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- 3591: Compare and Contrast: Aneas and Turnus
- ... free will accounts for his triumph and success. Time and time again, Aneas' courage, loyalty, and will are tested in the Aeneid. Through seemingly endless journeys by sea, through love left to wither, and through war and death, Aneas exhibits his anchored principals and his unwavering character. "Of arms I sing and the hero, destiny's exile... Who in the grip of immortal powers was pounded By land and sea to ... is not / Of my own free will I must seek Italy" (Virgil 84). Aneas had suffered greatly at sea and lost many men, he did not long to sail again. Aneas did not want a war to erupt between Trojan and Latins, but he knew that nothing could keep him from establishing Latium where the gods had prophesied. Both Aneas and Turnus are spurred on to action by visions. In the ... you your bride, or the dowry Won with you blood, and a stranger is being imported To inherit the throne! Go on expose yourself To unmerited dangers! Be mocked!" (Virgil 158). Consequently, Turnus leads the war against the newcomers blindly and filled with rage. Turnus fails to surrender or make an agreement even when all is on the virge of destruction, because he was not fighting for his patria--he ...
- 3592: Irwin Allen Ginsberg
- ... advantage of this repeatedly. He mainly just pissed off one important official after another, getting kicked out of Cuba and Prague, and annoying American conservatives. He was a familiar figure at protests against the Vietnam War, this coupled with the fact he was so open with his views helped put America in a mood which was against the war. The list of 60's events that Ginsberg played an important part in. He participated in Ken Kesey's Acid Test Festivals in San Francisco, and helped Kesey relieve tension between the San Francisco hippies ... think this book opened my mind not only to a great poet but also a whole generation of people. It gave me insight on to what was happening at that time. With the whole anti-war movement, and the discrimination of homosexuals. Both of which Ginsberg spoke and wrote about. Ginsberg was not just a poet from the sixties, he was an embodiment of what a lot of youth of ...
- 3593: Bias
- ... check. She spoke of her master as though he was the kindest. All the slaves loved their master. He gave them shoes in the winter. He kept the children with their mothers and when the war started he took everyone including the slaves to a safer place. On the other hand, Susan told Augustus a totally different story. She spoke of the whippings in cruel detail. She also spoke of how ... ethnicity, culture, faith, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, citizenship status and economic class. Communities or institutions that discriminate are neither whole nor healthy. We as individuals should be committed to creating healthy communities through civil discourse and respect, which include each of us as individuals and all of us members of the whole.
- 3594: Booker T. Washington
- ... 5,1856. Born a slave he rose to become the commonly recognized leader of the African American race in America. For the first nine years of his life until 1865 when the close of the Civil War eemancipated the boy Booker and the remainder of his race, he like many other Americans of dark skin had been considered a peice of property on a Southern plantation. Any formal education had been forbidden ...
- 3595: Book Report On The Forbidden C
- ... the experience in learning and looking at China's beauty and history. This wasn't exactly what was about to occur. Staying in the Beijing Hotel, Alex was able to see the beginning of a civil revolt, as the students began to protest. The students continued to standoff, as the government brought in troops. As the troops inched forward, they executed the students by the dozens even by the hundreds. Alex ... true stories mixed up with fiction. The theme of this story will make you think about life and how good we have it here in the US and that we take things like freedom and civil rights for granted. It showed a transformation of a boy to a man after all the things that Alex went through. He saw a total different world when he went to China. He experienced things ... an awareness that not everywhere in the world people have it as good as in the US and that even now there are people in the world fighting for such things as freedom of speech, civil rights, and democracy that we consider fundamental. I enjoyed this book alot even though it got boring at times. This book had a lot of ups and downs that either wanted you to put ...
- 3596: Sir Lancelot
- Sir Lancelot Lancelot was the son of King Ban of Benwick. King Ban became involved in a war with the neighboring kingdom of King Claudus. Claudus defeated Ban and forced the king and queen to flee. As they fled, Elaine, Lancelot's mother, puts baby Lancelot beside a lake and the Lady of ... decided to end their love affair, Lancelot fled and Guinevere was sentenced to burn at the stake. Lancelot returned to rescue her, accidentally killing Agravain, and Gawain's brothers, Gaheris and Gareth in the process. War between Lancelot and Arthur ensued, but was broken off when Arthur had to return to Camelot to deal with Mordred's rebellion. Hearing of this, Lancelot returned to aid Arthur but arrived too late to save him from a mortal wound. After the war, Lancelot visited Guinevere one last time in a nunnery at Amesbury and then put aside his weapons and armor to become a hermit, which was how he lived out the rest of his life.
- 3597: Allen Ginsberg: Poet
- ... on the condition of the United States. Had there actually been a Communist attack on America as people feared due to the red scare, the government would have taken the appropriate steps to prepare for war. Since Ginsberg realized, "I am America," he followed that paranoia to its logical conclusion by considering his "national resources" in preparation. Among his resources were 25,000 mental institutions, city streets populated by millions of ... of supporting the Communist cause, whether they actually did or not, lost their jobs and were blacklisted. Citizens were taught to fear and hate Communists. These attitudes lingered in the American psyche throughout the Cold War (Montana, , Jackie). When Ginsberg says, "America you don't really want to go to war. America its them bad Russians. them Russians them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians" (74-78) Ginsberg is kind of joking around, kind of in a sarcastical way, saying, "Oh, its ...
- 3598: Kent State Massacre
- ... able to pass these acts with their logic based upon loose translations of the Constitution, especially the elastic clause. In peacetime, these Acts would not have had a chance in being passed, but the undeclared war with France had riled up Congress enough to accept these loose translations. The opponents of the Alien and Sedition Acts were led by Jefferson and Madison; in response to the Acts the Republicans launched an ... accepted and even denounced by the other states, the fact that two states accepted them was enough ammunition in the fight against the Federalists. With the Resolutions accusations that the Alien and Sedition Acts denied civil liberties, President Adamss political future was darkened. With these accusations, public opinion on the Alien and Sedition Acts as well as the Adams administration changed (3 / p. 77). The Resolutions proved their usefulness later ...
- 3599: The Slave Trade
- ... 18th century, when abolitionist movements began to grow in Europe and the British colonies of the Americas. England abolished the slave trade by 1807. In America, the issue of slavery led to the bloody American Civil War and the addition of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States. Bibliography comptons interactive encyclopedia Word Count: 361
- 3600: Herbert George Wells
- ... West, in 1914. In the next 50 years he produced more than 80 books. His novel The Time Machine mingled science, adventure, and political comment. Later works in this genre are The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and The Shape of Things to Come; each of these fantasies was made into a motion picture. Wells also wrote novels devoted to character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The History ... other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay, attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History. Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote voluminously about the survival of contemporary society. For a time he ...
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