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- 3421: Hedda Gabler
- ... want to know and face the reality that she's pregnant. For her, this would mean she is permanently trapped in her life, with no chance of escaping. Hedda ended up married to her husband George Tesman, because of a lie that she told to him about liking a house that he was writing about, to make him feel better. From there she was trapped, because he was the only man ...
- 3422: Gods Grandeur
- ... as He bore His cross up the hill of Calvary, the pain that would come from being nailed through His hands and feet, and the slow suffocation that would precede His death (Landow, "Typological" 6). George P. Landow acknowledges the significance of Christ’s suffering. He describes one of Hopkins’s "basic and generating conceit": . . . higher beauty and higher victory can come forth only when something . . . is subject to greater pressure ...
- 3423: Tamed Shrews And Twelfth Night
- ... have considered it to be one of his most controversial in his treatment of women. The “taming” of Katherine has been contended as being excessively cruel by many writers and critics of the modern era. George Bernard Shaw himself pressed for its banning during the 19th century (Peralta). The subservience of Katherine has been labeled as barbaric, antiquated, and generally demeaning. The play centers on her and her lack of suitors ...
- 3424: Life Of Shakespeare
- ... he was baptized on April 26. Since it was customary to baptize infants within days of birth, and since Shakespeare died 52 years later on April 23, and--most significantly--since April 23 is St. George's day, the patron saint of England, it has become traditional to assign the birth day of England's most famous poet to April 23. As with most sixteenth century births, the actual day is ...
- 3425: King Lear - Blindness
- ... learned to look with more than just his eyes, he might have avoided this tragedy. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bradley, A.C. "Shakespearean Tragedy", London, 1960 Brooke, N. "Shakespeare: King Lear", London, 1969 Heilmann, R "This Great Stage", Washington, 1960 Shakespeare, W. "King Lear", London, 1994 PHYSICAL AND MENTAL BLINDNESS IN "KING LEAR" RALUCA
- 3426: Government Instructions Includ
- ... Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is an instruction manual for princes and kings. After he wrote The Prince many believed that not following this guide would lead to a king or prince's downfall. King George III of Great Britain did not follow Machiavelli's manual and thus caused the breakdown of his empire. The Prince, is one of the first examinations of politics and science from a purely scientific and ...
- 3427: Grant Scandals
- ... 130 per ounce and sell it at $160 per ounce. They tried o corner the gold market. They went to Grant, who had no understanding of monetary issues, and convinced him to tell Treasury Secretary George Boutwell to stop selling gold. The price rose to $162 per ounce before Grant realized what he was tricked into doing. Grant ordered Boutwell to release $4 million in gold. The price plummeted and ruined ...
- 3428: Harry S. Truman
- ... recovery of war-torn Europe. With many of the region’s nations economically and politically unstable, the United States feared that local communism parties, directed by Moscow, would come to power. On June 5, 1947, George C. Marshall presented at the Harvard commencement exercises the European Recovery Program. Built on the Truman Doctrine, the program provided the economic foundation for the recovery of Europe’s war-shattered nations. Marshall’s speech ...
- 3429: How Many Arguments Does Berkel
- ... this area of Berkeley is ambiguous, and not a simple one to comprehend, especially when just reading Berkeley's published texts. Bibliography The Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, by George Berkeley, Penguin edition Locke and Berkeley, C.B. Martin, D.M. Armstrong Berkeley: an Introduction, Jonathan Dancy
- 3430: History 2
- ... used an example of a spider hanging from its web over a fire to show that at any time you could die and be cast into hell. The other prolific speaker of the time was George Whitefield. He was a fiery speaker, who was said to be able to mesmerize a crowd by saying the word “Mesopotamia.” He would use it at least once in each sermon no matter what the ...
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