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- 3921: About Gettysburg
- About Gettysburg The nineteenth century was an era of great technological change that extremely changed the scope of tactics and strategy, the alteration was seen in what has been called "the first total war, the U.S. Civil." The consistent aid of war industry became ... He played a main part in the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg where he was seriously wounded. Mr. Hancock was not planning to have a Battle of Gettysburg. General Meade showed great skill at the Battle of Gettysburg from his management of his artillery to his men. It could be said that this and how he effectively led his section leaders was the main reason he defeated ... splinters flying from wheels and axles where bullets hit; in the rear, horses tearing and plunging, mad with wounds or terror; drivers yelling, shells bursting, shot shrieking overhead, howling about our ears or throwing up great clouds of dust where they struck; the musketry crashing on three sides of us; bullets hissing, humming and whistling everywhere; cannon roaring; all crash on crash and peal on peal, smoke, dust, splinters, blood. ...
- 3922: Panopticism
- Focault Panopticism “Our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous concrete training of useful forces; the circuits of communication are the supports of an accumulation and a centralization of knowledge; the play of signs defines the anchorages of ... phrase in the passage testifies to the basic structure of our society. The goal for our society is “to procure for a small number, or even for a single individual, the instantaneous view of a great multitude” (333, Focault). The purpose of such a society is so that relations between the individual and the state can be better controlled. That the “infinitely small of political power”(331, Focault) who run the ... societal conditioning and discipline. It has proven to be a form of behavior to give us a guilty conscious or the simple fear of being caught. “Our society is not one of spectacle, but of great surveillance; it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it, according to a whole technique of forces and bodies” (pp.333-34). Foucault’s argument may not be understood with his difficulty ...
- 3923: 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 ...
- 3924: Beowulf
- ... much money. This fact is defined by Superman’s day job as a reporter for the city of Metropolis. The “ideal man” of past and present has to posses the quality of intelligence. Beowulf shows great intelligence in his approach towards his battles. In his battle with Grendel, Beowulf uses a soldier for a decoy to expose Grendel’s strengths: Grendel snatched at the first Geat He came to, ripped him apart, cut His body to bits with powerful jaws, Drank the blood from his veins and bolted Him down, hands and feet; death And Grendel’s great teeth came together, Snapping life shut. The he stepped to another Still body, clutched at Beowulf with his claws, Grasped at a strong-hearted wakeful sleeper -And was instantly seized himself. . .(Raffel 314-323). This ... which he is able to melt objects with. Lastly, Superman has the ability to fly. This quality by itself is what gives him the most admiration by the people. Seeing a person fly is a great experience for the people of Metropolis. Not all heroes can “fly faster than a speeding bullet,” but each hero can share similar characteristics through the eyes of the perceiver. There is an expectation of ...
- 3925: Three Famous Writings
- ... Dead, a man couldn't proceed into the after life unless he was found innocent of any wrong doing on Earth. In Confucius' writings, he never actually says the word "justice", but he does say "Great Man cherishes excellence; Petty Man, his own comfort. Great Man cherishes the rules and regulations; Petty Man special favors." To me, that mean "Great Man is fair, Petty man is unfair." The second of these three values is responsibility and respect to one's family and elders, and responsibility and respect to others families and elders. This is ...
- 3926: Warren G. Harding
- ... got the President's signature on their bills. They eliminated wartime controls and slashed taxes, established a Federal budget system, restored the high protective tariff, and imposed tight limitations upon immigration. By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be giving way to a new surge of prosperity, and newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise--"Less government in business and more business in government." Behind the ... ones that keep me walking the floors nights!" Looking wan and depressed, Harding journeyed westward in the summer of 1923, taking with him his upright Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover. "If you knew of a great scandal in our administration," he asked Hoover, "would you for the good of the country and the party expose it publicly or would you bury it?" Hoover urged publishing it, but Harding feared the political ...
- 3927: Immigration To Canada
- ... immigration to Canada was generated by a network of emigration agents who were salesman who advertised to Canada’s attraction’s to prospected immigrants. They targeted wealthy farmers, agricultural laborers and female domestics, preferably from Great Britain, the United States and Northern Europe. Canada’s first immigration legislation, the Immigration Act of 1869 reflected the laissez-faire philosophy of the time by not saying which classes of immigrants should be admitted ... later complemented by head taxes designed to discourage Chinese immigration. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that regulations and restriction to Chinese immigration were completely lifted. The 19th century closed with a world wide depression and a slow down of immigration to the West. But all that changed in 1895, when Clifford Sifton was appointed as Minister of the Interior at the start of an economic recovery. Sifton believed that ...
- 3928: Heart of Darkness: Ignorance and Racism
- ... book Heart of Darkness. His book has all the trappings of the conventional adventure tale - mystery, exotic setting, escape, suspense, unexpected attack. Chinua Achebe concluded, "Conrad, on the other hand, is undoubtedly one of the great stylists of modern fiction and a good story-teller into the bargain" (Achebe 252). Yet, despite Conrad's great story telling, he has also been viewed as a racist by some of his critics. Achebe, Singh, and Sarvan, although their criticisim differ, are a few to name. Normal readers usually are good at detecting ... when he met the station's book keeper he changed his views of the natives. "Moreover I respected the fellow. Yes. I respected his collars, his vast cuffs, his brushed hair. His appearance was certainly great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance" (Conrad 21). Marlow praised the book keeper as if he felt it's the natives' fault for living in such waste. the bureaucracy only cared ...
- 3929: Hamlet, Contrast Between Hamle
- He was great man and prince, with great potential and virtue. Another person whose virtue parallels that of Hamlet was Laertes, the son one of the Courtiers in Claudious’s court. Both of these men also share the trait of impulsiveness, achieving spontaneous ... but to whet thy almost blunted purpose”. In the tragic end, Hamlet falls, the man with so much potential and greatness, a man of thought and action falls from grace with the “wholesale” slaughter in great hall of castle Ellisenore proving his theory that all born of dust is corruptible ”. O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt!”.
- 3930: Tortilla Flat
- ... to Capitalism 5. [ETHNIC] Celebrating Friendship The Good Life Economic Slavery and Human Freedom Stereotypes of Paisanos--'Put-Downs' Social Injustice 6. [ARCHETYPAL] The unfaithful wife, femme fatale, the temptress, the witchmother...(negative women) No Great Mothers, American Princesses, Eves, New Woman America = The New World Garden of Eden Talisman, likened to a sword and a shield, a talisman maybe defined as an object which has been magically endowed with the ... military funeral 207/knights view burning house MORAL/ESTHETIC/HISTORICAL RED-HERRING: When Steinbeck explains the parallels of Knight of \the Roundtable and the Paisanos. He was attacking the HAVES, not the HAVE-NOTS. The Depression ERA advocated urban Americans to return to simple pastoral lives. But we cannot escape responsibility for the complication of the worlds we create:"The Tyger" by Blake. Man must move forward, even if stumbling and ...
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