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- 12161: Huck Finn
- ... very drastically through these course of events. When he was living in town he learned manners, and how to be civilized. Now he is floating peacefully down the Mississippi River without a care in the world. For Jim, life on the river is always threatening. They must travel at night, and hide during the days. Jims plan is to go to the Ohio river, and travel north into the free ... couldnt go to the shore, because he might get caught. Huck neither wanted to conform to society nor live with the constant violence he continually saw. For Huck a life away from the civilized world was the best, and the river gave him his best chance at this ideal life.
- 12162: A Balanced Budget?
- ... Is it feasible to balance the Federal Budget? Every politician on Capitol Hill claims to have the answer. The Federal Government goes as far to employ some of the most renowned economist's in the world to try to solve the deficit mess, and they still haven't figured it out. The budget simulation exercise by The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget provided choices Congress has to use as its ... game or assignment. Dealing with issues that effect individuals from all walks of life is almost impossible. I cut all but a few categories under International & Domestic Spending. It is not realistic in the real world. Cutting funding for one program not only effects those involved, but inadvertently effects' others. An example would be cutting welfare benefits. With no money, no job, and no future prospects, an individual might result to ...
- 12163: Joseph Haydn
- ... Haydn's birthday, but official records disprove this. It is rumored that his brother, Michael, was the source of this inaccuracy. Supposedly, Michael didn't want it said that his big brother came into this world as an April Fool. At age seven, young Joseph entered the choir school at St. Steven's Cathedral in Vienna, where he was to remain for the next nine years. During his early years, he ... for the royal family and nobility, and all of his concerts were huge successes. In July of 1791, Oxford University awarded Haydn an honorary doctorate of music. He seemed to be on top of the world, but tragedy was soon to strike, for it was during this stay in London that he heard of Mozart's untimely death. Shortly thereafter, Haydn composed one of his most important works, symphony No. 94 ...
- 12164: Joseph Stalin 2
- ... When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin used the current power he attained and crushed his opponents to become the dictator in 1929. Stalin used his new authority to try and make the Soviet Union a world power so that no enemies could destroy his nation. When he first took over, he began a series of five-year plans. The first plan was to industrialize the country, however, the production of machinery ... not always honest and moral. He disposed of his opponents and plotted against many distinguished politicians. Once Stalin was in control of the Soviet Union, he used any means possible to make his country a world dominate powerhouse. Because of the great famine, labor camps and his infamous purging, many of his people suffered greatly. Joseph Stalin did however, obtain absolute power. His regime also marked significant events that changed the ...
- 12165: Loss of Freedom Through Apathy
- ... most just kind of government, where we the people hold supreme power. It is an institution that is a culmination of revolutions, wars, philosophies and heroes. It is the greatest and proudest government in the world. One reason for this is that Americans have a right citizens of Iraq and China and North Korea only dreamed they could have. It took one of the greatest military epics in history for our ... not interested." Others acted militantly to my calling, slamming the phone in disgust. It startled and in a way disheartened me, the way many of the people I polled seemed totally apathetic to the political world around us. To me, spending a minute answering questions about the future of politics did not seem like too much to ask at all. Yet it continued. "Hello I'm calling on behalf of your ...
- 12166: In My Fathers House
- ... My Fathers House, written by Ann Rinaldi, there are two main characters whose names are Maria and Oscie. These two girls are sisters that live in a house that is being divided by the civil war. Their stepfather (Will McLean) is from the north and is known as a Yankee in the south. Most southerners disagree with his beliefs on slavery, but nevertheless, he is still a respected town leader on ... history into this story that is very captivating once you get into it. Although that Will McLean is a Yankee , I think it will be these two girls that really divide the family on the war between the North and the South.
- 12167: The Great Gatsby
- ... soon makes it clear that they were spiritual or moral advantages. Nick wants the reader to know that his upbringing gave him the moral fiber with which to withstand and pass judgement on an amoral world, such as the one of East Egg which he had observed the previous summer. He says that as a result of such an upbringing he is "inclined to reserve all judgements" about other people, but ... romantic readiness". This is an exception that he will make for Gatsby and not anyone else in the novel. Nick overlooks Gatsbys bootlegging, and his association with Meyer Wolfshiem, the man Gatsby said fixed the world series in 1919. Yet he is contemptuous to Jordan Baker for cheating in a game of golf. Nick says that he is prepared to forgive this sort of behavior in a woman, "It made no ...
- 12168: The Boston Massacre
- The Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre Was and event that led up to the Revolutionary War. Many important events led up to the massacre. It was called a massacre by the use of propaganda. It mainly started by the British trying to enforce laws. The Boston Massacre wasn't really a ... Adams. Adams wanted the trial to get over and didn't want the truth to come out. The Boston Massacre and misleading visual representation by Paul Revere could have been one cause of a later war. The Boston Massacre increased the hatred between the Americans and the British. The radical people tried to use this minor event as propaganda. Paul Revere and Samuel Adams were happy the few colonists died because ...
- 12169: Machiavellianism
- ... could be the absolute ruler of all Italy, then order could be restored. In an effort to gain favor with the powerful Medice family, he wrote The Prince as an early blueprint of a New World Order justifying the use of any means, no matter how sinister, to gain and keep power. Machiavellianism envisages: the seizure, maintenance, and extension of absolute power by the nicely graduated use of fraud, force and ... school uniforms into effect. Censorship is simply a way for the government to keep people from standing up against them and getting in their way of gaining power when the time for the inevitable New World Order comes around. Television and books are censored so that people wont get any revolutionary or rebellious ideas from them. In the words of Heinrich Heine, Where they have burned books they will end ...
- 12170: Underground Railroad
- ... man was Tice Davids, a Kentucky slave who decided to live in freedom in 1831. The primary importance of the Underground Railroad was the on going fight to abolish slavery, the start of the civil war, and it was being one of our nation's first major anti-slavery movements. The history of the railroad is quite varied according to whom you are talking. Slavery in America thrived and continued to ... their lives free. Some of the escaped fugitves met up with previuosly escaped friends and family and formed communities. Others found a haven in the Native Americans with whom they intermarried and reproduced. The civil war began and others found shelter with the Union Army. The slaves soon found out that freedom did not mean freedom from work, but they were happier because they now made their own decisions. Some died ...
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