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- 5611: The Battle of Gettysburg
- ... Confederate army. The corps led by Ewell did not move in to attack the Union troops but waited for General Longstreet to bring in his corps to reinforce the outnumbered Confederate troops. On the following day, July 2, Meade formed his forces in the shape of a horseshoe, extending westward from Culp's Hill and southward along Cemetery Ridge to the hills of Little Round Top and Round Top. The Confederates ... federal line there or on the eastern part of Cemetery Ridge. On the night of July 2, Meade held a council of war in which the decision was made not to retreat. On the third day of battle, the federals were secure in their positions and the Confederates had lost their offensive stance. General Lee decided to mount an attack despite opposition from other Confederate generals. The offensive did not begin ...
- 5612: Macbeth An Expose
- ... was to be the father of a line of kings. However, Macbeth wants to be the sole benefactor of his crimes. (Act 3, Sc.1, 66-68) " For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd/Put rancours in the vessel of my peace/Only for them and mine eternal jewel." Macbeth orders the assasination of Banqo and Fleance. he knows his soul if forfeit and yet remains so self-seeking ... self-obsessed Even as he and his castle are under siege, he retains the same delusional arrogance.(Act5, Sc7,12) "Thou was born of woman;/But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn./Brandish'd by man that's of woman born." This inevitably leads to his destruction. Macbeth is not heroic. He is deliberate in his villanous actions, using violence and deception to achieve his selfish aspirations. Macbeth commits ...
- 5613: To Kill A Mokingbird
- ... Raymond was the example in this book. He was a white landowner who was well respected in the town. He was looked on as being a drunkard because his wife killed herself on their wedding day. She supposedly killed herself because she found Mocking 4 out her husband-to-be had a black girlfriend and children by her. The town used the excuse of his being a drunk and crazy to cover up the fact that a good standing white man actually liked black women. During this day and time, it was very disrespectful for a white man to associate with a black woman and acknowledge it. It has been known since the beginning of time that white men have had sexual relationships ...
- 5614: Ukraine’s Genocide
- ... weekly. Eighty percent of all Ukrainian intellectuals were executed. Ukrainian Nikita Khruschchev helped supervise the slaughter. The precise number of Ukrainians murdered Stalin’s custom-made famine and checka firing squads remains unknown to this day; six million other farmers across the USSR were starved during collectivization. Stalin told Churchill he liquidated ten million peasants during the 1930’s. Ukraine genocide occurred 8-9 years before Hitler began the Jewish Holocaust, and was committed before the world’s gaze. But Stalin’s murder of millions was simply denied or concealed by a left wig conspiracy of silence that continues to this day. In the strange moral geometry of mass murder, only Nazis are guilty. None of the soviet mass murders that committed genocide were ever brought to justice. “Soviet Eichman” Lazar Kaganovitch died peacefully in Moscow a ...
- 5615: Andrew Jackson
- ... it is still known as a miracle today that he pulls off this great win considering that the odds of 7:3 against the Americans which make this battle even more memorable. "New Year's Day, 1815, General Edward Pakenham of Great Britain commands his (7,000) troops to begin a heavy bombardment of the American positions. In two hours of steady fire, the British were outgunned; they failed to breach ... Van Buren and John C. Calhoun campaigning and propagandizing on his behalf, he found Campaign '28 to be an easy victory, despite vast accusations about his personal life from opponents that led to the saddest day in Andrew Jackson's life when Rachel, reacting to pamphlets about her alleged affair with Andrew, and other assorted gossip, grows ill and dies. This event shocked and made Jackson utter the words, "I feel ...
- 5616: American Football
- ... best teams are invited to so-called bowl games. The tradition was begun in 1902 at Pasadena, California, when Stanford University invited the University of Michigan to come to California for a New Year's Day contest, an event that became the celebrated Rose Bowl game. The first professional football game in the United States took place in 1895. The first league of professional football teams was the American Professional Football ... in addition to promoting civic pride and national exposure. The Super Bowl is the final contest of the NFL's season and determines the league's annual champion. It is probably the most important single-day sporting event in the United States.
- 5617: Analysis of Several Works of Literature
- ... wonder why hundreds of people die, you're writing tickets man, my mom got jumped, they ran! Now I'll play a public servant, to serve and protect by the law and the state. I'd bust the punks that rape, steal and murder, and leave you be, if you crossed me, I'd shake your hand like a man, not a God. (Anselmo, Fucking Hostile, Vulgar Display of Power) As seen here, the lyrics of a popular song show a clear, cynical view towards law enforcement and the ...
- 5618: Kazin's "Summer: The Way to Highland Park"
- ... I chose this story. I find Alfred Kazin's view of the world as refreshing. I find the world to be a beautiful place and I think Kazin does too. His mind escapes the ordinary day and floats to another place, a more romantic place. Kazin is not only a superb writer, but better, a superb romantic. I admire this loftiness and am mesmerized by how accurately he can relay his ... Kazin helped me to realize this about history. I knew a lot about this story before I even read it. I too admire the brownstones and cherish a slow meaningful walk on a warm sunny day, but never could I place my thoughts and emotions on paper like Alfred Kazin does. I have learned of a higher and different level of writing, a level that I find very deep and fulfilling ...
- 5619: Malamud’s The Assistant: Frank Alpine's Metamorphosis From Bad To Good
- ... so far away to him, like an unattainable goal. However, his desire for instant gratification overpowered him. He messed up once again. He spoiled what could have been and submitted to his devilish desires. One day at the store after Helen had announced that she was going to go take a shower, Frank felt he should take advantage of the situation. “It was a mistake to do it, he thought.” (P89 ... conversation with Morris, Frank reveals that he does bad things because they feel right. He does them with no explanations, it feels natural. However, his transformation shows that doing good is natural now. “Then one day, for no reason he could give though the reason felt familiar, he stopped climbing up the air shaft to peek at Helen, and he was honest in the store.” (p292) The familiar reason was that ...
- 5620: Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19th Century Prose
- ... so much need answers to life's problems, as they need God Himself. Hawthorne created angles in his writings by identifying sin and secrecy that were imbued in the ecclesiastical and hypocritical conventionalities of his day and paralleled this with biblical prophecy and references. Hawthorne was raised on the biblical teachings of Christ and he astutely perceived that doubt and temptation marred moral instincts in mankind. It is apparent that Hawthorne ... era of Christian premise which disallowed him to verbally voice observations and subsequent opinions of his perceptions regarding man's sinful and secret nature. The Puritanistic attitudes were firmly rooted in the communities of his day. These attitudes were regarded with a stern morality, that anything pleasurable or luxuriously indulgent was sinful. He cleverly wove dreams into his writing to expose, without compromising his Christian stature, that hipocracy and sin was ...
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