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- 1771: Knights 2
- ... or Duke who was looking after the page became very close and did things together. The page had to learn to wait on the Duke or lord with very good manners. Their guardian often told stories or songs about famous knights. When the page reached teenhood , he became a squire. He helped with the horses , armor and learned how to fight. Squires also learned to joust and had to hold a ... relatives. Girls had lady companions and learned how to embroider and some even learned how to read and write. Boys and girls played games ; like Blind mans Bluff and chess; and listened to songs and stories. Older boys and girls hunted. Hawking was a sport where the bird tries to kill another bird. The lords hunted almost every day and so they had fresh meat. If the meat went bad, the ... straw and rushes on the floors to keep out the cold. Knights of war behaved in a civil way toward women. This kind of behavior was a code , called chilvary. Poems of love and romantic stories based on the code of chilvary and knightly deeds became popular. These expressed how a warrior should behave. The church liked the idea of chilvary , because it supported their beliefs and values. Women liked ...
- 1772: Animal Farm As Animal Satire
- ... looking at things from the top. Having served five years in Burma, he resigned in 1927 and turned back to Europe and lived in Paris for more than a year. Though he wrote novels and short stories he found nobody to get them published. He worked as a tutor and even as a dishwasher in Paris. During his poor days in Paris, he once more experienced the problems of the oppressed, the ...
- 1773: Kosovo Crisis
- ... out by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). They seeked independence and perhaps even joining the greater Albania. The Yugoslavian army was forced to enter and control these terrorist acts. Then came NATO… Driven by atrocity stories of brutality by the Yugoslavian army, NATO decided to take matters into their own hands. The bombing, on the large part an American operation, began on March 24th, 1999. These military actions received immediate opposition ... the innocent Serbs who got caught up in this terrible war. They have nowhere to run. Quotes like "campaign of terror" and "brutal actions" circulate the American press when referring to the Serb military. Atrocity stories of rape and torture are numerous. There was even an article on a study conducted by American psychologists stating that Milosevic is mentally unstable. In other words it is an attempt to create a "mad ... Canadian papers it becomes apparent that most of the opinionated pro NATO articles come from the United States. Articles appearing in The Gazette by ways of New York , Washington and other American press agencies contain stories vilifying the Serbs and attempts to justify NATO's involvement. However, editorials and articles written by Canadian journalists and columnists are not so one sided. They question NATO's strategy, publish interviews with Serbs ...
- 1774: Emily Dickinson
- ... said that the speaker in all her poems is not herself. She incorporates her emotions, feelings, and hints at the facts about her life although she is not the speaker. Emily Dickinson s poetry is short but meaningful and full of imagery on everyday subjects (Juhasz 73). Throughout most of Dickinson poetry she uses partial, slant or off rhymes, in which the final sounds of the word are similar but not ... t care because she was writing for herself, not the public. Her stanza forms and poetic rhymes come from the Protestant hymns of Issac Watts (Wolff 101). Emily Dickinson s poems are usually written in short stanza, mostly quatrains with short lines usually rhyming only on the second and fourth lines. Other poems employ triplets or pairs of couplets, and a few poems employ longer, looser, and more complicated stanzas (Tate 21). Her poems take ...
- 1775: Personal Writing: First Day at Oxford High School
- ... the gigantic school, I felt like a midget compared to the older kids, who seemed like giants. Finding the rooms where my classes were being taught was like solving a maze. The building had three stories and each level had over twelve classrooms. I had a different teacher for each class, unlike Oxford Middle School where I had only a couple of teachers. The teachers did not seem as gentle and caring as the teachers did in middle school. I only had five short minutes to change classes. When the rapid, booming bell rang for one class to end, it was like rush hour traffic in the city as we moved to the next class. People would stomp over ...
- 1776: Documentary...the Cuban Missil
- ... on that shouldn’t have been. He was a soldier of the moment who’s only objective was to do what he thought was right. I found the length of the film to be too short to adequately include more of the details of the crisis. The film did a superior job of capturing the point of the Cuban Missile Crisis, however I would have like to have seen something more directed to the people of that time. Their minds are what should concern the history of our nation, along with facts. I have seen and heard many different stories of the Cuban Missile Crisis throughout my life. I continue to draw the same conclusion about the events that took place in October of 1962. I see the Cuban Missile Crisis as a power struggle ...
- 1777: The Scarlet Letter Theme Symbo
- ... demonstrates the level of care and interest each member of the population is meant to take in the others. One of the most prominent structures in the market place is the scaffold. It was in short, the platform of the pillory; and above it rose the framework of that instrument of discipline, so fashioned as to confine the human head in its tight grasp, and thus holding it up to public ... with the punishment, one open and one self inflicted, their shame placed on display in the village. In closing, the two settings of choice in Hawthorne s novels give way to keen development of the stories and a cornucopia of symbolism. The market place restrains a person, a vision planted in our minds with the use of Hawthorn s most prominent symbol and setting, the scaffold. The forest, another setting that ...
- 1778: A Birthday
- Christina Rossetti’s poem "A Birthday" and Kate Chopin’s short story "The Story of an Hour" present conflicting attitudes toward love. In particular the speaker in Rossetti’s poem is anticipating and overjoyed by the arrival of her new found love, whereas the character in Chopin’s story, after the initial shock of her new found freedom , was overjoyed by the loss of her love. In the poem and short story several literary elements and techniques were used to convey these different attitudes toward love. A simile is comparison with one thing described as if it were another, using the words "like" or "as". In ... be seen in the lines "She was young with a fair calm face" and "There would be no one to live for in the coming years; she would live for herself". The poem and the short story using several literary elements and techniques different attitudes toward love were conveyed to the reader. In particular the speaker in Rossetti’s poem is anticipating and overjoyed by the arrival of her new ...
- 1779: Definition Of American Democra
- ... the southern states left the Union. The northern criticism of slavery became sort of an annoyance to the Southern states who wondered why the north would oppose something that economically was to their benefit. In short, the southerners wanted the anti-slavery northerners to mind their own business. Like Jefferson Davis said, "All we want is to be left alone." There were slaveholders in the south who recognized that slavery was ... car "as is". Slaves were dealt in outrages numbers, "Delos, a major trade center, could handle 10,000 slaves a day in its market" (Spielvogal 118). The treatment of Roman slaves is hard to generalize. Stories of kind treatment and even times slaves would fight to defend their owners are numerous. Then there are those cases of horrendous Treatment towards slaves, torture, abuse, hard labor. These treatments drove several slaves to ...
- 1780: Personal Writing: The Sightless Explanation
- ... to make me fall." I was dazed and confused about what was occurring. I tried to get her to tell me more, but she was afraid "they" were listening to what she said. After a short while, somebody knocked on the front door. I went to the front door and looked through the peephole. It was two police officers in black uniforms. I let them inside and the officers began to ... years of claming things happening to her. She finally decided to move out of the house. I came home from school one afternoon to say good bye to her. At this time, after all the stories she had told me and after all the experiences she was like a Grandmother to me. In a very bizarre, mysterious way she had become a larger part of my life than I had realized ...
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