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- 6691: Blakes's "London": Your Beauty, My Despair
- ... did not rejoice in its reality, but wept. “And the hapless soldiers sigh Runs in blood down the Palace walls” (lines 11-12). Yes. Explain how the truth of families unnecessarily loosing loved ones to war can cause a merry celebration. A war of hatred or greed that was not their war to begin with, but the war of governments that didn't quite get what they wanted out of a verbal agreement and needed the bloody LIBERTY of going into someone else's country and ...
- 6692: Herman Melville
- ... poetry, but the chances for publication were not favorable. With two sons and daughters to support, Melville sought government patronage. A consul post he pursued in 1861 went elsewhere. On the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered for the Navy, but was again rejected. He had apparently returned full cycle to the insecurity of his youth, but an inheritance from his father-in-law brought some relief and "Arrowhead," increasingly a burden, was sold. By the end of 1863, the family was living in New York City. The war was much on his mind and furnished the subject of his first volume of verse, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). Four months after it appeared, an appointment as a customs inspector on the New York docks finally brought him a secure income. Despite poor health, Melville began a pattern of writing evenings, weekends, ...
- 6693: Candide
- ... that Candide did not want to stay and live in this type of society when he said, "If we remain here we shall only be as others are; whereas, if we return to our own world with only a dozen of El Dorado sheep, loaded with the pebbles of this country, we shall be richer than all the kings in Europe." (52). He felt this need to feel superior. They also ... much fondness, that I absolutely thought you as happy as you say you are now miserable." (67). In my opinion Voltaire was trying to emphasize that there are two different kinds of people in this world, the wealthy and the not so wealthy. I do not feel that he was trying to say that all the time but instead that more than half of the time those who are wealthy live ... they were slaves to their masters. The wealthy were able to buy their happiness, as the masters and residents of El Dorado did. This is not only proven in Candide. By looking at the real world and our everyday lives we can agree with this theory. It is not hard to see that the famous millionaires in this world live in great beautiful places full of luxuries, and those that ...
- 6694: ABRAHAM LINCOLN One Of The Gre
- ... of 1840 he argues his first case before the Illinois Supreme Court. After being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, he delivers a speech on the floor of the House against President Polks war policy regarding Mexico. In March of 1849 he makes an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the Illinois statute of limitations, but is unsuccessful and leaves politics to practice law. Lincoln’s aptitude ... into political action, publicly speaking out against it. Overall, this decision had the effect of widening the political and social gap between North and South and took the nation closer to the brink of Civil War. Lincoln is nominated to be the Republican senator from Illinois and gives the House Divided Speech at the state convention in 1858. “We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated ... the first Republican to hold this office. He delivers his first inaugural address in March of 1861. At 4:30 a.m., April 12, 1861, the Confederates opened fire on Fort Sumter and the Civil War begins. One of the most eventful declarations in history was given in 1863 as President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by confederates. “That on the first day of ...
- 6695: Relationships In Cyberspace
- ... where ease of use and instant gratification rules. It is out of this primordial computer-ooze that a whole new way of thinking and acting is forming. Lives are being built, and destroyed in this world of bits and bytes. Cyber romance is on the rise. No one knows much anything about you. It's strange that even without the formality of a face, relationships are spawned. Although the idea of ... Siberia). The Net opens doors and spans the distance between people that never would have met under normal circumstances. This brings up interesting opportunities, for lovers, thinkers and artists. Relationships spawn and thrive in this world of electrons and light speed communications. Often friends meet here. Sometimes enemies. Even lovers. Some say that it's the exotic setting the Internet provides that leads to these relationships. Perhaps because it is a ... relationships started offline. As well as being just as romantic. The Internet, as cold and formal as it may seem, has sparked fires that have grown. In the few real relationships that come from the world of cyberspace, love is not found without suffering. Quite a few wives and husbands have been left to rear the children because of a spouse that left for an Internet lover. It seems strange ...
