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- 2121: The Atomic Bomb and the Manhattan Project
- ... will talk about the many reasons, the atomic bomb had to be created and used. The atomic warfare capabilities of the United States were brought about in a letter from Mr. Albert Einstein to Franklin D. Roosevelt, our current president at the time. “It may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new ... bombed Tokyo, which was classified “off limits”, and to add to that some of the bombs landed on palace grounds. If these bombs killed the emperor, all hopes of surrender would be gone. On the day of the first test run the weather was very uncooperative, the visibility was horrible and high winds did not make the job any easier. Although, on a second run the 509th unit did extremely well ... on pain of “prompt and utter destruction.” After close examination and consideration of the document, Japan announced that it was ignoring the proclamation and were going to keep fighting the Americans. Five days later the day Truman left Potsdam he gave the final okay on the execution of the plan to bomb Japan. For the first, few days of August weather did not permit any type of flying. The first ...
- 2122: Oedipus: Fates
- Oedipus: Fates D.T. Suzuki, a renowned expert on Zen Buddhism, called attention to the topic of free will in one of his lectures by stating that it was the battle of "God versus Man, Man versus God ... like to lead and have the freedom to live according to their own means and thus choose their own destiny; determinism is the circumstance of a higher being ordaining a man's life from the day he was born until the day he dies. Free will is in itself a far-reaching ideal that exemplifies the essence of what mankind could be when he determines his own fate. But with determinism, a man has a predetermined ...
- 2123: The Literary Contributions of King Alfred the Great
- ... surrounded himself with educated men (Collins 297). As a child Alfred received little formal training or schooling. He did possess a highly retentive memory and particularly enjoyed listening to the court bards reciting poetry. One day his mother, holding a fine manuscript book in her hand, said to Alfred and his elder brothers, 'I will give this book to whichever of you can learn it most quickly.' Although he could not ... being imprisoned within his own island. He sent shipmasters to the seas and coasts of the continent and surrounding islands in search of dialogue with others. It was with the Franks, from central Europe (present day Germany, France, and surrounding countries), that his dealings were closest, and it was from them that he invited scholars to aid him in his work of education. A scholar named Grimbald came from St. Omer ... Alfred And Other Contemporary Sources. Suffolk: The Chaucer Press, 1983. Smyth, Alfred P. King Alfred The Great. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Stevenson, W. H., ed. Asser's Life of King Alfred 1904. Introd. by D. Whitelock. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.
- 2124: The Life of Kurt Vonnegut
- ... with his mother's constant bouts with depression. In 1943, when Vonnegut enlisted, his mother's depression grew deeper. Because of that Private Vonnegut asked permission to visit home to surprise her on Mother's Day. She overdosed on sleeping pills the night before he arrived (Walker 206). Surprisingly, this tragedy was overshadowed by another incident in his life that happened just a year and a half after his mother's ... places like Brown University and to the graduating class at Bennington University. He was also invited to teach creative writing at Harvard University. Vonnegut won many awards for Slaughterhouse-Five including an honorary L.H.D degree from Indiana University and the Literature Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (Litz 759). The reason the book was so popular among younger people was because of it's strong antiwar ... with his mother's constant bouts with depression. In 1943, when Vonnegut enlisted, his mother's depression grew deeper. Because of that Private Vonnegut asked permission to visit home to surprise her on Mother's Day. She overdosed on sleeping pills the night before he arrived (Walker 206). Surprisingly, this tragedy was overshadowed by another incident in his life that happened just a year and a half after his mother' ...
- 2125: Oedipus Rex
- ... Oedipus makes a few bad decisions and is condemned to profound suffering because of his pride. I agree with Aristotle that he brings it all on to himself because of his own personal pride. One day Oedipus finds out that there is a prophecy that depicts him killing his father and marrying his mother. The prophecy may have been proven untrue if he wouldn't have put himself on such a high pedestal. It all started one day when he met up with King Laius: Seated in it. The groom leading the horses Forced me off the road at his lord's command; But as this charioteer lurched over towards me I struck ... and blames it all on him: And I'll tell you what I think: You planned it, you had it done, you all but Killed him with your own hands: if you had eyes, I'd say that the crime was yours, and yours alone. (1.2.331-334) Teiresius is a blind prophet, and it is possible that if Oedipus had listened to him in the first place, his ...
