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- 3791: Cinncinnati: Loveland: Paxton Woods
- ... s hard to believe, but Cincinnati once sat in the heart of the Northwest Territory. In the 1700s, this area was the wilds, the untamed and unknown frontier. The British policy up through the Revolutionary War, while we were nothing more than the colonies to the queen, was to leave the area to the Indians, who were already angry about being pushed from their eastern territories. Native Americans were very prominent ... the area. Native American artifacts, in fact, are still being discovered during excavations for new buildings. Burial grounds and serpent-shaped mounds are scattered throughout the region. When the Cincinnati/Northern Shortly after the Revolutionary War, however, the newly victorious American government declared the territory available for settlement. Ohio and all points west had nothing more to offer settlers than opportunity, although that was plenty to entice explorers, range rovers and ... Gen. Arthur St. Clair, the new commander of Fort Washington and the Northwest Territories, invoked his newly given powers and renamed the area Cincinnati in honor of the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary War officers of which he belonged. The society drew its name from Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, a Roman farmer who rescued the Roman army after it became trapped by the Aequi during the early period of ...
- 3792: Drawing Names In The Lottery
- Tone Techniques: Dances With Wolves In his novel, Dances With Wolves , Michael Blake uses several techniques throughout the story to enhance the tone displayed to the reader. Blake uses tones that vary from sad, (war times) to happy (victorious.) Tone can be defined as the emotion or feeling set upon a reader during a novel/short story. Most times, the tone will change. It can change from sad to dramatic ... Dunbar befriends the tribe, turns against his Northern army, and goes to live with the Sioux. The tone here is a more warm and friendly environment, because Dunbar realizes that his new friends are more civil than men of his own kind. Things really start to turn around when Dunbar s troops find out that he has joined the Sioux. They trap him and beat him, then make him serve as ...
- 3793: Andy Warhol And Pop Art
- ... recognized as the Pop Art capital of the west coast (Bourdon, 1989, 12) Subject The subject of Warhol's work revolved around various American social issues of the mid-century. As America exited from World War II and entered the Baby Boom era, the culture had become decidedly sanitized. Some of this could be attributed to the Cold War and fear of the "enemy". The flight to suburbia, mass production, conservative family values, and development of new social standards also played a major role in this "Leave-it-to-Beavering" of the nation. This ... in such works as Campbell's Soup Cans and his famous Brillo Boxes (Bourdon, 1989, 34) During the 1960's, the nation began to see rapid changes. The space program was under way, the Vietnam war was in action, Kennedy was killed, racial equity became and issue and the "hippie" movement was at its peak; spreading its trademark ideals of free love, drugs and music. Although Warhol continued his focus ...
- 3794: Fahrenheit 451 4
- ... do about the English because they have no rule there? The consequences for all of Wallace's actions led to the deaths of many people, but it also led to freedom. The negatives of the war were starvation, torture, and deaths of your friends and companions. They all fought and many died fighting for freedom and the ones that lived got to enjoy the convenience of freedom. The positive effects of ... because where would I be right now without my country or family or friends. They have all given so much to me it is the least I could do for them. If there was a war I would fight, I really don't know why some people would not, no matter what you do during your life you are gonna die eventually, if God chooses for me to die in World War three then I will. I look at it, as not really my choice, because everyone dies it's just a matter of when, why and how. That is what I got out of the ...
- 3795: Pride in The Iliad
- ... of Troy, or disappeared into a mass of his comrades, but Hector chose to stand his ground and confront Achilles. "Ah for a young man all looks fine and noble if he goes down in war
he lies there dead
but whatever death lays bare, all wounds are marks of glory." If Hector had salvaged his pride and retreated to safety, he would have lived to defend Troy. Therefore, the possibility arises that he could have stopped the onslaught of the Acheans altogether, and won the war for the Trojans. The result of Hectors pride was his death and the betrayment of his fellow warriors and friends. Another person within the Iliad whose pride was the downfall of his character, was Patrocleus ... would of remained alive. In addition to Hector and Patrocleus, the main character in The Iliad - Achilles, was also brought to ruin by his pride. For example, he was too proud to fight in the war when Agamemnon took his woman. "But now that he's torn my honor from my hands, robbed me, lied to me
he'll never win me over!" So, he sat and sulked when his ...
- 3796: Fahrenheit 451 3
- ... do about the English because they have no rule there? The consequences for all of Wallace's actions led to the deaths of many people, but it also led to freedom. The negatives of the war were starvation, torture, and deaths of your friends and companions. They all fought and many died fighting for freedom and the ones that lived got to enjoy the convenience of freedom. The positive effects of ... because where would I be right now without my country or family or friends. They have all given so much to me it is the least I could do for them. If there was a war I would fight, I really don't know why some people would not, no matter what you do during your life you are gonna die eventually, if God chooses for me to die in World War three then I will. I look at it, as not really my choice, because everyone dies it's just a matter of when, why and how. That is what I got out of the ...
- 3797: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... offer any medicine to ease the wounds of racial tension. His armies of allies grew, but this was gradual. Nevertheless, with no real suggestions on how the slavery issue could be resolved, he accepted the Civil War as necessary. Garrison even went as far as to say that the South should just secede from the Union ( No union with slave-holders! ) Garrison did not attempt to provide a remedy for this secession ...
- 3798: Ku Klux Klan
- ... nighttime rides to murder, rape, beat, and warn were designed to overcome Republican majorities in their states. In most states Republican authorities were unable to suppress the violence, fearing that they would provoke outright race war if they sent their mostly black state militias against the Klan. In many areas Democratic law-enforcement officials were themselves Klan members or sympathizers. Even where local officers took action, Klan members sat on juries ... the Klan continued to exist; and it experienced a definite resurgence in the South in response to the desegregation of public schools following the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1957) and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Membership reached a historic low of 1,500, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 1974 but climbed again to 11,500 in 1979. Although the Klan in the ...
- 3799: William Buffalo Bill Cody
- ... known spokesman of the new west. Buffalo Bill was born in 1846 and his real name was William Frederick Cody. Cody was many things. He was a trapper, bullwhacker, Colorado Fifty-Niner , Pony Express rider, Civil War soldier, wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, and even a manager of a hotel. He changed his name to Buffalo Bill sometime in his early twenties for his skill while supplying railroad workers with buffalo meat. He would ...
- 3800: Ivan The Terrible
- ... paraded before him. He chose Anastasia, the daughter of a minor noble, and their marriage proved to be a very close one. Ivan had huge ambitions for his new Imperial dynasty. He launched a holy war against Russia's traditional enemy, the Tartars. Showing no mercy to these Muslim people Ivan's conquest of Kazan, and later Astrakhan and Siberia, gave birth to a sixteenth century personality cult glorifying him as ... as well. Ivan would give detailed orders about the executions, using biblically inspired tortures to reconstruct the sufferings of hell. More than 3,000 people were killed in Ivan's attack on Novgorod during Livonian War. In a fit of rage, Ivan struck his son and heir dead with his staff. Mad with sorrow and guilt, he had a dramatic volte face, posthumously forgiving all those he'd executed and paying ... as the monk Jonah and buried in his monk's habit. In the hope of finding ultimate forgiveness. After note Ivan's achievements were many. He forced Russia into Europe. The prolonged and unsuccessful Livonian War overextended the state's resources and helped bring Russia to the verge of economic collapse. These factors, together with Tatar incursions, resulted in the depopulation of a number of Russian provinces by the time ...
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