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Hit And Run First Major
1,362 words
On June 26, 1187, the Muslim Sultan Saladin
crossed the river Jordan with 20, 000 of his
followers an army consisting of roughly 12, 000
light horsemen and a number of footmen to a
location south of the Sea of Galilee where he and
his men encamped. They had been ravaging the
nearby countryside in hopes of provoking a
Christian attack, but had been unsuccessful. The
Frankish Christians led by King Guy in Jerusalem
had also mobilized their own army and camped at
the spring at Saffuriyah. Marshall ...
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Son In Law Fra Pandolf
595 words
A dramatic monologue is a poem in which a single
speaker who is not the poet recites the entire
poem at a critical moment. The speaker has a
listener within the poem, but the reader of the
poem is also one of the speakers listeners. In a
dramatic monologue, the reader learns about the
speaker's character from what the speaker says.
Robert Browning is said to have perfected this
form of writing. One of his most famous dramatic
monologues is "My Last Duchess. " The speaker in
the poem is an Italia...
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Beautiful Woman Ten Years
523 words
Helen was the most beautiful woman in the entire
Greek known world. She was the daughter of the god
Zeus and of Leda, and wife of the King of Sparta.
The hero Theseus, who hoped in time to marry her,
abducted her in childhood but her brothers rescued
her. Because Helen was courted by so many
prominent heroes, Menelaus made all of them swear
to abide by Helen's choice of a husband, and to
defend that husband's rights should anyone attempt
to take Helen away by force. Helen's beauty was
the direct...
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Catcher In The Rye Vs Don Quixote
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J. D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye can be
compared to Cervantes Don Quixote. Both novels
feature naive protagonists pining for an ideal
world. In Salingers novel, Holden Caulfield is a
sixteen year old who experiences challenging and
questionable events in the mid-stage of his
adolescence. Holden wants to protect the innocent
children like the catcher in the rye from the
immorality and corruptness of the phony adult
world. In Cervantes work, Don Quixote is the
idealistic protagonist who sets...
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Lord Of The Flies Super Ego
1,081 words
Freud described the Ego as being like a rider on a
horse (the Id), trying to hold the horse in check.
It mediates between the Id and the outside world,
in the sense of being aware both of the Id's
energies and of what the outside world will allow.
The Super Ego is a sort of conscience, the place
where injunctions to behave properly, learned or
inherited from people like parents, teachers and
priests, reside. Freud says the person is the
focal point of a struggle between our desires
(Id), what is...
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Laissez Faire Social Stratification
567 words
Assignment 4 Cuber and Kernel defined
stratification as a pattern of superimposed status
of a person or a group of persons in society with
the result that there comes to exist people, high
or low, superior or inferior. According to Kurt B.
Mayer, social stratification is a system of
differentiation which includes a hierarchy of
social positions whose occupants are treated as
superior, equal or inferior relative to one
another in socially important respects. It would
thus be seen that inequality ...
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Boys And Girls Short Story
316 words
The movie remake of Alice Munro s short story Boys
and Girls fails to represent the author s
intention; in comparison to the short story. The
movie eliminates crucial events, which enables the
audience to have impression of what the girl is
feeling and show sympathy for her. As a result of
eliminating the scene in which the horse is
getting killed; the audience is unaware of how the
girl copes and is affected by the situation. It
was stated in the story that for the girl to be
able to go to slee...
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Greeks Believed Greek Civilization
700 words
The earliest Greek civilization thrived around 4,
000 years ago. Some of the things that they had
that we still use today are the arts, science,
math, literature, and politics. The Greeks were
known for their great intelligence, military
strategies, and their buildings. All Greeks spoke
the same language. This made it easier to trade
and to communicate between different parts of the
country. All Greeks believed in the same gods and
also shared some common heritage. The Greeks
believed that there...
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Committed Suicide Three Weeks
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Olive Ann Burns, who was born in Banks County,
Georgia, in 1924, wrote Cold Sassy Tree. Burns
collected all the stories of her father and his
grandfather, a store owner in Commerce, which were
models for Cold Sassy. She wrote the sequel to
this novel before dying in 1990. Characters Will
Tweedy was the main character who retold the story
eight years later. He was a young fourteen
year-old boy at the beginning of the book. Will
loved fishing, camping, driving, and spending time
with friends. He a...
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King Arthurs Court Gawain And The Green Knight
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight I believe that the
color imagery in Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
represents nature, as a force that man has little
control over. This is evident during the journey
of Sir Gawain, and later, his shame in front of
King Arthurs court. Nature does as it will in ways
that can not be controlled by man. The best they
can do is to acknowledge the fact that it is
happening. They had no control whatsoever, and
therefore, were subject to its, at times,
ferocity. This is s...
