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Second Punic War Southern Italy
1,067 wordsHannibal, a Carthaginian general and one of the greatest generals that ever lived was renown for his strategies and courageousness, such as crossing the Alps and using the bottleneck strategy at Lake Trasemene. He used strategies that a lot of generals at this time, especially Roman generals, would never think of and in doing this he almost destroyed the Roman republic. Hannibal's first battle took place when he was only nine. He went on an expedition with his father, Hamilcar Barca, to conquer ...
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Mississippi River Union Forces
373 wordsThe First Bull Run was the first major battle of the war and would occur in northern Virginia right next to the capital. Northern spectators came to watch the battle because they were sure the union would win but the confederates won much to their dismay. Because of this battle both sides realized this would be a long and hard war instead of an easy one. The next major battle was Anita. On September 17 th 1862 general Robert E. lee would attack Antietam in hopes that the European countries would...
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Spent Four High School Parents
365 wordsStudy in America since 15 years old was the biggest turning point in my life. I was told by my parents that I have to go to America, after finish my freshmen year in high school. Thinking that I have to live in the different society and the foreign-speaking environment, I was both thrilled and scared. It was in the summer of 1995. I had attended the summer camp call August House It was the program for international student to improve their English skill before the high school in America. I had s...
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Producing Wondrous Deity Musubi No Mikoto Island
902 wordsBefore the heavens and the earth came into existence, all was a chaos, unimaginably limitless and without definite shape or form. Eon followed eon: then, low and behold out of this boundless, shapeless mass something light and transparent rose up and formed the heaven. This was the Plain of High Heaven, in which materialized a deity called Ame-no-Minaka-Nushi-no-Mikoto (the Deity-of-the-August-Center-of-Heaven). Next the heavens gave birth to a deity named Takami-Musubi-no-Mikoto (the High-Augus...
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Three Loved Houses First And Third Lines Poem
798 wordsElizabeth Bishops poem "One Art" tries to teach the reader how to deal with loss. The off-handed and ironic method of speech within the blank verse is natural sounding and deceptively informal, given the formal requirements of the lyric. The poem is a villanelle, which is French, but stems from Italian folk song. Like all villanelle's, it has nineteen lines divided into six stanzas - five tercets and one quatrain - turning on two rhymes and built around two refrains. The first and third lines rh...
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Desperation By Stephen King
1,419 wordsDesperation, a recent Stephen King novel, is not just a book, but an experience that leaves the reader frightened, paranoid, and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture, if you will, a lone, crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesnt kill immediately, he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the vacationing Carver family, whose RV is sabotaged o...
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Potiki Is Toko Maui
1,157 wordsShe blew his mouth and nostrils, and with two fingers lightly massaged his chest until the mucus began to drain freely. She took a pendant from her ear and put it on the blanket beside him. Tokowaru-i-te-Marama. Ko Tokowaru-i-te-Marama te into o teen, she said. (Grace 36) The passage above comes from the book Potiki. Its when granny Tamihana breathes life into Toko and gives him the name of her deceased brother. In Potiki, a novel written by Patricia Grace, we are introduced to a family that is ...
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Potiki Is Toko Maui
1,151 words... is hook and let it down into the deep sea. Down it went into the very bottom and caught the under world Out of the great seas the black, ragged head of a large island was rising like a fish-it seemed to be chasing them, through the boiling surf. In a little while the water became shallow around them, and their canoe finally rested on the black beach (Westervelt 12). This excerpt above comes from the legend of Maui. Theres a lot of correlation with the story of Toko. Maui went fishing with hi...
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Curley Wife Wife Death
1,703 wordsGeorge is described as "small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp strong features", which immediately draws contrast with Lennie, demonstrating that where Lennie is simple and slow, George is more mentally able and has a dominant position in their relationship. Because of his rle of Lennie's carer, and hence that much of George's conversation is about Lennie, we learn little about him through his actual conversations with people. His only extended meaningful conversations are w...
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Vincent Van Gogh Brother Theo
1,942 wordsArt historian Griselda Pollock, in her documentary entitled The Legend of van Gogh, stated that there are several van Gogh's. To agree or disagree with this statement, one must firstly understand the point Pollock is attempting to get across. One could interpret this opinion as meaning that there are various artistic styles and several facets of van Gogh's life that can be critically analysed; having this understanding of Pollock's attitude toward van Gogh, it would be difficult not to agree wit...