- 6696: Nazism
- ... out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer’s army as a Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices, including a powerful prejudice against Jews. Again, he was a product of his times... for many Austrians and Germans were prejudiced against the Jews ... most of the evils heaped upon it. The fact is that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was self-inflicted obstacle to his political success. The Jews, like other Germans, were shocked by the discovery that the war had not been fought to a standstill, as they were led to believe in November 1918, but that Germany had , in fact, been defeated and was to be treated as a vanquished country. Had Hitler ... naked and bewildered, were shoved into a line. Their guards ordered them forward, and flogged those who hung back. The doors to the gas chambers were locked behind them. It was all over quickly. The war came home to Germany. Scarcely had Hitler recovered from the shock of the July 20 bombing when he was faced with the loss of France and Belgium and of great conquests in the East. ...
- 6697: Taming Of The Shrew
- ... this play remained unquestioned. Men were obviously the ones that had authority over women. Yet in that case, Queen Elizabeth remained in power over Great Britain. While writing the play Shakespeare was influenced by the world surrounding him. These influences included the world’s views of women, men, and various other aspects that existed in that time. Though Shakespeare was writing a play that showed a different side of women, he didn’t write about women needing to ... this play remained unquestioned. Men were obviously the ones that had authority over women. Yet in that case, Queen Elizabeth remained in power over Great Britain. While writing the play Shakespeare was influenced by the world surrounding him. These influences included the world’s views of women, men, and various other aspects that existed in that time. Though Shakespeare was writing a play that showed a different side of women, ...
- 6698: Television and Movie Violence
- Television and Movie Violence The United States has become the most violent nation in the industrial world. The latest, a bloodbath in Littleton, Colorado, once again has us questioning our society. These revenge fantasies portrayed in Littleton are showing themselves in movies and on TV. This shows that violence in the media ... week watching television; they may see more that 12,000 acts of violence per year (Miller, 1998, p. 1). People and especially children have to determine what is fantasy and reality. In the make-believe world of television, violence is a commonplace and accepted part of life. In the real world, violence should not be an accepted part of life. In the real world, people, not actors, are involved. Violent acts, defined as acts intended to injure or harm others, appear approximately 8 to 12 ...
- 6699: The Scarlet Letter Essay
- ... congregation, but somehow can never quite manage this. He is a typical diagnosis of a "wuss". To some extent, Dimmesdale's story is one of a single man tempted into the depths of the hormonal world. This world, however, is a place where the society treats sexuality with ill grace. But his problem is enormously complicated by the fact of Hester's marriage (for him no technicality), and by his own image of ... dungeon of his own heart-of breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless region." In short, fallen nature has set him free from his inner distress, but left him in an "unchristianized" world, a heathen world, damnation. He has given in to sin. He has, in effect, willingly agreed to commit more sins. Dimmesdale realizes he is doing this but is too much of a coward to ...
- 6700: Endangered Species Of South
- ... and the inability to adapt to survive competition and predation. Since the 1600's, however, the rate of extinction has accelerated rapidly because of human population growth and resource consumption (17). Today, most of the world's habitats are changing faster than most species can adapt to such changes through evolution, or natural selection. The current global extinction rate is estimated at about 20,000 species per year, exponentially greater than ... organisms in freshwater lakes and destroy large tracts of forested land (Microsoft 3). In any effort to produce global biodiversity and encourage the study, restoration, and sound management of endangered species the IUCN and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) maintain a global list of endangered species and vulnerable animals called the Red List. A framework for international conservation efforts, the Red List database accesses the status of, and threats to ... international organizations, government agencies, industry, and individuals if there is hope for preserving the earth's valuable biodiversity for future generations. Works Cited "Endangered Species." Microsoft Encarta, 1993-1997. "Endangered Species; South America, 1." Grolier World Encyclopedia, 1993. "Fast Facts about Endangered Species." EAC. http://www.worldkids.net/eac/fastfact.htm (8 April 1999). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals Database Search Results." World Conservation Monitoring Centre. http://wcmc.org. ...
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