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- 21781: Benjamin Harrison
- ... leader of the party, had been defeated by Cleveland in 1884 and refused to run against him again. The field was therefore open. Harrison was finally nominated with Blaine's support. Levi P. Morton, a New York banker, was named for vice-president. Harrison kept aloof from Congress and left lawmaking to its leaders. First on his list was the Dependent Pension Act. This provided money for Civil War veterans who ...
- 21782: Ozymandias (1818): An Analysis
- ... dissolved. Fragments still remain, but the man's power has been gone for more than half a millenium. The difference between these two examples of an "Ozymandias," however, is that Charlemagne's effect on the world ("shaping" western Europe) can still be seen, while Ramses II's legacy is less evident. Unlike the lost potency of Ramses II and Charlemagne's dreams, Shelley's poem still has its power. Through irony ...
- 21783: Beloved
- ... other woman; talked about baby clothes like any other woman, but what she meant could cleave the bone. This here Sethe talked about safety with a handsaw. This here Sethe did not know where the world stopped and she began. Suddenly he saw what Stamp Paid wanted him to see: more important than what Sethe had done was what she had claimed. It scared him (Morrison 164). Paul Ds character ...
- 21784: Analysis of the Poem "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke
- ... it's meaning because it deals with death and love. These are two powerful things that evoke feeling in people. It helps to create an image in the poem of a man who is very brave and would do anything for his country. The character in the poem reinforces the meaning because he truly believes in his country. He describes England in his ninth line by saying, "And think, this heart ...
- 21785: Tom Sawyer
- ... name of Muff Potter who just happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. The boys swear never to speak of this again. Soon after this Tom falls in love with his new neighbor, Becky Thatcher. Eventually the two become engaged but the engagement falls through when Tom accidentally mentions his former love while talking with Becky. The two feud and do not speak. Meanwhile, the whole town ...
- 21786: For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf: Style and Theme
- ... no reason. The message or theme that Shange wants everyone, not only other black women, who reads her work to get is her description of what it means to be a black woman in a world of harsh streets, deceitful men, and aching loss. She wants people to know that black women do not want their pity but their applaud for the courage that it took to live through those difficult ...
- 21787: Influence Of Traditional Ways
- ... fathers death, Miss Emily is left to continue life in future generations with the same opinions and attitudes about society that her father had left with her. She has been kept from the outer world and is a prisoner of time thus her clinging to her past has harmed her to the extent that it ruined her life. The whole town went to the funeral, the men through sort of ...
- 21788: Poetry: Not Me
- ... his best, and played always to win. Yet the harder he worked, the harder he'd fall. When his sports were done he had nothing to do. He had all of the time in the world. "Why not study?" said his mom, cooking the stew. He thought of that during supper and hurled. His mother soon tired of the grades he brought home. She made him study each day after school ...
- 21789: Analysis of John Donne's Sonnet 10 and Meditation 17
- ... the theme is, No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. This passage says that no one is by themselves in this world there are always people and spirits there to help and guide us. We are not totally alone; we are part of the human race that was created by God. This draws the whole poem together ...
- 21790: Blakes's "London": Your Beauty, My Despair
- ... and poor people struggling to make a living does not look beautiful to me. And so we ask ourselves the question, who does this truth look beautiful to. How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new born Infants tear, and blights with plagues the Marriage hearse(lines 14-16). Having children at a young age and while being unmarried is an occurrence we see far too much of today in our ...
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