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One Of The Greatest Police Officers
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The most efficient way to reduce crime is to unite
the police department with the community it
serves. The police alone can not prevent crime and
need to summons the assistance of its citizens.
Without community policing, much of the police
response ends up being reactive instead of
proactive. We always look at statistics in a way
that shows reactive status, but proactive status
can not be figured into account. Some programs of
community policing are bicycle, foot, and mounted
patrol. Others may...
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Number Of Deaths Face
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Rose DeWitt Bukater The sinking of Titanic is one
of the most famous of tragedies in our history.
Everyone knows that the unsinkable ship found its
home at the bottom of the ocean before it even
reached its first destination. Many films have
been made in an attempt to recreate the events of
that fateful night on April 15, 1912 but none have
been as realistic as the version of Titanic
directed by James Cameron. When we think of
Titanic, we remember the horrific number of deaths
that occurred. A h...
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Sir Gawain Foolish Pride
609 words
There are many major themes in? Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight? , some more present than others, for
instance, honor and pride which lead to
manipulation (domination) and finally, the game
itself. These are three themes that get the
audience interested in the story and give them an
appetite for more of the story. Honor and pride
play a big part in the game the Green Knight is
playing because it is what he trusts will cause
one of the knights to accept his challenge. The
knight insults King Arth...
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President Andrew Johnson 30 P M
941 words
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln John Wilkes
Booth, born May 10, 1838, was an actor who
performed throughout the country in many plays. He
was the lead in some of William Shakespeare's most
famous works. He was also a racist and Southern
sympathizer during the Civil War. He hated Abraham
Lincoln who represented everything Booth was
against. Booth blamed Lincoln for all the Souths
problems. He wanted revenge. In late summer of
1864, Booth began developing plans to kidnap
Lincoln, take him to Rich...
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Levels Of Hell Dante
426 words
Dante makes many references to Homer and the Iliad
throughout the Inferno. The fates of favorite
characters are described during the course of
Dante? s travels. Beginning with his vision of
Homer in Limbo, continuing through increasingly
gory levels of Hell until Dante reaches the eighth
bolivia where he meets Ulysses who is engulfed in
fire. Dante? s infatuation with the Iliad is
clearly illustrated in his Divine Comedy. Dante
introduces Homer early in the Inferno. After the
writer passes the g...
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Gas Masks Street Corner
505 words
Garret Augustus Morgan was born on March 4, 1877.
He was the seventh of eleven children born to the
Morgan family in Paris, Kentucky. As a young boy
Morgan was very creative. Morgan taught himself
after he left school. After he dropped out of
fifth grade, he left home at the age of fourteen
for Cleveland. Despite no formal education Morgan
became a very successful man. He has created many
inventions that have improved the lives of
everyone. His inventions range from hair products,
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Robert E Lee North And The South
687 words
Robert Edward Lee was born in Stratford in January
19, 1807. His father was Light Horse Henry. He had
three brothers and two sisters, yet he was the
youngest. His family was also was very rich.
Robert E. Lee went to United States Military
Academy. He spent much of his time in his library.
His classmates admired him because of his
leadership and devotion. He graduated in 1829. He
had a high honor at West Point, he even became a
superintendent at West Point. He improved the
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8 Th Century Epic Poem
564 words
Italy and Greece Report Italy is located in
southern Europe. Rome was once capital of the
Roman Empire, but today is the capital of Italy.
Nearly all Italians are Roman Catholics, although
many do not attend church regularly. There are
about 100, 000 Protestants. Italy also has a very
small Jewish community. Roman Catholicism was made
the official religion of Italy in 1929. Italian is
the language the majority of the people speak in
Italy. The rich art and culture of Italy reflect
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King Richard Middle Ages
482 words
Sean Pendergast The story of Ivanhoe takes place
during the Middle Ages in England with the year
being 1194 A. D. It is about the adventures
Ivanhoe encounters upon returning from the
crusades with his friend and king, King Richard
the Lion Heart. Ivanhoe has been disowned by his
father because of this, and is forbidden to marry
his true love, Lady Rowena. Life was very
different during the Middle Ages, and so were the
people. During the Middle Ages, there was much
hatred between the Saxons and ...
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Back To Glogau Part Of The Diary Walter
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The Diary of a napoleonic foot soldier is a
autobiography / biography piece of literature of a
soldier who went to war during Napoleons rule.
Jakob Walter is was the author of this book, and
Walter explains to us what he did during several
war campaigns. Even though Walter was only
nineteen, he was enlisted to the army by
conscription and assigned to the regiment of Rom,
later to be called theFranquemont Regiment. His
first major mission was to escort several convoys
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