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- 5521: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... dollars is collected, which everyone pitches in to contribute. Cal even hands the children her own money to donate – a telling symbol of her people’s wealth of dignity amid their poverty in economic and civil rights. Even though the white people don’t treat the blacks equally, the blacks still show them respect. For example, as Jem, Scout and Cal are approaching the church, the men take off their hats ...
- 5522: Night
- In reading, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Man's Search For Meaning by , many stories of the torturous life in the concentration camps during the second world war. In each book, the reader gets a different point of view from each book because in Night, you get to read about a teenager's view and in the book, A Man's Search For ...
- 5523: Love And Marriage
- ... results from a conditioning brought about by the society and times she lives in. In many instances, Mrs. Bennet demonstrates, however unwittingly, her belief that the marriage of her daughters is an achievement which every civil mother should aspire to, but that their happiness in that marriage is unimportant: Not that I care about it, though. He is nothing to us, you know, and I am sure I never want to ...
- 5524: Ellis Island
- ... merchant bought the island and it became at last Ellis Island. After the Revolution, the island was sold to New York State and in 1811, Fort Gibson was built on it in preparation for the War of 1812. No fighting took place at Fort Gibson it was mainly a munitions storage fort. When immigrants began, pouring into New York City, New York State processed them at an old fort known as ...
- 5525: Early Christianity
- ... many emperors ordered the persecution of Christians. During the Empire¹s fall many people saw the Christians as reasons for it¹s collapse, because of this Christians were hunted down much like Jews in World War 2. Christianity would spread to become one of the world¹s major religions. It is thanks to Constantine that governments would be founded under this religion which would make it¹s use even more widespread ...
- 5526: Claudius And Hamlet
- ... demonstrates his skills through his dealings with Cornelius and Voltimand. He wisely advises them to go to Norway to negotiate peace with Fortinbras. This is in sharp contrast to Old Hamlet who plunged Denamrk into war with Norway. The people are also rather fond of Norway. Their fondness of Claudius is indicated through the actions of Rosencratz and Guildenstern. Claudius employs them to find the cause of Hamlet's "antic disposition ...
- 5527: Farwell To Arms
- The book A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a classic about the love story of a nurse and a war-ridden soldier. The story starts as Frederick Henry is serving in the Italian Army. He meets his future love in the hospital that he gets put in for various reasons. I thought that A Farewell ...
- 5528: Analysis Of Racism In Huck Fin
- ... life. By making the concepts more realistic to people, Twain shows the subject for what it really is. I believe the removal of such literary works from the classroom would be a defeat on the war against racism. Racism is built on ignorance; therefore banning the book's insights would only enable that ignorance and be a victory for racism and not a loss. To consider banning this novel simply because ...
- 5529: Lord Of The Flies
- ... the island. The preeminence of the adult world to the boys and its presumed virtuosity elevate it to a much higher level than the everyday world of the island. Despite a passing reference to nuclear war early on in the novel, the outside world is very much assumed to be superior in functioning by both the boys and the reader, making it an almost divine figure in the scale of the ...
- 5530: Love Canal
- ... American diplomats. Louisiana was of diminishing importance to France. The costly revolt in Haiti forced the French emperor Napoleon I to reconsider his plan to make Hispaniolia the keystone of his colonial empire, and impending war with Great Britain made him question the hardness of holding Louisiana against that great naval power. He decided to sell Louisiana to the United States. On April 11, 1803, the French foreign minister Charles Maurice ...
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