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- 4671: The Last Of The Mohicans
- ... enjoyed the mysteriousness and exoticness of the frontier. He favored the use of emotions over reason. Through his romantic writings, Cooper is able to captivate the reader and led them on journey through his imaginary world. The setting in The Last of the Mohicans exhibits Cooper s historical romantic writing. The novel takes place in the American frontier. It is a place of wild and virgin nature. (Roundtree 52) The immense ... life under the open sky sweeps over him. In some mysterious way Cooper makes us feel his environments, and catch to the full all that they hold of mystery and romance. It is a new world that he takes us into, with a language all its own. We are permitted to learn the alphabet of this language We are taught to catch the sounds of wild life in the woods; and ... vast and satisfying. (Pattee 212) Cooper, like most romantic writers, writes about an unspoiled America. (Magill 447) He writes about the comely Glenn Falls and the pure forest. He brings the reader into his unblemished world, where everything is pure. The setting in The Last of the Mohicans shows Cooper s deepened appreciation of nature. Romanticism is also seen in the characters in the novel. The characters are manifestly impossible. ( ...
- 4672: The People of El Salvador
- ... independence from Spain in 1821. In the 1960's, over population and a poor economy forced many El Salvadorians into Honduras. By 1969 word of mistreatment of El Salvadorian workers in Honduras surfaced in a World Cup Soccer game between the two rival teams. This escalated to a level that El Salvador invaded Honduras and bombed its airports. The attack was brief and isolated but relations between the two nations remained ... gain power. With the Regan administration shocked by the revolution in Nicaragua, the U.S. feed money to the standing El Salvadorian government. In April of 1990 the United Nations stepped into the Salvadorian civil war and mediated negations between the standing government and the revolutionaries. The treaty was signed January 1992, and it forced the standing government to perform massive reforms. All in all the El Salvadorian civil war lasted 12 years, killed 75,000 and ate up 6 billion dollars of US money. Although somewhat better than before unemployment, poverty and unhappy war veterans lead to high crime rates. The latest presidential ...
- 4673: Crazy Horse
- ... American government was forced totake the land from these savage Indians. We should put the blamewhere it belongs, on the U.S. Government who lied, cheated, andstole from the Oglala forcing Crazy Horse, the great war chief,and many other leaders to surrender their nation in order to savethe lives of their people. In the nineteenth century the most dominant nation in thewestern plains was the Sioux Nation. This nation was divided intoseven tribes: Oglala's, Brule', Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow,Two Kettle, and the Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had differentband. The Hunkpatila was one band of the Oglala's . One of the greatest war chiefs of all times came from thisband. His name was Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date inthe fall of 1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse ... the warrior. WhenGrattan arrived at Conquering Bears camp, he was given anotheroffer. This time they could choose five ponies from five herdsamong the tribes. Grattan refused and began to open fire. This outrageous act of war was not calledfor. The Mormons would have surely been satisfied with the poniesor the money the ponies would have bought. The government justdid not want to keep the Indian-White relationship peaceful.Crazy Horse, ...
- 4674: Cults
- ... t need that hassle. Fire-Shade: My family has a great respect for the artist inside us all. I know you live in Michigan, and our family could always use new operatives all over the world. You have to understand what our family is about, it is about always fitting in and never hiding the truth to be liked or cool. Are you interested? Jay18: Well maybe Fire-Shade: Give me ... a piece of cult literature is written correctly it convinces the most logical mind of the most absurd reasoning, like this pamphlet by the Heavens Gate cult. The generally accepted "norms" of today's societies - world over - are designed, established, and maintained by the individuals who were at one time "students" of the Kingdom of Heaven- "angels" in the making- who flunked out" of the classroom. Legends and scriptures refer to ... cults are reasonable. In other words, they (these space aliens) don't want themselves "found out," so they condemn any exploration. They want you to be a perfect servant to society (THEIR society -- of THEIR world) -- to the "acceptable establishment," to humanity, and to false religious concepts. Part of that "stay blinded" formula goes like this: "Above all, be married, a good parent, a reasonable church goer, buy a house, ...
- 4675: The Study Of Violence In Ernes
- ... of his own articles were printed, he decided not to go to college. He started a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy, he was later transferred into the Italian infantry and was severely wounded. After the war he served as a correspondent for the Toronto Star and then settled in Paris. While there, he was encouraged in creative work by the American ex-patriot writers. Today is the first time any have ... liked to write about wars he had seen and made pronouncements about other writers. He was always a legend, and liked to write about himself. He was one of the most famous people in the world. He was literally material to people who had seen him once in a restaurant. In Hemingway s book, The Snows of Kilimanjaro he talks about violence and hunting. Hemingway talks about various guns and pistols ... of living, but survived by being rescued by a search team. He shot himself, like his farther did in 1928 with a macabre rifle in Ketchum, Idaho splattering his brains all over the room the world was shocked and stunne. Jose Luis Castillo-Puche is the author of Hemingway in Spain. He spoke of Hemingway, he said people thought Hemingway was a man blessed by fortune, he was a great ...
