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- 4441: The War Between the States
- ... to his brother, William, who was then serving as an artillery officer near Charleston. After describing the fighting of the preceding two days and the heavy losses of his brigade, Charles turned to a more personal subject. "[I]f it should be the decree of the Almighty that I should lose my life in this War," he wrote, then William should have his meerschaum pipe and his sisters-in-law should ...
- 4442: Lyme Disease
- ... currently assessing the effectiveness of this technique. Successful control of deer ticks will probably depend on a combination of tactics. More studies are needed before wide-scale tick control strategies can be implemented. Tips for Personal Protection · Avoid tick-infested areas, especially in May, June, and July.* · Wear light-colored clothing so that ticks can be easily spotted. · Wear long-sleeved shirts and closed shoes and socks. · Tuck pant legs into ...
- 4443: The Canterbury Tales: Analysis
- ... This was the pilgrimage the twenty nine characters would make. They would start at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, which is near London. The characters in this story tell the stories themselves. This style of writing is called framework. There are twenty-four different stories told by the characters who interact with each other throughout the entire tale. The stories are mostly old familiar ones revamped and retold with the Chaucer ...
- 4444: Stephen King's The Stand: Summary
- ... with her parents' deaths, being unwed and pregnant, and having the only other survivor in her hometown of Ogunquit, Main be her recently deceased best friend's weird brother Harold Lauder. Fran puts aside her personal feelings for Harold aside, and goes with him to the place in her dreams, to Boulder, Colorado. On their way, they meet up with six people from various states in the United States who joined ...
- 4445: Paradise Lost: Milton's Approach To Lust, Sex, and Violence
- ... it is when Adam and Eve must engage in sex to procreate that guilty feelings arise: "After the fall, both Adam and Eve agonize that the devil has devastated their sex lives by turning the personal pleasure of sex into the source of a race of beings doomed to suffer" (Daniels 36). Before the fall, Satan while observing Adam and Eve in Heaven becomes hateful and jealous at the sight of ...
- 4446: The Repressive Governments of Zamiatin's We and Orwell's 1984
- ... country must deal. One can only have supreme faith in the triumph of human nature, with all its flaws and imperfections, over the evil forces of those who would subject us to their will for personal gain. Works Cited: Bloom, Herold, ed. George Orwell. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. Crick, Bernard. George Orwell: A Life. New York: Little Brown Publishing Co., 1980. Gardner, Averil. George Orwell. Boston: Twaine Publishing Co ...
- 4447: Pride and Prejudice: Irony
- ... time when women had no political or financial individuality, she shows how the powerless can influence and migrate the more soul-destroying aspects of female impotence. It must be remembered that Austen wrote solely from personal experience, and this authenticity makes her insights perennially valid.
- 4448: The Night of the Hunter: The Preacher
- ... knife, he screams, This is what I use on meddlers! Get me? For meddlers! These meddlers that he talks of are not interfering with God's work but instead are interfering with the preacher's personal desires. Frequently, the phrase, Its steel tongue licked out. is used to indicate the action when the preacher presses the knife's button. Because of this novel's many biblical references, this phrase suggests that ...
- 4449: Book Review: Nemesis
- Book Review: Nemesis Name of Book: Nemesis was three years of age, his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn, New York. Asimov turned to full time writing in 1958. This accomplished writer is best known for his novels dealing with science fiction. However, his works extend to other subjects. These include humour, mystery, history, and some volumes involving the Bible and Shakespeare ...
- 4450: Moby Dick
- ... on life is that God created the universe with an infinite number of meanings and man is always trying to determine one specific meaning. D2. The lessons that Melville is likely to weave into his writing are 1. An exposition on whales and the whaling industry. 2. A commentary on the universe and human destiny. 3. Thoughts about God and Nature. III. Characters B. The protagonist in this book is Ishmael ...
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