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- 491: Historical Analogies Have A Great and Significant Value to Everyone
- Historical Analogies Have A Great and Significant Value to Everyone Historical analogies have a great and significant value to everyone. They are used compare past wars and events, such as World War 1 and Vietnam. They could be used as guidelines for the future, and a reminder of the past ... War could stop them. And now with question in everyone's mind whether or not our troops should be sent into Iraq in order to stop the mad man Sudan Hussein before he turns to great of a power and only a major World War could stop him. Also, as a reference to the past would be the killing of all the Jews by Hitler compared to what Sudan Hussein ...
- 492: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby is A Pathetic Character
- The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby is A Pathetic Character Pathetic is a term used to describe someone who is pitifully unsuccessful. Success is not necessarily measured in wealth or fame, but it is measured by how much ... successful person is one who has set many goals for himself and then goes out in life and accomplishes some of them, but goes on living even if failing on others. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a pathetic character because he wasted his whole life chasing an unrealistic dream. Gatsby's dream is unrealistic because "it depends for its success upon Daisy's discontent with her marriage ... a story of failure - the prolongation of the adolescent incapacity to distinguish between dream and reality, between the terms demanded of life and the terms offered."(Troy 21-22) Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Macmillan, 1992. Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Great Gatsby. Ed. Ernest H. Lockridge. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968. Troy, William. "Scott Fitzgerald - The Fitzgerald: A Collection of Critical Essays. ...
- 493: Genhis Khan The Great
- ... simple choice: surrender and be enslaved, or die. By consistently enforcing discipline, rewarding skill and allegiance, and punishing those who opposed him, he established a vast empire. His empire was far greater than Alexander the Great. Meet the man behind the myths, the incomparable Genghis Khan. Yisugei was relived after his son, Temujin was born. The chief thought that the boy was going to be a worthy successor to his throne ... walk across deserts for weeks. They survived the trip by drinking blood and milk from their horses. Genghis defeated the Xi Xia Empire very easily. Genghis was the only person who ever broke through the Great Wall of China. He arrived at the wall in late 1214. He surveyed the wall and found a weak spot. He broke through the wall in 1215. The emperor realized that there was no escape ... road system was one of the best ever. It was more complex than the Romans. He had the biggest empire that ever existed. The most incredible achievement is that all his people loved him. Other great leaders had their own people turn against them or had many enemies. For the Khan all his people loved him. His enemies respected him and his citizens never tried to kill him. Although his ...
- 494: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From the Common Man
- The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From the Common Man Doesn't it always seem as though rich and famous people, such as actors and actresses, are larger-than-life and virtually impossible to touch, almost as if they were a fantasy? In The Great Gatsby, set in two tremendously wealthy communities, East Egg and West Egg, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby as a Romantic, larger-than-life, figure by setting him apart from the common person. Fitzgerald sets ... his possessions and parties. He even builds his house directly across the bay and facing the Buchanan's house. Gatsby is also likened to a chivalric knight. His outrageous car may be paralleled to a great white horse of a knight. His quest for Daisy is identical to the quest of medieval knights who sought the Holy Grail. At night he stands out in front of his house with his “ ...
- 495: The Great Gatsby: Being Successful
- The Great Gatsby: Being Successful The Great Gatsby is considered an American classic, or as Noel Perrin says in his story “one novel that nearly all educated Americans have read.” I found the book very hard to get through. It contained many ... Daisy Buchanan. There are several elements to the story but as I have brought up a reference to the poet Noel Perrin I will stick to a correlation between his story and elements of The Great Gatsby. In Noel Perrin’s short story… I think it is a short story, he discusses America’s relationship with the color green and its correlation’s with The Great Gatsby. The green element ...
- 496: An Analysis Of Heart Of Darkne
- ... other hand, since for us all these signs were applied by Conrad for one thing; that is to uncover the evil side hidden in man by plunging deep into the darkness of his heart with great courage in order to find what was laying there and to take it out to the daylight. That is why, Heart of Darkness is a story of one man's journey through the African Congo ... ignorance, as well as their innocence which provokes them to say "Try to be civil, Marlow"(57). Not only are they oblivious to the reality which Marlow is exposed to, but their naiveté is so great, they can't even comprehend a place where this 'so called' reality would even be a bad dream! Hence, their response is clearly rebuking the words of a "savage" for having said something so ridiculous ... as Freud claimed; It is easy, as we can see, for a barbarian to be healthy; for a civilised man the task is hard. Early in the novel it becomes apparent that there is a great deal of tension in Marlow¹s mind about whether he should profit from the immoral actions of the company he works for which is involved in the ivory trade in Africa. Marlow believes that ...
