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- 4881: Movie: Last of the Mohicans
- ... uniforms splendid – though (and that's a historic fact) idiotically ornate and impractical for warfare. It wasn't until about 1916 that the British and the French saw the light and stopped wearing all that Day-Glo, easy target colors" (Prof. Jahiel). For example, at the beginning of the movie, Magua killed one soldier marching in the line, and the guy next to him didn't even do anything until the ... Magua. The English and the French were responsible for the war, which brought them together, but as enemies. "The war creates a myriad of conflicts -- military, personal, tribal and romantic. In addition to rival Waddington, Day- Lewis must contend with Stowe's patriotic father, fort commander Maurice Roeves. He must also defeat bellicose Wes Studi (as the infamous Huron Indian, Magua), who has a blood account to settle" (Desson Howe). As ...
- 4882: Huckleberry Finn
- ... Huck from Mrs. Watson and takes him to his cabin out in the woods. Whenever his father leaves, he locks him in the house, so he can't escape. Finally, after his dad left one day, he managed to get free and fakes his own death. Now every one thinks he is dead, and this is where Huck begins his journey to freedom as he floats down the great Mississippi River ... they do not deserve they sold Jim as a runaway slave to make a couple bucks. Immediately Huck ditched these guys and started to everything he could to get Jim back to freedom. After a day or so of trying to free Jim, Huck gets an idea. He goes to find Tom Sawer. The two of them team up and makes plans to free Jim. Jim being put back into slavery ...
- 4883: Death Of A Salesman
- ... has a set idea in his mind about how he wants to be and the way he wants his children to be. He is a salesman and refuses to be anything else. "I thought I'd go out with my older brother and try to locate him, and maybe settle in the North with the old man. And I almost decided to go, when I met a salesman in the Parker House… and he was eighty-four years old, and he drummed out merchandise in thirty-one states… he'd pick up the phone and call the buyers, and without even leaving his room, at the age of eight-four, he made his living" (Miller, Death… 81). Willy, even at an early age, had a ...
- 4884: Walter Whitman
- ... the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom yet contributed to American literature." Early in the American Civil War Whitman learned that his brother George was wounded and in a hospital in Washington, D.C. He found George nearly recovered but saw other soldiers badly in need of care. He stayed in Washington as a government clerk and also served as a hospital volunteer. Inspired by the suffering he ... Calamus', 'November Boughs', 'Sands at Seventy', and 'Good-Bye My Fancy'. His prose works include 'Democratic Vistas', 'Specimen Days and Collect', 'The Wound Dresser' (wartime letters to his mother), 'A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads', and 'Diary in Canada'. (See also American Literature /ARTICLES/0000/00069120_A.html>.)
- 4885: Comparing The Murder of Duncan in Macbeth and The Assassination of Kennedy
- ... s most revered Presidents, John F. Kennedy. These circumstances suggest that the events which occur in the play Macbeth are still possible. It is possible for the circumstances surrounding Macbeth to be repeated in modern day America because no protection provides absolute safety, some men are still willing to do what Macbeth did, and the ac t could still be covered up. No amount of protection provides absolute safety. In today ... in the crowd. Dallas Police Department officers were placed throughout the area. Dealy Plaza, the site of the tragedy, was crowded, with many obstructions such as trees, signs, and an overpass. Protection was tight. The day was beautiful. The sun was shining. The setting was not right for assassination. However, it still occurred. Kennedy was killed and the entire nation stunned. There was a Secret Service agent very close, yet he ...
- 4886: David Livingstone
- ... body. The left arm had loss of power the rest of his life. He returned to Kuruman to have his arm treated and to recuperate. Mary Moffat, Robert's daughter, was now looking prettier every day. The two began to be drawn to one another, and so they made some plans. As soon as his arm healed, he would hasten back to Mabotsa to build a comfortable little stone house. Returning ... accident to his sextant, for a while he was lost. His dysentery attacks were almost continuous, but he kept going across the great swamps, reaching the southern side of Lake Tanganyika, mapping to within a day of his death. Soon he could not walk at all. He was carried on a litter and reached Chitambo, a village in Itala where a hut was built for him. His last written words by ...
- 4887: Symbolism and Themes of Catcher in the Rye
- ... points out that “the surface of meaning ____ plot, character, setting, symbol, irony, imagery, metaphor____ provide the controlling context within which we interpret meaning.” In an organized, insightful essay, examine how the different symbols in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye help control and convey the novel’s major themes. To make a truly meaningful and well written novel a theme must exist in the novel. Without the book ... literature together such as symbolism and themes. The novel becomes even more meaningful when an author is able to tie the symbolism into the themes. One author who is able to do so is J.D. Salinger in his novel Catcher in the Rye. He is successfully able to tie meaningful and insightful symbolism into the themes as if he wrote the novel just for the reason to place these meaningful ...
- 4888: Johnnys Adventures
- ... the luxurious town and happened to see a film being shot. It was about a little boy who was trapped in a little well and as a result a handsome man comes and saves the day. Since Johnny is very stupid he thought it was real life and so walked into the scene and tried to rescue the boy. After minutes of trying to tell him that it was just a ... his hotel, packed his bags, and left for home He has not been back since. This is another example of how stupid he really is. Another trait he has is that he is clumsy. One day while working on a crane he destroyed his boss’ car. This all started when johnny didn’t hear the instructions shouted to him and so he turned around and while doing so shifted the crane ...
- 4889: Aaron Burr Jr.
- ... cold and ice was starvation. So well did the youth conduct himself that, once Arnold's forces were united with General Montgomery's before Quebec, Burr was made a captain on the headquarters' staff. The day came for the assault on Quebec. From four sides the Americans advanced against the city. Arnold's division had already penetrated the city. The head of the column led by General Montgomery was nearing its ... the Palisades at Weehawken, New Jersey. Perhaps this duel is the most famous in history. Its results certainly meant the end of both Hamilton and Burr. They carried Hamilton from the field and the next day he died. Burr lived for years, but the shadow of his own doom was ever before him. It is reported that late in life he observed that, had he been wiser, he would have known ...
- 4890: Thomas Jefferson
- ... great deal of influence on his ideals that came directly from the European culture and thought because he had been a diplomat and friend of French and British intellectuals. Jefferson was born on the thirteenth day of April of the year 1743 at Shadwell in Goochland (now in Albemarle) Co., Virginia, which was at the time considered a western outpost and was to remain as Jeffersonˇ¦s lifelong home. He was ... toward the western expansion in the United States. The territory itself was owned by France and expanded over 2,144,520 square kilometers (828,000 square miles) in area. The territory took up the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota west of the Mississippi River, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, nearly all of Kansas, and portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Rock Mountains, and Louisiana ...
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