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- 141: Creative Story: If At First You Don't Succeed
- ... entered the room. THe stately pig sat behind a magnificently carved oak desk in the most luxurious office Sam had ever seen. A plush oriental rug covered the floor from wall to wall, and paintings, pictures, and diplomas adorned the brightly colored walls. Extremely expensive ornaments were conspicuously displayed, spreading a DO-Not-Touch atmosphere around the room. But the room was nothing ... out of here before I eat you for dinner ! Sam ran, half-flying, from the room with terror. Mr. E.Q. Exon EsQ's thundering laughter pursued him to the street. Tears pured down Sam's face as he realized what he had done. *** A few weeks later, Sam smiled. He had it this time. Baths for cats. Just what ...
- 142: Creative Story: Fast Eddie
- ... I was sure no others had looted. I wasn't worried about getting things out because all I would take was small items I could hide in my clothes. The street gangs would take anything larger they saw me carrying. When I got my shoulders through the split in the door frame, I crawled through into the dusty floor. It was ... t need too much light. I looked around. In the center of the room were what seemed to be four padded columns with a seat going around each. The back wall was lined with electronic equipment and six large cases about as big as a washing machine. I recognized the columns. I had seen a special on super computers on TV. This room had four of them. The large electronic cases in the back were data storage. Huge hard drives. The wall I was at had a long counter. Above it was one shelf lined with notebooks, stacks of paper, and boxes of computer disks. I knew that these might be ...
- 143: Harriet Stowe
- ... has been forever captured in her literary works--numbering more than thirty-three. Visitors to Hartford, Connecticut, and residents who choose to visit the Beecher Stowe House at 73 Forest Street can have prompt access to a more intimate side of that legacy. The Beecher Stowe House is a historical treasure chest. But who would know to look? My immediate impression ... be found. I was impressed most when I realized the various statements being made by Beecher Stowe, beginning in the parlor where there are several paintings of flowers on the wall. They are her own renderings and to me they serve as a reminder of how and why she felt the way she did about gardening. She wrote in Meditations from ... Henson, a fugitive slave who, with the help of the Beecher family, escaped to Germany where he became a Doctor of Theology. A Black man's photograph hanging on the wall of a White person's home carries powerful sentiment even today, so you can imagine how sobering it must have been then. These are objects that help manifest a ...
- 144: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... Onassis 1929 - 1994 A government biography indicates that Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was born in 1929 in Southampton, New York. Her father, John Vernou Bouvier III, was a successful Wall Street stockbroker. Her mother, Janet Lee Bouvier, was an equestrian. Jackie spent her childhood in New York City and Long Island with her parents. In 1940 her mother divorced and remarried ... 4) Despite all the support, there were still a lot of uncomfortable times the Kennedy’s had to face. (4) Several occasions the Kennedy’s had to run down the street as they left Jackie’s apartment because of the reporters and photographers who wanted to ask questions and take some pictures. (4) Some questions that were asked didn’t ...
- 145: Creative: In The Lamp Light
- ... to hear you sayin' what she can and can't do." "How dare you! I've got a good mind to--" Roy's snort of derision echoed off the brick wall of the clinic. "That's exactly what you don't got, Howard. I hear you haven't got much mind left at all." Roy pushed past the taller man and ... remember the silence when his silly laugh and the click of his cane on the concrete simply stopped. Howard stared for a long time at the cars passing on the street beyond the wrought-iron fence that fronted the property. Maybe, I thought, he was so upset from his encounter that he was paralyzed. In some kind of stupor. Maybe, I ... me. He stared straight ahead, unseeing, but his lips were moving and, by concentrating, I could make out the words. ". . .and then, thirty years ago, I moved to a little street near Queen. And I remember an ice cream parlor on the northeast corner. And children, I remem--" "Stop!" I screamed into his expressionless face. "You can't do this ...
- 146: The Marshall Plan
- ... envoy to London and Moscow during the second world war. But in Washington and New York, a small group of men feared the worst. Most of them were, like Harriman, Wall Street bankers and diplomats with close ties to Europe and a long view of America's role in the world. They suspected that in the Kremlin, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was ... Urged to "waste not," some schoolchildren formed "clean-plate clubs," but that was about as far as the sacrificial zeal went. Members of Congress were profoundly wary. Bob Lovett, another Wall Streeter who replaced Acheson in the summer of 1947 as under secretary, managed to win over Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Arthur Vandenberg, mostly by feeding him top-secret ...
- 147: I Was With ______ When ......
- ... wearing funny clothing that seemed to stick to their skins. We also saw sliding pieces of glasses in the openings of the boxes. We approached a man standing on the street block carry a funny round object. We approached him. I asked him " Were's here? ". He replied in a strange language whichwe couldn't understand. He took out a small ... he do that. He threw a grunt at me. I remained silent for the rest of the walk. We approached another place with a sliding piece of metal on the wall. It opened when he approached it. He dragged me in. He told me to sit down. I did just that. There was a big table with a rotating chair with ... him with my left hand, he went flying through the door. I picked up his gun from the floor and slid under a couch. Using the mirror on the far wall i aimed my gun towards it's. My computer-aided reflexing caused me to shoot a perfect shot which rebounded off the mirror and hit the man. I yelled ...
- 148: The Life and Accomplishments of John F Kennedy
- ... upset Lodge by 70,637 votes. In 1951, Kennedy met his future wife at a dinner party in Washington, D.C. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was the daughter of a wealthy Wall Street broker, John V. Bouvier III. She had attended Vassar College and the Sorbonne in Paris. When she met Kennedy, she was a student at George Washington University in Washington. Later ... with Khrushchev at a two-day meeting in Vienna, Austria. Nothing was settled, and the crisis deepened. Both countries increased their military strength. In August, the East Germans built a wall between East and West Berlin to prevent people from fleeing to the West. Kennedy called up about 145,000 members of the National Guard and reservists to strengthen U. ...
- 149: Caravaggio
- ... collector, and Matthew, intent on counting coins. The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew captures the moment when the executioner is forcing his victim to the ground. The scene is a public street, and as Matthew's acolyte flees in terror, passersby glance at the act with idle unconcern. An interesting point about these narratives is that they seem as if they were ... works he produced at this time. The Conversion of St. Paul was painted for the Roman church of Santa Maria del Popop in 1601. It is placed on the chapel wall at eye level, to be on the viewer's line of sight. The scene shows the conversion of the Pharisee Saul by a light and a voice form Heaven. The ... a very somber tone, all "movement seems arrested in a few, brief flashes of dazzling light, and the figures have the look of phantoms isolated form the world by a wall of clotted darkness." While at Naples Caravaggio was so severely wounded by one of his enemies that he was left for dead. On October 24, 1609, the report was ...
- 150: Sinclair Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis was an American writer. He lived from 1885 to 1951. His most famous works include Main Street, Babbit, and many others. His form of writing was satirical and his work reflected a lot of his life. Lewis was the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize ... born. In 1919, he published Free Air. After publishing these two novels, Lewis decided to devote his life to writing and in 1920 he gained fame with his novel Main Street. This novel was his first commercial success as a writer. It is about the protagonist ,an emancipated woman, who is eventually ostracized from Gopher Prairie, a community with traditional values ... village life in the story of Carol Milford, the city girl who marries the town doctor. Her efforts to change the culture of the prairie village are confronted by a wall of gossip, greed, and foolish bigotry. It is a study of idealism and reality in a narrow-minded small-town. This book has many parallels with Lewis's early ...
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