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World War Ii Pacific Islanders
1,165 wordsWorld War II came without warning or invitation for the people of the South Pacific and brought issues that few understood. The war became a period of excitement, hardship, and at the same time, of material abundance. Their islands, the place they called their homes, were abruptly exposed and used as never before to new outside influences and by uninvited guests. "Their harbours were used by fleets of warships, while onshore bases were built to house troops, and landing fields were constructed t...
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Mongoloid Child Handling Shells Mongoloid Child Handling Children
713 wordsDiction, Theme and Imagery in Richard Snyder's Intro To Poetry "A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach" When you first read Richard Snyder's narrative poem, "A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach", it may be perceived that the poem is indeed about a child, happily gathering shells upon the shore. However, if we closely consider the diction and connotations that Snyder uses, we can speculate that the meaning of the poem depicts a deeper and darker theme. The title itself gives us...
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Ryanna And Gyllias Beam Of Light Monster
1,160 words... walking out of the woods when a thick arm suddenly grabbed her around the neck. Ryanna gasped and struggled, but it was no use, the man was too strong. The man tightened his grip, closing off her windpipe. Ryanna tried to lever the arm with her own, but she was not violent by nature and was not very strong. She kicked the man hard in the shins, but the vice like grip still would not budge. Ryanna was beginning to see stars from lack of oxygen. In her panic she blindly shot spells everywhere....
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Members Of The Grand Council Members Of The Grand Mussolini
1,069 words... enter him. "After his arrest, Mussolini was taken to a ski lodge on Gran Sasso d'Italia in the Apennine mountains about 75 miles north-west of Rome. The lodge was accessible only by a railroad and had been built so recently that it was not marked on military maps or on mountain climbers charts. But German intelligence agents under the direction of SS Captain Otto Skorzeny had learned of Mussolini's whereabouts, and at Hitler's direction a rescue mission was organized. To determine how safe t...
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Ayn Rand One Day
866 wordsIn the novel Anthem, Ayn Rand writes about the future dark ages. Anthem takes place in city of a technologically backwards totalitarian society, where mankind is born in the home of the infants and dies in the home of the useless. Just imagine, being born in to a life of slavery having no freedom, no way self expression, no ego. The city represented slavery. When in the city, Equality had been guilty of many transgressions. He was not like his brothers, he was different he was smarter, healthier...
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Of European Invasion Upon The Aboriginals Frontier
1,372 words... r own hands, laws became blatantly disregarded and often violence towards the Aboriginal people was the outcome. Consequently reports of violence from the frontier, especially reports from those in isolated areas often appeared to be more outrageous than the violence which occurred closer to government protected settlements. Windschuttle argues that there were 118 plausible Aboriginal deaths at the hands of whites. British colonists killed very few Aborigines in Van Diemens Land. (Windschutt...
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Tropical Storm Million Dollars
1,351 wordsMany hurricanes have come and gone, but Hurricane Mitch was the worst hurricane to hit Honduras since the Great Hurricane of 1780. This hurricane devastated not only Honduras but some parts of Central America as well. A lot of the states on the Gulf Coast felt the remnants of Mitch but luckily Mitch was not the Category 5 that hit Honduras. Mitch? s beginning didn? t seem to show its strength and fury until it arrived in the Caribbean. Everything began on October 8, 1998 when a little tropical w...
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Greed And Paranoia In The Heart Of Darkness
785 wordsTo me, the Heart of Darkness was all about Humanities self interest. There was a lot of greed and plotting going on which lead to paranoia and self-doubt. To me, paranoia, self-doubt, and mental instability are inevitable when greed takes over peoples lives. I think that is what happened in Kurtz's life. I believe that Marlow went into this adventure looking to make money to survive, but more so he was looking for adventure. When he was little, he dreamed about exploring the world and I believe ...
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'a Mongoloid Child Handling Shells Mongoloid Child Handling Shells Snyder
705 words'A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach' When you first read Richard Snyder's narrative poem, 'A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach', it may be perceived that the poem is indeed about a child, happily gathering shells upon the shore. However, if we closely consider the diction and connotations that Snyder uses, we can speculate that the meaning of the poem depicts a deeper and darker theme. The title itself gives us an idea from the beginning. The word Mongoloid, as identified ...
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Balance Of Power Napoleonic Wars
703 words"To understand Europe between 1789 and 1850 is to understand that European events were a reflection of what happened in France. " The ascent of cohesive protection arrangements in nineteenth-century Europe emerged within the context of immense social and political shifts that swept the continent. Some historians argue that European politics was changed between 1789 and 1850, characterized by a fundamental alteration in the governing norms, rules, and practices of international relations. Most sc...
