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U S Government Crazy Horse
1,347 words... ny and C. F. Smith. During the summer of 1868 his request was accepted. The troops moved. A civil war hero William Tecumseh Sherman moved into the territory as the new commander of the plains. He had plans to get the treaty signed. His hopes were to, shut up the congressional critics, get the Sioux to agree on already and maintain the army's morale. After negotiations were made Red Cloud lead one hundred-and twenty-five leaders of the Sioux nations to sign the treaty of 1868. This treaty gua...
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Heroic Qualities One Person
752 wordsI read a novella with a collection of three stories by Yukio Mishima. The first story was called The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, the second was called The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and the third was Confessions of a Mask. I would enjoy talking about each of these books individually, however I have far too little room for discussions of a such a great feat of writing. Instead I will point out the under lying themes that manifest themselves in each story very clearly. The most pr...
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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
718 wordsBorn in Columbus, Georgia, McCullers grew up in a comfortable setting, for her father was a well-to-do watchmaker and jeweler. Since her childhood, McCullers had been full of creativity, demonstrated through both music and literature. As she aged and matured, writing became her true love and she established herself as a mainstream southern Gothic author when she wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter at only twenty-three. This title accurately describes the theme of the novel and depicts mans' never...
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Theme In The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
920 wordsTheme in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" written by James Thurber is a short story that takes place during the trying times of World War II. Thurber's description of Walter Mitty is of a married older man who lives in a town called Waterbury and has an imagination of a three-year-old. In this excerpt of Walter Mitty's life we are able to see into his mind and discover the many conflicts that disturb him. The theme, although it may seem hidden, is of Walter Mitty...
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Ahead Of His Time Iliad And The Odyssey
780 words"A hero is one who is born illegitimately, out of the fear of the prophecy of his future greatness, is abandoned by his father, is save by animals or others and raised by a lowly couple, fights wars, returns home triumphant, defeats his persecutors, frees his mother, becomes king, founds a city, and dies young (In Quest of the Hero vii). " Homer took this theory to heart in his writing the Odyssey. Homer was constantly using each one of these components and many of them can be seen in both the I...
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Sword Of Aethelfirth King Theodric Volcano
743 wordsWhat a grand yarn that was my good king Theodric, but my favorite of your tales concerns how Tamerlane, the mighty sword of Aethelfirth, came into your possession. Aye, that story remains one of my most cherished memories even to this day. Do you mind recounting the tale one more time for me and the younger thanes who have yet to hear it?" You know how I abhor repeating myself but I will make and exception on this occasion because of tonights jovial atmosphere. Many a year ago, back when times w...
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Issues At Hand Friendship With Botvinnik Honeyman
907 wordsA Walk in the Woods By Lee Blessing Copyright 1986 The setting of this play took place in the woods of Geneva on a park bench. The time span for this play included late summer, fall, late winter, and early spring. Andrey Botvinnik is a 57 year old man that is a career Soviet Diplomat. Botvinnik is a light hearted man that always wants to talk about something other than the issues at hand. Botvinnik as a negotiator, was always known for rejecting the proposals that would encourage arms reductions...
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Luther King Jr Martin Luther King
472 wordsOn January 15, 1929 Michael Luther King Jr. , which was later changed to Martin, was born. His father Michael Luther King was a Baptist minister and his mother was a school teacher named Alberta King. In 1948 King graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. with a Bachelor of Arts. After Kings successful campaign to achieve the desegregation of public facilities in Birmington, Alabama in 1965, he concentrated most of his time and efforts on the voter-registration drive in Selma, Alabam...
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Plato And Good Life
1,377 wordsThe good life is a condition in which a person will be the most happy. Both Plato and Aristotle see the good life as the state in which a person exhibits total virtue. Plato reasons that a person will exhibit total virtue when his desires have been extinguished, while Aristotle believes the perfect state will bring forth the virtue in men. Plato argues that the good life springs from love because through love, men can rid themselves of desires. That is not to say that every loving relationship c...
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Twelfth Night Great Deal
754 wordsShakespeare cleverly uses the art of disguise, in both his tragedies and his comedies, in order to employ a literary device known as dramatic irony, where the audience members are aware of something (in this case the true identity of characters) that characters in the play are not. This, of course, creates tension in a play and excites the audience; actions take place on the stage, of which the audience knows the import, but characters on the stage do not. It also creates a setting for a great d...
