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- 14171: Passionate Storms
- ... miss her and the children. The stormy weather was gone, as was the storm of passion and all were happy. Work Cited Chopin, Kate, “The Storm” Literature and the Writing Process. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X. Day and Robert Funk. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentiss, 1996: 108-111
- 14172: “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter
- ... the two jiltings that happen to Granny Weatherall. The first one happens when Granny Weatherall is on her deathbed surrounded by her children, the doctor and priest. When a memory of 60 years ago, the day she was jilted by her husband-to-be, could no longer be repressed by Granny Weatherall—“the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head . . ..” The second ...
- 14173: Michelangelo
- ... to his beloved native city. In Rome, in 1536, Michelangelo was at work on the alter wall of the Sistine Chapel, which he finished in 1541. The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day. Christ, with a clap of thunder, puts into motion the inevitable separation, with the saved ascending on the left side of the painting and the damned descending on the right into a Dantesque hell. As ...
- 14174: Persuasion--austin Poor Dick
- ... very important point. It seems that in the world of Persuasion, it is the qualities of usefulness, resourcefulness and capability that are attractive to the reader. To the aristocracy, what one does with one s day is of the utmost importance. The Elliots are landed gentry and as such they do not work or conduct themselves in any manner of labor. It has often been said that the true mark of ...
- 14175: Julius Caesar and Mussolini: The End Justifies Any Means
- ... Lupercal festivities. Caesar also had an arrogant, hypocritical attitude. He would say he wasn't suprstitious, but he would call for sacrifices to be performed, and he was going to stay home from senate the day he was assassinated because of a dream Calpurnia, his wife, had during the night. The conspirators were a lot of Caesars' friends and fellow colleagues that had turned against him. Like Caesar, Mussolini was accused ...
- 14176: Gandhi and His Views
- ... more problems and more well thought out resolutions. To Gandhi, the only way to resolve his hardships was through satyagraha. His main obstacle was freeing India from the destruction of British colonialism. Gandhi was outrage d with inferiority for the British. He wanted to fight for the rights of the Indians. With patience and a positive attitude, Gandhi used his mind and peacefulness rather than violence to achieve his goals. Satyragraha ...
- 14177: Richard Joseph Daley
- ... riots and looting on the city's West Side. He later resented the challenge to his authority as party chairman by black Democratic politicians. Race riots erupt at Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Kansas City, Newark, Washington, D.C., and scores of other cities including Chicago following the King assassination. In 1968 protesters staged a demonstration against the Vietnam War in Chicago during the Democratic presidential convention. Daley ordered aggressive police action to ...
- 14178: Phineas And Gene A Comparitive
- ... was a natural leader even at the beginning of the story when he and Gene first met. Phineas was the fist one to speak out of the two of them, as Gene commented, " That first day, standing in that comfortless room, amid his clothes, he began to talk and I began to listen"(100). Gene explained how he listened to Phineas speak when they first met, which proved that Phineas was ...
- 14179: Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... he goes through. This also drew on his seafaring days as experience and he struggled to bring across the death of the idealist and the birth of the realist. But at the end of the day, whatever emotions he possessed about the nature of idealism and idealistic thought, still form an integral part of him. Whether or not the reader understands the general aura of wanting to achieve something from his ...
- 14180: Prejudice In Native Son And Bl
- ... the story the reader can conclude right away that Bigger's family is very poor and that he is the eldest man in the family. When Bigger goes to the Dalton's on the first day of his new job he experiences the feeling of being looked down upon, by the Dalton family who are upper class whites that Wright has representing the Status Quo. From the very beginning of The ...
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