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- 4851: The First King of Shannara: Summary
- The First King of Shannara: Summary ****This book has about the same story as all the other Shannara books but it takes place Before all the other ones.****** After the first war of the races, man became an outcast and was forced to run into the deep southland. At Paranor (the home of the Druids) A druid named Bremen was declared an outcast because of his insistence to keep using magic, which was forbidden after the first war of the races. Bremen was the only one that knew that a rebel druid named Brona has learned to use great magic for evil and was on a plan to kill all the races and ...
- 4852: Benedict Arnold
- ... brave soldier, a patriot- and a traitor. Benedict was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on January 14, 1741. When he was 14 years old, Benedict ran away from home to fight in the French and Indian War, but he was brought back by his mother, who apparently was driven insane later in her life. If I had a son like Benedict, I might have gone insane too! After his mother insisted that ... s daughter Margaret Mansfield, and they hit it off. They decided to get married in 1774. But this marriage was short lived because the next year Margaret caught a disease and died. When the Revolutionary War began that year Arnold was already an experienced soldier. He had helped Ethan Allen capture Fort Ticonderoga. Then Benedict came up with a great idea to capture Quebec. This idea failed, but Benedict had already ...
- 4853: Book Review: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars.
- ... was instrumental in leading these antiracist biologists to challenge established theories of biological determinism. While Parts I and II focus on anthropology and biology, including the infamous I.Q. tests on American troops in World War I, and the eugenicists' efforts to develop policies on immigration and the feeble- minded, the book does not address the role of the discipline of psychology. One suspects that here racists found a safe haven ... of the role of scientists in Nazi ideology and in its execution created an urgent need to restore science's historical role on the side of reason and progress and against the forces of oppression, war, and destruction (p.79).There are a number of disturbing implications from Ballen's study. First, with the exception of Boas and his students, the American scientific community failed to address the entrenched racism against ...
- 4854: Cinema Paradiso
- ... gets himself into trouble. This remains true in many families across the world, that without the ample support of both parents, many children find themselves lost. Toto's father leaves Italy to fight in World War II when Toto is very young and has no recollection of his father. Alfredo knows that an adult male role model is missing in Toto's life. In one scene, in which Toto, who works ... eye, is where Toto and his mother are returning from the building where the military was able to determine Totos lost father dead. As they are walking back through the massive rubble created by war, Toto holds the had of his weeping mother. He looks over at a film poster advertising Gone with the Wind. This scene is important because the man in the poster resembles Totos father. When ...
- 4855: The Martian Chronicles
- ... of those rare books showing mankind as alien invaders on another planet. Mars is perhaps the most common source, in early SF literature, for invasions into Earth - the most famous example being H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. In Bradbury's novel, we see how it can happen the other way around. As in Wells' work, here, too, the Martians are killed by Earth's bacteria -- but rather than a case of victory in a war, this is a sad disaster. The desease wiped out a beautiful, wise, and ancient civilization. The book depicts humankind as mostly violent in nature. Bradbury holds a mirror in front of the reader's face ...
- 4856: Art Values
- ... arch. As such they were able to create beautiful buildings, line the Pantheon in Rome (not the Parthenon on the acropolis). By illustrating the real instead of the ideal, they were able to create magnificent war scenes, which is what their culture was driven by; war. Next, the medieval period of art as relates to the values of society, shown in art. This was a society built upon its religion, specifically Christianity. They built gigantic houses of worship (churches) which were ...
- 4857: The Chrysalids: The Importance Of Telepathy
- ... in Waknuk will stop thinking that Tribulation was sent by God and that all deviations are devil's creation. They might understand that the radiation might be the remaining of a nuclear bomb or nuclear war. The sealant people might help Waknuk in education and they themselves may build the machines like today's, and grow more productive crops. The entire thinking and appearance of Waknuk might change. On the other ... points were influenced by mental telepathy. This type of story could be an example how people were in the past (in the really world). It is an idea what could really happen if a nuclear war would become a reality.
- 4858: The Great Gatsby
- ... before. Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once. Also, there is one more lady said that Gatsby was a German spy: It is more that he was a German spy during the war. Nike heard it, but when Nike had a chance to have a lunch with Gatsby, he told Nike, he was an Oxford man and show him that fought in World War One. Then Nike knew Gatsby was not a German Spy nor a murderer. Furthermore, at the end of the novel, when Daisy drove Gatsby's car and killed Mrs.Wilson in a car accident, Nike ...
- 4859: Paradise Lost
- ... forces (gods, angels, and demons) at work throughout the poem. One question may occur in regard to the second of these: is it valour and courage that Satan and his followers showed in fighting the War in Heaven with God? Of course, we may have a bit of trouble thinking of Satan as showing courage and valour. But it may be the words themselves and modern connotations connected with them that ... in medias res"; he begins by asking how Adam and Eve could have fallen. Who could have caused it? And then we meet an already fallen Satan; it is only in Book VI that the War in Heaven is actually described. Milton also invokes a Muse (lines 1-26) to inspire and instruct him, as was traditional. E. R. Gregory, in his article on the use of the muses in Paradise ...
- 4860: Coming of Age in Mississippi
- Coming of Age in Mississippi By Anne Moody Civil Rights activist, Anne Moody was born in rural Wilkinson County, Mississippi in 1940. Anne Moody grew up on a plantation were her parents where sharecroppers. Her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, details the suffering ... spirit was growing. This caused a bad relationship with her mother; she wanted Anne to just follow those before her. She began to hear of blacks that were standing up for themselves and about the civil rights movement. By high school Anne was fed up and after graduation Anne went away to college, partly to get away from the increasing acts of racism, mostly to broaden her mind from the small ...
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