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- 3751: Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes of George Orwell
- ... defenders among left-wing intellectuals."1 In most of George Orwell's books and essays, there is a strong autobiographical element due to the fact that he spent many years living with Communists in northern Great Britain (a small number of people started to follow Communism in northern Great Britain when it started in Russia). George Orwell's writing was affected greatly by his personal beliefs about Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism, and by the revolts, wars, and revolutions going on in Europe and ... Victor Gollancz saying, "For quite fifteen years I have regarded that regime with plain horror."4 Orwell wrote this letter in 1947, ten years after announcing his dislike of Communism. However, he had thought a great deal about Communism and what he disliked about if for a long time before he announced it to the public. Orwell "did not expect anything good from the Communist"5 and therefore Communism personally ...
- 3752: The Red Badge Of Courage 3
- ... stories, and novels throughout his short life (He lived only to the age of 29). The Red Badge of Courage is a tale of war, life, responsibility, and duty. It has been considered the first ^great modern novel of war^(Alfred Kazin). It traces the effects of war on Henry Fleming, a Union soldier, through his dreams of battle, his enlistment, and his experience through serveral battles of the Civil War ... to fight in those glorious battles. His mother was a wise, caring woman who had strong convictions about not wanting Henry to goto war. She is a very hardworking woman, and loves her son a great deal. She gave him hundreds of reasons why he was needed on the farm and not in the war. Henry knew his mother would not want him to enlist, but it was his decision to ... the battle Henry manages to get thge rebel flag and runs up the line with Lieutenant Hasbrouck leading the way. In the battle he fought like a ^Major General^, and he has grown up a great deal. He is not afraid of dying anymore.
- 3753: The Rms Titanic
- Just 20 minutes short of midnight, April 14, 1912, the great new White Star Liner Titanic, making her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, had a rendezvous with ice in the calm, dark waters of the North Atlantic. She brushed the berg so gently that ... too much damage to prevent flooding. After the collision with the ice most of the passengers did not know that the Titanic was sinking. As the water steadily rose, word was sent out that the great, "unsinkable" ship was indeed going down. Before the majority of the passengers knew what was taking place, the crew had started to send distress signals. Messages were sent to the nearest ship, the Carpathia, that ... not happen again. Future generations must learn from the mistakes of the past and try to prevent another tragedy of the Titanic's magnitude. If not, then all knowledge gained from the loss of the great ocean liner will have been in vain. -------------------------- Bibliography -------------------------- BIBLIOGRAPHY Ballard, Robert D. Exploring the Titanic. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1988. Ballard, Robert D. The Discovery of the Titanic. New York: Warner Books Inc., 1987. ...
- 3754: The Scarlet Letter -x
- ... book and The Scarlet Letter became a full novel. In addition to financial worries, another influence on the story is Hawthorne's rejection of his ancestors. His forefathers were strict Puritans, and John Hawthorne, his great-great-grandfather, was a judge presiding during the Salem witch trials. Hawthorne did not condone their acts and actually spent a great deal of his life renouncing the Puritans in general. Similarly, The Scarlet Letter was a literal "soapbox" for Hawthorne to convey to the world that the majority of Puritans were strict and unfeeling. For ...
- 3755: Daddy By Sylvia Plath
- ... went through the most suffering in World War II. Millions fell victim to an attempt of ethnic cleansing ordered by Hitler. However Plath believed her suffering from the loss of her father was just as great as what many Jewish people went through. In the poem the persona uses several similes, a common technique of Plath, in the seventh stanza. An engine, an engine Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen. I began to talk like a Jew. I think I may well be a Jew. The similes within this stanza position the reader to see the great degree of suffering the speaker went through, as it is compared to the torment and anguish millions went through during World War II and in turn, sympathy is drawn from the reader as everyone deserves ... could peak at happiness and then plummet to sadness in a short period of time. Daddy is indeed a negative poem, one of many dark poems Plath has written. Never the less there is a great amount of power within the poem, a power from which Plath's feelings of her father have been expressed and one that condemns the patriarchal society. From her use of vivid imagery, metaphors, similes ...
