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- 3891: Alvarado Massacre
- ... and its aftermath with Pedro the reader can sense Hernando s fury. Bernal Diaz de Castillo states on page 286 On hearing this Cortes exclaimed very angrily that it was a bad thing and a great mistake, and that he wished to God Montezuma had escaped and he had never had to listen to this story, (286). From the interpretations Castillo s made about the Alvarado massacre his prejudice view toward ... Diego Duran states The day for the festivities having arrived, some eight or ten thousand men of the highest order and purest lineage appeared, wearing all their finery as we have said, and formed a great circle in the temple courtyard. While they were dancing, all with contentment and pleasure, Cortés, instigated by Alvarado, ordered ten soldiers to be placed at each of the four gates of the courtyard so that ... s and Duran s document Alvarado remains the main person at fault for the bloodbath, but his participating voice in Castillo s book becomes silent in the remaining texts. For example Sahgun writes When the great courtyard of the idol, Huitzilopochtli, god of the Mexicans, was full of nobles, priests, and soldiers, and throngs of other people, intent upon the idolatrous songs to that idol, whom they were honoring, the ...
- 3892: Washington Irving
- ... during this time period were Mary Shelley with Frankenstein, Edgar Allen Poe with various poems and selections, such as The Raven, The TellTale Heart, and The Pit and The Pendulum. One person who had a great effect on the Romantic era was Washington Irving. Some called Irving the first real American writer. Washington Irving was born April 3, 1783, in New York City. He was the eleventh child of Sarah William ... encouraged by one of her sister's boyfriends (Myers 64). His interests in the arts and in the theater were obvious in his works. Irving did not wish to go to college. Though he had great interests in the theater and the arts, his father expected each of his sons to support himself, so Washington decided to be an apprentice in a law office. His employer was Ogden Hoffman and Irving ... statesmanship of Jefferson, or the dedication of Paine. Yet he outlives them all in the history of American letters"(649). Others see him as the first real American poet. Everyone saw him as such a great poet because of The SketchBook. Everyone was reading it in that time. It was all the rage. This book established Irving as a talented writer , one whose elegant good taste seemed to come instinctively. ...
- 3893: The Characterisitics Of A Trag
- The Characteristics of a Tragedy Play Shakespeare was a well known playwright.Some of his most famous plays were tragedies.A tragedy involves the decent of a great man like a king or warrior from the most fortunate success to the to total defeat and death.The plays Hamlet and Macbeth have many of the characteristics of a tragedy.The characters Hamlet and ... types of tragedy plays are:a major tragedy, and a minor tragedy.The major tragedy usually effects everyone,and the minor tragedy effects a small part of the people. The tragic hero must be a great and admirable man in both his powers and opportunities.He should be a person in society whose actions involve the well-being of its members.The plot of the play should show him working to ... had reached his lowest point.Finally,in the end Macbeth and Hamlet realized what they had done and knew it was wrong,however,it was too late to change any of it. Shakespeare was a great writer.He created strong tragic characters.His plays were able to pull many emotions from the audience.The tragedies that he wrote were very good they were major tragedies.Macbeth and Hamlet were very ...
- 3894: American Revolution 2
- The American Revolution was a conflict between the thirteen British colonies, and it's mother country, Great Britain. In late spring and early summer of seventeen seventy-six, after more than a year of fighting, the Second Continental Congress debated whether to declare independence or not. The reasons which impelled them to ... government and the colonists, beginning with the Stamp Act crisis in 1765, led to the outbreak of war in 1775, and finally to the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Taxation of the American colonies by Great Britain was one of the major causes of the American Revolution. Before the French and Indian War in 1763, Britain imposed few taxes on the colonies. After the war, Britain was buried in debt, which ... colonist to respond in violent protests, resulting in the Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party. The restriction on civil liberties was also a major factor prompting Americans to rebel. The colonist were accustomed to a great deal of freedom. However, the enforcement of the Navigation Acts, and such things as the nonimportation agreement played vital roles in converting this custom. The Navigation Acts limited trade to Britain and cut off ...