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Police Officers Student Movement
1,658 wordsDevoted to Student Movement in Barkley The Free Speech Movement started as a dispute over 26 feet of sidewalk and escalated into a pitched battle for control of the University of California at Berkeley. In the process, an entire school, students and faculty alike, was polarized into two camps fundamentally at odds with each other, both ideologically and in terms of rhetoric. The Free Speech Movement represented the adoption of civil rights protest techniques-pickets, sit-ins, and other non-viole...
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Fields Town Birds
655 wordsThere was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above therein fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists o...
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Susan B Anthony Lucy Stone
883 wordsWomen Feminists 2 Final Composition-Feminism Women have a disease, a disease that will prevent them from ever achieving political, social or economic greatness. This disease is the need for independence and self-respect or the lack there of. This is what we have come to know as feminism. Understand that the need for independent and self-respect isnt a real disease, I just used disease as a metaphor for how women go about trying to achieve them. For nearly one hundred and fifty years women have f...
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Heart Of The Wood Lighting Lamps Eyes
945 wordsHeart Of The Wood The mole reached his porch by late afternoon. The door was neatly built into the hollow of an old tree, with double steps fitted into the thick roots, upon which new fallen leaves lay in all shades of green. He swept them away with his foot and turned the key. The entrance hall was round and wide, rising twenty feet to a second hollow. Warm sunlight shone through this window, dusky rays of soft gold. For a moment he saw her there, gliding in, downy wings of purest white. He sig...
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Scavenging Birds And Animals Death In Combat Battle
1,257 wordsThe Illiad is a poem which takes place in the tenth year of a war between the Trojans and the Achain's. Most of the poem talks about the battles taking place within that specific time period of war. Does Homer portray these events as a glorification or condemnation of war? Well, he does sort of both. It can be considered the greatest of ironies. It is at one time both glorious an heinous. On the one hand, war brings out ones great courage and utter glory on the field of battle, and on the other ...
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Thomas Hardy B B
445 wordsThis poem is about a church band that plays better than usual when they see this woman, and the man playing the viol really takes a shine to her so he below's a strong note at her. Thomas Hardy s father and grand father used to play in a church band and this had a great impact on Hardy s poetry writing. There are fourteen lines in this poem, so therefore it is called a sonnet. Each line consists of ten syllables, and a simple rhythm is used, which is unstressed then stressed. A sonnet is a poem ...
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B C Caesar Julius Caesar
1,221 words? Vini, Julius Caesar? Julius Caesar? ? Vini, Vidi, Vici? (The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations 10 - 3 - 99) which in English means? I came, I saw, I conquered. ? This was Julius Caesar? s motto when he was a soldier and invading different provinces. For this quote to still be recognized today is a compliment to Caesar? s importance and fame at the time. Julius Caesar is considered by some historians to be Rome? s greatest genius. He changed a chaotic, old system of government into the basis fo...
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Highest Peak Mountain North
341 wordsMount St. Helens On May 18, 1980, it was an amazingly beautiful day for May in the Pacific Northwest. Being a Sunday, there were only a few loggers, campers and scientists in the area. Many of these people had thought they were safe because of the mountains silence. Not even the scientists could predict exactly what was to come. At 8: 32 a. m. a 5. 1 magnitude quake struck one mile below the mountain. While there had been literally hundreds of earthquakes at the mountain since March 20 th, the u...
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World War One Rise To Power
1,515 wordsThe Bolsheviks did not seize power they merely picked it up It is true to say that the Bolsheviks did not seize power but rather picked it up. The process that ensured their seizure of power is known as the Russian Revolution. This brought an end to 300 years of rule by monarchical, the Romanov dynasty. The Bolsheviks were too numerically weak to overthrow a properly run government. What they did have was ambition, determination and a strategy to rise to an empty seat of power. They were eager t...
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Physical And Mental Vita Nuova
1,187 wordsDante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. In his life, he composed two major books of poetry: Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. The Vita Nuova is composed of love poems, sonnets, and lyrics. The Divine Comedy, is an epic poem segmented into three books, each of which recounts Dante? s travels through hell, purgatory, and heaven. The first section of The Divine Comedy, Dantes Inferno, is a narrative with a man named Virgil as his guide. Dante narrates his descent and observation of hel...
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