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Important African American FiguresThroughout his life Ralph Bunche worked to improve race relations and further the cause of civil rights. For 22 years he served on the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, earning its highest honor, the Spingarn Medal, in 1949. He participated in several civil ...
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Animal Farm - Elements Of LiteI believe that George Orwell used direct characterization to introduce his characters. For example when he introduced Old Major he said, “he was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact ...
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Song For Simeon In the poem "A ," T.S. Eliot uses ambiguity and religious allusion to convey decay and death of the old order to make room for modernity. Examining the imagery in the poem and the tone used allows for a better idea of what the speaker's attitude is toward these changes, and perhaps a hint of ...
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Anti-Vietnam Movement In The U.S.The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965-1971 was
the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. The
United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950 when
President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of France's war
against the Viet ...
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My Perception Of William Shakespeare's OthelloOthello, by William Shakespeare, is perhaps not as exciting as a
ravishingly sexy poster of Laurence Fishburne and Irene Jacob. Yet, with its
intoxicating mix of love, sexual passion and the deadly power of jealousy,
Shakespeare has created an erotic thriller based on a human emotion that ...
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American Foreign Policy In WwiAs we approach the next Presidential election the topic of American foreign policy is once again in the spotlight. In this paper, I will examine four major objectives of U.S. foreign policy that have persisted throughout the twentieth century and will discuss the effect of each on our ...
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Mark Twain And His WritingsWhat does Mark Twain mean and where did Samuel Langhorne Clemens come up with this pseudonym?
“On river boats, one member of the crew always stood near the railing measuring the depth of water with a long cord which had flags spaced a fathom (six feet) apart. When the crewmen saw the flags ...
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An Attempt At A Rhetorical AnaThe renowned Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye held a series of radio broadcasts, in which he presents his beliefs of literatures place in the world. In the sixth of his lectures, Frye culminates his study of the relevance of literature in the world. He restates his theme, and expands from ...
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Albert EinsteinOf all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man's work, everyone knows that its impact on the world of science is astonishing. Yes, many have heard of 's General ...
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Animal FarmMr. Jones, the owner of “Manor Farm”, was an irresponsible farmer. He was too drunk to take good care of his animals. The barn animals were fed up with the way Mr. Jones treated them; thus they would occasionally have secret meetings at night.
Old Major, their leader, had organized a meeting ...
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Prophet MuhammadThe Last Prophet of God: Muhammad
(s) was born in 570 CE in Mecca. His father, Abdullah, died several weeks before his birth in Yathrib (Medinah) where he went to visit his father's maternal relatives. His mother, Aminah, died while on the return journey from Medina at a place called ‘Abwa’ ...
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RagtimeUp until the late 1900’s, the American populace on the whole had assumed a very optimistic view of American history. Glossing over disgraceful events, emphasizing the brighter points in our history, our culture has attempted to ignore the obvious fact that we have had, and still have, our ...
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Ancient Greek Theatre Architecture
We all look for our beginnings. Whether we look for them in our personal life or in our professional life, we still look for them. As I was looking around the theatre recently, I was looking at and wondering where the idea of the theatre came from. Rather, who built it and why it is built ...
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Animal Farm: Satire About CommunismIn his book Animal Farm, George Orwell wrote a satire about communism. It also dealt with the Russion Revolution of 1917. A satire is a literary work that makes fun of the stupidity or vices of individuals, groups, institutions, or society in general. The animals on Manor Farm developed ...
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Higher Love In The Symposium ALove has always been a sensation that has both mystified and captured humanity. It is a unique emotion and, while it means something different to everybody, it remains to all a force that is, at its purest form, always one step above mankind. In love’s ability to exist differently from person to ...
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"Out Of Empire: Edward Gough Whitlam""More than any other part of the old Empire, Australia
remains inhibited and limited by its nostalgia for past
associations and pretensions which the British nation, and
in particular, the British monarch have long since
abandoned. Nothing has done more to retard Australia's
relations with ...
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The Devil And Daniel WebsterHeroes are often remembered as larger than life. In "", Stephen Vincent Benet portrays “Dan’l” Webster as larger than life. In fact, Dan’l is portrayed as the biggest man in the country who is trusted right next to God Almighty (187). The essence of heroism is captured when ...
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Hamlet - Elizabethan Revenge In HamletHamlet is a play written by William Shakespeare that very
closely follows the dramatic conventions of revenge in Elizabethan
theater. All revenge tragedies originally stemmed from the Greeks, who
wrote and performed the first plays. After the Greeks came Seneca who
was very influential to all ...
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The Crucible - Struggles In The PlayThe Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a story that contains manystruggles. These struggles come about as a result of the strict Puritan society in which the story takes place. There are two main struggles in the book. The first never actually takes place in the story, but is described many times ...
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Famous People Of The Civil WarUlysses Simpson Grant served effectively with Zachary Taylor's
army at Monterey during the Mexican war. Right when the war began
Grant obtained a position on the staff of General George McClellan.
During the war he showed courage in both physically and morally
manners. In February 1862 Grant ...
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