- 3895: Hiroshima: Book Report
- ... Suymam Chemical. She lived the rest of her life happy. Dr. Terufumi Sasaki did very well with the rest of his life. He opened many hospitals and became very rich. Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge became a great priest. He became very ill and finally died because of the bomb's radiation in November 19, 1977. Toshiko Sasaki became a nun and gave a great speech to Mother General France Delcourt in 1980. Sister Sasaki speech: "I shall not dwell on the past. It is as if I had been given a spare life when I survived the A-bomb ... I shall keep moving forward." Dr. Masakazu Fujii tragically got gas poisoning that came from his gas heater. After he got poisoned, he became a "vegetable" and died 10 years later. Kiyoshi Tanimoto was a great man. When the bomb hit, he helped everyone that was injured. When he got older, Tanimoto had made three speaking trips, in the mainland States in 1979 and 1982, and in Hawaii in 1981. ...
- 3896: Absinthe Vines
- ... disgust. He had found solace in the spirits of absinthe last night. "But how could you eat dead flesh?" "You don't know what it's like," Ben answered, swinging around, protective now. "The manic depression, the ennui, everything that happens, I have no escape. Not even painting will release me, for I can not achieve true art unless through the souls of others. I'm nothing without the dead." Travis ... want to go have a drink?" Travis shrugged and nodded. There was nobody left in the bar, so it wouldn't be too hard to close up. They crept down to the cellar slowly, taking great care not to kick up much dust with their shoes. This time neither reached for the chain to turn on the lights. They wouldn't need them. Ben went through the formalities, and gave a ...
- 3897: A Land Rembered
- ... Indian friends they helped in the scrub. The MacIveys now popped cows out of the swamp and their first drive to Punta Rassa ended in a disaster with all the cows being lost to a great flood. The determined MacIveys never looked back and gathered another heard and the whole clan drove the cows to Punta Rassa. In Punta Rassa, the cows were sold for fifteen dollars a head and the ... interacted with, he would receive something in return. Tobias’ only weakness was that he didn’t do enough for Emma, until it was too late. Tobias had the heart of ten men and was a great leader as he led his family into a foreign land and aimlessly to a Babylon by the name of Punta Rassa. The setting the author, Smith, portrays is unbelievably accurate. Smith talks of many things ... specifically include the description of the type of people that settled around the state, the landscape of the vast inner region of Florida, the tropical paradise of nineteenth century Miami, and the landscape of the Great Cypress Swamp. Smith wrote of how the coasts were being filled up with the Yankees, and Don Groom said, " All the Yankees congregate on the seacoasts. You get two miles inland and you’re ...
- 3898: The Rebellion Against Victoria
- ... unity back to England. "The Battle for Britain" with the inspirational radio speeches of Winston Churchill inspired national pride to the British. The period of decline enhanced by WW I, a large debt and the Great Depression had traumatic effects on the English psyche. The civilian bombing planned by Hitler tried to enhance this feeling of despair. However, it accomplish the exact opposite. The children of England were sent to the country ...
- 3899: The Go Between
- ... when he is at the crease as soon as a ball comes close to him, he thumps it away. The Hall team play with a sense of decorum, they play the correct strokes and look great. An example of this is shown in the innings of Lord Trimingham. Not only is there a contest going on between the hall and the villagers, but there also seemed to be some rivalry between ... because Denys is a snob. When Leo goes to Norwich he comments on how he has never been to a hotel. We lunched at the Maid's Head in Wensum Street, and this was a great occasion for me, for even when my father was alive it was a great extravagance to go to a hotel: if we went out for a meal it was always to a restaurant. This was a special occasion for Leo but the Maudsleys always went to a hotel ...
- 3900: Citizen Kane By Orson Wells
- ... camera angles almost had a chaotic effect. I think this is done purposely to parallel the chaos in Kane’s life at certain points throughout the film. Other camera techniques that made the film as great as it is are the unconventional lighting, the use of shadows, and the variety of camera angles used. The director used the camera to project the frenzy that was going on in Kane’s head ... I don’t know if I would agree completely, but I can see why it receives as much praise as it does. This film broke barriers of film for its time. The film consisted of great acting, plot, symbolism, and cinematography. It had all the components of a great film. In the future, I am sure there will be films that surpass this one, but I think Citizen Kane will always be remembered for the barriers it broke.
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