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- 191: Robert E. Lee 2
- ... slowness of their manufacturing capacity and transportation facilities doomed them to defeat (McPherson 25). The Army of the Potomac, under the Union general George Gordon Meade, numbered about 85,000; the Confederate army, under General Robert E. Lee, numbered about 75,000 (Johnson 90). After the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2 to 4, an important victory for the Confederates, Lee divided his army into three corps, commanded by three lieutenant ...
- 192: A Social History Of Truth
- ... the truth. A duel usually came into play when an insult or mentita occurred.The Royal Society avoided insult to one another on the truths of matters and instead engaged in civil conversation.Chapter 4 Robert Bolye was the most influential of experimental philosophy.He provided much of the factual information the 17th century experimentalists operated on. Boyle was considered the founder of experimental philosophy.Robert Boyle was the youngest son of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork. Richard Boyle was the founder of his family s honor; it is believed that his parents were yeomen. He made his money through the rents of various Irish lands and married into more fortune when he married Robert s mother. Richard Boyle was a Protestant hero as well as a gentleman. He died when Robert was a youngster.Robert Boyle was heavily influenced by his tutor Isaac Marcombes and by the idea ...
- 193: My Last Duchess By Robert Brow
- My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning, is an example of a dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem ...
- 194: The Awakening
- ... of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day." (8) When Edna goes to mass with her friend, Robert Lebrun, we see another instance where she's not herself: "A feeling of oppression and drowsiness overcame Edna during the service. Her head began to ache, and the lights on the altar swayed before her ... Madame Antoine's, with no mind of what her husband thinks. He didn't know that she was going in the first place. She seems not to worry about what others think of her, except Robert. When Edna returns home later that day, she finds out that Robert is leaving for Mexico. She is rather upset with this news and afterwards leaves to go home. "She went directly to her room. The little cottage was close and stuffy after leaving the outer ...
- 195: Kate Chopin A Style Of Her Own
- ... during the summer and her husband, Leonce, goes to the city every week, and is home on the weekends. This allows Edna the freedom to do and think what she pleases. A young man named Robert, lives at Grand Isle during the summer also. He flirts continuously with Edna and she seems to like this sort of attention. Robert and Edna always went to the waterhole on the hot summer days to cool off. Of course, they would never go when the sun was high in the sky. Then, Robert would walk Edna back to her house and they would talk for hours. Everyone at Grand Isle could see the attractions between Edna and Robert, even Robert. Edna, on the other hand, did not ...
- 196: The Awakening- Edna Pontellier
- ... of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day." (8) When Edna goes to mass with her friend, Robert Lebrun, we see another instance where she's not herself: "A feeling of oppression and drowsiness overcame Edna during the service. Her head began to ache, and the lights on the altar swayed before her ... Madame Antoine's, with no mind of what her husband thinks. He didn't know that she was going in the first place. She seems not to worry about what others think of her, except Robert. When Edna returns home later that day, she finds out that Robert is leaving for Mexico. She is rather upset with this news and afterwards leaves to go home. "She went directly to her room. The little cottage was close and stuffy after leaving the outer ...
- 197: Lady Audleys Secret
- ... are simultaneously diseased, depraved, and socially and economically oppressed (Bernstein, 73). Lady Audley s ability to control the men in her life makes her a devilish figure. When she attempts to convince Sir Michael that Robert is insane with no proof and just her innocent looks, she is portraying the fears of many people in Victorian society: a woman with power is dangerous. In Lady Audley s Secret, crimes logically emerge ... mirrored in Braddon s tale as Audley Court, Sir Michael s uncertainty when he first proposed to Lucy about her past, Lady Audley s attempts to avoid any talk of her past, and of course, Robert s grave warning to Lady Audley that he was on to her scheme. In Lady Audley s Secret, Mary Braddon took to the new form like a duck to water. Using these two works as ... mysteries is coincidence. Nineteenth century writers commonly introduced the most improbable coincidences into their narratives. This was especially popular in Victorian sensational novels. In Lady Audley s Secret, it is coincidental that George Talboys knew Robert Audley, and meets him immediately upon his return from a long overseas absence, and that it is to Audley s own uncle that Talboy s missing wife is married (Reed, 130). Then, Robert brings ...
- 198: A Memorable Experience in Photography
- ... picturesque images and views that really catch the interest of the photographer. For me to experience and admire photography, it took me only one photographer to really appreciate the power it has his name is Robert Capa. Robert grew up in Hungary he experienced the political unrest and turmoil. He lived under the oppression of Horthy and knew the kind of anarchy that constitutes war(Images of War 8). Robert's work represented 3 categories: 1. Images of battle. 2. Images of the effects of war. 3. Images of calamity(Photographs,Introduction). His work also had a swift understanding and sympathy for the people ...
- 199: African American Sentiments
- ... single purpose and that was to bring an end to slavery. In the movie gGlory,h the director focused on the African American in the north that fought in the 54th regiment led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. During the time of the Civil War, the African Americans that fought in the 54th regiment were often treated unfairly but there were always nice people that backed them up. In this essay ... in charge of distributing necessities, served as the people who discriminated the African American soldiers. When in training, Sargent remained strict towards the training of the African American soldiers even after his short talk with Robert about being too harsh on the soldiers and stuff. I think he was racist against the soldiers because if the solders were white, he probably wouldnft treat them the same way. When he was ... was that the African American soldiers only get a $10 while the white soldiers get $13. Colonial Montgomery, who was anther leader of a contraband regiment, also showed racist sentiments towards his regiment and also Robertfs regiment. He treated the African Americans harshly, and didnft treat them like real man. He allowed them to confiscate civilian valuables and burn down secesh towns. Not only the whites showed sentiments ...
- 200: Karshish By Robert Browning
- Robert Brownings An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician is a dramatic monologue in which Karshish writes to Abib about his experiencing the miracle of Jesus, when he raises Lazarus ...
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