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- 2891: Ethan Frome
- ... might have ‘gone like his mother’ if the sound of a new voice had not come to steady him.” (p. 29) Wharton writes. After some time though, Zeena also traps Ethan. After his mother’s death, Ethan felt trapped. He, along with Zeena and her family, felt he should marry Zeena. The common belief was that it was the least he could do for her after helping his mother. Also, Ethan ... and Mattie became paralyzed. This is the most horrific and extreme example of Ethan’s entrapment. Although he and Mattie are living together, Zeena takes care of them both. It is a fate worse than death. Ethan is no longer able to walk without a severe limp and Mattie will never walk again. They are both forced to live with the woman they were trying to escape from, until they die ... Ethan was a coward for not taking advantage of the opportunities given to him. That is not the truth. He was too trapped to take full advantage of the opportunities. His parent’s illness and death, Zeena, and his crippled body, have all trapped him at one time or another. Ethan’s live is filled with entrapment.
- 2892: The First Atomic Test
- ... by 24 square mile portion of the northeast corner of the Bombing Range was selected for the Trinity test by the military. The selection of this remote location in the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) Valley for the Trinity test was from an initial list of eight possible test sites. Besides the Jornada, three of the other seven sites were also located in New Mexico: the Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo ... took the dubious detour due north across the Jornada del Muerto. Sixty miles of desert, very little water, and numerous hostile Apaches. Hence the name Jornada del Muerto, which roughly translates as the journey of death. The origin of the code name Trinity for the test site is also interesting, and a subject of debate. One popular accound attributes the name to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant scientific head of the ... load of 2,000 fully loaded World War II B-20, Superfortresses! Trinity, July 16, 1945. After witnessing the blast, Oppenheimer quoted a line from a sacred Hindo text, the Bhagavad-Gita: "I am become death, the shatterer of worlds."(6) In Los Alamos, about 230 miles to the north, a group of scientists' wives who had stayed up all night for the event, saw the light and heard the ...
- 2893: Faulkner Vs McCarthy
- ... gone out to hunt down Grumby. Killing the murderer was the only type of justice served and accepted in society back then. John Grady Cole felt a great load of pressure on himself for Blevins’ death, and he knew it would be everlasting if he did not avenge Blevins’ death. John sets out with a passion to kill the captain and regain the horses, but realizes that the captain will have a tougher time staying alive and John let’s him go. This relieves the tension that Blevins’ death caused. Honor towards family plays one of the most important roles in The Unvanquished as well as in All The Pretty Horses. Bayard must honor his family name by killing B.J. Redmond and ...
- 2894: 1984
- ... considered in many different lights. - 1. You'll have to decide for yourself whether Winston is a hero in his secret battle with Big Brother, or whether he's only a sentimental man with a death wish, who courts his death openly through an illegal love affair and through his alliance with the enemies of Big Brother. a. If Winston is a 20th-century hero, it seems logical for him to keep a diary even though ... We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." In Three, I, this dream is fulfilled in an astonishing way. Does O'Brien stand for hope or for the fulfillment of Winston's death wish? Does he seek him out precisely to bring about his capture? Look at Part Three, Sections I, II, III and IV, where Winston is captured and brainwashed. He doesn't hate or resist ...
- 2895: Hostile Takeover of the New World
- ... strike it rich and lay claim to the entire continent. (Utley and Washburn, page 163) New violence erupted as the white man moved into Indian hunting grounds. Ten percent of the Diggers in California met death violently. In 1846, California was home to 100,000 Indians. By 1851, the population had dropped to 30,000. (Utley and Washburn, 164)"That a war of extermination will continue to be waged until the ... fate. With nothing left, and all their warriors dead, the reluctantly gave into the U.S. government. One by one, the tribes were tricked into trusting the white man. This trust almost always resulted in death for the Indians. However, under the direction of President Grant, Ely Parker or Donehogwa, a Seneca Indian, was appointed the as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. (Brown, 177) Despite his efforts, the crooked U.S. government ... 441) The teepees and clothing of the Indians were searched extensively for weapons. In the madness, Black Coyote mistakenly shot off his gun. (Brown, 442) Indiscriminate killing from the soldiers followed. One estimate placed the death toll at 300. There were only 350 Indians in total at Wounded Knee Creek. (Brown, 444) The remaining 4 men and 47 women and children were sent to an Episcopal mission church before there ...
- 2896: A Street Car Named Desire
- ... she discovers he is a bi-sexual degenerate. She is disgusted and expresses her disappointment in him. This prompts him to commit suicide. Blanche cannot get over this. She holds herself responsible for his untimely death. His death is soon followed by long vigils at the bedside of her dying relatives. She is forced to sell Belle Reve, the family mansion, to pay for the many funeral expenses. She finds herself living at ... second-rate Flamingo Hotel. In an effort to escape the misery of her life in Laurel, Blanche drinks heavily and has meaningless affairs. She needs alcohol to stop the polka music, symbolic of Allan's death, from running on in her head and to avoid the truth of her life. She surrenders her body to various strangers in an attempt to lose herself. She seduces young boys in memory of ...
- 2897: Beowulf 3
- ... injured, he still had the strength to break the fifty-foot dragon in half. He knows that his life has ended, and the all the joy of his years on earth. The days are done, death most near. Beowulf then says, "Now I would wish to give my son my war-clothing, if any heir after me, part of my flesh, were granted..." (62). Beowulf is saying that if God had ... sees the treasure, he says: "I speak with my words thanks to the lord of all for these treasures...for what I gaze on here, that I might get such for my people for my death-day"(Norton 63). Beowulf is saying that he will not be satisfied until all his people Receive these precious treasures. Beowulf then proceeds to take off his necklace, giving it to Wiglaf. This signifies that ... tells Wiglaf that he is last one left of the thanes and it is now his job to carry on the tradition: "Fate has swept away all my kinsmen, earls in their strength, to destined death. I have to go after" (Norton 63) Beowulf is saying that fate has taken the lives of all of his kinsmen and he must go as well. That is the last word spoken by ...
- 2898: Is Man Ever Satisfied
- ... of the order of the chain but yet man is unsatisfied. If any misfortune we turn to judge his justice. Is God who gives and he who takes so man should not be upset if death occur. Just like some trees leaves die to yield fresh ones and mother cockroaches die to have new ones, man has to view death as right of passage and accept it as part of life rather than to be sad, miserable or disgruntle. Death is part of creation of God and should be cherish. God has surrounded man with most essential things like water, yet we are unsatisfied and explore another planets and world for more discoveries. We ...
- 2899: The Hollow Men
- ... the word “dry.” (5, 8, 10) The narrator of the poem wishes to wear disguises such as “Rat’s coat, crow skin, crossed staves/In a field…” (53-54) These are all symbols related to death. The “crossed staves/In a field” represent a scarecrow, which is a straw-stuffed hollow man. It also expresses Eliot’s fear of death by representing Christ on the cross. Throughout the poem, “death’s twilight/dream kingdom,” is repeated several times. This represents the follow men’s hopeful dedication to reaching heaven. In conclusion, “The Hollow Men” is a poem about T.S. Eliot’s faithless attitude ...
- 2900: Human Awareness Essay On Cloni
- Human Awareness Essay on Cloning There are many controversial topics around the world today, and some of them include such topics as abortion, drugs, the death penalty, alcohol, guns, and now even cloning. Surrounding these issues we can find differing opinions, and positions in how people feel about such topics in our community. Many of these arguments, can be narrowed down to ...
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