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- 3161: Daddy
- ... Sylivia Plath has been renowned for her style of writing and the power she evokes from her ideas in her poems. The themes of her poems tend to be of a negative nature with war, death and the problem of patriarchal societies as such topics. One of Plath's most famous pieces of poetry is Daddy. The poem focuses on Plath's father, a man who left her at an early ... when she was only eight. In the poem Daddy, Plath, as the speaker, is having a one-way conversation with her father expressing all her feelings, anguish and how she tried to compensate for his death. The poem itself bares no metaphorical reading, only a literal reading which is broken up into three parts. A common technique that Plath uses in her poetry is the metaphor. An example of one lies ... trauma. Firstly to set the scene vivid imagery is used. The phrases "It stuck in a barb wire snare" and " A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen" paints the picture of the notorious concentration camps of death with barb wire surrounding it. Another example of war imagery is when the persona refers to "Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You-." These soldiers of the German army were one of the most feared, ...
- 3162: Nikita Khrushcev
- Nikita Khrushchev rose to power after the death of Stalin. He was a leader who desperately worked for reform yet his reforms hardly ever accomplished their goals. He was a man who praised Stalin while he was alive but when Stalin died Khrushchev ... removed Beria quickly with the help of other colleagues who feared Beria. On April 4, 1953 Beria was forced to admit that his men had fabricated the "Doctors plot" that resulted in the arrest and death of several physicians. Beria himself was secretly arrested on June 26. He was denounced as an "enemy of the people" and was charged with a number of crimes including that of careerist and traitor. He ... had their contradictions. He was a hard politician yet he could also be a warm humanitarian. As a youth he helped to create Stalins cult of personality, which he also denounced after Stalins death. He wanted to reform the Soviet state, but most of reforms ended in disaster. Although the nations low standard of living was raised to some extent. (Markiewicz) But Khrushchev played an important role in ...
- 3163: Nicholas: The Last Tsar
- In his book, The Last Tsar, Edvard Radzinsky describes a very interesting viewpoint of the life and death of Nicholas Alexandrovich, the last Russian Tsar. Radzinsky's illustration of this ill-fated monarch follows the diaries of Nicholas from their beginning on March 1, 1881, to the final entry on July 16, 1918 ... he had contracted in a train wreck six years earlier. On April 8, 1894, at the wedding of Alexandra's brother, her and Nicholas were engaged.3 On November 14, 1894, a month after the death of his father Nicholas married Alexandra and officially became the tsar of Russia. Alexei Nikolaevich, the first son of Nicholas and Alexandra was born on July 30, 1904, following the births of four daughters. The ... taken down to the cellar for what they thought was a family photograph. However, they all realized there would be no photograph, when Yakov Yurovsky, a member of the Uralites, read out the family's death sentence. As soon as he had finished, the shots began and minutes later, the family and their servants lay dead in a pool of their own blood. They loaded up the bodies into a ...
- 3164: Analysis of the Poems of William Wordsworth
- ... idea of formal poetry and, therefore, he changed the course of modern poetry (Wordsworth, William DISCovering). Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, England, to John, a prominent aristocrat, and Anne Wordsworth, but with his mother's death in 1778, William and his family began to drift apart. William was sent to boarding school in Hawkeshead, and his sister, Dorothy, was sent to live with cousins in Halifax. It was in the rural surroundings of Hawkeshead that William learned his appreciation for nature and the outdoors. Unfortunately, once again, the peacefulness of his life was disturbed by his father's death in 1783. William was sent from relative to relative, all of whom thought of him only as a burden. It has been pointed out by biographers that Wordsworth's unhappy early life contrasts with the ... Wordsworth, William" Compton's). In 1793 Wordsworth published his first two volumes of poetry, Descriptive Sketches and An Evening Walk. Written in the traditional manner, the books were not accepted well publicly, but, after the death of a relative Wordsworth became the benefactor of a small inheritance which enabled him to concentrate on writing ("Wordsworth, William" Compton's). Feeling that he needed a change of scenery to devote more time ...
- 3165: Cry, The Beloved Country
- ... As the quote says, Brutus would not allow Caesar to rise to power and then turn his back onto the people of Rome. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Brutus talks to Antony about Caesar? death. "Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful; and pity to the general wrong of Rome?(act 3, scene 1, ll.185-186). Brutus says that Antony cannot see their(members of the conspiracy) hearts ... way, and we will grace his heels with the most boldest and best hearts of Rome. "(act 3, scene 1, ll.135-136). Again, if Brutus leads the way, the people will think that the death of Julius Caesar wasn? such a bad thing. Brutus also declares to himself that his role in the conspiracy is to save Rome. He says to the people that, "If then that friend demand why ... Julius Caesar. Cassius and the rest of the conspirators would probably not have continued on without Brutus because they would have no "insurance" afterwards. The people would think that there was no reason for Caesar? death and most likely beheaded all the conspirators. Also, if Brutus was not in the play, the whole end of the play would not ever occur. Brutus would not be there to have an army ...
