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- 2591: George Orwell
- ... is everywhere. Lighting a Victory cigarette and taking a slug of watery Victory gin, Winston unveils an antique book he bought illegally in a "free" store (one the Party does not run). Risking capture and death for committing a private act, he begins a diary. Winston has questions and is thinking about them at work. Who is the dark-haired girl, and why is she following him? What was O'Brien ... past. In the dream he discovers that the arm gesture made by the refugee mother in the newsreel is one his mother made. Until this moment he had believed that he caused his mother's death. He recalls a childhood spent hiding out in Underground stations during air raids. They are hungry all the time. He remembers badgering his mother for food; he takes food from her and his baby sister ... can't concentrate. Beaten by his captors, he can't keep his mind on Julia. The Brotherhood is supposed to send a razor blade to members who are captured - this would let them escape through death. He understands that in this place the lights are never turned out. So here at last is the "place where there is no darkness!" A procession of prisoners now passes through this cell, including ...
- 2592: Comparison Of The Illiads Achi
- ... Hector, compare very differently in many ways. Although they were both war heroes, they came from different sides of the battle and fought each other under different beliefs. These two brave warriors fought to the death in Book 22, where Hector eventually lost to Achilles. Even though Hector lost the fight, the war still raged on, even less merciful than before. These two warriors were similar in a few ways, but ... Hector, the Trojan, not only had different reasons for fighting with Achilles; he was also very different in his personality and personal traits. The reason that Achilles was fighting was to avenge his friend Patroclus death, who was killed by Hector. Hector was not fighting back to authorize the death, but only to defend his and his people s honor. Like this difference, Achilles and Hector also differed in the fact that Achilles was a lot more brutal and cruel than Hector. Achilles had ...
- 2593: How The Scarlet Letter Effects
- ... wants to get rid of his guilt without people finding out he is the father of Pearl. Being a Reverend who committed adultery, Dimmesdale's chances of admitting to the crime and not receiving the death penalty are slim. That is probably one of the main reasons he's not telling the town what he did. Another way of trying to relieve the guilt he has is by self-punishment. Dimmesdale even ...
- 2594: Alexander's Empire
- ... was planning to lead their joint forces for an invasion of the Persian empire when he was assassinated in 336. Thus at the age of 20, Alexander became king of the Macedonians. After Philip's death, some Greek cities under Macedonian rule revolted. In 335 B.C. Alexander's army stormed the walls of the rebellious city of Thebes and demolished the city. About 30,000 inhabitants were sold in slavery ... by Bessus, the ruler of the province of Bactria. Alexander caught up with him as he was dying. Alexander had his body taken back to Persepolis to be buried in the royal tombs. At the death of the Persian king, Alexander adopted the title of lord of Asia--as the ruler of the Persian Empire was called. By this time Alexander was becoming more and more despotic. He killed his own ... insluted him. He antagonized many of his Greek and Macedonian followers by marrying a Persian princess,Roxane. When a plot was discovered to murder him, he had his old teacher and historian Callisthenes put to death. Alexander spent the year 328 B.C. subjugating Bactria and in the early summer 327 B.C. recrossed the Hindu Kush to the south headed for India. Sending half of the army ahead by ...
- 2595: Monaco
- ... where that the woman in society had the right to vote and that all people even if guilty of an haneous crime had the right to live out their natural life ( the abolishement of the death penalty). Many wealthy people moved to Monaco during this time. Until 1963 the people of Monaco did not have to pay taxes. Then when under pressure from France the prince passed laws to tax its citizens ...
- 2596: Howard Hughes
- ... in Houston, Texas. He also attended the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools. His father s great fortune left Howard very wealthy. After his father s death he was left an estate worth $871,000, and a patent for a drill. The drill was for oil drilling which made much money. In 1925 Howard got married to Ella Rice, he was twenty ... Honor, and the Collier Trophy in 1959. He was also awarded the Harmon Trophy and New York City ticker tape after his world flight. Probably the most honored award just a few years before his death was being placed in the Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973. Before Hughes died in 1976 he started to go down hill. He had a nervous breakdown in 1944 that started the decline. He hated ... on an airplane that was taking him from the Bahamas to Houston. Howard Hughes had not been publicly seen or photographed for twenty years. He died on April 5, 1976, from heart failure. After his death there were many wills found. But after investigations all were proven forgeries. Despite is troubles, Howard Hughes ended up with a great life and will never be forgotten because of his achievements.
- 2597: Irish Literature And Rebellion
- ... he has caused the destruction of homes and families, “Could my spoken words have checked / There whereby a house lay wrecked?” (The Man and the Echo, line 15-16). Yeats considers himself responsible for the death of his friends and others family. He is disappointed that his ink could be the reason for bloodshed. The “rising” that Yeats is talking about is the Easter Rising of 1916. On April 24, 1916 ... for years to come in his refrain, “A terrible beauty is born” (Yeats, 53). Yeats galvanizes the heroism of Ireland’s martyrs and implores the Irish to do the same. He does not want the death of valiant men to be in vain. Similarly, James Joyce damned the cruelty of the British in Ireland and calls on the memories of the heroes of yesteryear to instigate the nationalistic pride of every ... the heart” (Yeats, 54). Joyce believed that to envelop oneself in the politics of the “Irish Question” would only allow for censorship by both the Roman Catholic Church and the British government, and the eventual death of literature, so he exiled himself to the continent and continued his writings there. “When asked near the end of his life if he ever intended to return to Ireland, Joyce responded truthfully, ‘Have ...
- 2598: The Ideas of Government Held by Locke and Hobbes
- ... an attempt to get out of that miserable state of war. He felt that absolute power was justifiable because of its usefulness and not on grounds of divine right. Hobbes explained that fear of violent death is the principle motive that causes people to create a state. In order to maintain a stable society, people made an unwritten “social contract.” So people chose a leader to rule them, and any attempt to break this contract is punishable by whatever penalty the monarchy may exact in order to protect his subjects from returning to that state of anarchy. Hobbes’ theory seems to put more at stake. Continual war is inevitable if there is no government. Thus ...
- 2599: The Odyssey: Odysseus Learns Patience, The Sanctity Of Life, And Humility
- ... God’s vengeance upon (him)!”(125). When Odysseus leaves Hades he goes back to bury his friend. This is the first time that we see Odysseus paying respect to one of his crew after their death. The many times before when Odysseus’ crew members would die, the death was taken lightly and casually overlooked. Following his decent, Odysseus rarely drew his sword unless it is necessary and just. He is still as powerful and as cunning as before, but he faced death and did not take it as recklessly as before. Odysseus demonstrates this when he spares the life of the Phemios Therpiadês, the minstrel, during the battle in the hall. Odysseus also learned humility while ...
- 2600: Jean Sartre
- ... define their essence though out their existence. A person’s nature is what he or she has done in the past and what that person is doing at the moment. No one is complete until death when self-definition ceases. Then, how others interpret the individual is based upon the individual’s accomplishments and failings" In reality this concept is correct if someone was a great man or woman that means ... means the person did not accomplish much. But now days having a family, living a good honest life is an accomplishment. No, the person did not to anything special but those are their accomplishments. When death takes a persons life they can do no more, and that is when their accomplishment cease and that is when the persons self-definition ceases. That is true but some people get credit or get it stolen after their death which gives them more value then they deserve. Sartre was a very open minded individual he believed that people can be more then one thing and any given moment, and that consciousness of a ...
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