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- 611: The Development of Desire
- ... society to uphold. This became the link between the warriors and the civilizations they represented. Works Cited Boyle, Doebler, Lopez-Lazaro and Wright. Hum 301. Tempe AZ. Alternative copy shop, 1996 Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Vintage Classics, 1990. Unknown. Beowulf. Trans. Michael Alexander. New York: Penguin Books, 1973. Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Vintage Classics, 1990.
- 612: 1968
- ... much ideological as moral, in Jessica Mitford's words, "An Indignant Generation." Although an image of arrogance, even ruthlessness, had followed him from his early days as counsel to a Senate committee investigating labor racketeering, Robert Kennedy had shown a remarkable capacity to understand the suffering of others. More than this, he had demonstrated an untiring commitment to the welfare of those who had gotten little more than the crumbs of ... VE EXPERIECED Was Nineteen sixty-eight truly the most devastating year in all of American History? A few points to prove this statement true is: the Kent shooting, the Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination, the Robert Kennedy assassination, the TET Offensive, American Riots, the My Lai Massacre, the Democratic convention, the height of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was also a big upset in the history of "OUR ...
- 613: African-Americans In The Civil War
- ... account of one of the first black regiments to fight for the Union Army, the 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment that numbered at least 1,000 soldiers. This all-volunteer regiment, lead by a white colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, helped open the 22- month land and sea assault on Charleston, South Carolina. Leading an unsuccessful hand-to-hand attack on Fort Wagner in Charleston, this regiment engaged in one of the most ... rejected the idea. In the dying days of the war in early 1865 the Confederacy faced an army that was daily thinned more to desertion than bullets. General-in chief of the Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee persuaded the Confederate Congress to arm slaves to fight for the South. These slaves trained, drilled and paraded in some cities. However, the war ended before this program could begin. Their importance in ...
- 614: Leggatt as an Independent Character in Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"
- ... portrayal depends entirely on how the captain (as narrator) perceives him, and that he deserves to be treated as the individual being that he is. Many of Conrad's critics, most notably Albert J. Guerard , Robert W. Stallmann , have taken the view that Leggatt, of the novella "The Secret Sharer," is either some sort of symbol of the captain's dark side, a kind of role model for the captain, or ... Sea. New York: National University Publications, 1976. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Graver, Lawrence. Conrad's Short Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Karl, Frederick Robert. Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979. Watts, Cedric. A Preface to Conrad. 2nd ed. New York: Longman Publishing, 1993.
- 615: Mccarthyism
- ... leg carried "ten pounds of shrapnel") and gained a lot of good press along the way. In 1944 he unsuccessfully ran against Alexander Wiley for a senatorial seat from Wisconsin, and began planning to defeat Robert La Follette Jr., whose seat was up for re-election in two years. La Follette was a Republican, and so was McCarthy, so the real race would be for the primary. Joe's campaign used ... to ruin a man's career; a few kind words to the voters helped many fellow Republicans into office. In May 1954, he got into a confrontation with the United States Army and its secretary, Robert Stevens, and the famous Army-McCarthy hearings started soon after. With a television audience of twenty million Americans, the flamboyant senator randomly fired accusations of Communism toward certain Army officers. With the assistance of his ...
- 616: History of the Cell Theory
- ... nerve cells and muscle cells. Withen the cell is genetic material, Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) containing coded instructions for the behavior and reproduction of the cell. The cell was first discovered by the 1665 English scientist Robert Hooke, who studied the dead cells of cork with a crude microscope. Robert Hooke was born on the isle of Whight and educated at the University of Oxford. Hooke could not have discovered the cell without the microscope which was developed by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek a 1674 Dutch ...
- 617: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... to the other, is always returned. The balance of things must be maintained, and the same holds true for war. The best example of this is with Lieutenant Berrendo, who kills Sordo. Yet later on, Robert Jordan kills Berrendo, showing the circle of equality. It is here that Hemingway makes his most profound theme known; given that if war is equal (one man kills another only to be killed, etc.), then ... lose many of their own. Another irony is the causes that both sides are fighting for, communism and fascism, both which are unfair and unequal ways of life. The use of Gaylords by Hemingway when Robert Jordan thinks about it idealizes it as a corrupt, debauch place
yet ironically this is the unofficial communist headquarters and place of socializing during the war. In fact, communism holds people to be equal and ...
- 618: King Arthur
- ... Isles and much of Europe Introduced by Geoffrey are Guenevere, Merlin, information about Arthur's strange birth and death and the concept of chivalry. Due to the tremendous popularity of Geoffrey's book, authors like Robert Wace and Chretien de Troyes continued on with the development of King Arthur and his life, adding yet more detail and depth to the story. Robert Wace concentrated on the Arthurian aspect of the story while Chretien concentrated on the romantic aspect of Arthur's life. Some of the new elements added include d the Round Table, courtly love and the ...
- 619: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- ... disagrees. His contention is that the plot is poorly developed. "It does not hang together; has no internal logic; one incident does not rise out of another" (cited in Long, p. 121). But according to Robert Long, Bewley has a better grasp of the meaning and presentation of ideas throughout the book. According to Long, although the plot development may not be "strictly linear," it is still certainly coherent and makes ... actions of Hurry and Natty, are clearly presented. Works Cited Cooper, James Fenimore. The Deerslayer. New York: The Heritage Press, 1961. Kelly, William P. Plotting America's Past. Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. Long, Robert Emmet. James Fenimore Cooper. New York: Continuum Publishing Company, 1990.
- 620: Photosynthesis
- ... It protects the biological system from photochemical damage." (629) "Chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b contain networks of alternating single and double bands, and have strong absorption bands in the visible part of the spectrum....," says Robert Alberty, who is a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (708) Photosynthesis, "...which occurs entirely in the chloroplasts of green cells, involves a number of steps catalyzed by enzymes. The chloroplasts contain ... best brand would be the one that makes the plant grow highest. So consider just how important that green plants really are to the human race and their survival on the earth. Works Cited Alberty, Robert A. Physical Chemistry. New York: Wiley, 1983. Asimov, Isaac. Photosynthesis. New York: Basic, 1968. Brock, William H. The Norton History of Chemistry. New York: 1993. Huheey, James E. Inorganic Chemistry. New York: Harper, 1972. Levine ...
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