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- 1021: Paradise Lost
- Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is one of the finest examples of the epic tradition in all of literature. In composing this extraordinary work, John Milton was, for the most part, following in the manner of epic poets of past centuries: Barbara Lewalski notes that Paradise Lost is an "epic whose closest structural affinities are to Virgil's Aeneid . . . "; she ... homeland; and the battle scenes in heaven. . . . The poem also incorporates a Hesiodic gigantomachy; numerous Ovidian metamorphoses; an Ariostan Paradise of Fools; [and] Spenserian allegorical figures (Sin and Death) . . . . (3) There were changes, however, as John M. Steadman makes clear: The regularity with which Milton frequently conforms to principles of epic structure make his occasional (but nevertheless fundamental) variations on the epic tradition all the more striking by contrast. The most ... Milton Studies 10 (1977): 35-64. Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985. Lewis, C. S. A Preface to Paradise Lost. New York: Oxford UP, 1942 . Milton, John. Paradise Lost. In John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose. Ed. Merritt Y. Hughes. Indianapolis: Odyssey, 1957. 173-469. Ricks, Christopher. Milton's Grand Style. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963. Steadman, John M. Epic and Tragic ...
- 1022: Hiroshima
- Hiroshima As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy. --Christopher Dawson In the novel Hiroshima, author John Hershey presents a clear message to ban the use of nuclear proliferation. This true account was written in 1946 and portrays the lives of six survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Hersheys intentions ... around that they were prone to all sorts of ailments.... (93). Without money, survivors were unable to obtain medical attention as well as food, water, and a place to live. In the novel Hiroshima, author John Hershey presents a clear message. Nuclear proliferation causes more harm than good and should be stopped. Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have been killed by the inhumane use of the atomic bomb in both ... is put on the production of nuclear weapons and not enough on bringing world peace without death and destruction. Therefore, governments around the world should join together in banning the atomic bomb. WORKS CITED Bartlett, John. Bartletts Familiar Quotations. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1980. Bradley, Omar. Address on Armistice Day. Bartlett 825:2. Dawson, Christopher. The Judgement of the Nations. Bartlett 812:11. Hershey, John. Hiroshima. New York: ...
- 1023: Thomas Jefferson
- ... of immigration, and denied parliamentary authority over the colonies, recognizing no tie with the mother country except the king. When he was a member of the Continental Congress (1775-1776), Jefferson was chosen together with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingstone and Roger Sherman in 1776 to draft the Declaration of Independence . He wrote the declaration almost all by himself and was amended by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin . Jefferson left Congress in 1776 and served in the Virginia legislature until his election as governor in 1779. He was governor from 1779 to 1781. During this brief private interval (1781 ... respite of three years from public duties, he began to remodel his house at Monticello and interested himself greatly in agriculture. He was supported by the Republicans for president in 1796, and running second to John Adams by three electoral votes, he became vice president. Jefferson and his running mate Aaron Burr defeated John Adams in the elections of 1800. Jefferson's own title to the presidency was not real ...
- 1024: The Crucible - Struggles in the Play
- ... the basis for the trials. It is Abigail's and all the other girls' need to be free and act like teenagers. The second is the result of the corruption of the trials. It is John Proctor's fight to convince the townspeople that the accused women are not witches (especially his wife), and that it is Abigail who should be killed instead. In Puritan society, the role of the child ... be falsely accused by their neighbors as a method of revenge, and as an outlet for their maliciousness. When Abigail uses this case to attack Rebecca Nurse, one of the best Puritans in the Salem, John Proctor begins his efforts to stop the injustice. This increases when Elizabeth Proctor is tried and sentenced to death. This is John Proctor's struggle. He must fight to save his wife, his community and eventually himself. In addition, he also has to convince the leaders of Salem that they are mistaken in believing in Abigail. ...
- 1025: Big Bang
- ... the universe began and how it will end. However, the Big Bang model is the most logical and reasonable theory to explain the universe in modern science. ENDNOTES 1. Dinah L. Mache, Astronomy, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1987. p. 128. 2. Ibid., p. 130. 3. Joseph Silk, The Big Bang, New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1989. p. 60. 4. Terry Holt, The Universe Next Door, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. p. 326. 5. Ibid., p. 327. 6. Charles J. Caes, Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe, USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. p. 72. 7. John Gribbin, In Search Of The Big Bang, New York: Bantam Books, 1986. p. 273. BIBLIOGRAPHY Boslough, John. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Caes, J. Charles. Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe. USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. Gribbin, John. In Search Of The Big ...
