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- 221: Everyday Use
- ... story about how people get caught up in the superficial value of material things, and the jealousy this desire causes. In this short story Dee, the eldest daughter, was always ashamed by the way she lived during her childhood years. As she was educated more and more, her feelings of hatred for poverty and ignorance grew intensely. After she finished college her abhorrent feelings grew immensely, and she tried to take advantage of those less educated than her. Dee always hated the way she lived when she was being raised by her mother. Dee was obviously overjoyed when the house that she hated so much, was finally destroyed. "A look of concentration on her face as she watched the last ... get her new Polaroid camera; she takes pictures of how her mother and sister are currently living in a run down shack with cows roaming the yard. Dee was always ashamed of they way she lived in her past, but now that she was starting to disassociate herself from the family she started to look around the house for souvenirs of her impoverished past. When she goes inside and begins ...
- 222: Thomas More’s Utopia
- ... became king (The World Book Encyclopedia 802). During the reign of Henry VII More grew into manhood. His father was John More, a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn. After schooling at St. Anthony’s he lived with John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Comptons Encyclopedia 582). Morton recognized the talents of his young page and advised him to go to Oxford to study. He became a lawyer and a scholar in Latin ... Encyclopedia 802). More’s personality can be summed up as a man who had reat concern for the problems of this day and spiritual departure from worldly affairs. He was a devoted family man, and lived a plain, simple, private life. He was known for his wit. Yet to the people of his day, More was a contradictory figure (The World Book Encyclopedia 802). Did More think that society such as ... out was that utopians lack the privileges of Christians who have received the holy relations through the church and Christ. You can see how they did behave and the peaceful and rewarding lives that they lived. Works Cited Encarta. 1999. “More, Thomas.” Comptons Encyclopedia. 1991 edition. More, Thomas. Utopia. London: Penguin Books, 1965. “More, Sir Thomas.” Collier’s Encyclopedia. 1996 edition. “More, Sir Thomas.” ...
- 223: Richard M. Nixon
- ... 9, 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon was born in that very house. Hannah and Frank would have three more children: Donald (born in 1914), Arthur (born in 1918), and Edward (born in 1930). The Nixon family lived on the edge of poverty. The lemon ranch didn't make enough money to provide for the family of seven, so Frank started doing odd jobs (namely building houses) AND ran the lemon ranch to ... Pat found a job and moved to San Francisco. Richard went to sea. Two years later, in 1944, Nixon came back to the U.S. and was sent to Northern CA, where he and Pat lived together again. He was then sent to Pennsylvania, and he and Pat moved again. Nixon was released from the Navy, and he and Pat lived a normal life. But 1946 was a year of many changes. On February 17, 1946, the Nixon's first child, Tricia, was brought into the world. Then, to add to his joy, Nixon was ...
- 224: Zinn's A People's History Of The United States: The Oppressed
- ... Zinn correctly credits as being the root of many of the problems that we as a nation have today. It is refreshing to see a book that spends space based proportionately around the people that lived this history. When Columbus arrived on the Island of Haiti, there were 39 men on board his ships compared to the 250,000 Indians on Haiti. If the white race accounts for less than two ... come not from the slaves but from the proletariat in the form of the frontier whites. Nathaniel Bacon led a revolution against Virginia governor William Berkeley and his conciliatory Indian policies. Bacon and others who lived on the western frontier wanted more protection from the government against Indian attacks. Berkeley and his cronies were so concerned with their own financial and political gain that they ignored Bacon's Rebellion and continued ... the side of the peoples that seldom get represented. Columbus's treatment of the Native Americans was atrocious, abominable, and abhorrent, yet most history texts treat him as one the greatest men to have ever lived. If your value as a human being is measured by the number of lives you ruin, people you kill, and civilizations you destroy, then Columbus is on par with Josef Stalin. This example may ...
- 225: D.h. Lawrence
- ... to write. This writing was done in secret, under the guise of 'lessons', at home. The only person to see this very early work was Jessie Chambers, a fellow pupil-teacher and close friend who lived at Haggs Farm. This farm and family provided a second home for the adolescent Lawrence, away from the strains of his own family. Here, he helped with the hay-making, discussed books and organized charades ... was still performing energetically, mimicking Navajo Indians complete with war-whoops; he delighted the visiting Americans but terrified his own party who feared that he would provoke another haemorrhage of the lungs. "I hadn't lived before I lived with Lawrence" - Frieda Lawrence In May 1913, Sons and Lovers was published in Great Britain. It did not sell spectacularly well, and Lawrence faced the possibility that he may have to return to teaching. ...
