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- 1011: Medieval Battle Tactics
- ... defender’s buildings. The Trebuchet, on the other hand, was the biggest of all the siege weapons. Trebuchet lives up to its name meaning slinging machine. The trebuchet had a long arm that had a big end so that the end would help it propel when released. The arm was buckled down to one side, while the big end would hang in the air until the buckle was released. At the top of the arm you would find a sling with a rock inside. When the buckle was released there were usually soldiers ...
- 1012: Cry, The Beloved Country
- ... the white-ran Johannesburg in 1946. Like a weary prophet taking a biblical sojourn to Sodom, Kumalo is seeking out lost members of his family who have left the townships for the lights of the big city. He is looking for his sister Gertrude, who has become a prostitute: and mostly, his son Absalom, who has disappeared into the darkness as surely as the original Absalom of the Old Testament was ... to find his son, but he had no idea where to start, so Kumalo had told Msimangu that his brother lives in Johannesburg. Msimangu immediately knows who he is, for Kumalo's brother was a big time politician who has no need for the church. After talking to his brother Kumalo learns the location of his sons girlfriend, and goes to meet her. Upon arriving he finds that his son has ...
- 1013: Emily Dickinson
- ... poems at an early age. She had several inspirations in her poem writing. Emily Bronte was a poet, and after her brother's death she stayed home until her death. Bronte's book became a big success after her death. [ 8. http://www.geocities. com/CollegePark/1380/emily.htm] Emily Dickinson life was similar to hers. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an essayist and a poet. [ 5. http://encarta. msn.com/find/concise.asp?ti=023d7000 ] These two people's work help inspired her to write poems. A person with a big impact on Dickinson's life was Reverend Charles Wadsworth. She met him in Philadelphia on a road trip she took to see her father with her sister. They became very close friends, and they wrote ...
- 1014: Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
- ... wrong because they were just trying to keep their family honor. Bayordo’s code of honor was very strict. He had made sure that he would be respected in the town, therefore he bought a big house and had a spectacular wedding. On his wedding night, when he discovered that his wife had betrayed and had lost her virginity before marriage, he took her home that very night. It was a ... afraid that his wife will not be pure. Later on Angela becomes a virgin all over again, she begins to deeply love Bayardo, and only lives for him to return to her. Virginity is a big cult in the code of honor and whomever that goes against this cult must suffer, unfortunately the sinner was not Santiago but was Angela. In a way Angela also died, but was reborn later on ...
- 1015: Catcher In The Rye - Holden
- ... He stated that he would like to follow a poem by Robert Burns: "If a body catch a body comin' through the rye." He kept "picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around- nobody big, I mean- except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean ...
- 1016: Catcher In The Rye
- ... plays throughout the novel helps to put in tune the underlying message found in Holden’s description of the catcher in the rye. "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around--nobody big, I mean- except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean ...
- 1017: Jim Morrison: The Lizard King
- ... for the change”(25). Jim was beginning to show why no one was ever able to figure him out. No one was ever able to understand what exactly was going on in “little Jimmy’s” big brain. Now again, Jim must move so that he may attend St. Petersburg Junior College in Florida. Jim did not inform Tandy that this was going to take place until the day before he was ... Jim seemed to appreciate so much. Ray, on the other hand, was a great artist. He played the organ and the bass for The Doors once they began playing together. Ray was also probably the big brother of the group because he made sure that everyone was okay and that all went smoothly when possible. In the beginning of the band, Jim and Ray worked together quite a while to get ...
- 1018: Cambodia And United Nations
- ... potential. The main kind of agriculture in Cambodia is subsistence farming. This is where the food you grow on your farm is for your own good. The opposite of subsistence farming is commercial farming where big industries farm for commercial profit. The Mekong river floods the fields in the wet season, making the land perfect for growing rice, which is their main cash crop. Even though they grow a lot of ... out. There has not been much International help in Cambodia and still the violence and economic problems continue. I seriously think that people should help more than they are doing now, and make this a big situation because many lives are at stake. My proposal to the United Nations Economic Council is that they start donating some money to Cambodia to help out their economy. By building up their economy they ...
- 1019: Rap and Rock ‘n’ Roll
- ... and death. In addition, some of the problems we face in today are not as important as it was in the past. One of the main problems was racism. In the past, racism was a big issue. People were killing each other because of race and one enslaved others because they thought they were more superior to others. These days racism is not much of an issue as in the past ... version of rock ‘n’ roll. Black artists created rap and rock ‘n’ roll. Rock ‘n’ roll never reached us through black artist, even though they were the ones who created the music. Racism was a big issue at that time, especially with black and white. They were like worst enemies with each other. Rock ‘n’ roll was very popular among many people but not many of them knew that black artists ...
- 1020: The Music of Louis Armstrong
- ... a significant period of time and reached out to many people. Louis Armstrong was a very unique person who appealed to the masses. “…What you saw…was what you got…He was every bit as big hearted and open and genuine as he seemed onstage” (Ward 16). Armstrong was a real person without the common false exterior that is expected with big name musicians and actors. Also, Armstrong’s musical style depicted the unique individual, who was behind his incredible music. “The combination of the voice that sounded like an instrument and an instrument that sounded like ...
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