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- 4321: The Matrix-critique And Review
- ... Sure enough, the sinister men in black are at that precise moment being directed to his desk. Following intricate instructions from Morpheus (who appears to be able to see the entire layout of Thomas's world as if he is looking at a map, or like a god looking down from on high), Thomas sneaks past the agents into an empty office. There Morpheus tells to make an improbable leap to ... is taken into custody and while there is offered a deal which demands him to cooperate in the tracking of Morpheus, in return he will get a clean slate. When he refuses the deal, his world without warning warps into a nightmare, as the agent whose name is Smith (played by Hugo Weaving) literally wipes Thomas's mouth off, leaving him speechless and in horror. The other agents hold him down ... pill is like every psychedelic seeker's worst trip. As the betrayer Cypher (played by Joe Pantoliano) puts it, "Why-oh-why did I take that damn pill?" Thomas is torn from a very real world, and there given the hideous, literally mind-shattering Truth that he is a slave to an order of inorganic beings that until this moment, he did not even know existed. Morpheus explains that the ...
- 4322: Marranos: A Lost People
- Marranos: A Lost People Some people might call them New Jews, some New Christians, and others call them Marranos. The majority of the world population has no idea who the Marranos are. To begin to explain these secret people, one must first receive a lesson in World History. We will begin in the 1492. In school, we are brainwashed to connect the year 1492 with the year that Columbus discovered the New World. Yet, if we look at the year 1492, there are other occurrences which are noteworthy. For instance, in the year 1492, Spain, the country which sent Columbus to America, decided to officially expel the ...
- 4323: The Longest Day, By: Cornelius Ryan, Simon & Shuster, 1959
- The Longest Day, By: Cornelius Ryan, Simon & Shuster, 1959 Cornelius Ryan, the author of the novel The Longest Day, the classic epic of D-Day, was among one of the preeminent war correspondents of his time. He flew fourteen bombing missions with the Eighth and Ninth U.S airforces, and covered the D-Day landings and the advance of General Patton’s Third Army across France and ... through the experience of the men who fought it. It is the definitive account of the day that is now considered by some to be the most important in modern history. Through personal letters, captured war diaries and bales of other military documents, Ryan unearthed facts that were unknown before his novel was published. He discloses, for example, that Rommel actually was never informed by his chief of staff, Maj. Gen ... for several weeks. The second part of The Longest Day is devoted to the Allied landing and fighting on Normandy and the German resistance to believing that it was to be the definitive battle of World War II. A major virtue of the novel is Ryan’s complete objectivity. His Germans are not mutinous villains, but regular people just like the Americans fighting and dying for their country and what ...
- 4324: The Odyssey: Telemachus And His Development
- ... matures into a man. To begin with his name means "Far from Battle". This was given to him because he was born when the male generations of his parents were going off to the Trojan War. But the name proves to be ironic, for the epic ends with Telemachus taking part in two battles. Not having any father figures as a child severely effects Telemachus. He becomes a timid, shy and spineless boy who is greatly pampered by his mother. He is not helped by being the son of a world- famous father- a difficult reputation to live up to. This lack of motivation and assertive behavior does not help Telemachus when the suitors start eating away at his estate. Telemachus knows what the suitors are ... inexperienced as Telemachus. Athene toys with some ideas and then finally decides to get Telemachus to go to Sparta. Perhaps it is this journey that finally gives Telemachus a chance to mature and see the world. Through this journey, Telemachus' first, he sees many new sights and encounters new situations. He is humbled when he sees the palace of Menelaos and his most beautiful wife Helen. Telemachus learns how to ...
- 4325: Biography of Moshe Dayan
- ... with the Allied forces that liberated Lebanon and Syria from the Vichy French. During this campaign he lost his left eye and adopted the black eye patch that became his distinguishing feature. During Israel's war of independence (1948-49) Dayan was a commander on the Jerusalem front. He became chief of Israel's general staff in 1953 and as such supervised the Sinai campaign of 1956. Leaving the army in ... elected to the Israeli Parliament in 1959 and served (1959-64) as minister of agriculture in the government of David Ben-Gurion. By popular demand, Dayan was made defense minister just before the Six-Day War of 1967, which greatly enhanced his reputation. He was, however, blamed for Israel's unpreparedness in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, and he subsequently resigned (1974). Named foreign minister in Menachem Begin's government in 1977, he played an important role in negotiating the peace treaty with Egypt signed in 1979. Later that ...
