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- 1361: Ambushed Tradition
- ... hurt each other physically. I did love her, after all, and she loved me. But those arguments were just as damaging as a fist"(Alexie, Lone 185). Junior made this statement about the girl he lived with in Seattle. Another case is James and his inability to take things seriously where his wife, Norma, was concerned. For example, in the story "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor." Norma tells him ... funny.... Norma heard what he had to say, stood up and left him"(Alexie, Lone 159). Spirituality and family were important to the traditional Indian. For generations Native Americans had a very simple life. They lived off of the land. This land is one they greatly respected, just as they respected their elders. The existence of the tribe was dependent on the family unit. Meaning the family of the tribe as ...
- 1362: Fahrenheit 451: Criticizing The Modern World
- ... society Bradbury has predicted to come. Montag’s world continues on without thought; without any real reason. There is no learning, no growth, and no purpose. “The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in the dark corner of the firehouse” (24), wrote Bradbury to describe this hound. Like the hound, society was alive yet ... the ‘disturbing’ outside world was cut off as to protect the citizens from having to worry. The people were oblivious to the war raging outside, and the bomb that eventually killed them. The society lived in blind happiness. Paralleling this society is The Hound. When it attacks its victim, it injects lethal doses of morphine, causing the person to experience drowsiness and fall into a deep relaxing sleep, unaware that ...
- 1363: The Color Purple: Celie
- ... that was reminiscent of the days of slavery. The problem was that they had to endure being treated like an inferior being by their own families sometimes, as well as from the white people that lived there. It was a life that was filled with misery for many black women, and they felt helpless to do anything about their situations. The book focuses mainly on a woman named Celie, who has lived a hard life already when, at the age of 14 she begins writing letters to God to have someone to confide in, and tell her thoughts and secrets to. In her first letter, she says ...
- 1364: Autobiography Of Thomas Jefferson
- ... only instances in which I have met with the name in that country. I have found it in our early records, but the first particular information I have of any ancestor was my grandfather who lived at the place in Chesterfield called Ozborne's and ownd. the lands afterwards the glebe of the parish. He had three sons, Thomas who died young, Field who settled on the waters of Roanoke and ... beyond that ridge. He was the 3d or 4th settler of the part of the country in which I live, which was about 1737. He died Aug. 17. 1757, leaving my mother a widow who lived till 1776, with 6 daurs & 2. sons, myself the elder. To my younger brother he left his estate on James river called Snowden after the supposed birth-place of the family. To myself the lands ...
- 1365: Emerson
- ... Haskins was the daughter of a cooper and distiller. He was the fourth of six children in his family. Three of his brothers were very intelligent. Of the other two, one was mentally retarded and lived most of his life in institutions. The other was insane for a time. was a serious young boy who was liked by elders more than those of his own age. He never went out to play with the boys because he liked doing things that had to do with literature which was not really interesting to them. His early life was not a happy one. He lived in poverty, sickness, and frustration. On April 26, 1807, his brother John Clarke died. His father then died on May 12, 1811 and left his mother to take care of the children alone. One of ...
- 1366: Ernest Hemingway
- lived his life as he wanted. His writing touched the hearts of millions. His sentences were short and to the point but his novels strong and unforgettable. He wrote about what he felt like writing about ... was the perfect place for his novel A farewell to arms. He was allowed to go home after his stay at the American Hospital in Italy. He returned to Oak Hill without any complaints. He lived with his mom until he refused to get a job was kicked out of the house. After that he moved to Chicago and got a job writing for the Toronto Star and was a sparring ...
- 1367: The American Civil War
- ... distance of 400 miles and was 60 miles wide on the way. For 32 days no news of him reached the North. He had cut himself off from his base of supplies, and his men lived on what ever they could get from the country through which they passed. On their route, the army destroyed anything and everything that they could not use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In ... when they arrived. The fires had been set to cotton bales by Confederate Calvary to prevent the Federal Army from getting them and the high winds quickly spread the fire. The controversy would be short lived as no proof would ever be presented. So with Columbia, Charleston, and Augusta all fallen, Sherman would continue his drive north toward Goldsboro. On the way, his progress would be stalled not by the Confederate ...
- 1368: Malcolm X
- ... same agencies for destroying his family. He was bounced around from boardinghouses and schools, and dreamed of becoming a lawyer only to be discouraged by his teachers. After leaving school, in the eighth grade, he lived with a relative in Boston, Mass. He shined shoes, worked in a restaurant and on a railroad kitchen crew. In 1942 he moved to a section in New York called Harlem. Where he lived as a hustler, cheating people to make money for himself. He also sold drugs and became a drug addict himself. A rival drug dealer named "West Indian Archie" ran him out of New York. And ...
- 1369: Important People In History
- ... on the study of observable behaviour. Durkheim, Emile - Sociologist (1859- 1917) Durkheim was a French philosopher. He was generally the founder of modern sociology. He was very interested in the change in society because he lived in an era od great social upheaval. From his studies he saw that earlier societies had stayed together because the people living in it had realized that they couldn't live unless they co-operated ... thinks that society is moving to fast for them or they can't cope with life. He predicted that anomic suicide would be the most common in the future. Marx, Karl - Sociologist (1818- 1883) Marx lived during the industrial revolution when a lot of the factories were replacing small shops. Marx asked a question to himself "Why was it that a few had become wealthy while the majority had nothing?" The ...
- 1370: Jane Austen: Her Life And Work
- ... 3) Although Jane said this she was "very educated. She knew how to speak french, some Italian and Latin. She read Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson and Cowper (big poets of her time)." (Tucker, pg. 7) Jane lived in Steventon for 25 years. She moved in 1801 with her parents and sister to Bath. They stayed there until after her fathers death in 1804. Jane had a lot of depressing moments in 1804 ... importance of her family, just like the importance of families in her books. She played a "dutiful daughter and loving sister and a favorite aunt to tons of nieces and nephews. (Southam, pg. 12) Austen lived her life quietly. It was "quiet and uneventful, by modern standards (her life) was narrow and unrestrictive." (Southam, pg. 12) Jane had an "obsessive need for privacy." (Southam, pg.12) She published her books "anonymously ...
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