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- 4151: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... Dick. The story revolves around the idea of an awesome sea mammal, which drives the passions of revenge in one man and forces him to pursue a course of action which leads ultimately to his death as well as the deaths of his companions. There is a great deal of imagination involved in these stories and the creativity is highly apparent. There is an expression of belief in the supernatural, as ... image of a hard core idealist who is converted to a realist through the experiences that he goes through. This also drew on his seafaring days as experience and he struggled to bring across the death of the idealist and the birth of the realist. But at the end of the day, whatever emotions he possessed about the nature of idealism and idealistic thought, still form an integral part of him ...
- 4152: Mother Teresa
- ... in reading about missionaries and the lives of the saints. In 1919 her father, Nikolle Bojahiu, died of poisoning after attending a political meeting. Mother Teresa said, “ We were all very united, especially after the death of my father. We lived for each other and made every effort to make one another happy.” On September 26, 1928, Mother Teresa set out on her trip to Dublin by train. She arrived at ... an honorary U.S. citizen. In signing the bill, Clinton says, “Mother Teresa has brought hope and love into the lives of millions of orphaned and abandoned children the world over.” Princess Diana’s untimely death in a car crash in 1997 brought Mother Teresa back before the cameras. She spoke of Princess Diana’s love for the poor and promised to offer special prayers for her. Unfortunately on September 5 ...
- 4153: The Life of Gottfried Leibniz
- ... visited Amsterdam and London, devoting his time to the study of mathematics, science, and philosophy. In 1676 he was appointed librarian and privy councillor at the court of Hannover. For the 40 years until his death, he served Ernest Augustus, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, later elector of Hannover, and George Louis, elector of Hannover, later George I, king of Great Britain. Leibniz was considered a universal genius by his contemporaries. His ... perfection and developing independently of all other monads. The universe that these monads constitute is the harmonious result of a divine plan. Humans, however, with their limited vision, cannot accept such evils as disease and death as part of a universal harmony. This Leibnizian universe, "the best of all possible worlds," is satirized as a utopia by the French author Voltaire in his novel Candide (1759). Important philosophical works by Leibniz ...
- 4154: Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach An
- ... a circle, but now its far off in the center, seen only from afar. He uses archetypes, such as the circle, which shows wholeness, unity, and union. Other archetypes are the sea, which represents faith, death, rebirth, and timelessness. The wind shows inspiration and soul. Arnold starts with the descriptions of the "calm sea", "fair tide" and the "vast" cliffs that create a calming, innocent appearance. This sets the mood of ... sea to tell him what he must do to have a purpose in life, like that of the seas. Archetypes in the poem are water/sea, which represent mother of all life, spiritual mystery, infinity, death, life, timelessness, and consciousness. The ship represents mankind s voyage through time. The stars show inspiration. All these build the poem. They show that the speaker is asking the sea and nature who he is ...
- 4155: Atomic Bomb 8
- ... to the military forces leaving the civilian population to starve. This would have lead to a massive amount of deaths due to starvation amongst the civilian population. This strategy would have lead only to the death of civilians and not weakened the Japanese military or brought Japan closer to surrender (Grant 36). The side effects of atomic weaponry had not been discovered at the time that Truman gave the order to ... bombing attacks were taking on Japan had no effect on the military leaders who were ready to fight to the end. Had this deadlock remained, the Japanese would have fought until they all starved to death because of a blockade, or had been bombed into oblivion. Only when the atomic bombs were dropped the deadlock was broken and peace achieved. This act caused the Japanese emperor to end the political deadlock ...
- 4156: Sinclair Lewis
- ... Tozer who makes Martin's life good. With liveliness and love, she urges him beyond the boundaries of the terrestrial to risk answering his true calling as a scientist and researcher. Not even her tragic death can extinguish her impact on Martin's life. In this book, every chapter is a metaphor to which many people can relate. Arrowsmith suggests an alternative to the narrowness of this life in the disinterested ... in Europe with a bad health due to a life of heavy drinking. He died in Rome on January 10, 1951 of a heart disease. His last novel, World So Wide, was published after his death. Sinclair Lewis's Novels were never a target to heavy criticism. This was due mainly because the critics never thought much of them and thought they were either not considered as art, or he was ...
- 4157: Apollo
- ... his trip to Cape Canaveral to view what he fought so hard for the first stage of the giant Saturn V. rocket. It was only a few short months later when America would mourn the death of one of the greatest presidents; it was on November 22, 1963 when John F. Kennedy was shot down in Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. The one man whose real interest in seeing a ... moon had passed away, but his dream was very much alive. Now it was up to Lyndon B. Johnson, the man later responsible for the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The years between Kennedy's death and the launch of Apollo 11 NASA Administrator James E. Webb guided the very popular Apollo project, but his name was tarnished by the Apollo 10 tragedy on January 27, 1967. The three Astronauts Gus ...
- 4158: John Keats
- ... t enough; his mother’s mourning didn’t last for long. Because of her inheritance of John’s father, she became the “victim” of a fortune hunter. Within two months of John’s Father’s death she had remarried a bank clerk named Rawlings. Shortly after the death of John’s father, Rawlings and his new wife ran into money difficulties. In the legal and family upsets that followed, John and the other children were taken to live with their grandmother in Enfield ...
- 4159: Anti -semitism
- ... was horrible. He said that they were given one loaf of bread every week and his family had to split it among themselves. He said that everyone was weak because they were being starved to death. My Grandpa said, A Gestapo ( Hitler s Secret police ) threatened to shoot me. I begged him not to so he didn t. He beat me instead. (My Grandpa)He said that they also used to ... You should not be able to treat people that way just because you don t like them. Hitler s evil ways killed over 5 million Jews. About 3 million died in concentration camps or other death centers, 1.4 million shooting operations and over 600,000 in ghettos. That is allot of people. These people could have made a difference in this world. There are allot of people who hate Hitler ...
- 4160: Madame Bovary 2
- ... the most influential European writers of the 19th century. He has enriched the world with many famous novels such as, Salammbo (1862), Sentimental Education (1869), and The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874). "Not even his death could not diminish the impact of his work and its influence on French letters throughout the rest of the nineteenth and all of the teith centuries." (3 -2- Outline I. Introduction II. Biography A. Flaubert ... that were needed to have good relationships. Emma grew blind she couldn't understand the extremity of her actions, upon other people. For instance, her suicide left her husband devastated, which led to his untimely death, while her daughter was condemned to a life of poverty because of her mother's search for a more glamorous life.(17) In conclusion, Flaubert tries to convey the roles of the middle class women ...
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