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- 3291: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... both history and literature. In To Kill A Mockingbird women's position and expectations are comparable to the stereotypes of blacks therefore Scout has major conflicts with growing up in Maycomb County. After the Civil War white men became concerned with the preservation of the South and its traditions. Some concerns were for the purity of southern womanhood. The fear was that blacks would try to dominate the white women since they were now free. This sparked much of the violence that followed after the war towards the black race and for years to come. To Kill A Mockingbird is a book set in the 1930's in a small town called Maycomb located in Alabama. Often as with small towns ... a major challenge when she acted as a tomboy, never wanting to accept the way Aunt Alexandra lived. Aunt Alexandra perfected the Southern woman image even when she was away from home, "fitting into the world of Maycomb like a hand into a glove, but never into the world of Jem and me" (131). Even though Aunt Alexandra was a lady she never did connect with the children. Atticus had ...
- 3292: No Exit 2
- ... play, Garcin is placed in a room to face hell with two other people, Estelle and Inez. The character Garcin is in this hell after being shot for fleeing his country after the breakout of war. Prior to the war, Garcin was the editor of a pacifist newspaper. When he defied war, he was shot. Although he was defiant he chooses to think of himself as a hero and a martyr. As the story evolves, the character Inez forces Garcin to admit that he is not ...
- 3293: Compare and Contrast: Aneas and Turnus
- ... free will accounts for his triumph and success. Time and time again, Aneas' courage, loyalty, and will are tested in the Aeneid. Through seemingly endless journeys by sea, through love left to wither, and through war and death, Aneas exhibits his anchored principals and his unwavering character. "Of arms I sing and the hero, destiny's exile... Who in the grip of immortal powers was pounded By land and sea to ... is not / Of my own free will I must seek Italy" (Virgil 84). Aneas had suffered greatly at sea and lost many men, he did not long to sail again. Aneas did not want a war to erupt between Trojan and Latins, but he knew that nothing could keep him from establishing Latium where the gods had prophesied. Both Aneas and Turnus are spurred on to action by visions. In the ... Aneas is goaded by the image of his father: "'Father, it was you-- Your grief-engendering spirit time and again Appeared to me and constrained me to make my way To the edge of this world'" (Virgil 139). Turnus' hatred for Aneas, inspired by the goddess Allecto, was the only stimulation that Turnus required. "Turnus! Will you stand by and see so much of your effort wasted? And what is ...
- 3294: Muhammad Ali - Cassius Clay
- ... to a "bloody pulp." Muhammad Ali took home the gold. In 1962 Muhammad Ali states that he will knock out Archie More in the forth round. His prediction came true. In 1964, Muhammad Ali became world heavy weight champing by beating Sonny Listen. Although he did not knock him out, Sonny would not enter the seventh round making Muhammad Ali world champion. After knocking out Zora Folley, he did not fight for three and a half years. During this time he was standing up for his rights during the Vietnam War. He said, "I have no Quarrel with Viet Cong (www.usatoday.com)." He did not want to fight because the more troops we sent in, the more we lost. His reason for mot going ...
- 3295: The Atomic Bomb
- The Atomic Bomb The year was 1945. The war in the Pacific had reached it's climax with the attack on Pearl Harbor, or so the world thought! In 1943 a new era was just being discovered when Albert Einstein had uncovered a new way of destroying things. One so powerful it could wipe out entire cities in seconds. When Albert told ... because it is a large industrial port. In this blast over 50,000 lives were taken with over 120,000 casualties in the aftermath. Two days later the Japanese troops retreated back to Japan. The war in the Pacific was now over! But not after 1,000,000 casualties during the war. For fifty years the atomic bomb was the most feared nuclear weapon in the world, but now many ...
