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- 2441: Interaction Between Gods and Mortals In Agamemnon
- ... to Agamemnon and you see the distinct difference between the character’s attitudes about the gods. Another character that has an interesting relationship with a god is Cassandra. She is given to Agamemnon as a war prize because she is a princess of Troy. She is closely related to the god Apollo. For not doing what Apollo wanted one day she was punished. As a punishment she was given the gift ... her lies. A god does not forget so easily, and she has been paying for it ever since that incident. Another important character in the play is the herald. He brings the news that the war is over and the Agamemnon will be arriving soon. His attitude about the gods is much like Agamemnon’s as well. He believes that they are the cause of all actions and that if you ... 510 he says “…Zeus, and to the Pythian king. May you no longer shower your arrows on our heads,” which means he believes that Zeus was the one who was controlling the actions of the war and he was the one that was going so stop it whenever he felt that is should be over. In the next lines he goes on the mention that without Apollo’s assistance the ...
- 2442: Cuba And The Cuban Missile Cri
- ... Soviet Union were to prevent any type of invasion by the United States and to stabilize the “balance of power.” Something that both the US and the Soviet Union shared was their fright of world war and even nuclear war. This is arguably the only time in history where the threat of nuclear war is possible. Things began to become very tense for both sides. President Kennedy became aware that the American army is pressuring the US government to use force against Cuba. This situation escalates so much ...
- 2443: Pornography
- ... the court to allow the expansion of the common law to include the tort of discrimination, and would have allowed the action to proceed. The question of whether the OHRC gave rise to an independent civil action was not entertained given this finding. Laskin CJ. in the Supreme Court of Canada said that the OHRC was meant to supplant the attempt to seek a remedy at common law, not to supplement ... from the propagation of pornography. The relative success at achieving remedies from OHRC provisions, as compared to the reluctance of the government to permit the exercise of the Criminal Code provisions, indicates that retaining a civil right of action for individuals will be the strategically better move for feminists insofar as they are seeking redress. I shall leave discussion of whether this is a tenable feminist political strategy for dealing with ... action for redress can be launched under the ordinance. Even though this is not a theoretical requirement of every system of redress for harm, it is both a theoretical and pragmatic requirement for launching a civil action. The frameworks of criminal law, tort law and the OHRC all presume an identifiable perpetrator of a harm can be identified. Even if it were not a legal requirement for a determination of ...
- 2444: What Are The Decisive Events And Arguments That Produced The American Revolution?
- ... to change in the 1700’s. England had largely neglected the administration of the American Colonies while it fought France in a series of wars during the 1700’s. But after the French and Indian War ended, the British government sought to tighten it’s control over the colonies in fear that the colonies have gotten too powerful. The treaty of 1763 ending this war made England master of Canada and of the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. The chief motive had been nation advantage: but as one of the results the 13 colonies might now ... the worst fears of the Indians. That year, a great chieftain, Pontiac united the tribes and led them in a series of destructive raids on the advancing frontier. Britain feared a long and bloody Indian war, which it could not afford. To quiet the Indians, England issued the Proclamation of 1763. This decree prohibited settlers from buying lands beyond a line that ran through the sources of the rivers flowing ...
- 2445: Heroes
- ... captivity he was the chaplain for his group of men who needed encouragement more than anyone on the face of the earth! Lieutenant/Colonel Richard A. Stratton, United States Navy, in his chronicle, Prisoner At War, was able to give a reason for something that went from the back pages of some off-beat, underground newspaper in 1954, when the United States began aiding South Vietnam, to the headlines even of ... if a doctor gets a certain vicarious pleasure out of cutting people open, he is sick!" "Then, why do you do it?" was the next logical question. "Because I do not think," he said finally, "war should be left to the war lovers!" Point taken! There's a thing called HONOR involved. We must honor the commitments that our country has agreed to with another that is fighting for their very freedom. On another hand, what ...
