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- 5191: Antigone 4
- ... poses her characteristics in such as being stubborn and raggedness portrays her flaw in the play. Antigone attempts to challenge Creon's love for power and accepts the punishment given to her. She bows to death because she is aware that she has done a good deed and she will inhale her last breath in honor. Whether Creon thinks of her as a traitor or not, Antigone knew the gods would ... change the rules for her. This decision not only has an impact on Antigone, but also Haimon, Creon's son. Haimon implies his own suicide by stating the following- "Then she must die--But her death will cause another" (Sophocles, III- 119) This open threat still has no effect on Creon's decision towards Antigone's punishment. Though he recalls his promise to the people, it seems as if he is ...
- 5192: Henry T. Ford
- ... were simple farmers. Henry lived on the farm that was run by his father who was an Irish man, and his mother who was Dutch, his mother died when he was 12. After his mother death he helped out around the family farm in summer and in winter attended a one-room school. From the young age he was fascinating my moving mechanical things. Form the young age he was fascinated ... 700 million, giving large shares of the money to Ford Foundation, a nonprofit organization. The Ford Motor Company was taken over by grandson of Henry Ford, Henry Ford II who carried his ownership until his death in 1987. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity. -Henry ...
- 5193: Henry Charles Carey
- ... works and studies lead him to become one of the leading citizens of Philadelphia, and an influential figure in the state where more than one President had sought his advise. At the time of his death, in 1879 at the age of 86, he was named as America=s most widely known private citizen at the time. During the course of his writings the views of Carey in relation to previous ... from the burdens of the costs of transportation from the producers to the consumers. Unfortunately, Carey did not see the day when countries would adopt this policy, but no longer then three decades after his death Great Britian and other leading countries of the world would have implemented it. So looking back Carey had two main points on protectionism. The first was the benefit of association and the second was the ...
- 5194: Heart Of Darkness
- ... Kurtz, in the hope's of appreciating all that Kurtz finds endearing in the African jungle. Marlow does not get the opportunity to see Kurtz until he is so disease-stricken he looks more like death than a person. There are no good looks or health. In the story Marlow remarks that Kurtz resembles "an animated image of death carved out of old ivory." Like Marlow, Kurtz is seen as an honorable man to many admirers; but he is also a thief, murderer, raider, persecutor, and above all he allows himself to be worshipped ...
- 5195: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... on the Western Front. Examples of this include the pair of boots and the constant urge for companionship. The pair of boots and the fact that it was passed around so often tells us that death was a very common occurrence during the war and that the soldiers wanted to use everything then could find in order to aid their chances of survival. The urge for companionship is shown when the ... that friendship always prevails even though tough times. I would recommend this book to anyone who thinks that war can be short and glorious. Through this book, any reader can see that war brings unnecessary death to innocent people (soldiers and civilians). After reading the book, the reader will probably have a different outlook on war and all the low points that it brings. From this book, I have learned that ...
- 5196: "To Build a Fire"
- ... Since the man was arrogant to the wild, he was slow to recognize the significance of the dropping temperatures. The cold, beginning to set in, soon affects three major things that eventually lead to his death. It affects his ability to think clearly, his awareness and his memory. The first area which is affected by the cold is the mans memory. This is shown when the man sits down for lunch ... a bite from the biscuit, the ice muzzle stopped him. "He had forgotten to build a fire and thaw out" (p.227). This was the first in a series of mistakes which led to his death. The next thing to be affected by the cold was his awareness. This is demonstrated when the man attempts build the next fire under a spruce tree. "Each time he had pulled a twig off ...
- 5197: Crucible
- ... accused women are not witches (especially his wife), and that it is Abigail who should be killed instead. Arther Miller is one of America's most famous writers. He wrote stories like All My Sons, Death of A Salesman, The Crucible, View from a Bridge, After The fall, A Memory of Two Mondays, Incident at Vichy, and The Price. He wrote these plays in a period of twenty-one years. It ... Abigail uses this case to attack Rebecca Nurse, one of the best Puritans in the Salem, John Proctor begins his efforts to stop the injustice. This increases when Elizabeth Proctor is tried and sentenced to death. This is John Proctor's struggle. He must fight to save his wife, his community and eventually himself. In addition, he also has to convince the leaders of Salem that they are mistaken in believing ...
- 5198: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... learned how shallow the use of these words was. Indeed, early in his enlistment, Baumer comprehends that although authority figures taught that duty to one s country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger. But for all that, we were no mutineers, no deserters, no cowards they were very free with these expressions. We loved our country as much as they; we went courageously into every ... leave, Baumer visits the mother of a fallen comrade, Kemmerich. As he did with his own mother, he lies, this time in an attempt to shield her from the details of her son s lingering death. Moreover, in this conversation, we see Baumer rejecting yet another one of the traditional society s foundations: religious orthodoxy. He assures Kemmerich s mother that her son " died immediately. He felt absolutely nothing at all ...
- 5199: Djibouti
- ... these killings. In January there was a credible report that 26-year-old Mohamed Abdillahi Ismail died in his prison cell after not receiving treatment for tuberculosis. There were political undertones in the July 13 death in custody of Mohamoud Mohamed Ali; Ali was a potential witness in a criminal case against a former high-ranking politician, Moumin Bahdon Farah. The Government claimed that Ali died from tuberculosis. There was no ... waited months to be released because of inaction by then-Justice Minister Moumin Bahdon Farah. Mohamed Mahamoud Ali, the potential witness in the theft case against Farah, was arbitrarily detained from June 20 until his death on July 13 (see Sections 1.a. and 1.c.). Amir Adaweh, the editor-in-chief of the PND's newspaper La Republique, spent several days in detention in July after being accused of organizing ...
- 5200: Effects Of Automobiles
- ... for competition has ended the lives of many automobile owners. Young drivers often compete against each other in races and other dangerous games. Many times, these foolish schemes end in fatality. Another leading cause of death in automobiles results from alcohol abuse. This terrible mixture of drinking and driving commonly ends in death of the driver and of other innocent civilians. The automobile has been the victim of trillions of fender benders and more serious accidents. This has caused concern in the mind of society, and with it ...
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