- 3756: Frederick Douglass
- ... to God, but also to himself to gain freedom. His perception of God helps those who helps themselves guided him through his entire life. He started at least two black Sabbath schools. Things were going great until their second session was broken up by an angry mob of white religious leaders. Master Thomas Auld was among them. Soon Douglass was accused of emulating Nat Turner and cautioned him that if he ... of our support and confidence." This event was noted in the columns of the Liberator. After hearing Garrison speak at Liberty Hall, Douglass determined that it was not fanciness or eloquence that made him a great speaker, but his effectiveness sprung from the inner fire inside him. Over the next two years Douglass listened to Garrison more and more and agreed continuously. He felt Garrison was speaking "the spontaneous feeling of ... a sermon of deliverance. He never stopped believing that the universe we live in is a moral one. He compared the struggle between slavery and freedom to similar conflicts that occur in nature. "Like the great forces of the physical world, fire, steam and lightning, they had slumbered in the bosom of nature since the world began."11 During the 1850s Douglass moved beyond Garrisons philosophy of nonresistance and ...
- 3757: Frederick Douglass
- ... here to fight to keep it around. By the end of the 1840's, Douglass was well on his way to becoming the most famous and respected black leader in the country. He was in great demand as a speaker and writer. He also believed that women's rights were important and he communicated with and stay friends with Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott. Douglass was a good father although ... to Lincoln never had to be used. For the Union won the war and Lincoln was re-elected. Lincoln was then assassinated shortly there after and Douglass mourned the loss of a friend and a great man to the black community. With the Thirteenth Amendment passed in December 1865, slavery was officially abolished. Frederick Douglass was 47 years old, he still was active. He stepped in as an advocate for the ... the hearts of millions and spoke out when no one else would. He fought for the freedom of the black man and stride for the basic human rights they deserved. Frederick Douglass was truly a great man who cried out for freedom. Word Count: 3531
- 3758: Dreams 2
- ... an hour after falling asleep, REM sleep lengthens each time it occurs, on that particular night. Not everyone agree on what dreams mean, so many things have more than one meaning. Colors can give a great deal of insight into a dream, sometimes more so than the dream itself. The shapes in dreams can have several meanings, depending on who I interpreting them. The colors in one s dreams may be ... sense, it is up to the dreamer how to react to the information given in the dream. The symbols in a dream, are a form of displacement (Fosshage 24). Dreams about houses can explain a great deal about the personality of the dreamer. Each room of the house represents new or different feelings or actions, that the dreamer possess (Hazzard 28). Telephones are another popular topic, especially ones when the caller ... don t impose your interpretation [on others].......encourage dreams as a road to understanding (31). Yet others feel dreams are better left uninterpreted. Many people feel dreams are better left alone. Although there is a great deal of information on how to, these people don t try to understand theri dreams. Many people feel that they don t have enough time to read about dreams, and others just say it ...
- 3759: D.h. Lawrence
- ... Frieda talked joked and worked around him. Frieda had never learned how to cook and so Lawrence would frequently jump up to look after the dinner, then return to his writing. Lawrence was also a great mimic; he could impersonate many of the literary figures he had met in London and he would entertain Frieda by acting out parodies of services at the chapel he had attended in his youth. Frieda ... terrified his own party who feared that he would provoke another haemorrhage of the lungs. "I hadn't lived before I lived with Lawrence" - Frieda Lawrence In May 1913, Sons and Lovers was published in Great Britain. It did not sell spectacularly well, and Lawrence faced the possibility that he may have to return to teaching. He managed, however, to keep up a constant stream of short stories, articles, essays and ... and stifle him, for five years. They were bitter years for both Lawrence and Frieda (ironically, it was now she who was accused of spying); his latest book, The Rainbow, was banned and he had great difficulty in earning enough to live on - he was to never fully recover his spirits or gaiety again.(Bocker 39) As many of the prose of poetry will admit, Lawrences poems were a reflection ...
- 3760: Crises During The Presidency O
- ... Bank of the United States. He was incredibly good at managing finances and the sort, but he was inept at politics. He is notorious for saying that he could destroy state banks and create a depression. This angered many people and found him many enemies. He still thought he had enough power to get the Bank rechartered. The Bank was up for a recharter in 1836, but its supporters decided to ... resolution charging the Bank with seven violations of its charter and fifteen abuses of its privileges. It also called for an investigation within six weeks. But the Bank's hold on the Senate was too great. The Senate passed the bill before the investigative committee came back with its results. The House passed the bill a couple months later. It was delivered to President Jackson on the Fourth of July. On ...
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