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- 26401: John Dryden
- ... a success. During the next 20 years he became an important and well-known dramatist in England. Some of his most famous plays included names like Ladies a la Mode, Mock Astrologer, and An Evening s Love. Another play that was famously known because it was banned as indecent was Mr. Limberham. This was unusual for this time period for a play to be banned because of it s indecency because the Restoration was a time of change. He was also a master of writing the heroic rhymed couplets. They were extravagant and full of pageantry. One of his later tragedies, the World Well ... proved unsuccessful. Nearing the end of his career he began a new career as a translator. His most important translation was The Works of Virgil. During this same period he wrote his greatest ode, Alexander s Feast, which was written for a London musical society and set to music by Purcell. In 1699, nearing death, Dryden wrote his last published works. He at the age of 69, died in 1700. ...
- 26402: John F. Kennedy 2
- John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the second child of nine children. He lived in the suburbs of Boston but as his family grew his father's income increased and they moved back to Brookline. John had a seemingly happy childhood. He attended private selementary schools where he played sports and games. Though never making the varsity, his father encouraged him to ... As the nation joined and mourned his death, people from all over the world gathered at the funeral in Washington D.C. to pay their respects. Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin expressed the world's sense of loss when he said that "a flame went out for those who had hoped for a just peaceful and better life." President Kennedy was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. It ... believed that President Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. It was never proven because Mr. Oswald was shot to death just days after the death of the president by Jack Ruby. In the commission's report (made public on September 24, 1964) Oswald was said to have fired the shots that killed John F. Kennedy. Furthermore, the committee stated that they "found no evidence" that either Ruby or Oswald " ...
- 26403: John Haigh
- ... Who Is John George Haigh? Who Is John George Haigh? The Acid Bath Vampire In the halls of vampiric crime, few names stand out like that of John George Haigh. Half a century ago, England's newspapers screamed, "Vampire!" The trial of "The Acid Bath Vampire", one of England's most infamous serial killers, was about to begin. Haigh grew up in Wakefield, England. His parents were deeply religious members of a faith called the "Plymouth Brethren". In order to rebel against the strict teachings ... wealth) and disposed of in an acid bath. His ever increasing orders for acid and acid bath tanks grew large enough for suppliers to grow curious. After an extraordinary amount of time, some of Haigh's victims were missed by their friends and family, and the police began an investigation. Eventually, he was arrested by the police. Once in custody he confessed to everything, including his need for blood and ...
- 26404: Frankenstein: Good and Bad Choices
- ... or task was to create man. After creating the man, Prometheus felt it his job to protect his creation. In doing so, he gave fire to man that he had stolen from Zeus. From Prometheus's actions he suffered for the rest of eternity. When Victor Frankenstein made his being, he made a choice to "animate lifeless clay and body-parts", to become a being. The choice he made would haunt ... recover during the night. After Victor Frankenstein created his being, he called it pure evil, but in reality, Victor made his being evil. When Prometheus opens the box that his bother sends to him (Pandora's box) he lets out all the evil things that corrupt the world. Frankenstein can be compared to Prometheus. Both Frankenstein and Prometheus made things that undoughtily went wrong. Frankenstein made the being and by the end of the book the being had turned out to be an evil creature that no one wanted to have anything to do with. But at the same time, Prometheus brought on himself Pandora's Box. In the same way, Victor Frankenstein is like Zeus. Frankenstein made the being and Zeus made Prometheus and he made fire to help out man. Frankenstein, after making his being, did not want ...
- 26405: Sociological Perspective From The Blues Brothers
- ... When Ray Charles plays the keyboard and sings Shake A Tail Feather one may find a simple example of semantics. In this scene the band members are considering the purchase of a keyboard from Ray's music shop. To try to get a cheap deal they tell Ray that the keyboard is out of tune. Ray proves the keyboard is in excellent condition by giving an outstanding performance of his song ... catches up to Jake until after the big performance that saves the orphanage. Jake Blues and his brother find themselves staring down the muzzle of an automatic weapon. We learn that the assailant is Jake's ex-fiancé who he left at the altar. The audience is given the portrayal of a tense woman bent on revenge. To save his life the instincts of the id begins to work and the ... Psychic energy is produced at the gospel service. Their destructive instinct overcomes when Elwood Blues drives his car through a shopping mall. They experience external conflict because of their need to reorganize their band. Jake's religious revelation is an example of his internal conflict. To be accepted as trustworthy and pious. This paper has applied abstract reasoning to particular scenes to better understand sociological concepts and the effects on ...
