|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 16671 - 16680 of 30573 matching essays
- 16671: John Brown
- ... a farmer, tanner, and surveyor. In 1849, John Brown moved with his second wife Mary Ann Day, and their seven children to North Elba. He planned to aid the free blacks living in Garrit Smith s colony, dubbed Timbucto , adjust to the hardships of farming in the Adirondacks. After realizing the impossibility of this task, John left, and followed the abolitionist movement to Kansas where five of his sons were already stationed. Here in Kansas, Brown continually struggled to become financially secure, but gained a reputation as a ferocious opponent of slavery (John Brown s Raid). This reputation was greatly enhanced when Brown and his sons led a brutal mission against the proslavery population, which resulted in five innocent proslavery settlers being mutilated and murdered. After staying in Kansas for ... meetings based on the abolishment of slavery. By early 1858, Brown was designing a plan of launching a direct assault on Southern slavery...to overthrow slavery in a large part of the country. (John Brown s Raid). This planning and scheming eventually lead to the raid on Harpers Ferry Brown s planning and actions could have never risen to such intolerable levels without the financial support and aid of several ...
- 16672: Analysis Of Hills Like White E
- In “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway relies on symbolism to convey the theme of abortion. The symbolic material objects, as well as the strong symbolic characters, aid the reader’s understanding of the underlying theme. The material objects that Hemingway uses to convey the theme are beer, the good and bad hillsides, and a railroad station between two tracks. The beer represents the couple’s, “the American” and “the girl’s”, usual routine activity they do together. This bothers the girl because “that’s all [they] do … look at things and try new drinks.” This shows that the girl is tired of doing the same ...
- 16673: Love in The Renaissance
- ... but there was one characteristic that was prevalent throughout the renaissance and it was clearly stated in many of the writings that came from this period. The characteristic that defined many of the poets poem's of the Renaissance was love, and it was one of those emotions that can be seen throughout much of the literature that was written during that time period. Therefore, I plan to take a look at some the text that deals with the emotion of love and to show that it had a very powerful way of controlling a man's heart and mind, and I also plan to show that love was a reoccurring theme of many of the poets writing during the Renaissance. Wyatt and Surrey were two contemporary poets that wrote on the issue of love. Both of the poets derived some of their ideas concerning love from such works as Petrarch's Rime 140, and they also used each other to write about how they felt about love. In both of these sonnets Wyatt and Surrey wrote about how the issue of love labored heavily on ...
- 16674: 1984 2
- ... with War is Peace and Freedom is Slavery , is used by the Party as a way of brainwashing the people of Oceania. One of the main terms used as a way of describing the Party s position on thought crimes is Ingsoc . Ingsoc believes that anyone who is guilty is guilty because thinking on your own is the complete reverse of the reality of the society. Basically this is a way of condemning and brainwashing the people into thinking that they are wrong about everything and the Party is always right so don t go against what the Party says. There are many strategies in which the Party hopes to ensure success with its totalitarian rule. One was to start young, with the children. Children are the key to ensuring success by having them brainwashed early, when they are most vulnerable, and by doing so, ensure success that they will grow up and be totally under the Party s control. Another strategy that the party used was fear. Fear is a tool by which everyone can be controlled. Anyone who ever doubted the Party s power was quickly arrested or killed. A most ...
- 16675: Acid Rain
- ... as well, because we eat these fish, drink this water and eat these plants. It is a problem that we must all face together and try to get rid of. However acid rain on it's own is not the biggest problem. It cause many other problems such as aluminum poisoning. Acid Rain is deadly. WHAT IS ACID RAIN? Acid rain is all the rain, snow, mist etc that falls from the sky onto our planet that contains an unnatural acidic. It is not to be confused with uncontaminated rain that falls, for that rain is naturally slightly acidic. It is caused by today's industry. When products are manufactured many chemicals are used to create it. However because of the difficulty and cost of properly disposing of these products they are often emitted into the atmosphere with little or ... after the winter and that all the snow and ice was running down into the streams and lakes. They believed that the snow had been exposed to many natural phenomena that gave the snow it's high acid content. Other scientists were not sure that this theory was correct because at the time that the snow was added to the lakes and streams the Ph levels would change from around ...
