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- 3731: Abraham Lincoln
- ... 16th president of the United States, was very important to the past history of our country. He helped to abolish slavery in this country and kept the American Union from splitting apart during the Civil War. At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping stories and making friends, he became quite popular and was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1834. In his spare time, he ... in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book Encyclopedia). He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during the debates with his opponent Stephen Douglas, he became well known for his opposotion to slavery. The southern states, which believed they depended upon ... threatened to secede from the nation if Lincoln won the election. Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, and by April 12, the southern states had formed the Confedrate States of America and the Civil War began. It was during the Civil War that Lincoln proclaimed the slaves free in the Confederate states. This was his famous Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863. But Lincoln knew that something else had to ...
- 3732: Oskar Schindler - A Saint in Disguise?
- ... far as human rights are concerned. Even though the initial motives for action may be less than honorable, the end may justify the means. The story of Oskar Schindler is a shining example. A German war profiteer of slave labor, a crook, an alcoholic, and a womanizer are all terms that have been used to describe Oskar Schindler. Why then, on his fifty third birthday did the municipality of Tel Aviv ... declared a Righteous person in Jerusalem and invited to plant a carob tree in the Avenue of the Righteous? The answer is simple: To more than 1200 Jewish people held as prisoners in camps during World War II, Oskar Schindler and his factories are all that stood between them and death at the hands of the Nazis. Schindler's motives, even to this day, are not completely clear. As you learn ...
- 3733: O'Brien's "If I Die in a Combat Zone", Hasford's "The Short-Timers", Moore's "The Green Berets", and O'Brien's "Going After Cacciato": Parallels
- ... away," (Combat, 29) the character says. He simply is torn between what he feels is a responsibility, and the many parts of his fear. Afraid of not upholding his pride, afraid of dying in a, "[war that] was wrongly conceived and poorly justified," (Combat, 29), and crippled by, "Doubts...hedged all this: I had neither the expertise nor the wisdom to synthesize answers..." (Combat, 29), the character simply is paralyzed by ... decision. It was an intellectual and physical stand-off, and I did not have the energy to see it to an end. I did not want to be a soldier, not even a observer to war. But neither did I want to upset a peculiar balance between the order I knew, the people I knew, and my own private world. It was not that I valued that order. But I feared its opposite, inevitable chaos, censure, embarrassment, the end of everything that had happened in my life, the end of it all (Combat, 34). ...
- 3734: The Baseball Life of Babe Ruth
- ... picked up by the press. He was still growing, and one thing that was not exagerated was his appetite for food. Whatever anybody else ordered for a meal, Ruth had doubles or triples. In the war-shortened 1918 season, Ruth was 13-7 and hit .300. The Red Sox won another pennant and their third World Championship in four years, beating the Cubs, 4 games to 2, in the Series. Earlier that season, Boston captain Harry Hooper had noticed that attendance soared whenever Ruth pitched. He figured it was Ruth's ... in the league. Ruth's theory was that the heavier the bat, the further the ball will travel. Beginning in 1921, Babe and the Yankees went on a rampage. They won six pennants and three World Series in eight years. During the 1922 season, Ruth missed some games because he was sick for a while with the flu and was suspended 30 days for violating the commissioner's ban on ...
- 3735: Abraham Lincoln: Biography
- ... 16th president of the United States, was very important to the past history of our country. He helped to abolish slavery in this country and kept the American Union from splitting apart during the Civil War. At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping stories and making friends, he became quite popular and was elected to the Illinois legislature in 1834. In his spare time, he ... in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book Encyclopedia). He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during the debates with his opponent Stephen Douglas, he became well known for his opposotion to slavery. The southern states, which believed they depended upon ... threatened to secede from the nation if Lincoln won the election. Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, and by April 12, the southern states had formed the Confedrate States of America and the Civil War began. It was during the Civil War that Lincoln proclaimed the slaves free in the Confederate states. This was his famous Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863. But Lincoln knew that something else had to ...
