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- 10611: Decision Of The Bomb: Drop It Or Not?
- ... and all that remained was an invasion of Japan. The United States realized that the Japanese wouldn't surrender easily. They would fight to the very end. The loss of American lives would be too great to afford, thus being compelled to use the bomb. Also, the development of the atomic bomb cost 2,000,000 dollars. This was too large of a financial investment to waste in not using the ...
- 10612: Passing By Nella Larsen
- ... York City. More African-American writers and poets were published during this period in the United States than ever before. Not only were African-American writers being published more, but they were also getting a great deal of recognition for their work. The body of work characteristic of this time period showed a heightened sense of racial consciousness. African-American writers during this time were not only seeking to counteract racial ...
- 10613: The Yeti
- ... is on the verge of becoming extinct because fewer sightings are being reported. There have been numerous expeditions to the Himalayan Mountains aimed at either capturing or photographing it. All attempts have failed but a great deal of fact and fiction about the legend did turn up. The main evidence of its existance is footprints, sightings, and scalps or hair. Sir Edmund Hillary believed the first footprints were found in the ...
- 10614: The International Space Station
- ... Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The International Space Station my appear on the surface to be an international attempt at cooperation, and an effort of mankind as a whole to work together to discover the great mysteries and potentialities of space research and travel. As with most scientific research projects under capitalism, the ISS is complete with national rivalries and the calculations of private profit. It is an open secret that ...
- 10615: To Kill A Mockingbird: Symbolism In The Title, Names and Objects
- ... ladies in Maycomb includin’ my wife’d be knocking on his door bringing angel food cakes. To my way of thinkin’, Mr. Finch, taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight—to me, that’s a sin. It’s a sin and I’m not about to have it on my head. If it ways ...
- 10616: Robinson Crusoe
- ... his way back a current started to pull him away from the place were he had landed. It was a creek. It pulled him to a perfect spot to unload his stuff. Crusoe found a great place to build a fort were he could see if any ships came and to protect him from any other sorts wild of beasts. Soon he learned that he should keep a calendar. He stood ...
- 10617: The World as Will and Idea and Young Goodman Brown: Symbols
- ... of mind and any sensory or extra sensory experiences. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was well known for his masterly use of symbols to evoke the 'power or darkness'. Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville two great writers who also base most of their works on the use of symbolism and imagery praised his work. In Young Goodman Brown (1864), Brown a young Puritan, leaves Faith, his wife for a nighttime journey ...
- 10618: Maroons
- ... were twelve slave rebellions during the eighteenth century in Jamaica; one in 1760 spread to several estates, and sixty Europeans and four hundred Negroes were killed before order was restored. Even so, there was no great retaliation on the part of the slaves when it is recalled that they greatly outnumbered the Europeans on all estates and in all islands. It can only be concluded that the system of arbitrary discipline ...
- 10619: Rudyard Kiplings Kim
- ... friendship with Mahbub Ali for whom he "executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops," his travels with the holy Lama, and interaction with the natives during his travels. Mahbub Ali initiates Kim into the "great game" of the secret service. The spiritual Lama provides him with a sense of maturity and introduces him to new ideas and aspirations. And Kim's own curiosity for learning, his keen sense of observation ...
- 10620: Scarlet Letter
- By: Candy Nathaniel Hawthorne was a great American writer in his time. He saw problems in the government and the ways people lived their lives that were beyond his years. The Scarlet Letter was one of his greatest literary works, telling the ...
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