- 497: The Start of World War 2 For the United States
- ... the war and remain neutral, although most American hoped that the Allies would be victorious. The Allies consisted of 50 different countries by the end of the war. The United States, Soviet Union, China, and Great Britain were among the Allies. Germany, Italy, and Japan made up the alliance known as the Axis. Six other nations joined the Axis later in the war. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the ... to central China. To force China to surrender, Japan cut off Chinas supplies reaching Southeast Asia to China. Japan also wanted the resources of Southeast Asia to themselves. Japan began building an empire called the Great Asia Co.- Prosperity Sphere. The United States opposed Japans expansion. Then in 1941 the Japanese began moving into Northern Indochina. The United States responded by cutting exports to Japan. This was very bad for Japan ... blow."(1996 World Book Encyclopedia vol. 21) On December 7, 1941, a Japanese aircraft bombed the United States Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor of Honolulu, Hawaii. At first this was very good and was a great success for Japan because it disabled a huge amount of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, which was practically our whole Navy, plus the U.S. lost a vital aircraft carrier. The long term consequences ...
- 498: Ancient Greece: A Time Of Great Cities And Lives
- Ancient Greece: A Time Of Great Cities And Lives Ancient Greece was an interesting time and place with huge markets in which people could sell items of every kind. Strict laws with even stricter penalties if broken, a place where women ... strict laws with even stricter penalties if broken, a place where women were did not have as many rights as they do today, and along with the most outstanding army in their time. What a great place to live where everyone even the poor had food to eat, water to drink, people to protect them while they slept and plenty of wonders to behold from the great architecture right down to the shops and smiths at every turn. Ancient Greece, what an interesting time of great cities and lives.
- 499: Adam Smith
- ... this economic theorist who discusses problems in a language readily understandable by everyone. Adam Smith had retired from a professorship at Glasgow University and Was living in France in 1764-5 when he began his great work, The Wealth of Nations. The book was being written all during the years of strife between Britain and her colonies, but it was not published until 1776. In the passages which follow, Smith points ... come (Tindall and Shi). However, controversial views have been expressed as to the extent of Smith's originality in The Wealth of Nations. Smith has been blamed for relying too much on the ideas of great thinkers such as David Hume and Montesquieu. Nevertheless, The Wealth of Nations was the first and remains the most important book on the subject of political ecomomy until this present day. It has never, I ... enough if some few of the ideas which have to play the chief part in the system are put on a perfectly safe foundation, and analysed in all their ramifications and complexities. It is a great deal if, over and above that, an equal carefulness falls to the lot of a few other favoured members of the system. But in all cases the most ambitious spirit must be content to ...
- 500: Could Air Pollution Have A Negative Impact On Water Quality?
- ... Pollution Have A Negative Impact On Water Quality? For the past 30 years, scientists have collected a considerable amount of convincing information demonstrating that air pollutants can be deposited on land and water, sometimes at great distances from their original sources, and can be an important contributor to declining water quality. These air pollutants can have undesirable health and environmental impacts, such as contaminated fish, harmful algal blooms, and unsafe drinking ... be helpful in the agriculture community, namely the insecticides, now are being classified as the chemical of concern. Toxaphene and Mirex are insecticides. They both are listed as bioaccumulative chemicals of concern (BCC) by the Great Lakes Water Quality Initiation (GLI). They do not break down easily in our environment and become more concentrated as they move up the food chain to humans and other animals. Toxaphene is a dangerous, ubiquitous ... represented less than about 10 % of the total water concentration8. However, toxaphene in surface water will vaporize to air or settle to sediments in the bottoms of lakes or streams. Table 1. Toxaphene Concentrations in Great Lakes Water Particles - Spring, 1992* (Swackhamer et al., unpublished data) LAKE [TOX]part, ng/L TSM, mg/L Michigan 0.017 1.61 Michigan 0.0054 0.66 Ontario 0.0072 1.16 Ontario ...
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