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- 1511: John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor
- ... with the general principles of sailing. His vessels were to be free of clutter at all times and the decks were to be constantly scrubbed. Jones also stressed that supplies were to be treated with great attention. Jones wanted the powder kegs constantly turned to ensure its effectiveness and the guns were to be cleaned after every use to ensure true shots. It was always certain that his ship would have ... continued onto the early morning with confidence that his tactics and knowledge of the sea would prove to be no match for the Milford. When the morning sunrise illuminated the horizon, the Milford was in great dismay to see that the only vessel in view was the flag ship Alfred. The stratagem used thus far had proved to be eminently successful. With each account his tactics proved successful, Jones became more ... each vessel he captured or sank. The British took notice of the threat of John Paul Jones especially after the capture of the Serapis. The battle at Flamborough Head turned John Paul Jones into a great naval hero. The victory of the Bonhomme Richard was due to Jones's strategic superiority and his desire to never give up. Jones was bold and intrepid. During the battle, Captain Pearson of the ...
- 1512: Jack Kerouac-On The Road
- Jack Kerouac's 'Great American' Novel, On the Road "…because the only people for me as the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same ... And Jack Kerouac was there to see it all and tell about it in splendorous detail. Truly Jack Kerouac was a mindful literary genius and his novel On The Road published in 1957 is a great American novel that all citizens should take the time to read. On The Road begins with Sal Paradise, a beatnik traveler looking for something more in his life than the tedious life he lives, and his hero Dean Moriarty, a true representative of beat life in America and a mad man. Sal desires meaning for his pointless life so he begins a great American journey looking for everything and nothing, following in the footsteps of Dean and his friend Carlo Marx. Instead of making use of the money he has earned he takes to the road on ...
- 1513: Robert E. Lee
- ... S. Grant. Robert Edward Lee was born to parents, Henry Lee of Leesylvania, and mother Ann Hill Carter of Shirley, in Stratford Hall near Montross, Virginia, on January 19, 1807. He grew up with a great love for country living and his state, which would be instilled in him for the rest of his life. He was a very serious boy and spent many hours in his father's library reading ... months at Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island, Georgia. In 1831 the army transferred Lee to Fort Monroe, Virginia, as assistant engineer. While he was stationed there, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis, Martha Washington's great-granddaughter. They lived in her family home in Arlington on a hill overlooking Washington D. C.. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington ... Early in the war, Lee supervised the construction of bridges for Wool's march toward the Mexican border. He then did excellent work on scouting trips. Lee later was helping General Winfield Scott plan a great battle. The Army was about to attack Vera Cruz, a large Mexican town on the sea. Soldiers fired huge guns at the walls of Vera Cruz. One of the men at the guns happened ...
- 1514: Geroffrey Chaucer
- ... serving royalty in which he undertook multiply positions that allowed him to engage with various people of difference statuses has greatly swayed his writings. Furthermore, Chaucer himself and the success of this works have placed great influence on the English language. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in Vintry Ward, London around 1343.1 He was the son of Agnes de Copton and John Chaucer, a prosperous wine merchant. The name, from chaussier ... the use of arms.2 Those days must have been lively days for the young page, for old records show that the countess and her household were constantly on the move from one palace or great mansion to another. 1 Two years later Chaucer was with a European army that Edward III led into France during the Hundred Years' War. He was taken prisoner by the French but was soon ransomed ... had bought from his own father.3 On trips to the continent he mingled with men of high estate who directed national and international affairs.2 In Italy was where he may have met his great literary friends Petrarch and Boccaccio. While at home he knew the poet John Gower.1 As a page, and later as a courtier, Chaucer became acquainted with the nobility and with royalty. His wife ...
- 1515: Early Western Civilization, Egyptian tomb
- ... Weeks and his friends have seen, along with thousands of artifacts such as beads, fragments of jars that were used to store the organs of the deceased, and mummified body parts which tell historians a great amount about ancient Egypt during the reign of its most important king. "Egyptians do not call him Ramesses II," Sabry Abd El Aziz, director of antiquities for the Qurna region said. " We call him Ramesses al-Akbar which means Ramesses the Great." During his 67 years on the throne stretching from 1279 B.C. to 1212 B. C., Ramesses could have filled an ancient edition of the Guinness Book of Records all by himself: he built more ... any other pharaoh in history. He presided over an empire that stretched from present-day Libya to Iraq in the east, as far north as Turkey and southward into the Sudan. Today, historians know a great deal about Ramesses and the customs of his day. However, the newly explored tomb suddenly presents scholars with all sort of puzzles to ponder. For one thing, many of the tombs in the Valley ...
