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- 901: Billy Budd 2
- Billy Budd, a 19th century novel written by Herman Melville, involves three main characters: Billy Budd, John Claggart and Captain Vere. Throughout the first nineteen chapters, Melville portrays each character with distinct personality, in which case Billy Budd is represented as the simple-minded sailor, Claggart is viewed as the villain, and ... However, chapter twenty contradicts or rather morphs the earlier images of these characters. Though containing only four pages, this chapter is the most important of all, because it revels the unseen traits of each man. John Claggart represents the epitome of demon-haunted man. In chapter twenty, Melville carefully describes the change in Claggart s twisted figure as he speaks to Billy with a hypnotic stare of his charge against the ... Claggart s demonic trait to a more extreme level. Billy Budd plays a role of a good-hearted and simple peacemaker. His winsome looks and innocent nature wins the loyalty of many sailors except for John Claggart. During Billy s brief moment of his stay in Captain Vere s cabin, one can see that his angelic image morphs into an image of a deadly creature. When John Claggart shocks Billy ...
- 902: Thomas Jefferson
- ... printed and widely circulated and subsequently all important writing assignments were entrusted to Jefferson. When Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia in June, 1775, as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress, he already possessed, as John Adams remarked, "a reputation for literature, science, and a happy talent of composition" (Koch and Peden 21). When he returned in 1776, he was appointed to the five-man committee, including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, which was charged with the most momentous assignment ever given in the history of America: the drafting of a formal declaration of independence from Great Britain (Daugherty 109). Jefferson was responsible for preparing the ... more favorable international commercial relations, and in 1784, compiled instructions for ministers negotiating commercial treaties with European nations. In May 1784, he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to assist Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, both of whom had preceded him to Europe to arrange commercial agreements (Koch and Peden 24). He traveled throughout Europe and every place he went, he was not only an American diplomat, but ...
- 903: Jim Morrison: The Lizard King
- ... to express everything correctly. Jim’s voice started out very weak and lacked confidence. Soon Jim became very confident with himself and his voice. The next member of the band came into place, the drummer John Densmore. Ray found him in his meditation class. John was much like Jim in that they both had tempers and both were raised almost the same. After the trio’s first try at getting a record contract, Jim ran into the woman who would ... many of the things that she knew, intellectually. Then a month or so later, to replace Ray’s brother’s who did not really work out, Robby Krieger became the new guitarist. Robby was in John and Ray’s meditation class as well. These men soon became the great rock and roll band we know as The Doors. After their adding their final band member, The Doors practiced every day ...
- 904: Poe's Literary Vengence
- ... seem to be based upon his tumultuous relationship with his stepfather. Grolier's Encyclopedia tells us Poe like his stepfather was an orphan at an early age. It also tells us Poe was reared by John and Frances Allan. He left the country for his early childhood schooling and returned to the United States in 1820. Grolier's says in 1827, he was estranged by his stepfather because Poe refused to ... of the story. "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge" (149). This line reflects Poe's despise of his estranging stepfather John Allan. This estrangement forced Poe to make decisions about his life that he would not have had to consider at such and early age. Fortunato was a wealthy man who was admired in his community ... insult. For his gold I had no desire." (Charters 597). Poe seems to be talking about his father inversely, wishing that this was how his father had treated him. It was not the case, though. John Allan had wronged Edgar and had insulted him. His estrangement of Edgar is proof of the wronging and insult he gave to Edgar. The other two lines are how Poe wished he felt about ...
- 905: Henry David Thoreau
- ... Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ancestry, was baptized as David Henry Thoreau, but at the age of twenty he legally changed his name to Henry David. Thoreau was raised with his older sister Helen, older brother John, and younger sister Sophia (Derleth 1) in genteel poverty (The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 1). It quickly became evident that Thoreau was interested in literature and writing. At a young age he began to show ... Emerson's household, and during this time he came to know Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and many other members of the "Transcendental Club" ("Thoreau" 696). On August 31, 1839 Henry David and his elder brother, John, left Concord on a boat trip down the Concord River, onto the Middlesex Canal, into the Merrimack River and into the state of New Hampshire. Out of this trip came Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (25). Early in 1841, John Thoreau, Henry's beloved older brother, became very ill, most likely with tuberculosis, and in early May a poor and distraught Henry David moved into the upstairs of Ralph Waldo Emerson's house (35). ...
