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- 6211: Niels Bohr
- ... background, and went to Los Alamos, North Mexico, were he helped scientist who were working on the first atomic bomb. Before he left, he dissolved his golden Nobel medal in acid. In 1945, after the war was over, he returned to his country, and precipitated the gold from acid and recast the medal. Bohr worked very hard on the peaceful uses of atomic energy and organized the first Atoms for Peace ...
- 6212: Pocahontas
- ... True Relation, in 1608? The only explanation is that Smith needed a story that would develop a hatred toward the Indians. This fabrication was just part of a longer one used as justification to wage war on the Powhatan Nation. The more Smiths description is examined, the less believable it becomes. This was only one of three reports invented by the pretentious Smith that allege he was saved from death ...
- 6213: Phyllis Wheatley
- ... while altering faith into her one and only possession, and paradoxically finding freedom in this ownership of something else. She, like the victim of a 17th century house fire or the casualty of the lonely war against aging, turns to faith when she has nothing, needs something or anything, and uses this possession for her own needs. This is, nevertheless, a faith in something, but it is not yet a true ...
- 6214: Patterns - Symbolism
- ... live her life the way others have patterned it out for her. Through his love for her, she will be allowed to break the mold and be her own person. Unfortunately, her lover dies at war and she is back to where she began, wearing a stiff dress, following the paths already made, and waiting for another man to come along to rescue her from this prison cell. I wonder what ...
- 6215: P.G. Wodehouse
- ... went through many things such as being captured by the Germans during WWII, where he made radio broadcasts in which he described his experiences as a prisoner and ridiculed his captors. (Bassett 1). After the war, Wodehouse moved to the United States, which he calls "the romance capital of the world" where he met his wife, Ethel Rowley (Babuser 1248). and settled, becoming a citizen in 1955. (Jasen 2). He lived ...
- 6216: Our Hearts Fell To The Ground
- ... elders to chronologically pass on their heritage to ensure the survival of their tribe. Calloway disclosed through speeches of the Native American that they were generally peaceful and friendly people who wanted peace and not war with the white man. Most speeches contained disagreement but acceptance of the white man ways, from the breaking of treaties to the inconceivable slaughter of their buffalo. The American Native hoping to maintain their hold ...
- 6217: Ordinary Men
- ... did little to prepare these men for the horrors they were to witness and participate in. The group was made up of both citizens and career policemen. Major Wilhelm Trapp, a career policeman and World War I veteran headed the battalion. Trapp joined the Nazi party in 1932, but never became an office in the SS. His two captains, Hoffmann and Wohlauf, were SS trained officers. The reserve lieutenants, all seven ...
- 6218: Ontology
- ... we can exist with our own identity and inhere to a greater whole simultaneously, however my rationalism does not extend beyond people. Nonetheless, these philosophers all had valid conclusions and their theories compliment each other. "War is king"1 said Heraclitus. He believes that reality is not composed of a number of things, but is a process of continual creation and destruction. An accurate metaphor for his rationale is a river ...
- 6219: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... army and in WWII. He claims to hear and see machinery in the walls of the ward that track and monitor all action that goes on in and around the hospital. With his experiences in war and with what he has gone through in the ward, he often loses himself in a "fog". He creates this "fog" in his mind so that he can numb the reality of where he is ...
- 6220: Of Mice And Men - Lonliness
- ... most parts of the world compared to a century ago. It may be very difficult to completely rid the planet of racism but it is definitely possible. As one of the underlying factors of World War Two, it is something that lived and still lives in some people. Racism is driven from the clash of cultures and ideologies of different nationalities. I believe this is something that can eventually be overcome ...
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