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- 2351: Halberstam
- ... he inevitably drew the interest of very talented writers," Halberstam offers as the reason for the special Ali material. The writers are an equally impressive bunch, the list including Red Smith, Bill Heinz, Norman Mailer, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Frank Deford, Dick Schaap, George Plimpton, Jimmy Cannon, David Remnick, John Krakauer, Hunter S. Thompson and Jimmy Breslin. 'A window on society' Halberstam says the book is more than a sports fan's guide to the century; it's a reflection of ourselves as we grew ...
- 2352: Inspiration By Homer
- ... satirical style has often been the voice of reason when viewing the follies of society."The Rape of the Lock" is no exception. A two-canto version first appeared in 1712 at the request of John Caryll. It seems that "The Rape of the Lock" had its origins in an actual incident in polite society. Arabella Fermor, to whom Pope addresses his letter of introduction, had suffered the loss of a lock of hair. The perpetrator of this violation was Robert, Lord Petre, one of Arabella's suitors. Apparently Arabella took offence and a quarrel resulted between the two families. John Caryll, a relative of Lord Petre, requested Pope to write a humorous poem about the episode in the hopes that the two families would reconcile. "The Raping of the Lock" appeared to have served its ...
- 2353: William Butler Yeats
- ... The occult research Yeats made was apparent in his poetry. The occult was a source of images to use in his poems, and evedence of this is in all of his works. In1885 Yeats met John O’Leary an Irish Nationalist and Fenian leader. O’Leary played a large role on getting Yeats’s his work first published in The Dublin University Review and directing Yeats’s attention to native Irish ... patriot and an inspiration to Yeats. Yeats frequently accompanied here to political rallies even though he usually disagreed with her extremist tactics. Their relationship went through a lot including Gonne’s short-lived marrige to John McBride. Most of Yeats’s poetry is addressed to her. Yeats associated her with Helen of Troy, whose capriciousness led to the destruction of a civilization. In 1986 Yeats became friends with Lady Isabella Augusta ...
- 2354: Beowulf 5
- ... 1806 as Hours of Idleness. It sold well, but reviews were mixed, and Byron responded to his critics with the very successful satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. In June 1809, Byron and his friends John Cam Hobhouse and William Fletcher set off on a European tour, which ended up as a tour of the Middle East. They eventually found themselves in Albania, where Byron was treated well by Ali, the ... society formed negative opinions about Byron, and he was disrespected everywhere he went (www.webring.org/cgi-bin). So in April, Hobhouse, Fletcher, and Byron took a trip to Europe again, this time with Dr. John Polidori. In May, the group met Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin, who were both living in sin. They were travelling with Mary's stepsister, Clare Clairmont. They travelled everywhere together, finally ending up in Italy ...
- 2355: The Call Of The Wild - Symbolism
- ... severs the jugular vein of the chief of the Yeehat Indians, he kills him along with a number of other Indians. The vein is yet another symbol. It symbolizes Buck’s last tie with civilization. John Thornton was the only thing holding Buck to the civilized world. When he was killed by the Yeehats, Buck would now be a primitive animal. All he had to do was avenge the death of the only man he ever loved, John Thornton. There are many other symbols in the book, these were just the most obvious. I liked the book, it was well written in a time I like to think about. Jack London has written ...
- 2356: Emerson And Thoreau
- ... stated if he was for or against it. This angered Thoreau. Not only did Thoreau write several essay s on the subject, attacking it in the essay "Slavery in Massachusetts", and defending the violent abolitionist John Brown, and his raid at Harpers Ferry in "A Plea for Captain John Brown" , but he was also an activist for abolitionist principles. Emerson tended to think things out in his head and write them down on paper, as opposed to Thoreau, who acted his feelings out. So ...
- 2357: A Discussion on the Myth and Failure of Reconstruction Following the Civil War, and How This Failure Impacted and Changed America
- ... didn't start out to use violence, it soon found that many Negros were not frightened by just words so they turned to beatings, lynchings, and even murders.(Tindall 468) The Klansmen murdered State Senator John Stephens of Caswell County, North Carolina whose county had a majority black population.(Trelease 166) In Alamance County, North Carolina, Klansmen hanged the leading Negro Republican from a tree on the courthouse lawn.(Trelease 166 ... of the Civil War, 130 years ago. Bibliography Carter, Hodding. The Angry Scar. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1959. Craven, Avery. Reconstruction, the Ending of the Civil War. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.1969. Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction: After the Civil War. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1961 Tindall, George Brown and David E Shi. America, A Narrative History. New York, Norton & Company, 1993. Trelease, Allen W. Reconstruction, The Great ...
- 2358: Whitewater Vs. Watergate.
- ... believed Watergate was the greatest tragedy the United States had ever suffered. It remains so today. During the argument in the committee's suit for the White House tapes, Nixon's lawyer stated to Judge John Sirica that the president believed he was as absolute a monarch, such as Louis XIV. Only four years at a time and was not subject to the process of any court in the land, except ... big deal. But the "third-rate burglary" tag was created to divert attention from top officials involved. The break-in was just one of abuses of presidential power fittingly called the "White House horrors" by John Mitchell, attorney general of the United States who was imprisoned for his role in Watergate. The cover-up was not an unreasonable response to an unimportant event. Actually, it became necessary because of the threat ...
- 2359: Compare And Contrast Essay Of
- ... forms depend on that individual's culture and repeated personal choices. All human beings want "happiness," an active, engaged realization of their innate capacities, but this goal can be achieved in a multiplicity of ways. John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism (Latin utilis,"useful"), in ethics, the doctrine that what is useful is good, and consequently, that the ethical value of conduct is determined by the utility of its results. The term ... God and that the pleasure given by an act to the individual alone who performs it is the decisive test of good and evil. These are the general conceptions of Aristotle’s Normative Ethics and John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism; however, this paper aims to portray specific correlations as well as the differences on their individual notions of Hedanism (good (which is sometimes called virtue = pleasure/happiness), and morality is a ...
- 2360: Fray Junipero Serra
- ... 800 miles. He kept his determination to his watchword, "Always go forward and never to turn back." He is credited with the conversion of many Indians to Christianity for the salvation of their souls. Pope John Paul II beatified Junipero Serra September 1988. Junipero Serra is an extremely important figure in the development of the present day California. He walked thousands of miles, traveled on ships, and rode on the backs ... thousands of Native Americans to Christianity, and was a strong and courageous leader of the natives who constantly fought for their rights and provided them with the means for adapting in this new society. Pope John Paul II remarked that Serra "is an exemplary model of a selfless evangelizer, a shining example of Christian virtue and the missionary spirit He not only brought the gospel message to the Native Americans, but ...
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