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- 3491: Herman Melville
- ... here and there that compel a man to swim for his life. It is so good that one scarcely pardons the writer for not having brooded long over it, so as to make it a great deal better." ("Concerning Herman Melville" http://www.melville.org/others.html) In October 1849 Melville sailed to England to resolve his London publisher's doubts about White-Jacket. He also visited the Continent, kept a ... for the autumn of 1850 the novel first entitled The Whale, finally Moby Dick. The central theme of this novel is the conflict between Captain Ahab, master of the whaler Pequod, and Moby-Dick, a great white whale that once tore off one of Ahab's legs at the knee. Ahab is dedicated to revenge; he drives himself and his crew, which includes Ishmael, the narrator of the story, over the ... of the ship, in Moby Dick. It was Melville's triumph that he endured, recording his vision to the end. After the years of neglect, modern criticism has secured his reputation with that of the great American writers.
- 3492: Bhagavad Gita
- ... Karma. Followers of the Bhagavad Gita believe that building up this 'good' karma will better ones next life after the process of reincarnation. This karma is best compared to as harmony of ones soul. " But great is the man who, free from attachments, and with a mind ruling its powers in harmony, works on the path of Karma Yoga, the path of consecrated action." (17-18) One must have great harmony of the body and especially the soul to become free from attachments and progress towards good Karma. If ones soul contains great harmony then it will create good Karma, which in turn will move ones, soul closer to the supreme after reincarnation. Non-existence can be considered a state of not being. In this sense, the ...
- 3493: Hitler 2
- ... must use legal means to assume power. Released as a result of a general amnesty in December 1924, he rebuilt his party without interference from those whose government he had tried to overthrow. When the Great Depression struck in 1929, he explained it as a Jewish-Communist plot, an explanation accepted by many Germans. Promising a strong Germany, jobs, and national glory, he attracted millions of voters. Nazi representation in the Reichstag ...
- 3494: To Kill A Mockingbird: Coming of Age
- ... she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.(112) Jem and Scout learned that Mrs. Dubose wasn’t just an old, grouchy lady but someone who had a great deal of problems in their lifetime. They learned from this experience that they had the wrong idea about her and they were able to change their views. It takes growth and maturity to be able ... from, that white man is trash.(220) After Atticus’ statement, Jem realizes that the trial was not fair, and he sees how wise and respectful his father is towards all people because he is a great man. Atticus is a major role model for Jem and Scout. Later in the book, Jem, Scout, and Dill go downtown, and they find Atticus reading a book in front of the county jail. They ... his life he disobeyed his father. This refusal reveals how Jem is starting to act more as an adult does and less as a child, much to Scout’s dismay. Even though Atticus had a great impact on their lives, Boo Radley was the one man who gave them not only their childhood adventures but also their lives. Boo was a quiet man according to the children, but the whole ...
- 3495: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... of the wonder and greatness in life can also be used to show to many hardships and painful truths we must endure, such as violence and gory injustices: "Then some one hit the drunkard a great blow alongside the head with a flail and he fell back, and lying on the ground, he looked up at the man who had hit him and then shut his eyes and crossed his hands ... towards humankind. These stories are not uncommon, either. Most of the people fighting against the fascists in this novel have similar stories. It is absolutely horrid to hear these anecdotes in which people tell in great detail how they saw their parents, siblings, cousins, and so on, die is extremely heart wrenching ways. One little girls family was murdered in a particularly gruesome manner. The story goes that the socialists took ... the novel. The only thing that is more desperate than the characters in this novel is the reader, who is in constant doubt that anything will harm our beloved characters. This novel is indeed a great work of art. It is one of Hemingway’s more critically acclaimed and talked about novels. (Howe 66) He uses this natural gift of linguistics to tell a severely long tale that takes place ...
