office less than four ... president during America’s greatest crisis since the Civil War. Within three months after his fourth inauguration, President Roosevelt suffered a massive stroke and died. His Vice President, Harry S. Truman, succeeded him. In 1960 John F. Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic, and at age 43, the youngest man ever to be elected president. During his inaugural address Kennedy made an appeal to his fellow Americans by stating: “ask ...
- 295: Sixteen Most Significant Events in US History between 1789 to 1975
- ... stay out of European affairs. Marbury v Madison is arguably one of the most important decisions by the Supreme Court in United States' history. The case, which was presided over in 1803 by Chief Justice John Marshall, concerned President Adams's appointment of William Marbury as Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia. Adams's term ended before Marbury took office, and James Madison, the new Secretary of State ... army tried to stop the takeover but failed. U.S. aid to Vietnam was based on the policy of President Truman that the United States must help any nation threatened by Communists. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy adopted the policy fearing a "domino effect" if even one southeast Asian country fell to the Communists. After Kennedy's death, Johnson came to office in 1963 with a long standing, firm commitment to containment and increased America's involvement into a major war. The Vietnam War had several periods. From 1857- 1965, ...
- 296: American Identity
- ... who arrived on the shores of the United States yet again challenged politicians to adapt a policy of unification. Arthur Schlesinger remarks in his essay, "The Cult of Ethnicity, President George Washington told Vice President John Adams, immigrants will 'get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people " (129). Schlesinger implies that wholeness in the American culture proves beneficial to the prosperity of society and ... the same time inhibits discord. The consequences of widespread discord among the American people, exemplified during the Civil War, once again confirmed the dire necessity for unity amongst the nation. In his 1961 Inaugural Address John F. Kennedy confronts the audience,"[u]nited there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds ...
- 297: The Life of a Jamestown Colonist
- ... that the settlers were bad food gatherers. In 1587, Raleigh sent three ships with 150 men, women, and children. He promised a supply ship would quickly follow, but the supplies never came. A man named John White volunteered to go back to England to get supplies for Roanoke. I saw John White briefly before he left to go back to Roanoke, and I begged him to tell my best friend, Emily, that I loved her and missed her. Emily’s family had been forced off their land by the enclosure movement, so they decided to help settle Roanoke. Little did I know that Emily, along with the entire Roanoke colony, had vanished literally into thin air. When John White arrived in Roanoke in 1590, he found it deserted. He found only plundered chests and the word, CROATOAN, carved into a tree. Some believe that the settlers were victims of an Indian raid ...
- 298: Othello Vs Much Ado About Noth
- ... town before, and this time Claudio confesses his love for the governor’s daughter, Hero. Because Leonato is so fond of Claudio, the wedding is set to be a few days away. This gives Don John, Claudio’s bastard brother, a chance to show his true hatred for Claudio. He comes up with a scheme to make Claudio think that Hero is cheating by dressing Margaret in her clothing and perching ... Because she did not cheat on him, she did not expect that kind of reaction. She is so dejected that she faints, and everyone assumes she is dead. Eventually Borrachio is overheard talking about Don John’s plan, and Don John is arrested. Later Claudio learns that Hero is not actually dead, and they are finally married. “Othello”’s Iago is very much similar to Don John. He wants to get revenge on Othello for ...
- 299: The Theme Of Brave New World
- ... new world the old ways were seen as primitive and in many cases grotesque. These old ways are pretty much our modern day beliefs such as monogamy and marriage and other Christian morals. The character John, the savage, represented these old ways and yet showed a link between himself and the new world through his mother Linda. John is shown as an outcast in both societies, in the old world because his mother had taught him new world beliefs and also he looked different. He was not accepted in the new world because he had obvious old world beliefs and morals some of which he had brought out of Shakespearean literature, so they were foreign to both the savages and the civilized. When John meets Bernard and tells him of his and Linda's lives on the reservation much of their rejection from the reservation comes to light. It apparently started with Linda having relations with many of ...
- 300: The Life of Jack London
- ... failed, Flora shot herself in the head, but missed. Flora's depression kept led her into a mental institution. Six months later, on January 12, 1876, Flora gave birth to her son, whom she named John Griffith Chaney. Flora was too sick to care for her child. She sent the boy to live with Virginia Prentiss. Prentiss, was a friend who did not have any children. Flora needed this time to rebuild her life and start anew. Within the year she married Civil War veteran John London. John London had two daughters Eliza and Ida. In September of 1876 Flora went and retrieved her son, and changed his name to Jack London. Jack London grew up believing that John London was his ...
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