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- 2171: Slaughter House-Five
- ... a chapter, "Billy Pilgrim nestled like a spoon with the hobo on Christmas night, and he fell asleep, and he traveled in time to 1967. When Billy is in 1958, he is busy talking about World War Two. Then suddenly he travels through time to 1967 and he ends up being kidnaped by aliens from Tralfamadore. So when the story changes, the reader's mind has to adjust to the changes. The ... different situations without any problem. In this book, shifting from one situation to another is meant to be poor. The book is difficult to follow. It has many small stories in it. Pilgrim is in World War Two and then he ends up being with aliens from Tralfadamore. Some of these topics are hard to comprehend. This symbolizes modern life since it is difficult to comprehend the understandings of life. ...
- 2172: Dante
- ... throughout human history: Were you to reassemble all the men who once, within Apulia1's fateful land, had mourned their blood, shed at the Trojans' hands, as well as those who fell in the long war where massive mounds of rings were battle spoils even as Livy write, who does not err and those who felt the thrust of painful blows when they fought hard against Robert Guiscard; with all the ... were one to show his limb pierced through and one his limb hacked off, that would not match the hideousness of the ninth abyss. (Lines 7-21) Dante gives historical examples of the destruction of war. This is in contrast to the heroic qualities of war which Dante's predecessors most often focus on. Dante is acting less as a poet and more as an historian. He takes the reader on a mini journey through these wars. His first stop ...
- 2173: To Kill A Mockingbird 2
- ... beginning with a brief family history. Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary journeyed from England to Alabama, establishing the family which made its living from cotton on Simon's homestead, Finch's Landing. The Civil War left the family only its land, which was the source of family incomes until the twentieth century when Atticus Finch (Scout's father) and his brother Jack left the land for careers in law and ... ran back. As the three children stared at the old house, they thought they saw an inside shutter move. Comment Many themes and plot-themes emerge in Chapter 1. Great emphasis is placed on the world of Scout, Jem, and Dill - a small world bounded by a few houses and composed of only a few people. From the limited knowledge of this small childish world at the novel's opening, Jem and Scout broaden with the passing of ...
- 2174: Covenanted Governments
- The covenant is very dear to our modern world, being that many political philosophers that shaped our modern world based much of their theories on a covenanted government. When looking at the United States, the theory was considered important from the Mayflower Compact and on. The theory of a covenanted people is associated with ... government are there by tactic consent. Around the time the pilgrims rebelled against King James in England, philosophy was abundant, especially that influenced by the belief in god. A majority of the governments around the world were monarchies. As far as our country is concerned, the pilgrims were the first to establish a covenanted government with the Mayflower Compact. This compact stated that all aboard the ship headed for the ...
- 2175: Historical Background To "Animal Farm"
- ... about history and economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed that he understo more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him why there is injustice i world. He said that all injustice and inequality is a result of one underlying conflict in society. He called it a 'class struggle', that is, a conflict bet the class of people who can afford to ... peaceful progess toward equality and socia justice was impossible. The only way to establish justice, he said, was for t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers. "Workers of the worl unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to lose but your chains." Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches, help capitalists to keep the ... people were extremely discontented with their ruler, Tsar Nicholas II, who had little interest in governing and was neglecting the count badly. Making conditions even more miserable for the people were the hardships the First World War and a particularly cold winter. By 1917, the Russian people were desperate enough to accept a revolution. fact, they got two for the price of one, the first in March when the Tsar ...
- 2176: The Immigrant Experience
- The Immigrant Experience They are our grandparents, our relatives, our friends. They are the immigrants. They came from all over the world for many reasons, such as, religious persecution and racial tension, but the largest reason for coming to America was for freedom. The freedom to live where we want, to own property, to take part in ... by our forefathers. One of the nationalities traveling to America were Jews. They were treated somewhat differently. This was probably because many of their countries would not accept them. The first Jews in the new world were Morranos from Spain. They fled their homeland because of the inquisition. They traveled from Spain to South America, and then to New Amsterdam. They, at first were rejected by Peter Stuyvesant, but petitioned the ... any specific sides. Some believed that the freedom that they had gained under the English rule would be lost. Other felt that the taxes were too high and joined the Patriots. Later, in the Civil War, Jews took sides as everyone else. Their location meant everything. Jews in the north sided with the Union, and Jews in the south sided with the Confederacy. Unfortunately, a law was passed by Congress ...
