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- 1181: Battle At Trafalgar
- ... On October 21,1805 Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson of the English Royal Navy, with twenty-seven ships of the line crushed the combined forces of the French and Spanish fleets. Had the outcome of this great battle been different, Napoleon may have realized his dream of ruling an empire that never saw the setting sun. The purpose of this paper is to explain the events that led to this great battle, to discuss the ships of the line, and the men who worked them. It will also expose the lack of commitment the French had in regards to naval warfare. Bonaparte wanted to rule the ... opportunity to put the plan of crossing the English Channel into place. Napoleon's plan was to build a fleet of landing craft, flat bottom boats, powered by sail and oar that could outmaneuver the great English Men of war. The person Napoleon appointed to direct the building of the fleet was Admiral Denis Decres. Decres, in turn, appointed a Flemish engineer, Pierre Forfait, to see to the construction of ...
- 1182: T.S Eliot's View on Aesthetic Values
- ... Eliot has a firm view on aesthetic values. He relies heavily on the father tongues of Greek and Latin that was known by those who could read in the Middle Ages as well as the great writers of his time. According to Eliot people with knowledge in this father tongue were the educated as well as the upper class. Also it was mostly men that were familiar with the father tongue ... because women did not gain the privilege to be educated until modern times. Any women who did have knowledge in the father tongue had to do so secretly. Eliot also predetermines that we know the great writers of his time at that were are familiar with English literary tradition. In the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent, Eliot says, "
the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his ... feeling that the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order." He mostly talks to the educated male and beauty for him is found in these great writers of his time. He also say's, " In a peculiar sense he will be aware also that he must inevitably be judged by the standards of the past. I say judged, not amputated, ...
- 1183: Continental Congress
- ... over them and the other states all agreed on it. It is evident in Document B that after the Articles of Confederation had been passed, from 1784 and beyond; the gross income from exports to Great Britain had plummeted while the population of the United States continued to rise. By the late 1780s, the states had fallen behind nearly 80 percent in providing the funds that Congress requested to operate ... to repay the army within a reasonable amount of time. This basically hinted that that the states were unwilling to pay the army. In Document D, John Jay instructed the United States Minister to tell Great Britain to move out of the western territories, also known as the land beyond the Ohio River Valley. By telling the United States Minister to get Great Britain to move out, shows that the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was ineffective and that The United States had troubles getting Britain to move out. The inability of the government (Document G) led ...
- 1184: Little Irish Kids, Another Whi
- In Jonathan Swift s essay, A Modest Proposal , Swift proposes that the poor should eat their own starving children during a great a famine in Ireland. What would draw Swift into writing to such lengths. When times get hard in Ireland, Swift states that the children would make great meals. The key factor to Swift s essay that the reader must see that Swift is not literally ordering the poor to cannibalize. Swift acknowledges the fact of the scarcity of food and empathizes with ... or even more blame on Ireland s food problems than the poor ever have. Swift intelligently uses his common sense logic in a strange way to convey his feelings about this predicament. Swift goes to great lengths to intelligently show these feelings. The ways at which Swift camouflages his ideas and thoughts throughout this essay brought many readers at the time to think that he actually wanted Ireland to revert ...
- 1185: Macbeth: His Downfall Was Due to His Ambition for Power
- ... Ambition for Power In the Shakespearean novel Macbeth, the protagonist Macbeth is caught in a down spiral induced by his ambition which in the end, was the cause of his tragic end. Macbeth, once a great hero falls victim of his ambition for power. Although the protagonist initially tries to resist his human urge, he in the end committed crime his country, his friends, and sadly himself. Macbeth's first great crime was the crime against his country. In the beginning, Macbeth was described by his fellow noblemen as a great, loyal soldier, giving all he has for his country. Soon, it becomes evident when the witches foretells Macbeth future: "All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter" (I. iii. 53) that Macbeth will be ...
