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- 16251: Thomas Jefferson's Response to the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Thomas Jefferson's Response to the Cuban Missile Crisis In the year 1801 Thomas Jefferson reluctantly sent the infant navy to the shores of Tripoli in hopes of avoiding an attack on America by the Pasha of Tripoli ... ingress of more missiles. It was announced by Kennedy that any attack on the United States from Cuba would be accepted as an attack from the Soviet Union which would trigger nuclear retaliation against Russia's heartland. Khrushchev, the Soviet in charge of the mission, also announced that seizing or sinking a Russian ship on the high seas would be regarded as an act of war by the Kremlin. For six ... peace. But then the show down came in1801 when the Pasha of Tripoli became dissatisfied with the amount of protection money he was receiving from the United States, and informally declared war on the U.S. Jefferson was suddenly faced with a challenge that he as a pacifist and noninterventionist had to face up to and intervene. Reluctantly he sent forth the infant navy to the shores of Tripoli where ...
- 16252: Peyton Place
- ... and their underlying search for their identities as sexual women in small town America. Allison Mackenzie is the bastard daughter of Constance Mackenzie who had an affair with a married man. She illegally changed Allison’s birth certificate and lied to the Peyton Place locals that her husband died. Connie didn’t want any of the town folk to find out the truth that the father of her child was a married man because she would become the town gossip of ridicule. She kept this secret to ... secretly gets an illegal abortion from the town doctor, who forces Lucas to disappear from Peyton Place and never come back or everyone will know what he did to his daughter. Selena works at Connie’s store and becomes manager when her mother, stricken with cancer, commits suicide. In 1944, during a snowstorm, Lucas Cross, now part of the U.S. Navy, shows up at Selena’s house drunk and ...
- 16253: The Boys From Brazil: Evil Will Never Die
- ... of a woman in order to create another Hitler. With such an unlikely main action, ideas may seem unimportant, but one can nevertheless find a number of ideas in the film. One of the film's major ideas is that evil will live forever. This idea is shown in the careful planning of the doctor, the lengths the Nazis go to in order to fulfill their plan, and the results of the human experiment. The doctor's experiment involved years of careful planning in order to create an environment similar to Hitler's. The doctor devoted his entire life to his research, which dated back to the time of the Nazi camps. His main goal was to clone the genes of Hitler and implant them in newborns. ...
- 16254: Emperor Hadrian of Rome
- Emperor Hadrian of Rome By the time Hadrian's contributions to his country had succeeded, and death was near; he was the most hated man in Rome. However, throughout his reign, he was regarded as a noble leader. "The Roman emperor Hadrian exercised a ... Hadrian was married to a thirteen year old girl named Sabina. Thirteen years of age was very young even in Roman terms of marriage. Hadrian became emperor in 117a.d. This occurred when Trajan, Hadrian's deceased father's cousin and guardian, made Hadrian his successor on his deathbed. "Certainly Hadrian's relationship with the Senate was not a good one(Coleman-Norton 674)." At the beginning of his reign, he put four ...
- 16255: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- ... individuals to change their morality, social class and the physical violence of their environment to make life ideal; these conventions of naturalism are used by Steven Crane to depict characters’ problems and outcomes. Steven Crane’s naturalistic conventions are best seen through the hardships Maggie endures throughout the novel. Maggie in the beginning of the novel is determined not to do two definite things: “be like her mother or be a prostitute” (10). Maggie succeeds at first, but Maggie’s environment takes control, forcing her to make the decision to get a job or go to hell. This was the first sign of her turning into her mother, and Maggie knew it. This caused her ... a prostitute. Here Maggie could not come over the adversities and problems her environment forced on her, thus proving that she was weak and had no control, but was destined at birth to follow nature’s cycle for individuals in her environment that her mother had also followed. Another incident in which the moral convention of naturalism is shown is when Pete turns his back on Maggie. He not only ...
