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- 351: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... that, but he also nourished it and inspired many other writers of that time. "His influence can be found in the works of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and Robert Frost.". No doubt, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an astute and intellectual man who influenced American Literature and has rightly received the credit that he deserves from historians. He has been depicted as a leading figure in ...
- 352: Hayden Carruth
- ... which proclaimed them was a brutal era." -Another The era mite have been brutal but "truth and beauty" where and still are a large part of "proper poetry". The collected works of William Shakespeare and Robert Frost both have great deal of truth and beauty in their works as well as the tragic ordeals in life while Carruth only sees the brutality of life. Carruth goes on to name the goal of ...
- 353: The Romantically Impaired Pruf
- ... of J. Alfred Prufrock. The Georgia Bar Journal. Fall 1993. Vol. 64. p24-28. Citino, David. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock's Friend. ANQ. Fall 1998. v11. i4. p61. Fryxell, Donald. Understanding Prufrock. Robert Frost's Chicken Feather; And Other Lectures. 1968 Augustana College NDEA English Institute. Eliot, Thomas Stearns. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Complete Poems and Plays. New York: Harcourt, 1952.
- 354: The Awakening 3
- ... the twenty-eight years of her life, Edna breaks down. She wants to pursue love and disregard her duty to her husband and children. She falls in what she considers girlish love with the character Robert. She proclaims to him, I love you only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream. After a whole life of servitude to others, Edna realizes that the only way for her to be happy is to do what she wants to do. She realizes that she needed a change, and when she finds Robert, she does her best to make that change. When she makes that change, she finds the life she was looking for. She has suffered and now you are here and we shall love each other ... and as a mother. They were a part of her life. But they need not have thought that they could possess her, body and soul. All she cared about was her happiness, and being with Robert made her happy. A person should live life by pursuing their abilities and using those abilities to the greatest effect to achieve whatever goals one may set for themselves. Ayn Rand s objectivism states ...
- 355: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... argued over the best course of action. EX-COMM proved to be an irrefutable way to manage the crisis. The Statutory members included: Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Chairman of the JCS General Maxwell Taylor, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon, CIA Director John McCone, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Undersecretary of State George Ball, Special Counsel Theodore Sorensen, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and Soviet Specialist Llewellyn Thompson. In addition, the EX-COMM unofficially included: Deputy Under Secretary of State U. Alexis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, private advisers John McCloy and Robert Lovett, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson, Deputy Director of the USIA Donald Wilson, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin, and Former U.S. Ambassador to the ...
- 356: Donkey
- ... only then can one realize the immeasurable impact it could have on the availability of logs, the workload of loggers and also the final output of logs ready for the sawmill. The "Steam Donkey," as Robert from the VanNatta Logging History Museum of Northwest Oregon, consists of a steam boiler and a steam engine connected to a winch all mounted on a sled' called a donkey sled'. The donkey and all ... workplace. Works Cited Barman, Jean. The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia Revised Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Grainger, Martin Allerdale. Woodsmen of the West. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1996. Robert, VanNatta Logging History Museum of Northwest Oregon. [webpage online], accessed 14 November 1999; available from http://www.aone.com/~robert/histlog.html. Geneva Elementary School, Bellingham, Washington. [webpage online], accessed 14 November 1999; available from http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/irondonk.htm.
- 357: The Awakening 2
- ... she had had infatuations that at the time (being so young) she believed was love. She consciously chose to marry Mr. Pontellier even though she did not love him. When she falls in love with Robert she regrets her decision of marrying Mr. Pontellier. Readers should not sympathize with this because she was the one who had set her own trap. She did not love her husband when she married him ... children are another. When she blew off her children she was going too far in her rebellion. Another example of an instance where she went too far was the affair with Arobin. An affair with Robert would have been bad, but not quite as awful as the one with Arobin. This is because she loved Robert, but not Arobin. It is evidence of complete disrespect for her husband. She does not appreciate anything he has done for her. She has been completely unreasonable and he has still been quite lenient. ...
- 358: The Sun Also Rises Report
- ... with Hemingway s own definition of heroism. Many of the characters in the novel represented the popular stereotype of the post WWI expatriate Parisian: wanton and wild, with no real goals or ambitions. Mike Campbell, Robert Cohn, and Lady Brett Ashley, and even the protagonist Jake Barnes all demonstrate some or all of the aforementioned qualities throughout the novel. All seem perfectly content to exist in their own oblivious microcosm, complete ... Mike knows that these subtle protestations are about the extent of what he can do to keep Brett. As painful as it is for him, Mike gracefully steps back as Brett pursues her new love. Robert Cohn also sees Romero in much the same way as the others. The bullfighter represents to Cohn, perhaps more than anyone else, the ideal man. Cohn sees in Romero all the things that he finds ... than an escape from the trappings of real life. Just like Belmonte before him, Romero is eventually destined to deteriorate, and to be faced with an outside world that has no room for chivalry (as Robert Cohn found out). While this happens, we can assume that Jake Barnes will continue as before: confident and self-assured, with a clear understanding and acceptance of his limitations. Jake is Hemingway s hero ...
- 359: The Rms Titanic
- ... handed. Grimm returned for two additional search expeditions, but to no avail (Lynch 201). The Titanic was eventually found by an underwater geologist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. This person was Dr. Robert Ballard. Since the early 1970's Ballard had dreamed of finding the ship (Ballard, The Discovery 31). He discovered pieces of metal, fragments of man-made wreckage that could only have come from the huge ... the past and try to prevent another tragedy of the Titanic's magnitude. If not, then all knowledge gained from the loss of the great ocean liner will have been in vain. -------------------------- Bibliography -------------------------- BIBLIOGRAPHY Ballard, Robert D. Exploring the Titanic. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1988. Ballard, Robert D. The Discovery of the Titanic. New York: Warner Books Inc., 1987. Eaton, John P. and Charles A. Haas. Titanic: triumph and tragedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1986. Gary's Titanic ...
- 360: Oliver Cromwell
- ... abroad helped to vitalize a Puritan attitude of mind, in Great Britain and in North America, which has continued to influence political and social life until recent times. (Gaunt, 1996) Cromwell, the only son of Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward was born in Huntingdon, England in 1599. His father, who was active in local affairs, had been a member of one of Queen Elizabeth's parliaments. Robert Cromwell died when his son was 18, but his widow lived to the age of 89. Oliver went to the local grammar school and then for a year attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After his ... the war began he enlisted a whole troop of cavalry in Huntingdon. As a captain he made his first appearance with his troop at the end of the Battle of Edgehill (October 23, 1642) when Robert Devereux (3rd earl of Essex) was commander in chief for Parliament in the first part of the war. (Smith, 1991) In 1643 Cromwell got a reputation both as a military organizer and a fighting ...
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