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- 8811: Ty Cobb
- Ty Cobb "Baseball," Ty Cobb liked to say, "is something like a war...Baseball is a red- blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's not pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out of it. It's...a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest" (Ward ... to get in his way. The cruelty of Cobb's style fascinated the multitudes and made him baseball's first true superstar. He played in a climate of hostility, friendless by choice in a violent world he populated with enemies....But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer (Ward and Burns 64). Cobb was famous for his style of sliding into a base ...
- 8812: Willy Loman 2
- ... are the center of the universe and haven t had any experiences in their short lives that would bring them back to Earth. Willy has chosen to selectively ignore reality and live in his own world. Willy isn t a good salesman and isn t well liked. He is a failure and refuses to accept that fact, even with the pleadings of his favorite son. Willy is also and stubborn and ... also now knows that he is a failure in business and as a husband and father. When he lost his job he also lost his will to live. Though he still lives in a dream world, reality is hitting him. He continues to have delusions about his dead brother, which shows that he still isn t truly in touch with reality. His brother tells him to come to the forest and ... own delusions. I felt sorry for Willy Loman and wished that he hadn't been so stubborn. He did have the potential to become a great businessman, he just needed to adapt to the industrialized world. Willy was a weak man. He wasn t a strong enough person to accept the reality around him. His weakness as a man also allowed him to commit adultery. He instilled values in his ...
- 8813: Once And Future King: Analytical Paper
- ... evil person. Night and day he brooded over his ugliness, his malfeasance. The boy thought that there was something wrong with him. All through his life - even when he was a great man with the world at his feet - he was to feel this gap: something at the bottom of his heart of which he was aware, and ashamed, but which he did not understand.(p.315) As a result of ... attain in order to prove to himself that he was not impure. He wished to become a heroic miracle worker. He supported himself mainly on daydreams. He wanted to be the best knight in the world..., and he wanted one other thing which was still possible in those days. He wanted, through his purity and excellence, to be able to perform an ordinary miracle...(p.323) Lancelot had to prove to ... fault, my fault, my grievous fault.'(p.589) In the preceding quotation, Lancelot denigrates himself as he always does. He thought that he had subconsciously wantereams. He wanted to be the best knight in the world..., and he wanted one other thing which was still possible in those days. He wanted, through his purity and excellence, to be able to perform an ordinary miracle...(p.323) Lancelot had to pstakes ...
- 8814: Stefan Edberg
- ... The day after she sent her son to the tennis-school for beginners. At that time she didn't know how important this initiative would be to Stefan, to Swedish tennis and even to the world tennis. An incredible athletic career had seen the morning light. Was convinced to continue The seven year old Stefan struck his first hits at the tennis school in the sommer of 1973. To start with ... free from school once a week to go to Stockholm to train with Percy. One of the biggest improvements Edberg made with Percy was his backhand which later became one of the best in the world. When he left school his training hours increased by 100 percent from four to eight times a week. Tony Pickard Tony Pickard has been Stefan`s trainer for almost his entire career. They first met ... John McEnroe was lucky if he wasn't warned at all in a match. The big drop came For nine years in a row he constantly was among the top five ranked players in the world. It was at the end of 1994 he slipped out of the top five. However, it was last year when the big drop came and he ended the year as the number 23 on ...
- 8815: Enviromental Science Profit Or
- ... of sunlight on previously emitted reactive materials. The petroleum industry is no different than any other business. It exists to make money and will pursue any means to profit. Americans and other people of the world don't realize how much of an impact the petroleum industry has on the world economy. Most of us don't think twice or even once at the gas pump about where our money is going. We just grumble occasionally about the price, then pay and drive off until the ... engine just keeps being refined enough to be in compliance with law. The fact is that we are still using petroleum products in an industry that is growing by leaps and bounds all over the world. The auto and petroleum industries will keep making minor adjustments to address problems of pollution and dwindling resources. It wont be enough as long as petroleum consumption continues to rise from millions of automobiles ...