- 3736: T.S. Eliot
- ... a result went to only the best schools. By 1906 he was a freshman in Harvard, finishing his bachelors in only 3 years and studying philosophy in France from 1910 to 1914, the outbreak of war. In 1915 the verse magazine Poetry published Eliot's first notable piece, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'. This was followed by other short poems such as 'Portrait of a Lady'. 'The Waste Land ... form and that they must find "a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." This idea that the world is chaos and only the structure of the poets prose can bring order to it is the driving force behind Eliots work. But yet, Eliot has often been criticized or admonished for not providing that ... a rambling psychological coherence." When compared with poets of the previous century, Eliot's style is often protrayed as ether the rambling hysteria of a "pre-60's hippie" or a revolutionary who changed the world of prose forever. This marked contrast in opinions seems to be expected from one who wrote such controversial poems. In The WasteLand he was "highly concerned with the regeneration of the fragmented modern world" ...
- 3737: Comparative Essay On The Lord
- Comparitive Essay on the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit A fantasy is an imaginary world where all things imaginable can be brought to life. J.R.R Tolkien portrayed fantasy through his use of skilled craftsmanship and a vivid imagination, which was presented in each piece of literature he wrote ... running for shelter exhausted from the encounter. And Shelob cowed at last, shrunken in defeat, jerked and quivered as she tried to hasten from him. (426) This concept provides the fundamental needs of a fantasy world and shows the growth of each character and the development of their role in the story. Magic is a power beyond explanation where all the forces of nature and the energy of mankind are used ... of smoke and spouting steams went billowing up, up, until they toppled like an overwhelming weave, and its wild crest curled and came foaming down upon the land. (270) Magic is significant in a fantasy world because allows us to see the unimaginable in the world of imagination, it is the very basis of the whole fantasy concept and is essential to maintain the sense of risk and adventure. After ...
- 3738: Lord Of The Flies Themes
- ... a way. While he was there he found the truth about the evil within them. The Conch a) The conch controled their system and their meetings. It seemed to be the only link to a world of order and civiliziation. When it was destroyed it seemed to mean the end of all their ties to the outside world and the begining of the regin of savages. b) The influence of the conch kept the childrens hope of being recued going because it reminded them of the order of the world that they are from. The Coral Island a) Usually stories about coral islands involve a tropical paradise that is untouched by humans and is perfect in every way. b) The setting is important because ...
- 3739: Is The Illegalization of Marijuana Valid?
- ... sativa, more commonly known as marijuana, has been one of the most heated controversies ever to occur in the United States. Its use as a medicine has existed for thousands of years in many countries world wide and is documented as far back as 2700 BC in ancient Chinese writings. When someone says ganja, cannabis, bung, dope, grass, rasta, or weed, they are talking about the same subject: marijuana. Marijuana should be legalized because the government could earn money from taxes on its sale, its value to the medical world outweighs its abuse potential, and because of its importance to the paper and clothing industries. This action should be taken despite efforts made by groups which say marijuana is a harmful drug which will increase ... no tax revenue from the estimated 1.8 billion pound illicit drug market" (Guardian). Figures like this can be seen in the United States as well. The US spends billions of dollars annually on the war on drugs. If the government were to legalize marijuana, it could reasonably place high taxes on it because people are used to buying marijuana at extremely high prices created by the risks of selling ...
- 3740: The Life of Ian Fleming
- The Life of Ian Fleming Ian Fleming lived a remarkable life in a world full of compromises. To sum up his life in the short space available would be an impossible task even for me, so all that follows is a simple outline. I would recommend further reading Ian ... doors". The Fleming family earned their social stripes with service and blood. Ian's father was a service-oriented land-owner in Oxfordshire and a member of Parliament. When Valentine Fleming died in the Great War, Ian was almost nine. Winston Churchill wrote the obituary for the Times. Fleming's mother, Evelyn St. Croix Rose Fleming, inherited Valentine's large estate in trust, making her a very wealthy woman. The trust ... time assistant to the director, taking the rank of Lieutenant, and later Commander. Fleming became the right-hand man to one of Britain's top spymasters, Admiral John Godfrey. During the last year of the war, Fleming traveled to Jamaica for a Naval conference. The trip, though brief, revealed the lush island to Fleming. Here there was no war, no rationing, no food shortages. Fruit lay rotting on the trees ...
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