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- 3101: The Characterisitics Of A Trag
- ... known playwright.Some of his most famous plays were tragedies.A tragedy involves the decent of a great man like a king or warrior from the most fortunate success to the to total defeat and death.The plays Hamlet and Macbeth have many of the characteristics of a tragedy.The characters Hamlet and Macbeth are the tragic heros in the plays.Hamlet and Macbeth are well known tragedies and the main ... before the hero does,and sees his evil destiny at work long before he does. This sets up ironical tension,and is a powerful instrument for gaining the sympathy of the audience.The hero's death at the end usually releases him from life's burden,and the audience from its tension,but it also releases the hero's society from the disorder his downfall had caused. The plays Hamlet and ... that they had once cared strongly for.The reason for all of the pain that Macbeth and Hamlet caused,was of a supernatural force.In Hamlet it was is father asking him to avenge his death.In Macbeth it was the three witches telling him that he would be king.The audience felt sorry for the two tragic heros,because they knew before the hero what was happening to them ...
- 3102: Samuel Clemens
- ... showboat actors. Since all this action was going on all the time, that opened a big door to the beginning of Samuel’s stories. It provided a huge source of literary material. Shortly after the death of his father in 1847, he ended the brief period of his schooling to become a printer’s apprentice. Like many nineteenth century authors, he was preparing for his writing career later in life. Working ... one of his most popular stories Called The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. Although Clemens had a remarkable financial success with all of the books he had wrote, he found himself bankrupt by 1894. After the death of his daughter in 1896 and his wife in 1904 he became incredibly bitter and needed to express his feelings in some way so he wrote a book called The Mysterious Stranger In Twain’s later years he did not write as much but began doing more public appearances. Twain spent the last three years of his life finishing his autobiography, including stories from his life and the death of his beloved wife and daughter Four months after finishing the book, on the evening of April 10,1910,Twain flipped through one of his books and said goodbye to his doctor waiting at ...
- 3103: Julius Caesar
- ... offensively reactionary measures of Sulla's legislation. During Pompey's absence from 67 to 62 BC during his campaigns against the Mediterranean pirates, Mithridates, and Crassus, his jealous rival. Caesar married Ponpeia after Cornelia's death and was appointed aedile in 65 BC As aedile , Caesar returned to Marius' trophies to their former place of honor in the Capitol, thus laying claim to leadership of the populares. When Caesar was a ... danger if they sustained their veto and the proclamation of military law was passed. Caesar was told to leave his troops behind and cross the Rubicon into Rome alone. Caesar knew that this was a death sentence for him so he did not leave his troops but marched into the city and caused a civil war. He defeated Pompey's troops in many battles and became the dictator of Rome. From ... the sixty member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate in Pompey's new theater. He fell dead at the foot of Pompey's statue. Pompey was avenged, as well as Bibulus and Cato. After a provocative funeral ...
- 3104: Jimi Hendrix
- ... of the songs on Are You Experienced? form the basis upon which it is possible to measure the change in the style of Hendrix, both lyrically and musically, that were to occur until his untimely death in 1970. The commercial success of the album and the confidence that Jimi must have gained from reviews which called him things like “an absolute master” allowed Jimi to make smooth transitions to whatever he ... effort, it does, without a doubt, show a period of Hendrix’ development in which the pressure of being a star and the many social and societal ills that surrounded him caused a major change. His death in 1970 seemed to indicate a feeling of apathy from Hendrix; he died choking on his own vomit (Anonymous 1). Looking back on his albums, there is definite pattern of personal growth and decay, all ... individual contained an increasing acceptance of his racial heritage -- which included culture and music – as well as Jimi’s broadening awareness of the problems of his day. This chain of events eventually led to his death, but it can be traced by all of us today though the intricate and sublime music of this incredible visionary in the four completed albums he left for us.
- 3105: Ordinary Men
- ... After the effects on the men of the outright massacre were seen, two changes took place. First, the 101st Battalion was assigned to clearing the ghettos and loading people on trains destined for the Treblinka death camp. Second, the real dirty work was to be carried out by SS-trained soldiers. This helped remove them mentally from the deaths, and made their work much more efficient. They went on through a ... shot during the ‘Jew Hunts’, and a minimum estimate of 30,500 Jews shot at Majdanek and Poniatowa, the battalion had participated in the direct shooting deaths of at least 38,000 Jews. With the death camp deportation of at least 3,000 Jews from Miedzyrzec in early May 1943, the number of Jews they had placed on trains to Treblinka had risen to 45,000. For a battalion of less ... to "out of site, out of mind". "Not only was the killing done by others, but it was done out of sight of the men who cleared the ghettos and forced the Jews onto the death trains." (Browning, 163) There have been a number of tests performed by psychologists that studied the effects of pressure from authority figures on human behavior. By examining one of the most famous, Milgram’s ...
