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- 1151: Beowulf 9
- ... that has been in English classes around the United States for almost as long as there have been schools around. Beowulf is not an actual picture of historic Denmark, Geatland, or Sweden around 500 A.D., yet it is on a general view, a self-consistent picture, a construction bearing clearly the marks of design and thought. Beowulf to us can only truly be enjoyed if one reads it in the ... the poem, and the Danes, Swedes, and Geats provide the necessary background for Beowulf s long and eventful life. Both history and legend place the Danes and Swedes within the fifth and sixth centuries A.D.. The North Germanic Heroic ages reflect much of the medieval Icelandic prose and poetry. The Danes lived in what is now called Denmark and the southern tip of Sweden. Hrothgar, whose great hall was somewhere ... loyalty that he possessed. This tells us that we as people should not always think of ourselves and try to face our problems in life as best as possible. The challenges that we face every day are much like the ones that Beowulf had to deal with over 1000 years ago. The poem Beowulf is a wonderful piece of work that teaches us that we must strive for what is ...
- 1152: Racism and the Ku Klux Klan
- ... Klan was called “ nightriders”. On July 1964, shortly after midnight a Chevorlet Sedan belonging to reserve Officer Charles E. Brow pulled out at Fort Benning Headed to Atlanta. His passengers were Lemuel Penn and John D. Howard. Shortly after 4:00 a.m. two loud explosions were heard by Brow. The car suddenly surved crazily and banged into the bridge rail on the Broad River Bridge. Half of Penns’ face was ... the town of Taft, turned out to be an evening torture for police and the citizens of the town. All the actions and incidents of the Klan’s scenes of violence and cruelty from the day it was born still happen till this day ( Humphrey pg. 276). In conclusion, the Klan’s views on immigrants and saving its land from immigrants express on what to expect in the up upcoming years from the famous and old Ku Klux ...
- 1153: "The Stranger": Analysis
- ... setting moral standards and placing the comfort that an individual would need to have in facing difficulty in his life. He would also set a goal by facing any problems that may exist in every day living and by placing God into your life, no matter what the situation might look like, bad or good, you will always come through it. II. Characters A. The plot concerns a man, an apparently ... could talk to, even though his mother was in a senior citizen home. When his mother died, everyone asked him how did he feel. He said that he felt the same way like the other day. Inside of him, he really felt like crying, but he just didn't show it. I think that was one of the many things he had to face in his life and the fact that ... he played was positive. Although, his downfall was that he was always causing some type of trouble, which could have made in character to also be negative in a way. He was nice to Meursault. D. The conflicts that Meursault experience was he dislike Arabs and he was faced with the problem. He expressed resentment and anger against the Arab. The problem was so strong and forceful in him that ...
- 1154: The Trials of Toilet Training
- ... put them on and then clean up any leakage with a sponge. Love your child, but disapprove of wetting. If the procedure does not work with the child, continue where you left off the previous day. In any event, continue dry pants inspections until no accidents occur for a week. Accidents will happen because of new distractions, use the same corrective procedures previously discussed. Bibliography Azrin, Nathan,Ph.D. & Foxx, Richard, M., Ph.D. Toilet Training In Less Than a Day. New York: Pocket Books, 1974.
- 1155: Hemingway And Camus
- ... two texts. In A Farewell to Arms, for example, what exactly do the pronouns refer to in this famous passage? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know. He had not had it but he understood that I ... stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world. And finding it so much like myself, in fact so fraternal, I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still hap- py. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators at my ...
- 1156: Serial Killers 2
- ... return to N.Y. he stole two boys on 7 and one 11. Took them to his home stripped them naked tied them in a closet. Then burned everything they had on. Several times every day and night he spanked them-tortured them-to make their meat good and tender. First he killed the 11 yr. old boy, because he had the fattest ass and of course the most meat on ... have been Gein's accomplice in the murder of Mary Hogan. Ed Gein's final victim was a local shop owner named Bernice Worden. The killing took place on November 16, 1957. It was opening day of deer season so very few men or women were around town. Gein came into the store to buy anti-freeze for his car. He also wanted to buy a new .22 caliber gun. Gein ... 1997 Haggard, Robert J. Jack the Ripper as the Threat of Outcast London. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH35/haggard1.html Haines, Max. Multiple Murderers II. The Toronto Sun. Toronto. 1995. Keppel, Robert D. and Birnes, J. Signature Killers. Pocket Books. N.Y, 1997. MacDonald, J. The Murderer and His Victims. Charles C. Thomas. Springfield. Ill. 1986. Schechter, H. and Everitt, D. The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial ...
