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Ny Times Federal Troops
1,401 wordsOn July 16 th several firemen and brakemen on The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad refused to work the trains and caused a massive buildup of train traffic in Camden Junction just outside of Baltimore. The strikers gave their reason for striking; a 10 percent wage cut taking affect that day. (NY Times) The strikers overtook trains and there was even a report of a beating taking place of a fireman who continued to work. The company had been prepared for a strike and a force of 40 police officers was s...
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Humphrey Bogart Woody Allen
1,542 words... s hard to detect and yet the whole movie is based on it. It is the mystical fact that an actor's performance in a film, with his personality and voice, has a life completely independent of the actor's own personality and voice that gave it being (Kauffmann 38). This is true with no other art except TV, which is basically film itself. The idea of a character rebelling against and threatening his creator, who is himself identical in every physical way, is more appalling than any other science ...
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1,409 wordsAnalysis of Francis Devine's A Terrible Beauty When first confronted with the poem, A Terrible Beauty, the reader would presumable not get any understanding out of the title. After reading the poem the reader can get the basic idea and create a clear picture of the setting and the tone from the speaker. The subject was a black man getting beaten by a group of Irish somewhere in Ireland. The reader does not recognize the theme of the poem right away. After recognizing the last two lines: Is this ...
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Black And White Black Boy
1,244 wordsRichard Wright: Author of Black Boy Richard Wrights Black Boy depicts the different observations of the South and the North. In the South, Wright faces pre-depression and racism. In the North, Wright faces the conflicts from the Communist party. At the end of Black Boy, Wright quotes What had I got out of living in the city? What had I got out of living in the South? (Wright 452) Wrights thought of the South was that the South was a socially unreconstructed region where blacks who asserted their...
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Good Vs Evil Moby Dick
511 wordsIn the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville, the apparent themes: good vs. evil, civilized vs. uncivilized, and conventional vs. unconventional are throughout the book, but they are not as superficial as they seem. In treating the theme good vs. evil, the apparent message is one of Ahab being the innocent victim. A man disfigured and tormented by a beast of nature. In juxtaposition to that the whale can be perceived as being evil because of what he did to man. However, if we are to look at this ob...
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Traditions No Rocks Candid And Impartial Life
693 wordsMelville concerns himself with making a study of the defects of characters. In Moby Dick, each character has his own defect Starbuck is too conservative; he lacks the forthrightness to execute his proper and well-developed moral principles. Study is too indifferent to what makes itself plain to him as evil. Flask lacks any moral sense and feeds on the excitements life has to offer. Billy Budd centers even more clearly on the distinctive ways in which defects spoil characters as they act in the w...
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The 2000 Presidential Election
1,990 wordsEvery four years it takes place. Us Americans do it. People fought hard for us to have this right. What is it? It's the right to vote. This year happens to be the year of the 2000 presidential election. With what could be the closest election in the history of the United States there are many issues that surround the election. Us Americans are going to vote for whomever we think is going to do the best job of solving these issues. However, before we get to the issues we must first get to the two...
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Black E Mo Standards Of Beauty
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In Cold Blood By Truman Capote
2,064 wordsIN COLD BLOOD BY TRUMAN CAPOTE IN COLD BLOOD by TRUMAN CAPOTE On the night of November 15, 1959, in the little town of Holcomb, Kansas, Herbert W. Clutter, his wife, Bonnie, and their teen-aged children, Nancy and Kenyon, were savagely murdered in their home by blasts from a shotgun held inches from their faces. wrote E. Fremont-Smith in his Books of the Times (10 January, 1966). Herbert Clutter was found in the basement, his throat also slashed; Bonnie and Nancy were in their bedrooms; Kenyon h...
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American Character President Ronald
1,021 wordsThe Explosion of the Challenger The 1960 s and 1970 s were a time of great confusion and turmoil in the United States. Americans were afraid, paranoid, and insecure due to events like Watergate, Arab oil price hikes, and the Iranian hostage situation. The U. S. Space Program, or NASA, was becoming more successful in the 1980 s, with continued advancements that allowed space exploration to be less expensive and more rewarding. The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, on January 28, 1986, ch...
