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- 211: Happiness Found In Literature
- ... Success is one goal all people strive for to make them happy. Along with success come wealth, power and maybe even fame. But does money and power truly make a person happy? In the poem "Richard Corey" the author Edwin Arlington Robinson writes how money and wealth does not bring true happiness The poem describes how admired and impressive Richard Corey was to the people. Everyone stared at him when he came to town wishing they could be in his place. But Robinson goes on to show that money alone can not bring happiness. "And Richard Corey, one calm summer night, / Went home and put a bullet through his head (lines 15-16). Richard Corey's suicide is a significant lesson to tell us that money can not fill the ...
- 212: Clarissa Dalloways Double
- ... Septimus back. "Interrupted again! She was always interrupting."(31). Clarissa and Septimus are not successful in their marriage. Clarissa did not marry for standard romantic love, she has chosen a safe, comfortable marriage to politician Richard Dalloway over the more romantic and adventurous Peter Walsh. Her decision to marry Richard allows her the party-going social life she loves, without any risks. More importantly, her marriage to Richard allows her "a little independence there must be between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her...But with Peter everything had to be shared...it was ...
- 213: Eleanor Aquitaine
- ... help her, he was to help her into turning her son "the young king" against his father, which worked quite successfully until the young king fled to Paris from his father and stayed with Louis. Richard and Geoffrey were now in Paris under the influence of their mother. Louis turned Henry II verbal promises into formal grants. Henry became worried and in result he offered the young king half of England and Richard half of Aquitaine. Through all of the uprisings of his family Henry survived. Henry offered Eleanor a divorce on the agreement that she would give up the world and become a nun at Fontevrault, which ... his deathbed were "Shame on a conquered king".10 Between the time of 1194 and 1199 Eleanor had retired to her favorite house of religion, Fontevrault. In 1199 She left the convent, because her son Richard had sent for her, he was dying. After being shot in the shoulder, below his neck, and after a painful operation a iron piece was still in and Gangrene set in. Eleanor took Richards ...
- 214: A Man For All Seasons 3
- ... truth. This is just a basic overview of what happened in A Man for All Seasons. In Act I Scene 1, the book introduces you to some of its main characters. Sir Thomas and Master Richard Rich are first to be introduced. Rich is offered a job as a school teacher, but he wants to be in office. Sir Thomas gives Rich a silver cup that was given to him as ... Cromwell says that he needs Sir Thomas to give a brief declaration of his loyalty to the King. He says the way they can make him do this is with some pressure. He brings in Richard and Richard tells them about the silver cup that was given to him by Sir Thomas. Cromwell wants to make it look like Sir Thomas accepted bribe. Norfolk proves him wrong, and Cromwell says he will ...
- 215: China
- ... Republic. Instead, it favored UN membership for both the People’s Republic and Taiwan. In October 1971, the UN voted to admit the People’s Republic in place of Taiwan. In 1972, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon traveled to China and met with Premier Zhou Enlai and Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong. During Nixon’s visit, the United States and China signed the Shanghai Communiqué, which looked forward to the establishment of normal relations. The two nations sent representatives to serve in each other’s capital. The timing ...
- 216: Analysis of A Cartoon Regarding the Vietnam War
- ... China, a communistic super power of that time as well, and the third head represents Vietnam. This was represented as a group of monolithic communists. Another myth present was "Peace with Honor". This was President Richard Nixon's slogan while negotiating with North Vietnam to withdraw their troops. As the war went on and we continued to lose more and more men, the American public wondered why we didn't just withdraw ... given as to why we were unable to withdraw our men was because we couldn't lose our honor. The American government didn't want to lose any respect in this for many different reasons. Nixon's goal was to compromise peace but still keep the American honor. Another myth that came into this same scene was the saying " Light at the End of the Tunnel". As time started to ...
- 217: The Meaning of Life To Different People
- ... individual decision. Everyone has to find out the meaning of life for themselves. William James said, "Those whose lives are most meaningful are those who don’t need to ask, ‘Why are we here ?’ "11 Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States of America, believes that the meaning of life is to love others. "We cannot live a full life unless we have a purpose bigger than ourselves."12 He suggests that we must always seek to reach up and reach out to achieve our full potential. Nixon believes that it is wrong to think that we can ever achieve perfection. But it is even a bigger mistake to stop trying. He says, without risk there will be neither success nor failure. ...
- 218: Spin Cycle
- SPIN CYCLE With so many different scandal to his credit and numerous ongoing investigations pending, President Clinton has been bombarded by the media in a fashion not seen since the last days of the Nixon administration. Despite this unwanted attention, Clinton has managed to maintain lofty approval ratings and successfully deflect even the most ardent attacks. How does he do it? This question is answered in full in Spin Cycle ... Jones case. This lapse may be explained in part by the success of the spin-control methods Kurtz describes. But there must be deeper explanations as well. Bill Clinton is the most investigated president since Richard Nixon--facing inquiries into Whitewater, campaign fundraising abuses, and sexual misconduct--and yet improbably began 1998 with approval ratings as high as those of Ronald Reagan. But the new year has brought a barrage of ...
- 219: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. When war came to Europe ... The presidential nomination of 1960 went to Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Kennedy then selected Johnson as his running mate to balance the Democratic ticket. In November 1960 the Democrats defeated the Republican candidates, Richard M. Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, by a narrow margin. Kennedy appointed Johnson to head the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities, a post that enabled him to work on behalf of blacks and other ...
- 220: JFK
- ... of Texas. However, Johnson was strong only among Southern delegates. Kennedy won the nomination on the first ballot and then persuaded Johnson to become his running mate. Two weeks later the Republicans nominated Vice President Richard Nixon for president and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who was ambassador to the United Nations and whom Kennedy had defeated for the Senate in 1952, for vice president. In the fast-paced campaign that followed, Kennedy made stops in 46 states and 273 cities and towns, while Nixon visited every state and 170 urban areas. Another important element of the campaign was the support Kennedy received from blacks in important Northern states, especially Illinois and Pennsylvania. They supported him in part because ...
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