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- 3761: Creative Story: Racing Along Walls
- ... parents had taught me. I brought my hand up to inspect the wound but the darkness of the garage, the setting sun, and the little remaining light my car blocked made it so I couldn't see my hand at all. As I climbed out from underneath the car, I noticed that I was leaving a trail of thick, dark, drops with my movements. I carelessly wiped off the dripping blood ... I happily exclaimed. The cut ran the whole length of my hand. Luckily, it was the top of my hand that was cut and not the palm side of it, so I knew I didn't get any important veins that would make me bleed to death. It was another scar I could add to my body giving me more of a masculine look which was always a plus with the ... off my sweat, I wrapped my hand to stop the bleeding and continued on my work not knowing that this first injury would foreshadow future events. "Hey, I just checked your roll cage, and it's a lot more solid than mine. Is the roll cage on my car tight enough or do we have to take it to a welding shop before they close?" asked Joe. "It'll be ...
- 3762: Civil War 2
- ... of period. The key is to put everything in a logical and understandable manner. This paper will be about the Civil War. I will try, to the best of my knowledge, to discuss the North’s and South’s positions and Arguments for going to war, their initial military strategies and their strength and weaknesses. The paper will actually be a summary from chapter 10 of the book Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era By: James McPherson, “Amateurs Go To War”. Before discussing the war itself, one must understand the Union’s and the Confederate’s arguments and reasons for going to war. Let’s start at the beginning, when the South was first showing animosity for the North, which eventually led to sessionist ideas by ...
- 3763: To Tame A Shrew
- In Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, one topic that has been debated, interpreted, discussed, reinterpreted and adapted into different forms has been the character of Katharina, the shrew, and whether she was tamed, liberated, or just a ... essay, I will present arguments for and against each of these points, as well as discuss one television adaptation of Taming of the Shrew that presents Katharina not as the expected shrew, but as Petruchio's tamer. Katharina: The Whipped Shrew There is evidence that supports Katharina was tamed by Petruchio. For instance, in the opening of the play, Katharina is very vocal and aggressive. Men, women and children trembled whenever ... safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt. (5.2.146-154) In looking at this outtake of Katharina's speech, it can be seen that she has been tamed by Petruchio's actions throughout the first four acts. It is difficult to take Katharina's message here and say, "She is still the ...
- 3764: Pride And Prejudice
- Any man who tries to argue Jane Austen's ability to draw characters would be undoubtedly a fool, for the author's talent in that area of prose is hard to match. However even the most ardent fans of Austen will have to agree with the fact that the personages she creates are not appealing to every man. An exception to that trend in this reader's opinion would be the character of Mr. Bennet, who by his sharp wit and stark realism alone redeems Pride and Prejudice for any audience who under other circumstances would take no joy in reading ...
- 3765: George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes
- George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes The author George Bernard Shaw -he later dropped the name George- was born in Dublin in 1856, the third and youngest child of an ... Society continued until the end of his life, during which period he wrote a number of important socialist articles, such as the anti-war pamphlet ‘Common sense about the war' in 1914 and the ‘Woman's guide to Socialism and Capitalism' in 1928. Between 1885 and 1898 he wrote many critical reviews on literature, art and music for a number of important magazines. During this period he started writing his first ... Houses', inspired by the plays of the Norwegian playwright Hendrik Ibsen, whose social awareness and nonconformism appealed more to Shaw than the fashionable hypocritical drama of those days. In 1893 followed ‘The Philanderer', Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), and ‘Candida' (1895), all published together in a collection of plays called ‘Plays Pleasant' and ‘Plays Unpleasant' in 1898, the year Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend. Shaw's second period started in ...
- 3766: Frankenstein 3
- ... Porter was twenty five, a single mother, and living in the projects of Philadelphia she wrote a novel. Her novel was a story about a teenage boy who had grown up in poverty. The boy's daily confrontations with the hardships of his own life proved him to be incapable of dealing with such matters as he slipped into destructive patterns at school, home, and on the streets. From the known ... about Cindy Porter, it can be assumed that the novel played off of her fears and daily experiences of living in the projects of a major city. Just as it can be seen that Cindy's life and time influenced her writing, many ideals in Mary Shelley's life can be connected with themes in her classic novel Frankenstein. Abandonment, Romanticism, and parenting are all themes that were a part of Mary Shelley's life and highly influential in her writing of ...
- 3767: Stalin
- ... Joseph was the one and only survivor out of his four siblings. In 1888 Stalin began attending the Gori Church School, where he learned Russian, and excelled at his studies, winning a scholarship to the T’bilis Theological Seminary in the Georgian capital in 1894. Stalin began his studies at the seminary as a devout believer in Orthodox Christianity. He was soon exposed to the radical ideas of fellow students, however ... Karl Marx. In 1899, just as he was about to graduate, he gave up his religious education to devote his time to the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. While employed as and accountant in T’bilisi, Stalin spread Marxist propaganda among railway workers on behalf of the local Social Democratic Labor Party organization. After moving to the seaport of Bat’umi, where he organized large workers’ demonstration in 1902, Stalin ... up the Russian Revolution of 1917. In 1912 Lenin elevated Stalin, who by this time had adopted the Russian psudonym meaning, “man of steel,” to the leading Bolshevik Party body, the Central Committee. At Lenin’s behest, Stalin wrote his chief theoretical work, Marxism and the National Question. Stalin was arrested and sent to Siberia before the essay was published in 1913. Stalin was released from exile upon the overthrow ...
- 3768: Woodstock
- ... and music" in the Catskill village of Woodstock. The festival was expected to attract 50,000 to 100,000 people. It was estimated that an unexpected 400,000 or more people attended. If it weren't for Woodstock, rock and roll wouldn't be where it is today. Woodstock became a symbol of the 1960s American counterculture and a milestone in the history of rock music. The original plan for Woodstock had been to build a recording studio ... blocked off access roads. By the day before the official opening, traffic jams miles long blocked most roads leading to the area. The intense traffic on Route 17B towards Bethel, New York that afternoon didn't seem to bother anyone as people all exchanged friendly waves. They knew that they were all on our way to the same place to enjoy "three days of peace and music." Had the festival ...
- 3769: To Kill A Mockingbird: Cruelty Against Blacks, Lawyers and the Poor
- ... be. It was a time when people did not accept differences. It especially shows cruelty against blacks, lawyers, and the poor. Discrimination against blacks is shown a lot all throughout the novel. Maycomb County didn’t exactly welcome blacks as well as the whites were welcomed. The white people had more priveleges than the black people had. “The blacks wouldn’t enter the courtroom until all of the whites had entered (Lee 166). Racial discrimination still goes on today. “Because of racism in the criminal justice system, blacks are more likely to be arrested, convicted, and ... freedom lands held nothing but disappointment for most black people” (McCague 119). To Kill A Mockingbird tells of a black man being accused of raping a white woman and “in the courtroom, the white man’s word is taken over the black man’s word” (Lee 172). The white woman’s father said that “some nigger’d raped his girl” (Lee 169). The black man is punished for a crime ...
- 3770: One of A Doll's House: Secession From Society
- One of A Doll's House: Secession From Society One of A Doll's House's central theme is secession from society. It is demonstrated by several of its characters breaking away from the social standards of their time and acting on their own terms. No one character demonstrates this ...
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