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- 5711: Odysseus Personal Qualities (f
- The Odyssey, by Homer, is about Odysseus, the king of Ithaca. Odysseus fights in the Trojan War and wins. He travels towards Ithaca but does not reach it because he is not in favor of Poseidon, god of the sea, who prevents his return. For many years, Odysseus wanders the seas and ...
- 5712: Odysseuss Brutality
- ... betrayal Odysseus s trust in his brothers was lost. His hope dwindled as his journey continued, and ate away at his conscious. Odysseus was a man of honor, a man who had fought in a war and won. For such a courageous man to return home to find it full, idly standing by would not be considered virtuous. In order to prove that his status of King remained a strong title ...
- 5713: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
- ... side of the room like a Jap statue. There s no moving her and no help against her. She s lost a little battle here today, but it s a minor battle in a big war that she s been winning and that she ll go on winning. We mustn t let McMurphy get our hopes up any different, lure us into making some kind of dumb play. She ll go ...
- 5714: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
- ... who hates authority and authoritative figures. This is, perhaps, why he clashes so fiercely with Big Nurse. Chief is the veteran of the ward. He has been there the longest, since the start of World War II, with the exception of Big Nurse. He has the mutual respect of everyone in the ward. Billy Bibbit is insecure and has a stutter. His name is ironic in that it resembles a stutter ...
- 5715: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... environment, the story would have made no sense, or at least lost a bit of its effect. Instead, these people start from scratch and build up their own civilization. Over the course of a century, civil wars occur, along with tragedies, angels appearing, and family members losing their sanity. The novel is written in decades, with each one exploring a main character and with the other characters lives, the book tangles ...
- 5716: Battle Of The Bulge
- ... participated in this battle including 600,000 German's, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British. Civilians, men, women, and children joined Hitler's Secret Service army. Late in 1944 Germany was clearly loosing the war Allies were bombing Germany heavily and Hitler was in a bomb shelter. Some people thought he was dead. While in the shelter he was planning his last attempt to slow the Allied invasion. He planned ...
- 5717: Return Of The Native Summary
- ... man worthy of her and to travel to exotic distant lands with him as her cavalier. Living on Egdon Heath, she has only one possible candidate: Damon Wildeve, keeper of the village inn, a former civil engineer who somehow failed in his profession. Wildeve and Eustacia Vye have equally uncurbed passionate natures. They seem to thrive on tormenting each other-now passionately loving, now passionately hating. Wildeve, however, has a roving ...
- 5718: Baseball And American Popular
- ... of his deputy national directors. He accepted and was later named to the Executive Committee as Special Assistant to Community Affairs. "He had many firsts in his life. He became the catalyst of many emerging civil movements. His impact on the national pastime proceeded several breakthroughs in the social and political arena"(Lester, p.3). In his book, Never Had It Made he recapped his life, "As long as I appeared ...
- 5719: Othello - Injustice As A Theme
- ... general of the city of Venice, and a foreigner, a dark-skinned Moor. He has eloped with a senator s daughter, Desdemona, and they love each other dearly. Othello is a level-headed practitioner of war, and is not ruffled by hints and allegations; that is, until his mind is poisoned by the machinations of Iago. Iago plants ideas in Othello s head, uses the innocent actions of others as his ...
- 5720: Babylon
- ... Under the new King Nabuchodonosor Added to the land by taking over Elam and Syria. He proved to the ancient world that Babylon is still a force to be feared, but when Assyria went to war with Babylon again, Egypt saw a weak Babylon and went in for the kill. Egyptians then led the Babylonians into Egypt and into slavery. Although debated this is the believed end of Babylon, but the ...
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