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- 301: Beowulf
- ... Scyld, the mythical founder of the Danish Royal House. One of his descendants builds a great hall called Heorot, and it is here that the people gather to rejoice and sing the praises of G-d. This singing angers a vile fiend named Grendel, that inhabits the nearby bog. The poet describes Grendel in this way: The grim demon was called Grendel, a notorious ranger of the borderlands, who inhabited the fastness of moors and fens. This unhappy being had long lived in the land of monsters, because G-d had damned him along with the children of Cain. (1.97-101) This tells the story of when Cain murdered his brother Abel and was banished from humanity by G-d. It was said that from Cain was born the monsters that roamed the earth, perpetuating their hatred and evil to all around them. Grendel is one such monster, which is why the music and ...
- 302: Old Man And The Sea Summary
- ... Santiago had lost his young companion, a boy named Manolin, whose father had ordered him to leave Santiago in order to work with more successful seamen. But the devoted child still loved Santiago, and each day brought food and bait to his shack, where they indulged in their favorite pastime: talking about the American baseball leagues. The old man's hero was the New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio. Santiago identified with ... fights nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach ... He loved them as he loved the boy. Before dawn of the next day, the fisherman, as usual, hauled his salt-encrusted skiff onto the beach and set out by himself. But today, in hopes of breaking his unlucky streak, he was determined to sail into deep waters, out ... My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people .... Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either of us. By morning of the second day the fish was still beading northward; vigorous, seemingly tireless strokes of its tail guided it forward. There was no land in sight. A stiffening cramp in Santiago's left hand, a wicked slice in ...
- 303: Moby Dick
- It is easy to see why Melville, himself a prey to the deepest forebodings about the optimism of his day, recognized at once his kinship of spirit with Hawthorne. "There is a certain tragic phase of humanity which, in our opinion (he wrote), was never more powerfully embodied than by Hawthorne." A year after Hawthorne ... that for the present dark Ahab slipped my mind." But the sense of awe, the intimations of terror, were not to be denied, nor the full terror in store. Queequeg's pagan fanaticisms, his all-day Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, were easy for Ishmael's ready rationalism--- "I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals, pagans ... ye (Melville so addressess the young dreamers), move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise forever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!" Ishmael was never in greater ...
- 304: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- ... nuclear reaction. An atomic bomb could now be developed. Many scientists and other skilled workers participated in the making of the first atomic bomb. However, only few knew what they were making. In 1944, after D-Day, the Alsos (a troop sent to find how far the Germans had come in the building of the atomic bomb) radioed back that they had given up in their attempt to make it. Still, despite ... II", 1997, 1-2). After the bomb exploded, Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, said, "Behold. I have become death, destroyer of worlds." (Hoare, 1987, 18) When Harry Truman became President after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, he appointed a committee to advise him about the atomic bomb. The committee was headed by Secretary of War, Henry Stimson. The committee argued about whether to drop the bomb on ...
- 305: Causes of the Great Depression
- ... of the unequal distribution of wealth between the rich and the middle-class. Henry Ford reported a personal income of $14 million in the same year that the average personal income was $750. By present day standards, where the average yearly income in the U.S. is around $18,500(end note 6), Mr. Ford would be earning over $345 million a year! This maldistribution of income between the rich and ... whereas the wealthy were satiated by spending only a small portion of their income. A 1932 article in Current History articulates the problems of this maldistribution of wealth: "We still pray to be given each day our daily bread. Yet there is too much bread, too much wheat and corn, meat and oil and almost every other commodity required by man for his subsistence and materialhappiness. We are not able to ... telescope the future into the present", as the President's Committee on Social Trends noted(end note 18). This strategy created artificial demand for products which people could not ordinarily afford. It put off the day of reckoning, but it made the downfall worse when it came. By telescoping the future into the present, when "the future" arrived, there was little to buy that hadn't already been bought. In ...
