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- 6781: William Faulkner
- ... The Bear" and in "Barn Burning," Faulkner consistently uses "hit" instead of "it." He has a very down to Earth theme throughout his works: The theme being the coming of age type issue. All the stories I wrote about contain this maturing theme in one way or another. Faulkner is both a writer and a teacher-there is much to learn from his works.
- 6782: Four Virtues of Perseverance, Patience, Loyalty, and Appreciation
- ... are anything that I really don't feel like doing or want to do, such as school work, chores, etc. When I want something done though, I can and will get it done in a short amount of time. I already have perseverance in me, I just need to work on using it on everything I do, not just when I want to do it. This now brings me to my ...
- 6783: My Oedipus Complex
- ... you read a story of any kind you will usually know what any certain character is going through. Either by personal experience in that situation or just imagining what they are dealing with. In the short story "My Oedipus Complex" by Frank OConnor I can imagine how all the characters were feeling throughout the story. In my perspective all the characters had similar emotions. Let me begin with Larry. He ...
- 6784: Mirror of Myself
- Mirror of Myself When I look at the reflection in the mirror, I see a short and not well- proportioned figure. Her hair is soft and silky, her face young yet wise. When I look at the reflection of her soul, I see strength. Sometimes she is my mentor and other ...
- 6785: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... Classical symphonies, operas, chamber music, sonatas, church music, and concerti for various instruments. Perhaps what he is best remembered for are his operas. His astonishing rate of production continues to stupefy scholars today. In his short life, he composed over 600 works, including 21 stage and opera works. The most obvious distinction between Mozart and other opera composers is that he was the master of all other branches of composition. Mozart ...
- 6786: The Fabliaux
- ... priests, wayward monks, penniless students), clever peasants, and enthusiastically unchaste wives. Their victims are usually those whom society respects --prosperous merchants, hard-working tradesmen, women foolish enough to try to remain chaste. The fabliau, in short, is delightfully subversive -- a light-hearted thumbing of the nose at the dictates of religion, the solid virtues of the citizenry, and the idealistic pretensions of the aristocracy and its courtly literature, which the fabliaux ...
- 6787: The War Between the States
- ... politics, it must at last go under." The War Begins Events would prove Whilden correct. On December 20, 1860, delegates to the so-called Secession Convention, meeting in Institute Hall in downtown Charleston, only a short distance from Charles Whilden's boyhood home on Magazine Street, unanimously adopted the Ordinance of Secession, taking South Carolina out of the Union. The bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor four months later heralded ...
- 6788: The Odyssey and Gilgamesh
- ... In the epic Gilgamesh states, We go to kill the Evil One, Humbaba. We must prove Ourselves more powerful than he, (27). He is now another enemy of Gilgamesh. Although both men in the two stories have great physical abilities both suffer from the human trait of loneliness. In The Odyssey, Odysseus journey is to get back to his home in Ithaca with his family. This is the fact that keeps ...
- 6789: Yamamoto
- ... weapons. On October 3,1933, he was appointed to command the First Air Division of the Navy. In 1936 Yamamoto was named head of the aeronautics department of the navy. This job lasted only a short time, because he reluctantly accepted an appointment as vice minister of the navy, in the same year. Soon after his appointment, it was rumored that he was a primary target for an assassination. He held ...
- 6790: Yamamoto
- ... weapons. On October 3,1933, he was appointed to command the First Air Division of the Navy. In 1936 Yamamoto was named head of the aeronautics department of the navy. This job lasted only a short time, because he reluctantly accepted an appointment as vice minister of the navy, in the same year. Soon after his appointment, it was rumored that he was a primary target for an assassination. He held ...
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