- 906: Revenge In The Crucible
- ... get go, and now her window of opportunity showed its face. "You drank a charm to kill goody Proctor" (19). This shows Abigail's ambitions of getting rid of Elizabeth so that she can have John to herself. Abigail was fixated upon John Proctor. Soon the girls learn that whomever they accuse of compacting with the devil, is arrested and some of them are even hung. With this idea in mind the girls set out to punish every person who has ever done anything to hurt or annoy them "Why, Abigail William's charge her"(73). This once again shows how Abigail will try to get John at all costs. She doesn't seem to understand that by killing John's wife, John will never talk to her again. "And seventy-two condemned to hang by that signature" (87). The girls ...
- 907: The Crucible: Summary
- ... in a voodoo dance. Rev. Paris cought these girls conjuring sprits. As a result, the girls beging to blame their behavors on witchcraft. Abigail Williams is a young girl whose only desire is to have John Protor as her lover, but there is only only one thing stopping her and thats John's wife Elizabeth. So one day Abigail goes to Tituba, who is a voodoo witsh, and asked Titubia give her a charm to kill Goody Proctor so that John may fall in love with Abby. When Abigal learns that this method does not work, she starts telling people that Elizabeth is a which just so she can get John Proctor. An example "Abigal' ...
- 908: What is a Gospel?
- ... news of the kingdom includes a call to repentance (Mt. 4:17; Mk 1:15)"(McKenzie 320). It presents Jesus as the Messiah and Savior. The writers of these books are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These four Gospels were written down to preserve the sayings and works of Jesus for future generations. They were all written a little later after Jesus' death, probably before A. D. 100. Each gospel was ... are alike in many ways. For example, in each Jesus is the central figure. Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called the Synoptic gospels. The word "synoptic" means "giving a common view" of the gospel story. John is independent in his choice of material. He focuses on the theme of the eternal life through the faith in Christ. Each of the Gospels are equally historical. The gospel of Mark stresses the human side of Jesus. Matthew has been called an expanded edition of Mark. Luke shows a more literary and more historical product, while John shows a decided development beyond the type established in Mark. For years after Jesus' death, the gospel story was an oral tradition, but once the gospel story began to be written down, oral tradition ...
- 909: Barnabas
- ... Saul," indicates the pre-eminence. It was "Barnabas and Saul" who carried relief funds from Antioch to the famine- stricken Jerusalem (Acts 11:30). Barnabas was commissioned by the Antioch church, along with Saul and John Mark, to undertake the missionary journey which led them to Cyprus and later to the provinces of the mainland. While on the island of Cyprus, two major changes occur, Saul is now called Paul and ... relative standing of the two men in Jerusalem. The separation of Barnabas from Paul and their divergent missionary activity began in Antioch after the Jerusalem conference. The issue which Luke gives was the taking of John Mark on another journey (Acts 15:36). John Mark's defection at Cyprus (Acts 13:13) seemed to Paul to be sufficient grounds for dropping him from the party. Barnabas was extremely devoted to John Mark because they were cousins (Col 4: ...
- 910: Asian American Literature
- ... distinguished from other Americans because of their different appearance, language and culture. Lee portrays many of these immigrant groups becoming a scapegoat to the unhappy Americans. The people who call themselves the ˇ°Americansˇ± protest against John KwangˇŻs system of helping the immigrants. They blame the immigrants of their joblessness and financial difficulties. The government blames Kwang for corruption in his dealings with the illegal aliens. A closer look at the ... make Henry feel at home in Albert's house. It is "something else" than being similar, it fails to be described in the language of American culture. In the same way, Henry's feeling toward John Kwang cannot be said in English. Henry wishes that he and John can speak in Korean as he states, "in these moments that I wish for John Kwang to start speaking the other tongue we know; somehow our English can't touch what I want to ...
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