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- 671: Summary: Lord of the Flies
- ... showed that he was still a boy and that the other boys still respected Ralph's rank. But after Jack left, the number of boys seemed lessened. Names of the individuals such as Maurice, Roger, Robert or Bill were not mentioned very frequently. The fuel they gathered for their new fire was not as good as the wood they had burned on the mountaintop. Overall, the great joy in the building ... that perhaps Simon was not really dead. Although the twins also tried to hide from the truth, all four boys were fully aware of the past night's event. In the conversation between Roger and Robert, the two boys showed their admiration for their new Chief. But news of the beating of Wilfred brought suspicion of abuse of power to Roger, who dismissed those thoughts rather quickly. The tribe's discussion ...
- 672: The Sun Also Rises
- ... Engaged to one man and in love with another, Brett demonstrates her disregard for the 1920's double standards. Very early in the beginning of the novel, she reveals to Jake that she had invited Robert Cohn to go with her on a trip to San Sebastian. Cohn, a Jewish, middle aged writer disillusioned with his life in Paris, wants to escape to South America where he envisions meeting the ebony ... and has become dependent on her attention and affection. In his rampant drunkenness, Mike blasts Cohn: "'What if Brett did sleep with you? She's slept with lots of better people than you. Tell me Robert, Why do you follow Brett around like a poor bloody steer? Don't you know you're not wanted?'" (143, Ch. 13). Cohn is like an adolescent, as he vainly ignores the truth and continues ...
- 673: Descriptive Essay
- ... The blackened windows of the shinny hearse stop in front of me, and the door closest to me is thrust open. A long, slender leg, covered with a black see-through stocking, steps onto the frost-bitten earth directly in front of me. A woman of widowed stature now stands before me, amongst the fog, as if to hesitantly say something to me, but doesn’t. She watches attentively as the ... the grave yard. Sounds of marching and bristling leaves pass through my wind scorched ears. The coffin that is so gracefully carried is, in the same manner, placed on the taunt, yellow straps of the frost covered, casket lowering, platform. A tall, and grossly thin man approaches from behind the wall of grief-stricken relatives. The pale flesh of his face hangs tightly to his definite cheek bones. His eyes are ...
- 674: Declaration Of Independence
- ... 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, Carter Braxton, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Tho M. Kean, Wm. Floyd, Phil. Livingston, Frans. Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, Jno.WItherspoon, Fras. Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Josiah Bartlett, Wm. Whipple, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephan Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, Wm. Williams, Oliver Wolcott, and Matthew Thorton. The reason people wanted the Declaration was because the people thought that they had the right ...
- 675: The Battle of Antietam
- ... and the end of the first Confederate invasion of the North. It happened between the U.S. Army of the Potomac under Gen. George B. McClellan and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee. The battle began early in the morning at about 6:00 A.M. and lasted throughout the day. There is no general plan of attack because McClellan had none. The battle resolved itself ... left at Harper’s Ferry to supervise the surrender of the garrison, was approching the battlefield. They came upon the flank of the Union forces and drove them back. At the end Confederate generals urged Robert E. Lee to retreat, but he refused. At dawn, on the 18th, the army was still there inviting attack. Although more then 10,000 additional Union troops reached the battlefield McClellan made no move. Lee ...
- 676: Charles Manson
- ... bad in the 1960's. The 1950's to the 1960's was uncontrollably filled with violence. Our culture was shattered by the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. At the same time, body bags from Vietnam were building up from a war that was tearing our nation apart. Riots and antiwar protesters marched across America. Many people worried that the US ... around and found nothing unusual. Nearby the Scott's dogs went into a barking frenzy sometime around 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. He got out of bed, looked around and found nothing unusual. Robert Billington, a member of a private security patrol thought he heard several gunshots a little after 4 am. and called the headquarters. The LAPD officer said, "I hope we don't have a murder, we ...
- 677: The Human Genome Project
- The Human Genome Project Walter Gilbert who is a molecular biologist became interested in undertaking the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 1987. Robert Kanigel of the New York Times Magazine wrote "This project ... would reveal the precise biochemical makeup of the entire genetic material, or genome, of a human being ... it would grant insight into human biology previously ... Twentieth-Century Scientists, Emily J. McMurry, Editor, Gail Research Inc. Detroit 1995 2. McGraw Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Kurt Kleiner, Editor, McGraw press Inc. New York 1997 3. Picking up the pace of Sequencing. Robert F. Service, Science v.280 May 15, 1998 p995-1000, Detroit 1998 4. New Frontiers in Genetics, Sandy and Jerry Bornstien, Simon and Schuster Inc. New York 1990 5. Invisible Frontiers, Stephen Hall, Atlantic Monthly ...
- 678: Migration Towards The Brave Ne
- ... factories, mass-productions (eg. automobiles), and more manufactured goods. There were more volumes of trade and production due to more machinery. As markets are growing, activities, structures, as well as attitudes towards companies are changing. Robert Heibroner suggests that “the rise of such giant enterprises has changed the face of capitalism as they attempt to alter the market setting through a system of public and private planning (p.43).” Like the ... New York: HarperPerennial, 1946. http://www.primenet.com/~matthew/huxley/sub/Barron_BNW.html http://www.demigod.org/~zak/documents/high-school/brave-new-world/html http://www.ddc.net/ygg/etext/brave.htm Sexty,Robert. “Overview of the Business System” ,in Canadian Business and Society, Prentice-Hall, Scarborough, Ontario, 1995, pp5-22 Chandler,Alfred D.Jr. “The Roe of Business in the United States: A Historical Survey,” in Business and ...
- 679: Jimmy Hoffa, His Life and Disappearance
- ... tampering with the jury in the that case. Consequently, Hoffa was never convicted of the misdemeanor charge. On his journey to the top Hoffa also made many enemies. One such enemy was the famed politician Robert Kennedy. One particularly intriguing encounter between these two men occurred in March of 1957. Hoffa was arrested for attempting to bribe a lawyer, John Cheasty, to become a member of the McClellan Committee staff and ... obtain confidential committee memorandums for him(Brill 201). The McClellan Committee was investigating the corruption and inept administration in the handling of employee benefit plans in America's labor Unions(Internet). When Cheasty went to Robert Kennedy and told him of the offer, Kennedy arranged for the FBI to take pictures of Cheasty at street-corner meetings as he passed government documents to Hoffa in return for cash(Brill 202). With ...
- 680: Achilles Anophtheis (Achilles revisited)
- ... we have been able to recover, it seems that such men were regarded as the heroes of their age. I refer of course to the numerous copies we have of the autobiographies of Donald Trump, Robert Campeau and the like. Evidently the culture considered these books to be of great importance, for we found huge amounts of them in large buildings. This was apparently for safekeeping since the storage facilities were ... seconds, his face growing taut. "Are you sure?" he asked. After listening for a few more seconds, he folded the phone back up and folded the antenna. "That was a friend of mine," he explained, "Robert Patrolo, telling me that his company was just taken over by Trojan. Hector's first move upon gaining control was to have him removed from the chairmanship. Hector knew that would get me." He remained ...
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