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- 20371: Short Story Summaries
- Short stories, magazine articles, poems, essays, reports and many more forms of literature can be written with informative aspects in ways that are interesting. Banbara's ethnical essay, The Lesson, immediately jumps out as being judgemental. BAmbara catches the attention of her readers not only nby setting the scene and showing the characterization of her characters, but more profoundly, by showing ... on. In addition, this story is filled with foul language. The reader understands that this is intended to show characterization but feels that this extremity could be better described with amouther choice of words. Bambara's technique for giving informatiove and interesting information falls short in her four-page story. Hemingway's choppy Hills LIke White Elephants leaves much to be desired. It takes the reader teh entire length of the story to half-way figure out what the subject is. Hemingway's evasiveness regarding the ...
- 20372: The Battle Of Salerno
- ... thought that an attack on the Mediterranean was the best. The British and Americans both agreed that the best way to defeat the Germans in Italy was to neutralize the Fascist ally. Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister, convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to commit American forces to campaign in North Africa and Sicily. The Allied forces suffered significant losses after fighting in Sicily and were unable to recover in time ... Salerno. On July 26, 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was given the "go-ahead" for the planning of Operation AVALANCHE, a plan for the invasion of the Italian mainland. The basic plan called General Montgomery's British Eighth Army to cross the Strait of Messina from Sicily onto the "toe" of Italy. From there, General Montgomery's troops would advance northward as quickly as possible. One week later the American Fifth Army was to land on the west coast of Italy at Salerno. Salerno is 30 miles southeast of Naples and ...
- 20373: Emilie du Chatelet
- ... time. In spite of her talents in the area of languages, her true love was mathematics. Her study in this area was encouraged be a family friend, M. de Mezieres, who recognized her talent. Emilie's work in mathematics was rarely original or as captivating as that of other female mathematicians but it was substantive. At the age of nineteen she married Marquis du Chatelet. During the first two years of ... later at the age of 27 the birth of another son followed. Neither the children or her husband deterred her from fully grasping and indulging in the social life of the court. Some of Emilie's most significant work came from the period she spent with Voltaire, one of the most intriguing and brilliant scholars of this time, at Cirey-sur-Blaise. For the two scholars this was a safe and ... Commentary" which very few general readers understood. To realize the significance of her work for future French scholars it is important to understand the social context within which she lived and worked. One of Emilie's most significant tutors was Pierre Louis de Maupertuis, a renown mathematician and astronomer of the time. The struggle for success did not come easy even for Emilie. As a student her curiosity and unrelentedness ...
- 20374: Joan of Arc
- ... her a place of honor next to the king in the Cathedral. Charles was against any further battles against the English. In 1430 Joan fought the English again at Compiegne, but this time she didn't have Royal permission. Joan was forced to surrender to the Burgundian soldiers who caught her and put her in prison where she was badly treated. She tried to escape two times. The second time Joan tried escaping by jumping from a high tower, which caused many injuries. Joan was later bought back by some English allies. During her trial in Rouen, Joan was accused of wearing men's clothes and doing the work of the devil. The trial was 14 months long. During the trial she quit dressing like a man and went back to dressing like a normal woman. As soon as she was put back in an English prison she started wearing men's clothes again. She was then sentenced to life in prison. On May 30, 1431, Joan was burned at the stake in Rouen. She insisted that she put the cross, made of sticks, inside the ...
- 20375: The Life of Helen Keller
- ... down with a fever the doctors could do nothing about. When it finally left her, it took with it, her ability to see and hear. After that everybody that knew her was hopeless and didn't quite know what to do with little Helen. That was until Ms. Anne Sullivan came to be her governess, teacher and most of all companion. Anne was blind when she was a girl from trachoma ... was deaf and blind. Her case fascinated Anne. She studied up on the condition of deaf and blindness, and eventually got the job to look after Helen. Before Anne came to teach her, Helen didn't know how to communicate with any one and her parents and family didn't know what to do with her. Mr. and Mrs. Keller let Helen do what ever she wanted regardless of what it was. She had an awful temper that could not be controlled by anyone. ...
