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- 20321: Civil War Reconstruction
- After the Civil War ended in the 1860's, Republicans in the north began reconstructing the union. The main goals for the north were to bring the southern confederate states back into the union and to somewhat punish them. Goals of the (white) southerners ... newly freed blacks were mainly focused on equality with white americans. Because of these conflicts in goals, the failure to bring complete equal rights to all newly freed blacks during the reconstruction of the 1860's and 70's was mainly due to the social war between the northern and southern white americans. When Lincoln was assassinated and Johnson took his place as president in the White House, the Civil Rights Act came ...
- 20322: Compare And Contrast Of Araby
- ... and anything else her father told her to do. She thought the work in the house by her mother was “ endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing.” Yet, “Work done out of doors, and in my father’s service, was ritualistically important.” Whenever her mother gave her “female” jobs to do indoors, she would “ run out of the house, trying to get out of earshot before (her) mother thought of what she wanted ... great feeling of opening-out, of release.” Her and her brother sneaked into the barn to watch the shooting of Mack. After a week or two of the tormenting memory it was time for Flora’s turn. After the girl let Flora out of the gate she felt remorse and new Flora really wouldn’t get away. There was nowhere for the horse to run free and this only caused her father to work harder. Yet, she feels no regret. Lately, she had been trying to make her part ...
- 20323: Hamlet(lit Devices)
- Paula Vasconcellos Plot of Hamlet To kill a king, to avenge a murder, to save a nation, a task put into one man’s hands. Hamlet is a man with “too much reason” and not enough action. Sick with love and disgusted by the lust which slowly engulfs his kingdom. He is surrounded by greed and death within a threatened Denmark. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, plot is constructed through various internal conflicts and a tense mood formed by the use of historical setting, psychological characterization, and ominous foreshadowing. The battle between King Fortinbras and King Hamlet is an example ... that young Forinbras will now fight back for the land his father once lost, “Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras, holding a weak supposal of our worth, or thinking by our late dear brother’s death our state to be disjoint and out of frame, colleagued with this dream of his advantage, he hath not failed to pester us with message importing the surrender of those lands lost by ...
- 20324: Frankenstein 2
- ... the monster, are compared with God and Adam. In both stories life was created by hand, out of nothing. Both the monster and Adam asked their creators for a companion, but while God satisfied Adam's request, Victor refused his creation's request. Lastly, the monster turned evil and seeked revenge unlike Adam, who after committing his sin, accepted his guilt and resigned heaven without revenge. The monster had many differences and things in common with Adam ... God satisfieed his request. The couple got along very nicely for a while and God had confidence in them both. When they both ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, they went against God's advice, but the important thing is that he never stopped loving them. The monster also asked Victor for a mate. He said he could not manage being alone. Victor at first said no, but ...
- 20325: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... one of the gentlest of men, a devout and almost mystical Hindu, but he had an iron core of determination. Nothing could change his convictions. This combination of traits made him the leader of India's nationalist movement. Some observers called him a master politician. Others believed him a saint. To millions of Hindus he was their beloved Mahatma, meaning "great soul." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869 ... University College in London. Fellow students snubbed him because he was an Indian. In his lonely hours he studied philosophy. In his reading he discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and he was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional handicrafts--ideals similar to many Hindu religious ideas. In 1891 Gandhi returned to India. Unsuccessful in Bombay, he went to South Africa in 1893. ...
- 20326: Frosts Tuft Of Flowers And Men
- ... The Tuft of Flowers , the speaker thinks he works alone. Then frost writes, But as I said it, swift there passed me by on noiseless wing a wildred butterfly (18). The Butterfly becomes the speaker s morning companion, and its flight leads the speaker to the flowers. He serves to help lead the man to realize that life and beauty unite all things. Frost writes, The butterfly and I had lit ... and that his questions against the wall will produce no substantial answers. Wallace writes, Frost knows as well how radical and difficult it is to take in another, and yet maintain a sense of one s own and the other s distinctness (227). The statement encompasses the entire theme of Mending Wall. The poem s central moment occurs when the narrator s tone shifts from playful to dark. This is apparent when Frost writes, I ...
- 20327: Eric Clapton
- ... fresh and ever changing. In the ‘70s Eric took more of a departure from blues and went on to basically playing rock and pop. An exception to this would be when he covered Bob Marley's song "I Shot the Sheriff" and took a stab at reggae. He did excellently with it, too, it was a big Top 40 hit. The eighties saw Eric Clapton make fewer albums. Although this was ... blues oriented since he was back with John Mayall. It contained the top 40 hit "Tears in Heaven" that he wrote for his son who died falling out of a New York high rise. Eric's most recent album, "From The Cradle", is his first totally blues album since his Bluesbreaker days. It turns out he hasn't lost his touch: he's as good at blues as he ever was. Over his extensive recording career Eric Clapton has proven he is among the best at what he does. He is an ...
- 20328: Blaise Pascal
- ... his mother who died when Blaise was only four years old. After her death, his only family was his father and his two sisters, Gilberte, and Jacqueline, both of whom played key roles in Pascal's life. When Blaise was seven he moved from Clermont with his father and sisters to Paris. It was at this time that his father began to school his son. Though being strong intellectually, Blaise had ... a "round" and lines he named "bars". "After these definitions he made himself axioms, and finally made perfect demonstrations." (P 39,Cole) His progression was far enough that he reached the 32nd proposition of Euclid's Book one. Deeply enthralled in this task his father entered the room un-noticed only to observe his son, inventing mathematics. At the age of 13 Étienne began taking Blaise to meetings of mathematicians and ... said they have seen nothing as mighty since the time of Archimedes." (I:Pascal) This was his first real contribution to mathematics, but not his last. Note: www.nd.edu/StudentLinks/akoehl/Pascal.html Pascal's contributions to mathematics from then on were surmasing. From a young age he was ‘creating science.' His first scientific work, an essay on sounds he prepared at a very young age. Once at a ...
- 20329: Odyssey 5
- In Homer s epic, The Odyssey, various aspects of the ancient Greeks are revealed through the actions, characters, plot, and wording. Homer uses his skill as a playwright, poet, and philosopher to inform the audience of the history ... the mental characteristics the ancient Greeks valued was the cleverness and the wit of an individual. This can be discerned from The Odyssey because of many instances and events in which Odysseus uses his brain s wit and other tricks to get himself out of a risky situation. Examples of this are when he tells Polyphemos the Cyclopes that his name is Nobody, when he overcomes Circe s magic with the help of moly, when he fills his men s ears with wax and ties himself to a post so that he and his men can get by the Sirens safely, and ...
- 20330: Oedipus Vs. Everyman
- ... their fates or misfortunes. Oedipus, when Jocasta re-tells the details of how Laios was murdered, begins his approach to denial. At first, he searches for more and more information that might prove he didn t really kill his father. This shows the reader that Oedipus seems to know subconsciously that he is the slayer of his father. Everyman, in the first scene, quarrels with Death about going on the long journey. He pleads for even a few more days before making him take this voyage. Both characters argue Not me it can t be! Both also look for a person or reason to displace their burden in order to avoid facing their strife. The second stage according to Kubler Ross is Anger. Oedipus becomes fierce and defiant upon Jocasta s telling him that he should stop searching for the truth and he doesn t need to know the answers. This is a stage that appears to mix a bit of denial with anger for ...
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