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- 3571: Autobiographical Assignment: My Grandfather
- Autobiographical Assignment: My Grandfather My grandfather was shipped out in December 1941 and severed in the Air Force during World War II. He left my grandmother by herself to raise a child under the help of her parents' shelter and emotional help, and he would send his check he received from the Air Force. It was ... and my grandmother assumed the life of a military wife with multiple moves (Massachusetts, Hawaii, Wisconsin), and she stayed at home to raise their family. Once again, my grandfather went over seas in the Korean War (in the area of Persian Gulf) and left behind now two children with my grandmother. When he came back from the War, he and his family were stationed in Illinois then relocated to Ohio. In Ohio, my grandfather soon decided to retire. They diagnosed my grandfather with cancer in July 1960, and in November of that ...
- 3572: The Children Left Behind
- ... in Da Nang” by Christian Langworthy, he writes “My brother and I were the sons of my mother’s clients. She never told us their names. She just said that they were killed in the war…She told the same story to all our neighbors, but even as a child, I sensed that she was lying”(www.pbs.org). In this story the writer may not of known his fathers name ... for what theirs fathers lack. Even if these men have not said “yes, you belong to me, I accept you” their father’s country has said “you do belong here, we accept you.” The Vietnam War affected live for everyone who was involved with it, Vietnamese and Americans alike, no one has been more affected then the Amerasain children. These children are the result of that war, they became “The Children of the Enemy”(DeBonis). Freedom from persecution is their right; they do belong here, welcome home.
- 3573: Hesiod and the Ascent of Zeus
- ... Styx, the "water of hate" (Theog. 361). Later Styx is honored by Zeus who makes her the water for the gods' mighty oath because she is the first to stand by his side in the war against the titans (Theog. 398). Two more titans, Hyperion and Theia gave birth to Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon), and Eos (Dawn) Rhea and Kronos are the parents of the gods on Mount Olympus, which includes ... given to strangers after his death. Zeus's also punishes Prometheus by binding him to a rock and sending an "evil plague of a bird" (Theog. 526) to feed on his immortal liver. Now the war between the gods and the titans had continued for ten years and because they were evenly matched, there was "no solution or end in either side's favor in sight" (Theog.637). Until Zeus, "following ... Theog. 855) of Typhoeus, who then "fell on his knees in defeat" (Theog. 858). Upon the monster's defeat, terrible winds arose with the power to "cause great havoc for mortals" (Theog. 874). When the war was over, the gods "following the advice of Gaia" (Theog. 883) asked Zeus to be their ruler. He accepted and "fairly apportioned their honors" (Theog. 885). Zeus took a wife but before she could ...
- 3574: A Rose for Emily
- ... in Emily's life, including the death of her father and her brief fling with a Yankee. Beyond the literal level of Emily's narrative, the story represents symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect in "A Rose for Emily". The story's opening with Miss Emily Grierson's death and funeral foreshadows the ending. The outcome is further emphasized by the symbolism of ...
- 3575: Holocaust 6
- ... often wonder why no one put a stop to the elimination of the Jewish people; but most people did not know what happened in Germany and the rest of Europe until the end of the war. If they did know about it they chose not to believe that it existed and thought that it was only a bunch of lies. Aryan’s knew that if they tried to help or stop ... by God could do anything so inhumane. In an interview with Margaret Moore, who was in her twenties and living in Canada during WW II, she recalled not hearing about the Holocaust until after the war was over and the camps had already been liberated. This could have been because of the lack of media involvement; unlike today or it could be that our government chose to ignore a problem that ... 27, 1945, 7,600 prisoners survived but not before 58,000 had been evacuated by the Nazis, they were sent on a final “death march.” After the camps were liberated at the end of the war, everything was not all roses as everyone had hoped for. Many people who had survived the Holocaust did not make it after the camps were liberated; many people did not have enough strength to ...
- 3576: The Holocaust
- The Holocaust Things that I learned from Notes and Mrs. Dekelbaum's speech. From Mrs. Dekelbaum's speech, I learned that the Holocaust happened 6 years before World War 2. I learned that during the Holocaust, more than six million Jews, and four million non-Jews, were killed by the Nazis. The non-Jews that were killed in the Holocaust were, gypsies, homosexuals, disabled ... was forbidden. On March, 1938, Germans troops occupied Austria. On November, 1938, the Crystal Night happened. During that night, Germans burned and looted synagogues all over Germany. On September, 1939, Germany invaded Poland in "Lighting War," and War was declared. The same year, England and France became Allies against Germany. On July 1942, Deportation of Holland's Jews began. They were send to either Auschwitz, or Sobibor, which were death camps in ...
- 3577: The Conquest of the Aztec Empire
- ... most prominent topics of interest when studying history is conflict. We want to know what factors led to certain wars, how the winning side succeeded, and what the immediate and long term effects of the war were. The major difficulty in studying wars is the fact that their accounts are generally recorded by the victors. The losers are usually not in a position to challenge the victors' accounts or even to ... ponder the future of our own. Throughout its history, the United States has grown into a world power. It has grown and survived in some part due to conquest: expelling the British in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the defeat of the Native American tribes as the fulfillment of "manifest destiny", and the victories in the two World Wars. Now that the United States is the last surviving super power, ...
- 3578: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... narrative as a means of preserving meaningful experience, and to recitation of eyewitness accounts of historical events in an effort to clarify gaps, myths, errors, and misconceptions. Similar to Jane, the participant in the Louisiana civil rights movement and title character in Ernest Gaines' fictional Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and to Jack Crabb, the bi-national spokesman and picaresque participant at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Thomas Berger ... like existence and to touch base with reality. Her bleak fictional narrative connects real events of the 1980s with possible ramifications for a society headed too far into conservatism and a mutated form of World War II fascism. By frequent references and allusions to Hitler's Third Reich and its "final solution" for Jews, Atwood reminds the reader that outrageous grabs for power and rampant megalomania have happened before, complete with ...
- 3579: A Utopian Society
- ... Utopians might become angry with their own country, and start to adopt other ideas. It wouldn't take long to stir up enough commotion throughout Utopia before it finally crumbles. It could possibly start a civil war in Utopia. Some other countries might be able to use a couple of the Utopian ideas. For instance, their military tactics. The Utopians try to stir up trouble in their opposing countries. By posting signs ...
- 3580: H.G. Wells
- ... a visionary and a dreamer, as shown throughout A Modern Utopia, and Men Like Gods. What Wells was most famous for was his ability to be a scientific romancer. His novels, The Time Machine, The War of The Worlds, and The Invisible Man, were what he became most widely known for. All his writings, in the different genere's they were written from, truly prove he was one of the most ... becomes frusturated and starts a life of crime and violence. He then gets into an ordeal with the police, and runs away from the town, and that is the end. Wells's next novel, The War Of The Worlds, which appeared in 1898, is probably his most famous work. It is about Martians, arriving from their planet in ten cylinders at twenty-four-hour intervals, and they devastate the whole country ... how the humans were powerless against the Martians, and how the Martians are able to take over whatever they want. In 1901 Wells wrote The First Men On The Moon. This was nothing like The War Of The Worlds, even though they both dealt with space. He used vivid descriptions of lunar scenery, and he was quite close to what it looked like, as people saw in 1960 when pictures ...
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