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- 3941: What Is Art ?
- ... and allow the audience to experience a fiction or representation of reality. Michael Norman does not think that this fiction is at all healthy. In his essay "Carnage and Glory, Legends and Lies" he criticizes war movies for being the bad representation of the truth. Norman argues that "the lie begins as soon as the first cut is made and time and reality are altered" (book pg.211). Life is not as neatly structured nor as dramatic as we see in all forms of Art. Movies, poems and plays all have a beginning, a middle and an end. Just as Norman says that war movies are about our "fantasies of war"(book pg.213), art is a fantasy of life. It is the fantasy of situations that we are unable to or too afraid of experiencing. The realization that art is fiction based on reality, ...
- 3942: Imigration And Discrimination
- ... the "typical American" in language, customs, and religion. Many individuals and industries alike played upon America's fears of immigration to further their own goals. Leuchtenburg follows this common theme from the beginning of World War I up untill the election of 1928. If there was one man who singlely used America's fear of immigrants to advance his own political goals it was Attorney General Palmer. The rise of Communism ... savior, combatting the evils of Communism. He mainly centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer raids thousands of aliens were deported and even more were arrested on little or no evidence. Their civil liberties were violated, they were not told the reasons for their arrests, denied counsel, and not given fair trials. What followed was an investigation of Palmer led by Louis Post which overturned many of Palmer ...
- 3943: William Faulkner
- ... the maturing theme and has a Southern setting is A Rose for Emily. This one, like most of his others, takes place in the southern part of the United States. It takes place after the Civil War during the south s transition from the Old South to the New South. All we know is that she lives in Jefferson, but we can assume it is in the South for a couple of ...
- 3944: Kosovo Crisis 2
- ... and culture. Both have different wants; the Serbs with to have their land while the Albanians, which make up ninety percent of the population, want an independent nation. Many of the troubles evolved from World War II when the country was torn on whether or not to support tHitler and his movement. Since then the Albanians have cried for a free republic. The Kosovo Liberal Army resulted from Albanian attacks. The ... soldiers. Somewhat ironic, to prevent death we must send our brave men in to die. The conflict has been hard on the world, but more so on Kosovo itself. It is predicted that if the war doesnt stop the two-sides will be fighting over nothing other than pride. The worlds involvement into the conflict seems to have fueled the anger of both sides. There are hundreds of people ... There is good in this place of anger, it has just been overlooked. The conflict continues, and every day another person is found risking a sacrifice for the good or the country or another person. War is said to bring out the worst in people, but I believe it can also bring out the best. The Kosovo Liberal Army will continue to attack innocent protestors, the Serbs will fight for ...
- 3945: The Time Machine
- ... and travels into the future. He doesn't travel too far but just enough to see if it works and it does. He decides to travel father and this time he travels through both World War 1 and World War 2. And finds out the world is all most destroyed by war. He finds himself trapped under layers and layers of molten rock and he keeps shooting through time hoping that time will ware away the rock and free him. He finally ends up in the ...
- 3946: The Battle of Antietam
- The Battle of Antietam The Battle of Antietam was one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War. It took place on September 17, 1862 in Maryland. It was at once the climax and the end of the first Confederate invasion of the North. It happened between the U.S. Army of the ...
- 3947: Maroons
- ... men and forced him to flee to Cuba. D'Oyley named Lubolo or de Bolas "Governor of the Negroes" and later gave him the title of Colonel of the Black Regiment, granting his followers full civil rights and thirty acres of land each. Lubolo and his group began hunting down other Maroons who rejected the peace offers of the British. In 1663 he was killed in an ambush while raiding another ... chief sorceress and Obeah woman, who is still celebrated in Jamaican folklore, also led the windward Maroons. Hunter died in 1734, shortly before the reinforcements he so often requested finally arrived. A protracted five-year war followed, finally resolved as on so many other occasions, not by the surrender of the Maroons, but by negotiation. The Leeward and Windward Treaties of 1739 recognized Maroon freedom and granted land to Maroon communities ...
- 3948: History of The Internet
- ... college users to the backbone networks. Today, there are more than fifty-thousand networks in more than one-hundred countries worldwide. However, it all started with one network. In the early 1960's the Cold War was escalating and the United States Government was faced with a problem. How could the country communicate after a nuclear war? The Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA, had a solution. They would create a non-centralized network that linked from city to city, and base to base. The network was designed to function when ... Internet resource. In conclusion, the Internet has dramatically changed from its original purpose. It was formed by the United States government for exclusive use of government officials and the military to communicate after a nuclear war. Today, the Internet is used globally for a variety of purposes. People can send their friends an electronic "hello." They can download a recipe for a new type of lasagna. They can argue about ...
- 3949: Crito 2
- ... law in place to create order. "You must either persuade it or obey its orders, and endure in silence whatever it instructs you to endure, whether blows or bonds, and if it leads you into war or be wounded or killed you must obey."(Crito p.53b) The society in which a person lives creates a mutual relationship in which every person in that society is indebted to, if he willingly ... and accept the punishments of that society have proved to be wise and justified. In consideration of those beliefs, I feel it is safe to conclude that Socrates would be no more in favor of "civil disobedience" than he was in disobeying the judgement that was brought down against him. Socrates holds incredible respect for the laws which govern him and no deviance, be it great or small, would he permit ...
- 3950: I Have a Dream
- ... on a different society in which all races of people can live together in harmony. All of these people were gathered to listen to this speech and to voice their opinions through their presence, on civil rights. The purpose of Martin Luther Kings speech was to persuade the people listening to him and also the people all over America to join in the fight for civil rights. He also wanted to convey his idea of a world in which all men are created equal. A world in which black men can live and work along with white men in social harmony ... him for the steps he took to abolish slavery. He delivers his speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in a step to show appreciation for the late presidents actions to bring about more civil rights in the past. Second, Dr. King uses a similar style of speech that Lincoln used in his Proclamation address such as the use of the word score instead of saying twenty years. In ...
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