- 306: A Separate Peace - Phineas And Gene
- ... of him was as a bully, therefore, we think that Gene is afraid of him, which would make him insecure. Another example of Gene's insecurity occurs just after Gene and Phineas meet. "That first day, standing in our comfortless room amid his clothes, he began to talk and I began to listen."(100) This quotation shows that Gene was too afraid to say what he wanted. He did not have ... mark on his report card. "It took one hatred to overcome another. I hated him at that moment always trying to show me up, to get revenge for my procession of A's and his D's. Damn him. I jumped."(106) This quotation shows how Gene jumped just because Phineas said he should. This would prove him to be an admirer because he followed Phineas's every move. He did ... he was hoping for a higher grade. Another example of his intelligence occurs when Gene finds out his Latin mark. "I wasn't deceived by that amazed, happy grin of his when he learned I'd scored the highest grade in Latin, or his candid questions about how I balanced trigonometry equations in three steps while he took twelve." (105) This quotation shows how Gene does very well in his ...
- 307: A Typical Novel Hero (charlie
- ... romantic appeal, physical strength,and by valor in battle. Therefore, by examining Charlie Salter in these three areas; romance, physical strength, and valor in battle; it will become evident that he is a classic modern day novel hero. Although Salter may not be described as the sexiest man alive, nor is he even in his prime, he does have some unique charms which make him seem handsome and appealing to many ... in my office. If you like it you are welcome to come back anytime all month. (A question of Murder pg. 86) Salter quickly found a passion for squash. Wright has him playing nearly every day from the first novel throughout the entire series. Salter was ranked as a D squash player. This means that of all the members in the club, he could get a good game by playing any other D player. In the most current novel he has improved to a ...
- 308: The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time for the US
- ... leaving Lincoln in debt $1,000. It took him years to pay it off. In 1833 Abe took an appointment as deputy county surveyor. He had to learn how to survey though. He studied all day and sometimes all night, and learned to survey in six weeks. In 1834 he was elected to the Illinois General Assembly. He was reelected in 1836, 1838, 1840. During this time Abe was determined to ... her to marry Douglas, but she wanted Lincoln. She predicted that someday he would be president of the United States of America. On February 4, 1842 they were married. In 1847 he went to Washington D.C. to represent Illinois. At this time the Mexican war was going. Lincoln antiwar speeches displeased his supporter and he knew he wouldn't be reelected. In 1849 he went back to _ ght Lincoln back ... the ports of Virginia by braking the blockade. At first it was succesful it sank one ship by ramming it, and it scared all the others away. Union cannonballs bounced harmlessly off. Then the next day another ironclad called the Monitor sailed up to the Virginia, it was called the Monitor. The Monitor was a ship theat the Union had a inventor build for them it had one difference from ...
- 309: Legislative Proposal for New Indecency Language in Telecom Bill
- ... all adult discourse to only what is fit for children. Sable Communications of California, Inc. v. FCC, 492 U.S. 115, 126, 128 (1989). The Department of Justice noted that the language upon which Sec. (d) of the proposal is based raises constitutional questions due to the lack of criminal intent required for the age element. Letter from Kent Markus, Acting Assistant Attorney General, to Sen. Leahy (June 13, 1995), 141 ... they can be screened only by the old fashioned way -- by human inspection, conceivably necessitating an indecency inspector at every company using on-line systems. 1. Vague and Contradictory Standards of Intent and Control Subsection (d)(1) holds a person or company liable for “knowingly making available” any prohibited communication, “regardless of whether the maker of such communication placed the call or initiated the communication(s)”. Disturbingly, “knowingly” and “makes available ... the communication is “indecent”. Indeed, the company may be precluded by state, local, or federal privacy statutes or other laws from interfering with or even reviewing the communication. The Title 18 offense and the Sec. (d) offense lack crucial elements provided in the Sec. (a) offense that are necessary to ensure that companies are held liable only for communications that they exert control over and intend to send. Specifically, Sec. ( ...
- 310: Perfect Day For A Bananafish
- ... to take drastic actions to find peace. The effects of war have the capacity to undermine the belief system that a person once lived by, cuasing them to question every aspect of their life. J.D. Salinger eloquently places the reader into the life of Seymour Glass at a time when he is struggling to find peace in his life after returning home from World War II, in the short story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." Seymour's struggle emanates from the psychological effects of the war, alienation from society, lack of compassion and understanding from his peers, and the lack of innocence he finds in the materialistic post ...
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