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11601: African American Sentiments
... it was often too harsh and they need to treat them as living people. Although Robert put rules and regulations on his soldiers, he was a caring colonel. When he heard that his men needed new shoes and they couldnft get any, he was willing to go to the supplies distributor and get his men shoes and socks. Robert knew his men wanted to fight, so he went to his ... up to them. In spite of all the sentiments towards the African American fighting in the Civil War, the 54th regiment still proved themselves to be a significant part of the northern soldiers. They were brave, and willing to sacrifice their lives to help their family in the south that are still under control of slavery. Although the 54th regiment had severe casualties in the battle at Fort Wagner, they were ...
11602: A Fourteenth Century Castle
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Towering high above the landscape, European castles still look commanding. Imagine how powerful a castle looked 600 years ago when it was brand new. A castle was built to impress. It was the home of a powerful warlord. From its safety he ruled the surrounding land. Castles building began in the 10th Century. The first castles that were built ... heated kennels, and they had a special breed baked for their feed. Knights were all supposed to obey a code of good. The code was called chivalry. The code demanded that the knights should be brave, truthless, godly, gentle, faithful, and fearless. Chivalry also meant behaving honorably towards women. This did not apply to non Christians or peasants. CHAPTER 8 LIVESTOCK AND PRODUCE Supplying the castle with food was a major ...
11603: A Different Mirror
... holds a PhD. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley. As a professor of Ethnic Studies at the same university, he wrote A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America as a fantastic new telling of our nation s history. The book narrates the composition of the many different people of the United States of America. In a lively account filled that is with personal accounts and the voices of people that were in the past left out of the historical armament, Ronald Takaki proffers us a new perspective of America s envisioned past. Mr. Takaki confronts and disputes the Anglo-centric historical point of view. This dispute and confrontation is started in the within the seventeenth-century arrival of the colonists from ... ideas of a golden mountain and the Japanese who came and labored in the cane fields of Hawaii and on the farms of California. The Jewish people that fled from shtetls of Russia and created new urban communities here. The Latinos who crossed the border had come in search of the mythic and fabulous life El Norte. Ronald Takaki closes his book, a Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America, ...
11604: Abraham Lincoln 2
... whenever he needed help he consulted a local schoolmaster, Mentor Graham. Lincoln developed a fondness for the writings of Shakespeare and Robert Burns that would last his lifetime. He became a regular attendant of the new Salem Debating Society, where he met a more intellectual group of people. The intellectual citizens of New Salem welcomed Lincoln who turned out to be a very good speaker with passion and well versed onhis subjects. The president of the society remarked that all he lacked was culture. Lincoln decided to take ... re-enter politics until 1854 opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He is elected to the legislature but declines the seat to try for U.S. Senator. After his defeat for Senator, he helps organize the new Republican Party he gained national attention at the convention receiving enough votes to gain him the vice-presidential nomination for the presidential candidate John C. Fremont. Lincoln was again nominated under the Republican Party ...
11605: Abe Lincoln Hero Of Our Past
... won his first debate, which gave him his first considerable national fame. In February 1860, Lincoln made his first major political appearance in the Northeast, when he addressed a rally at the Copper Union, in New York. By now Lincoln was well known, and respected as a presidential candidate. The Republic Party's first choice was William H. Seward. But his qualities were undesirable to the public. Lincoln later was chosen ... about his normal, everyday business. Fighting for more rights of the former slaves. Abe Lincoln was a little like Julius Ceaser who said some thing along the lines of: "Cowards die many deaths, but the brave at heart only die but once." (Shakespeare) Yes, it was Abe Lincoln who lived his life like this. He had no fear of dying, perhaps it was because he knew where he was going afterward ...
11606: The Red Badge Of Courage 3
... would like to be like, this character goes through some tough times and some fun times that makes you wish that you could be there. The book also has other characters that represent the real world and the problems it has. The main character has to deal with the other characters which represents us dealing with life. Because the main character has to deal with the same problems as us, which ... had an exultant ring." (pg 16) This outward act of being tuff is just a cover of the true nature of Wilson. It is natural for people to cover their true nature in front of new faces. Towards the end of the book Wilson starts to care about Henry. When Henry is injured and he doesn't try and fight the other men anymore. True to human nature once times start ...
11607: Bridge To Terabithia
... use to swing over the dry creek. Another main theme is Jesse running every morning during the summer so he can be the fastest runner in fifth grade, only to be beat by Leslie, the new girl in town. One more theme is Jesse being the only boy in his house. He has two evil older sisters, who always get their way by whining. He has a younger sister who looks ... connected" in the end after Leslie died. He took her to Terabithia and over a real bridge that Jesse made. May Belle was now part of Leslie's and Jesse's kingdom. She was the new queen of Terabithia. I was upset when I finished the book. I wasn't expecting Leslie to die on Jesse's "perfect day". The poor boy had enough problems. I don't think his best ... the book I felt as if May Belle was always excluded and she really needed her older brother. I was very glad to see that Jesse brought May Belle to Terabithia and made her the new queen. I hated to two older sisters, they seemed to be cold hearted. I didn't like Janice from school either until I found out what her problem was. All in all I thought ...
11608: Grendel Vs. Beowulf
... death make him one of the most controversial and infamous monsters in literature. Grendel is the man-killing monster that Beowulf portrayed him as being, yet he is also the lonely victim of a judgmental world. Grendel is a descendent of Cain and is forced to live with the inherited curse of being denied God s presence. Cain s lineage has been known to spawn monsters, trolls, giants, and other undesirable ... are a dime a dozen. The dragon is saying that even if Grendel decides to change his course in life and never kill another man, nothing will change. Man will be forced to find a new monster to wage war against, for good can not exists without some evil. Beowulf also hints at this by referring to Beowulf s first battle with the nicors in his childhood swimming race against Brecca ...
11609: Greek Actors
... chorus remained in the orchestra throughout the play, and sang and danced choral songs between the episodes. Allowed the actors to exit after an episode in order to change mask and costume and assume a new role in the next episode without any illusion-destroying interruption in the play. The main duty of an actor was; of course, to speak the dialogue assigned to his characters. This however, was not the ... only responsibility of the actor. He occasionally had to sing songs solo of with the chorus or with other actors. The combination of acting and singing ability must have been as rare in the ancient world as it is today.
11610: Great Expectations 3
The very title of this book indicates the confidence of conscious genius. In a new aspirant for public favor, such a title might have been a good device to attract attention; but the most famous novelist of the day, watched by jealous rivals and critics, could hardly have selected it ... difficult to conceive of as actually happening. And yet in none of his other works does he evince a shrewder insight into real life, and a clearer perception and knowledge of what is called the world. The book is, indeed, an artistic creation, and not a mere succession of humorous and pathetic scenes, and demonstrates that Dickens is now in the prime, and not in the decline of his great powers ...


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