- 3296: Race In America
- ... important part of the American culture. When Studs Terkel writes " race is our 'American obsession'." He is saying that the citizens of America have a preoccupation with race and race relations. For example, the Civil War was fought due to the relationships between blacks and whites. The Civil War caused the deaths of almost as many Americans as those who died in all other wars combined. "Black-white relations was the principal focus of Reconstruction after the Civil War; America's failure to allow African Americans equal rights led eventually to the struggle for civil rights a century later."(Loewen, 132) Had the Federal government properly written the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, ...
- 3297: D-Day
- ... key to the fight to take back Europe. Preparations for D-Day Operation Overlord was in no way a last minute operation thrown together. When the plan was finalized in the spring of 1944 the world started work on preparing the hundreds of thousands of men for the greatest battle in history. By June of 1944 the landing forces were training hard, awaiting D-Day. 1,700,000 British, 1,500 ... two airborne divisions and ten independent fighting brigades. The United States had six armoured divisions, thirteen infantry and two airborne divisions. With one armoured division and two infantry divisions Canada also contributed greatly with the war effort especially when you look at the size of the country at the time. In the air Britain's one hundred RAF squadrons (1,200 aircraft) paled in comparison to the one hundred and sixty ... defences. Once divisions had made it on the beach and secured it they had to start moving inland on their pre-planned missions. The divisions that landed on the wrong beach decided to start the war from right here. Most of the landed troops were supposed to secure the areas and push inland, eventually meeting up with the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions that had dropped behind the enemy in ...
- 3298: Ancient Greece: A Time Of Great Cities And Lives
- ... era that would be recognised as the centre of the worlds economy and was to be home to more than twice as many shops and people than the city already held. Although women in the world today are always talking about women and their rights and how they deserve to be equal in everything that they do and receive, it was not a problem to Greeks in their society which has ... was restricted and their lives were restricted to that of a slave in some cases but was really no different than a women's freedom in today's society. In Greece it was a mans world in which a man could do what he pleased to a certain extent of the law. Which is better than today due to women's rights movements and decency laws that have been implemented in ... from books and and assignments. Along with all of the amazing feats that Greeks accomplished it is of no surprise that they had one of the strongest and most feared armies in all of the world in its time. Of all the battles and wars that the Ancient Greeks army had engaged in there was always a plan of attack, just like in today's armies. Today's armies might ...
- 3299: Compare and Contrast: Aneas and Turnus
- ... free will accounts for his triumph and success. Time and time again, Aneas' courage, loyalty, and will are tested in the Aeneid. Through seemingly endless journeys by sea, through love left to wither, and through war and death, Aneas exhibits his anchored principals and his unwavering character. "Of arms I sing and the hero, destiny's exile... Who in the grip of immortal powers was pounded By land and sea to ... is not / Of my own free will I must seek Italy" (Virgil 84). Aneas had suffered greatly at sea and lost many men, he did not long to sail again. Aneas did not want a war to erupt between Trojan and Latins, but he knew that nothing could keep him from establishing Latium where the gods had prophesied. Both Aneas and Turnus are spurred on to action by visions. In the ... Aneas is goaded by the image of his father: "'Father, it was you-- Your grief-engendering spirit time and again Appeared to me and constrained me to make my way To the edge of this world'" (Virgil 139). Turnus' hatred for Aneas, inspired by the goddess Allecto, was the only stimulation that Turnus required. "Turnus! Will you stand by and see so much of your effort wasted? And what is ...
- 3300: D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy
- D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy When on D-Day-June 6, 1944-Allied armies landed in Normandy on the northwestern coast of France, possibly the one most critical event of World War II happened; for upon the outcome of the invasion hung the fate of Europe. If the invasion failed, the United States might turn its full attention to the enemy in the Pacific-Japan-leaving Britain ... following months of preliminary bombardment); and approximately 154,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers, including 23,000 arriving by parachute and glider. The invasion also involved a long- range deception plan on a scale the world had never before seen and the secret operations of tens of thousands of Allied resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries of western Europe. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named supreme commander for the ...
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