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Oliver Describes Consonant Sounds Stanza
774 wordsThe poem, In Blackwater Woods, by Mary Oliver describes the beauty of a forest destroyed by fires. She talks about the features of the land, how they were destroyed, and the emotional loss that she still carries since it burned. In her first stanza, Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, describes how the fire had climbed up the trees and made them look like burning pillars. Oliver uses the verb look to grab the readers attention right away and emphasize how importan...
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Public Morality Third World
837 wordsThroughout the history, the increased levels of verbal and physical rudeness in society corresponded to such society becoming culturally marginalized. In its turn, such marginalization comes as logical result of citizens beginning to think of celebrating diversity as their foremost priority. In contemporary America, people are being taught that, since we live in multicultural society, it is perfectly natural for the citizens to explore all the aspects of their ethnic uniqueness. However, very of...
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Goods And Services Sex Objects
951 wordsWomen, Men and Untitled Women, Men and Competition Loudly and often, women insist they dont like competition, and that competition is an act of aggression. Ironically, however, competition as aggression is inevitable in a society where men must compete for the attention of women. Women encourage this. Every time they passively wait for men to take the initiative, or reject nurturing men in deference to domineering men, they sustain the dynamic of dominance. Ignoring this, pop-feminists contend c...
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Turning Point Main Characters
324 wordsThe novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton is about 4 people whose plane gets hijacked and their adventures mishaps along the way. The main characters of the novel are Hugh Conway, Captain Charles Mallinson, Charles Bryant, Roberta Binklow, Father Perrault, and Chang. Hugh Conway is the central character of the novel and is the leader of the group. Captain Charles Mallinson is vice counsel working with Conway. Charles Bryant is an American who is running from the law for financial dealings and is us...
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Vaulting Ambition Macbeth Ambition
860 wordsMacbeth? s Tragic Flaw Macbeth's vaulting ambition, though it is what brings him to his height of power, it is also what leads him to his downfall. Vaulting Ambition is Macbeth's only flaw; it disables him to achieve his utmost goals and forces him to face his fate. Without this ambition, though, Macbeth never would have been able to achieve his power as King of Scotland or have been able to carry out his evil deeds. In these instances, ambition helped Macbeth do what he wanted to do. But, conse...
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Macbeth Ambition Vaulting Ambition
719 wordsMacbeth s Tragic Flaw Macbeth's vaulting ambition, though it is what brings him to his height of power, it is also what leads him to his downfall. Vaulting Ambition is Macbeth's only flaw; it disables him to achieve his utmost goals and forces him to face his fate. Without this ambition, though, Macbeth never would have been able to achieve his power as King of Scotland or have been able to carry out his evil deeds. In these instances, ambition helped Macbeth do what he wanted to do. But, conseq...
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Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution
1,525 wordsMao was born in 1893 into a peasant family in the village of Shaoshan in Hunan province. His father was a strict disciplinarian and Mao frequently rebelled against his authority. Mao's early education was in the Confucian classics of Chinese history, literature, and philosophy, but early teachers also exposed him to the ideas of progressive Confucian reformers. In 1911 Mao moved to the provincial capital, Changsha, where he briefly served as a soldier in Republican army in the 1911 revolution th...
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Duke And The King Runaway Slave
986 wordsHuckleberry Finn separates himself from the society he grew up in by running away, traveling down the river and spending time with a runaway slave. The morals of society do not sit well with him, although he believes that he should follow society's rules anyway. His feelings for Jim send his mind into turmoil. Throughout the novel, he reevaluates his actions and thoughts on the matter. This excerpt, occurring nearly halfway through the novel, shows how conflicted he is. It is an important turnin...
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Turning Off Your Thoughts Practice Of Meditation Meditate
719 wordsMeditation is a private devotion or mental exercise consisting of a number of techniques of concentration, contemplation, and abstraction to heighten spiritual awareness. It has also been defined as, Consciously directing your attention to alter your state of consciousness. Meditation has been practiced around the world since the ancient times. It was used back then and still used today for spiritual growth (becoming more conscious). Meditation is mostly concerned about your attention, where it ...
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Work Of Art Herman Melville
290 wordsIn chapter 110 Herman Melville? s Moby Dick Queequeg is getting very sick and is near death so he orders the ships carpenter to make him a coffin with a lid, in the shape of a canoe. Once the coffin/ canoe is finished Queequeg decides to live and turn the canoe/ coffin (because it is both) into a sea chest. During the next few weeks Queequeg carves little figures and symbols in the coffin/ canoe/ sea chest thus turning it in to a coffin/ canoe/ sea chest/ work of art. In the epilogue Ishmael flo...
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