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- 13491: Benito Mussolini
- ... largely self-educated. He became a schoolteacher and a socialist journalist in northern Italy. In 1910 he married Rachele Guidi who bore his five children. Mussolini was jailed in 1911 for his opposition to Italy’s war in Libya. Soon after his release in 1912 he became editor of the socialist newspaper in Milan, "Avanti!". When WWI began in 1914 Mussolini advocated Italy’s entrance into the war on the allied side and was expelled from the socialist party. He then started his own newspaper in Milan, Il Popolo d’Italia (The People of Italy) which later became the ... Fascist Movement. In 1916 Mussolini enlisted in the military. After his promotion to sergeant he was wounded and in 1917 he returned to his paper. During the Chaos that Gripped Italy after the war Mussolini’s influence grew swiftly. Mussolini and other war veterans founded Fasci di Combattimento in March of 1919. This Nationalistic antisocialist movement attracted much of the lower middle class and took its name from the Fasces, ...
- 13492: Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare's Metaphor Of Comparing Man To Plants
- Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare's Metaphor Of Comparing Man To Plants To express his view of good and evil in every man, William Shakespeare writes lines that Friar Laurence reveals in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet which compare man ... has always been a conflict with the view of goodness and evilness in man. The philosopher Plato believed that man was born with a natural depravity and was basically an untrained animal who needed society's help to structure, educate, and fulfill his needs. On the other hand, Plato's pupil Aristotle believed that man is initially born with goodness and virtue. The issue of man's two sides can be thoroughly discussed over the gothic novel of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Some critics ...
- 13493: The Scarlet Letter: Dimmesdale's Suffering of Pain and Guilt
- The Scarlet Letter: Dimmesdale's Suffering of Pain and Guilt In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Dimmesdale suffered the most pain and guilt throughout the entire book. He experienced a prodigious amount of pain that caused guilt from his sin. Dimmesdale inflicted self-punishment due to his unforgiving guilt. He also felt enormous pain when the townspeople praised him. He knew he was not deserving of praise. Dimmesdale’s guilt for not admitting his sin is almost inconceivable. The scaffold was the place that he showed the most pain and self-loathing he was capable of concealing. He realized that seven years prior Hester ... Hester; but let it be guided by the will which God hath granted me! This wretched and wronged old man is opposing it with all his might!- with all his own might, and the fiend’s! Come, Hester, come! Support me up yonder scaffold!”’(p.235) Dimmesdale also felt guilt and pain about not admitting the sin that he is Pearl’s father. He was afraid that Pearl would not ...
- 13494: The South's Finest Hour: The Battle of Chancellorsville
- The South's Finest Hour: The Battle of Chancellorsville For the South in the Civil War, there were many victories and heartbreaking defeats - from the battle of Bull Run, to the upset of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. However, one Southern victory may be said as the South's finest hour. This victory came at the battle of Chancellorsville. Lincoln placed Joseph "Fightin' Joe" Hooker in charge of the Union troops to take on Robert E. Lee and his army. Hooker was to ...
- 13495: Marriage Is A Private Affair
- ... prejudiced about ethnic groups outside their own. Conflicts that arise between Okeke and his son is an example of how affiliations with a different culture can disrupt a relationship between two people because of one's ignorance. Okeke believes that holding onto his culture's traditions is more important than keeping a close relationship with his son. Nnaemeka's father chooses to follow his tribe members' opinions and customs, rather than listen to his son and stand by his decision to marry Nene. Evidence of this is when Okeke commiserates with his fellow ...
- 13496: Chemical and Biological Weapons
- ... make and use. Chemical weapons are more dangerous to America because of the conflicts we have involved ourselves in. Iraq for example, has a long and extensive history of using chemical weapons. In the 1980’s, Iraq released poisonous gases against Iranian troops. Iraq has even used chemical weapons against it’s own Kurdish citizens to subdue rebellions. As one of the aftermaths of the Persian Gulf War, however, Iraq agreed to giveup all materials and equipment for making chemical and biological weapons. An organization called UNSCOM or United Nations Special Commissions on Iraq was formed to ensure that Iraq followed through upon it’s promises. However, when Lt. Hussein, Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law and director of Iraq’s weapons program, defected, it was found that Iraq had been dishonest in it’s reports to UNSCOM. for ...
- 13497: The Black Cat
- ... best be described in the nineteenth century as being superstitious and believing that supernatural powers are affecting our decisions. Superstition and being taken over by the supernatural is a recurring metaphor for paranoia in Poe’s story. At first, the narrator of the story is very caring and loves animals; being with animals is "one of [his] principal sources of pleasure" (346). The narrator’s favorite pet is his large entirely black cat named Pluto. The narrator’s wife "made frequent allusion[s] to the ancient popular notion" that black cats were associated with bad luck, evil, witches, and the devil. Poe’s protagonist does not accept this superstition. People still associate ...
- 13498: Poetry Analysis: “My Papa’s Waltz”
- Poetry Analysis: “My Papa’s Waltz” Throughout the poem, “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke, many techniques are used to show that there are furious conflicts between a father and his son. Roethke uses the word waltz in the title to relate to the beating of ... the poem. The small boy also states, “But I hung on like death” (3). This proves that the boy was thinking about death, but dangling on to prevent it. During this whole incident the boy’s mother sits and watches as the abuse continues. Furthermore, the mother’s apathy towards the battering of her son is even more depressing and negative. The author says, “My mother’s countenance / Could not ...
- 13499: Film Score Music
- ... some sort of music. The house musician remained in movie houses for many years, however they eventually disappeared to make way for the recorded film score, known as a “ talkie” or “canned music”. The 1930's was the time that saw the rise of the symphonic film score. This was the time in which many great composers began to write the scores for films. The scores were not simple little symphonies ... Informer, Since You Went Away, King Kong, Casablanca, and Gone With The Wind (Max Steiner), The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, and A Midsummer's Nights Dream (Erich Wolfgang Korngold), and by Bertrand Hermann the infamous Citizen Kane. The films required a great use of leitmotifs, themes, and sub themes. It was these characteristics that gave the music such importance ... and helped make these films of the thirties become the memorable classics that they are. Some examples of the effective use of themes and sub themes can be found in the scores of Max Steiner's The Informer, Since You Went Away, and Gone With The Wind. Each of the scores that accompany these films have an enormous orchestration and key motifs as well as a blend of different types ...
- 13500: Jay's Treaty
- Jay's Treaty "If this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance in a just cause to any power whatever; such in that time will be its popularity, wealth and resources," stated by George Washington in response to demonstrators over the Jay Treaty. 1 Washington's remark was regarding the public's uproar following the release of information on the status of the discord with Great Britain. The people had just been informed of the contents of the Jay Treaty which were: 1) Britain agreed to ...
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