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- 5111: Civil War Reconstruction
- ... was mainly due to the social war between the northern and southern white americans. When Lincoln was assassinated and Johnson took his place as president in the White House, the Civil Rights Act came into effect. Because it basically said that newly freed blacks in the south were now US citizens, white southerners began using things like black codes to keep segregation between white and black americans. Johnson vetoed the CRA ...
- 5112: Coming Of Age In Mississippi
- ... he has built for them . This house seems like a mansion compared to what they had been living in . Throughout her late childhood and teenage years she tells about the jobs she had and the effect they had upon her . She talks of Mrs. Claiborne and Mrs. Johnson and how they encouraged her to learn . She also talks of the Jenkins , the young white family she worked for , and how Linda ...
- 5113: Catcher In The Rye- Use Of Lan
- ... fight with Stradlater when Holden said, "Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest," (Salinger 43) and "You’re a dirty stupid sonuvabitch of a moron." (Salinger 43) This also provides a good comic effect. Holden is able to describe certain situations very well. He makes similes that are so unexpected that they are hilarious. To describe someone’s personality he says, "That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as ...
- 5114: Small Pox
- Smallpox has been one of the most dangerous and deadly curses’ ever placed on humankind. Even illnesses as terrible as the plague, cholera, and yellow fever have not had such a universal effect. Smallpox is a parasitic virus (a virus destructive to the host) called variola. It’s considered to be a “crowd disease”, spreading only through people and requiring a large densely populated area to survive. If ...
- 5115: Pragmatics Deixis And Conversa
- ... speech, the proximal forms also shift into the corresponding distal forms. Compare the two following sentences: "You were here this morning?" I asked him whether he had been there that morning. In contrast to the effect of "immediateness" proximal deictic forms create, the reported speech utterance normally makes the original speech event seem more remote. In the following section, I shall discuss some forms of deixis in detail. Person deixis These ...
- 5116: Psycho
- ... in the theft behaviour, and even in our society, gambling, smoking and drinking are also behaviours of unawareness of the negative impact, but being too short-sighted. As Norman Bates himself describe the so negative effect of steeping into traps, he deliberately murdered Marion and everyone knows it is not a crime that you can get away with easily. But his short-sighted mind in fulfilling his desire of killing and ...
- 5117: Poetry
- ... and look, brown leaves are pilled on the floor under the wandering Jews.” This stanza illustrates what happens when matters get out of control. For example, the house is a wreck due to the uncontrollable effect of war. “Your face is a wreck…There are lines all over your face, your necks like curious turtles. Why did you let yourself go? Where are you going without us?” The face and the ...
- 5118: PORONO IN THE MEDIA
- ... not say that objects are being made out of these rock stars and sports heroes; pictures of clothed people are no less objects than pictures of naked people. Many complaints are also made to the effect that pornography only offers a one-dimensional view to life; that women are seen as nymphomaniacs who are hysterically addicted to sex. It should be pointed out that events such as hockey games, boxing matches ...
- 5119: Poems By Robert Frost And Leon
- ... is trying to “run away” from his obligations and responsibilities.The similarities in cities and towns from “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night” and “The Bus” are in both poems the character is effect by there obligations to the world. In “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night” Frost’s character is honouring his responsibilities and obligations by leaving the wood to go home to his family. In ...
- 5120: Pericles
- ... overruled the decisions of their elected representatives. With the people steering policy by their uproar, Pericles became the most powerful man in Athens, yet he had never been elected to any public office. Having, in effect, bought their support, he made use of the masses against his political opponents so that he became a kind disguised as a champion of the people. Pericles contrived to have his rival Cimon ostracized, even ...
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