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- 1321: Leda And The Swan
- ... when the tender-hearted Leda had given protection to the swan, he had his way with her (346). Leda is innocent and unassuming. Her attacker disguises himself and deceptively targets her. In World Literature Criticism, John Lucas says, Yeats is writing here about the violence of entering history, and about how all, even the most innocent, are caught up in it (4110). Leda is of the utmost innocence, and by not ... s actions, and even the divine Zeus must pay the price for his crime on the lowly Leda. Leda and the Swan is a sonnet composed mainly of binary oppositions that reveal its meaning. As John Lucas says, The rape of Leda becomes, in [Yeats ] imagination, an instance of the ways in which violence is both intoxicating and terrible (4110). Although blessed with such wondrous features, Zeus is still controlled by ... Mythology. Lebanon: The American University of Beirut, 1977. Johnsen, William. Yeats and Postmodernism. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1991. Kuehn, Robert E. Yeats. Contemporary Literature Criticism. Ed. Dedria Bryfronski. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1979. 284. Lucas, John. Yeats. World Literature Criticism. Ed. James P. Draper. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1992. 4110. Magill, Frank N. ed. Critical Survey of Poetry. Pasedena: Salem Press, 1992. The Swan and Leda. On-line. Internet. July, 1996. ...
- 1322: The Crucible: Conflicts Between Individuals and Society
- ... those who were accused of being a witch. Russians represent the society because Communism's theory exercises toward the community, and in the American Democracy individualism is exercised. A person who symbolized individualism would be John Proctor. He was an individual who believed that Salem was committing wrong deeds to innocent people. Proctor was a single man who stood up against the court because for his beliefs. He believed that if ... she would see that what she was doing was morally wrong. Killing people just because of what the had, or how poor they were is morally unjust. We also see this through the actions of John Proctor. He was one individual who took on the responsibility to stand up to the court and explain the wrongs that were occurring. He stood against the court even the odds were against him because the girls held the judges by their hair. Abigail Williams was an example of how a person can use their responsibility to bend the society to their wants. John Proctor is an example of a person who used his responsibility to try and help the society, and not to bend it to his needs. Arthur Miller is trying to portray in The Crucible ...
- 1323: The Bay Of Pigs
- American Cultures The Bay of Pigs Characters: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as the president of the United States, was a main character in the story of The Bay of Pigs. He entered during the beginning of the book and was a major influence in the actions ...
- 1324: Richard Nixon
- ... selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate. As Vice President, Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration. Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the ...
- 1325: Social deterioration in "The Crucible"
- ... church lost many of its parishioners because the interest of the town was now on Abigail because people wanted to know who was going to be named next. When the church was trying to excommunicate John Proctor, there were not enough people at church to do it. The people were getting misled so far as to leave a dagger stuck in the door of their minister's house: Tonight, when I ... the trials the accused witch had two choices, death or imprisonment. The punishment of death was given to all people that pleaded not guilty; the other punishment was to plead guilty and go to jail. John Proctor gave his view of the justice system when he said I like not the smell of this `authority' (29). And do you know that near to four hundred are in the jails from Marblehead ... order to get Corey's land. Abigail used her power of getting people to listen to her to her advantage when she charged Proctor's spouse with being a witch so Abigail could live with John. This again proves that Abigail had control of the town and the unexplained turned neighbor against neighbor. The social breakdown in Salem was the major factor in the tragedy that took the lives of ...
- 1326: Vietnam War - The Vietnam Conflict And Its Effects
- ... was anti - Communist. At the conference, Laos and Cambodia became independent states. North Vietnam wished to unify North and South Vietnam through military force. Since the United States feared the spread of communism in Asia, John F. Kennedy provided economic and military aid to South Vietman to prevent the takeover by North Vietnam. At this time, this was still a civil war. The United States were not yet officially involved. The North Vietnamese ...
- 1327: Robert E. Lee
- ... New York harbor, where he took charge of building fortifications. When war broke out between the United States and Mexico in 1846, the army sent Lee to Texas to serve as assistant engineer under General John E. Wool. All his superior officers, including General Winfield Scott, were impressed with Lee. Early in the war, Lee supervised the construction of bridges for Wool's march toward the Mexican border. He then did ... of time, mostly because of his wife who was becoming weaker and weaker every minute. Lee came home to see her as often as possible. He happened to be in Washington at the time of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, and was sent there to arrest Brown and restore order. He did this very quickly and returned to his regiment in Texas. When Texas seceded from the ... and became Lee's most trusted subordinate. Jackson was so devoted to Lee that he said he would follow him into a battle blindfolded. With Jackson's help, Lee won a major victory over General John Pope in the second Battle of Bull Run, in August, 1862 (Nolan 89). He was then free to invade Maryland. Unfortunately, McClellan intercepted a battle order which a Confederate staff officer had carelessly lost. ...
- 1328: The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
- ... his farm. The difference between the two Hagars if that Hagar Shipley is not confronted by a divine manifestation like the Egyptian Hagar. Hagar's vision and realization comes when she and her favored son, John, leave home. Hagar slowly begins to see John's true character. Hagar Shipley wished her son was like Jacob, a faithful son in the Old Testament; however, she soon realized that he was not like Jacob. When Hagar returned to Manawaka, the statue of the stone angel had been pushed over and she requested that her son, John, fix it. Hagar says, "I wish he could have looked like Jacob then, wrestling with the angel and besting it, wringing a blessing from it with his might. But no." (pg. 159). Hagar's ...
- 1329: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- ... successful day off, and his two nemeses fail in their attempts to thwart him. A movie must have a perfect setting. “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” accomplished this task with using Chicago as its backdrop. John Hughes, the writer and director, chose Chicago because it was his hometown, and he felt obliged to showcase it. Most of his successful movies took place in or around Chicago. This let him feel more ... feel with the movie. This shows the timelessness of the film. A truly great film will never get old with age. Reviews about the movie were nothing less than flattering. “Of the many youth comedies John Hughes perpetrated in the 1980s, this remains the freshest… the film's digressions are delightful” (F.X. Feeney of LA Weekly). Critics praised the truthful depiction of typical high school life. John Hughes received quite a bit of praise for another successful attempt at recreating real life. He had already succeeded with “Pretty in Pink.” Everyday critics such as ex-vice president, Dan Quayle, say “Ferris ...
- 1330: Robert Frost
- ... of Reason (1945), and In the Clearing (1962). Frost received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943) and became the first poet to read a poem at the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy. His poetry was based mainly on life and scenery in rural New England, and reflected many values of American society. He died on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. His epitaph reads: "I had a ...
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