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- 6871: Caesar 2
- ... associate the Ides of March with the play Julius Caesar. That particular day, March 15th in 44 BC, Rome lost not only a future king, but also a strong political and military leader. Julius Caesar s life, his accomplishments, and his unfortunate assassination have etched out a place in textbooks worldwide. Caesar s childhood was filled with many changes in the Roman Empire. Gaius Julius Caesar was born in Rome, Italy on July 12th or 13th in the year 100 BC. When he was young, Caesar lived through ... The city was assaulted twice and captured by Roman armies, first in 87 BC by the leaders of the populares, his Uncle Marius and Cinna. Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married Cinna s daughter Cornelia. The second attack upon the city was carried out by Marius enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on Sulla s return from the East. The confiscation of property resulted ...
- 6872: To Kill a Mockingbird: Summary
- ... winning film. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American Literature. There are so many characters in this book that I can't name all of them. Here are most of the characters. The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt Alexandra (Atticus's sister), (Jem) Jeremy (The oldest of Atticus's two children), (Scout) Jean Louise (The youngest of the two . She also trys to be a boy by doing boy things). And you can't forget their black maid. Her name is Calpurnia. Miss ...
- 6873: The Bistro Styx
- ... has written. The works we will be looking at are In the Old Neighborhood, My Mother Enters the Work Force, and The Bistro Styx. Through these three works you will see examples of Rita Dove’s use of home in her poetry, her use of figurative devices such as similes and metaphors, and you will see Dove’s view on children coming of age in different ways. By looking at the poem "In the Old Neighborhood" we can deduce a number of things from the overall poem. Dove seems to go back in time to view her home as a child from a newly shifting and surreal location. The speakers in Dove’s poems are not usually at ease with their surroundings, and they tend to look upon scenes of home as seen through a distant and dispassionate eye. Dove’s home seems alien to her. Even ...
- 6874: Awakenings-awakenings Within Movie
- Awakenings Leonard, after 30 years, has been given the chance to live again, with the help of the L. Dopa drug. Awakening after 30 years, Leonard is faced with the fact that he's lost 30 years of his life. All is revealed when Dr. Sayer photographs Leonard and presents him with a self-portrait. After Leonard's awakening, he wanted to do so much, so fast. He wanted to be normal, experience relationships, have his freedom, and most importantly, be treated as a human being with dignity. The awakening was overwhelming at first, however, he adjusted to his new life fairly quickly. Leonard, now aged 50, became a living example of the drug's effects on humans. Dr. Sayer carefully monitored Leonard's progress, and Leonard began to regress, he insisted that Dr. Sayer continue recording and observing him for scientific research. Leonard's first words were, "I' ...
- 6875: Freud And Caligula
- ... while secondary defense mechanisms include projection, reaction formation, altruism, and isolation. There are numerous defense mechanisms with which people handle their pain. Repression is the act of burying a painful feeling or thought from one's awareness. For example, after a tragic death in the family one may try to forget about the funeral, and it eventually becomes completely forgotten. Denial is the second defense mechanism in which a person refuses ... of the victim, by denying all accusations. Splitting is one of the defense mechanisms that occurs often with teenagers. The person feels as if everything is black or white, right or wrong, and there isn't just a happy medium for them to accept. If a friend breaks a lunch date, the person gets angry and thinks of the friend as being worthless just because of a minor problem. The isolation ... symbolism. Case in point: Gaius, emperor of Rome; otherwise known as Caligula. Gaius was born on August 31, 12 A.D., the third of six children . As a child, he grew up amongst his father's soldiers, often wearing a miniature soldier's uniform. The troops named him "Caligula" after the child-size military boots he wore in camp. Before he became of age, he was caught in bed with ...
- 6876: Comment Paper On Everything Th
- ... the plot interesting. The exposition consumes the beginning of the story. This is important because it gives the reader a better understanding of the characters, and sets tones for causality. Being introduced first is Julian s mother. Her attitude and actions are best described on page 207. It states, She sat forward and looked up and down the bus. It was half filled. Everybody was white. I see we have the bus to ourselves. This allows the reader to assume that Julian s mother is prejudice, and was most likely raised in that time era. A good example O Conner uses to explain Julian is found on page 208. It states, Most miraculous of all, instead of being ... He stared at her, making his eyes the eyes of a stranger. He felt his tension suddenly lift as if he had openly declared war on her. The reader feels the anger building in Julian s mother beginning on page 209. It reads, Her eyes retained their battered look. Her face seemed to be unnaturally red, as if her blood pressure had risen. Complications continue when are third and fourth ...
- 6877: H.G. Wells
- ... ability to be a scientific romancer. His novels, The Time Machine, The War of The Worlds, and The Invisible Man, were what he became most widely known for. All his writings, in the different genere's they were written from, truly prove he was one of the most versitile writers that ever lived. The date was September 21, 1866, and the place was 47 (now renumbered 172) High Street, Bromley, Kent ... not get sick most of the time. His father was a shopkeeper and a professional cricketer, and his mother served from time to time as a housekeeper at the nearby estate of Uppark. His father's business failed and the family never made it to middle-class status, so Wells was apprenticed like his brothers to a draper, spending the years between 1880 and 1883 inWindsor and Southsea as a drapeist. In 1883 Wells became a teacher/pupil at Midhurst Grammar Scool. He obtained a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London and studied there biology under T.H. Huxley. However, his interest faltered and in 1887 he left without a degree. He taught in private schools for four years, not taking his B.S. degree until 1890. Next year he settled ...
- 6878: Hamlet: Scene Summaries
- Hamlet: Scene Summaries ACT I Scene I At the beginning of this scene, two guards come out and attempt to get the audience's attention. They basically inform us that it is night time, and then they exit. Heratio and Marcellus then enter. They see a ghost which looks like the late King who had just died. To get the audience's attention once again, the two men repeat "Doesn't that look like the King!" five times. Morning comes, and Heratio and Marcellus decide to tell Hamlet of the incident. Scene ][ This scene informs us that the present king (Claudius) had killed the late ...
- 6879: C-SPAN, the Cable TV channel
- ... citizens of the United States can get a bit closer to what the founding fathers had in mind when they created our government. C-SPAN is truly a unique channel amongst the mass of today's viewing options. C-SPAN was launched March 19, 1979, "to provide live, gavel to gavel coverage of the United States House of Representatives."1, but the enterprise has been expanded beyond the original one channel ... The originator of this idea of bringing government into peoples' homes was Brian Lamb, who in addition to being the chairman and CEO of C-SPAN, is also a host on many of C-SPAN's programs. Brian's primary belief is that people should be able to see government in action without soundbites, computer maps, models, images, music, and news anchor commentary. Brian feels that if people can see government in action ...
- 6880: Lady Oracle
- ... novel that tells the journey a woman takes from her teenage years until the present through her own thoughts and recollections. The protagonist, Joan Foster, is plagued by the memories and results of her mother's mental and emotional abuse. Joan does her best to change her interior and exterior appearance so people don't find out the secrets of her past, of which she is very ashamed. By the end of the novel Joan has gone through so much growth and change that she is finally happy with the ... putting up false pretenses to be the person people expect her to be. The main theme of the novel is to love and accept yourself for who you are. This is proved through the protagonist's thoughts, actions and spiritual growth throughout the novel. Most of the novel is told through Joan's own thoughts and memories. Because of the way the author chose to tell the story, we are ...
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