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- 14311: Beowulf 9
- ... all depends on the person s outlook for the course of action that they will take. Beowulf strikes peculiar reactions among scholars, historians, and professors. The increase in the amount of confusion is caused by new twists to old theories and by new theories. Beowulf was composed for an audience that would take into account the struggles that the main character took, and the audience would see the poem in its own way. Though few can clearly understand ...
- 14312: Dr. J (julius Erving)
- ... to gain the same recognition enjoyed by the more established National Basketball Association (NBA). Julius Erving, or Dr. J, as fans now called him, did more than anyone else to win that recognition for the new association. In his first pro season, Dr. J, ranked sixth in the ABA in scoring, third in rebounding. He was voted ABA Rookie of the Year at the close of the season. The following year ... rules, and his old management sued him for damaging their reputation by trying to break the Squires contract. The affair was finally settled out of court. Erving remained with the ABA to play for the New York Nets. Once again, Erving led the league in scoring and led the Nets to an ABA championship, winning four-out of-four games against the Utah Stars. In the first of these games, Erving ...
- 14313: Sonnet 64
- ... Describing the battle between the ocean, "watery main," and the "firm soil" Shakespeare shows that nature is also influenced and changed by Time's "feel hand." As man's monuments fall, time changes our natural world as well, creating a broad and rich geologic history. With chiasmus in this quatrain Shakespeare finalizes and supports the powerful image of the endless cycle of the ocean and the unstoppable force of time as ... meditation. Therefore the poem, in a sense, is Shakespeare's thought progression. At the closing of the final quatrain his realization about the impacts of time is clear; time has caused "ruin" of the physical world and has a power beyond comprehension and, with this ultimate power, time will eventually take his "love away." His finalizing line of the third quatrain, "That time will come and take my love away," provokes ...
- 14314: The Trail of Tears
- ... to force all Indians west of the Mississippi River. This was largely carried out by General Winfield Scott and his army of approximately seven thousand troops, in May of 1838. When the army arrived in New Echota, Georgia, thousands of Cherokee Indians were rounded up with dragnets and held in wooden stockades. By June 5, 1838 it was estimated that only 200 Cherokee had escaped. There were between fifteen to seventeen ... died per day on the trail. By the end of June 1838 two to three hundred Indians were sick. On June 17, 1838 General Charles Floyd of the Georgia militia wrote to Governor Gilmen of New Echota that he was convinced that there were no longer any Cherokee in Georgia. This would hold true in that they succeeded in removing the Cherokee from the state, but not completely from the east ...
- 14315: Role Models - Joanne Malar
- ... was a great experience for her, but again she was upset because of how she had placed. From there, she came back home to train and did so until 1994, when she competed in the World Championships in Rome, Italy. There, she placed 4th in the 400 IM and placed in the top ten in two other events. This win gave Joanne a big boost and really got her pumped up. In 1995, again at the World Championships, Joanne placed 1st in the 400IM and also 1st in one other race. At this same time, she was also competing at home, in the Canadian Nationals where she was placed 1st in 8 ...
- 14316: Studying Humanities
- ... foundation for this class. The driving force behind my final decision to apply myself to an advanced placement class is due to the fact that I want to be able to go into the real world with some understanding of how and why it functions as it does on a daily basis. Through the study of humanities, I hope to attain this goal. The past classes which have helped to prepare ... United States history. These classes have challenged me as a student to strive, achieve, and excel beyond my expectations. More importantly, the instructors of the classes have placed in me a better understanding of the world in which I live in and how it came to be. Beyond the classroom, many life experiences have prepared me for this course. In my seventh year of grade school I moved to Dallas, Texas ...
- 14317: Ronald Wilson Reagan
- ... unemployed in fall, 1982. This recession reduced inflation significantly, but the interest rates remained high. During the next two years the economic recovery began. The unemployment came down, but thousands of factory jobs disappeared. The new jobs, which were mostly in service industries, paid less, leaving inflation low. Domestic Affairs Economic Policy- Reagan s economic policy worked on the claim that investment in industry and spending by consumers would eventually increase ... point of Reagan s foreign policy was to reverse the momentum of the Marxist revolution in Central America. After a revolution in Nicaragua had disposed of former leader Anatosio Somoza, the U.S. accused the new Sandinista government of aiding rebels in El Salvador with weapons. So the Reagan cut his aid to Nicaragua and started supporting anti-Sandinista guerilla movements known as the contras. Then Nicaragua signed an aid pact ...
- 14318: Macbeth's Blind Ambition
- ... kills them to save his own behind. What a traitor, he deserves to be slained and he should be beheaded! Secondly Macbeth's hamartea of ambition blinds him from seeing where he lye as the new King of Scotland. Instead Macbeth remembers the third and last prophase of Banquo. It was that Banquo would not be king but he shall be the father of kings. The idea that Macbeth will not ... got yourself into Macbeth! You have committed murder! You are a traitor! Third of all Macbeth is confused because he visits the witches and they give him three more prophasies and four apparitions. The three new prophasies he is presented with are to beware of the Thane of Fife, no one that is born from a mother shall kill Macbeth and Macbeth will never be defeated until Great Birnam Wood forest ...
- 14319: Beowulfs Grendel
- ... the poem is a detailed description of how the epic hero defeated the opposing force, and how he fled with sorrow filling his heart once again, like the beginning. Beowulf now has been granted a new glory. Furthermore, when Beowulf hung Grendel s arm from the rafters, that showed the reader that there was great joy that filled the whole civilization of Herot. It was so overwhelming of joy, that people ... of Herot s lord B. Beowulf comes 1. The night they fought 2. Lines 272-275 3. Far ends of continuum IV. Third Point A. Beowulf s continuing joy 1. Lines 338-340 2. Granted new glory 3. People came from all over 4. Defeated Grendel and hung arm V. Conclusion
- 14320: Essay Comparison
- ... such as the time, place and circumstances that give way too much larger concerns. According to James Hart, E.B. White was a humorist and witty critical commentator on contemporary culture. After working for The New Yorker, he started to write several books that were drawn from his writings as a columnist. From 1938 to 1943 he wrote poems, books, essays. Finally, in 1971, fourteen years before he died, the essay ... life. In The Geese and The Battle of the Ants , the different aspects of like that are shown upon are death and war. Bibliography Hart, James. ed. The Oxford Companion to American Literature . 5th ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1983, pg. 662, 663, 714.
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