Harold Stassen

A week after Wisconsin in Illinois, Goldwater squared off against Margaret Chase Smith. Rockefeller dared not challenge Goldwater in the conservative state, neither did anyone else of much consequence for that matter with Lodge and Nixon still undeclared. Goldwater needed to prove to Republicans that he could win, and Illinois, with 26 electoral votes, was a coveted prize. Feminist groups put Smith’s name on the ballot, hoping that she could elicit the kind of challenge that made her famous when

“This is the story of Harold Crick, and his wrist watch”, (Voice over by Karen Eiffel, played by Emma Thompson). The sequence continues showing a typical mundane day for Harold Crick, (Played by Will Farrell), a Senior Agent for the Internal Revenue Service, and concludes showing Harold going to bed, then it cuts to show a man giving his son a bicycle as a gift, and a young woman searching the classified ads for a job. Throughout the sequence the voice over describes the way Harold approaches life.

“Hold the wall!” shouted King Harold II as the Normans began to work their way past the Anglo-Saxon shield wall. The Anglo-Saxon empire reigned over London for its fair share of time before William the Duke of Normandy decided to take it from them. William was the son of Robert I and his wife was Matilda of Flanders. William was of Viking origin and he spoke French. King Harold II was ruler of London after King Harold I died. King Harold II was the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. In the year 1066

outdoor footwear and also carried a selection of sports related attire. Just For Feet, Inc., was incorporated in 1977 and was listed on the NASDAQ after its IPO in 1994. The management of the Company was very tightly controlled by founder and CEO Harold Ruttenberg, a South African by origin who shifted to USA in 1970s, and oversaw the rapid expansion of the shoe store chain since the first superstore was opened in 1988. It initially started with the concept of “Super Stores” and grew rapidly till

Assess the extent to which the Wilson Government achieved its objectives by 1970 To assess the Wilson Government which ran from the years 1964 to 1970 you have to look at what the Labour government promised to achieve if they won the election in 1964. You have to look at what the changes the Wilson government brought forward in their time in office and how the personalities of its politician’s effects decisions made. The election campaign in 1964 was a close run contest even though there was

In Winston Churchill’s speech, ‘We Shall Fight On the Beaches’ he presents a powerful call to action directly to the British House of Commons in the year of 1940 on the forth of June. Winston uses the techniques of figurative language to capture his audience’s attention in a way they could understand the importance of his message, without disregarding his high level of intellect. In order for one to truly understand Churchill’s message one must understand the difficult task he was coined with prior

Marshall McLuhan’s theory of “hot” vs. “cool” classified media into two groups and took into consideration extensive understandings of how the media interacts with audience and catoragized them based of an extensive list. Although McLuhan gives an excellent theory of hot vs cold media, time has shown how a hot media has the power of transforming into a cold media and vise verse. In his essay, “Media Hot and Cold,” McLuhan identified film as a very hot media and the internet as a very cool media,

Harold states that the masculine form of her name is Porphyry, a representative in the school of Neoplatonism (20). He concludes that, "Porphyria’s lover fanatically acts in accordance with a Neoplatonic view of the world which carries him . . . into madness

The Power of the Family in White Noise   Don Dellilo's protagonist in his novel "White Noise," Jack Gladney, has a "nuclear family" that is, ostensibly, a prime example of the disjointed nature way of the "family" of the 80's and 90's -- what with Jack's multiple past marriages and the fact that his children aren't all related. It's basically the antipodal image of the 1950's "nuclear family." Despite this surface-level disjointedness, it is his family and the "extrasensory rapport" that

to life, he calls it 'absurd'. Beckett participated in "The Theater of the Absurd", which was a French movement in the fifties' and wrote plays with this theme of 'nothingness'.   Influenced by Beckett and The Theater of the Absurd was Harold Pinter. Important to understanding Pinter's plays is understanding the nature of silence. Pinter "categorized speech as that which attempts to cover the nakedness of silence." In The Dumbwaiter, the dumb-waiter symbolizes a disconnection in human