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- 24661: Biography of Samuel Clemens
- ... Missouri. This was the home of his later characters Tom Sawer and Huck Finn. In these books he incorporated such features that really existed in Hannibal; features such as Holidays Hill, Bear Creek and Lover's Leap. Clemens described the residents of Hannibal as happy and content with the lives they led in their small town. In his late teens, Clemens left Hannibal on a riverboat to become a printer in ... of the Civil War, to join the Union. He went to war for two weeks and left immediately after being involved in the shooting of a civilian. He said he knew retreating better than it's inventor did. He soon decided to travel 1,700 miles from the Missouri Territory , to the Nevada Territory. He passed through Overland City, Horseshoe City, and many large and small cities in between. Clemens commented ... a cigar churns out smoke. Clemens eventually bought a house on Long Island which he named Stormfield and stayed there through his final days. Samuel Clemens was born in 1835, the night of the Haley's Comet. He always said that he thought he would go out with the comet just as he came in with it. Well, he got his wish ; Clemens died in 1910 at age seventy five, ...
- 24662: Romeo and Juliet: Tragedy of A Family or A City?
- Romeo and Juliet: Tragedy of A Family or A City? Is Romeo and Juliet's death a tragedy of two families or a tragedy of a city? In the following quote, W. H. Auden says, "The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet….is not simply a tragedy of two individuals, but ... a city is because almost everyone is involved. Almost the whole city attended the party which the Capulets held. Even Romeo attended the party. Now the audience of the play knows that even the city's citizens are involved. The next reason is when Benvolio and Tybalt exchange insults. At first they just argue. Then within a blink of an eye, you see masses of people fighting. People come from all sides. To me, it looked as if the whole town was present at the brawl. The third and most consequential reason is the ending of the play at Romeo and Juliet's funeral. The star crossed lovers' bodies were carried out into the center of town. All of Verona was following. There were masses of people. The whole town was present. This reason made me decide ...
- 24663: Oedipus Rex
- ... the Delphic Oracle which stated that the baby was destined to grow up to murder his father and marry his mother. Shocked, his parents (King Laios and Queen Locaste of Thebes) try to circumvent Hera’s curse by turning the infant over to a loyal servant (The Theban Shepherd) to take to the top Mt. Cithaeron to be killed. After nailing his ankles together and leaving him to die of the ... to light. It is most fitting that Apollo shows, as you do, this compunction for the dead. You shall see how I stand by you as I should, to avenge the city and the city’s god, and not as though it were some distant friend, but for my own sake, to be rid of evil. Whoever killed King Laios might who knows? Decide at any moment to kill me as ... irony as he condemns himself later in the play. He thinks that he is condemning the kill he is looking for. Our first example of conscious irony occurs later in scene I. Again, following Creon’s advice, Oedipus decides to consult Tiresias, a famed blind prophet. Armed with mystical ability, Tiresias knows the truth about Oedipus’ horrible fate. He knows that the King is doomed so he is reluctant to ...
- 24664: Paul Revere (1735 - 1818)
- ... In 1716 he emigrated to America. He served as a apprentice silversmith in Boston. He also opened his own shop. To make his name easier to pronounce he changed his name to Paul Revere. Paul's mother is Deborah Hitchbourn. Deborah was the daughter of a well-to-do Artisan family. Paul Revere was taught his fathers trade in his early teens. While he was still a young man he got ... Massachusetts state training of Artillery and he was a commander at the Castle Island in Boston Harbor. He also served as a major of militia in Boston after the British had withdrew in 1776. Paul's father undistinguished a military career and ended up with the failed Penobscot expectation. Paul Revere kept on making silver for a long time, and he retired in 1811 at the age of seventy six ( 76). He left his will - established copper business - in the hand of his son's, grandsons, and in his later years his great grandsons. Paul Revere's most famous engraving, depicting the 1770 Boston Massacre, put him in the forefront of anti-British propagandists. Paul also made tea sets ...
- 24665: Witchcraft And Effects On Lite
- ... posing as witches like Thomas Darling, John Smith, and William Perry. Many books had been written at the time about the subject of witchcraft like Demonology, Discovery of Witches, Discovery of Witchcraft, and Dr. Lamb s Darling. (Wysiwyg://7/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2962/witchcraze/time_england.html) Second, witchcraft is recognized around the world through its appearance in literature. Many well-known examples of a wide variety of witches ... and persecuted for her differences. Third, most importantly witchcraft has made its presence known through its appearance in American popular culture. Namely, it has become the subject of numerous television programs. Since the early 1960 s there have been almost a dozen network television programs based on the lives of witches. These shows include many popular hits like Bewitched, Angelique, Tabitha, Tucker s Witch, Free Spirit, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Charmed. Of these few programs, the most popular witches include Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) from Bewitched and Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Samantha ...