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1,080 wordsDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K. Dick, the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, was born in 1928 in Chicago, but he lived most of his life in California. During 1952 - 1982, Philip wrote 36 novels and 5 short story collections. Philip K. Dick died in 1982 in Santa Monica, California. Philip had a rocky emotional life. He was involved in many bad marriages and was addicted to drugs. He would go through times of great creativity, then fall into times when he wouldnt write at...
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1,088 wordsGlobal Warming Several issues concerning the environment are brought to the publics attention every year, but none has more of a direct effect on earth and its environment than global warming. Coincidentally it appears to be the least of the populations concern. Global warming is the theory that our planet is getting hotter due to an increase in the greenhouse effect brought about by the increase of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere. Global warming is caused by the greenhouse gase...
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1,209 words1. The Chrysanthemums On Henry Allens ranch east of Salinas Elisa plants yellow chrysanthemums as Henry is selling thirty head of cattle to agents of the Western Meat Company. After he and Scotty go to round up the cattle, a tinker shows up. He asks for work which Elisa says she hasnt. He asks for seeds for a lady on his route. Elisa gives him seedlings with instructions, and then she finds work for him which he does professionally. To celebrate the sale Henry drives her to Salinas for dinner at...
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551 wordsH. M. S. Pinafore was written by W S Gilbert and Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan in 1878. Showing at the Skylight Opera House between May 12 -June 4, 2000. Two things were beautifully done in this production of H. M. S. Pinafore set design by Dennis H. Buehler and stage direction by William Theisen. The multi-decked set was made from wood and brass, which gave it the perfect feel of an old ship, but of course with a little class. It just had a feeling of realness to it. There were ropes that were pe...
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One Of The Greatest Moby Dick
200 words1819 - 91, one of the greatest American writers; b. N. Y. C. His experiences on a whaler (1841 - 42) and ashore in the Marquesas (where he was captured by cannibals) and other South Sea islands led to the writing of Type (1846), Ohio (1847), and other widely popular romances. Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851), the tale of a whaling captains obsessive search for the white whale that had ripped off his leg, is at once an exciting sea story, a heavily symbolic inquiry into goo...
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Speak To My Friends Relate To Robs Rob
944 wordsIn Nick Hornbys High Fidelity, the main character, Rob, relates music to every aspect of his life. He utilizes music as an escape from his anxieties regarding his failing record store, relationship, and sense of self. Music provides Rob with the inspiration that keeps him going: Records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it Im looking for someone. (169) Music prompts Rob to isolate himself, hold an unrealis...
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Mary Tyler Moore Quot Thoroughly Modern Millie Quot Show
1,104 wordsWho can turn the world on with her smile? One person stands out. A TV legend and an American icon: Mary Tyler Moore. Mary was born in Flatbush on December 29, 1973 to Irish-Catholic parents. Marys family was neither rich nor poor. As a child, she attended St. Rose de Lima Parochial School. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was only ten years old. When she became older, she became a popular actress. Through the years, Mary Tyler Moore has remained as popular as ever. With recent movies suc...
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Bartleby The Scrivener Moby Dick
461 wordsIt Untitled Bartleby, the Failure It is not rare, sometimes it is even common, that an author speaks about his or her self in their works. Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener is often considered such a story. Many of the characters in the story and images created allude to Melville's writing career, which was generally deemed a failure. The main character in the story can either be Bartleby or the narrator, but Melville partially embodies both of them. We are understanding towards the narr...
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1,211 wordsThe bad sex guide Whos Sorry Now? Howard Jacobson 326 pp, Jonathan Cape Whod be a man, a woman or a child in a novel by Howard Jacobson? I didnt notice any animals getting it in the neck (apart from an off-stage cat), but that must surely be an oversight, because Whos Sorry Now? is, in its simplest form, an extended examination of unhappiness and misery. It has, by way of philosophical contortion, the added complication that some of its characters can only pursue happiness via unhappiness; other...
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