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- 4051: The Red Badge Of Courage Liter
- The Red Badge of Courage begins with the Youth (Henry) preparing to leave to war. He has fabulous ideas concocted in his mind about victory and heroism. The Youth soon finds that victory and heroism are a small part in the splendor of war. The Youth's mind soon becomes burdened with thoughts of death and running away from battle. Sure enough, in the midst of battle, the Youth flees the battlefield. The Youth must learn to deal with ... the youth ran, I decided I would have stayed and fought for my dignity if nothing else. At the end of the book, Henry learns how important life truly is and why. He learned that war deals with death shame, and sorrow, not just victory and freedom. On page 266, Henry becomes a man. "He had been to touch the great death, and found, after all, it was but the ...
- 4052: Francisco Goya, Life Of An Art
- ... and he enters a world of surrealism, which at the time proved to be unexceptable. Being unable to present these paintings, he withdraws his works and continues his job. During Napoleons invasion and the Spanish war of Independence Goya became court painter for the French from 1808 to 1814. King Ferdinan VIII, king of Spain brings Goya back to Spain as Chamber Painter after the war. Instead Goya chooses to express his hate towards war in, The Disasters, a series of paintings beginning a period known as The Black Paintings. These paintings included scenes of witchcraft, massacre, and other bizarre activities. After over a decade of watching King Ferdinan ...
- 4053: Biological Warfare and Terrorism
- ... include the blister agents, the choking agents, the blood agents, a nd the nerve agents. The blister agents are intended to "cause incapacitation rather than death" (Dunn, 4). These agents were used extensively during World War I, and their use by a terrorist group depends largely on the groups objectives and moral sta nding. Obviously if the intention of a chemical attack was to injure many people and overload a regions ... the only way terrorists could acquire a chemical agent with dangerous properties. Many industrial chemicals are closely related to chemical weapons; in fact several industrial chemicals were even employed as c hemical weapons during World War I. Chlorine and phosgene were both used extensively by both the German, British, and French during the war. Although these substances are far less lethal than the nerve agents, they are quite common and have "many legiti mate industrial applications" (Dunn, 5). Even more frightening is that an entire class of industrial ...
- 4054: The Subject of Equality and Justification of Social Hierarchy
- ... used this statement to challenge slavery in the South. It was this concept of equality that pushed the Northern states to free slaves in their borders around the late 1700s to early 1800s. Before the Civil War, both black and white abolitionists used the Declaration of Independence as justification that slavery was wrong. The delegates of the womens rights convention at Seneca Falls in 1848 interpreted that Jefferson applied that all ...
- 4055: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... away from the university because ofd the plague. Charles II 163085, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (166085), eldest surviving son of and Henrietta MariaPrince of Wales at the time of the English civil war, Charles was sent to the West of England with his council. In 1646, Charles was forced to escape to France, where he stayed with his mother and was tutored by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes. In ...
- 4056: The Moon Is Down
- ... in this story you have nothing. I think Steinbeck chose a small town cause there is something about it that is strong. This story has more than one possible theme. The ones I thought were war, mankind and, human spirit. War plays an important role I this story. The story first of all takes place in wartime. In the begging three men are gunned down for no reason during the take over. This shows that even though this small town has certain innocence it is still subject to murders and corruption. War is shown as a time when everything is mad and the outcome is based on how certain people act, like Orden and the colonel. This story can be taken on a worldly level. Which ...
- 4057: Greek History And Food
- ... among most branches of Orthodoxy . In many respects, church and state are not separate in the Western sense in Greece. In spite of reforms in the 1980s and a loss of some influence since World War II, the Orthodox Church remains the officially established religious institution of the country, and from that position it exerts considerable influence in secular matters. The largest non-Orthodox religious groups in Greece are Roman Catholic ... the Macedonian Empire. After the downfall of the Macedonian Empire, Greece enters a lull, which lasts for almost a thousand years. During this time a numerous number of empires conquered Greece. The Greeks fought a war of independence against the Ottoman Empire and won. The first president of Greece was Ioannis Kapodistrias. In 1829 the Treaty of Adrianople places Greek under British, French, and Russian protection. In 1832 the Treaty of ... first constitution establishes democratic parliamentary government system, reducing Otto's power. In 1862 after series of coups, Otto forced to resign. After this Greece was an independent country. Greece played a small part in World War 1. It was on the side of the Allied forces. This brings the history of Greece to the present. In conclusion Greek food is heavily influenced by the climate of the Mediterranean, and the ...
- 4058: Boris Yeltsin
- ... firms were organized into joint stock companies. To trim budget deficit, the government slashed military spending, social assistance, and subsidies. Collaborating with international financial organizations, Russia established a stack exchange, a reserve bank, and a civil law code. Despite assurances from Boris that capitalism would yield dividends within a year, the economy slowly shrank from 1992 to 1999. Millions of ordinary people suffered great poverty and unemployment. Frictions in the government ... has promoted trade and cooperation with China. Boris also gave the Kuril Islands back to Japan (for foreign aide, of course); these islands froze all relations between the two countries since the end of World War 2. Today and Tomorrow Boris has had many problems in the last few years. The first would be, the fall of the Asian economy in 1998, which spread fear through out the world; this economic ...
- 4059: Richard Nixon 2
- ... a rich by 1967 and I feel a changed man. In 1968 Nixon ran for the Presidential office again against Hubert Humphrey. Nixon won this election on the promise of peace and end to the war in Vietnam. I feel he made good on his promise to have peace and he began the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. Many people were angry with Nixon for not just ending the war. I on the other hand feel Nixon was in his right mind for doing just what he did. If it was an illegal war I think America still should have stayed until victory was ours. I would have. Nixon was reelected in 1972 when he ran against George McGovern. As a president, I think everyone would agree Nixon ...
- 4060: Black Female Bodybuilders
- ... Women's Physique World in 1997. My thanks to Reg Bradford for calling this to my attention. 31.In a 1988 interview with WRC-TV in Washington, Snyder was quoted as saying that during the Civil War, "'the slave owner would breed his big black with his big woman so that he would have a big black kid. That's where it all started.' The station was seeking comment in connection with ...
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