- 16256: Hydrogen: The Fuel of The Future
- ... making hydro-cars and cause havoc for the people trying to "upgrade" us to a better system of working. I mean everything in a car has changed but the engine stays essentially the same. It's commonly known that large oil companies have been paying off the auto makers to keep all cars under the 40 mile per gallon range. There are a few exceptions and all they really changed was ... to H2 and O2 and it takes a lot of energy to get it back to water also, in other words a spark (which is a very hot burning spec of flint but it doesn't hurt us because it doesn't have a very long life and is small) or a flame and it takes it on an explosive ride back to water vapor. It is weird that way I guess because, if you burn ...
- 16257: Great Expectations: True Goodness In A Person
- ... and fulfilling lives. The main character of the novel, Pip, starts out as a little boy who is very unsatisfied with his life. He lives with his sister and her kind husband, Joe. After Pip’s view of the upper class life, living with these “common people” just wouldn’t do it for him. He wanted to be something better than he was, but it’s not just because he was selfish and ignorant, it was also contributed to by Estella, a girl Pip fell in love with. “…Why, he is a common laboring-boy,” (561) were the exact words ...
- 16258: Commonwealth
- ... and the IRA in 1921. Ireland was divided into two parts, the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. Collins was for this treaty, but many were against it and a Civil War broke out. Collin´s side known as the Irish Army was defeated. 1932 - 1968: Eamon de Valera won the Irish Free State elections with his new republican party Fianna Fail. De Valera ended the oath of loyalty to the ... police and the army while helicopters circle overhead on the lookout for trouble. Writer: Ireland has had an abundance of writers and poets. The first famous Irish writer was Jonathan Swift with hs satire "Gulliver´s Travels" which became famous overnight. He also wrote many pamphlets on Irish affairs and became increasingly bitter at the ill-treatment of Ireland under English rule. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin and studied at ... become a writer and moved from Ireland to London. He was at first so unsuccessful that he had to seek employment as an art and music critic but had his big break with "The Devil´s Disciple in New York". William Butler Yeats studied Art and became friendly with a group of mystics. He had been writing poems and plays since ha was seventeen and decided to become a full ...
- 16259: Hamlet 2
- In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare Two of the character's fathers are brutishly murdered. The first murdered character is King Hamlet who is supposed to be revenge by his son prince Hamlet. The second murder is Polonius who is supposed to be revenged by his ... to seek revenge for the death of fathers, however they will each use different methods to accomplish their deeds. Prince Hamlet has a meeting with the dead ghost of his father King Hamlet. King Hamlet's ghost reveals to his son, his murder by his brother Claudius. Hamlet is informed by his father that he needs to be avenged by the death of his brother Claudius. By this time Claudius has already ascended the throne, and married Hamlet's mother Queen Gertrude. Hamlet decides to take a passive approach to avenge his father. Hamlet first decides to act abnormal which does not accomplish much besides warning his uncle that he might know he ...
- 16260: Canterbury Tales - Medieval Church
- Canterbury Tales - Medieval Church In discussing Chaucer's collection of stories called The Canterbury Tales, an interesting picture or illustration of the Medieval Christian Church is presented. However, while people demanded more voice in the affairs of government, the church became corrupt -- this ... save the souls of the Anglo-Saxons who had brought such bitter times to their people. In their isolation, the British Church had maintained older ways of celebrated the major festivals of Christianity, and Augustine's effort to compel them to conform to modern Roman usage only angered them. When Augustine died (some time between 604 and 609 AD), then, Christianity had only a precarious hold on Anglo-Saxon England, a ... was the uppermost concern, and the wide diversity of medieval piety is simply because people answered the question, 'How can I best lead a holy life?' in so many different ways. Beginning with "The Pardoner's Tale", the theme of salvation is truly paramount. Chaucer, being one of the most important medieval authors, uses this prologue and tale to make a statement about buying salvation. The character of the pardoner ...
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