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- 6281: Best Evidence
- ... dragon as well is a great evil, whose breath "[was] burning hot, poison [poured] from his tongue," (672-673). The three battles are fought at different times of Beowulf’s life, to symbolize the perpetual war men fight against evil. Beowulf previously fights various evils: "[He] fought that beast’s last battle,"(290) "Huge sea-monsters [he] killed,"(308) "Hunting monsters…and killing them one by one,"(56-158). Later Beowulf ...
- 6282: Beowulf - Hero
- ... all mortal men; loyalty and the ability to think of himself last makes him revered by all. Beowulf came openly and wholeheartedly to help the Danes which was an unusual occurrence in a time of war and widespread fear. He set a noble example for all human beings relaying the necessity of brotherhood and friendship. The word "hero" is seemingly thrown around today. A true hero possesses the traits of strength ...
- 6283: Battle Royal
- ... at-least not until he hears his grandfathers words to his father: Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up a good fight. I never told you, but your life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion ...
- 6284: Ben Franklin
- ... the company. Shortly after Franklin became clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly, he persuaded it to pass the first militia law in Pennsylvania's history, allocate money for defense and appoint officers to conduct full scale war. Franklin founded the Academy for the Education of Youth, which later became the University of Pennsylvania. The university's athletic field is named in Franklin's honor. He also founded a city hospital, the Pennsylvania ...
- 6285: A Tale Of Two Cities - Foreshadowing
- ... Marquis is murdered for killing the small child with his horses, we come to see the theme of revenge that will become all too common. The author uses vivid foreshadowing to paint a picture of civil unrest among the common people that will come to lead to the French Revolution. In Chapter Five of Book One, Dickens includes the breaking of a wine cask to show a large, impoverished crowd gathered ...
- 6286: A Shropshire Lad
- ... and the achievement, in words, of fulfillment by other means" (Bayley 32). In both the conversation with the dead man and the chance encounter with the soldier, who in context seems to be marching to war, Housman personifies Shropshire as a place in which he "is constantly reminded of the limitations of mortality" (Scott-Kilvert 27). The fact that Housman "knew that obtaining what one longed for was not in fact ...
- 6287: A Separate Peace: Character Sketch Of Leper Lepellier
- ... didn’t want to take the risk of trying to be friends with them! That could mean being let down, and Leper wouldn’t be able to handle that. He couldn’t handle when the war let him down. After seeing the provocative slide on the ski troops, Leper was convinced that was the life for him. Certain he would find happiness there, he packed his bags and left. Unfortunately, the ...
- 6288: Come Home
- ... Henry C. Folger. 1927 Construction for Cranford Rose Garden, gift of Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Cranford, begins; dedicated the following year. 1933 Magnolias planted, gift of Women's Auxiliary. The Children's Garden.During World War I, children collected pennies in a soldier's helmet to benefit a European child. 1936 Rose Arc Pool completed, gift of Mrs.Walter V. Cranford. 1938 Herb Garden, gift of Auxiliary, dedicated; Elizabethan knots established ...
- 6289: Proclamation Act of 1763
- ... were allowed to continue all aspects of their culture, with no penalty to status whatsoever. The government for Quebec, however, was to stay the same, still ruled by a governor and an executive council. The civil law was French, but the criminal law was changed to British. Yes, I definetely think so. This worked right after the Act was passed, as evidenced by the responses, very few people were unhappy. The ...
- 6290: A Price Above Rubies
- ... we ask for it." The Rabbi pushes in and says " we bring suffering upon ourselves when we sin against God." Almost hysterical, Sonia asks him why her relatives and the Jews in the second world war suffered, when they didn’t deserve it. The only way the Rabbi can answer is to say, " Don’t question Mrs. Horowitz." She defiantly replies " I’m going to question whatever I want." Sonia has ...
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