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- 10431: Romantic Sonnet
- ... focus on the present and the commonality of all humans, it is of perfect sense that the institution of slavery be reflected upon in some works from the period. Among others, William Cowper wrote with great sentiment regarding the injustice of slavery. In his "On Slavery (Book II)," Cowper gives his personal feelings regarding slavery and condition of human nature that could cause such a wrong. Like many poets of the ...
- 10432: Ring World
- ... the Ringworld, from floating castles, to deadly sunflowers, a priest, a meteorite hole, Nessus losing one of his two heads, and much more excitement, they finally “slingshot” themselves off the Ringworld. This book has a great plot, and some very intricate subplots, all around very good book!
- 10433: Capital Punishment
- ... Hitler’s Europe. With the beaches cleared and the men on land the U.S. and the Allies finally had a foothold to win the war and bring Hitler from power. Getting inland was a great victory for the U.S. and the Allies, and the beginning of Hitler’s road to defeat. After many more months of fighting the U.S. and its Allies would have ultimate victory. Hitler committed ...
- 10434: Dunny Takes The Fifth
- ... Mary Dempster, and Boy Staunton because he altered their lives without it ever being distinctly for the better or worse. Dunstan Ramsay was the "fifth business" in the life of Paul Dempster. Dunstan had a great deal of impact on the life of Paul even before his birth, at the simple toss of a snowball. If Dunstan wouldn't have had the instinct to move out of the path of the ...
- 10435: The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop: Gone Fishin'
- ... help the reader visualize the action. Bishop's use of imagery, narration, and tone allow the reader to visualize the fish and create a bond with him, a bond in which the reader has a great deal of admiration for the fish's plight. The mental pictures created are, in fact, so brilliant that the reader believes incident actually happened to a real person, thus building respect from the reader to ...
- 10436: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... they’re oppressed, the black community still has a sense of pride. Their church is called First Purchase because it was paid for with the first earnings of freed slaves. This shows the black’s great devotion to their religion. Also, despite all of its problems, First Purchase is actually the only church in Maycomb County with a bell and steeple. A strong sense of pride in their community is demonstrated ...
- 10437: Wagoner's Tumbleweed: An Analysis
- ... They are prisoners of their surroundings, helpless. “Like a riddled prisoner.” The words riddled prisoner are used to give us a powerful, painful, picture of the lost and hopeless feeling of the poet. He feels great pain at his situation, feels that there is no way out. He is hanging there on the fence, exposed for everyone to see. In the second stanza, the poet continues to use metaphors for his ...
- 10438: Chechnya
- ... adhere to any of the fundamentalist Islamic rules. Smoking and drinking is commonplace among men, and virtually no women comply with the "covering your head" requirement (Fielding). For a group of people who spend a great deal of energy appealing to their God "Allah", it seems odd that they ignore basic rules of the Muslim religion. Obviously this contradiction did not affect the Chechens, because they still relentlessly persevered to achieve ...
- 10439: The Personification and Criticism of Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."
- ... death itself. Donne's personification of death begins in line two where he says that some people have called death "Mighty and dreadful"(l 2). The quality of being powerful and the ability to cause great fear, basic definitions taken from Random House's 1962 The American College Dictionary, are undeniably human traits and Donne uses these traits to portray death as a formidable foe. "With an impudence that is characteristically ...
- 10440: Cuba And Embargo
- ... treatment chemicals and spare-parts for the islands water supply system. This leads to unsafe drinking water therefore causing rising mortality rates from water-borne diseases. (American Association for World Health) Many foreign investors see great opportunities in the Cuban trade market, because of the end of Soviet aid and decades of the U.S. trade embargo. For example, Canadian businesses are benefiting from the lack of competition from the United ...
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