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- 15901: Song Of Solomon 2
- ... nuclear family that has been a stable and critical feature of American society. The family is the institution for producing children, maintaining them, and providing individuals with the means to understand their place in the world order. But this same nuclear patriarchal structure of the family itself creates the problems it should be solving. What represses the Deads is the father, Macon: his single-minded ambition, his unscrupulous greed, his materialism ... motherless Pilate in his arms to the neighboring farm. But Macon is now changed from a "nice boy" to a "stern, greedy and unloving" man. When Milkman lives at home in Michigan, he perceives the world in the same materialistic terms that are similar to his father's. In the second part of the novel, his search for gold leads him to Virginia. This is an indication that he wants to ...
- 15902: Romanticism In The Aspect Of N
- ... literature, Romanticism was to some extent a reaction against the strict rules formulated by the Neoclassicists. The first fully Romantic poetry was Lyrical Ballads (1798) by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth's The World is Too Much With Us (1802) emphasizes a world being plagued by materialism while steadily losing its spirituality. He used Greek mythological figures to symbolize that the nature the ancients enjoyed could not be destroyed by the Industrial Age. Wordsworth, and Coleridge, described nature ...
- 15903: Woodstock
- ... were all but legal, music was plenty, and love was free. The music began Friday afternoon at 5:07 p.m. August 15, and continued until mid-morning Monday August 18. The festival closed the New York State Thruway and created one of the nation's worst traffic jams. It also inspired a bunch of local and state laws to ensure that nothing like it would ever happen again. Woodstock was the idea of four young men: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang. The oldest of the four was 26. Their original odea was to have it in Wallkill, New York, but the residents objected so greatly, that the site was then taken to a farm about eight miles outside of Bethel, N.Y. , population 3,900. There was objections from this city as well ...
- 15904: Adam De La Halle and Ars Antiqua Time Period
- ... Pιrotin, who became famous in the late 12th century, composed the earliest known music for four voices. Franco of Cologne, who flourished in the middle of the 13th century, was a theorist who organized a new, more precise system of rhythmic notation, the direct ancestor of modern notation. The most important style of music to originate in the Ars Antiqua is the motet, which retained its popularity for centuries. The essence of this style of music is the simultaneous presentation of more than one text. It originated with the addition of a new text to the upper voices of a sacred polyphonic composition. The lower, slower moving voices retained the original text. Ars Antiqua was the time period when music as we know it was just beginning. Composers ...
- 15905: Grandmothers Victory
- ... Atticus and Grandmother can be so nice to people who are so mean to them. Children are not born with any hate or racism in their blood. Children are like a sponge, they absorb the world around them. That world around them shapes the child and has a major influence in that child's life. Then, one generation passes it to the next and the next and so on. Atticus tries to instill good morals ...
- 15906: The Battle of Antietam
- ... troops under General Thomas J.Stonewall Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry, Lee could only hope to delay the northerners. McClellan forced his way through, and by the afternoon of September 15, both armies had established new battlelines west and east of Antietam Creek, near the town Sharpsburg. When Jacksons troops reached Sharpsburg on the 16th, Harpers Ferry having surrendered the day before, Lee consolidated his position along the low ridge ... top General. Because McClellan could not seem to pursue the Army of Northern Virginia for some six weeks after the battle, even when prompted repeatedly, Lincoln fired him. McClellan then retired to his home in New Jersey to wait for the call to command him again, which never came. Lincoln appointed Burnside to relieve McClellan in command of the Army of the Potomac, but Burnside was just the next of the ...
- 15907: Spelling And Differently - Ana
- ... s writing is shared by the Book Review Digest which stated: "Ms. Munro is a writer of extraordinary richness and texture....Her imagery stuns or wounds. Her sentences stick to the rough surfaces of our world. She has persevered through periods when her writing was unfashionable, and has deepened the channel of realism" (Towers 1285). The title "Differently" reflects Georgia's and Maya's view of the world. Georgia is a traditional woman with basic values. Maya, on the other hand, is a free spirit always looking for adventure and excitement. Georgia envies Maya's wealth and carefree attitude and the fact that ...
- 15908: Multiple Personality Disorder
- ... another personality was controlling the person. The person might also have a loss of memory. They may find themselves in a strange place and not recall how they got there, or they might discover a new item in their home without even knowing how it was purchased. Studies show that many cases of MPD have been related to childhood abuse or some other traumatic event. A child who develops this illness ... a mystery to me. I still do not fully understand it, but I will hope to in the near future. It has been a, somewhat, fun experience to research this topic because I kept finding new and interesting information wherever I looked!
- 15909: Cocaine
- ... for the eyes, nose, or throat and widely used as an illicit drug for its euphoric and stimulating effects. It is a naturally occurring substance derived from the leaves of erythroxylon plants. Cocaine is the worlds most powerful and potent CNS stimulant from natural origin. Plants grown at different altitudes produce different levels of the alkaloid. The higher in elevation, the more cocaine is produced. The coca plant is resistant ... no irrigation. Only two of the seventeen species yield sufficient levels of the cocaine alkaloid to justify mass cultivation for processing into cocaine. These two species, cultivated primarily in Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia, supply the worlds cocaine. It also can be harvested four times a year. Coca leaves have been used before recorded history by South American Indians, so the knowledge is derived totally from archaeological sources. Chewing coca leaves ...
- 15910: Frederick Douglass's Physical and Intellectual Struggles
- Frederick Douglass's Physical and Intellectual Struggles An autobiography recounts the life of an individual who has played an important role in the world. The individual, or, character must be a relevant and influential figure in society to have a successful autobiography. Frederick Douglass was an extremely intelligent and influential man which is apparent as he tells his story ... a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing except to obey his master-to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world."(29) From Master Auld's comment, Douglass learned that literature equalled intellect, which resulted in power. Therefore, Douglass became determined to learn to read because he believed that reading was the only route to freedom ...
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