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- 5541: Personal Writing: Working Experiences From School and Community Service Projects
- ... my high school education I have participated in many school and community service projects. My participation in school and community service activities has helped me grow and develop skills I will need in the real world. By participating in school and community service activities I have gotten the opportunity to obtain team working and people person skills. I have also been able to use my experiences from my participation in such activities to help me grow and see what the real world is like. I have been able to obtain certain essential skills that I will use in the outside work force. Some of these essential skills include team working and people person skills. It is very important to have these skills in the real world because you will need to use them everyday in your working experiences. Many students who dont participate in such activities often lack team working and people person skills. Participating in school and community ...
- 5542: Info On Ww1
- On the 28th July 1918 the great powers of Europe went to war in one of the most tragic and bloody events in all of history. The main wars on the western front were between Britain, the ruler of the worlds' largest empire covering over a quarter of the full land mass, and a new country called Germany. The reason that Britain was in the war was because it was upholding some treaties it had made some years before such as the treaty of London which said that Britain would protect Belgium if she was ever invaded, which was the first ... top of No Mans Land and nearly every single one was shot down and died. This type of warfare had never ever been seen by the army and some people claimed that it wasn't war of strength it was a war of attrition, that is that the winner would be the person with more people and supplies. In between the trenches was an area called No Mans Land, this ...
- 5543: Gods In The Iliad
- ... life. Naturally, divine intervention was a major variable in the equation of Homer's Iliad. Zeus, as the symbol of supreme authority and justice, made judgement calls as to the other gods' involvement in the war and remained impartial. Even when his own son, Sarpedon, was about to die, he chose to let the outcome go unaltered. On the other hand, his wife, Hera, displayed the more typical actions of a ... conflict. Both Apollo and Artemis gave aid to the city of Troy. Although Artemis takes a minor role, Apollo, perhaps angered by Agamemnon's refusal to ransom Khryseis, was constantly changing the course of the war in favor of the Trojans. Responsible for sending plague to the Greeks, he was the first god to make an appearance in the Iliad. Their mother, Leto, also helped the Trojans. Aphrodite sided with the Trojans. Although she was insignificant on the battlefield, she was successful in convincing Ares, the god of war, to help the Trojans. One view of the gods' constant intervention in the war was that they were just setting fate back on the right course. For instance, when Patroklos was killed outside Troy, ...
- 5544: To Kill A Mockingbird 2
- ... no reason not to defend just because he s black. The trial of Tom Robinson and his unjustified conviction was an eye opener for Jem and Scout to the prejudices and unfairness of the adult world. The discrimination and prejudices are unintelligible to Scout and Jem, who learned not to be biased, but rather was taught equality by her virtuous father Atticus. Scout and Jem learn about death and they gain ... Dubose is when they see how her views on life have an effect on her death. Despite Atticus' efforts, Bob Ewell still invades the Finches' private lives and he brings the children into the adult world. The children make the transition from the world of innocence to the reality of the adult world through the experiences they find in their own games and later, the adult games realizing all the prejudism in life. The "Boo" games begin Jem' ...
- 5545: Transcendentalism Leaves Of Gr
- ... divinity, the hierarchy of the holy trinity, and the ethereal perfection afforded these things into turmoil. What he did was take the theologian ideas of perfection and divinity and juxtaposed them onto mankind and the world around him. This theology of transcendentalism was the cornerstone theme throughout all of Whitman s writing. Throughout Whitman s poetry, there exists several major themes. First, the idea of the Holy Trinity of father-son ... heavenly, theological realm and brought into the present. Second, there is the idea of the Adamic myth of America, whereupon mankind has found a temporal Garden of Eden in which to recreate himself and the world around him. The final theme is that of the perfect order of the cosmos as the stage for which these things can happen. Whitman makes the case that each individual, each "leaf of grass" has ... Whitman effectively creates this new trinity of god, mankind and nature. He uses them interchangeably with each other. By taking ethereal ideas of heavenly bodies and pushing it onto mankind, Whitman was defiantly creating a world where man didn t need to look to the heavens for answers. Whitman felt that that everything around him was for him. The trees, the wind, the sun. Everything that encompassed the idea of ...
