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- 2171: Animal Farm Book Report
- ... language and imagery are three important elements in a style analysis. A word choice that is used a lot in the novel is "rebellion". Rebellion is a word used instead of a revolution or a war. Another word that is used a lot in the novel is "comrade". Comrade means an intimate friend or associate. Comrade is used in that form in the novel, instead of saying that someone was their ... he tells what has happened or what was said. An example of a way that Orwell uses his third person perspective is, "No sentimentally, comrade!" cried Snowball, from whose wounds the blood was still dripping. War is war. The only good human being is dead."(p. 59) In that quote the author, George Orwell, is telling what the animals are saying. By sating "cried Snowball" you can tell that the author is ...
- 2172: Kurds Vs Turks
- ... have been so brutally repressed by Ankara that their only alternative is revolution. In February and March, Med-TV carried a series of interviews with supporters of rebel guerrillas who have been fighting a separatist war in eastern Turkey for more than a decade. The rebel leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was captured in February by Turkish agents and faces a trial that could lead to his execution. In response to Ocalan's ... since 1994. It encourages Kurdish nationalism and supports efforts to establish a Kurdish identity. On its news commentary and interview programs, it offers a platform for Kurds of various persuasions, including those who support the war that is being waged against the Turkish army. The station has many viewers in eastern Turkey, where the authorities consider it a tool of terrorists. The officials have made several efforts to obstruct the station ... by all other European governments. If ever the word "betrayal" was applicable, it was here. In the past, delegations of Social Democrats and Greens had travelled to Turkey and Kurdistan. They drew attention to the war of destruction undertaken by the Turkish government against the Kurdish people and denounced the support given for this repression by the previous German government of Helmut Kohl. Here are just a few examples: When ...
- 2173: Internal Conflict Within A Far
- ... important to follow. This is especially evident in the mind of Frederick Henry, from Ernest Hemingways A Farewell to Arms, for he must decide to follow his obligations to the Italian army in World War I, or follow his love for Catherine Barkley. Frederick Henry is an American who serves as a lieutenant in the Italian army to a group of ambulance drivers, whom is portrayed by Hemingway as a lost man searching for order and value in his life. Frederick disagrees with the war he is fighting because it is too chaotic and immoral for him to rationalize its cause, however he fights anyway, in order to achieve the discipline which the army forces into his life. This is ... Frederick becomes involved with Catherine Barkley, and is first starting to show sighs of another force coming into play. His desire to be with Catherine is acting contrary to his desire to remain in the war, and achieve discipline and order. He slowly falls in love with her and, in his love for her, he finds commitment. Their relationship brings some order and value to his life which is, however, ...
- 2174: Paradise Lost: Milton's Approach To Lust, Sex, and Violence
- ... subtly modulates the theme of lust and death to one of lust and violence, a theme that already has been heard in the catalog of devils as well as in the sexual dimension of the war and Heaven" (44). According to Milton, lust gives rise to warfare, when mankind is not busy: "marrying or prostituting , as befell, /Rape or Adultery, where passing fair / Allured them" (Book XII, 716-18), it wars ... another guise of a perverse satanic energy. However, it may be argued as to weather or not Milton is a pacifist. James A. Freeman, in Milton and the Martial Muse maintains Milton was anti-violence/war to the point of pacifism. According to Freemen, Milton in Paradise Lost gives to the devil the traditional warrior ethos and by doing so undoubtedly, "startled early readers who were conditioned to respect military men
By identifying demonic [and/or lustful] actions as martial, Milton attacks the `double speak' of his time(220-221)
war is the utmost that vice [evil] promises to her followers" (45). In contrast, Michael Lieb, in Poetics of the Holy: A reading Paradise Lost of, argues: Peace was valued by Milton as much as ...