- 3106: Once A Warrior King - Review
- ... they were less than effective in strategic decision making processes. The American people also understood very little about the war. Understanding this puts anti-war protests in perspective; the American people could not envision the death and mutilation of children. American intentions in Vietnam were muddled, thus forces were misguided and outcomes were unfavorable. Originally the American presence in South Vietnam was mainly to push for the social betterment of the ... supplies in order to survive. We mostly gave them weapons, tactic training and Christianity. Donavan took part in a seemingly rare situation where positive, personal interaction of American and Vietnamese cultures can be seen. A death of a child from ringworm is disturbing. "To think what just a bar of soap would have meant to that child if he had had it in time! What a little elementary sanitation, or even ... they thought about issues."(322) I am sure that many veterans were personally affected as Donovan was. He lost many aspects of himself. This is evident in his lack of emotion when dealing with the death of his father and the feelings of waste when he had free time. Donovan was an idealistic person of action who is distraught that the war was not successful on any front.
- 3107: Samuel Adams
- ... the beliefs that he had had from the beginning, refusing to compromise those for anyone. After serving as John Hancock’s lieutenant governor from 1789 to 1793, Adams succeeded to the governorship at Hancock’s death. As governor he did a wonderful job keeping some sort of piece in the state although there was great tension between the two parities. Although he opposed Jay’s Treaty with England in 1795, he ... Virginian on the triumph of democratic republicanism." (Americana 90) Samuel Adams was a revolutionary of great self-discipline and patience. "‘We cannot make events,’ he believed. ‘Our business is wisely to improve them.’ After his death, one colleague compared him to John Calvin, ‘cool, abstemious, polished, refined,’ although Adams was ‘more inflexible, uniform, consistent’ than the Genevan reformer. Avoiding all social pretension and cultivation ascetic manner, Adams embodied an austere Puritan ... it happen. Samuel Adams was that man. From founding the Son’s of Liberty to founding the first Continental Congress, Samuel Adams was there for the whole ordeal and played a major role until his death in 1803. Samuel Adams truly is the father of American independence. Work Cited Page "Adams, Samuel." Encyclopedia Americana, Inc. 1990 ed. Carlson, Bill. "Samuel Adams." The Rhodes Family Genealogy Family Stories. Infotrac, 1991. Fradin, ...
- 3108: Alphonse Capone
- ... Federal Grand Jury at Chicago on March 20, 1929, and completed his testimony on March 27. As he left the courtroom, he was arrested by agents for contempt of Court, an offense for which the penalty could be one year and a $1,000 fine. He posted $5,000 bond and was released. On May 17, 1929, Al Capone and his bodyguard were arrested in Philadelphia for carrying concealed deadly weapons ... Baltimore psychiatrist, after examination, both concluded Al Capone then had the mentality of a 12-year-old child. Capone resided on Palm Island with his wife and immediate family, in a secluded atmosphere, until his death due to a stroke and pneumonia on January 25, 1947.
- 3109: AIDS: Is It A Modern Plague?
- ... group and is the etiologic agent of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). AIDS was first recognized as a disease syndrome in 1981; HIV was identified as its cause in 1984. AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. There currently is neither a cure, nor an effective treatment, and no vaccine either. But there are things that have been proven immensely effective in slowing the spread of this hideously lethal disease. Scientist believe ... in Asia, where new HIV infections increased by 80 percent in the last three years, and estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that AIDS in Asia will cause unprecedented rates of infection and death. The major strain of HIV in the North America, Europe, and central Africa is known as HIV-1. In western Africa, AIDS is also caused by HIV-2, a strain of HIV closely related ...
- 3110: Roberto Clemente
- ... Luis Roberto and Roberto Enrique. Proud of his heritage Roberto insisted that Vera give birth to all three sons in Puerto Rico. The boys were six, five and two, when their father met his unfortunate death. New Year's Eve, December 31, 1997 marked the 25th Anniversary of a tragic plane crash. The plane was taking medical, food and clothing supplies to Nicaragua, to help out after an earthquake. Vera and ... the plane went down off the coast of Puerto Rico. Roberto's body was never found. Just months after Roberto joined an elite group of players with 3000 hits, he was gone. Roberto’s tragic death in 1972 prompted the Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors to unanimously wave the customary five year period for induction, which opened a door for the Baseball Writer’s Association of America to hold ... Since then only four players have been inducted; Al Lopez in 1977, Juan Marichal in 1983, Luis Aparicio in 1984, and Rod Carew in 1991.It has been just over 27 years since his unfortunate death and still today Roberto is still remembered as one of the greatest athletes and humanitarians of all time. In 1973, his uniform number 21 was retired by the Pittsburgh Pirates. One of Roberto's ...
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