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- 1021: Deliverance
- ... of things to come if man does not stop relying on other people so much. Works Cited Warren, Eyster. James Dickey. Computer Software. Discovering Graham, Keith S. "'Deliverance': 20 years after". The Atlanta Journal and Constitution 18 March 1990 Moorhead, Michael. "Dickey's Deliverance". Explicator Summer 1993: 247-248 Dickey, James. Deliverance. New York: Delta, 1970. a
- 1022: The Nation Takes Shape: A Review
- ... Cunliffe, the author has one main point of view, that he expands on throughout the entire novel. That point of view concerns the first half-century of life under the newly formed government, under the constitution. He talks about the ways America began to achieve its own identity in the world in those years. He shows us how colonials began to become Americans, how a new nation found itself. He also ...
- 1023: The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?
- ... is Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale handles it in a different way though, to him its more of a "concealed sin." A example of this is, "It may be that they are kept silent by the very constitution of their nature. Or - can we not suppose it - guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's glory and man's welfare, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy in ...
- 1024: The Awakening: Casting Shadows
- The Awakening: Casting Shadows Happiness; is it essential or is it a mere unimportant simplistic virtue in life's plans? Does everyone have the right to happiness? It is stated in the Constitution that we as Americans have the right to life, liberty, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. In the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin the main Character Edna has the perfect life. The sweet loving husband ...
- 1025: Zinn's A People's History of The United States of America
- ... are necessary to the historian, but he chooses to take a different stance in his writings. "...I prefer to tell the story of the discovery of America from the viewpoint of the Arawaks, of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slaves, of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees, of the Civil War as seen by the New York Irish... of the First World War as seen by socialists, the ...
- 1026: A Review of Huxley's Brave New World
- ... act them out in the very way we would wish. "Personality pills" permit us to become the kind of people we'd most like to be. Such self-reinvention is an option that our genetic constitution today frequently precludes. Altruism and self-sacrifice for the benefit of anonymous strangers - including starving Third World orphans whom we acknowledge need resources desperately more than we do - is extraordinarily hard to practise consistently. Sometimes ...
- 1027: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... before slavery. Unlike Lincoln, he did not have the clear vision to see that the republic could not endure half slave and half free. He believed that the South, appealing to the compromises of the Constitution, would sacrifice the Union before it would give up slavery, and in fear of this menace he begged the North to conquer its prejudices. History will no doubt say that it was largely due to ...
- 1028: The Biography of John Marshall Harlan II
- ... the wearing of arm bands was legitimate, and therefor the Tinkers did not have a legitimate complaint. Harlan seems to have been a justice that wasn't afraid to sway. If he felt that the Constitution protected a right, he had no problem voting in favor of it. Nor did he have any trouble voting against something if he felt it to be unconstitutional. There were many times that Harlan was ...
- 1029: Michael Collins and Eamon De Velera
- ... Fαil, re-entered the Dαil headed by De Valera. De Valera was president of the executive council of the Irish Free State from 1932 to 1937 and was elected premier of Eire under the new constitution of 1937. In 1932 De Valera served as president of the League of Nations council and in 1938 as president of its assembly. At home, his policies were consistently characterised by nationalism and isolationism, both ...
- 1030: Two Great Men: Franklin and Jefferson
- ... post office. He was the only person to sign all four key documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, and the Constitution of the United States. Jefferson is best remembered as a great President. He was the author of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the Democratic Party. These two men have made our world a ...
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