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- 24751: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... great detail on any one character, you still find yourself caring and hoping for each of them as they fight, love, hate, and in many cases, die. This is mainly through each of the character's personalities, which are so well-developed that you find yourself wondering if these were real people at some time or another and you might travel to Germany to meet them. The plot is not linear ... barracks, and the page after they are fighting on the front lines. It skips around a lot, but I became used to it. I may even grow to miss it in the future. This story's real strength lies somewhere else, though. This is in the portrayal of the characters' thoughts and feelings. Each character reacts to situations so realistically that many times I found myself thinking: "That's what I would have done!" This blends well with Remarque's many ventures into human nature throughout the book. He uses his characters to go into the depths of all of our souls, and ...
- 24752: Paradise Lost The Devil Compar
- How does John Milton portray Satan in his poem, “Paradise Lost”? In this epic poem, Satan’s traits include pride, treachery, and persistent spitefulness. I believe that these character traits compare to the leadership of Howe Military School. Satan commits many prideful acts throughout the poem. This shows when Milton writes, “what ... the Most High, / If he opposed; and with ambitious aim / Against the throne and monarchy of God / Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud / With vain attempt”(40-43). This line shows that Satan’s pride caused him to believe he was equal to God. That belief led him to betray God, attempting to create a coup in Heaven. This action compares to Howe Cadet leaders when they betray other ... often act in this spiteful manner when they meet resistance in their attempts to expand their power. The leaders order cadets to commit acts of an extremely offensive nature to get revenge. In John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” the poem portrays Satan as a prideful, treacherous, and spiteful being. After reading the epic poem, I believe that Satan could have acquired his character traits and leadership skills at Howe Military ...
- 24753: Another Antigone
- ... lose the impact it had. Sargoff reduces important and pivotal points in the story to a sentence such as, "Creon wilts, and tries to bang a U-ee." This sentence does not tell of Creon's attempt to repent for what he! has done by burrying Polynices and then going to free Antigone. Even if Sargoff gets all of the plot across, that is not enough to tell the whole story ... the same place and roughly the same time. Things that happened before the play or outside of the place, was told by a messenger or a character themself. The action was all centered around Antigone's actions. Her actions were the sole cause of everything that happened. Greek Tragedy Antigone does follow the Greek definition of tragedy. Tragedy is a story or play that has a signifigant conflict of morals, with ... turning point of this play is when Creon tries to mend his wrongs by burying Polynices and freeing Antigone. Antigone herself is the tragic hero because she dies for what she believes morally right. Antigone's tragic flaw is that she has only sees her point of view which leads to her death. The denouement of this story is everybody dying and then Creon realizing what he has caused. The ...
- 24754: The Epic Poem Of Beowulf Blend
- ... important one in the epic of Beowulf. Not only does the fact of Grendel having the mark of Cain symbolize that he is inherently evil because of his family line, but it also shows Beowulf's devotion to the Christian God. Beowulf knows that he cannot kill Grendel*, because the Christian God said that if anyone kills a man with this mark "he shall be avenged sevenfold." In the epic of ... who were my kinsmen, and I must follow them," that the belief in fate also effected the action of the story. In the Christian faith, there is a strong belief in the power of God's judgment. The belief that God is the final decision maker, is also evident throughout Beowulf, such as in the reference, "Whichever of us is killed must resign himself to the verdict of God." The Christian belief in the power that God's decisions carry is also shown in the story by such statements as, "God has sent him..." and, "God has entrusted to him..." One of the most important values in the pagan world was the ...
- 24755: Stonewall Jackson
- ... research someone on the confederate point of view, opposed to the Union. I wanted to learn more about that side of the war, living in the north I feel I know more about the Union’s role. Stonewall Jackson was born in 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), with the name Thomas Jonathan Jackson. He went through an inadequate country school as a child there. In 1842, he managed to secure a place for himself at the U.S. Military Academy. While there he was assigned to a war zone in Mexico (during the Mexican War), this is where he met Robert E. Lee. During his time spent there, his ranks rose from Lieutenant ... named Elinor Junkin in 1853, but she died the next year. He then married Mary Anna Morrison in 1857. His notoriety became known when he was a General at the Battle of Bull Run. Jackson’s men formed such a strong line that another southern general said, “There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!”. That is where he earned the name Stonewall. He was an ...
