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- 6361: Duke Ellington
- ... was considered amongst the world's greatest composers and musicians. The French government honored him with their highest award, the Legion of Honor, while the government of the United States bestowed upon him the highest civil honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He played for the royalty and for the common people and by the end of his fifty-year career, he had played over 20,000 performances worldwide. He was ...
- 6362: Braveheart
- ... characteristic of your town to rise to the top is having good relationships with surrounding countries. You have to be able to have another country join you in case of battle. If there is a war and everyone hates you, you and your people will get killed not only by the other countries but by your country too. There was a definite rise of the town is Scotland. It was William ...
- 6363: More's Utopia and Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
- ... More had found so appalling. And 60 years after Brave New World, we find that the gulf between rich and poor grows greater, while large sections of our inner cities have been written off as war zones. If we fail to bring about stability through greater democracy, an authoritarian order will be imposed. The utopias of More and Huxley will then become even more important, for we will need to address ...
- 6364: Mother-Daughter Tradition in The Joy Luck Club
- ... of chess. Throughout all of the Jing-Mei Woo stories June has to recall all of the memories of what her mother had told her. She remembers how her mother left her babies during the war. June's mother felt that since she had failed as a mother to her first babies she had failed as a person. When she made June take piano lessons June thought that she was trying ...
- 6365: Lord of the Flies: Book and Movie Comparison
- ... the movie Lord of the Flies. The book is a great adventure story and so is the movie. There are many aspects to the book that make it great. The novel takes place during a war. I get this impression from the fact that they make several references to bombs and naval ships. All of the characters in the book are British. The book’s setting is a small island somewhere ...
- 6366: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery
- ... recent times. Into the twentieth century a woman was not considered an equal member of American society. The traditional role of a woman as a wife, a mother and a housekeeper remained unquestioned until World War I. Those few women and men who strove for equality between the genders were deemed radicals. Come wartime, however, women proved that they could adequately perform the same jobs as men with no difference in ...
- 6367: The Old Man and the Sea
- ... not go with him on this trip. Santiago loaded his bait, water, and food and headed on out to the Gulf. The boy had given him two fresh small tunas. Santiago spotted a man-of-war bird circling in the sky. The old man knew that the bird had spotted something. The bird dove suddenly and the old man saw flying fish spurt out of the water. All of a sudden ...
- 6368: Joy Luck Club: Conflicts Faced By June and Her Mother
- ... she does not know about her tragic past and t he pain she still feels from the memory of it. Because Suyuan lost two daughters in China, and her entire family was killed in the war, she leaves this place behind her and places all of her hopes in America and her family there. She wants the very best f or her daughter June. Even her name, Suyuan, meaning "long-cherished ...
- 6369: Inman
- ... realized there is never a good time to fall apart. He thought of Ada. He thought that maybe she could save him from his troubles and redeem him from the past four years in the war. He was trying not to listen to the voices in his head, but he couldn't avoid them. They told him that it was possible to be lost in bitterness and anger that you are ...
- 6370: Stephen Coonts' "Flight of the Intruder": Summary
- ... important setting was the cockpit of the Intruder. This story was very, very realistic. It really could have happened. One reason is because the novel took place in a real place and time: the Vietnam War. Everything about it exists. The only possible unrealistic thing is that the likelihood of the President's order coming at the same time of Grafton's raid is truly slim. The details and description in ...
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