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- 18361: Agamemon. Justifiable Homicide
- ... death is the only answer. Many people decide that justice is for the taking, and do so in a great vengeance. Moreover, there are instances when homicide is the best route for a person. Agamemnon's death is one of those instances. It is very clear that two wrongs do make a right. Clytaemnestra, Agamemnon's spouse and queen of Argos, has planned for her king's death for more than a decade. The unsuspecting husband returns home, expecting a warm welcome, but in fact, receives the signature on his death warrant. Clytaemnestra tricked Agamemnon, with his pride, into acting like ...
- 18362: The Ss
- ... by himself. The Reichsfuhrung-SS was divided into two main parts, the Kommandostab Reichsfuhrung-SS and the Personlicher Stab Reichsfuhrung-SS. The Kommandostab Reichsfuhrung-SS was an executive administrative staff which was located at Himmler's personal headquarters. During the War, the Kommandostab Reichsfuhrung-SS acted on a mobile basis under the title Feldkommadostelle Reichsfuhrung-SS and was setup like a military headquarters. As such, it acted as the Waffen SS ... such as signals, flak and police units. During the War, the Feldkommadostelle Reichsfuhrung-SS had many units. The Personlicher Stab Reichsfuhrung-SS was the second main part of the Reichsfuhrung SS and was basically Himmler's personal staff. The Personlicher Stab Reichsfuhrung-SS was initially an organization consisting of advisory officials, the heads of the main SS departments, and members of other important offices. It worked as an advisory body to ... detachments (which evolved into the SS Verfugungstruppe and later into the Waffen SS). From these, the SS-HA went on to control an even greater number of duties within the SS. In the late 1930's, the SS Hauptamt was the largest and most powerful office of the SS, managing nearly all aspects of the SS. The title of Hauptamt, meaning simply, main office, showing the importance that this position ...
- 18363: A Jury Of Her Peers
- Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” is an ethic drama that presents us with a mirror image of a society where men are considered superior to women in all actions. This drama take are reader, not ... shown to be wrong. This fact can be supported by the character of John Wright who is an abusive husband. Even though he treats his wife improperly, his actions are not condemned; where as Minnie’s character, who killing her husband just to stand up for herself is shows to be wrong. In this story men are given a bad role just to make a reader aware of that fact that ... major role not just because they are more talked about but simply because it makes a women reader to stand up for herself imagining themselves as the character in the drama, just as Minnie Foster’s character did for herself by killing her husband. The author portrays the fact on women by giving them the role where they are inferior to men and that they have no voice or demands. ...
- 18364: The Glass Managerie
- ... in front of him. Where does he go to escape to get adventure? The movies. The use of symbols on Tom made the play more dramatic. Most symbols in the play of Tom represent Tom's attitude towards escaping from reality. One of the symbols is the Fir Escape. In scene 1, the play says: Tom enters, dressed as a merchant sailor, and strolls across to the fire escape. There be ... sits beside the fire escape. The symbol fire escape is a good example of symbolism for Tom, but there is also the portrait of father. Another example of symbolism is the portrait of father. Tom's father left the family to travel the world and never came back. In scene 7, Tom says: I'm like my father. The bastard son of a bastard! Did younotice how he's grinning in his picture in there? And he's been absent going on sixteen years! The above quote shows Tom wants to escape from home. he wants to be like his father, go travel ...
- 18365: Juvenalian and Horatian Satire
- Juvenalian and Horatian Satire "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it." Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish satirist ... its topic, as opposed to a topic that evokes laughter in itself. Satires attempt to give us a more humorous look at attitudes, advances, states of affairs, and in some cases ( as in Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal ) the entire human race. The least offensive form of satire is Horatian satire, the style used by Addison and Steele in their essays. A much more abrasive style is Juvenalian satire, as ... alone. Horatian satire is noted for its more pleasant and amusing nature. Unlike Juvenalian satire, it serves to make us laugh at human folly as opposed to holding our failures up for needling. In Steele's essay The Spectator's Club, a pub gathering is used to point out the quirks of the fictitious Sir Robert de Coverly and his friends. Roger de Coverly is an absolute character. His failure ...
- 18366: Characterization of Uncle Henry
- Characterization of Uncle Henry This characterization of Uncle Henry focuses on the two main ways that he is portrayed in "Luke Baldwin's Vow." These two ways are: what Morley Callaghan, the author, reveals through the narrator and what other characters say about Henry. In this short story, Henry is usual referred to as Uncle Henry because he is Luke's uncle. The narrator of this story portrays Henry in many physical and psychological descriptions. He is the manager of a sawmill, where he employs four men. When working in his sawmill or anywhere else for ... a little black book to record every single transaction of the sawmill. Henry is big and burly, weighing in at more than two hundred and thirty pounds. He has a black, rough- skinned face. Luke's uncle is said to look like a powerful man, but his health is not good. Henry has aches and pains in his back and shoulders, which his doctor cannot explain. He is respected by ...
- 18367: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... he literally remade his body, becoming the muscular individual who stands out in the photographs of many history books. On October 27, 1880, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee. This supremely happy union ended with Alice’s death on February 14, 1884, following the birth of a daughter. On the same day Theodore’s mother passed away. From 1884 to 1886, because of his loneliness, Roosevelt wrote writing history books and operated a cattle Ranch in the Dakota Territory. In 1886, Roosevelt returned home to marry his childhood sweetheart ... a plutocracy and establishing reverence for commercial greed. The press named him, “the trustbuster.” But in truth he supported big corporations, if they behave in an economical beneficial manner. In 1912, as the Progressive Party’s presidential nominee, he defended big business in his “New Nationalism” platform. The first major achievement of Roosevelt’s second term was the Hepburn Act of 1906, which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission power to ...
- 18368: Diversity of Hawthorne's Writings in "Young Goodman Brown", "Ethan Brand", and "The Birthmark"
- Diversity of Hawthorne's Writings in "Young Goodman Brown", "Ethan Brand", and "The Birthmark" . "... it is no delusion. There is an Unpardonable Sin!" , a quote by Ethan Brand that is at the root of many stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
- 18369: Symbolism In The Crysanthemums
- ... to give an idea to the extent of how hard it would be to escape the pressure of the isolation that Elisa is feeling. The symbol of living on a farm helps Steinback show Elisa's isolation. Location is not the only symbol that Stinback uses in this story to symbolize Elisa Allen's character. Setback uses time in this story to compliment the location. In the second paragraph the author develops the character even more by writing, "it was a time of quiet and waiting. The air was ... the southwest so that the farmers were mildly hopeful of a good rain before long; but fog and rain do not go together."(Steinback 267) From this line much may be derived about Elisa Smith's character. The quiet waiting symbolizes how Elisa is silently waiting for something to happen. Elisa can not say much about her current situation, she has to calmly weight for something to happen. This can ...
- 18370: The Impact of Frederick Douglass
- ... father an anonymous white man. As Frederick Douglass grew up he was determined to learn how to read and how to write. He always kept a Webster spelling book with him, and persuaded Hugh Auld's wife (his master’s wife) to teach him to read. But Hugh Auld believed slaves should not be educated and stopped the lessons. White playmates helped Douglass, and he soon learned to read well. “At 7, Frederick was sent to his master, Captain Aaron Anthony, at a nearby plantation. There he first met a brother and two sisters. He later recalled sadly that "slavery had made us strangers." (Compton’s Interactive Deluxe 1) At the age of 13 he read “The Colombian Orator”, a book of speeches denouncing slavery and oppression deepened his hatred of slavery. “In 1833 Frederick was sent to work for ...
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