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- 10711: Essay On The Life Of Frederick Douglass
- ... that took place constantly to a form of brainwashing by the slaveholders over the slaves describing the terrible conditions that the slaves were faced with in the south in the first half of the 1800 s. The purpose of this narrative was most likely to give others not affiliated with slaves an explicit view of what actually happened to the slaves physically, mentally, and emotionally to show the explicit importance of ... the beginning of the many examples that Frederick Douglass used to show reasons for the abolishment of slavery. Douglass mother, slave Harriet Bailey, was immediately separated from him while he was still an infant. Frederick s father was said to be a white man, but throughout the entire narrative, Douglass does not positively confirm it. He does this probably for the fact that if he does not acknowledge that his father ... with every other black person in their position, so they felt that they could be able to find a lower class than they if the wealth of their master was more than the next slave s. One can only feel pity for the slaves though, since most of them were raised from birth by these wretched slaveholders and they were not taught anything other than how to perform their duties ...
- 10712: Catcher in the Rye: Comparison of Holden and Me
- Catcher in the Rye: Comparison of Holden and Me The book Catcher in the Rye tells of Holden Caulfield's insight about life and the world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and leads the reader on a 5 day visit into his mind. Holden, throughout the book, made other people ... that Holden and I are much more similar than I initially believed. Holden portrayed others to be inferior to his own kind all throughout the book. He made several references as to how people aren't as perfect as he was. "The reason he [Stradlater] fixed himself up to look good was because he was madly in love with himself." (pg. 27) Holden had an inferiority complex. He was afraid of ... amount of knowledge and likeness to ourselves. Holden used the term 'phonies' to describe more than a few people in this book. He used the term to be what a person is if they don't act naturally and follow other people's manners and grace. Holden didn't like phonies, he thought of them as if they were trying to show off. He didn't like it when they ...
- 10713: Joseph Stalin
- ... is name to Stalin meaning steel.(Red Tsar) As a student Stalin received a good education which gave him the ability to become dictator of all Russia and to do whatever he pleases. Stalin didn’t have a very good childhood. His father, Vissarion Djugashvilli was a drunk with a bad temper, and was a cobbler by trade.(Joseph Stalin) Stalin was beat badly by his father when he was only eleven years old and his father also died that same year.(Tyrant) Stalin’s mother, Yekaterina Geladze, was a house servant for an upper-class Georgian, she was a deeply religious women.(Joseph Stalin) Stalin was sent to the Gori Church Run School in 1888 to 1894, it turned ... by 1897.(Joseph Stalin) Before he graduated from the Seminary, he left and joined the Social Democratic Party in 1899. He started as the distributor of propaganda.(Red Tsar) This is the start of Stalin’s political career. Stalin had many political jobs that helped him to assume the position of dictator. In 1902 Stalin was arrested and spent one year in prison and then was exiled to Siberia. He ...
- 10714: The Life of Sid Vicious
- ... forever be remembered. Sid Vicious, the bassist for the "Sex Pistols" and singer for "The Vicious White Kids", was an epitome of punk rock. John grew up in the slums of London in the 1960's in a shoddy flat house that contained only two rooms. His mother was an avid alcoholic and drug user. John and his mom were constantly moving. He always loved his mom though. He once said, "I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum." John was the image of his absent father, but tended towards picking up his mom's love for music in a house full of the sounds of jazz, in particular Ella Fitzgerald. Eventually Anne found a new man. His name was Chris Beverly. She later married him. Chris loved John, and ... at one of their shows Sid was so anxious to see the band that he started jumping up and down on the spot in a speed-fuelled frenzy, thus inadvertently giving birth to punk rock's very own dance, the pogo. The Sex Pistols refused to play the pub circuit or follow the traditional path of up-and-coming bands, they promoted themselves, played unusual venues and often didn't ...
- 10715: Walt Disney
- ... older he started to draw his animals. This was the start of his cartoon making career. When Walt was seven his parent Elias and Flora sold the farm and moved to Kansas City. Walt wasn’t to thrilled about the change. This meant that Walt would have to give up all his animals. Once Walt got to the city he decided he didn’t care for at all and when he got old enough he joined the armed forces driving ambulances. There was one thing that Walt liked about Kansas City was a girl named Su. She said if ... months before his return and his dog died. He then move back to Kansas City, lived with his brother Roy, and tried to get a job as an artist. Walt had many jobs but couldn’t keep one for very long. There was very few artistic jobs available then and the ones that where available, the employers found something wrong with Walt. Then Walt started his own business. His brother ...
