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- 3991: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... 1858, the grandson of a white man and the son of free blacks, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina where his family, having left the South originally in 1856, returned after the Civil War. Chesnutt who had little formal education taught himself and also received tutoring from family members. Chesnutt is known as one of the great American novelist and short-story writers of the late 19th century. Chesnutt ...
- 3992: Mark Twain
- ... many cities as a printer, and wrote articles for his brother's newspapers under various nicknames. After a visit to New Orleans, he learned how to pilot a steamboat. That became his job until the Civil War closed the Mississippi River, and it set him up for "Old Times on the Mississippi" and "Life on the Mississippi." In 1861, Twain traveled to Carson City, Nevada, with his brother Orion. After attempts for ...
- 3993: Mark Twain 2
- ... Twains humor in his stories was used partly because it was his way of writing but also because during those times America was going through great tribulation and was in need of relief from the Civil war. Through humor he eased the pains of America and also made himself a popular literary figure of the time. In the story "Life on the Mississippi" he writes of the life in a small town ...
- 3994: No Exit 2
- ... play, Garcin is placed in a room to face hell with two other people, Estelle and Inez. The character Garcin is in this hell after being shot for fleeing his country after the breakout of war. Prior to the war, Garcin was the editor of a pacifist newspaper. When he defied war, he was shot. Although he was defiant he chooses to think of himself as a hero and a martyr. As the story evolves, the character Inez forces Garcin to admit that he is not ...
- 3995: Abigail Adams
- ... the Congress called at Philadelphia to try and unite the colonies against Great Britain's plan to punish Boston and Massachusetts. Though her sons would not be of military age for another decade, Abigail dreaded war, in which only God knew what would happen. When the shots at Lexington and Concorde were fired, John was again off to the Congress and cautioned Abigail that she should 'fly to the woods' with the children if the British attacked Boston. Abigail prayed for the war and on June 17 John Quincy and Abigail went to Bunker Hill and watched the roar of the cannons and saw the flames of burning Charleston atop of Penn's Hill near where they lived ... what's happening at the immediate point in time. Abigail sometimes called herself 'Mrs. Delegate' because she was the wife of a Revolutionary leader. Abigail continued to keep in tact with her husband throughout the war. She also was very political. Then later she led a very productive life.
- 3996: An Anaysis Of Sexism Against The Female In Athletics
- ... colleges to report data on men and womens athletics. The Federal law took effect April 1, 1997. To ensure that A college is in compliance with Title IX, The Department of Education office for Civil Rights, uses a three-pronged test to decide. A school is in compliance if it passes a single prong. One prong asks its school to show a history of continuing expansion of womens athletics ... sports. The Athletic Footwear Association sponsors the video. (Walter, p. A-8) In my opinion there has been an ongoing effort to advance women in sports. Much of this has to do with so-called Civil Rights, or giving U.S. citizens equal opportunities. Civil Rights, Affirmative Action etc., has been the tradition over the past 20 or 30 years, and fortunately for women in sports, it has served as a factor in advancing women in sports. Recently, Timer ...
- 3997: Cryptographys Importance In Go
- ... to break, decipher, and read coded messages from the Soviet Union, all in complete secrecy (Radosh, 1995). They were to provide proof of the involvement of the Rosenbergs in a major espionage operation from World War II. From 1947-1952, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were leaders of a spy ring intended to steal plans from the United States atomic arsenal, through the Manhattan project. The KGB received messages from the New ... could have caused the United States is inscrutable. Another instance where cryptography showed itself as an asset to the government was in Pearl Harbor (Bamford, 1982). As tensions grew in the Pacific, circa 1941, the War Department decided to concentrate all cryptographic efforts on Japanese intercepts. During the first Sunday of December, a listening station intercepted several messages from Tokyo to Washington D.C. The intercepts passed through an unwieldy maze ... signaled the break of peace talks with the United States. The message was transported to higher authority, and the significance of the message was shown. The breaking of peace talks are the penultimate act of war. A frantic search was made to inform an Army Chief of staff of the preempting strike in Hawaii. Through extreme miscommunication, an intercept that proved to be important had suddenly become yesterday s news. ...
- 3998: The Politial Parties of America's History
- ... two more parties. The South Democratic Party and the North Democratic party. Then a new party formed called the Constitutional Union Party whose goal was to keep the Union together. By the time of the Civil War, 4 parties took hold, the Republicans, the Northern Democratic Party, the Southern Democratic Party, and the Constitutional Union Party.
- 3999: A Rose for Remembrance
- ... In the simplest sense, the story says that death conquers all. But what is death? In the setting of this story, it is gone but not forgotten era of the old south in which the Civil War survivors would deny change and any passage of time that might skew their social customs and existence. In a twisted sense, Emily did manage to conquer time, but only very briefly and only by retreating ...
- 4000: Lord of the Flies: Our Society Suppresses the Evil That Is Presented In All of Us
- ... the flies) which attributes to the killing and sheer brutality of the hunters. Jack is the perfect example of a boy whose dark side took over when he was no longer bound down to a civil environment. After being unable to bear killing a pig due to the horrific blood, he became eager to gain respect, almost redeem himself, by becoming a hunter. He was remarkably enthusiastic about hunting. He painted ... killer and had let his evil half take over. By the end of the story he had become so evil, that he wanted to kill Ralph in order to destroy all remaining traces of a civil world. When Ralph had control and was leader, he had rules and he used the conch as a sign of unity. It was respected and was(what you could call the basis for their gouvernment ... on indicatiing the insignificance of the conch and how it meant nothing. This he replaced byt he pigs head which he used to show how the hunting was a better way of life than being civil. The pigs head symbolized man's dark side and how evil lurks inside all of us. It reached it's climax when Roger had killed Piggy and destroyed the conch, therfore making the pig' ...
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