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- 2971: Movie: All About Eve
- ... thinking that she was doing good for all concerned. After the play was when things began to fall apart. She received great reviews for the preformance and set up an interview with Addison De Witt (George Sanders), well known for degrating people in his column. She knew she could say whatever she wanted and blame it on De Witt, claiming he changed her words around, and noone would have trouble believing ...
- 2972: The Crucible: The Puritans
- ... accusations. In Act Three, during one of the trials, Danforth states, “Mr. Putnam, I have here an accusation by Mr. Corey against you. He states that you coldly prompted your daughter to cry witchery upon George Jacobs that is now in jail.” (96) Putnam denied the charge, and Danforth asked what proof Giles Corey had for this charge. Giles responded, “My proof is there! If Jacobs hangs for a witch, he ...
- 2973: Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire: A Reaction, Assessment of Literary Value, Biography of the
- ... year at his grandparent's home in Memphis. In July of that year was the first production of his play Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay! by the Memphis Garden Players. In 1936 and 1937, Williams Enrolled in Washington University, where he wrote poetry and produced several plays, then transferred to the University of Iowa. In 1938, he received a degree in English from Iowa. From 1939 to 1943 Williams lived briefly in a ...
- 2974: Saint Joan's Tragic Flaw: The Epilogue
- Saint Joan's Tragic Flaw: The Epilogue Saint Joan is considered to be one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest works. In the play, Shaw avoids many problems identified by critics as prevalent in some of his other writing. Some have criticized Shaw, claiming that he tends to portray unrealistic archetypal ...
- 2975: Crazy Horse
- ... by the government tryingto prove this, they found that the Indians were actually claimingless (Ambrose 359). In 1876, the agencies were taken from the churches and givento the army to control. This was petitioned to Washington with statements that soldiers were obnoxious and their dislike forIndians was very obvious. Also the army was corrupting theIndians by introducing and encouraging alcohol and gambling. Thepetition also stated that all the agency troubles had ...
- 2976: David Hume
- David Hume, a Scottish philosopher and historian who lived from 1711-76, carried the empiricism of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism. Although his family wanted him to become a lawyer, he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University where he ...
- 2977: Davy Crockett
- ... has been since 1806. His rifle "Betsy", presented by the Whigs of Philadelphia in 1834, is at Nashville, Tennessee. The tomahawk, or hatchet, presented in 1834 with a rifle, is in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. In March, 1836, Davy Crockett, with 139 others, was massacred at the Alamo. Usually, in battles, someone is left to tell the story, but the Alamo had no one. One hundred and eighty ...
- 2978: Slavery and The South
- ... Buchanan believed the Constitution did not allow the North to take any action against the South. An effort was made on February 4th by the Virginia Legislature who called a conference of the states at Washington D.C. Representatives were sent from 7 slave and 14 free states. An amendment was passed saying Congress could never interfere with slavery in the states. But it was not ratified by the necessary number ...
- 2979: The Sea Dogs... Puppets in a Political War
- ... naval amateurs, compared with the trained professional sea dogs.” Drake alone was responsible for over 150 attempted or successful attacks on Spanish treasure ships (Howarth 105). Drake also accomplished something that only a select few (George Bush) are able to do: he was knighted. One reason many believe he was knighted though was not because of heroics, but because, “...a fair share of the immense booty he brought back to England ...
- 2980: Othello: Roles of Cassio, Roderigo, and Brabantio, and their functions
- ... Roderigo. Roderigo is a foolish, cheated, gulled, dimwit. Basically, his function in the play is to act as a lackey towards Iago. His obedience towards Iago can be compared to that of Lennie Small towards George Milton in the book Of Mice and Men, By John Steinbeck. He does whatever Iago tells him to do, consistently in the hope of obtaining Desdemona's love. He never realizes that his chances for ...
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