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- 4471: James Cook
- ... England in October of 1780. James Cook accomplished many things in his lifetime. He had surveyed and charted thousands of kilometers of coast and solved many mysteries of the Pacific Ocean. He opened the northwest American coast trade and colonization. He also discovered the Hawaiian Island, which he called the Sandwich Islands, and was the first European man to set foot on New Zealand and Vancouver Island. James Cook played a ... river helped the British conquer the French. If he had never gone on these voyages Canada would now be under French rule and we would be living, talking, and acting differently. He opened the northwest American coast to trade which led to the colonization of North America.
- 4472: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... 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 ...
- 4473: Herman Melville: His Life and Works
- Herman Melville: His Life and Works Melville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville was born ... apparent that such idealism offers no practical use in a world that is as much evil as good, and will likely be a burden. Cereno is Melville's strongest example of his suspicions for the American idealist. In this one case through his expression of disgust towards the idealists and their idealism, he has portrayed the image of a hard core idealist who is converted to a realist through the experiences ...
- 4474: Bill Clinton's Affair With Monica Lewinsky
- ... he is a good person. When he meets people in real life, he never pushes them away. On a recent meeting with congress Clinton was telling them that “We have to be there for the American people.”. This is a way of showing his loyalty to the American people. He is a loving father, and is currently putting Chelsea through school. He supports her in every way a father can. This shows the young person that he is a loving father and they ...
- 4475: The Life of Kurt Vonnegut
- ... a half after his mother's death, the fire bombing of Dresden. In late 1944, Vonnegut was captured by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. On the night of February 13, 1945 exactly 100 American P.O.W.'s and five German soldiers took shelter in a meat locker while the Royal Air Force joined by U.S bombers attacked and successfully annihilated the city of Dresden in one of ... a half after his mother's death, the fire bombing of Dresden. In late 1944, Vonnegut was captured by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. On the night of February 13, 1945 exactly 100 American P.O.W.'s and five German soldiers took shelter in a meat locker while the Royal Air Force joined by U.S bombers attacked and successfully annihilated the city of Dresden in one of ...
- 4476: Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Greatest Anti-Transcendentalist Writer
- ... in his sleep while on a walking tour in New Hampshire. The period of time during which Hawthorne wrote was the New England Renaissance in America. By the year 1840, it was clear that the American experiment in Democracy had succeeded. England, trying again to retake their old land in ‘The Second American War for Independence', was no longer a threat to the survival of the republic. Andrew Jackson, the first “people's president”, had served 2 terms in office. New states were entering the Union. One French ...
- 4477: David Guterson and His Use of the Theme of Nature
- David Guterson and His Use of the Theme of Nature David Guterson, a young American author, has written two major works regarding aspects of human nature and human emotions. His first publication, a collection of short stories, entitled The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind addresses some of the ... literary works. He also uses them as literal tools to develop his work, beautiful cedars and elms which are magnificent, full trees with flowing branches that are visually pleasing and familiar to his readers. In “American Elm”, one of Guterson's short stories, trees are used as a metaphor to screen and sheild the sanitarium from the rest of the town. “Burrellville Sanatarium lay shadowed in a thicket of pines...”(Elm ...
- 4478: Reasons For The Downfall Of The Russian Empire In The Year Of 1917
- ... from its beginning in 1614 until its dying in 1917. Much of what happened in Russia under Czarism helps us to understand the character of the Soviet system that replaced it in 1917. The Russian Revolution began spontaneously in Petrograd in March 1917. There was a severe shortage of bread, which then led to enforce rationing and long lines at stores. The mere thought of hunger or even starvation led to ... of war, give land to the poor peasants, and end the widespread of food shortages. It only lasted from March-November 1917. During this period, Vladimir Lenin arrived in Petrograd hoping he could radicalize the revolution. Lenin issued his “April These.” Lenin urged his party, the Bolsheviks who represented the Russian Social Democratic Party who believed that violence was the key to the improvement of the workers, to not support the ...
- 4479: The Hopewell
- ... reasons, moving perhaps south, integrating with the Mississippian culture or to the northeast, lending to the ancestral Iroquois theory. Whatever the case may be, the Hopewell have left their indelible mark on Ancient Native North American Culture in a way Archaeologists and Historians have never encountered. Bibliography Fagan, Brian M. Ancient North America 1995 (revised) Thames and Hudson Ltd., London. Jennings, Jesse D. Prehistory of North America 1968 McGraw-Hill Inc., New York. Spencer, Robert F. / Jesse D. Jennings The Native Americans (second edition) 1977 Harper and Row, Publishers, New York. Ceram, C.W. The First American 1971 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York “Recent Fieldwork at Hopewell Culture National Historic Park” www.nps.gov/hocu/recent%20fieldwork.htm Home Page for Jackson, Jennifer M. www.ucsu.colorado.edu/~jacksoj/ Archaeology: Woodland ...
- 4480: Is Saddam Satan?
- ... dictator, thirsty for blood and prestige, who seems dedicated to disobeying the United States. It would seem Iraq is intent on keeping United Nation inspectors out of its own country, although technically “Iraq barred only American members of the inspection teams from carrying on their work”(Nelan 54). The Iraqi “Dictator” seems to have decided he would rather be bombed than inspected. He apparently has no regard for the international community, and yet still wants them to lift sanctions. Also the Iraqi: “government stopped Ritter from investigating sensitive sites, calling him a spy and complaining that his team was too ‘Anglo-American’... the Iraqis also revealed Ritter was looking for evidence Iraq tested chemical and biological weapons on humans - charge Baghdad called ‘a shear lie’” (Watson 34). Those reports of human testing are obviously false. “[E]ven ...
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