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- 5511: Tattoo History
- ... uniqueness" (web page). Each tribe uses tattoos for different reasons, some use them as a marking of status, where a person fits in their culture. Dayak tribes believed that tattoos symbolized an important function after death, this belief was also known in many American Indian tribes. The Chinese culture uses tattoos to distinguish a person who has been found guilty of a severe crime. In native North America tattooing was frequently ... clear that he was not persuading the sailors from attending Sunday service, therefore the priest should not interfere with his business. While in Brazil his was titled the Grand Old Man of tattooing. After his death in 1983 he has kept a reputation of a very successful tattoo artist. The people of Brazil remember and are marked with designs of eagles, sharks, panthers, butterflies, dragons, and mermaids. In 1999 Oxford University ...
- 5512: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... excruciating religious, civil and family pressures found themselves confessing to being witches” (“Witch”). There were also reported instances of farm and domestic animals being possessed by the devil; in fact 2 dogs were put to death because of this hysteria. Those that were jailed were pressured into confessing that they were witches. One man was crushed to death because he refused to admit to being a witch. Large weights had been placed upon his chest in a effort to get him to confess, but he chose to die instead of admitting to something ...
- 5513: The 60’s: Decade of Challenge and Change
- ... the nation’s youth, the new generation to whom JFK said,” the torch has been passed.” Long hair, mod dresses, drugs, sexual freedom, and anti- established ideas were everywhere. It was a decade of tragic death for people such as John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy. It was an unforgettable , exciting era. Many things typify the sixties. It was a time of great changes that would influence the next ... wall. Who could forget Martin Luther King’s famous “ I have a dream” speech made on August 5, 1963 ? The tragedy on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas. Then the death of Martin Luther King in 1968. And the first black women was elected to House in 68. There were other breakthroughs in the news. The doctor introduced the artificial kidney. The French test the first ...
- 5514: The Beginning of the Civil War
- ... Congress. Clay won the support of some influential Union men, including Stephen Douglas and Daniel Webster (Stated on COMPTON’S ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE.). Congress debated this issue for many, many months. John C. Calhoun, now nearing death, was carried into the chambers and had his speech read aloud to Congress. In his speech, he said that the only way to avoid Civil war would be for the North to allow slavery into ... on COMPTON’S ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE.). Part III: The Real Consequences Taylor was replaced by Vice President Millard Filmore. He was very different from Taylor. Zachary Taylor opposed Clay's ideas. He fought Clay to his death. Filmore was just his opposite. He liked Clay’s idea of a compromise and passed the Compromise of 1850, or the Omnibus Bill, allowing California admission into the Union. Even though a lot of people ...
- 5515: The Lottery
- ... abundance of their harvest supposedly depended upon their performing the ritual of the lottery. Although it is implied that the abundance of their harvest depends wholly on cruel act of stoning a human being to death, there is evidence that not all in the community agree with the ritual. Children are an important focus in “The Lottery”. Jackson makes it easy for us to imagine their “boisterous play” and the children ... to stand up against behaviors that have always been accepted. The setting has set us up for a shocking and deadly end. What seemed like a wonderful, joy-filled day ended with an unfortunate, tragic death. This is what makes this story so disturbing and horrifying but a wonderful work of literature art.
- 5516: Lie
- ... head back for England. While still on the river, Kurtz dies saying, ¡°The horror, the horror.¡± Marlow returns to England. He visits Kurtz¡¯s intended who is still in mourning a year after Kurtz¡¯s death. She still remembers Kurtz as the great man he was before he left, and Marlow doesn¡¯t tell her what he had become before he dies. Marlow gives Kurtz her old letters and leaves. Symbols ... to his company about his goals of the trade centers on the river. 7. ¡°I saw him extend his short flipper of an arm for a gesture that took in the forest... to the lurking death, to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart.¡± Marlow says this about the uncle of the manager. Page 109 8. ¡°Save me! - save the ivory, you mean.¡± Kurtz says this as he ...
- 5517: William Faulkner
- ... is definitely not condoned (Mack 1798-1812). Faulkner's use of the townspeople in Yoknapatawpha County is also emphasized in A Rose for Emily. This is another short story of Faulkner's in which the death of Miss Emily brings together the entire population of Jefferson. Jefferson is the main town in Faulkner's fictional county. Faulkner uses a great deal of symbolism in this story. Miss Emily was raised in the period before the Civil War in the south. An unnamed narrator, who seems to be the voice of the whole town, calls attention to key moments in her life, including the death of her father and her brief relationship with a man from the north named Homer Barron. The story basically addresses the symbolic changes in the south after the Civil War. Miss Emily's house symbolizes ...
- 5518: Talking About Love
- ... What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, She s allergic to bees, Mel said. If I m not praying she ll get married again, I m praying she ll get herself stung to death by a swarm of fucking bees (444). Clearly whatever love Mel once felt for his ex-wife has evaporated. Terri also suffered through a bad relationship at the hands of an abusive man named Ed ... a teenage drunk driver who was killed in the accident. The old couple survived, but just barely. Carver intends the couple to represent our traditional conception of love lifetime monogamy a love that lasts until death do us part. What troubles Mel about the love between this old couple is that the husband is upset not so much because he and his wife are badly injured, but because his face is ...
- 5519: Bone
- ... do this erratically. It is more of a flashback from a chosen point in a linear manner from the chosen point. She also uses time to answer or clarify reasons why Ona jumped to her death. It is like any tragedy that occurs. First, the people involved are shocked and this usually ends up leading to analyzing the past in search of reasons why tragedy struck, how it could have been ... may have caused this to happen. Even more so, time is used as an introspective of Leila. The events that took place are equally responsible for Leila’s present life as they are Ona’s death. Leila’s last comment states it well. “Like the old timer’s photos, Leon’s papers and Grandpa Leong’s lost bones, it reminded me to look back, to remember. I was reassured. I knew ...
- 5520: Charles Dickens 5
- ... country in the throes of the Industrial Revolution and his compassion for the lower class, especially the children. Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short storys and articles before his death in 1870. The inscription on his tombstone in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey reads: He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world. The storys, characters, and places he wrote about will live forever. Dickens 1842 On January 3, 1842 Charles Dickens sailed from Liverpool on the ...
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