- 1186: The American Dream, And All It
- ... of rebirth characterised by the founding of the "American Dream" -- the belief that anyone can, and should, achieve material success. The defining writer of the 1920s was F. Scott Fitzgerald whose most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, has become required reading for present-day high school students. We study Fitzgerald's novel for the same reason we study Shakespeare. The literature composed by both authors contains themes and morals that continue ... In his novel, Fitzgerald criticises the American Dream by describing its negative characteristics: class struggles between the rich and the poor, the carelessness of the rich, and the false relationship between money and happiness. The Great Gatsby ... describes the failure of the American dream, from the point of view that American political ideals conflict with the actual social conditions that exist. For whereas American democracy is based on the idea of ... happiness found in material wealth. A novel is considered to be good literature not because of the visual impact it makes, but because of the impact of its themes. The American Dream critiqued in The Great Gatsby still prevails today as the basis for a successful nation. Thus, while the 1920s background makes the novel more interesting and certainly more relevant to Fitzgerald's audience, it is true that the ...
- 1187: King Lear 3
- ... but also throughout his kingdom. He had total faith in his three daughters to follow in his footsteps and take part in controlling their own sections of his kingdom. Who would ever think that a great king such as Lear would have the drastic circumstance of losing his three daughters? Were their deaths really his fault when he requested to have Cordelia banished since she would not profess her love to ... almost call it fate in a way since the most common term for uncontrollable destiny is known as that. Fate could also be seen in a negative aspect, like this episode here in which a great man loses everything he has worked for. Your destiny is not anything you can just read in a book and find out so you know how to conduct your life. Your life is a risk ... daughter should, no more or no less. Did Lear know that? If he did do you think he would have made this drastic decision that cost his three daughters their lives? King Lear was a great tragedy that basically teaches a lesson that circumstances happen beyond your control. When you live your life, you take risks everyday and every time you make a decision. The whole trick is the mystery ...
- 1188: Oskar Schindler - A Saint in Disguise?
- ... you too will appreciate the fact that an ordinary man can do extraordinary things. Oskar Schindler is a hero to over 6,000 Jews currently living across the United States and Europe. Schindler is a great example of loving one's neighbor. The people who Schindler saved made his morals a part of their life, also. Schindler motivated the Jews to be the best they could possible be. Oskar was once ... of courtship, they were married. Sadly, after only a few months of marriage, Schindler began to heavily abuse alcohol. He also had several affairs resulting in two children out of wedlock. In 1929, during the Great Depression, the Schindler family business went bankrupt. At this time, Schindler's father left his mother, and she died soon after. The picture being painted of Schindler is not exactly one of high class and ...
- 1189: Hamlet: Notes
- ... is in a destructed state seeing his father's death and also in grief for his mother quick remarriage. 9. Hamlet's soliloquy. His tone is grievous and angered. He is in a state of depression. It is produced slowly in throughout the play. He also revels that he would like to disappear from the earth. He rails against the sudden death of his father and calls his mother's quick ... high position in court. Hamlet tells Polonius to keep Ophelia out of court. Now Polonius is more then convinced that 'love sickeness' is the couse of Hamlet's behavior. I like Hamlet because he shows great respect for Polonius, but at thesame time he has to work with his madness inorder to avenge his father's death. 27. Hamlet baits Claudius trough Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the way that he assumes ... suicide. But Hamlet points out that the problem with suicide is man's fear of oblivion. 31. The "Nummery" scene Hamlet during the " To be, or not to be" soliloquy shows that he has a great honlrable mind. Towords Ophelia he was good, but in this scene he suddenly changes, Hamlet is being devastingly cruel, even though he feigns madness. He probably knows tha he has been set up. it ...
- 1190: Skeptical Views On Noahs Ark
- ... shore and dry land beyond the horizon. Deep water in the Persian Gulf for more than a year is consistent with a local river flood. According to Genesis 7:11, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up. The great deep refers to oceanic depths and underground reservoirs. Presumably, the ocean basins were fractured and uplifted sufficiently to pour water over the continents. This continued for five months. Such vast and prolonged geologic upheavals in ... all if Noah s intent was to escape a local flood. How much more sensible it would have been for Noah to move to an area that would be unaffected by the local flood. The great numbers of animals could have moved out also. The entire story borders on the ridiculous if the flood was confined to some section of the Near East. The fact that he built the ark " ...
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