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- 1881: Marine Corps
- ... of the Marines, as well as their first success over seas. In December, now under command of Major Samuel Nicholas, the Marines of now three companies, made their way towards Trenton in hopes of joining Washington in his fight at the Battle of Princeton. In the months to come, the Marines would assist the "American" forces against the English, and finally, gaining the Independence for America on July 4th, 1776. It ...
- 1882: America And The Normandy Invasion
- ... enemy fire. Under these hellish conditions, heroes were produced. Brigadier General Norman D. Cota deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire while walking up and down the beach, rallying his troops to get them moving. Colonel George A. Taylor performed a similar feat in leading an attack against a German machine-gun post while declaring, \\"Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those about to die. Now ...
- 1883: Flaws in Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- ... that Twain seems to ramble on and on and on an..... To me it seems as if the story that he was writing became faint shortly after the time when Huck says, It's me. George Jackson, sir(pg. 95). I do have to give him that the feud was interesting filler, but you can only take so much filler. Then when John Wayne (The Duke) and Elvis (The King) come ...
- 1884: Animal Farm
- ... was born in Bengal in 1903, educated at Eton, and after working for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, returned to Europe and started writing novels and essays for a living under his pen name "George Orwell." He was a political writer of his time, and usually wrote from his intense feelings and fierce hates. He hated government having complete control, and served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil ...
- 1885: A Comparison of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Anthem"
- ... story takes place sometime in the near future after some kind environmental catastrophe that makes it impossible for most women to have children. To solve this problem some radicals set off a nuclear bomb in Washington during a full session of congress and then declare marshal law. They then systematically took all rights away from women and forced the ones that could have children into camps where they would be contracted ...
- 1886: The Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- ... emotional impact and humanized the slave, elevating the him to a level where he could be understood to have thoughts and feeling comparable to any other member of the human race. Using the character of George Harris, Stowe gives flesh to the shallow skeletal views of slave humanity that many Americans held. She also brought to view the inhuman disintegration of families that the institution of slavery perpetuated. Slaves families were ...
- 1887: Black Panther Party
- ... disproving racist ideas held by whites.\\" Some blacks decided to do a little research about themselves and their history. Some famous musicians used phrases such as \\"Free your mind and your ass will follow\\" by George Clinton, and \\"Say it loud, I\\'m Black and I\\'m proud\\" by James Brown, to express themselves in the Black Liberation Movement. Some disapproved of the Black Panther Party\\'s methods. The main person ...
- 1888: The Great Gatsby: Depravation of the American Dream
- ... waste land where only the morally irresponsible can hope to survive. Gatsby' s destruction shows that those who try to maintain an idealism based on purely materialistic values are doomed by their self delusion, and George Wilson's unfortunate career illustrates the fate of the common man in the waste land. There are a few minor characters in The Great Gatsby whose main significance is symbolic. In particular Dan Cody who ...
- 1889: Summary of Wuthering Heights
- ... he would have taken great pleasure in knowing that he created a hellacious time for his victims. Maybe he would have loved knowing that people hated him. In that respect, I think he suffers from George Wallace disease. In closing, Heathcliff had a rough and tumble childhood. He faced many problems when his sweetheart married his half-brother. He plotted revenge on his enemies, cousins and brothers and relative-in-laws ...
- 1890: Martin Luther King Jr
- ... black and poor people a new sense of worth and dignity. Kings speeches stimulated Southerners hearts and minds, and called them to fight for equality. Dr. King's speech at the march on Washington in 1963 (I Have a Dream), his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize, and his final speech in Memphis are among his most famous orations. His words to this day inspire people to people ...
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