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- 391: The Petersburg Campaign
- ... a siege and then it will be a mere question of time." -Robert E. Lee Grant in Command On February 29, 1864, Grant was given the rank of Lieutenant General (a rank last held by George Washington), and appointed to General-in-Chief of the Army. The reputation he had gained in the West had boosted morale in Washington, where the news from their theater was not always encouraging. Now that he was put in charge of the entire Union effort, morale soared on the home front. However popular Grant was with the ...
- 392: Cuban Missle Crisis
- ... military ships (for fear of being discovered) the Soviets used civilian vessels. However, even with this caution, their actions were detected. As the US monitored the suddenly increased shipping activity to Cuba, rumors started in Washington. On August 10, John McCone, director of the CIA, sent the President a letter stating his belief that the Soviets were placing MRBMs in Cuba. On August 29, a U-2 on a reconnaissance flight ... scheduled two meetings for that morning. At the first one, he looked over the photos. The missiles he saw had a range of 1,100 miles and could hit major US cities including New York, Washington DC, and Philadelphia. At the time, the missiles were not yet operational, nor did they have nuclear warheads, but they soon would. At the second meeting, Kennedy hand-picked a group of his twelve most ... Chairman of the JCS, General Maxwell Taylor; Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, McGeorge Bundy; Secretary of the Treasury, Douglas Dillon; CIA Director, John McCone; Attorney General, Robert Kennedy; Undersecretary of State, George Ball; Special Counsel, Theodore Sorensen; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell Gilpatric; and Soviet Specialist, Llewellyn Thompson. (Fursenko 223-224) In that meeting, Secretary Of Defense Robert McNamara outlined three possible courses of action the ...
- 393: Of Mice and Men: A Review
- Of Mice and Men: A Review Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a realistic novel that depicts the life of two common men over a period of three days. The two main characters, George and Lennie, are practically opposites in terms of disposition and appearance. The author seems to have a variety of themes in the story including loneliness, relationships, and dreams. John Steinbeck uses a wide variety of ... of Lennie. Steinbeck spends a great deal of time illustrating the relationship between Candy and his dog. They have been together for many years and they keep each other company in the same manner that George and Lennie do. This makes these three men very different from the rest of the ranch workers who are primarily loners. When Carlson shoots Candy's dog in the back of the head, Candy loses his companion, which makes it evident that something similar will happen to George. Lennie is like Candy's dog. He is even described by Steinbeck with animal-like qualities. His hands are described as "paws" and he drinks water like a "horse". Lennie's passion for animals ...
- 394: Animal Farm By George Orwell
- All of the characters in Animal farm have counterparts in real life. This book was based on the Russian Revolution, and all the important populace of the revolution are symbolized. Some of the animals represent individuals in the ...
- 395: Animal Farm Compare And Contra
- An English writer by the name of George Orwell published a book in 1943, called Animal Farm. In the eyes of Mr. Orwell, the sole purpose of the book was to expose the Soviet myth of Russia s acclaimed socialist utopia in a ... Russian Revolution of 1917 and the events that followed shortly after. In order for the reader to be able to get a firm grasp on the conditions in Russia before, during and after the revolution, George Orwell took great care in ensuring that the all the characters in the book could easily be identified with their Russian revolution counterpart. While reading the book, one should easily be able tell the parallel personality for each character because of George Orwell s very accurate descriptions of the characters. As a result, a great deal of characterization is visible in most parts of the book, as he is constantly building upon the characters. The movie ...
- 396: Booker T. Washington 3
- Frank Zappa have lived a eventful life. He has been in numerous groups and produced 8 times as many records. Frank was the one of 3 children (Carl, Candy, & Bobby) born in Baltimore, Maryland. Frank was a curious ...
- 397: US Generals Of WWII
- ... of our U.S. Generals. They provided the smarts, the morale, and motivation for our soldiers, navy, and airforce to come out victorious and recognized as the best in world history. The five major generals (George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Omar Bradley, and Douglas MacArthur) shall never be forgotten as the best generals America has ever had. General George C. Marshall was Army Chief of Staff during World War II. General Marshall planned some important strategies against the Japanese. He was born on December 31, 1880, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and was educated at ...
- 398: Animal Farm: Political Issues
- Animal Farm: Political Issues Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his psuedonym George Orwell, is an English author commonly known to write about political issues. Orwell has been highly acclaimed and criticized for his novels, including one of his most famous, Animal Farm. In a satirical form, George Orwell uses personified farm animals to express his views on stalinism in the novel Animal Farm. Throughout Orwell's early novels, democratic socialism kept the author from total despair of all humans(Greenblatt 104). After ... happened to animals(Gardner 107). We look from the oppressed animals in the book to the oppressed human beings outside and back again, and can see no difference (Gardner 107). Work Cited DISCovering Gardner, Averil. George Orwell. Boston, G.K. Hall and Co.: 1987. Meyers, Valerie. Modern Novelists George Orwell. St. Martin's Press: New York, 1991. Orwell, George. Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1946. Schorer, Mark. " ...
- 399: ... alienation, depending on context. Writers perhaps understand this more readily than mainstream critics, who do not always distinguish between characters and personages. Wells had the new language off from the start." (Aldiss Trillion 117) Herbert George Wells was born in the suburbs of London in a place called Bromley. After failed attempts at being a tailor's and chemist's apprentice he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science ...
- 400: ... scare or warn Billy away from himself but unfortunately Billy is unable to interpret the metaphors. Captain Vere is the authority of the ship, however he has superior officers: By authority of his Gracious Majesty George Rex and Alan Napier, Viscount Kelsey, First Sea Lord(pg 69) The above quote shows the supreme authority figures. Vere is a man who believes in rules, regulations, and procedure. In his opinion, everything must ...
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