- 10716: Pygmalion My Fair Lady
- ... is selling her flowers. Eliza is a poor girl with a very thick accent. She is a respectable girl, which she insist throughout the movie, saying to Mr. Higgins, “I’m a good girl”. She’s had a hard life, her father being a drunk and therefore she and her mother had no money. It is hard for her to get a job because of her accent, so she resorts to ... taking notes of her speech. Eliza assumes that she is in trouble and causes a commotion, professing that she did nothing wrong. The professor explains himself. In the musical he sings a song, “Why Can’t The English Learn To Speak?” Mr. Higgins is a professor of phonetics. He has an almost mean attitude towards everyone. He is only interested in his works, he’s pretty self-centered. Colonel Pickering came from England to meet Mr. Higgins and observed whole ordeal with Eliza. Colonel and Higgins begin talking, when Higgins says that he could take Eliza and turn her ...
- 10717: Symbolistic Roleplaying
- ... of the characters are important to the complete message of the play. However, this play is about a number of things. It is about strength, determination, manipulation, and an influence that now women in today's society will give a standing ovation. Aristophanes demonstrates in this play the importance of wonderful character development. Without the distinct and precise group of specific traits of the characters, the play would certainly lose an ... and audiences. This play is led by the Athenian leader, Lysistrata. She is in some ways quite liberal, but I think that the identification of these liberal traits are difficult to distinguish. Some of Lysistrata's liberal aspects are ideas such as feminine politics, justice, recognition, and determination. For example, Lysistrata is a woman who is always determined to get her way. She feels that victory is not just important in ... be judged or questioned. this liberal trait is an outstanding aspect concerning women because she ceases to be denied. Lysistrata: Enough of these shams, you wretched creatures. You want your husbands, I suppose. Well, don't you think they want us? I'm sure they're spending miserable nights. Hold out, my friends, and endure for just a little while. (775-778) This small passage about being strong-willed and ...
- 10718: A Seperate Peace
- ... in 1943 and 1944. This book vaguely outlines his experiences at Exeter with himself as the main character but under the name of Gene Forrester. Knowles' novel tells the somber story of a young man's struggle to escape from himself and his world; to achieve a special and separate peace. The primary setting of A Separate Peace is at the Devon School. The exact location of this school is not ... in the story Gene believes that his problems lie within his best friend Phineas (Finny), but later he realizes that his conflict is internal. Misplaced jealousy, fear, love and hate fight for control of Gene's actions. When the dark side of him wins for a brief moment and he pushes Finny out of a tree it ends his man against man conflict and makes Gene realize that Finny's intention has never been to sabotage him. He had only wanted to have a close and meaningful relationship with his best friend, but their relationship was forever scarred by Gene's betrayal. Gene also ...
- 10719: Describe The Affect Of Utilita
- ... from the hostages themselves and the terrorists. People who are witnessing the situation would also get a positive utility, since they would be relieved that no one was hurt, and everything is back to it s peaceful self again. The probable negative utility would come from the government, where they lost some amount of money. If we were to consider all of these together, we would ultimately figure out that the ... amount of money we are dealing with is small, relative to the funding the government has, it is not a bad bargain to exchange that for the lives of the hostages. Since the money isn t going to be anything useful to the community, because the amount is too little. And saving the hostages would bring about peace and order among the community for a while. Whereas if we were to ... be used by the government to better the conditions of the community, or used in ways that benefit the people. We might thought twice before actually paying the terrorists the ransom. If we implement Mill s theories, we could say that the positive utility gained if the government were to save the money, and use it to benefit the larger community, is going to be greater than the positive utility ...
- 10720: Processed Art
- ... were plundered by the Nazi regime during its reign. Their ambitions as art collectors were motivated by show of power as they confiscated all of the art in the Reich that conflicted with the Party's ideology and concept of art. They inspired works of art, which have the ability to expose some of the best and worst that art can achieve. Because they involved such stark contrasts of good and ... willingness to sacrifice the self for the common good seen in many other Nazi works with explicit glorification of militarism. The pair of statures The Party and The Army stood outside the entrance of Hitler's Reich Chancellery. Like Breker's other sculptures, they are both strongly and clearly expressive, and are also an idealization of some of the most aggressive and totalitarian themes in Nazi art. Another Nazi, Adolf Wissel, painted in a certain ...
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