- 20376: J.D.Salinger
- ... the most talented fiction writer in America."(Hyman, Edgar p.444) ""Salinger is an oddity, an obsessive, who commands respect.."(Kazin, Alfred p.446) These are just a portion of endless quotes which describe Salinger's impact on typical modern day literature critic. Throughout his career he has turned the heads of many people and has been an inspirational writer for the generations with such books as "The Catcher in the ... work. It is shown that different generations look at the book differently and have very different perspectives of the main character, Holden. "The catcher in the Rye is a deceptively simple, enormously rich look who's source of appeal run in deep and completely varied veins. The very young are likely to identify with Holden and to see the adult world in which he so journs as completely phony for rebels and a guide to identification of squares. The older generation is likely to identify with some part of the society that is satirized, and to see Holden as a bright but sick boy who's psyche needs adjustment before he can, as he will, find his nitch and settle down."(Miller, James p.298)"Few heroes of contemporary literature have aroused so much devotion, imitation, or controversy as J. ...
- 20377: Supernatural Forces In Macbeth
- ... the concept of the play work and in making the play interesting. Looking through each Act and Scene of the play, it is noticed that the supernatural is definitely a major factor on the play's style. The use of the supernatural occurs at the beginning of the play, with three witches predicting the fate of Macbeth. This gives the audience a clue to what the future holds for Macbeth. "When the battles lost and won" (Act I, Scene I, 4) was said by the second witch. It says that every battle is lost by one side and won by another. Macbeth's fate is that he will win the battle, but will lose his time of victory for the battle of his soul. After the prophecies of the witches' revealed the fate of Macbeth, the plan in ... cruelty; make thick my blood Stop up the access and passage to remorse,That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th effect and it! Come to my woman s breasts,And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,whenever in your sightless substances You wait on nature s mischief! Come, thick night,And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That ...
- 20378: The Chrysalids
- ... Norm is the Image of God." (p.27) In the book the reader gets the idea that Joseph is not a very good father and is very strict: "I'll deal with this. The boy's is lying. Go to your room." (p.51) He is a cruel and inhumane person to anyone who has or is involved with a deviation. The reader would see this attitude when Aunt Harriet visits ... away. Tell her to leave the house - and take that with her." (p.71) Joseph did not show any sympathy at all toward his own sister in law. Aunt Harriet is the sister of David's mother Mrs. Strorm. She enters the story half way through the book, where she goes to Mrs. Strorm seeking help. Yet the help she is looking for is not something Mrs. Strorm agrees with: "Nothing much! You have the effrontery to bring your monster into my house, and tell me it's nothing much!" (p.70) Aunt Harriet is very loving, strong, and she fights for what she thinks is the right thing: "I shall pray God to send into this hideous world, and sympathy for ...
- 20379: Rebellion Of Company Rule In 1857 In India
- ... rebellion in 1857 had a much more patriotic feel to it. The energy and collaboration of the various groups in India, at the time, made this attempt seem promising. Their attempt at ending the company's rule seemed as though it had the spirit and common cause for all to take back their land. Most of the previous attempts at revolt had been unsuccessful, mainly due to an inability to organize ... more powerful and patriotic feel. There were various strands of groups within the rebellion and the size and intensity was unmatched, compared to any previous attempts. The mercenary nature of the English East India Company's army had led to many unsatisfied and discontented soldiers decades before the revolt. There were mutinies by both the Madras army and Bengal army by 1815, and several others followed suit. In the 1850's, many soldiers from the Bengal army were alienated and lost some of their pay and prestige. There were rumors of gun cartridges being greased with animal fat from cows and pigs, which came as ...
- 20380: The Crucible 4
- ... those who were presumably persecuting them, leaving dozens of peopled jailed. As soon as this witchcraft hysteria began to get out of hand, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony designated several of the colony s leading citizens to assemble a special court responsible for trying all those suspected of witchcraft. It was at this point that the Salem witch trials began and would later be the plot of a major 19th century play. It was 1953 when Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, which translates to "the test", a play based on the actual events of the witch trials in Salem during 1692. Although Miller s play is a strong story about what took place in Salem Village, it was inspired by Miller s belief that the madness surrounding the witchcraft trials is parallel to the contemporary political climate of McCarthyism. In Arthur Miller s version of the Salem witchcraft trials, he strongly shows the many tests that ...
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