- 1157: Biography of Robert E. Lee
- ... Virginia, as assistant engineer. While he was stationed there, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis who was Martha Washington's great-granddaughter. They lived in her family home in Arlington on a hill overlooking Washington D.C. They had seven children which were three sons and four daughters. Lee served as an assistant in the chief engineer's office in Washington from 1834 to 1837, but then he spent the summer ... and was sent there to arrest Brown and restore order. He did this very quickly and returned to his regiment in Texas. When Texas seceded from the Union in 1861, Lee was called to Washington D.C. to wait for further orders. Unlike many Southerners, Lee did not believe in slavery and did not favor secession. He felt that slavery had an evil effect on masters as well as slaves. Long ... draw up plans for the Confederate forces in Virginia, then under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston. Johnston was wounded on May 31, 1862, in the Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines). The next day, Lee took command of Johnston's army, which he called the Army of Northern Virginia.5 From his first day of command, Lee faced what looked like an impossible task. Union General George B. ...
- 1158: Jim's Role in Huckleberry Finn
- ... consequences of getting caught running away, then it follows that they could feel other emotions. Bronowski said, "Only human beings have…the existence of words or symbols for absent things, all the way from ‘nice day' to ‘ultimate deterrent,' enables human beings to think themselves into situations which do not actually exist. This gift is the imagination…" Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." These can be used as a definition ... thing! De Lord God Amighty fogive po' ole Jim, kaze he never gwyne to fogive hisself as long's he live!" Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb, Huck, plumb deef en dumb - en I'd ben a-treat'n her so!" This passage again illustrates that Jim does have a human side to him, very powerfully. Jim's anger took the best of him, because he didn't know his ... of friendship that any two people can have, and the development that both Huck and Jim make in the book. It is in chapter 31: "I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and a laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against ...
- 1159: Huckleberry Fin 2
- ... brotherhood to which they are so devoted. This freedom is very limited and they must still go out of their way to avoid others, going down the river only at night and hiding during the day. Huck has to constantly think of new stories to tell nearby boatsmen or anyone else who might intrude on their concord. Another appeal of the river is its peacefulness. Huck does not much seem to ... that he is in a way cut off from society, but he becomes somewhat detached from it, not realizing that he is in it at times. This is evidenced when Huck mentions that "sometimes they'd have that whole river all to themselves for the longest time." (97) Huck becomes so engrossed in the good moments that he forgets how they have to constantly be on the watch for others on ... Huck and Jim were separated, Huck returns to find the raft to find it with one of the steering oars smashed off, "and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt. [It'd] had a rough time." (70) Also, if the raft was too far to the middle of the river, it was in danger of being crushed by waves and damaged by debris; if it was ...
- 1160: Beethoven 3
- Beethoven Events of the day matter less in a study of Beethoven (1770-1827) than they do in most other composers. However, certain factors need to be taken into consideration when one is looking at his composition method. He never ... the next sketch, he gave up the dotted rhythm and adopted a calmer beginning which secured once more the rising fourth and in this only one note, the first, had to be altered eventually to D# in order to secure the perfect poise he wanted. Evidence that this was Beethoven's true method can be found in other aspects of his sketching. A visitor to his house tells how he saw ... sometimes the changes in mood of the music was vary rapid indeed. For example a sketch for the Piano Sonata Op 28 shows three bars of the slow movement, a sad and delicate one in D minor and then, almost with the same stroke of the pen, he went on to a sketch for the exuberant finale. It is obvious from the layout of the sketches that these were written ...
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