- 1026: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... Douglas won the Senate race, but the debates launched Lincoln on his own path to presidency. In 1861, on March 4 Lincoln was inaugurated as President. Lincoln s first official act was the appointment of John G. Nicolay as his private secretary. One month after he had taken office he got word that the 6th Massachusetts Infantry was on its way to defend Washington, which had been attacked by a Baltimore ... was neatly combed. Lincoln usually has a solitary egg but instead he and his family had a enjoyable breakfast. What Lincoln did not know is that his assassination was being planned on this joyous day. John Wilkes Booth s hatred of Lincoln and the North grew so intense he couldn t handle it any more, he had to do something about it. He believed the country was for the white man ... The first idea he had was to kidnap the President but he needed help. The first to join him in the kidnapping were his old friends, Sam Arnold and Michael O Laughlin. He then added John Surratt to his team, whose mother was keeping a Washington boardinghouse. Then David Herold and George Atzerodt joined Booth in his quest to kidnap Lincoln. The most brutal to join Booth was Lewis Powell. ...
- 1027: Christianity And Judaism
- ... Jesus probably attended the local synagogue and "gained there at least an oral familiarity with the Hebrew Scriptures and the demands of Pharisaic Judaism." As He grew older, He was influenced by the teachings of John, a preacher from a nearby town. John explained that in order to pass from Earth to the Kingdom of God, one had to be baptized. Because of his teachings, John was executed by the State. Jesus soon began his own path in preaching. He took much of John's preaching to heart, but Jesus set out to show that the Kingdom of God was ...
- 1028: Computer History
- ... a device that was a precursor to the computer. The 1930s saw the first of the electronic computers. In 1935, a scientist named Konrad Zuse developed the Z-1 computer. Soon thereafter, in 1936, John Vincent Atanasoff and John Berry developed the Atanasoff-Berry computer. Later developments made by Bell Telephone Lab led to the creation of the Complex Number Calculator in 1939. Though many of these advancements were helpful, they lacked what was ... down quite substantially. In 1945, however, a computer system was built that could store the instructions that were needed in order to function. It was built based upon the work of a Hungarian-American named John von Neumann (a mathematician just as Howard Hathaway Aiken was). Now Since the computer could store its instructions in memory, the entire process took much less time. Time restrictions that were the result of ...
- 1029: Harriet Tubman
- ... Slavery by running to Philadelphia in 1849, after hearing that she would be sold, since the owners of her plantation had died. Harriet at the time, had a husband who was a free man named John Tubman. They were married in 1844 and she was allowed to sleep in his cabin at night. Harriet had mentioned the idea of escaping and John told Harriet that he had no interest in leaving his home in the south. He even threatened Harriet that if she did try and run away, he would tell her master. After Harriet escaped he ... arrived in Dorchester County, Maryland on Christmas Eve, 1854. In the thick woods she assembled with a group of slaves which included two of her brothers, Benjamin and Robert, two slaves from a nearby plantation, John Chase and Peter Jackson, and a woman slave, Jane Kane. Her brother Henry was nowhere to be found. Harriet's rule was that time was freedom, and she waited for no one, this caused ...
- 1030: Much Ado About Nothing: The Film Directed By Branagh
- ... are left intact: Claudio: Hath Leonato any son, my lord? [I.1.304] The line is delivered in such casual conversation that we hardly 'note it.' Act I concludes by fleshing out the antagonist, Don John. For the first time a scene is played in the interior of the villa--in a room lit by firelight. Branagh continues throughout the play to accent the villain in the underworld--the wine cellar of the villa. Don John is a one-dimensional villain as Shakespeare intended--merely a tool to create the drama of the play. Act II opens with the masked ball, a ceremony devoted to enjoyable deception. Branagh places the ball ... than a slow-witted functionary trying to be something he isn't. Branagh adds a quick vignette of everyone banqueting happily in the hall, then a quick contrast of thunder and lightning to introduce Don John and Borachio plotting in the wine cellar--the evil plot contrasting with Don Pedro's happy plot. At this point Branagh throws in a few lines from scene 2 with Benedick primping in his ...
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