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- 4251: Hiroshima
- ... hospital which took him many years to acquire; Mr. Tanimoto’s church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional vitality. Then the author gives us a letter Mr. Tanimoto wrote to an American. It basically explained the pain and horror of the bomb’s doing to the city. Miss Sasaki Miss Sasaki, still in pain was transported to the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima. Dr. Sasaki tended to ... out of the hospital in 2 weeks. He told Mother Superior that he was going to die in a week or so. But then miraculously regained his white-blood count to a sustaining 5,800. American doctors came to Tokyo to examine his miraculous recovery. The Father was prescribed a 2-hour nap every evening. Father Kleinsorge and Father Laderman(the guy he has been living with) arranged for the purchase ...
- 4252: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... elected government. The war divided Spain both geographically and ideologically and it brought to power General Francisco Franco who ruled Spain from the end of the war until his death in 1975. Following the Spanish American War (1898), Spain lost the remainder of its once great empire. This defeat greatly increased dissatisfaction and the demands for change grew. People disagreed on the changes needed, however and Spanish politics became dominated by ... In the end these forces proved too much to handle for the weary Loyalists, and the war was lost to the Second Republic. For Whom the Bell Tolls is the story of Robert Jordan, an American college Spanish professor, fighting for "the cause" with the loyalists as an expert in demolition. It is written in startlingly crisp, concise prose (something which Hemingway was know for), and is meant to show the ...
- 4253: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... elected government. The war divided Spain both geographically and ideologically and it brought to power General Francisco Franco who ruled Spain from the end of the war until his death in 1975. Following the Spanish American War (1898), Spain lost the remainder of its once great empire. This defeat greatly increased dissatisfaction and the demands for change grew. People disagreed on the changes needed, however and Spanish politics became dominated by ... In the end these forces proved too much to handle for the weary Loyalists, and the war was lost to the Second Republic. For Whom the Bell Tolls is the story of Robert Jordan, an American college Spanish professor, fighting for "the cause" with the loyalists as an expert in demolition. It is written in startlingly crisp, concise prose (something which Hemingway was know for), and is meant to show the ...
- 4254: Everyday Use
- ... provides a good example of this confusion. Evidently, Dee has chosen her new name ("Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo") to express solidarity with her African ancestors and to reject the oppression implied by the taking on of American names by black slaves. To her mother, the name "Dee" is symbolic of family unity; after all, she can trace it back to the time of the Civil War. To the mother, these names are ... as she says: "I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me"(Walker 76). She fails to understand that the name, Dee, also goes back several generations on the American continent and therefore is more part of her heritage than an adopted African name which does not even make sense. The grandmother (sic!) in «Everyday Use» is amazed that Dee would give up her name ...
- 4255: Earth 2 Puzzle
- ... started drinking most of his days away. He would host wild, fancy parties and did not write at all during the next three years. At war's end, Ernest went to England and met an American foreign correspondent named Mary Welsh. He divorced Martha and married Mary in Havana, in 1946. Ernest was a man of extremes; living either in luxury or happy to do without material things. Ernest, always haunted ... of them were regular army personnel. Like Hemingway, Henry was shot in his right knee, during a battle. Both men were Americans, but a difference worth noting was that Hemingway was a driver for the American Red Cross, while Henry was a medic for the Italian Army. In real life, Hemingway met his love, Agnes, a nurse, in the hospital after being shot; Henry met his love, Catherine Barkley, also a ...
- 4256: Dolly Madison
- ... War of 1812. She saved many state papers and a portrait of George Washington. At three o'clock a messenger came galloping up and told Dolly that she must leave. For the second time in American history, the British were coming! At Dolly's suggestion, "French" John Siousa and Magrau, the gardener, broke the frame containing Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Mr. Washington and gave the picture to some gentlemen for safe keeping. Dolly herself passed through the dining room, crammed some things into her reticule, and was then driven to Georgetown in her carriage. The Castle was abandoned; to be raided, first, by American stragglers, and then to be burned by the British who conflagrated it after marching fifty sailors and marines silently through the avenue. Mrs. Smith wrote to Dolly, "How gloomy is the scene, I do not ...
- 4257: Death Of A Salesman - Minor Characters
- ... in the play's outcome and help develop the main character, Willy. Ben is a figment of Willy's imagination who represents his idealistic view of prosperity. Ben is symbolic of the success of the American Dream. "when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich"(48). Ben earned his affluence without the help of an ... hand on it. Where is it?"(86). Ben questions the success of Willy's sales job and states that in order to be prosperous, one must physically touch it. Ben represents the success of the American Dream and functions in order to make Willy doubt the actions of hard work. Charley is Willy's closest friend and he displays the failure of Willy Loman's ideals. He is a very realistic ...
- 4258: Death Of A Salesman
- Seeking the American Dream of Success Arthur Miller’s " Death of A Salesman" could be described as a study in the American Dream ideology, a system that at times is indescribably brutal and at other times compassionates.
- 4259: Dealers Of Lighting
- ... a daring raid to obtain the technology that would end up at the heart of the Macintosh. In the late 1960s, Xerox founded a PARC, California. Eventually, that facility, became ground zero of the computer revolution. the dinosaur era of computing, a typical machine filled a large room and was shared by dozens of researchers. Hiltzik credits Robert W. Taylor, who assembled the PARC team, with changing that. A psychologist, rather ... Alto was the world’s first personal computer, seams overstated; his strictly technological, mine involving price and marketing. However, in writing the book Hiltzik drew on the recollections of those who participated in the technological revolution of the 1970’s He interviewed all the obvious suspects and not a few innocent bystanders. Long before IBM launched its PC and laid the foundation for Microsoft’s Windows with a prototype graphical user ...
- 4260: Daisy Miller
- ... and interests much like himself and his father. The people in this society had enough money to develop their ideas and refinements. Also, Henry James was the first writer to introduce the theme of an American in Europe( Henry James). Characters in Daisy Miller Daisy Miller A young, exceptionally pretty, young lady from the United States who shocks the more formalized European society by her spontaneous acts. Mrs. Miller Daisy’s ... some medicine. Daisy Miller No, I don't care if I die. (dies) Frederick Winterbourne Those wacky Americans. I'll never understand them. The End. Theme Basically, all of James’ novels have the same theme, American vs. European. I found many other themes. Innocence vs. Knowledge; Utility vs. Form and ceremony; Spontaneity vs. Ritual; Chaos vs. Order. Point of View The story is told through Winterbourne’s eyes. It’s 1st ...
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