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- 231: Edna Pontellier S Character In
- ... Carlene Stone takes the reader through stages of Edna's struggle to become an artist showing direct correlation with her becoming and individual and in control of her own self. For example she states how Robert's encouragement while she is painting is very innocent in the beginning but eventually lead's to the awakening of her passions of her body and her falling in love with Robert. The fact that Edna falls for Robert goes against those societal roles which where followed by some many women of the 1800's. Robert plays a big role in Edna's self-development through artistry and love by being a huge ...
- 232: Killer Angels 2
- ... provides no commentary by the people involved in history. The historical account of the Battle of Gettysburg, as seen in Killer Angels, provides the facts of the battle as seen through the eyes of Generals Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet, and John Buford. The feelings and inner-thoughts of each General and the conditions of the battle are seen, heard, and felt by the reader in the historical account ... people. The historical account of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg specifically, in Killer Angels conveys the attitude to toward war, attitude towards the Civil War, and cause for fighting the war of General Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet, and John Buford. General Robert E. Lee gained stoic and legendary status as the heart and soul of the South in the Civil War, but many did not know his reasons and feelings for fighting the war. War and ...
- 233: Ernest Hemingway - "The Lost Generation"
- ... physical wound that serves as his tragic flaw and the weakness of his character. In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises Jake Barnes is the character who maintains the typical Code Hero qualities; while Robert Cohn provides the antithesis of a Code Hero. Jake Barnes, the narrator and main character of The Sun Also Rises, is left impotent by an ambiguous accident during World War I. Jake's wound is ... These characteristics reveal his strong character built of courage and grace. Jake, as with any Code Hero, is a man of action who spends more time achieving goals than talking about them. Jake's friend, Robert Cohn violates everything a Hemingway Code Hero represents. He is rich, gifted, and skillful and is ready to discuss his emotions in detail. Robert refuses to admit defeat when Brett rejects him repeatedly. Unlike Jake, when Cohn is hurt, he insists on complaining to everyone instead of suffering in silence. Cohn does nothing to assert his masculinity, either. ...
- 234: Code Of Behavior
- ... Joachim du Bellay. The great sonneteers of England included Sir Thomas Wyatt, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and John Donne; lyrics in other forms were contributed by John Skelton, Ben Jonson, and Robert Herrick. The shorter poems of John Milton and the odes of John Dryden were important additions to the lyric mode in the 17th century. III 18TH- AND 19TH-CENTURY LYRIC POETRY The most important German ... Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich von Schiller, and Heinrich Heine. In the mid-18th century in England Thomas Gray and William Collins wrote important odes and elegies; at the end of the century the Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote lyrics in his native dialect. English lyric poetry flourished in the romantic period (18th century and 19th century). Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) by William Blake, Lyrical Ballads (1798 ... Emily Dickinson. Giacomo Leopardi was the leading Italian lyricist of the time. IV THE MODERN LYRIC The lyric mode is still almost universally popular in modern times. Notable lyrics have been written by the Americans Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings; the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats; W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender of England; the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas; German ...
- 235: Kate Chopin's Controversial Views
- ... to be happy. Finding Edna's behavior unusual, her husband Mr. Pontellier takes the advice of a friend and leaves on a long business trip, giving Edna her space. On the isle she also meets Robert Lebrun who awakens her to a passion Mr. Pontellier could never give her. During the summer they fall deeply in love but Robert is scared of being condemned by society and flees to Mexico.(Bloom 11). After Robert leaves, Edna meets Alcee Arobin. Hopeful that Alcee will be like Robert, she takes him into her home. Once there Alcee becomes as controlling as Mr. Pontellier. Instead of helping her independence as Robert ...
- 236: Euthanasia and the Law
- ... competent to be able to form such a decision? Who has the right to say when, by whom or by what means this should be done? An example of this situation is evident in the Robert Latimer case. In this situation Tracy Latimer, Robert's daughter, had been suffering from cerebral palsy since she was born. Tracy would never learn to walk, talk or develop mentally, beyond the level of a new born child. Throughout Tracy's twelve years ... was performed during which two stainless steel rods were inserted and attached to the vertebrae. For the pain these operations she could take nothing stronger than Tylenol. Finally in October of 1993, Tracy's father, Robert, could not stand to see her suffer any longer. In an act of mercy he put Tracy into the family's truck and hooked the exhaust system of the truck up to a tube ...
- 237: Cuban Missile Crisis: The Edge Of War
- ... When U-2 activity was increased, reports showed the presence of SAMs (surface-to-air missiles) and torpedo boats with ship-to-ship rockets (Mills 233). On September 4, Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin met with Robert Kennedy to discuss a message from Khrushchev. According to the message, the military buildup was defensive in nature and not militarily threatening. Robert F. Kennedy informed the ambassador that the United States would closely watch all military activity in Cuba and warned of severe consequences should the Soviets place offensive weapons (Mills 233). President Kennedy apparently did not ... sixteen and thirty-two medium-range ballistic missile sites and would be ready within seven days. Construction for intermediate-range missile sites was already under way and would be operational by December. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, a member of Excom, suggested that the United States place a naval "quarantine"n Soviet Ships on the way to Cuba. This was to serve as a warning to Khrushchev (Mills 238). The ...
- 238: Should Gambling Be Legalized?
- ... Press of Kansas, Lawrence, (1986) Annin, Peter, "Looking for a Peice of the Action," Newsweek (June 13, 1994), p. 44 Eichenwald, Kurt, "Fool's Gold in American Gambling," Newsweek (March 21, 1993) p.33 Goodman, Robert, The Luck Business, The Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion, Free Press, (1995) Hirshey, Gerri, "Gambling Nation," The New York Times Magazine (July 17, 1994) p.36 Lester, David, Gambling Today ... Craze," U.S. News and World Report (March 14, 1994), p.49 5. Lester, David, Gambling Today, Thomas, (1989) p.37 6. Solotaroff, Ivan, "The Book on Gambling," Esquire (September 1995), p.162 7. Goodman, Robert, The Luck Business, The Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion, Free Press, (1995) p.39 8. Shapiro, Joseph P., "America's Gambling Fever," U.S. News and World Report (January 15, 1996), p.58 9. Goodman, Robert, The Luck Business, The Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion, Free Press, (1995) p.73 10. Abt, Vicki, James F. Smith, and Eugene Martin Christiansen, The Business of Risk, Commercial ...
- 239: Keeping Things Whole
- ... to be happy. Finding Edna's behavior unusual, her husband Mr. Pontellier takes the advice of a friend and leaves on a long business trip, giving Edna her space. On the isle she also meets Robert Lebrun who awakens her to a passion Mr. Pontellier could never give her. During the summer they fall deeply in love but Robert is scared of being condemned by society and flees to Mexico.(Bloom 11). After Robert leaves, Edna meets Alcee Arobin. Hopeful that Alcee will be like Robert, she takes him into her home. Once there Alcee becomes as controlling as Mr. Pontellier. Instead of helping her independence as Robert ...
- 240: The Use Of Psychics In Police
- ... occurred, all of which were similarly butchered. After the fifth murder Scotland Yard still had no suspects or no leads, so they decided to call in one off the most prolific psychics of this era, Robert James Lee. Scotland Yard told the media that with the aid of Robert James Lee the detective unit had solved over one hundred crimes. Scotland Yard then proceeded to tell the world that they guaranteed that with the help of Lee that they would be capable of catching the Ripper with in a month. Robert James Lee was not the type of person that wished to be a celebrity or have any public notice because of his special talent. After Scotland Yard released to the media about the use ...
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