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- 20161: Abraham Lincoln
- ... was very important to the past history of our country. He helped to abolish slavery in this country and kept the American Union from splitting apart during the Civil War. At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping stories and making friends, he became quite popular and was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1834. In his spare time, he taught himself law and became a ...
- 20162: Vietnam War - The Vietnam Conflict And Its Effects
- ... punish Vietnam for the losses suffered by their country. They cut off all trade to Vietnam. Vietnam's economy was severely damaged. This came about by the U.S. decision to stop trade and the new efforts to install a Soviet - style system in the unified country. By 1985, ten years after it's " liberation ", Vietnam had to beg for help from the Soviet Union ( Time, February 15, 1993, 43). In ...
- 20163: Exiles
- ... to the worst, I can always earn a living with my hands"(655). "If you want something, you have to go out and work for it. Nobody gives you anything; nothing comes free in this world"(652). This powerful statement was told exactly by what the author hears from her mom. The author uses her memories of what her mom said to show that she still uses her mom's advice ...
- 20164: Black Holes 3
- The theory that black holes have existed is not new at all. The thought of them first started in 1783 when Rev. John Michell applied Newtons theory of gravity to predict the possibility of so-called dark stars. Albert Einsteins theory of relativity ...
- 20165: Walt Whitman
- ... objects as representing war. Whitman starts off each stanza with the same line every time. Beat! Beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow! He uses this symbolism of war to show the effects it has on the world. The drums and the bugles are always interrupting things. This is seen clearly in the first stanza. The drums and bugles are interrupting the church and the farmer can't be peaceful. Whitman continues this ...
- 20166: Tony Kronheiser
- ... the other day ("In a Real Fix," November 3, 1996). Kornheiser's diction, figurative language, and tone make his columns what they are. Often, diction, figurative language, and tone are not common in the journalistic world, but Kornheiser's humor finds room for them. Tony Kornheiser's sarcasm is almost entirely related to his diction. He contains the skills to take something as insignificant as a restaurant changing on him unexpectedly ...
- 20167: Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism
- Symbolism in Fahrenheit 451 Light, especially fire, and darkness are significantly reoccurring themes in Fahrenheit 451. Guy Montag, the main character, is a fireman, but in this futuristic world the job description of a fireman is to start fires wherever books are found; instead of putting them out. Montag takes a journey from a literary darkness to a knowledgeable light. This journey can be ...
- 20168: Thomas Jefferson
- ... United States. As president Jefferson slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated tax on whiskey, and reduced the national debt by a third. Although the Constitution made no provisions for the acquisition of new land, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality and acquired the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803. Jefferson retired to Monticello to ponder such projects as his grand designs for the University of Virginia. As a ...
- 20169: Faith
- ... Faith is gone" (132). Again this has multiple meanings because after seeing all the pious and godly figures of his town turned to evil he has lost faith in the all the inhabitants of his world except his Faith and now they've got her too. Then he loses his religious faith too as he grabs the serpent-like staff and races through the forest and "giving vent to an inspiration ...
- 20170: Scarface
- ... he's crowned drug kingpin. Tony starts having legal problems and rather than do time, his supplier Sosa offered to take care of the court case if Tony would take an assassin with him to New York to eliminate one of his enemies. This was the begging of the end for Tony Montana. The man who was supposed to be eliminated had his wife and kids in the car with him ...
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