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- 18681: ARAB-ISRAELI WARS
- ... the Arabs continued despite provisions in the 1949 armistice agreements for peace negotiations. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who had left Israeli-held territory during the first war concentrated in refugee camps along Israel's frontiers and became a major source of friction when they infiltrated back to their homes or attacked Israeli border settlements. A major tension point was the Egyptian-controlled GAZA STRIP, which was used by Arab guerrillas for raids into southern Israel. Egypt's blockade of Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba intensified the hostilities. These escalating tensions converged with the SUEZ CRISIS caused by the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egyptian president Gamal NASSER. Great Britain and France strenuously objected to Nasser's policies, and a joint military campaign was planned against Egypt with the understanding that Israel would take the initiative by seizing the Sinai Peninsula. The war began on Oct. 29, 1956, after an announcement ...
- 18682: Argentina
- ... Andina, comprising San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, La Rioja, Mendoza, Neuquén, and San Juan; and the Patagonian provinces, comprising Chubut, Río Negro, Santa Cruz, and Tierra del Fuego."(Encarta Online) Buenos Aires is Argentina's capital and largest city. Other important cities include óCrdoba, the river port of Rosario, La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires Province Mar del Plata, a resort city at the mouth of the Río de ... law, the president and vice president of Argentina must be Roman Catholic."(Encarta Online) Argentina is a nation with a rich Spanish heritage. Primary education is free and compulsory from ages 6 to 14. Argentina's literacy rate of 96 percent is one of the highest in Latin America. Argentina has 25 national universities and many private universities. The leading library of Argentina is the National Library (1810) in Buenos Aires ... The Argentine economy is based primarily on the production of agricultural products and the raising of livestock, but manufacturing and mining industries have shown marked growth in recent decades. Argentina is one of the world's leading cattle and grain regions. Argentina raises enough crops for domestic needs and export stuff to foreign markets. "Livestock raising and slaughtering are major enterprises in Argentina, as are the refrigeration and processing of ...
- 18683: Analysis of Dickinson's "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain"
- Analysis of Dickinson's "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain" "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" by Emily Dickinson is an interesting complex statement on ther relationship between the body and the soul during a time of ...
- 18684: Robert Frost's Use of Nature In His Poetry
- Robert Frost's Use of Nature In His Poetry In most poetry and literature people can pick out certain characteristics that tend to appear in each piece of the authors work. In the work of Robert Frost he ...
- 18685: Characteristics of the Beowulf Poem
- ... the early 6th century and is believed to have been composed between 700 and 750. "No one knows who composed Beowulf , or why. A single manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A XV) managed to survive Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, and the destruction of their great libraries; since his name is written on one of the folios, Lawrence Nowell, the sixteenth-century scholar, may have been responsible for Beowulf's preservation."(Raffel ix) An interesting fact that is unique about the poem is that "it is the sole survivor of what may have been a thriving epic tradition, and it is great poetry."(Raffel ix ... English isochronic: each line contains for stresses; there is a strong caesura in the middle of the lines and the resultant half lines are bound together by alliteration. Although little Old English poetry survives, Beowulf's polished verse and reflective, allusive development suggest that it is part of a rich poetic tradition."(Foster 501) An aspect of the poem is the role and characteristics of religion in the story. "Christianity ...
- 18686: Partner Abuse
- ... prof that it is a problem on college campuses. On theory of dating violence is the social learning theory. This theory examines the effects of either experiencing abuse as child or witnessing abusive between one's parents. Reachers of dating violence have found that there is a history of abuse is related to later involvement in an abusive relationship for both males and females. Also, found that having been abused as ... in the patterns of behaviors and attitudes of individuals. Discoveries that abusive man frequently espouses more traditional views about women than do non abusive men. Conversely more recent research has found no difference between men's attitudes toward women and violent behavior toward their partners. Evidence regarding women's attitudes is similarly mixed. There is no found difference between abused wives and those in discordant or satisfied marriages in their attitudes toward women. Also, no found relationship between adherence and feminist ideology. Also, ...
- 18687: Use of Paralanguage and Kinesics in Everyday Life
- ... correlation of certain kinds of movement in sleeping and waking acts. Posture is a substantial marker of feminine and masculine behavior. The relationship of posture to sex gestures is obvious in the stereotypes in U.S. advertising. Posture is an indicator of status and rank and is also a marker of etiquette. In a study of Roman sculpture and coinage, Brilliant demonstrates that posture identifies the noble and the peasant. In ... Modern studies of facial expressions dates back to the nineteenth century, starting with Charles Bell, who in 1806, published Essays on the Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression: As Connected with the Fine Arts. Charles Darwin's, The Expressions of Emotions in Man and Animals, in 1872, was apparently influenced by Bell's earlier work. Facial expressions are like sentences in human language, they are infinite in variety. The relationship of facial expression to other components of body language and to language itself, is sparsely examined and ...
- 18688: Shadow And Custodial President
- ... hand. He does not create policies or change the course of the nation, just keeps it on its way. Truthfully, some of these men are deserving of these titles. Others may not be. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 1868-1876 Towards the end of President Johnson’s term in office, Johnson and Grant began to have public disagreements about the state of the Union. Due to these quarrels Grant aligned himself with the Radical Republican political party. Grant was already well known ... James Garfield 1880-1881 Being the second President shot in office, Garfield died in September of 1881 without completing his term of office. Garfield was born in Ohio in 1831 and was educated at William’s College. Later he taught at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute before being elected to the Ohio State Senate in 1859. His main concern while in office was bringing the seceded states back into the ...
- 18689: Criticism of "The Sick Rose"
- ... of the poems. Riffaterre emphasizes the importance of the relationships between words as opposed to their "corresponding realities" (40). For example, he states that the "flower or the fruit is a variant of the worm's dwelling constructed through destruction. Thus, as a word, worm is meaningful only in the context of flower, and flower only in the context of worm" (41). After Riffaterre's reading and in terpretation of the poem, he concludes that "The Sick Rose" is composed of "polarized polarities" (44) which convey the central object of the poem, the actual phrase, "the sick rose" (44). He ... outside the text" (44). Thus, "The Sick Rose" is a self-sufficient text. Hazard Adams takes a different approach to reading "The Sick Rose" than most critics by cautioning the reader that often one "overlook[s] the fact that a literary image primarily imitates its previous usages and secondarily what it denotes in the outer world or in the realm of ideas" (13). Adams begins his analysis with examining the ...
- 18690: "Dover Bitch": Mockery of Victorian Values in "Dover Beach"
- "Dover Bitch": Mockery of Victorian Values in "Dover Beach" Hecht's parody "Dover Bitch" is a mockery of Victorian values shown in "Dover Beach", as well as those of his own period. Hecht candidly exaggerates the speech, ideas and symbols in "Dover Beach.". The first evidence of Hecht's mockery is of speech at the beginning when he writes " There stood Matthew Arnold and his girl......All over, etc., etc.". He take the soft calming words of Arnold and gives them a harsh New ... will not sit quietly and be told what to do by her husband. But when "she said one or two unprintable things" he took away her right to speak. Thus plunging her back to Arnold's Victorian classification that women should sit quietly and ingest her husbands opinions. This might also symbolize the feministic movements of the early sixties. Hecht's view might have been that women could have equality ...
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