- 5546: The Awakening 3
- ... course of a few months. The people with whom she interacts and the culture in which she is submersed play a significant role in her "awakening." Edna is able to break away from the restraining world of Adele in which she will never find her place. Stirred by the magic and intrigue of Mademoiselle Reitz's world, she finds the strength to reach for that, which is real for her, and she allows her true being to shine. In the beginning of her search for herself, Adele was what Edna wished she ... of Mademoiselle Reitz was similar to the one of which Edna dream for herself. She was a free spirit who did not agree with oppression of women at that time. Mademoiselle Reitz lives in a world in which a woman is her own woman and lives for herself, stands up to the world and insists on having life on her terms. In return for this free lifestyle she was looked ...
- 5547: The Yugoslavian Conflict
- The Yugoslavian Conflict Yugoslavia is a country burdened by feuding sides in a war that cannot soon be resolved. The United Nations are attempting to help the situation, but until the people of Yugoslavia can come to an agreement continued warfare and heartache is inevitable. The problems in Yugoslavia ... the idea of a single Serbo-Croatian language. However both the Serbians and the Croatians challenged this idea and went through great pains to identify vocabulary that would highlight the differences rather than the similarities. War finally broke out in Yugoslavia on June 25 1991, when Slovenia and Croatia proclaimed their independence and sovereignty, suspending the constitution of Yugoslavia and federal legislation on their territories. The first thing that Slovenian state ... they were hoping to draw the JNA into offensive action and gain political, material, and military support from the outside. This plan worked and Croatia did win its independence. The last and perhaps most famous war in Yugoslavia that needs to be discussed is the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina like all the conflicts in Yugoslavia was a result of aggressive and uncompromising political ...
- 5548: Evangaline
- ... explains the pain Gabriel's death caused. Also she felt as if his spirit was there instead of his whole body. Their love caused pain and was especially evident when Gabriel died. In the real world, many people are separated because their job places them in other places than their love ones. They are in love but separated which causes them pain and anguish. When people die people weep because they ... soul is sad and afflicted , means she wanted to be with him because her soul was in pain. Her love was devoted to Gabriel and causing pain and anguish in her heart. In the real world devotion can cause a lot of pain. When a person is in love another person and yet they don t want to give up friends and possessions for that person. But you do this because ... believe this had to hurt Evangeline. If someone were pursuing someone for their whole life because they love that person and yet the person isn t looking for them would really hurt. In the real world there is a lot of love and pain connected by actions and words. Many people these days don t understand what people mean when they say something. People say something and the other person ...
- 5549: Personal Writing: My Dreams
- ... bizarre, I think that portrays a outgoing and curious personality. I also noticed that my dreams always involve a problem of some sort, this may show that I like to help people with problems. Water, war (death), and girls (one particularly) are a few of the things I often see over again in different dreams. I don't know why I have dreams that include water, maybe my body is telling me I am thirsty or that I need to drink more water. My war dreams are the ones that I would be most interested in learning the latent meaning to. After waking from one of the war dreams I feel great, like a hero, like I accomplished something. I was recently thinking about joining a military service so I could be related to those thoughts. Often, the war dreams occur when ...
- 5550: Julius Ceasar -mark Antony
- ... all, and love you all". Here Antony shows true deceit, for Antony is not their friend, but rather their enemy. "Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!" and pronounces that he will create war among the people to revenge Caesars death. "Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all parts of Italy Caesar's spirit raging for revenge Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war" Antony is the one who creates the war, this plays to his advantage because he eventually becomes king. It is necessary to analyse both Brutus's speech and Antony's to see how Antony 's appeals to the crowd cause a civil ...
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