![]() For his role in this event, he was arrested on charges of conspiracy and ultimately served six months in the Woodstock, Illinois jail for contempt of court. After the Panic of 1893, Debs led a boycott of Pullman railroad cars after George Pullman (1831-1897) announced a wage decrease without reciprocal rent reductions in Pullman’s company town. After dropping out of school at the age of fourteen to take a position as a laborer for the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railway Company, Debs rose to become the president of the American Railway Union. (“To His Coy Mistress,” ll.Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) was one of the most prominent native-born American radicals. “So how about your phone number?” He was rebounding maturely. “Been in a couple of movies.” She smiled like a fan. “I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.”Ħ.“I act too,” he lied to enhance the effect more. “Yes, it really was,” said Eddie, following her into the drawing-room. The more I knocked and called the faster he went.” 69 – 74 69–74 69–74)ĥ.“I have had such a dreadful experience with a taxi-man he was most sinister. “You were right earlier: the sturgeon was a bit off !” The official got into a sleigh and drove off, but suddenly turned around and called out: “If you only knew what a charming woman I met in Yalta!” 513 – 519 513–519 513–519)Ĥ.One night, as he was leaving the Doctors’ Club together with his partner, an official, he could not help himself and said: What do they talk about?Īlgernon: The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course. Jack: I should extremely like to meet them. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. The thing has become an absolutely public nuisance. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now. 197 – 201 197–201 197–201)Ģ.London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public. ![]() The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. Indeed, it is not even decent - and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. (D) All intended to exterminate or remove American IndiansĮxplain how the author uses irony to make a serious comment in each of the following excerpts from readings in this chapter.ġ.She will place me next Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner table. ![]() (C ) All attempted to dominate American Indians in some way (B) All emphasized developing extensive trade with American Indians (A) All wanted to convert American Indians to Catholicism Which of the following generalizations best describes a similarity among Indian," The American Indian: Past and Present, 1971 1971 1971 Oliver LaFarge, anthropologist, "Myths That Hide the American The great Spanish contribution was the horse." "The Spanish, then did not set populations in motion. Therefore theyĭid not dislodge or exterminate the Indians. and the Indian labor force was essential to their aims. The SpanishĬame quite frankly to conquer, to Christianize. Their verbal adherence to fine principles of justice and fair dealing. Therefore, in direct competition with the Indians and acted accordingly, despite ![]() They came in thousands to occupy the land. "The British invaders of the New World, and to lesser degree the French,Ĭame to colonize. Important in the early influence: the dislodgement of eastern tribes, the intro-ĭuction of the horse, and metal tools and firearms. the white man turned everything upside down. "Part of the myth about the first Americans is that all of them. ![]()
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