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- 11411: Communist Containment In Asia
- ... communists would come out victorious. The United States was deeply involved in World War II when shocking news swept the nation. The president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had died. As a direct result, Vice-President Harry S Truman assumed the presidency. In a way, “The world came tumbling in on Harry Truman.” (Farrell, 325) Truman was greatly unprepared for the news that he as about to receive, and he was caught off guard. His first month in office, was largely devoted to briefings by Roosevelt’s aids and advisors. Truman, and the rest of the United States, was able to close out the war successfully. Despite the fact that the USSR was allied with the United States during the war, Truman ... change in United States foreign policy, from isolationist to internationalists; thus The United States was drawn into two wars of containment and into world affairs. The Truman Doctrine led to a major change in U.S. foreign policy from its start to its indirect influence in Korea and Vietnam. The aftermath of World War II inspired the U.S. to issue a proclamation that would stem communist influence throughout the ...
- 11412: Trifles And Suppressed Desires
- The play's Trifles and Suppressed Desires wrap around a central theme of sexual tension between women and men. The characters are in search of life's meaning and seeking self-definition. In Trifles, ignorance of sexism is exposed as a major theme. The play Suppressed Desires explores new feminist theories between a married couple. Both plays were written in the 1920's way before the women's movement began But this traditional way of thinking has surprisingly continued even today and is a very important issue in our society. This is what makes both plays very ...
- 11413: Life of Julius Caesar
- ... he was killed? Caesar was a major part of the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition from republic to empire. When he was young Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades in the history of the city of Rome. The city was assaulted twice and captured by Roman armies, first in 87 BC by the leaders of the populares, his Uncle Marius and Cinna. Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married Cinna’s daughter Cornelia. The second attack upon the city was carried our by Marius’ enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter’s return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political legislation enacted during his dictatorship ...
- 11414: Fallstaff Friend Of Fatherfigu
- Falstaff: Friend or Father Figure? When studying the characters of Shakespeare's Henry IV, one can not help but observe Falstaff. Falstaff is considered by many to be one of the greatest comic inventions ever. Critics have called Falstaff everything ranging from a buffoon to "an instance ... the most dynamic characters ever constructed by Shakespeare. Yet, "the question persists, 'wherein is Falstaff good, but to taste sack and drink it? … Wherein worthy, but in nothing?'" states Charlton (cited in Hemingway 446). Falstaff's main purpose in the play is to provide the audience a character to laugh at, in what would be - with the absence of Falstaff - an extremely serious historical play. His grotesque bodily features and his ... money; a cowardly soldier, and a lying braggart; a flatterer to the face, and a satirist behind the backs of his friends; - and yet we are never disgusted with him." (cited in Hemingway 418) Falstaff's underlying purpose of the play is to act as a father figure to Hal, Henry IV. So, how does a man of such a personality attract noble followers such as Hal? In order for ...
- 11415: Buddha
- ... religious turmoil. It was an era of great brutality with the domination of Northwest India by Indo-Aryan invaders. Many people, influenced by the Aryan civilization, began to question the value of life and it's true meaning. Schools were opened because of this curiosity where teachers would discuss the significance of existence and the nature of man and held programs to reconstruct one's spiritual self. (Pardue, page 228) Background Near the town of Kapilavastivu, today known as Nepal, lived King Suddhodhana and Queen Maya of the indigenous tribe known as the Shakyas. (Encyclopedia Americana, page 687) Queen Maya ... care of as he grew to prevent him from desiring to leave the palace. Suddhodhana, listening to the prophecy, kept Siddhartha away from the pain of reality so that he could follow in his father's footsteps in becoming a well respected leader. As Siddhartha grew, he became very curious about the world outside of the palace walls. He felt a great need to undergo new experiences and learn the ...
