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19 Th Century Sierra Nevada
1,000 wordsAlbert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is a scenic canvas oil painting on display at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Created in 1868, this enormous painting is approximately six by ten feet in size (Honour and Fleming, 2000). The subject matter of this piece is typical of Bierstadt, who is known for his detailed landscapes, especially those of the Rockies and Sierras of the American West. Collectively, Alberts works are manipulated and slightly ...
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Call Of The Wild Survival Of The Fittest
1,116 words... ing Black Burton during a barroom brawl, and another time by pulling Thornton out of a series of dangerous rapids. In another act of devotion, Buck wins Thornton a $ 1, 600 bet by single-handedly pulling a thousand pounds on a sled. Thornton and his two partners, Hans and Pete, use the money to support an expedition to find a lost mine. They finally find it and begin mining. Buck runs free through the forests as the men dig for gold, continually testing himself against the harsh environment....
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Heart Of Darkness Good And Evil
1,919 wordsEvery man, or woman -- to be politically and socially acceptable -- has buried, within himself, beneath centuries of societal norms and restrictions, a dark side, a savage side. When a man is taken out of society, and left to create his own norms, he must rediscover those primordial instincts which have sustained his species since the beginning of its existence. Survival of the fittest, physically and intellectually, clique as it may be, is the foundation of these archaic yet prevalent instincts...
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Lewis And Clark Meriwether Lewis
1,353 wordsIn the early hours of October 11, 1806, while en-rout to Washington to defend himself against accusations made on him in accordance to the financial decisions made by him as goober of the Louisiana territory, Meriwether Lewis shot himself in the head with his own pistol at Natchez Trace. 1 However, the ball only grazed his skull. Of course, after doing so he fell to the floor in pain. After this, Lewis drew his second pistol, and shot himself in the chest, this passing through his body and exiti...
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Captain John Smith Biblical Allusions
880 wordsAlthough Captain John Smith and William Bradford, historians and leaders of their respective colonies, Jamestown and Plymouth, wanted to attract settlers to their colonies through their writings, the specific means they took to accomplish their goals varied. First, in spite of the fact each wanted to set an example for the colonists that joined them, Smith strived to attract those with courage and an adventurous spirit while Bradford tried to appeal to the Godly men and women. Second while each ...
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Lowest Common Denominator Literary Technique
1,452 words... s? Explore your own world, the streams where you live, your own intellect, and mind the seas and inlets of the moral mind. He writes: It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. If you want to travel, explore yourself. Thoreau left the woods because he learned all he could there; his feet had worn a pa...
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Gary Paulsen Canadian Wilderness
823 wordsThe Hatchet by Gary Paulsen tells the story of a young boy who got stranded in the Canadian wilderness, and how he survived. It all started after Brians parents got divorced. That summer Brian went to see his father in the oil fields of the Yukon. That day his mother sent him on a small plane piloted by a friend of his father. Brian took his pocket knife, clothes, and most important a hatchet that his father gave him. After the plane took off, the pilot let Brian fly the plane and showed him how...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Jim To Escape
1,135 wordsThe conflict between society and the individual is a theme portrayed throughout Mark Twain's, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck was not raised in accord with the accepted ways of civilization. Huck faces many aspects of society, which makes him choose his own individuality over civilization. He practically raises himself, relying on instinct to guide him through life. As portrayed several times in the novel, Huck chooses to follow his innate sense of right, yet he does not realize that hi...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Hester And Dimmesdale
1,791 wordsOften in society people are placed under a microscope and criticized, punished, and despised for their individual choices and flaws. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge his or her innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the opportunity to express how he or she truly feels; otherwise the emotions are bottled up until they become so compacted they erupt. Unfortunately, Puritan society does n...
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Loss Of Innocence Death Of Simon
1,299 wordsThe novel, Lord of the Flies, is a story about the authors, William Golding, view of when civilization is taken away, savagery which dwells within us all, takes place. In this story, a group of school boys are stranded on an island with no adults. The protagonist, Ralph called all of the survivors together and is eventually elected to be leader of the group. With the lack of civilization the children become increasingly more savage throughout the book, leading to the antagonist, Jack eventual ta...