- 8816: Analysis of The Astronomer's Wife
- ... beings, herself and the plumber being the former, and her husband being the latter. The theme is revealed in the way that these two classes of people, the toilers and the thinkers, react to the world. The people who work with their hands, when they see "weeds springing up, [do] not move to tear them up from life". In other words, people like Mrs, Ames, upon recognizing something that occupies the ... beautiful flower is. However, people like the astronomer "could balance and divide, weed out, destroy". This indicates that people with lofty ambitions, like the astronomer, do not regard the common people as necessary for the world to run smoothly, and would rather obliterate them. The astronomer does not realize that by unclogging pipes and performing other such chores, those people have allowed him to be free to think about large-scale problems. Interaction between the two types of people is necessary, whether either one realizes it, for the world to function. The "Astronomer's Wife" is an excellent short story that brings out the often forgotten point that both the practical people and the ambitious dreamers are important for each other's survival. ...
- 8817: Life and Times of Alexander the Great
- Life and Times of Alexander the Great Introduction Alexander the great made an impact on world history that few individuals can profess to have done. He ruled all of the known world, and one of the largest empires ever. His men were the first westerners to encounter tales of the Yeti. They even discovered and classified new types of flora and fauna, such as the red mold ... was shocked when he immediately recognized the dances as the same harvest dances that his fellow Greeks performed near Thessalonika. This was the breadth of Alexander's influence on hundreds of different cultures around the world. Throughout the whole of Europe, Asia, and North Africa, stories of this great man have been handed down from generation to generation throughout the centuries. In many cases Alexander has even taken on a ...
- 8818: Voltaire's Candide: One Man's Search For True Happiness and Acceptance of Life's Disappointments
- ... accepting his fate, when he killed Cunegonde's two lovers. At this point one begins to see his maturity from a naive young man into a realist. Candide's travels take him to "the new world" where he hopes that Dr. Pangloss' theory might be justified. Candide finds people of wealth who are bored and still unhappy. When he finds a nation of happy people he learns that they must be secluded from the rest of the world to preserve their happiness. Cunegonde leaves Candide for a man of wealth but that turns out to be the beginning of her ruin. Candide is robbed of great wealth and, when he tries to help ... not trying to change or overcome obstacles is damaging. What comes to mind, for me, is the attitude of many Jews during the Holocaust. While there was mass murder and torture of innocent people the world's countries did nothing. Even the victims themselves rarely fought against the tyranny. If only people accepted that they have the power, in many instances, to influence their fate, not accept reality, waiting for ...
- 8819: Words and Their Implied Meanings
- ... government. In the mind of a terrorist he/she must alter an aspect of society he deplores in society by bombings, hijackings, and assassinations. The United States' history makes us sympathetic to revolutionaries because the war between America and the British. No books refer to it as the American Terrorism because terrorism connotes anarchy and a lack of social structure. The actual difference in strategy between the two groups may appear ... dictionary a cult has one major characteristic, "A system of religious belief and ritual." A religion too has a single distinct quality, "Commitment or devotion to a deity, faith or observance." Unfortunate, In today's world, a cult will send you to eternal damnation while religion will save you from it. With deeper analysis, one might contrive that religion controls the masses about people with propaganda and messages of Satan whereas ...
- 8820: History Guidelines
- ... they didnt meet their daily quota of gold for Columbus that had there arms cut off. Columbus said There are very gentle and bare no arms. For they do not no what violence or war is. With 100 of these men I could subject them to do what ever I want them to do. (Morrison 079) Yes I believe that progress has to be measured. When it is measured I ... The new topics will be endless possibilities. Sammuel Elliott Morisson wrote a book called Christopher Columbus The Mariner. During the construction of this book Columbuss original journal from all his voyages to the New World was discovered. In the first two weeks of the journal entered it was discovered that one word appeared 75 times: GOLD (Zinn 04). The discovery and transferring of Columbuss journal into English for the ...
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