- 3496: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... dramas, comedies and tragedies of maturation--arrest, hospitalization, outcast status--degradation and transcendence. D. Verses conjoin images of practical transformation of self-defeat and social ignominy into conscious illumination via artworks for Eternity, 'Calling the Great Call' of candor and actuality: 'alchemy of the use of the [ellipsis]' (haiku), 'catalogue' (Whitman), a 'relative measure [the meter]" (W.C. Williams), the "vibrating plane" (Cezanne). With this technique Ginsberg was able to "rearrange ... fellow Beat writer Jack Kerouac. With the practice of Dhyana meditation, he hoped to attain a level of heightened consciousness similar to that he experienced during his visions of William Blake. It would take a great deal of study, however, until his Buddhist studies became infused into his work. In the meantime he immersed himself in Classical Greek and Roman poetry, Ezra Pound's translations of Chinese odes, and the works ... Ginsberg sought to understand how Cezanne "juxtaposed planes and made use of what he called 'petite sensation' in such a way as to induce quick flashes of illumination in those looking at his works." "The Great Bathers" utilizes juxtapositioning of bathers in the foreground with a townscape in the background. It was this painting which provided Ginsberg with the "illuminative flash" comparable to his Blake vision. He would now seek ...
- 3497: Malcolm X
- ... sisters who were by now also Muslims, decided to give Islam a try. Under his family's guidance he wrote to the head of the Nation Of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, and was impressed when the great man wrote back to him. From then on Malcolm's life changed completely. Visiting the prison library and reading continuously he discovered the awful truth about the black man in America, how his ancestors had once ruled great civilisations back in Africa and how the whites had taken millions of Africans as slaves to the Americas. He also learnt "Yacub's History", a teaching of Elijah Muhammad's which claimed that the Negro ... s sound advice to blacks to defend themselves against the racist attacks of the Ku Klux Klan earned him a reputation for violence in the press, but his streetwise, no bullshit public speaking made a great impact on young blacks across the States. Where ten years previously only 200 or so Muslims had attended Mr. Muhammad's rallies now audiences topped 10,000, and the message of Black Pride and ...
- 3498: The Presidential Contenders In
- ... was appointed Secretary of State in 1845 by President Polk and in that capacity helped forge the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War. He was appointed by President Polk as minister to Great Britain in 1853. As such, he, along with the American ministers to Spain and France, issued the Ostend Manifesto, which recommended the annexation of Cuba to the United States. This endeared him to southerners, who ... closures. Secretary of the Treasury Cobb had another $4 million in gold coins minted to increase the supply, but the effort was fruitless. [Stampp, pgs 223-4] The industrialized Northeast was hardest hit by the depression and northern manufacturers and bankers naturally blamed southern Democrats. Sectionalism continued to worsen. The Kansas controversy continued to plague the Buchanan administration. He favored the admission of Kansas as a slave state. The territorial government ...
- 3499: Hume
- ... of his own reasoning. Ordinary experience, he claims, can settle the question of God: Look around the world: Contemplate the whole and every part of it: You will find it to be nothing but one great machine, subdivided into an infinite number of lesser machines.... All these various machines ... are adjusted to each other with an accuracy, which vanishes into admiration all men who have ever contemplated them.... We are led ... and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible and odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children! The true conclusion for Philo is that the original source of every thing is wholly apathetic to ... best you can do is bag unicorns and dragons; the worst you could do is to divinize your passions, lusts, cruelties, vengeance and the most heinous of vices. All your religious systems are subject to great and insuperable difficulties. Each will have its day, expose itself, and die from exposure. But all of them prepare a complete triumph for the skeptic, who reminds over and over that no system can ...
- 3500: Mexico
- ... in the western hemisphere. The Mayan culture, according to archaeological research, attained its greatest development about the 6th century AD. Another group, the Toltec, established an empire in the Valley of Mexico and developed a great civilization still evidenced by the ruins of magnificent buildings and monuments. The leading tribe, the Aztec, built great cities and developed an intricate social, political, and religious organization. Their civilization was highly developed, both intellectually and artistically. The first European explorer to visit Mexican territory was Francisco Fernández de Córdoba, who in 1517 ... the first Spanish viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza. A distinguishing characteristic of colonial Mexico was the exploitation of the Native Americans. Although thousands of them were killed during the Spanish conquest, they continued to be the great majority of inhabitants of what was referred to as New Spain, speaking their own languages and retaining much of their native culture. Inevitably they became the laboring class. Their plight was the result of ...
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