- 24666: The Devil Has His Christs
- ... a God whose nonexistence can be proven?" If you are to say, as theologians do, that God is good, you must then say that right and wrong have some meaning which is independent of God's fiat, because God's fiat are good and bad independently of the mere fact that he made them. If you are going to say that, you will then have to say that it is not only through God that ... false comfort from some sort of grief, sorrow, and pain. Whatever the reason for the reliance of God, God cannot give us comfort or be the ultimate answers to this imperfect world. By definition, God's love is the essence of perfect love. It is pretty easy to prove something false on the basis of being "perfect," for humans created the concept. So trying to be perfect in all or ...
- 24667: Madame Bovary: Destiny
- Madame Bovary: Destiny Destiny: the seemingly inevitable succession of events.1 Is this definition true, or do we, as people in real life or characters in novels, control our own destiny? Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary exemplifies how we hold destiny in our own hands, molding it with the actions we take and the choices we make. Flaubert uses Emma Bovary, the main character of his novel, to demonstrate ... them affecting her fate and by analyzing these decisions one could see from the beginning that Emma is destined to suffer. However, one can also pinpoint such decisions making events as her marriage, her daughter's birth, her adulterous relationship with Leon and her taking the poison, as times when, if she had made a different decision, her life would not have ended as tragically. When we first meet Emma, the ... Leon is the cause of many of her later problems, such as her debt, her sickness, her depression and her eventual death. Death. This brings us to the final fork in the road of Emma's life. She chooses to take the Arsenic as she feels overwhelmed and sees this as the best solution for all her problems. Why does she take the Arsenic when she is still young and ...
- 24668: Robert Boyle
- ... centuries scientists had been explaining the unknown with the simple explanation that god made it that way. Though Boyle did not argue with this, he did believe that there was a scientific explanation for god's doings. Boyle's point of view can be seen by his dealings with the elements. At this time it was thought that an element was not only the simplest body to which something could be broken down, but ... knowing that it was not actually Boyle who discovered his law, but Towneley and Power who did in 1662 and then Hooke who confirmed it soon thereafter, it can be said that this was Boyle's greatest achievement. His achievement being the conversion of scientific thought from one in which the spirits and the heavens were kept in mind at all times, to one based on experimentation and the use ...
- 24669: Macbeth: Macbeth A Tragic Hero
- ... no longer needed to be with his friend Banquo. He wanted to protect his ambition, by killing the king, and now he killed Banquo, due to the prediction of what the witches said about Banquo's son becoming the king. Macbeth wanted to ensure that he would reach his ambition without problems. Macbeth, who now no longer needed any encouragement from Lady Macbeth, started to leave her in ignorance of his ... of nemesis is shown clearly at the end of the play when Macduff came back to murder Macbeth. Macbeth would never have guessed that Macduff would come back for revenge for the killing in Macduff's household. This nemesis shows an additional force beyond Macbeth's control. Because of Macbeth's strong beliefs in ambition and the witches, when he found out Macduff was not born of woman, and also found out the Birnam Wood had been seen moving, he ...
- 24670: Oedipus Rex
- ... definitely honor such a man. Both Oedipus’ life and his kingdom were filled with riddles, paradoxes, and mysteries. Oedipus’ beginning and ending at Thebes both arose from the riddle of the oracle. Without his parent’s confrontation with the oracle, Oedipus would not have been cast away from Thebes in the first place. Yet without the riddle of the sphinx, Oedipus would not have arrived at his royal position. This could ... plague of the city. For this mystery, Oedipus consistently strives for the truth, disregarding all tries to stop his quest. In a way, the riddles represent a much more broader and significant part of man’s trials. Oedipus’ own encounter with the sphinx shows his insight upon life. Oedipus is a example for man from all his experiences in each stage: early childhood, mid-life climax, and downfall after tragedy. He ... seem universal for all men to live through this cycle, Oedipus’ dealings with riddles also plague him with tragedy, ignorance, and innocence. This makes him more of an inspiration to man. In Oedipus the King’s world, it was the gods who set the fate for all. Both Oedipus and Laius had consulted oracles, which are derived from the gods without human intervention. Here, Sophocles seems to show us that ...
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