- 2175: Harriet Tubman 2
- ... on his plan to start an armed rebellion against slavery in the South, but illness prevented her from joining him at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in his ill-fated 1859 raid. When the Civil War began in 1861, Tubman served as a nurse, scout, and spy for the Union Army in South Carolina. She helped prepare food for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment composed entirely of black soldiers and known as the Glory Brigade before its heroic but futile attack on Fort Wagner in 1863. She later received an official commendation, but no pay for her efforts. In 1869 she married an African American war veteran, Nelson Davis. He died in 1890. Tubman spent the years after the war in the North, where she continued her work to improve the lives of blacks in the United States. She raised ...
- 2176: Medieval Battle Tactics
- ... many nations were competing for it. One of them was Rome. Rome inhabited New England first, and as being the first settlers they left some of their customs, which among them was the key to war. The Roman legion composed of a huge amount of infantry and some cavalry was an important factor in Roman War. However, if Rome and England were compared then the cavalry of Rome later developed into the Knight. The well trained infantry of Romes legion for attacking and invading now was set to defend in ... like heave machinery (not the metal kind, but the wood kind that was used in the medieval ages) that shot heavy, solid objects from far distances. These kind of siege weapons really changed the medieval war era. There was the Ballista that fired large arrows. Then there were the Mangonel and Trebuchet, these both projected stones over large distances. The ballista which needed a heavy framework to support the javelin. ...
- 2177: Marijuana And Hemp, The Untold
- ... 1937, hemp was a major American crop and textiles made from hemp were common. Yet, The American Textile Museum, The Smithsonian Institute, and most American history books contain no mention of hemp. The government's War on Marijuana Smokers has created an atmosphere of self censorship-speaking of hemp in a positive manner is considered taboo. · United States Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp, used products made from hemp ... to become a major natural resource that can benefit both the economy and the environment. · "Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere." -President George Washington, 1794 During World War II, the U.S. government urged patriotic American farmers to grow
Hemp For Victory Fibers needed to make rope, textiles and other materials were in such short supply during World War II, the U.S. government temporarily re-legalized hemp cultivation so American farmers could grow it for the war effort. Although the government allowed more than 350,000 acres (550 square miles) of hemp ...
- 2178: All My Sons: Summary
- ... He is very dangerous for George because he is a lawyer and he might open up the case again. That's why he gets thrown out of the house. Problems: The first problem is the war itself. Many persons died because their superiors told them to. Many soldiers died in irrelevant missions. Many of them died of illnesses they got in the unhygienic camps. The second and larger problem of the play are the war profiteers like Joe. People made much money during the war, some with regular methods some with illegal activities. Joe did it incorrectly. He told his partner to cover the cracks. In fact 21 pilots crashed because of the damaged cylinder heads. When the army ...
- 2179: Technology and Progress
- ... this apocalyptic warfare are not easily forgotten. That is to say although the danger of nuclear destruction is serious threat to the continued existence of mankind, the consequence is such that the severity of international war is great enough that has presently been avoided. The lessons in nuclear warfare have been a long time in the making though. During this century humanity has seen two of the most destructive wars ever. With the invention of tanks and machine guns, along with poison gas in the first world war, continued with military aircraft and rockets in the second, the destructive capabilities of mankind have greatly increased, but by far the greatest potential for destruction is due the invention of the nuclear bomb. The bomb ... gained the worlds attention concerning nuclear bombs, but it was not until the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962 that there was an outcry of public concern over nuclear destruction.3 It was during this cold war between Russia and the United states that most of nuclear regulation of today was written. Although the initial bombings and subsequent cold war have had many disastrous effects, the introduction of the nuclear bomb ...
- 2180: The Causes of the American Revolution
- ... England and the colonies, the Colonists started to develop their own government and became self-sufficient and detached from England. Another reason that the American Revolution began was a result of the French and Indian War. Despite experiencing the triumph and pride at its conclusion, the French and Indian War created a new host of problems and issues between the American Colonists and the British government. Thus, without this war, the succeeding Revolutionary War thirteen years later was probably unlikely. The French and Indian War was mainly over land and world denomination. When the British won the war they were given all land east ...
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