- 4326: The Catcher in the Rye Summary and Analysis
- ... is on a course toward a mental breakdown. He becomes delusional and finds himself walking the streets talking to his dead brother. Holden is in search of peace away from the ugliness of the real world. The Catcher in the Rye – Summary The Catcher in the Rye is narrated by Holden Caulfield, a sixteen year-old boy recuperating in a rest home from a nervous breakdown, some time in 1950. Holden ... a few days alone in New York City before returning to his parents' Manhattan apartment. In New York, he succumbs to increasing feelings of loneliness and depression brought on by the ugliness of the adult world; he feels increasingly tormented by the memory of his younger brother, Allie's death. Holden’s sexual confusion further complicates his increasingly haphazardness lifestyle. He wants to see his sister Phoebe and his old girlfriend ... leave New York forever and hitchhike west, but when Phoebe insists on going with him he changes his mind and agrees to go back home too and protect his sister from the ugliness of the world. He takes her to the park, and watches her ride on the merry-go-round; he suddenly feels overwhelmed by an intense happiness. Holden then goes on to conclude his story by refusing to ...
- 4327: Causes Of The American Revolut
- The American Revolution, also known as the United States War of Independence, was an uprising by which 13 of Britain's colonies gained political independence. By the middle of the 18th century, differences in life, thought, and economic interests began to grow between the colonies and Britain, the mother country. The French and Indian war caused considerable war debts in Britain, and as a means of generating revenue, Britain implemented taxes within the colonies. The colonists felt that these taxes were unfair. Although the colonies were still technically a part of the ...
- 4328: Destruction (holocaust)
- ... unions. Business, marriage, real estate and other legal obligations between Jew and non-Jew could be legally broken whenever the non-Jewish partner wished to do so. In late 1939, Hilter invaded Poland, beginning the World War II. In 1939, laws came about that pressured Jewish people. Not to own a business or have their children attend public schools. On September 1, 1939, Hilter took the first step toward his dream of ... As a result the actual extermination stopped in November of 1944, although thousands of people continued to die in the concentration camps. By that time most of the Jews who lived in Europe before the war, and millions other innocent people, were dead. The war in Europe ended six months later in May 1945. As the Holocaust recedes further into the past, historical distance threatens to obscure and abstract our ...
- 4329: Heart Of Darkness - Colonization
- ... Date: March 22, 2000 Colonization in the Theme of "A Modest Proposal" and "Heart of Darkness" Starting at the beginning of the seventeenth century, European countries began exploring and colonizing many different areas of the world. The last half of the nineteenth century saw the height of European colonial power around the globe. France, Belgium, Germany, and especially Great Britain, controlled over half the world. Along with this achievement came a notable sense of pride and confident belief that European civilization was the best on earth and that the natives of the lands Europeans controlled would only benefit from colonial ... unjustly) as a little bordering on cruelty" (NA 1051). All of the gruesome imagery used in "A Modest Proposal" has earned it the reputation of being one of Swift’s most potent attacks in his "war on a class of civilized people who often behave like animals" (McMinn 149). Joseph Conrad details a narrative of oppression emphasizing the horrible treatment of African natives during the colonization of the Congo. The ...
- 4330: Richelieu and Olivares: The Quest for European Domination
- ... why one came out on top of the other. “They shared many of the same problems; they came up with many of the same answers; and in the end they reached the conclusion that the world was too small to contain them both.” (6). The first time that the book notes an unfriendly atmosphere between Richelieu and Olivares came after the War of Mantuan Succession. The two men blamed each other for the problems incurred as a result of the conflict. “Richelieu's journal for the early months of 1631 shows him receiving reports to the effect ... Olivares very highly either, as it is said in the journal of a French courtier: “De Morgues, who knew Richelieu intimately, speaks of the Cardinal's hatred for the Count-Duke” (114). As the impending war loomed, Richelieu and Olivares sought allies to defend against each other. Richelieu found allies in Germany, Italy and even Protestant countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands. While Richelieu gained support from the Protestants, ...
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