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- 1641: Huckleberry Finn - Superstition
- ... Huck sees a spider crawling up his shoulder, so he flipped it off and it went into the flame of the candle. Before he could get it out, it was already shriveled up. Huck didn't need anyone to tell him that it was an bad sign and would give him bad luck. Huck got scared and shook his clothes off, and turned in his tracks three times. He then tied ... of his hair with a thread to keep the witches away. "You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep of bad luck when you'd killed a spider."(Twain 5). In chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So Huck goes to Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a hair-ball that is the size of a fist that he took from an ox' ...
- 1642: The Black Panther Party
- ... joined the Harlem BPP in the fall of '68 and served as its Finance Officer until arrested on April 2, 1969 in the Panther 21 Conspiracy case which was the opening shot in the government's nationwide attack on the BPP. Moving westward, Police Departments in each city made military raids on BPP offices or homes in Philadelphia, Chicago, Newark, Omaha, Denver, New Haven, San Diego, Los Angeles, and other cities ... the struggle on other fronts and some basically cooled out altogether. The BPP limped on for several more years, then died what seemed a natural death. History will be the ultimate judge of the BPP's place in the Black Liberation Movement (BLM). But in these troubled times African people in the U.S. need to investigate both the positive and negative aspects of the BPP's history in order to learn from those hard lessons already paid for in blood. In particular we need to learn the ...
- 1643: The vast cyber-frontier is being threatend with censorship from the government
- ... censorship from the government. Internet censorship should be left up to the individual not the governments discretion. I. Censoring the Internet. A. Clinton passes the C.D.A. B. Our rights as Americans. C. Exon's victory. D. What's really online. E. Strike to free expresson on Compuserve. II. Where the Internet stands now. A. Judges Panel. B. Congress and other's opinions. C. Background information. D. Other opinions. III. Solutions. A. Family's responsibility. B. Censorship Software. C. Civil Rights. * Conclusion. After threatening the Communications Decency Act with a vetos of the past versions, President ...
- 1644: The Diviners: How does Morag's Past Influence Pique's Life
- The Diviners: How does Morag's Past Influence Pique's Life Pique is the inheritor of French-Indian and Scottish-Canadian roots. She is raised her mother in Canada and England. However, her growth is affected by Morag's life style and Morag's past life. There are three events in Morag's past that affects Pique's life. Morag moves away from Christie when she goes to college and she rarely comes ...
- 1645: Patterns In Hemingway And Camu
- ... forty-one chapters to be found in five books. Here is what we have discovered: if you multiply 41 by 5 you get 205. And now if you take the number of letters in Frederic's name (8) and add that to the number of letters in Catherine's name (9) you get 17. 205 + 17 = 222. And if you grant that the time of the events in the novel, counted properly, is three years, then the pattern we have discovered starts to emerge ... of 222 and 3 but the infamous 666 of Revelations 13:18? Imagine now our delight when we discovered a similar 666 pattern in The Outsider. If you multiply the number of letters in Meursault's name times the number of letters in `Albert' times the number of letters in `Arab' you get 216. Add to that the 6 of `Albert' and multiply by 3 (which is the number one ...
- 1646: Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich": Satire
- Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich": Satire Jonathan Swift has suggested that "Satire is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every body's Face their own; which is the chief reason...that so few are offended with it." Richard Garnett suggests that, "Without humour, satire is invictive; without literary form, [and] it is mere clownish jeering." (Encyclopaedia Britannica 14th ed. vol. 20 p. 5). Whereas Swift's statement suggests that people are not offended by satire because readers identify the character's faults with their own faults; Garnett suggests that humour is the key element that does not make satire offensive. ...
- 1647: Death Of A Salesman - Biff Character Profile
- Biff is one of the main characters in the play "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller. Biff is Willy's and Linda's son. He was the star of the football team and had scholarships to 3 college's, but he flunked math and couldn't graduate, so he tried to work at many different jobs, and failed at each. Finally, he decided to head out west, and work on farms. Biff came ...
- 1648: Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Transformation of the Chinese Military
- Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Transformation of the Chinese Military Yaun Shih-k’ia (1859-1916) was one of China’s most successful rulers, but his rise to power came the way many modern dictators claim control. Yuan would use his military family lineage and knowledge to create the first modern and dominant army in China ... and the knowledge that to be a military power China needed to open up the ways of the West. Yuan would go through many channels and numerous promotions which would allow him to mold China’s army to a strength that would protect the country from all the countries trying to divide up the country. Shih-k’ia was adopted by Yuan Tu-ch’en, the son of General Yuan ...
- 1649: The Sun Also Rises 4
- ... gone, causes Jake to question what is left to believe in. This leaves him with a cold sense of uneasiness, so instead of living with that harsh reality he drowns it away with alcohol. Jake's friend Bill discusses Jake's state of mind with him to a point, then instead of helping him work through his pain, by perhaps discussing it further, he tells him to have a drink. Hemingway writes: Bill. What's the matter? Feel low? Jake. Low as hell. Bill. Have another absinthe. Here, waiter! Another absinthe for this senor. Jake. I feel like hell, I said. Bill. Drink that, Bill said. Drink it slow( ...
- 1650: George Orwell
- ... real work completed IV. Major production years A.1930-45 1. Wrote almost all of his books a. Most books written about his life experiences until then 2. Changed name to George Orwell a. Didn’t want to use real name in case his books were failures B. Wrote Animal Farm V. 1945-49 A. Got very sick from disease contracted at birth 1.spent most of time in hospital B ... his English heritage but also by his many life experiences. George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, an Indian town twenty-five miles south of the Nepalese border. Orwell’s parents were both Scottish and he had two sisters. His father was an official at the Opium Department of the government of India at the time of his early childhood. Although we know much about ... barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversation with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start of my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I ...
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