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- 3771: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- ... providing for pessimists the futility of the exalted humanism engendered there in the eighteenth century and reminding the more sanguine that ideals are so called because they are unattainable." Footnote: Magill, C.P., German Literature (Great Britain, Oxford University Press, 1974) 50. It was probably in Weimar that Goethe developed his liking for politics. In any case he learned to think of it as his home. As he traveled even more ... of this illness he experimented with religious mysticism, alchemy, astrology, and occult philosophy, all of which is evident in Faust. Upon his recovery, Goethe decided to continue his studies at Strassburg which would have a great impact on his life. "When he returned to Weimar at last, he fell into a deep relationship with Charlotte von Stein. He wrote many volumes of letters--1800 of them to Frau von Stein alone ... this time Goethe wrote a large part of his works such as Die Geschwister, Der Triumph der Eempfindsamkeit, and books of poetry. His affair with Frau von Stein was not enough, however, to inspire such great works such Egmont, Faust, Tasso, and Iphigenie. It was his visit to Italy that helped him create such masterpieces. Most of his journey to Italy was spent at Rome and it was a turning ...
- 3772: The Rainmaker
- The Rainmaker Enticing readers and basically giving people something good to read, John Grisham is an established star in literature. What makes his books so great is that they are so realistic. He applies his personal law and trial knowledge into the books he writes. Put together with creative story telling, his makes his novels hard to put down. The Rainmaker ... come rolling in. However, as the big trial begins, he is assigned to a judge that is definitely on his side and twelve jury members who believe in the same morals as Rudy. After researching Great Benefit, the insurance company, Rudy discovers cover-ups in the company. He also discovers Great Benefit s harsh way of making their numerous mistakes disappear. He enters all the facts he has discovered and uses them to help solidify his position in the minds of the jurors. Meanwhile, Rudy ...
- 3773: Characteristics Of The Misfit
- ... man", "I know you must have come from nice poeple!", and that is when they went in to there deep conversation. The Misfit soon replied with "finest people in the world". Soon he went into great detail about his mother and what a great women she was, and his father who had never had a problem with the authorities. That is when she had almost started to believe that he was truely a nice man, and she got to ... his true colors showed as he shot the grandmother three times in the chest. He showed no compassion for what they had discussed earlier so the monster had finally come out. The Misfit is a great view on life, because he is showing that life may not always seem what it presents itself to be. Also, life can change its ways at any given moment without any thought of what ...
- 3774: Airika
- ... Other enslaved peoples originally came from Madagascar and Tanzania in East Africa. Slavery became of major economic importance after the sixteenth century with the European conquest of South and Central America. These slaves had a great impact on the sugar and tobacco industries. A triangular trade route was established with Europe for alcohol and firearms in exchange for slaves. The slaves were then traded with Americans for molasses and (later) cotton ... in 1793 made it possible for workers to gin separate the seeds from the fiber some 600 to 700 pounds daily, or ten times more cotton than permitted by hand. The Industrial Revolution, centered in Great Britain, quadrupled the demand for cotton, which soon became America's leading export. Planters' acute need for more cotton workers helped expand southern slavery. By the Civil War, the South exported more than a million tons of cotton annually to Great Britain and the North. An area still called the Black Belt, which stretched across Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, grew some 80 percent of the nation's crop. In parts of the Black Belt, ...
- 3775: The Red Badge Of Courage -x
- ... 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.
- 3776: The Glass Menagerie -x
- THE GLASS MENAGERIE By: Tennessee Williams Trapped within the confines of a St. Louis apartment building and the Great Depression, the Wingfield family dreams of escape: budding poet Tom envisions a future on the open seas, his sister Laura retreats from the resent into a fantasy world of glass animals, and matriarch Amanda waltzes through ...
- 3777: The Grapes Of Wrath
- ... novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930's. The Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. The bank took possession of their ...
- 3778: Comaparison Of Crucible And So
- ... share many similarities. The Crucible and Sommersby both shared many similarities in characters and their decisions. Some of the characters are almost identical in both stories. This may have been so because of the way great writers and great producers think, or maybe it is just that both of these great literary pieces of work depict what conscience tells one to do.
- 3779: Cantebury Tales
- Canterbury Tales tells many stories from medieval literature and provides a great variety of comic tales. Geoffrey Chaucer injects many tales of humor into the novel. Chaucer provides the reader with many light-hearted tales as a form of comic relief between many serious tales. The author ... Alison loved clever Nicholas so much that Absalom could go blow his horn elsewhere. (Canterbury Tales 65). Nicholas comes up with a plan to trick the carpenter. He tells the husband that he knows another great flood will come and that he, the carpenter, and Alison will be safe if the carpenter builds three separate barrels and hangs them from the ceiling where they can climb to safety. On that night ... again he demands a kiss from Alison. This time, Nicholas decides to play the joke. Nicholas quickly raised the window and thrust his ass far out Nicholas let fly a fart with a noise as great as a clap of thunder, so that Absalom was almost overcome by the force of it. But he was ready with his hot iron and he smote Nicholas in the middle of his ass. ( ...
- 3780: Henry V
- ... but it is also the beginning of the showing of the high mimetic mode. Throughout the story, Henry fights to break from his past of wine, women, and crime. He knows he can be a great King, but he does not realize his true potential in power. This scene causes the course of events, the foreshadowing of what is to happen to Henry. Henry is to win the war, and a ... Henry gives his men incentives as to their nobility, "whose blood is fetched from the courage of the fathers who were tested by war" (line 19). Henry even refers their lineage back to Alexander the Great and his great empire. His nobles must be examples to the men of lower rank. His men are from England and have a spirit instilled within them from their breeding and the land on which they were ...
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