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Grand Inquisitor Jesus Christ
1,118 words... f those holidays held most dear by humanity today, Christmas was made to correspond to the pagan celebration of the winter solstice. What we call Easter as Christians had virtually the same meaning as the pagan holidays Attis. " (Ellerbe 148). 8. The Prisoner uses the performance of miracles to influence the people and have them worship Him. Whenever the words He, Him, Thee, and Thou are capitalized in all grammatical cases, we have become accustomed to referring to God and / or Jesus Christ...
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Mount Sinai J W
2,244 words... : GENESIS 22: 1 Now it came to pass after these things that God [ha " elohim] tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am. " 2 Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you. " (NKJV) Targum Pseudo-Jonathan further identifies the 'elohim who told Abraham to sacrifice his son: GENESIS 22: 1 The Word of the Lord at once tried Abr...
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Swimming Upstream By Beth Brant
930 wordsSwimming Upstream by Beth Brant Beth Brant is the daughter f a white mother (Irish Scts) and a Mhawk father. She grew up with her fathers family, n the Bay f Quinte Mhawk in near. Even in her child, she had experiences with racism because her mther's family refused t admit any link t Natives. Mst f her life she stayed in the border regin f near, Canada and Michigan, USA. She married at 17, and gave birth t three daughters. After she divorced her violent, alcoholic husband, she gt a jb t support ...
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Billion Per Year National Forests
1,663 wordsBlanton Forest is the largest contiguous unprotected old-growth hardwood forest in the Eastern United States. The 6, 000 + acre design for the future Blanton Forest Nature Preserve includes 2, 350 acres of pristine old-growth wilderness including 200 + year-old trees and Watts Creek, a sanctuary for the endangered Blackside dace fish. It belongs to a type of diverse temperate forest class called "mixed mesophytic" that is considered called both "globally significant" and "critically endangered" ...
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Pga Tour Golf Courses
1,837 words... usually impeded with various hazards on the course such as water hazards and bunkers (Golf, 2006). Each player of the game could act as a marker for another player, which means he or she would manage the scorecard. The score is usually calculated through the number of strokes done plus any penalty strokes that is incurred. Penalty strokes are not an actual stroke but rather penalties for rule violations or using several relief procedures in specific situations (Golf, 2006). Golfing Popularit...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Scarlet Letter
1,186 wordsThe Importance Of The Physical Setting In The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne A gloomy and energetic religious sect, pioneers in a virgin land, with wolfs and Indians at their doors, but with memories of England in their hearts and English traditions and prejudices in their minds. They were not great in number, but great in spirit. They were victims of their own superstitions and rules, which they thought were given to them by God, but in reality, created by humans. One woman, however, sto...
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3000 B C Creation Of Adam
1,484 wordsSignificant Details Fiction or history, story or truth, myth or religion, these are questions that are applied to the ancient epic of Gilgamesh. Interestingly, these same questions apply to another major work, the Bible. Who is to say what is real and what is fiction of these two very old books? They were written many years ago, both with many different versions, and in different languages with slight variations. While it is claimed that Sumerians wrote Gilgamesh as early as 3000 B. C. , there i...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Puritan Society
1,110 wordsThe Scarlet Letter Puritan Society- In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge his or her innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the opportunity to express how he or she truly feels, otherwise the emotions are bottled up until they become volatile. Unfortunately, Puritan society did not permit this kind of expression, thus characters had to seek alternate means to relieve their personal anguishes...
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Light And Dark John The Baptist
678 wordsThe Baroque style of painting during the 1600 and 1700 s reflects an intense interest in expressing human emotion through art. Biblical scenes and representations of biblical characters are a common link between art works of that time throughout the different areas of Europe. Caravaggio represents the typical Italian Baroque artist at that time but possesses many artistic qualities uniquely his own. Bartolome Eseban Murillo, represents the typical Spanish Baroque painter. Both these painters dem...
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Maximum That Is Politically Example Of Self Defense Abbey
992 wordsBill McKibben and Edward Abbey are both modern environmental writers who have had a noticeable impact on the environmental movement. One of Abbey s novels, The Monkey Wrench Gang, was an inspirational piece for some of the founders of Earth first! , a far-left environmentalist group. McKibben s most famous novel, The End of Nature (1989), is more widely read than any other nature book since Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring. Abbey, who is commonly associated with the Southwest, a has often been ...
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