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- 1091: America Is In The Heart
- ... his father sold a hectare of their four-hectare land. When they needed more, they sold more land. They gave up almost everything they owned just to make their son Macario go to school. One day when his father and his brother Amado were farming, Amado started beating up the carabao. His father stopped him and Amado told his father that he couldn’t live like this anymore. So he ran ... country. It means that he will leave everything he had known, he loved and he grew up with, his family, friends, and all his memories. And when he comes back, that will be the happiest day of his life and the moment that he will be waiting for the rest of his life in America. Part Two: He boarded the boat with the other Filipinos from all over the Philippines. Before ... ship those monkeys back where they came from”. He didn’t say anything but those words made him knew what it’s going to be like when he reach America. He reached Seattle one June day. He felt a great relief from a long voyage and glad that felt he was home, but yet, he doesn’t have a home on this new, big and strange land. Allos and a ...
- 1092: Transportation And Community D
- Transportation affects every aspect of our lives and daily routine, including where we live, work, play, shop, go to school, etc. It has a profound impact on residential patterns, industrial growth, and physical and social mobility. Roads, highways, ...
- 1093: A Class Divided
- ... to focus on the differences they have with other people and see people all as equals. This topic was of great interest to me due to the fact that I witness discrimination many times a day. Even myself, as a woman, will face discrimination in my life. This film helps those who do not face prejudices in their everyday life, realize what it is like to be on the other end ... cups. She also said that the two groups were not allowed to play with each other. She made the blue eyed children feel as though they were better and smarter than the others. The next day she switches places, and tells the brown eyed children that they are better than the blue eyed. The film also does this with adults, allowing the blue eyed to feel stupid as she points out ... as much attention. We see the reactions to this treatment throughout the movie, which I will go through step by step. This film makes us realize how many concepts are still evident today in every day life. One is name calling, another is referring other people not in your "group" as "them" or "you guys." The film also shows us that people who are normally cooperative, turn nasty and discriminating, ...
- 1094: Images Of Light And Darkness I
- ... until the dawn. During the night they are able to display their “love,” but with the coming dawn, the drudgery of the “workaday” world must be resumed. It is during this “light,” the “light of day,” that the “darkness” which accompanies all those involved in the Capulet and Montague feud reigns. No sooner does Romeo leave Juliet than does he run to speak to Friar Lawrence. The Friar, being a very ... love is not moderate and longlasting. It can only be as Friar Lawrence warns: lit up in a brief but brilliant flame, consumed by itself, and in the end, by death. (Darkness overtakes light). The day that Romeo weds Juliet should bring “lightness,” and joy, however, the “lightness,” is not sustained. Soon after the wedding, Mercutio fights Tybalt. As Mercutio dies, Romeo stands stunned, muttering to himself at the indignity he feels over what has happened. Romeo loses his “lightheartedness,” and can see nothing but the blackness of the day. The blackness of many days to come. Avenging Mercutio’s death, Romeo kills Tybalt. This scene marks the turning point in the play. It turns it from high romance to tragedy. In a matter ...
- 1095: Is Antigone A Tragic Play As D
- Is Antigone a tragic play as defined by Aristotle? Antigone is not a tragic play. Rather it is a theological debate spawned by Sophocles, a debate that is still raging today, the debate of who holds the higher ...
- 1096: Every Day Use
- "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, written in 1944, narrates the story of black family composed of a Mother and her two daughters: Maggie and Dee. Dee is the oldest one. A point that we can easily notice ...
- 1097: Literary Analysis Of The Red D
- Literary Analysis of “The Masque of the Red Death” In the story, The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, the author tries to create a specific atmosphere to emphasize the action within the story. The ...
- 1098: ... soldier describes Macbeth's violence to indicate qualities as a good warrior, thus showing that he has respect for Macbeth. There can be no doubt that Macbeth had entertained the possibility of being King some day, "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical" [Macbeth, I, iii, l: 149, p.29]. His success in battle would serve to intensify his ambitious hunger for power. Once Macbeth became king, he became overpowered ...
- 1099: Paradise Lost
- ... a voyage before a quest with a mission, not unlike that of the colonisers. In Book I the voyage of these unchartered and as yet inanimate destinations began when Satan and his host are: Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' Ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Admantine chains and penal Fire. For nine days they fall through Chaos till: Hell at last Yawning receiv'd them whole, and on them clos'd, Hell their fit habitation fraught with fire Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain. They splash down into a burning lake, and, looking around, discover themselves much changed from their original angelic form, similarly ...
- 1100: The Turning Point of the Civil War
- ... battle that would change the future of the Civil War. The stage was set for an immense struggle at Gettysburg after the May 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville. The Battle of Gettysburg was a prolonged three day, bloody battle, a decisive engagement in that it was a serious fight between the two major American cultures of their time: the North and the South, it ended the Confederates' second and last major invasion ... the rest of forces could arrive and dig in. The fighting went on until General Ewell arrived and forced the federal troops to retreat to better ground southeast of Gettysburg. Although the Confederates won the day, Ewell made the mistake of not allowing General Hill to force the Union forces further back leaving the Union troops with the high ground.(McPherson 324-325) On the following day, July 2, General Meade, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac arrived, along with the majority of the army. He formed his forces in the now widely recognized horseshoe, anchored at Big and ...
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