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- 1751: All Quiet On The Western Front
- All quiet on the western front, by erich maria remarque, shows some very powerful views toward the Great War. The main character , Paul Baumer, goes through an incredible metamorphsis from an innocent dreamer to a hardened and somewhat cynical veteran. Paul's views started out as being slightly against the war, but not ... seem to mind staying at base camp and hanging out iwth his friends very much. However, after some time fighting the war, he comes to realize that most pre-war society doesn't understand the Great War for what it was. They don't understand the suffering and misery that went witgh wars, and especially trench warfare like that in the Great War. paul disassociates himself from his parents, old school firends, and even religions because they remind him of his pre-enlistmentdays, when he was one of the innocents who iddn't realize what the ...
- 1752: The Republic
- ... we are dependent on others. The fact is that the greatest crimes are caused by excess and not by necessity. Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold; and hence great is the honor bestowed, not on him who kills a thief, but on him who kills a tyrant. Thus we see that the institutions of Phaleas avail only against petty crimes. He then goes on ... two households: and why, in this case, should there be any division, for they might find food themselves and give to the warriors from the same land and the same lots? There is surely a great confusion in all this. In all governments two points have to be considered: first, whether any particular law is good or bad, when compared with the perfect state; secondly, whether it is or is not ... chosen, not as they are now, but with regard to their personal life and conduct. The legislator himself obviously did not suppose that he could make them really good men; at least he shows a great distrust of their virtue. For this reason the Spartans used to join enemies with them in the same embassy, and the quarrels between the kings were held to be conservative of the state. Once ...
- 1753: Atticus Finch In To Kill A Moc
- Atticus Finch was a great man in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. He was a great father of two children, Jem and Scout. He defended a man named Tom Robinson in a trial. He also was a strong Christian. This shows he is a good father, Christian and lawyer. While he ... Scout asks him if they are wealthy. Atticus simply states that the family is not wealthy. This shows he wants his children to know what is going on. Another reason Atticus shows he is a great father is he is a good role model for his children. Atticus shows this when he can walk away from tough situations. Such as when Mr. Ewell spit in his face. he remains very ...
- 1754: Remains Of The Day By Kazuo Is
- ... Remains of the Day is about the struggles one man, Mr. Stevens, has with relationships with his father, Miss Kenton and his employer, but the struggle he focuses on the most is to be a great butler. He pushes himself physically to work as hard as he can, as well as mentally to determine what makes a butler great. Stevens sacrifices all normal human encounters with those around him in order to be an emotionless person. When one encounters them, one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness (44). Stevens, through many trials, proves himself to be a great butler. Stevens possesses the emotional restraint which only the English race are capable of (43). When his father takes ill during a major dinner party, Stevens remains calm and goes on with his duties. ...
- 1755: Boeing 700
- ... have become the backbone of many airlines, in that they handle more people and cargo than any of their other planes. 747 not only provides a highly efficient people mover it has also been a great improvement of cargo transportation. Some modified 747 have a large upward swinging door at the nose of the plane. This door allows for great ease in loading large cargo items. Boeing also offered the option of a side panel door for loading. This was mainly used in the Combi 747; they were 747 they would transport people and cargo ... the same time. The 747 also serve several roles in the Military. Most notably is in the application of presidential transportation as Air Force One. The 747 replace the 707 as Air Force One with great pride. With the increase in room and luxury the President hasnt had a better ride since. The 747 also found itself the solution to a rather large problem that is of the transportation ...
- 1756: Aristotle
- ... Plato's death he left Athens to conduct philosophical and biological research in Asia Minor and Lesbos, and he was then invited by King Philip II of Macedon to tutor his young son, Alexander the Great. Soon after Alexander succeeded his father, consolidated the conquest of the Greek city-states, and launched the invasion of the Persian Empire. It was in this environment that Aristotle's' views and ideas of politics ... by a fourth: the city-state is a creation of human intelligence. "Therefore, everyone naturally has the impulse for such a [political] community, but the person who first established [it] is the cause of very great benefits." This great benefit may be the laws of the city-state. Aristotle points out that the legal system alone saves them from their own savagery. It's interesting to see that Aristotle's view of nature ...
- 1757: The House of Seven Gables: Symbolism
- The House of Seven Gables: Symbolism American Literature reflects life, and the struggles that we face during our existence. The great authors of our time incorporate life's problems into their literature directly and indirectly. The stories themselves bluntly tell us a story, however, an author also uses symbols to relay to us his message in ... symbol of the house itself. The house itself takes on human like characteristics as it is being described by Hawthorne in the opening chapters. The house is described as "breathing through the spiracles of one great chimney"(Hawthorne 7). Hawthorne uses descriptive lines like this to turn the house into a symbol of the lives that have passed through its halls. The house takes on a persona of a living creature ... oozy, as with the moisture of a heart." (Hawthorne 27). Hawthorne turns the house into a symbol of the collection of all the hearts that were darkened by the house. "It was itself like a great human heart, with a life of its own, and full of rich and somber reminiscences" (Hawthorne 27). Evert Augustus Duyckinck agrees that "The chief perhaps, of the dramatis personae, is the house itself. From ...
- 1758: The Origin Of Basketball And I
- ... mean that the team on defense can have a chance to get the ball back without fouling. It also make the team with the ball have to go back and play defense. It creates a great tension for the players and the fans, and also makes the game more exciting. Basketball is considered to be America s purest sport. It was "Invented in America for Americans" (Anderson, 5). The reason it ... 1895, basketball became popular and many United States colleges adopted it. In 1934 the fist college game was played at New York City s Madison Square Garden ("History"). College play heightened interest in basketball a great deal. By the 1950 s college basketball became a major college sport and created a growing interest as a profession. The first professional league was the National Basketball League, NBL, created in 1898. The main ... NBL. The BAA and the NBL merged to create the National Basketball Association, the NBA (Vancil, 9). This new league has totally changed the way basketball was thought of and it still does. The first great pro team was the Original Celtics of 1915 ("History"). It survived the NBL and dominated the NBA. The Celtics also changed the game into a future. The Celtics proved to be the best team ...
- 1759: Henry David Thoreau
- Why was Henry David Thoreau such a wonderful writer? He had many great qualities, but the most important were his devotion to nature and writing, his desire for independence, and his experiences he encountered throughout his life. Henry David Thoreau looked to nature as the basis of life ... When success did not come, Thoreau remained dedicated to his program of "education" through intimacy with nature, and also through writing that would express this experience. It was his life in nature that was his great theme. In order for Thoreau to write so much on nature he had to be familiar with it. His knowledge of the woods and fields, of the rivers, the ponds, and swamps, of every plant ... records of Thoreau's stay at Walden Pond. Thoreau's love and devotion to nature and his writing was a key to his excellence in writing. Henry David Thoreau also felt that individualism was a great necessity to his writing style. In his piece of literature titled "Civil Disobedience", he expressed his belief in the power and the obligation of the individual to determine right from wrong, independent of the ...
- 1760: The Theme Of Matriarchy In Sou
- ... that women now will have the power that was formerly the exclusive domain of men." This means that women are not "being emancipated as human beings" and the war would then continue and produce a great deal of hatred on both sides. Each group hates the other and fears the attacks of each other. "Even though men pretend otherwise, they nonetheless do fear women." In "Everyday Use," this thinking is put ... to replace the one passed down to her through generations of Johnson women. Walker also portrays the struggle between men and women it the novel, The Color Purple. This novel is based on Walker's great-great-grandmother, who was raped and impregnated at the age of 11 by her master, Walker's great-great grandfather. In the novel, when Celie's mother becomes too ill and too worn out from ...
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