- 3166: Cry, The Beloved Country
- ... in an adjacent farm when the two men were younger. When on trial, Absalom tells the whole truth in hope of lenience and pleads for a acquittal, but is punished with the most severe castigation, death. While his a accomplices are ironically acquitted. After the trial, Steven felt antipathy towards his brother, John, who tried to use chicanery to get his son out of trouble. John had told his son to ... Absalom. Mr. Jarvis did not always get along with his, maverick, son because his son believed that all blacks were innocent because the white race had caused blacks to resort to violence. After Arthur's death, Mr. Jarvis became more adamant in his views of blacks. He believed that a white person should treat a black person well, but that blacks and whites should stay isolated from each other. The idea of how a black man could kill somebody who was on their side was abstruse to Jarvis. The third portion of the book shows that the death of ones loved one can make a person do anything, even come to a reconciliation with a completely different race which white people had previously abased. Both Steven's son Absalom, who was killed ...
- 3167: Cry, The Beloved Country
- ... Christ, Arthur Jarvis teaches compassion and love between neighbors - whites and blacks, separated by the policy of apartheid. The crucifixion of Jesus Christ leads to redemption, spiritual growth of many people and progress; likewise, the death of Arthur Jarvis brings reform and hope. Ironically, the tragedy brings together Stephen Kumalo, the father of a black murderer and Jarvis, the father of Arthur Jarvis, the white victim. High Place where Jarvis lives is symbolic of an elevated position of many whites. Before his son's death, Jarvis is on the hilltop, thinking in a distant, uninvolved way about the problems between whites and blacks, seeing just the white point of view. "Indeed they talked about [the erosion of land] often, for ... year by year there was less food grown in these reserves." (162) Jarvis is not a bad person but is ignorant about the lives of blacks and the real issues that take place. After the death of his son Jarvis learns to view blacks as real people. Jarvis reads his son's papers and suddenly becomes concerned with the ideas expressed by his son and by Abraham Lincoln. "Jarvis sat, ...
- 3168: Stoker and Rice's Books About Vampires
- ... mortal a vampire is a tricky process in both novels the process is basically the same except Rice gives a more detailed description. making a vampire involves draining the chosen mortal to the point of death-just before the heart stops-so that the powerful vampire blood can take hold and fuse with the heart. The process is risky because the vampire thirsts for the human heart and might drinkuntil the ... with the Vampire 23). In Dracula however there is this excerpt The count suddenly stopped and cowered back. Further and Further back he cowered, as we, lifting our crucifixes, advanced(Stoker 271). according to legend, death to a vampire can be caused by few different methods. Stoker uses the fact that Death can be caused by fire, sunlight, and stake through the heart.
- 3169: Cry The Beloved Country
- ... Christ, Arthur Jarvis teaches compassion and love between neighbors - whites and blacks, separated by the policy of apartheid. The crucifixion of Jesus Christ leads to redemption, spiritual growth of many people and progress; likewise, the death of Arthur Jarvis brings reform and hope. Ironically, the tragedy brings together Stephen Kumalo, the father of a black murderer and Jarvis, the father of Arthur Jarvis, the white victim. High Place where Jarvis lives is symbolic of an elevated position of many whites. Before his son's death, Jarvis is on the hilltop, thinking in a distant, uninvolved way about the problems between whites and blacks, seeing just the white point of view. "Indeed they talked about [the erosion of land] often, for ... year by year there was less food grown in these reserves." (162) Jarvis is not a bad person but is ignorant about the lives of blacks and the real issues that take place. After the death of his son Jarvis learns to view blacks as real people. Jarvis reads his son's papers and suddenly becomes concerned with the ideas expressed by his son and by Abraham Lincoln. "Jarvis sat, ...
- 3170: Martin Luther King's Life
- ... black poverty, he emphasized on achieving significance for humanity. Martin Luther King symbol of hope and is great figure in history. He was near exhaustion from stress, and his speeches increasingly alluded to his possible death. He was undeterred, however, for as he put it on April 3, 1968, he had been to the mountain top and seen the Promised Land. The following day King was shot and killed in Memphis ... holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday; his Atlanta birthplace and gravesite were made a national historic site. Martin Luther King represented black courage and achievement in African Americans society. After his death the country mourned his loss as one of history's greatest men. A man that fought for what they believed in. He has changed the way we look at the world we live in and ... p22 2-'' '' '' '' ,p27 3-'' '' '' '',p27 4-'' '' '' '',p52 Bibliography Schloredt,Valrie(1988) Martin Luther King,Jr America's great nonviolent leader in the stuggle of human right Grareth Stevens,inc Haskins,James (1977) The life and Death of Martin Luther King,Jr Lothtop, Lee&Shepard Co. Encyclopedia Britannica (1982) Pan America and Universal Convetions Pg 471-473
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