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- 12881: Review Of 1984
- ... of the one thing each person hates and fears most. It symbolizes the fearfulness and helplessness each person experiences when faced with his greatest fear. Chess pieces - the chess pieces symbolizes the players in the great political game. The white pieces are the Party and shows the way they never lose. Style Orwell's prose is very descriptive and informative. He portrays terrifying images and conveys horrifying truths in a calm ...
- 12882: Black History, The Piano
- ... speaks of some basic lessons of African-American culture. Wilson felt a duty toward his African's slave past. In this way his play teaches duty toward respecting your heritage, which in the tradition of great literature, is just as relevant today as in 1930. The older generation in the play, Doaker, represents a time farther back in American history and attests to the past. He tells Lymen, a friend of ...
- 12883: Barn Burning By William Faulkn
- ... the satanic myth, Lucifer asserts his will against the divine order and he is cast out of heaven. The angels who fall with Lucifer become extensions of his will. The father's will is so great that it creates a force into which everything (and everyone) must flow or be destroyed. He cannot tolerate anybody who would challenge the dominance of his will. By allowing his hog to come into the ...
- 12884: Review Of Amistad
- ... by abolitionists Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) and Lewis Tappan (Stellan Skarsgard), as well as a young, idealistic real estate/property attorney named Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey). During the proceedings this case divides a nation. Two great American figures butt heads in debate as to what the outcome should be. Pro-Slavery Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne), seeking re-election in 1840, is willing to convict the Africans to gain favor with ...
- 12885: Bradstreets Views Towards Male
- ... her poems will shame the art of poetry: My obscure writings shall not so dim their worth(stanza 1, line 6). Later, in continuation of her self-demotion and apologetic tone, she talks about the Great Writer Bartas, admiring his works, and sarcastically admitting that she will never be as talented as he is: A Bartas can do what a Bartas will / But simple I according to my skill(stanza 2 ...
- 12886: Benito Mussolini
- ... also executed some of the Fascist leaders who had abandoned him, including his son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano. Increasingly he tried to shift the blame for defeat onto the Italian people, who had not been great enough to appreciate his imperial dream. In April 1945, just before the allied armies reached Milan, Italian partisans caught Mussolini, along with his mistress Clara Petacci, as he tried to take shelter in Switzerland. He ...
- 12887: Revolution In A Tale Of Two Ci
- ... July 14. The French people stood as one, one body, one heartbeat, and one resounding cry. A cry that will forever echo throughout the halls of time. "Deep ditch, single drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke. One drawbridge down! "Work, comrades all, work! Work Jacques One, Jacques Two, Jacques One Thousand, Jacques Two Thousand, Jacques Five-and-Twenty Thousand;in the name of Angels or ...
- 12888: The Beginning of a Journey
- ... and Clark obtained maps by James Mackay and Antoine Soulard, a series of route maps by John Evans, excerpts from Jean Baptiste Truteaus journal, and the journal of Mackay and Evans. Lewis spent a great deal of time in and around St. Louis talking to Indian traders who had knowledge of the Missouri River. That same winter, in addition to his many other duties, Clark, an experienced surveyor, taught himself ...
- 12889: Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- ... murder him. Mr Logan sacrifices 1/4 of his cotton in order to save TJ. Because of this incredible act of friendship towards TJ, TJ only got arrested - as opposed to killed. TJ causes a great deal of damage to himself and the people around him and everyone just wishes that he would grow up. Jeremy Simms is a complementry character. He is a quiet and timid boy who is kind ...
- 12890: Grapes Of Wrath
- ... Dustbowl. In this novel Steinbeck attempts to display the tensions between the Okies and the Californians. This display can be closely compared to todays tensions between citizens born in the US and the Immigrants. Great pieces of literature are timeless in the lessons they teach and the controversy they portray. The tensions between the Okies and the Californians were heated, as are most tensions dealing with land and immigration. The ...
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