Possessing the gun gave Louise power over the scum. ... Clairee, played by Olympia Dukakis, is the wealthy, comedic woman and Ouiser, played by Shirley MacLaine, is the grouchy woman who tells those around her what she thinks with little censoring. ... Louise, too, risks her life to save Thelma's. ... Thelma helps Louise in a similar way. ... Also, Louise trades her jewelry for a beat up old cowboy hat. ...

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Characters Louise Mallard Her husband is reportedly killed in a train accident. ... Brently Mallard He is Louise's husband, who was reportedly killed in a train accident. Although Louise remembers him as a kind and loving man, she sees him as the primary reason of why she was reduced to the state of a typical obedient housewife. ... Josephine She is Louise's sister who carefully informed her about her husband's death. Richards He was Brently's friend who learned about the train accident and Brently's death at the newspaper office, and was present when Josephine told L...

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Ted Bundy Brian Plourde Professor Herring Criminology May 1, 2000 The name Theodore Bundy, more commonly known as Ted Bundy, is a household name. Not only is Ted Bundy a household name, it is one that sends chills through the bodies of those who hear it mentioned. This bone gnawing effect is felt mo...

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"The story of an hour- is a story written by Kate Chopin, an American author. In this short story she Kate Chopin was born Kate O'Flaherty, on February 8, 1850 in St. Louis/Missouri. She was the daughter of an Irish immigrant father and a French Creole mother. Kate was the third of five children,...

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After we checked into the Hotel Ambasciatori Palace, we took our own small little tour. ... The taxi driver and the souvenir shop sales lady were impolite but we didn't really care since we knew that the French are famous for being a little snobbish and unforgiving of overseas visitors who try hard to speak their language and make mistakes. ... The construction was entrusted to Chalgrin, who built a model of the arch on the real site in 1810 for Napoléon's wedding to Marie-Louise, daughter of the Austrian ambassador. ...

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Furious, Emily Murphy gathered four other women, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards, and together they created and sent a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada. ... Before she ran for parliament she was a schoolteacher, which was an ambition she had since she was a little girl. ... However during the time the government did little to stop and help them, and tired of government reports Macphail travelled to Cape Breton herself and saw first hand the horrible living conditions that the men and their families were in. ... Macphail was also a pacifist, s...

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Being born to Earl Littles, who was a member of the 'Universal Negro Improvement Association ', Malcolm experienced a firsthand racism at an early age. ... Despite Little receiving threats of death from the White racists, the police force dismissed the claims of threats citing that Malcolm's father committed a suicide. Malcolm's mother suffered a shock as a result of Little's demise. ... However, Louise, is Malcolm's mother, was fathered by the white man via raping. ...

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A dark corner of history now has a little more light. Never has a book of history opened my eyes wider, captivated me more, than the story of Malcom Little. ... It was hard for Louise Little to take care of her family and she finally had to ask for help from the government relief program. ... A summer with his half sister, Ella Little, showed Malcom just what he was missing. ... It was the question, some argue, that changed Malcom Little's life forever. ...

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Ratched employs her stringency and authority to obtain the maximum amount of control with little resistance. ... "The hoity-toity boys with the nice long hair combed so perfectly and the limp little wrists that flip so nice....

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Sociology 11/09/01 When the tragedy happened at Waco with David Koresh, to many it resembled the tragedy with Jim Jones in Guyana. Jim Jones and David were alike in many ways as leaders of their occults. The death toll in Guyana was over 900, in Waco it was about 90. In the mass suicide in Gu...

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Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the President," he said, "seems to be expected ... to look out for the general interests of the country"(Internet 1). He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted i...

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Handguns and long guns are not little killing machines. ... On balance, they show that there is nothing to be gained from reducing the general level of gun ownership. (3) A thorough review of 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the overall effect on criminal violence was zero. (4) In one study, researchers found no significant differences in total robbery rates between cities where guns were widely available and cities where they were not; in cities with fewer firearms, armed robbers simply used other weapons. (5) The best available ev...

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Dennis was also a little prankster, and his father was the butt of the joke many times. ... As a teen, Carl was in to Rock"n"Roll, especially Little Richard and Chuck Berry. ... Alan Charles Jardine was born on September 3, 1942 in Lima, Ohio to parents Charles Jardine and Virginia Louise Loxley. ...

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(Emmanuel Radnitsky 1890-1976) Armed with his exotic new persona, Man Ray broke from the cocoon of his early life. One day at Stieglitz's he heard about an ongoing series of art classes and lectures sponsored by the Ferrer Modern School, which had just moved to a brownstone building at 63 East 107th Street from downtown headquarters, first at St. Mark's Place, then on East Twelfth Street. Thursday and Friday evening art classes ("with living model") were twenty cents per session. And on Wednesday nights, the popular critic John Weichsel spoke on cultural and aesthetic topics. ...

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Politics, art, and utopia in French anarchism and Italian futurism 1890-1920 In Paroles d'un revolte, Peter Kropotkin outlined a new vision for the arts as part of his anarchist philosophy, asserting that "the arts have a mission to accomplish for the achievement of the future society... Depict for us in your vivid style or in your fervent paintings the titanic struggle of the people against their oppressors; inflame young hearts with the beautiful breath of revolution which inspired our anarchism"1. This sentiment marks the beginning of a struggle commenced by the anarchists and brou...

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Abstract Homelessness is quite an issue that affects many today. Research indicates that homelessness is not defined the same globally and that there are certain guidelines to each definition. There are also many reasons behind homelessness, on a social, economic and psychological level. Those wh...

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He and Garibaldi had little political principle but only unification from below and under the flag of republicanism. ... The main forces of Risorgimento, that is, Romanticism with the intellectual work of Lesparda and Mazzini and industrialism with little economic basis and an awakened education were still weak, uncoordinated, vague in goal and divided in leadership and this was no clear effort to know which method was to the employed. ... While the Carbonari was now served little, but the "political immigration was the political hard school in which the political philosophy of Italian unific...

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