- 4676: Coral Reefs 2
- ... are in danger of extinction. Hopefully, man will realize what he has done to them and decide to take care of and protect them. I hope you enjoy my essay. Coral reefs are arguably the world’s most beautiful habitats. Coral reefs have been called the rainforests of the oceans, because of the rich diversity of life they support. Scientists have not yet finished counting the thousands of different species of ... Coral reefs are home to perhaps one-fourth of all marine species. This effects the entire ecosystem of the ocean. Pollution by humans has directly or indirectly caused the death of 5%-10% of the world’s living reefs, according to marine biologist Clive Wilkinson of the Australian Institute of Marine Science. This estimate didn’t take in global warming and ozone depletion as a factor. The pollution is caused by ... a little money in the billion-dollar business. Even the hotels and the motels pollute the reefs by their drainage of sewage pipes. This is causing a huge problem in coastal tourism, which is the world’s fastest growing industry, worth over $7 billion annually in the Caribbean. Marine Scientists are really worried of how much longer the reef can survive with all these visitors to the reefs. Global warming ...
- 4677: History Of The Guitar
- ... same time two new innovations in related fields were changing the musical instrument dramatically. The first advance the phonograph, actually dates back to the late 1800¹s, but did not gather full force until after World War I. Recordings made all kinds of music available to people who had no access to any other music except for local and touring bands. The second advance was the radio. From 1920 to 1925 the ... and record players. The little parlor guitar from the previous century just could not cut it in the popular music of the day. In 1928 Andres Segovia first performed in the United Stated, turning the world of classical and semi-classical music on its ear. He brought a practically new style of music. As with many later guitar stars, Segovia had a guitar as influential as the music he played ...
- 4678: Demian
- ... between the two realms of good and evil. Right from the beginning of the novel Hesse introduces the reader to Emil, of whom the novel is based around. The reader sees how Emil's "good" world of peace, love and protection becomes mingled in the "evil" world of lies, cheat and theft. Hermann Hesse does an extremely fine job of protraying the effects of these two worlds on the human spirit. Rather than trace Emil's actions and every feeling, to better ... having fallen "out of paradise back into reality, again face to face with the enemy, with his evil eye." This dream is very sinificant in that it shows Emil's departure from the absolute "good" world into one of "evil." Emil has had first experience with lying, which he did to Kromer, that opened the door to more evil. Emil now finds himself jumping at every command Kromer throws to ...
- 4679: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... undertook the direction of the Police Department of New York City. In 1897 he joined President McKinley's administration as assistant secretary of the Navy. While in this office he actively prepared for the Cuban War, which he saw was coming, and when it broke out in 1898, went to Cuba as lieutenant colonel of a regiment of volunteer cavalry, which he himself had raised among the hunters and cowboys of ... New Hampshire, and after some weeks of difficult negotiations concluded a peace treaty in September 1905. On the 10 December 1906 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in ending the Russian-Japanese War. In November 1906 he traveled to Panama, to inspect the building of the Panama Canal and in so doing becomes the first President to travel abroad while in office. He was a man of no ... 1912 and accepted the presidential nomination by the Progressive Party. He outpolled Taft, but Woodrow Wilson outpolled each of them. In 1917 Wilson refused his offer to raise and command a division to fight in World War I. Roosevelt was an historian, a biographer, a statesman, a hunter, a naturalist, and an orator. In 1919, at the age of sixty, he died in his sleep of coronary embolism.
- 4680: Kafka's The Trial: The Reality of Guilt
- ... it complicated for readers. It is confusing and disorienting at times, even demanding that the reader re-read for clarification. Kafka's unique organization may have been intentional. Similar to Joseph, the readers experience a world comprised of perplexity and chaos. We are encouraged to re-evaluate what we have just read, like Joseph is encouraged re-evaluate his life. Our constant reflections are Joseph's reflections; his challenges are ours ... for him is pointless, for there is no way up to him. He reveals Himself to man or He does not. Emil Brunnu argues that, "God cannot be known by His active presence in the world, but is regarded as hidden, so that what God is not revealed" (Kafka A Collection of Critical Essays 157). God speaks and commands; man hears and obeys, or turns away to his own destruction. The ... status, and her deformity? Or does she pity his position with the court? "There is thus between him who pities and him who is pitied a great gap: the one who pities is in a world which the pitied person can never hope to enter; if, as a matter of fact, he could, he would sacrifice his possibility of being pitied. (Adrian Jaffe 93)." With theses words we ponder the ...
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