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- 17281: John Quincy Adams
- ... how much he angered others. John Quincy stood up for what he thought, and did not just join the bandwagon, if he did the United States would be different today. We would of went to war with Great Britain, or we would still have bad relations with Great Britain. The risk of being injured or killed was worth what he did. If he was killed he still would have been known ...
- 17282: Ezra Pound, Imagism, and the Influence of the Orient
- ... of such examples, such as the overlapping of Mt. Taishan in Japan with Mt. Chocorua in New Hampshire. Imagism was an attempt at a new mode of perception, an absolute way of looking at the world (Barbarese et al p.301). To evaluate the success of Pounds Imagism in terms of its permanent contribution to traditional poetic form and our literary heritage is a difficult task, but one fact remains ...
- 17283: A Rose for Emily
- ... Emily's life, including the death of her father and her brief fling with a Yankee. Beyond the literal level of Emily's narrative, the story represents symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect in "A Rose for Emily". The story's opening with Miss Emily Grierson's death and funeral foreshadows the ending. The outcome is further emphasized by the symbolism of ...
- 17284: Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
- ... is a dual irony in this story. Referring back to the example of the first paragraph, a melancholy object can work two ways. Again the question arises; who is it sad for? Even in todays world, there are some people that give money to the homeless, because the homeless are in a sad situation, and there are people that vehemently refuse to give money to panhandlers and they get sad because ...
- 17285: John Woo
- ... you may not have heard about him, he is widely considered to be "the best contemporary director of action films working anywhere." John Woo, after many years of hard work, has become known as the world's best action film director. His action sequences have become the stuff of legend and are now the basis from which all other action movies are judged. More importantly, along with the bloodshed, Woo has ...
- 17286: My Personal Experiences With Math
- ... today and I know civilization did not come this far without using math as a tool. So as you can see, Math is a subject that will continue to flourish and bring our country and world to a greater understanding of life. The day that there is an end to math will be the day that there will be an end to mankind as we know it.
- 17287: Julia Roberts
- ... careers. Throughout her acting career, Julia achieved a great amount of awards. Between 1984 and 1999, Roberts appeared in twenty-seven movies. She held the role of Number One Female Box Office Star in the World and was the only actress in history to top $100 million at the US Box Office. Along with this, she won the Peoples Choice Award, was emmy-nominated for her guest appearance on Law ...
- 17288: Karl Marx
- ... problem, as opposed Engles who used his imagination and pure mind to come about a solution. These differences in culture and similarities in beliefs complemented each other well. This outlook on society and the class war was ingenious. It was their greatest work together, the communist manifesto, which achieved them their most popularity among the proletariat, and created the most problems with the government for the two. Communist Manifesto or Manifest ...
- 17289: Do What You Want, Just As Long As They Say So
- ... their native lands. Why are they coming here? They must obviously see something that many of us born here have taken for granted our entire lives. Americans are stubborn people. We have been given a world to live in, where by law, no one is oppressed or forced to do anything. But given even this amount of liberty, too many of us feel it isnt enough. They constantly search for ...
- 17290: My Friend April
- ... watching the clouds form into immense moving objects that catch my eye for a second. I saw everything from birds to alligators and occasionally a car or bus. While staring at the sky in a world of my own I heard a clamor coming from the front of the house. I turned over on my stomach peering through the tall pampas grass that landscapes our backyard. I lay gazing through the ...
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