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- 11591: Lord Of The Flies - Character
- ... the Flies is a novel involving a great deal of symbolism. Different characters provide different symbols. Jack is a symbol of savagery and anarchy. Golding relates this to the evil and cruel people in the world. When Jack first arrives on the island he is excited to have rules for their new settlement. Jack exclaims on pg. 33 We ll have rules! he cried excitedly. Lots of rules! Jack changes his view on rules towards the end of the story because he rebels from Ralph s leadership ...
- 11592: A Report On Schindlers List
- Thomas Keneally s Schindler s List is the historical account of Oskar Schindler and his heroic actions in the midst of the horrors of World War II Poland. Schindler s List recounts the life of Oskar Schindler, and how he comes to Poland in search of material wealth but leaves having saved the lives of over 1100 Jews who would ... in order to save as many Jews as possible. Thomas Keneally wrote Schindler s List to be more than just the story of a man and his heroic deeds, but also to show today s world of the dangers of hatred. He emphasizes this latter point through his descriptions of how cruelly the Nazis treated the Jews. Keneally also tries to point out how one man can make a difference as is the case with Oskar Schindler. However, perhaps Keneally s greatest objective with Schindler s List is that the world should never forget Oskar Schindler and what he did for the Jews as well as for mankind. Schindler s impact is so great that even the numerical facts are astonishing. In fact if one ...
- 11593: On The Road - The Role Of Wome
- On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, is an honest story of a friendship, and four trips across America. The narrator is Sal Paradise, an aspiring novelist who lives with his aunt in New Jersey. Sal s best friend is Dean Moriarty. Sal idolizes Dean for his laidback cowboy style, his ease with women, and his all around joy in living. Over the course of the book, Dean marries ... that a woman cannot survive without a man Women were a sidetrack for the men in this novel. Sal and Dean s goal was to be on the road, to explore their inner-selves, the world around them, gain more freedom, and basically question the meaning of life. Women were sex traps , which lured the guys away from the road, and this quest of theirs for deeper understanding. The women these ...
- 11594: Articles Of Confederation 2
- ... addition, to pass legislation required a unanimous consent and more than not a single dissenting vote prevented the ratification of strong economic bills. Overall, the Articles were ineffective in improving the economic state of the new nation. Although Thomas Paine (Common Sense) believed that the Articles and decentralization was a logical choice of government after the strict rule of the British, the Articles inherently divided the interests of the thirteen colonies ... created a deal for East Coast merchants but at the expense of the interests of the West and South. In addition, a lack of national unity allowed Britain and Spain to continue to subvert the new nation by increasing hostilities with the Indians. Unless a strong a central government was created, the confederation would not be taken seriously by European powers. The British believed that the new nation could not survive and therefore continued to have military personnel stationed in Canada and in the West. The republicans, such as Adams and Madison, summed up their fears when they said that democracy ...
- 11595: Aristotle 2
- ... society-we know it is wrong, yet this does not seem to stop our actions. Aristotle s view of alcohol abuse in the fourth century BC is the same as the outlook of the modern world but today s technological advancements have drastically increased the dangers of abuse. Driving while intoxicated is a deep concern that is not taken lightly. I have discussed why his ethical system proves that this is ... even though we know it is wrong. The point in mind is that the problem will never cease to exist, we can only derive solutions and/or repercussions to deal with it. Bibliography Aristotle, A New Aristotle Reader. Trans. J.L. Ackrill. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
- 11596: Ancient Stories Of The Flood
- Stories of a primeval flood exist in all parts of the world, virtually every branch of the human race has traditions of a Great Flood that destroyed all of mankind, except one family. The closest parallel to the Biblical story of the flood occurs in the Mesopotamian ... were going to bring a flood upon the earth, for its wickedness, built an ark which rested on Mount Parnassus. A dove was sent out twice. In England the Druids had a legend that the world had been re-peopled from a righteous patriarch who had been saved in a strong ship from a flood sent to destroy man for his wickedness. A Welsh legend of the flood runs thus. Once ... land of Prydain (Britain). The ship also carried a male and female of every sort of living creature, so that after the flood the animals were able to reproduce their various kinds and restock the world. In all the flood stories the hero is rescued by reaching high ground. The mountain of deliverance is usually identified by some prominent local hill or elevation. These traditions of the flood, though mixed ...
- 11597: American Revolution Are Teh Pe
- ... independent state was to break away from English rule. The only way to do so was to become unified and strong as a whole. During this time period England was the strongest nation in the world, it would be impossible for a nation that was not unified nation to defeat them. When posed the question To what extent had the colonist developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans ... other colonies united and sent donations to Boston to help them in their struggle . Since they did not have the proper materials to beat England physically, they tried it psychologically. Colonies such as Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and both North and South Carolina contributed goods. They donated many things such as sheep, grain, wheat, corn, and rice. This was a big step in the unity of the American colonies because they ...
- 11598: American Revolution 3
- ... was economics. In theory, the colonists accepted the principle that natural laws rather than royal decrees should govern the economy. In practice only the southern colonies were bound to England by the tobacco trade. The New England and Middle Colonies, unable to find markets in Britain, found prosperity by trading outside the empire. Any attempt to stop this trade would lead to rebellion and consequently ensued. The idea of mercantilism where the channelizing of all trade through England, was a restriction upon economic prosperity of the New England colony. The major cause for revolution within the economic theory is of economic subordination of colonies to England. The Grenville Ministry passed a number of acts, but of provocation to the colonists was the ... irate at the colonial resistance to British law; therefore, the British passed the Coercive Act or "Intolerable Act". The Intolerable act closed off the Boston Port, which closed off the center of economic prosperity of New England. England was also limiting the colonists to raw material production, which hindered the colonists economic prosperity. There are many other reasons that do not support the economic theory but support the political theories. ...
- 11599: America Expansion Of 1700s
- ... they knew they were unable to move them away from their land. Americans continued their western movement and put forth their domination over the Indians. The first step the United States took in claiming this new land for them was by establishing a land system. The Land Ordinance of 1785 established an orderly way to divide up and sell the new lands of the Western United States. Shortly after, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 set up a system of government for the land north of the Ohio River. Slavery was outlawed in the five states that ... not honoring their treaty with the Indians. These treaties were the only way the United States was going to be allowed to legally take over the Indian lands with the agreement of the Indians. This new recognition and use of treaties fell under the Indian Intercourse Act of 1790. This was a form of written documentation that allowed the ceding of land to be possible through the treaties. Americans, however, ...
- 11600: America At The Turn Of The Cen
- ... States has a very strong country due to a few things that keep the country standing. The sufficient military has helped many other countries out of wars, the strong economy is the basis of the world s economy, and the United States has a very advanced technology that has also helped rule the world today. These three things are so strong that there is not much that would bring them down. But in each category there are many small weaknesses that could cause our country to collapse as a ... of the President do not affect the passing of bills and laws it does effect the public aspects of the democratic government that we have now. We have the lowest percentage of voting in the world, and if no one can trust the officials running, then that percentage could get even lower. This could cause our country to have a governmental problem in the future. We could even start electing ...
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