- 2177: Visions Of The Future
- Visions Of The Future In the early 1900s , by the end of the Cold War people might have not been yet aware of the problems of the future. Robert Heilbroner (an Economist) became concerned about some of these problems. One of the main problems that Heilbroner raises about the future ... man. People were not so concerned about making their work more efficient, easier, or better productive. The Scientific Revolution began to change many opinion of views of the people. The Scientific Revolution shaped the modern world by introducing mathematical and scientific theories. The formation of the empirical method , reason, and the laws of nature such as mathematical formulas, brought about more sense of thinking. Great thinkers and mathematicians such as Copernicus ... would unlock all natures secrets, and humanity, gaining ever greater knowledge and control of nature, would progress rapidly. Science and Technology has driven things in the 20th century. Technological and Scientific contribution to the world have made great advantages. Due to science and technology people learned how to replace their work by machines. In this process many of those machines enabled humans to produce faster, more efficiently and in ...
- 2178: The Extermination of Jews Documents
- ... questions. Unlike the first set of readings, which could have been stories that I have heard before, most of the facts expressed here were completely new to me. I have always been taught that the world stood idle while the Nazis proceeded to slaughter the Jewish people. Never, however, were the stories of those who stood up, those who did what is the humanly right thing to do, told to me ... those who did something, such as Father Lichtenerg and King Christian X of Denmark, should be acknowledged, not as acts of superhuman kindness, but as acts of a human level when the rest of the world was acting with sub- human passivity. Were those who did nothing when they had the chance as guilty as the Nazi murderers themselves? Did they just as much deserve to be put on trial at ... it seems even more horrible than that of the others that succumbed to passivity. They let their own people die. How can anyone find any excuse for something like that? The book states that the world most intellectual, thinking people did nothing. If this is so how can they claim the title of intellectual? Is the failure to react not enough to show that they have no right to hold ...
- 2179: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... 1920); Anna Christie (1922); Strange Interlude (1928); and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1957). O'Neill is credited with raising American dramatic theater from its narrow origins to an art form respected around the world. He is regarded as America's premier playwright. O'Neill continued to write until 1944 when he was stricken with a debilitating muscular disease which prevented further work. Without the ability to write with his ... his ordeals. He never quite rid himself of his unique behavior, quipping that he'd "give 'em their money's worth" if the crowds came out to see him. Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848) was a world famous opera singer. Like Piersall Gaetano suffered from Bipolar depression. Death to close family members plagued Gaetano throughout his life. He met his wife Virginia Vasselli while he was in Rome in the 1820's ... was an author, and lived from 1828 to 1910. Leo suffered from mental illness (Atychiphobia, Geniophobia, Polyphobia). Leo lived his life in the past, and that horrified himself. When young Leo would kill people in war, challenge men to duels with the purpose of killing them. Through a ten year period all Leo did was lie, steal, drink, turn to violence, and murder. He claimed himself that, There was not ...
- 2180: Evaluation of The Lord of the Flies
- ... in 1954 about a number of boys marooned on a tropical island and left to fend for themselves. While on the island, they discover quite a bit of evil within themselves. A few years after World War 2, a planeful of boys as young as 5 or 6 but most no older than 11 or 12 crashes near an uninhabited tropical island. As soon as they land, one of the eldest assumes ... to think, although not particularly good thoughts. It is him and those like him who put the spear through Ralph and dropped the stone on Piggy. If it was not for the Rogers of the world, much of the mindless, cruel suffering which is so often explained away through "But I was only following orders!" Although the military chain of command can be important, it is also important that officers ...
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