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- 1081: Mother 2
- Freeman s Mother "The revolt of Mother" is an interesting short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, who lived, in the late nineteenth century. This short story presents important aspects of Freeman life. Throughout this story she express the miserable life that her mother was having with her father and what she did to ... as her husband. "Mother" has to ask him more than once about the barn. The son knew for three months that his father was building a barn, yet "Mother" was not informed. Freeman's mother lived forty years keeping silence about her feeling and discrimination. Towards the end of the story, Freeman expresses what should her mother do to claim for her rights. She describes "Mother" as taking enough courage to ...
- 1082: Karl Marx
- ... 13 1849, , was, yes, banished once again. That would be the last time was banished anywhere. His last trip would take him to London where he would live for the rest of his life. Marx lived a hard life in London. If it had not been for the financial help from his good friend Engels, he would have not been able to continue his lifelong struggle. Marx got himself involved in ... It was difficult for him to support his family. In the summer or that year, he became a correspondent for New York Times. Even then, income was irregular. Because of such hardships, the Marx family lived in very poor conditions. The Marx were so poor that only 3 of the 7 children survived. Once on better grounds of living, Marx once again studied political economy. He worked with vigor to gain ...
- 1083: Maggie, A Girl From The Street
- ... her own actions. The most powerful construction device used throughout the novel is the setting. The tenement houses in the 1890s were crowded, lacking in good sanitation, and filled with disease. Also, the people who lived in the tenement houses would often fight with each other. The houses were most often located in an alley with other dangerous sorts of people. The tenement house that the Johnson family inhabited was located ... from the tenement houses. The theatre made her think. She wondered if the culture and refinement she had seen imitated, perhaps grotesquely, by the heroine on the stage, could be acquired by a girl who lived in a tenement house and worked in a shirt factory. She also believed that Pete, a man who was older and wiser than her, was her one true love. Maggie perceived that here was the ...
- 1084: World Art
- ... of history we don’t often think of art. We don’t realize how the history of art can help us learn more about the people, the cultures, and the belief systems of those who lived hundreds and thousands of years before us. Art has developed, influenced, and contributed starting from the great Stone Age to the present day. Art gives an insight into the changes and evolution that man and ... used in the Old and New Stone age, bronze in the Bronze Age, and iron in the Iron Age. The Great Ages began with The Old Stone Age starting at 100,000 BCE. The people lived in tribes and clans and often moved from place to place, hunting and gathering to live. They believed all life was sacred and all beings were divine, including animals. The tribal teachings taught that man ...
- 1085: Labor Unions
- ... States was mainly a nation of small farms. By 1900, it was a nation of growing cities, of coal and steel, of engines and fast communications. Though living standards generally rose, millions of industrial workers lived in crowded, unsanitary slums. Their conditions became desperate in times of business depressions. Then it was not unusual for workers to go on strike and battle their employers. Between 1865 and 1900, industrial violence occurred ... out of every four in the work force. Many more workers had only part-time jobs. In the cities, jobless men stood on long lines for a handout of bread and soup. Many of them lived in shanties near garbage dumps. Men and boys roamed the country, hoping to find work. In the past, depressions had usually hurt unions. Unemployment meant a sharp drop in workers' dues. Then unions became almost ...
- 1086: Who Wants To Be Next In Line
- ... of their greatness because of the fact that they, as warriors, had more to fight for: they have more to lose because they live in freedom. Pericles was extremely proud of the nation that he lived in. His speeches were filled with motivation to instill justice in Athens by praising the people. He persuaded the people of Athens to join him by keeping faith in the maturiy and development of the ... dedication to anything would win mastery of what was practiced. Sparta went on to defeat Athens in many battles and though Pericles aroused the spirit of a free and democratic nation, his legacy was short-lived after such powerful words were spoken. He died in a plague, two short years after he gave his famous oration. A lot like Pericles was Creon, the uncle to ill-fated Antigone in the play ...
- 1087: Violence In Rap Music
- ... going on around them on a daily basis. They were seeing people being shot, drug deals going down, and women being called b*tch*s. "I remember when Straight Outta Compton came out, where I lived we could all relate to what they were rapping about because it was our lifestyle."(Wilson. Interview). So basically art was imitating life. But as the decade took a turn into the ‘90’s ... was shot. His next album that was released after his death was under the name Makaveli, and was called the seven day theory. Seven is a very Page 6 suspicious number in this case. Tupac lived for seven days after the shooting until he died, he was pronounced dead at 4:03 (4+3=7), he was 25 years old at this time (2+5=7). Tupac’s album All Eyez ...
- 1088: John Coltrane
- ... performed in a show with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. As a result of Coltrane's impressive performance, he landed his first big gig with the Dizzy Gillespie band. Despite his first big gig, Coltrane lived his next few years in depression, drugs, and alcohol; however, he gathered the strength to seek rehabilitation. He later converted to Islam and got his life together. In 1950-1951, he continued to work with ... incredibly, two drummers incredibly insofar as Coltrane already had, in Elvin Jones, the most overpowering drummer in jazz. The addition of Rashied Ali to the drum corps, in November of 1965, made for a short-lived collaboration or, rather, competition between Jones and Ali; a disgruntled Jones left the Coltrane band in March of 1966 to join Duke Ellington's. But it was the culmination of Coltrane's search for the ...
- 1089: Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
- ... word to use when referring to an African American. Everyone in town thought Huck had been murdered and thrown into the Mississippi River. In reality though, he was alive on the raft. Huck and Jim lived a life that was as Huck stated ...it s lovely to live on a raft . Later, when the Duke and Dauphin joined them on their raft, and they all became friends; Huck was relieved and thought everyone should ...feel right and kind toward the others... while they lived on the raft. As long as they were on the raft, honesty was kept, but whenever they touched shore they found deceit and greed in the rural Southern United States. Twain contrasted life on the ...
- 1090: Egypt Civilization
- ... all started. Over a period from 3100 B.C. to 332 B.C. they grew in culture, arts, religion, science, medicine, and many other fields. The early Egyptian people grew food by the Nile and lived mainly by hunting for meat, fishing, and gathering wild plants. They kept a small number of cattle, sheep, or goats, and grew a few crops. Their crops were flax, barley, and a primitive kind of ... there was only water. Then, just as happened after the Nile floods every year, the first mound of earth rose out of the waters of chaos. What they believed happened next depended on where they lived. There were common gods to all though. For ordinary families most important in their daily lives were the household Demigods: Thoueris the hippopotamus, and the little frog Hetak, who helped at childbirth; the seven Hathors ...
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