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- 3811: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... once. Pap shouldn t be taken seriously by the potential readers of Huck Finn. People who read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have to keep in mind that the time setting was in the pre-Civil War era. During this time period, may people had the common misconception that black people were merely property. The slaves were hardly ever treated as human beings. One character in the book realized eventually that the ...
- 3812: Louis Leakey
- ... s find because the age of the skeleton could not be proven. Further, Reck could not return to the site because, as he was German and Britain had won that region of Africa in World War I, he was not able to go there. Leakey was fascinated with the site and told Reck that they would one day go back. For the time being, this had to be put on hold ... family. Ostracized by the scientific community, he became a civilian intellience officer for the Kenyan government in 1939, and by the end of the year was drafted into the African Intelligence Department when Britain declared war on Germany, and was running guns to Ethiopia. During the remainder of World War II, Leakey became somewhat of a spy, collecting information for the government. However, in his free time he, along with his wife Mary, kept themselves busy archaeologically with many sites, including the Olduvai site. ...
- 3813: Fahrenheit51
- ... roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about."(37). Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic city while a war is taking place. Oddly enough the city has its own problems. The protagonist , Guy Montag, goes against society and steals books to read at home, meets a friend to help him in his brave stand ... reason, reading books. This group hopes to preserve knowledge for future generations by memorizing passages from books. They do this so they cannot be caught and it also improves their thinking. All the while a war is going on and all of a sudden planes came swooping down and bombed the city. "The city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of death came after" (160). Montag and his group ... we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up."(164) In conclusion Montag, rebels against society with the help of Faber, gets discovered and kills Captain Beatty, and then escapes the mechanical hound to join a group of ...
- 3814: Reformation Of Government Thro
- ... rebellion now and then is a good thing...It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." Thomas Jefferson Thoreau, a transcendentalist from the mid 19th century and Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights movement leader of a century later both believed the necessity of medicine for government. Although they showed disagreement of opinion on issues regarding voting, both writers agreed on the necessity to reform the government and the means of accomplishing it. In King's Letter from Birmingham Jail and Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, both agreed on injustice of majority to rule over minority, both resisted the government passively, and both wanted a better government immediately. The majority is not necessarily right, but they have always been the ... laws they believed that are against their morals, and are prepared to accept imprisonment . The exercise of passive resistance is the basis of the title of Thoreau's work, and King presents several examples of "civil disobedience" in his letter, including the Boston Tea Party. King not only exercises passive resistance, he also provides the procedure to be followed for any nonviolent campaign. They are: collection of the facts to ...
- 3815: Israel 3
- ... began to settle in Palestine in the mid-1800's because they wanted to live in the holy land. By 1880, 24,000 jews lived in Palestine, and by 1914, 85,000. In1917, during World War 1, Britian was fighting to win control of Palestine, and in doing so would give the Jews a national homeland. When the British won, the League of Nations made Palestine a mandated territory of the ... but were never enforced. Lots of European jews immigrated to Israel in the 1930's to escape the Nazis. Palestinian arabs didn't like this and the British began to limit jewish immigration. Durring World War ll, the nazis killed more than 6 million jews in eastern Europe. There was a big demand for a jewish state, but Britian continued to limit immigration. Finally, in 1947 the British submitted the problem ... Rabin. He was shot by a man from agoup who wanted to keep lands that Rabin was willing to give for peace. There are many extremists groups in Israel because of so much disagreement and war. Many groups are not willing to give up something to have peace with a neighboring country. This is why prime minister Rabin was shot.
- 3816: Summary of Rosen's "My Lost World: A Survivor's Tale"
- ... is like and realizes all the faith and trust they put into God. In part two, the longest of the three parts, Sara Rosen explains the hair-raising detailed actions that took place during the war. She begins with a very interesting quote: Have the gates of death been shown to you, the gates of the gloom have you seen? Can you take in the breath of the earth? Tell, if ... know it all. Job, 28, 27, 28. I believe that this very quote inspired her to write, not only this section, but the book as well. Sara starts this section on the first day the war began, September 1, 1939. Nazi Germany had invaded Poland, and the subject of fleeing sprung in every Jewish household. Even the Jewish radio stations, the one's not yet over taken by the Nazi's ... tiny dresses, belonging to her two younger cousins. Finally, Sara, along with two other victims of these hateful acts, escaped to Hungary. Their journey was not exactly easy and it wasn't until after the war that Sara and her family were fully united. My Lost World: A Survivor's Tale was just that. An excellent story told by a hero in my eyes. Sara Rosen's bravery and strength ...
- 3817: The Book of Destiny
- ... abuse this privilege that the gods have given them. But, one girl, even though she knew the consequences, she still wanted to see what would happen with her husband who had been away in the war for quiet some time. One night, when all the town's people were asleep and she thought that no one would see her, she went to the middle of town where the book sat on ... that a new battle has started for them. As they return to town, they will see a casket being carried down the street. They run up to the casket to see if it was a war friend, but instead they find the beauty they once loved being laid to rest. The battle with their loss is just starting, even though the war is over. She could not believe what she was seeing, she became very angry with the gods and began yelling in the town's square. Nearby people came form their homes and return her ...
- 3818: Imperialism In Nigeria And
- ... five Chinese ports to British trade, free British prisoners, and required the Chinese to pay the London government $21 million. More regulations were passed to the Chinese and these were the results of the Opium War. The Opium War was the pinnacle of early Chinese efforts to halt the British sale of opium to the Chinese. In the early 1800s millions of Chinese were addicted to opium and this alarmed Emperor Daoguang, and he ... own country, indicating unmistakably that you know how harmful opium is
Has China produced one item that is harmful to foreign countries? This letter was never sent and after the actions of Lin, the Opium War was under way. From this passage, one can see that the Chinese people wanted their country to be free from narcotics, but England felt that their economy was more important than the lives of ...
- 3819: Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... work. When he was twenty-two he fulfilled a childhood dream by becoming apprenticed to a riverboat pilot named, Horace Bixby. After his apprenticeship, he worked as a river boat pilot for four years. The Civil War stopped riverboat traffic in 1861. Clemens was out of work for several weeks before he traveled with his brother Orion to Nevada. Orion had aspirations of becoming Territorial Secretary of Nevada. Clemens became a reporter ...
- 3820: Fahrenheit 451 - A Charred Exi
- ... conformity, and most importantly, change. Bradbury s inspiration to convey the themes involved in the novel resulted mainly from the social situation of the time. First of all, the novel was written shortly after World War II and increasing numbers of authors began writing about serious topics. Also, the invention of the atom bomb had aroused the Cold War and the use of technology as a form of destruction (Touponce 124). Seeing technology as a potential threat to the well-being of mankind, Bradbury uses Fahrenheit 451 to state his distrust for it in ... In Bradbury s society, all communication to the disturbing outside world had been cut off in order to keep the citizens from worrying. Yet, the society had been living in blind happiness, oblivious to the war raging outside their world and the bomb that finally destroyed them. The horrific society that Bradbury had depicted had been intended to be parallel to our own in order to provide us with a ...
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