- 1516: The Crucible 3
- ... their life. The witchcraft hysteria changed all of that, and people began to voice their accusations, clearly, with an air of contempt, but also of justice. It is this event that allows not only the great social diversity of America, but also cuts down on corruption for fear of being exposed to the public. The negative aspect of these events caused for many innocent people s reputations to be ruined when the press jumps on a conclusion without conclusive evidence. Also, it accounts for the severe invasion of privacy that has been implemented to discover the faults of America. Both these impacts are great in their own regard, and could be regarded as an significant tradeoff. It is interesting when one considers then common bonds between America today and Salem in the late 1600 s. The bonds are there, and one cannot help wondering how far the metaphor goes. That is, Salem was destroyed by the hysteria of the witchcraft hysteria, its society crumbled under the great implications of their actions. Are we going to crumble as well, is our society doomed to destroy itself when it realizes it has made the wrong decision. But when one carefully considers this option, ...
- 1517: Red Badge Of Courage-henry Fle
- ... himself. Being a young man from a small house in New York, all that Henry Fleming new about war is what he imagined it to be in his head. He perceived war to be a great struggle between two opposing forces fighting for their own beliefs(Ch.1 ). He believed that he would make a difference in battle and would have a direct impact on the outcome of battle. When Henry ... panicked and begins to think they are leaving him to fight the battle alone. This causes Henry to start running disillusioned and without direction. At this point Henry still has feels that war is a great heroic epic and is in great shame that he had run from battle so cowardly. Henry begins to rationalize his decision by throwing a pine cone at a squirrel in the forest; the squirrel runs away. Henry views this as ...
- 1518: Slaughterhouse Five - Humankin
- Nick's Reality In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character Nick Carraway has a view of reality like many people in today's society. Nick is the type of person who is both unrealistic and ... is real; an actual thing, situation, or event. One cannot know what someone else's reality is until you know that person very well or you read about their life story somewhere. Reality in The Great Gatsby was to fulfill "The American Dream" by one thinking they are better then the others; with the concept of having fame, wealth, and being good looking. Reality is that you cannot be happy without ... themselves because they are afraid to accept the truth. Nick realized that he had a problem with humankind through realizing what humans are really like, especially through Gatsby. Nick's reality in the novel The Great Gatsby is that he thinks he is not like the other character's because he is educated, not involved with a married women like Gatsby, he earned his money the honest way and not ...
- 1519: The Preponderant Lysistrata
- ... Acropolis, then the threat that the “abhorred sluts will be burnt to charcoal” (710, 333) would have really happened like the men tried to accomplish in the play. In conclusion, this play would be a great production, even though Christopher Rawson, a drama critic from the Online Post-Gazette, believes the production is in “[b]ad [t]aste - irreverent, bawdy, and excessive” (“Stage Review,” p1). Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is a great example of on-going dialogue. The play would be a great comedy in Aristophanes’ day because of the role of women and their non-existent political power. The play would also be great in modern times because of the role of women and their existent ...
- 1520: Heart Of Darkness
- ... heads on fence posts as symbols. Marlow believes that the wilderness "whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude -- and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating" (p.138). Without the constraints of society, Kurtz is able to fulfill his inner desires and go beyond any restraints that he may have had before. In ... time, as he struggles between the greatness that he had possessed, and the emptiness of a soul tempted by evil. When first talking to Marlow, Kurtz tells him that he was "on the threshold of great things" (p.148). As they travel through the wilderness to leave the station that destroyed Kurtz, Marlow comments, "Oh he struggled! he struggled! The wastes of his weary brain were haunted by shadowy images now ... greatness. His last words had "the appalling face of a glimpsed truth -- the strange commingling of desire and hate" (p.155). "The horror" that Kurtz labels is the struggle between good and evil that a great man experienced when faced with human nature in its purest form, without society’s constraints. After Kurtz's death, Marlow takes with him the knowledge of human nature that he gains from him. He ...
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