- 2126: Oedipus
- Oedipus D.T. Suzuki, a renowned expert on Zen Buddhism, called attention to the topic of free will in one of his lectures by stating that it was the battle of "God versus Man, Man versus God ... like to lead and have the freedom to live according to their own means and thus choose their own destiny; determinism is the circumstance of a higher being ordaining a man's life from the day he was born until the day he dies. Free will is in itself a far-reaching ideal that exemplifies the essence of what mankind could be when he determines his own fate. But with determinism, a man has a predetermined ...
- 2127: William Butler Yeats
- ... Godolphin Grammar School in Hammer*censored*h England and later he enrolled in Erasmus Smith High School in Dublin. Throughout his schooling he was considered disappointing student, his studies were inconsistent, he was prone to day dreaming, and poor at sports. In 1884 Yeats found his way to the Metropolitan School for the Arts, here he met a poet by the name of George Russell. Yeats and Russell sheared the same ... man drunk off his ass realizing that he has a problem. Saying that a drunk is dead makes me think that he actually realizes how bad alcohol is, but that could just be the modern day values of society that I know. The Old Men admiring Themselves in the Water I herd the old, old men say. ‘Everything alters, And one by one we drop away.’ They had hands like claws ... subject, I find it strange that e used a lyrical style of writing. To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no Come play with me; Why should you run Through the shaking tree As though I’d a gun To strike you dead? When all I would do Is scratch your head And let you go. Yeats wrote this poem between 1919 and 1928. I think that this poem has more ...
- 2128: Fahrenheit 451: How Montag is Convinced to Change His Mind about Books
- ... an outlandish novel based on the government brainwashing the United States to prevent the people from thinking for themselves. The government has given the people seashells to put in their ears, that play music all day. The seashells are one of the government's attempts to keep the people from thinking. Bradbury describes the society shown within the novel in a way that would draw a mind picture of robots. David ... question what is in books that would make a woman stay in a burning house" (Zipes 187). Montag is amazed by what he finds in the books. He reads them to his wife, Mildred, one day while he is supposed to be at work. The old woman is the first person to influence Montag to read a book. Montag had met a man in the park a year ago. The man ... Zipes, Jack. "Mass Degradation of Humanity and Massive Contradictions in Bradbury's Vision of America in Fahrenheit 451." No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Ed. Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
- 2129: Edward James Hughes
- ... title of the nation's Poet Laureate. He came into prominence in the late fifties and early sixties, having earned a reputation of a prolific, original and skilful poet, which he maintained to the present day. Ted Hughes was born in 1930 in Yorkshire into a family of a carpenter. After graduating from Grammar School he went up to Cambridge to study English, but later changed to Archaeology and Anthropology. At ... of anthropology (12:486). Speaking of his early poems, the critics note that at first they were mistakenly viewed as a development of tradition of English animalistic poetry (6:414) started by Rudyard Kipling and D.H. Lawrence. G. Bauzyte stresses that Hughes is not purely animalistic poet, since in his animalistic verse he seeks parallels to human life (4:163). In I. Varnaite's words, “nature is anthropomorphised in his ... to be kindred to Dylan Thomas in the way that they both celebrate the natural and their images are taken from the nature (6:414). Hawk in the Rain, for instance, has the feel of D. Thomas's and M. Hopkins poetry, where the man becomes the joining link between the earth and the “fulcrum of violence”, the hawk figuring in the poem, thus responding to the Thomas poetical credo “ ...
- 2130: Movie: Twelve Angry Men
- ... on trial. Realizing this, Henry Fonda (Juror #8) tries to put himself in the boys shoes to gain a better understanding of his situation. “The poor boy has been beaten on the head once a day every day since he was five years old!” and “I think if I were the boy I'd get myself a better lawyer... He didn't stand a chance in there.” In this case one can only speculate as to the contents of the boys hidden area. The important factor is his ...
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