- 226: Aztec Indians 2
- ... number of different, even contradictory, myths describing the creation of the world, the gods, and it's people (205). There are indeed numerous myths that can be interpreted as being the reason why the Aztecs lived the life that they did. The fact of the matter is that no one myth or combination of beliefs can truly explain the complexities of a society that existed centuries ago. The way of life ... the first sun, when a race of giants roamed the earth. This sun was destroyed by jaguars who ate the giants and destroyed the earth. During the second sun, presided over by Quetzalcoatl, humans who lived on acorns populated the earth. This sun was destroyed by hurricanes, and the people were transformed into monkeys. People of the third sun, under the god Tlaloc, ate aquatic seeds. The world was destroyed by ... the organic bodies incorporating this energy die, their energy is reconverted into light and returns to the sun. (Waters 206) This illustration of the sun can be seen as the basis for which the Aztecs lived. The Aztecs were indeed the people of the sun. They held many myths that centered around the creation and rising of the sun, and it was through these myths that they created their own ...
- 227: The Life Of Chief Seattle
- ... line of descent passed matrilineally. This was sometimes the case when fathers died while their son's were was still young and the mother would return to her tribe to raise the children. The Duwamish lived on the Duwamish River and various islands across the Puget Sound. Seattle was married twice, his first wife Ladaila, died after bearing one daughter, Kiksomlo, known as "Angeline". His second wife, Oiahl, had three daughters ... and continued the friendly relations with the local whites that had been established by his father. Seattle learned early in his life that peace was preferable to war. Seattle moved to Port Madison Reservation and lived in Old Man House, just across from Bainbridge Island; "This was a community house measuring some 60' x 900' feet easily the largest Indian made wooden structure in the region". (4) When settlers first came ... never really stopped and noticed the number of cities, rivers, landmarks and waterways in Washington State that have been named after Indians and Explorer's to the Pacific Northwest. Especially that the Skagit tribe that lived in Penn Cove on Whidbey Island. Penn Cove is less than five minutes away from my mother's house. I remember riding my bike there as a child. This paper has brought new insight ...
- 228: Extinct Animals Research: Woolly Mammoth
- ... elephants, care for them would most probably require most of the same factors to keep it alive. Since the Woolly Mammoth has been extinct for 4000 years, it is difficult to tell exactly what they lived on, but we can hypothesize. The Woolly Mammoth lived during the Ice Age, so if alive today, it must be kept in a tundra environment. For food, only basic tundra vegetation is necessary. Due to the thick pelt that the Woolly Mammoth has, any ... huge tusks and thick furs, so it would be necessary to post guards around it's cage at all times. A large-scale habitat would be constructed for this creature since, during the period it lived, the Pleistocene, there were no restrictions on the places it could roam to. There was nothing stopping this beast from stomping along to wherever it wanted to go. A Woolly Mammoth might find it ...
- 229: Czechoslovakia
- ... Cech's people were happy in the Czech lands, and after a few generations and some time had passed, the Slavs of Bohemia had a new leader - a guy by the name of Krok, who lived at Vysehrad (which means "high castle" and is today the site of the Czech National Cemetery). Probably the most important thing about Krok were his three very beautiful daughters, who were named Kazi, Teta and ... world in the first half of the seventh century AD - was probably a real person. It's hard to tell, though, since nobody is sure of minor details like where Samo was from, where Samo lived, or where Samo ruled - if, that is, he existed at all. If he did, he is thought to have been a Frankish merchant who placed himself on the side of the Slavs against the wicked ... the Great Moravian Empire. Again, reports on the Great Moravian Empire are fuzzy. According to period chronicles, the people living along the Morava River at the time were already known as "Moravians," and their short-lived empire existed "somewhere" between today's Slovakia and Germany, and Poland and Austria (that is, somewhere in today's Czech Republic) in the 8th and/or 9th century. Just like Wogastisburg Fortress, it's ...
- 230: To Kill A Mocking Bird: The Ewell Residence
- ... I detected squirrel cooking, but it took a real country man like Atticus to identify possum and rabbit, aromas that vanished when we rode back past the Ewell residence." The members of the black community lived in poverty like the Ewells, but unlike the Ewells they managed to keep their homes neat and their children fed. Lee makes this comparison and then goes on the say that the Ewells are still ... up many subjects that could be considered universal truths. For example, Lee states that, "Every town the size of Maycomb had families like the Ewells. No economic fluctuations changed their status--people like the Ewells lived as guests of the county in prosperity as well as in the depths of a depression." This is true, almost every place has its leaches, but I would doubt if most would be as hospitable ... of society. This would be true for any children living abusive or negligent environments. Harper Lee's in-depth description of the Ewell house hold leads to the conclusion that even though the Mr.Ewell lived in disgusting, self- inflicted poverty and abused and neglected his children he was still more respected than any of the black people in Maycomb. This is because communities like Maycomb just assume that because ...
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