- 24756: Theodore Seuss Geisel, Better
- Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to generations of readers all over the world as "Dr. Seuss," is the American author of many popular children’s books. Dr. Seuss’ "deft combination of easy words, swift rhymes and batty nonsense" (Horn 69) has convinced many children that reading does not have to be a boring chore, but instead can be fun and ... theme. Two groups of animals live on either side of a stone wall. One side eats their bread butter side up, while the other side eats their bread butter side down. Because of each group’s odd ways, neither side trusts the other. Each side sets up a border patrol with mild protection. Over the course of the book, the weapons get more complicated and powerful until each side invents "the ... issues" (Lystad 2) and leaves it up to the reader to decide his or her own beliefs on nuclear war. Political issues arise again in Green Eggs and Ham. In this book "Sam-I-Am’s persistence convinces a friend to try an unusual - but tasty - dish." (Horn 67) This confrontation between Sam-I-Am and his friend is "so obviously a parable about the struggle between capitalist and socialist ...
- 24757: Joseph Stalin
- ... great industrial leader for the Soviet Union but as a terrible leader for the people. He held the title of a totalitarian leader beause he had all or total power. He disrupted the Soviet Union’s economy for years even to modern day. Stalin wanted to industrialize Russia quikly and effectively. Stalin lainched his first Five Year Plan in 1928 by making Russia a command economy. Stalin motivated the Russian people ... can only be increased by eliminating the kulaks, the wealthy farmers, and create collective farms. Collective farms is when the land is split and many people work on them instead of just one owner.Stalin’s Five Year Plans created a huge drop in the number of livestock and wheat production also decreased. This created a famine of food in Russia, starving most of the people. Stalin killed many people for ... was always out to get him. He even had his own wife killed. He killed people who talked out against the government. It is said that he had killed up to 20 million people. Stalin’s Five Year Plans created Russia as one of the world’s major industrial powers. Stalin also to make sure that he had total power he set up pictures and posters all throughout Russia saying ...
- 24758: Pride And Prejudice
- ... approach marriage, and what they hope to achieve or gain through it. The two girls mentioned above are Elizabeth and Charlotte. Elizabeth is one five sisters in a family with no male heir. Their father's estate is entailed in such a way that no one in their immediate family will receive it, so when their father dies all that they will have is the small amount of money that belongs ... is the first woman in the story to be proposed to, and she did a very peculiar thing. She is proposed to by Mr. Collins, the very man who is going to inherit her father's estate. She refuses his offer even though his "situation in life...[his] connections....and [his] relationship to [Elizabeth], are circumstances highly in [his] favor." Elizabeth simply says that "[he] could never make [her]happy...and [she] is the last woman in the world that could make [him] so." What makes her decision so peculiar is that in marrying this man she could keep her father's estate in the family and become financially sound for the rest of her life. Being a woman in this time and being in a situation where she looks as to inherit almost nothing a ...
- 24759: Lasers -
- ... thunderstorm in 1752 the most famous kite in history flew with sparks jumping from a key tied to the bottom of damp kite string to an insulating silk ribbon tied to the knuckles of Franklin's hand. Franklin's grounded body provided a conducting path for the electrical currents responding to the strong electric field buildup in the storm clouds. In addition to showing that thunderstorms contain electricity, by measuring the sign of the ... through the kite apparatus, Franklin was able to infer that while the clouds were overhead, the lower part of the thunderstorm was generally negatively charged. Research continued at a steady pace until the late 1960's when lightning research became particularly active. This increased interest was motivated both by the danger of lightning to aerospace vehicles and solid state electronics used in computers and other devices as well as by ...
- 24760: Hippolytus
- ... finds that the nurse has told Hippolytus, decides that the only logical course of action is to kill herself. This action is certainly related to the gods because Aphrodite makes it look as if Phaedra's suicide is really the fault of Hippolytus. Some of Hippolytus' actions are related to the gods as well. When Theseus discovers that Phaedra is dead and decides to exile Hippolytus, Hippolytus does object to his ... to suffer for no good reason. Therefore, the most important reason for gods treating humans the way they do is that they are reacting to the actions of humans; this is especially true of Aphrodite's reaction to Hippolytus's failure to worship her. The gods must derive something from the suffering of the humans; otherwise there is no point in making them suffer. In this case, the gods derive both sorrow and joy ...
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