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Government Of The United States Fort Sumter
1,034 words... attack (Hutchinson Encyclopedia). Repeated demands were made upon Major Anderson, and upon the President, for the relinquishment of Fort Sumter. All demands were refused. Finally, Major Anderson was summoned to evacuate the fort, for the last time. The Hutchnison Encyclopedia explains that, accordingly, on April 11 th, General Beauregard sent him the following communication: Sir: The government of the Confederate States has hitherto forborne from any hostile demonstrations against Fort Sumte...
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The House Of Seven Gables
695 wordsAn ancient tale of the dreaded curse. The story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables is a typical example of this story. The story takes place in a simple time during the Puritan settlement in the New England area. With the Puritans there is the classic case in which a man is accused of witchcraft and is killed. Well this sort of thing occurs in the exact story. Matthew Maule was accused of being a wizard so he was hanged. When before he was hung he blurted out this words...
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Analysis Of The Cinematography American Beauty
1,186 wordsCinematography is an art form, not just an aspect of a movie. Cinematography affects the mood and tone of a movie as well as the viewers feelings while watching a movie. In American Beauty this is demonstrated beautifully through camera techniques, lighting, and the framing of the shot. Camera techniques include aerial, deep focus, pan, shallow focus, slow motion, soft focus, and the tracking shot. Lighting is more than just shining a light on a character. The cinematographer must know how to ma...
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Critical Analysis Of Barn Burning By Faulkner
900 wordsAt first glance, the story Barn Burning seems just to be about a tyrannical father and a son who is in the grips of that tyranny. I think Faulkner explores at least one important philosophical question in this story were he asks at what point should a person make a choice between what his parent (s) and / or family believes and his own values? The main character and protagonist in this story is a boy named Colonel Sartoris. In this story, Sarty is faced with the decision of either going along wi...
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Love For Nature Individual Freedom
460 wordsA loud crack pierces the still silence of the forest as Manual, a Huron guide, plunges his tomahawk into the body of a British soldier. Gunshots erupt from the darkness of the forest all around Cora and Alice cutting down the company of soldiers assigned to protect them. As if appearing from thin air two Mohicans and a white man come to their rescue, killing all of the Hurons. This white man was named Hawkeye, and was the main character of the movie The Last of The Mohicans. The romantic theme o...
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Favorite Character Black Man
645 wordsThe story was based upon black men from the North, fighting for slavery that was going on in the South. The group of men fighting was called the 54 th. Even though the chance of losing the freedom, that each and every black man held, each fought for something that should be changed. With the strength and courage that each man had, they had the heart to go on. When looking at the North, they were portrayed as a group of people that were very wealthy. That the North was going to win the war with e...
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Lieutenant Colonel Upper Canada
598 wordsMajor General Sir Isaac Brock, a hero of the War of 1812, was born on Guernesy, in the Channel Islands, in 1769. He commanded all of the armed forces in Upper Canada. He also joined the British army at 15. Promoted to senior lieutenant-colonel at 28, Brock in 1797 was given command of the 49 th Regiment. In 1801, he was made second-in-command of the land forces in Nelson's invasion of Copenhagen. In 1802, Brock was assigned to the city of York, which is now Toronto, in Canada. War with the U. S....
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One Hundred Years Years Of Solitude
1,007 wordsDeath is slow to visit Macondo in Gabriel Gamma Mrquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, but once it does arrive, there is no stopping it. It moves into the community slowly at first, then gathers speed as it races across the one hundred years. When Jos Arcadio Buenda and Ursula establish Macondo, it is like a utopia. Life prospers there with seemingly no end to it. Representative of this idea is that there have been no deaths, or a need for a cemetery. They come to this Utopia to get away from de...
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Miss Emily Colonel Sartoris
659 words"In "A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner tells a story about a young women who is overwhelmingly influenced by her father. Her father controls her live and makes all of her decisions for her. Without him she could not do anything except stay at home. When her father dies, Emily has to confront a new life without her sponsor. Since she is not able to function without the presence of her father, it is hard for her to adapt and accept the truth. When Emily's father dies, women of the town call on he...
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Ethical Standards American Beauty
697 wordsIn American movies there are often underlying plots, hidden themes and subliminal messages. American Beauty is such a movie with an intangible agenda. There are many characters interacting with each other in obvious ways on the surface, such as leading normal lives in a normal neighborhood, but ultimately they affect the outcome of the movie because of less obvious character flaws and the way they conflict living with each other. The movie contains homoerotic behavior in a pair of homosexual nei...