- 11416: Mayor Of Casterbridge 3
- ... motif forms a counterpoint to the dominant theme of work and the novel develops on the basis of a conflict between various images of the isolated, individualistic, egotistical and private forms of 'economic man' (Bakhtin's term) and the collectivity of the workfolk. The many images of festivity - the washout of Henchards' official celebration of a national event, Farfrae's 'opposition randy', the fete carillonnee which Casterbridge mounts to receive the Royal Personage, the public dinner presided over by Henchard where the town worthies drank and ate 'searching for titbits, and sniffing and grunting over their plates like sows nuzzling for acorns', the scenes of revelry in the Three Mariners and Peter's Finger - culminate in ' the great jocular plot' of the skimmington. This 'uncanny revel', which like a 'Daemonic Sabbath' was accompanied by 'the din of cleavers, tongs, tambourines, kits, crouds, humstrums, serpents, rams'-horns, and ...
- 11417: Life On Michelangelo
- ... by the popes; characteristically, however, he left instructions that he be buried in Florence, and his body was placed there in a fine monument in the church of Santa Croce. Early Life in Florence Michelangelo's father, a Florentine official named Ludovico Buonarroti with connections to the ruling Medici family, placed his 13-year-old son in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. After about two years, Michelangelo studied at ... the master, it rivaled ancient Statuary, the highest mark of admiration in Renaissance Rome. At about the same time, Michelangelo also did the marble Pietà (1498-1500), still in its original place in Saint Peter's Basilica. One of the most famous works of art, the Pietà was probably finished before Michelangelo was 25 years old and it is the only work he ever signed. The youthful Mary is shown seated ... the sculptural innovations of his 15th-century predecessors such as Donatello, while ushering in the new monumentality of the High Renaissance style of the 16th century. First Return to Florence The high point of Michelangelo's early style is the gigantic (4.34 m/14.24 ft) marble David (Accademia, Florence), which he produced between 1501 and 1504, after returning to Florence. The Old Testament hero is depicted by Michelangelo ...
- 11418: Body Image
- Body Image The purpose of this study is to further explore and examine the influences of mass media on male s and female s personal body image satisfaction and the awareness and internalization of societal pressures regarding appearance. For a number years evidence surrounding the insecurities that women have towards their own bodies has been widely published. More recently ... the research surrounding the influences of media on body image has taken the form of analyzing exposure through the examination of such things as magazine content, recent research has begun to focus on an individual s awareness of societal pressures, as well as one s acceptance, or internalization, of these societal standards (Cusumano & Thompson,1997). Every culture has standards of beauty. Through the ages and around the world,people have ...
- 11419: A Comparison On The Iranian An
- ... refuses to die. If truly one wants to understand Iran and Puerto Rico, instead of looking for commonalties in each other, look for the uniqueness they possess as individual countries. Persia, or Iran as it's called, lies next to Iraq and is very close to Saudi Arabia with Russia towards the north. It s climate-for the most part- is hot and sandy, and it is very rich in oil wells. Ten percent of Iran is usable for agriculture, yet Iran is still able to support a third of ... Depot carry imitation rugs for prices somewhere in the range of four hundred and fifty dollars to five hundred. However these rugs do not contain the beauty, nor the endurance of true Persian carpets. Iran s population is quite diverse. It includes the Persians, the Turks (Including the Azerbaijani), the Kurdish, the Tatar, and the Arabs. Islam is the official religion, and about ninety-eight percent of all Iranians are ...
- 11420: MACHIAVELLI'S VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE
- MACHIAVELLI'S VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE In The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli presents a view of governing a state that is drastically different from that of humanists of his time. Machiavelli believes the ruling Prince should be the ... what humanists believed and taught. Machiavelli strongly promoted a secular society and felt morality was not necessary but in fact stood in the way of an effectively governed principality.2 Though in come cases Machiavelli's suggestions seem harsh and immoral one must remember that these views were derived out of concern Italy's unstable political condition.3 Though humanists of Machiavelli's time believed that an individual had much to offer to the well being of the state, Machiavelli was quick to mock human nature. Humanists believed ...
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