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- 771: Effects Of The Great Depression On Canada
- ... cars and called them "Bennett Buggies". Some people were going quite crazy and often did not really care what consequences they would have to face. A description of the state of turmoil: Only those who lived through it could realize what it meant to travel for miles over a wasteland, with the dust and Russian thistle blowing across the fields and piling up on the fences; to see cattle and horses ... 9 People were so worse off that they did not have a job, money, enough food and only ripped clothing to wear. Only some individuals were quite well off as they had fixed salaries and lived comfortably. The teachers and the ministers were two groups of people who really found the Great Depression a struggle: People who really affected from social effects of the Great Depression were school teachers and religious ...
- 772: E.e. Cummings, Poem, Anyone Li
- "anyone lived in a pretty how town" I first read this poem and I thought of love, two people in love. Anyone and noone are in love and that is what matters to them, to be in ... on e of the many uncertainties I still have after reading this poem. I really liked this poem from the beginning the title captured my attention and led me to read more. The title "anyone lived in a pretty hoe town" seemed to be simple, but the way he worded it seemed to make me want to know more. So I decided on this poem. It is not extremely long, but ...
- 773: The Trancontinental Railroad
- ... included trees, rocks, and dirt. About 1,200 Chinese workers were killed during the railroad construction, mainly because of unstable explosives. While the laborers were in danger constantly on the job, the conditions that they lived in also proved hazardous. When the railroad progressed so did the towns where the workers lived. These porta-towns were dubbed “Hell on Wheels” (Klein 76). “Those hardy enough to visit the place came away with the feeling they had glimpsed a suburb of hell” (Klein 77). They were ...
- 774: Maya Angelou 5
- ... of American had irregular eating habits, and generally did not get three meals a day. Only about 8% were getting only one meal a day, and this was not stolid food. Day after day, people lived off of bread, potatoes, macaroni, spaghetti, canned soups and thin gravy. Meat and vegetables were rarely served. A common response, often heard, when children were asked if they had eaten today was No, this is ... to compose a poem for his inauguration, just as JFK had done with Robert Frost in 1961. She delivered a stunning piece at the culmination of the Jan 1993 ceremony. During the 1060 s she lived ion Egypt where she was the associate editor of the Arab Observer in Cario. From 1964 to 1966, she was a feature editor of the African Review. Today Maya lectures in the United States and ...
- 775: Death Of A Salesman: Willy's Life
- ... in the end Willy learns Bernard is an attorney, and is very successful. That’s the irony of life that adds a nice twist to the end of the play. The way that Willy Loman lived his life is the way he ended it. Everyone wants success, but it shouldn’t be at the cost of happiness. Sometimes you just have to be content with what you have. In act 1 ... blame but yourself. Willy Loman had good intentions he just didn’t realize his thoughts were wrong. In the end suicide was his escape. The only people who truly got hurt was his family. He lived his life to make their lives better, but in the end his obsession and eventually his suicide would ruin the life of everyone he loved.
- 776: Marilyn Monroe 2
- ... father. Due to her mother's mental instability and the fact that she was unmarried at the time, Norma Jeane was placed in the foster home of Albert and Ida Bolender. It was here she lived the first 7 years of her life. In 1933, Norma Jeane lived briefly with her mother. Gladys begin to show signs of mental depression and in 1934 was admitted to a rest home in Santa Monica. Grace McKee, a close friend of her mother took over the ...
- 777: Florida Should Legalize Euthanasia
- ... tell you a true story from Vess Fast Access TO Information On Euthanasia, about a 31-year old mother named Sue Rodriguez. Sue Rodriguez was dying slowly of the incurable Lou Gehrig's disease. She lived several years with the knowledge that the disease would one by one waste away her muscles until the point while still conscious the lack of muscles would choke her to death. She begged the courts to allow her and her doctor to choose the moment of her death instead of the inspicable pain of being choked to death. The court refused to mercy her and she lived in terror every day. Every morning she would wake up wondering if this is the day she would be choked to death maybe while her children watch. In February 1994, Sue Rodriguez died. Finally she ...
- 778: Why Did The Textile Workers Un
- ... industries grew they began to control more and more of its employees lives. These huge corporations were permitted to take advantage of individuals because of their inability to fight back. The employyees of these mills lived in conditions resembling that of slaves before the civil war. They were worked greuling hours in inhospitable prisons called textile plants, yet were paid on average less than any other industrial worker in America. In ... owned by sizable corporations, boasted of grated roads…But these communities were the exceptions not the rule…Villages are dirty and streets unkept, and the very sight of the village is a horror.” Workers lived in these conditions and worked in prisons. They worked in factories that had no windows and were surrounded by barb-wire fences. The executives had been able to push the work day to an average ...
- 779: Braveheart
- ... life with the many foolish and unnecessary rules that the king put on his people, which soon led to the death of his wife. William Wallace's life started just like any other boy that lived in Scotland. But it would soon change. The people of Scotland were under the rule of the king of England who happened to be King Edward. The king had told the people that he would ... went to battle. One in which was William's father. They gained nothing from the fight, and now William no longer had a father.William now went to live with his uncle Argile. There he lived for a long term of his life. He was educated and learned to speak Latin with his uncle who he also took him on a pilgrimage to Rome. He returned home to Scotland while in ...
- 780: The Black Panther Party
- ... people will see we're right and support us (Hilliard182). Malcolm X was quoted saying "there is no such thing as a bloodless revolution, and we were soldiers prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. I lived each day with the possibility of death." These were the same words in which Huey N. and Bobby S. and the rest of the Panthers' lived by. Two days after King's death, the first BPP member to join was gunned down, Bobby Hutton, at age 17, by Oakland police in a shoot-out with the Panthers' on April 6, 1968 ...
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