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- 11661: Shoeless Joe
- ... why he wears the name Shoeless Joe. 4. The first impression I get from the main character, Ray Kinsella, is that he is a man who loves baseball. He lives for it. He is a great father and husband. He plays ball with his family and he brings them to ball games. He likes to dream. He could sit all day long and dream. He also likes to improve the things ...
- 11662: Significant Woman - Cleopatra
- ... take away from her, and it was a very convincing form of persuasion. Cleopatra’s family had been ruling Egypt since 305 BC, when Ptolemy I declared himself King of Egypt sometime after Alexander the Great’s death. The Ptolemy family was of Macedonian decent, not Egyptian. Cleopatra, more precisely, Cleopatra VII, was the third daughter of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos “Auletes”, who began his rule of Egypt in 80 BC ...
- 11663: "Clay Beats Liston: February 25, 1964"
- ... important effect of Cassius Clay defeating Sonny Liston is the placement of Kentucky, and specifically Louisville on the map of boxing. For many years there were numerous boxing gyms in and around Louisville that produced great amateur fighters. Unfortunately, they were ignored by the national media until Cassius Clay, who was a product of such gyms, defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship. When Clay won the gold medal in the ...
- 11664: Facism and Patriotism
- ... Membership in the lower classes was given social meaning engendered by a new sense of communal purpose and a new sense of hope (Harvey, 1999). The Fascist political regime was firmly in power as the depression hit - and quickly took control of all economic policy, including the means and rights to work. "The March 1928 decree on `the national regulation of the supply and demand of labor' had been signaled nearly ...
- 11665: The Rise Of Democracy
- ... process, the right to have charges brought up against you (heabeas corpus), and then be tried by a jury of your peers. The next step was the all-powerful Magna Carta; translated meaning was the great charter. It was brought out in the year 1215. It was simply a document that was forced to be signed by the King of England, that particular Kings name was King John. He was given ...
- 11666: A Reborn Nation by a New Democracy (Mao Tse-Tung)
- ... if the appropriate progressions continue to occur. A revolution inevitably becomes a sect of the proletarian-socialist worldwide revolution. “The Chinese revolution is part of the world revolution” was presented around 1924 during China’s Great Revolution. It was proposed by the Communists of China and approved by all of those interested in the anti-imperialist struggle at that time. These ideas were a trigger of Stalin’s theory. He proposed ...
- 11667: Buffalo Soldiers
- ... prejudicial treatment by some army officers, as well as open prejudice displayed by many civilians in frontier towns, the black regiments performed effectively. They fought innumerable skirmishes and running battles with Indian warriors in the Great Plains, western Texas, the southwestern desert, and the mountains of Colorado. One company of the 9th regiment fought in the last battle of the Indian Wars, at Wounded Knee, S. Dak., in December 1890. The ...
- 11668: The Struggle Between Good and Evil in The Hobbit
- ... terrifies the good characters is shown when the adventurers approach the dragon's lair. The dragon's lair terrifies the adventurers because they never know what they will encounter or when they will encounter the great dragon: "They reached the skirts of the mountain all the same without meeting any danger or signs of danger…" (Tolkien 196). When Bilbo and the dwarves arrive where the dragon's domain is they sent ...
- 11669: Climate Change (term Paper)
- ... lingering confusion has made the problem of global environmental change “the largest single problem facing the world scientific community.” But, while the precise impact of man’s footprint on the earth cannot be measured with great accuracy, there is no reasonable man who will argue that current rates of consumption are either beneficial or wholly necessary. Indeed, it is quite intuitive to conclude that increasing industrialisation and increased economic output is ...
- 11670: Stephen Sondheim
- ... knows America's cultural heritage better then anybody. Follies (1971) is an affectionate and precise pastiche of Berlin, Kern, Gershwin, Dorothy Fields, Yip Harburg ... Even as he seemed to be turning his back on that great tradition, he was also a glorious summation of it. With Sweeney Todd (1979), the Prince/Sondheim collaboration reached its apogee, blurring the distinctions between lyrics and dialogue, songs and underscoring, and combining a complex plot ...
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