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- 7151: Douglas Hurt's The Dust Bowl
- ... Bowl The Dust Bowl, written by R. Douglas Hurt explores the Dust Bowl and the effects it had on the societies who dealt with it. The Dust Bowl is a vast area stretching across the Great Plains from Oklahoma to Colorado. Hurt includes precise locations of specific dust storms that took place from the early 1800s until the 1930s and on. Also included in The Dust Bowl are descriptive ... Amarillo Globe are two resources frequently used by Hurt. Amarillo, Texas was the sight of the most tremendous dust storm to occur in the 1930s; therefore Hurt was able to use this resource to great advantage when preparing the book. During March and April of 1935, Amarillo, Texas, and Dodge City, Kansas had twenty-eight, and twenty-six dust storm throughout their towns. The dust storms were often times massive ...
- 7152: To Kill A Mockingbird: A Hero Among Them
- ... all his might and power as an established attorney simply because he believes in Toms innocence, and does not permit public opinion to sway him. Being a single parent in the south during the depression, Atticus Finch proves to be a positive role model to his children in spite of doubts from townspeople and family members. The passing of his wife left Atticus the only parent in the household. He ... uproar. Disregarding the possible reactions of his family and friends, Atticus stays true to his beliefs and proves himself a hero once again. To Kill A Mockingbird depicts the people of the south during the depression as having a mindset of prejudice and ignorance. Atticus Finch, although from the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, shows that not all people were this way. He proves himself to be heroic in many forms ...
- 7153: Life In A Medieval Village
- ... legal chain of authority running from serf to monarch had lost much of it's substance. However, as far as the village was concerned such legal complications hardly mattered, anymore than whether the lord was great or small. A village with two or more lords was comfortable. Whatever the technicalities, the lord was the main consumer of the village, meaning he was in control of the profits. The 13th century manor ... to the fourth finger, and therefore the ring is put on the same finger, so that she should keep unity and love with him, and he with her." I think Frances and Joseph Gies are great authors, because of the way they told the story about the medieval village. If anything I think they wanted whomever read this book to get an insight into how people lived seven hundred years ago ...
- 7154: Analysis of Niccol๒ Machiavelli's The Prince
- ... Against His Successors, the answer to the question lies in the different style in which the state was governed. The Kingdom of Darius was ruled in an autocratic style common to Asia during Alexander the Great's time unlike the feudal system common to Europe. This autocratic style was present in the Kingdom of Turkey during Machiavelli's time, where in Turkey the prince is the master of everyone and everything ... better than mercenaries or auxiliary troops, but native troops are incomparable. Machiavelli blames the foreign domination of Italy on the use of mercenaries that were hired to stop Charles VIII in 1494. War is the great equalizer, it can allow a prince to maintain his princedom, and can raise an average man to a seat of power. A prince should study the history of war, imitate the actions of victors, and ...
- 7155: Dantes Tools Of Character: Love And Choice
- ... of Hell. A person's self perceptions can be frozen and they are unable to move or respond to love. A person rarely gives up on those they love, at least not with out a great struggle. Giving up on our own liberation is quite natural, most of the times. Being found worthy in the eyes of another allows us a new perspective on ourselves, especially if their admiration and compassion ... sacrifice. In other words, to discover oneself they must go and find someone who will love them. It may not be a demonstrated love but merely an act of human kindness that point to a great love. As in Dante, one may have to move backward in time to remember when they were loved and valued. Our personalities may have become knotty in the Dark Wood that only a past hope ...
- 7156: The Return of the Native: A Relationship Destined for Destruction
- ... a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity.(Hardy 136) Clym clearly lacks this quality. Hardy suggests that Clym is either destined to rise to great heights or fall to great depths. Clym Yeobright and Mrs. Yeobright both contribute to the decline of other characters in the novel. Eustacia, Clyms wife, feels their destructive force most of all. Clym marries Eustacia despite the fact they ...
- 7157: A Eulogy for Gatsby
- ... a man named Gatsby. He was throwing these wild parties, he had relatives in Germany where he received a lot of his riches, and so on and so on. If only I had known how great he really was. I only knew the man, the myth, the reality for a short period of time. And in this period of time, he changed my life like no one ever has and probably ... change the course of his life also. Well, no matter what anybody thinks or says now, whats done is done and now we must all move on together and mourn together and share all the great memories together. When you lose someone you love, you mourn. You dont mourn so much for the person who is lost, yet for yourself. You mourn because you dont know how you are ...
- 7158: The First King of Shannara: Summary
- ... because of his insistence to keep using magic, which was forbidden after the first war of the races. Bremen was the only one that knew that a rebel druid named Brona has learned to use great magic for evil and was on a plan to kill all the races and make the world all for the netherworld. Bremen knew that he needed help so he (hired) a man named Kinson Ravenlock ... to do. One of Paranor destroyed and the Druids all dead, another of a fortress in the westland with the black elfstone in it, another of a man facing Brona in Mortal Combat with a great magical sword, and another of Bremen standing next to the Hadeshorn with a boy with funny eyes. Will Tay Trefenwyd suceed in his charge to find the Black Elfstone? Will Risca tell the Dwarves of ...
- 7159: Gatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream
- Gatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goal. The attempt to capture the American Dream is central to many novels. This dream is different for different people, but in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. This happiness is something for which he must reach into the past to have and for which he must revive ...
- 7160: Heart of Darkness: Feelings of Characters and Uncertainties of the Congo
- Heart of Darkness: Feelings of Characters and Uncertainties of the Congo In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, there is a great interpretation of the feelings of the characters and uncertainties of the Congo. Although Africa, nor the Congo are ever really referred to, the Thames river is mentioned as support. This intricate story reveals much symbolism ... itself with the sea and all other rivers of darkness and light, with the tributaries and source of man's being on earth (Dean,189). The setting of these adventurous and moral quests is the great jungle, in which most of the story takes place. As a symbol the forest encloses all, and in the heart of the African journey Marlow enters the dark cavern of his won heart. It even ...
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