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- 8661: Achilles
- ... modern world, people, as a society, have always given themselves a goal or goals that they would like to attain at some point during their lifetime. Many people seek to attain riches, love, happiness or high stature within society. When we people set that goal, we tend to mold our lifestyles around it. As people work throughout their lives to achieve this ultimate goal, it becomes apparent to others what it ...
- 8662: A Picture Of Colonial Life
- ... gathered together to attend church services. Religion was the basis of their government. When a person did wrong, they were punished by the laws of God. This form of government also ran with superstitions taking high status. One example is the Salem Witch Trials. Religion also played a big part in the education of the new world. If it weren't for people wanting freedom of religion, America wouldn't be ...
- 8663: A Mafia Thing
- ... gangster of the Prohibition era, also known as Scarface because of a knife cut to his cheek. (Nash 79) He was born Alphonse Capone in Naples, Italy, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He left school at an early age and spent nearly ten years "hanging-out" with gangs. In the 1920's he took over a Chicago organization dealing in illegal liquor, gambling, and prostitution from the gangster Johnny Torrio ...
- 8664: Africa
- ... a new world of opportunities will be opened to them and that they will be partners insead of patros with the U.S. Although the residents of Mozambique, Eritrea, Mali, and Ghana are nations with high poverty rates, much illiteracy, much mortality, few jobs, few schools, few hospitals, and no money, they have been able to strive to overcome the obstacles in front of them. They each have been able to ...
- 8665: Abe Lincoln Hero Of Our Past
- ... our lives, someone for kids to look up to, a role model. Most tragic heroes gave something to better society. Without Abraham Lincoln ethnic groups other than Caucasian might not be permitted to attend a school, get a job, or even be happy with their lives. Abraham Lincoln, in his life accomplished a lot of things that we may only dream about, and a few of us actually live out. Abraham ...
- 8666: A Comparison Of Three Abolitio
- ... Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?" (pg. 837) Unlike Equiano or Douglas, Lincoln was never a slave, he was white, and he had the opportunity to get a school education. Equiano and Douglas picked up bits and pieces of education as they went along. Lincoln was also in the Abolitionist Movement but for different reasons than Equiano or Douglas. He was in it to ...
- 8667: Al Capone 2
- ... about 1925 to 1931. Al Capone's parents immigrated to the United States from Naples, Italy in 1893. Six years later on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, Al Capone was born. He quit school after the fourth grade and became involved in petty crime and gangs. In a fight in a saloon, a young rival slashed Capone across his left cheek, earning him the nickname "Scarface." Al Capone spent ...
- 8668: Native Son: Characters
- ... s actions defines their individual personalities and belief systems. The main character of Native Son, Bigger Thomas has personality traits spanning various aspect of human nature including actions motivated by fear, quick temper, and a high degree of intelligence. Bigger, whom the novel revolves around, portrays various personality elements through his actions. Many of his action suggest an overriding response to fear, which stems from his exposure to a harsh social ...
- 8669: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... to Scout's perception of the world. Through her experiences she grows more tolerant of others, learning how to " climb into another person's skin and walk around in it." On her first day of school she finds that there are both social and poor classes in society, some are respectable and others not. She also learns that her father is an extra-ordinary man, fighting for a Negro's rights ...
- 8670: Gullivers Travels 2
- ... on his arrival to the island is the Houyhnhnm, a horse ruled by reason. Gulliver almost immediately admires these creatures as well as everything about them, especially their speech: their language approaches nearest to the High Dutch or German, of any I know in Europe, but is much more graceful and significant (Swift 189). He tries throughout his visit to become a Houyhnhnm by learning their language, among other things, despite ...
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