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- 1011: Antigone: Gender Conflict
- ... transgress . . . we (Beatty 61) Ismene claimed it was an outrageous thought to stand up to a man. Her view of the inferiority to men came from the many laws restricting the lives of women. Women lived most of their lives in their homes. They were allowed on the streets with the company of a man, or for the reason of a funeral or religious festival. Only the poverty stricken women were allowed to work outside the home. They were not allowed to own property. They lived their lives under the control of a male figure. (Kishlansky 75) Women in marriage did not gain much pleasure. They married between the ages of twelve and eighteen. (Kagan 53) The marriage was arranged by ...
- 1012: Indian Suffrage
- Before the English arrived in the New world and began creating colonies, the American Indians lived in harmony and peace with natures. The American Indians were skilled hunters, farmers and used everything in their environment for survival or for essential necessities. They shared the land together and moved about freely in ... Lecture, 11/6). They were left to linger in poverty in virtual concentration camp condition while food and supplies promised in treaties were sold else where. Indians in reservation suffered from hunger, lacked clothing, and lived without proper shelter. Like removal scheme, reservation appeared to be practical and humane; Indians civilization is to be achieved through the segregation. But the fact is that reservation is a way to end bloody clashes ...
- 1013: Rock And Roll
- ... to Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, no other style of music has so greatly impacted the lifestyle of the American people. Elvis Presley was the most recognized and the most influential artist that ever lived. In 1956, Elvis made his way into the national spotlight with his single “Heartbreak Hotel”. He set in stone the image and sound of that would endure as long as the music lived.3 With the swivel of his hips, the slur of his voice, and the curl of his lip, he evoked the force and feeling of youth and sex and the rebellion that would become the ...
- 1014: Davy Crockett
- ... for adventure in the great western territories. In his dealings with his father's customers, Davy must also have learned much about human nature and so refined his natural skills as a leader. While Davy lived there he spent four days at the school of Benjamin Kitchen. He had a fight with a boy at school and left home to escape a "licking" from his dad. He got a job helping ... schooling Davy ever had. Davy Crockett was licensed to marry Margaret Elder in 1805, but this license was never used. However, he was married to Polly Finlay in 1806, just after his twentieth birthday. They lived for the next few years in a small cabin near the Crockett family, where their two sons, John Wesley and William, were born. After Polly Finlay's death in 1815 he married Elizabeth Patton, a ...
- 1015: Robert E. Lee
- ... introduced to war early in his life; his brother Sydney had shown him a cannon ball and told him about the revolution. Mrs. Lee's stepson was old enough to claim the mansion where they lived that his dead mother had gave to him in his will. The Lee's left to live in Alexandria. Lee was brought up in a Christian family. When Lee was 18, he went to West ... the family. Lee had been involved in the war for the whole time that it was going on. He had many battles, and he was fighting very bravely and strong until the war ended. He lived a happy life after the war was over. Word Count: 642
- 1016: A Dolls House
- ... view of her as a stereotypical wife. She chooses instead to see herself as someone in process, in a state of becoming rather than of having defined being. When she leaves, Nora understands that she lived her life as only an unquestioning follower, or as a doll in a doll house. Never being able to choose or express a hope, desire, thought, or wishes, without consideration of the dominant authority in ... was a succession for all expectations put on a woman and wife by society. The story is believable. It stands for every marriage where equality never took place. Many women knew their social status and lived as they were meant to, but for the few that realized there was more to the world then the sheltered life they were living, broke free. Nora was one of the women who knew her ...
- 1017: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... was poor and needed money to live so Ozzy did what he could do to help out even if it did mean he had to steal. He used drugs often because of the life he lived and also because of his deep depression and state of mind. But Ozzy would not be who he is today if he had lived a different life. If his family was rich I bet he would have never started a musical career and never met Sharon. The music of the world would have been different if this one man ...
- 1018: Mozambique
- ... Many railroads link Mozambiques ports with other countries. The chief airport of Mozambique is located in Maputo. Three daily newspapers are published in this country and the basic unit of money is metical. People have lived in what is now Mozambique since the 4000's B.C. Bantu speaking people settled there before A.D. 100. Arabs lived in the area by the 800's. Portuguese explorers first visited Mozambique in 1497. They established a trading post there in 1505, and the country became a slave trading center. But most of Mozambique was ...
- 1019: The Town Of Cheltenham
- ... railway. It was called "The Canadian National Railway". The railway provided cheap and good transportation. The railway delivered products made in Cheltenham to many places. The railway offered alot of jobs for the people who lived in Cheltenham. Many people from other places came on the train and came to Cheltenham to buy things or to start a business of their own because of the good transportation availible. There were lots ... there was no more good transportation the owners of stores closed down and moved also. When the Interprovincial Brick Company opened it did not effect Cheltenham's population because most of the forty workers either lived at the brickyards or commuted from nearby villages, such as Terra Cotta, but the increased business was not enough to keep Cheltenham's general stores and hotels going. But there was a small rise in ...
- 1020: "The Baltics: Nationalities And Other Problems"
- ... were gradually absorbed by the stronger and crystallized into larger national units." (4) "Also in answering the ethnic question, one is aided by fragmentary historical sources, which mention the individual Baltic nations and tribes which lived in certain areas, as for example the Aistians(100 AD), Galindians and Sudovians (second centuty, AD), Semigallians (870 AD), Prussians (ninth century AD), Curonians (875 AD), Yatvingians (983 AD), Lithuanians (1009 AD), Galindians (1058 AD ... s purges. Briefly, in 1953, Moscow felt comnfortable in allowing Second secretaries of the party, all of whom had been Russian since 1945, to be ethnically represented again. However, this change of heart was short-lived. Russians came back into those positions in Lithuania in 1955, in Latvia in 1956, and in Estonia, a Russianized "Yestonian" was able to hold on from 1953 until 1964. (39) (See Appendix) In 1956, dissatisfaction ...
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