- 2446: Exploration of Themes in The Song of Roland
- ... subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation. In the epic The Song of Roland there are many themes displayed throughout the storyline. Some of these themes are loyalty, revenge, and the prices of war on a kingdom. Loyalty is the quality or state of being loyal. Many characters in the epic demonstrate loyalty to another character or to their kingdom. The narrator speaks of loyalty to a religion, "The ... soldiers. Revenge is when a person takes vengeance and justice into their own hands and does whatever they feel is just. Revenge is displayed by both feuding sides in this epic. Some quotes are "This war you've started wage on, and make no cease; to Saragossa lead your host in the field, spend all your life, if need be, in the siege, revenge the men this villain made to bleed ... Paynim king has paid"(84) when speaking of Charles. This quote is not speaking of the physical damage of revenge but of other ways revenge can be, like changing sides in the middle of a war. Also "'Thou hast one for whom I'll make thee pay!'" (114) and "'For Roland's I think they'll dearly pay'" (166), statements made by the narrator. War always takes it's toll ...
- 2447: Benedict Arnold
- Benedict Arnold The American Heritage Dictionary defines a patriot is a person who loves, supports, and defends his country. Benedict Arnold was not a patriot because when he fought in the Revolutionary War he did not fight for his country, but rather himself. His main goal in life was to achieve fame and immortalize the Arnold name, but he did not care who he hurt along the way ... and soon the world was not enough for him. His deceit, ego and selfishness controlled him even when he was in his deathbed. Benedict Arnold was a deceitful man ever since the French and Indian War. He deserted the army when he received a letter from his sister, Hannah, saying that Benedict’s mother was sick. He hitchhiked to his home in Norwich from Lake George in upstate New York. Benedict ... his second wife whose family happened to be British Loyalists. Peggy, his wife, rubbed her ideas off on her husband. “Recently these same thoughts were running through Arnold’s mind. He was bored with the war that kept him on the sidelines, with no chance of excitement, fame or applause. He has resented what the British government did to hamper and inconvenience him, Benedict Arnold—not anyone else” (119). At ...
- 2448: Pearl Harbor
- ... Harbor was the operating base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The Japanese pulled a surprise attack on the U.S. on December 7, 1941 at 7:50 A.M. during the beginning of World War II. On November 26 a powerful Japanese task force, under the command of vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, left the Kuril Islands; on December 2 it received a coded message issuing the attack order. The undetected ... in the Pacific. The attack was, however, a colossal political and psychological blunder, for it mobilized U.S. public opinion against the Japanese and served as the catalyst that brought the United States into the war. "December 7, 1941," said President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is "a date which will live in infamy." A monument has been built across the hull of the sunken U.S.S. Arizona; it was dedicated as a national memorial in 1962. The next day President Roosevelt told a joint session of Congress that December 7 was "a date which will live in infamy." Congress voted to declare war on Japan. A small boat rescued seamen from USS West Virginia after the surprise Japanese air attack. There are different reasons why the Japanese were able to pull a surprise attack on the United ...
- 2449: Barbarians
- ... it is so unusual to read a tragedy where woman is a main character and not only that – a woman is a foreigner, a barbarian. Euripides’s "Medea" was created in a period of Peloponesian War. Each war, regardless of the century it occurred, not only destroyed and killed but also caused the reappraisal of the values in the society. Literature, in Ancient Greece, used to be a main reflection of what the society thinks what values and rules it has and what impact the war had on people’s minds. Obviously, the Peloponesian War has brought a lot of stress and chaos into the society, so during this time some poets have foreseen the intellectual revolution. Euripides, however, was ...
- 2450: Agamemnon
- ... the famous Greek tragedy writer, Aeschylus. Agamemnon is a story of justice and revenge. The story takes place in a city called Argos. It starts with Agamemnon, the king of Argos, away at the Trojan War. The city is eagerly awaiting the news of their king’s welfare and the outcome of the war. Watchmen are posted in the city, watching for the beacon that would report the capture of Troy and Agamemnon’s return. Beacons are set up from Troy to Argos; when one beacon is lit, the ... gathered an army, led by Agamemnon, to attack Troy and retrieve Helen. Most important about the chorus’s speech is their mention of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter, Iphigenia, in order to be able to wage war on Troy. They tell how she was sacrificed despite her cries, all for a wind that would take them to war. Clytemnestra then tells the chorus about the defeat of Troy and Agamemnon returning ...
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