- 16676: Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
- ... goes through a change and emerges a more complete person or more experienced. In The Adventures of Huck Finn, a symbolic death is very apparent during the scene in which Huck sets up his father's cabin to look like Huck was brutally murder. Huck emerges as a runway child and now must be careful of what he does, so that he does not get caught. Huck also tells people false ... of the Cosmogonic Cycle. The Road of Trials is the next step in the Cosmogonic Cycle, which are the obstacles which the character faces throughout the literary work. In The Adventures of Huck Finn, Huck's Road of Trials occurs on the Mississippi River. He faces many obstacles, including moral decisions of right and wrong, dealing with con-artists, and helping a runaway slave. He promulgates more experienced from his journey down the river on his raft. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden's Road of Trials takes from Pencey Prep to New York City. Holden deals with his own mental hallucinations, cognative disotience, and his desire to stay innocence, his Peter Pan complex. The author does not ...
- 16677: The Scarlet Letter: Light And Dark Imagery
- ... they have many different meanings and are displayed in many different ways. Light usually symbolizes good, purity, and joy. The darkness symbolizes evil, secrecy, or guilt. An interaction between the two is also evident. Hawthorne's use of light and dark imagery is used to show the significance of good and evil in The Scarlet Letter. When darkness is mentioned in the novel, it refers to either evil, secrecy, or guilt. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne is able to portray Chillingworth as evil through other character's descriptions of him. Hester Prynne describes him by how "his dark complexion seemed to have grown duskier" (Hawthorne 103). Chillingworth's "dark complexion" represents his evil, which in time has "grown duskier", meaning his evil ways have grown. Terence Martin states, when utter blackness succeeds the vivid light of the meteor, the smiling and scowling ...
- 16678: Jackson, Andrew
- ... Fathers set up a nation government following our independence to oppose that. They felt that the people should have a say in their government. It would take 50 years, but they finally elected a people's president by the name of Andrew Jackson. How is it that our country could evolve from smart thinking, and strong willed plantation owners, such as; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. To mere farmers and soldiers, such ... could participate. These new voters wanted a President who was just like them, they wanted someone they could relate to. Van Buren would help to put Jackson in office by presenting Jackson has a people's president. He presented him as someone just like them, someone who knew where they were coming from. Jackson's party would be known as the democrats. They were in favor of a smaller government, and thought the states should have more control over issues. One such issue Jackson thought states should have control ...
- 16679: Odysseus: Traits of an Epic Hero
- ... so he had to hold onto the bottom with all his strength. Second, he was able to steer a boat through a raging thunderstorm. He also had to hold his men down so they wouldn't eat the honeyed plant because then they would forget about home. Not only is Odysseus strong he is also very intelligent. He knows when to do the right thing at the right moment. He carved beeswax from an enormous cube to give to his men to put in their ears so they didn't have to listen to the Siren's songs. Since Odysseus didn't have any leftover beeswax for his ears, he had to resist the temptation of hearing the songs. Secondly, he tricked the Cyclops and got away in time before he ...
- 16680: Creative Writing: Year Long Period of Solitary Confinement and What I Would Bring With Me
- ... computer would also provide a source of entertainment with games and programs I could use to pass the time. I would bring my alpine ski equipment along with my rock climbing gear to the earth's frozen basement. The two passions of my life are snow skiing and rock climbing. On the Antarctic continent lie many mountain ranges that have the world's driest and most plentiful powder, and the most magnificent rock and ice faces and cliffs. These conditions are a skier's and rock climber's heaven. The mountains could provide me with a sense of extreme pleasure and make my stay in the earth's freezer well worth it. There is one problem with skiing ...
Search results 16671 - 16680 of 30573 matching essays
|