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Martin Luther King Jr
570 wordsOne of the world's best known advocates of non-violent social change strategies, Martin Luther King, Jr. , used a combination of many highly admirable qualities to convey his message of equality and advance the fight for civil liberties both in the United States and throughout the world. His quest for knowledge and mission to enlighten others brought about rational and non-destructive social change; his speeches and remarks stirred the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation; his char...
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Live Our Lives One Specific
611 wordsEmily Dickinson's "The Goal" discusses her theory that each human being lives each day striving to obtain one specific goal. She theorizes that each individual longs to fulfill one specific achievement whether "expressed" to others or is "still" (l. 2) and locked into the individual's heart. Dickinson says that it is an inevitable part of human nature to live this way, whether we believe so or not, and have not been able to recognize the specific theme of our life as it is "admitted scarcely to ...
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Heart Of Darkness Darwin Theory
1,109 wordster> Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision-he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror! What horror is Kurtz recounting as his final words? Truths lie inside the inner soul of all human beings, it is just a matter of when and where they will come out. Kurtz choose to let his be known as his passing words. An...
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Epic Of Gilgamesh Gilgamesh Epic
1,135 wordsThe Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the masterpieces of world literature. Exploring mankind's universal longing for immortality, the poem tells the story of a Babylonian hero's quest for glory and flight from death. A feeling of resentment is something each and every one of us felt throughout our lives. Some say it is a phase we go through, I say it's common. The more you try to appease others the less you feel about yourself. Is it truly important to consider this hatred and opinion of others, as D...
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Assassination Of Julius Caesar Lower Classes
880 wordsNominated for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, there is a lot to dissuade the serious reader of Roman history in Michael Parenti's "The Assassination of Julius Caesar." A radical commentator on contemporary society and historical memory, Parenti applies a "Marxian-lite" analysis of the late Republic. In hearing a talk he once gave, one comment he made stands out; "One of the great pleasures of learning history is not the learning it but the unlearning of preconceived notions." To that end he has an axe ...
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Means By Which Salinger Characters Pursue Happiness
1,082 wordsJ. D. Salinger in his stories portrayed people who don't fit in with the traditional American culture of the 1950 s. The post war society was believed to be happy as standard of living seemed higher, American technology was soaring and, politically, and economically America played a superior position in the world. Though there were some radicals who were not contented with such a situation, they couldnt accept a conforming way of live but they focused not only on a comfortable but meaningless li...
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Means By Which Salinger Characters Pursue Happiness
1,126 words... al assumption is that religion has to do with spiritual vision. And while there may be only one religious reality, this reality must be seen, even if only momentarily through various forms. In this sense he is not a Christian writer, even though there are many references to Jesus in his fiction because his historic Christianity attributes spiritual blindness to sin, not just the lack of sensitivity that Salinger repeatedly depicts. (Lundquist, 33) Zen Buddhism is the closest to Salinger's re...
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Image Of God Forbidden Fruit
1,242 wordsThe forbidden fruit, its properties, and its affects, has vast ramifications within the ethics of the women in Holy Feast and Holy Fast. as well as those of the characters portrayed in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2. Perhaps the connection is less obvious with Gawain. It must be realized that this story contains multi-leveled metaphors which approach modern literature in their complexity. Argument will be made that Gawain betrays an isomorphism with Eden's tale. The author's attitude toward t...
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Bernard Malamud Roy Hobbs
1,078 wordsOnce upon a time, a hero would be seen courageously riding on his magnificent steed into the cave of a fearsome dragon, clad with his shinning helmet, his enormous gauntlets, his breastplate displaying his coat of arms, and in his hands, a magnificent broad sword, prepared to strike at an instant. Today, that hero is seen confidently walking to home plate, his shinning helmet replaced by a dusty cap, his gauntlets replaced by batting gloves, his breastplate replaced by a simple jersey bearing th...
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Hollywood Influence On People Today
842 wordsSociety today is full of ideas and ways of life for the average person to live up to. Are these principles accurate for the average person living in todays society? No, these standards are unrealistic and they are weighted by the major influence of Hollywood, such as Hollywood celebrities, television shows, and even television advertisements. These outside influences not only sway a persons normal view, but they also can damage the average person, usually woman, physically and emotionally. Holly...
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