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Rose For Emily House And Miss
711 wordsAuthors traditionally use symbolism as a way to represent the sometimes-intangible qualities of the characters, places and events in their work. In the short story, A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner uses symbolic elements to define and characterize Miss Emily Grierson. William Faulkner's peculiar story, A Rose for Emily, portrays an insane young woman, Emily Grierson, who is isolated and displaced from society because of her father's attitude and restriction as she was growing up. Society regar...
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Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson
1,856 wordsAlexander Hamilton Today few Americans would be able to tell you anything about Alexander Hamilton. Yet his face is on every ten dollar bill and Talleyrand said of him: I consider Napoleon, Fox, and Hamilton the three greatest men of our epoch, and if I were forced to decide between the three, I would give without hesitation the first place to Hamilton. He divined Europe. Thomas Jefferson too praised him highly as he told James Madison in 1795, "Hamilton is really a colossus... without numbers, ...
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Rose For Emily Miss Emily
1,417 wordsA Southern Belle for Faulkner: Social Criticism in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" William Faulkner's Rose for Emily is not just a story of tragic love, which turned into a sick perversion. Even though it has all the properties of Edgar Poe's stories, nevertheless, the social aspects appear to be of foremost importance to the author. Faulkner tells us a story of Emily Grierson, who we can associate with a classical southern belle of the time. That is a daughter of wealthy southern landowner, whose...
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Farewell To Arms Joseph Heller
494 wordsName of Book: Catch 22 Author: Joseph Heller Number of Pages: 417 Summary Of Book: It s wartime, and we hear the comical tale of the American army and life on the front. The story centers around Yossarian, an outspoken and paranoid man who s greatest fear is death. In fact, throughout the whole novel, he claims that someone is trying to murder him. It s hilarious to hear the keen wit and antics of Yossarian; he always is ready with a comeback. Response to the Book: Like Hemingway s Farewell to A...
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Battle Of Bunker Hill Won The Battle
2,039 wordsBoom, Bang, Crack! The sounds of muskets being fired, its ammunition ricocheting off rocks and splintering trees are heard all around. The pungent smell of gun powder stings the nose, and its taste makes the mouth dry and sticky. The battle is still young, but blood soaked uniforms and dead or dying men can already be seen, causing the fear of death to enter many of the soldiers minds. It is remembered that freedom is what the fight is for, so we must continue to gain independence. The battle ha...
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Rose For Emily Narrow Minded
811 wordsA Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a story about the life of an old woman. The narrator reveals the main events of her life, such as the death of her father, the disappearance of her lover, and the events surrounding her death, and the thoughts of the townspeople on Emily and her life as heard from the gossipy people of the town. One theme or central idea of the story is how narrow-minded attitudes can cause others to withdraw. Emily is one of the people who withdraw because of narrow-minde...
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Red Badge Of Courage Jim Conklin
916 wordsFear, Humility, and Courage in The Red Badge of Courage In The Red Badge of Courage Henry Fleming, the main character grows up in a small town and signs up for the army against his mother will because he dreams of being a hero. Henry enlists in the 304 th Regiment of New York Volunteers. However, after Henry joins the regiment he finds that his emotions are all mixed up. Henry wonders how he will act when confronted with enemy fire. In The Red Badge of Courage, Crane uses symbolism to show Henry...
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Flying Saucer Fort Worth
826 wordsAre we alone in the universe? This has been a common question in modern day. It is very difficult to prove that extraterrestrials exist. However, the evidence to prove that the earth has been visited is very convincing. The Roswell incident in 1947 is one event that proves the existence of extraterrestrials. Another piece of important evidence that proves the existence of UFOs is Bob Lazars testimony of his experience working in the US secret base at Area 51. The earth has been visited by intell...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Makes The Reader
758 wordsThe Killer Angels Fabulous insight into the military mind, the minds of men, the minds of people dedicated to a cause greater than themselves. Michael Shaara gives us a dozen characters worth caring about from both armies, and then plunges them into one of the most terrible things in Americas history the Battle of Gettysburg The book is a great depiction on the American Civil War. The book is repulsing, the massive slaughter of Americans by Americans over human slavery. There was also a highly a...
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Army Of Northern Virginia Civil War
955 wordsChamberlain Entering Bowdoin College, Chamberlain studied the traditional classical curriculum and showed particular skill at languages. But first Chamberlain took his Bowdoin A. B. degree, in the Class of 1852, and returned north for three more years of study. Turning down the opportunity to become a minister or missionary, he accepted a position at Bowdoin teaching rhetoric. A good scholar, he was also an orthodox Congregationalist, an important factor to his Bowdoin colleagues, for the Colleg...
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