- 26406: A Jury Of Her Peers
- ... in which she really just wants to go home to a desire to help a friend in need so much that she commits obstruction of justice. The next major character is Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife. This woman also feels a deep loyalty to womanhood and that is why she does not tell her husband about Mrs. Hale’s crime. This quiet and relatively new comer to the county has really no ties to anyone except her husband. That makes the entire situation more complex for her. She has loyalty to her husband and is considered, "married to the law," at several times. The fact that she breaks that loyalty to save an acquaintance’s distant friend that she only knows what she sees in her house about allows you to see the depths of the bonds of the sisterhood of women in need. This makes her probably the ...
- 26407: Creative Writing: The Chase
- ... the parking lot attempting to avoid drawing attention to himself or his accompanying bundle. He knew it would only be a matter of minutes before the police would be on his trail and he couldn't have them catching him so he would have to make certain he covered all his tracks and make it as difficult as he could for his pursuants as he could. For starters he had to ... cutting his losses by leaving the package of jewels behind and trying to escape and save his own butt. Running out to his car he sees the police cars turning off the exit. "Ah!, there's no time, I'd better make a run for it!" He trots off into the trees while police get out of their cars and start chasing him through the wooded obstacle course. He feels his ...
- 26408: Josef Stalin
- ... funds for the Bolshevik cause. He was selected by Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Central Committee in 1912 and the following year he briefly edited the new party newspaper, the Pravda (Truth). At Lenin's request he wrote his first major work, Marxism and the Nationality Question. However, before this article appeared in 1914, Stalin was sent to Siberia. Following the Russian Revolution of February 1917, Stalin returned to Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg), where he resumed the editorship of Pravda. In 1922 Stalin became secretary general. After Lenin's death, he joined in a triumvirate with Grigory Zinovyev and Kamenev to lead the country. With these temporary allies, Stalin acted against his arch-rival Trotsky, having him and his supporters expelled from the Party ... last years, increasingly paranoid and physically weak, Stalin was apparently planning another purge. In January of 1953, he ordered the arrest of many doctors from Moscow, mostly Jews, charging them with medical assassinations, but Stalin's sudden death in 1953 forestalled perhaps another bloodbath.
- 26409: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... German in World War I. So he expresses his opinions through Paul‚ the main character of the book. One of the strongest themes in this book is that war makes man inhuman. From the author’s point of view soldiers was often compared to various nonliving objects‚ that were inhuman. The soldiers are compared to coins of different provinces that are melted down‚ and now they bear the same stamp ... We have become wild beasts. We do not fight‚ we defend ourselves against annihilation"(103). Here Remarque states that the German soldiers are only defending what they have‚ not attempting to take what they don’t. Paul says that they become something like men again after they get the food we need(106). Remarque is implying that the drive for food changes them into terrifying wild beasts‚ but when they get ...
- 26410: Miss Brill: A Pathetic Character
- ... A Pathetic Character Miss Brill is a pathetic character; that is, she arouses sympathy and compassion. She provokes this pity by being a seemingly old, lonely lady. Her habit of listening in on other people’s conversations seems harmless because her sole purpose is only to bring added joy to her life. She allows herself occasional special treats, which demonstrates in what small ways a person may try to make their ... honey cake” and puts away her precious fur. As she does so she thinks she hears something crying. Her life is so inauthentic, made up of second hand gossip, and second hand furs, that she’s incapable of recognizing the true origin of her tears, which of course, is her grief and humiliation. She has never before seen herself as “odd, silent, and… just come from a dark little room or even-even a cupboard!” Her world is essentially lived in a shell and almost in seclusion. It is more natural for her to believe the crying comes from the fox’s glass eyes than from her own desolate eyes. Like all of us, she has hopes and dreams, particularly of being on stage. However, these hopes were just a part of a dream which she ...
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