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- 7581: Greek Olympics
- ... venue for the signing of inter-city treaties. These gatherings clearly created a sense of unity, and the symbol of the naked body helped to produce a feeling of pride among the Greeks. Economically, a great deal of trade revolved around the festivals and it undoubtedly continued even after they completed. Pindar and Bacchylides, choral lyric poets, composed victory odes honnoring famous victors (who also happened to have enough money to ...
- 7582: The Catcher in the Rye: Now and Then
- ... to kids in the forties and fifties. Besides television, and movies, the Internet also greatly influences teenagers today. Almost everything imaginable can be found on the Internet, both beneficial, and harmful texts. This is a great temptation to teenagers that did not even exist forty years ago. All of these factors have changed since The Catcher in the Rye was first published in 1951. Some of these factors have remained the ...
- 7583: Animal Farm: Summary
- ... conflict of the story was initiated by Old Majors speech. In his speech, this candid pig told of his desire for a better life for the animals. His ideas were resolute. There was a great need to be free from the disdain of man. He spoke about his vision of a better life and equality among all the animals. And the only way to achieve this dream was to have ...
- 7584: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Vocation Sequence
- ... become a priest, has appeal, but his epiphany lets him know that his true calling, instead, deals with finally knowing the solitude that he always faced. Stephen considers the many aspects of his priestly vocation: great power, sinless innocence, and the pious constraint on his freedom. By the end of this sequence, Stephen realizes that his soul longs for freedom from social or religious orders. At this point, realizing his true ...
- 7585: Slaughterhouse - Five: Satire About War and Life
- ... Billy Pilgrim. Slaughterhouse - Five is a satire, which is a work that makes fun of something serious. In this case it is war. The plot of this novel is very scattered, and skips around a great deal. It goes from Billys experience of World war II as a soldier and POW, to Tralfamadore, the alien planet to which Billy was abducted, to the present day, where Billy is a successful ...
- 7586: Summary of Clancy's Rainbow Six
- ... happening as it goes along. I found that character development was done very well, you could relate to everyone, understand them and know what they where going to do next. But what made this book great is the plot, the way it slowly expands and just the main idea of the plot makes you think, what if? (If you want to know how the book ends read on, if not stop ...
- 7587: An Analysis of The Cask of Amontillado
- ... no one can find refuge from a deranged mind, or that terrible crimes can be committed when an imaginary offense can fester into a deep hatred. Perhaps Poe is saying that there have always been great crimes that go unsolved. How many undiscovered remains are there in the walls of medieval buildings? In this story the character of Montresor is revealed through his own words. When he reveals he is going ...
- 7588: Strikes and Alternative Forms of Coping
- ... aspects of sabotage include the possibility of being fired, or the loss of pay that could result from the replacement cost. Also during contract negotiations management may see the costs of sabotage as being to great and decide to lock its workers out until a new contract is reached. Slacking and sabotage are most likely to be used by the worker who possess' very little strike power, meaning if labor were ...
- 7589: Guaranteering Civil Rights
- ... could attend the nearby all whtie school. NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall challenged the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling and argued that even if seperate black schools were equal to white schools, black children were still suffering great psychological damage. On May 17,1954, Chief Justice EArl Warren announced that it was the unanimous decision of the Court that "seperate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Warren said that to separate grade school children ...
- 7590: Causes Of Civil War
- ... were out for the people to know about. Third, Foreign Policy dealt with U.S. policies over foreign countries. After the American Revolution, the Americans were still allies with France. In 1793, France declared on Great Britain and wanted aid from the United States, considering the French helped the Americans defeat the British. Americans stayed neutral, but the British closed French ports to neutral ships. As a result, the Americans signed ...
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