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- 6631: What is a Hero?
- ... John Glenn with his trip into space, George Washington, our first president and father of our country, and John Kennedy, our youngest president. In conclusion, the term heroism varies from generation to generation, but the personal underlying meaning of the word remains the same.
- 6632: Marx's Philosophical Writings: Alienation
- ... revolutions of the others, and puts "world-historical, empirically universal individuals in place of local ones." Many people who have been misled about Marx's philosophy and writings believe that Marx is against anyone having personal possessions. This couldn't be further from the truth. What Marx was after, as evidenced by his writings, was equity. He believed our species essence was to be communal, which entails quantitative and qualitative cooperation ...
- 6633: Joseph Haydn
- ... palace built by Prince Nicholas. During this time, Haydn did not maintain his usual volume of symphony production, as he composed less than ten between 1766 and 1770. However, Haydn experienced a renewed interest in writing string quartets. He composed three groups of six quartets between 1771 and 1772, which he published with the opus Nos. 9, 17, and 20. Haydn's work underwent a transition between the years of 1768 ...
- 6634: Causes of the American Civil War
- ... as a free state. Another part of the compromise was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which provided for the return of runaway slaves to their masters. But many free states in the Union passed personal liberty laws in an effort to help the slaves escape. Many Northerners set up underground railroads where the runaway slaves could hide and get food and be directed to Canada for freedom. This angered many ...
- 6635: Joseph Stalin
- ... 1953. under the horrible conditions at the Gulags. Every year Stalin, in his paranoia sent millions of people off to their deaths. Russia s War - Blood Upon the Snow brought into view a more detailed, personal account of Stalin s atrocities. People recalling memories they had of what it was like to live under Stalin s paranoid rule. During his five-year plans to become a more industrialized nation, Stalin had ...
- 6636: Events of The Civil War
- ... In the year before, the North had lost an enormous amount of lives, but had more than enough to lose in comparison to the South. General Grant became known as the "Butcher" (Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.,1894) and many wanted to see him removed. But Lincoln stood firm with his General, and the war continued. This paper will follow the ...
- 6637: The Gambles in Life
- ... to play the stock market or try to operate a business. Some people can become so obsessed with gambling that they will bet so much money that they will lose their house, car, and other personal belongings. Other people will gamble moderately so they will become very rich. In "The Rocking Horse Winner," by D. H. Lawrence, the child Paul notices the complaint "There must be more money. " Paul rides his ...
- 6638: Joseph Stalin 2
- ... not always improve the life of his people. Stalin s first position in government began in 1898 when he joined a secret Marxist revolutionary group and became involved in many demonstrations. In 1901 Stalin began writing for the Brdzola which published many of his revolutionary articles and ideas. At the end of 1901, he was formally accepted into the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Between the years of 1902 and 1913 ...
- 6639: Hemingway's "In Our Time": Lost Generation
- ... leave a feeling of awe and wonder in the reader of In Our Time. One begins to become emotionally involved and attached to Hemingway's many stories, just as he himself appears to hold some personal attachment and emotion to each story. One could even speculate that In Our Time's main character Nick, is in fact, Hemingway himself. It seems as though no matter what age this novel is read ...
- 6640: Compare and Contrast: Aneas and Turnus
- ... the Iliad. Although both characters are devout and noble, Aneas does not possess the ardent passion of Turnus. Unlike Turnus, Aneas is able to place his beliefs in the fated establishment of Latium before his personal interests. Although Turnus is not a bad person, the gods favor Aneas in their schemes. The roles of Aneas and Turnus are reversed as the Aeneid progresses. The erasure of Aneas' free will accounts for ...
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