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Things They Carried Water Buffalo
1,177 words... about the field that night. Something about the way Kiowa disappeared into the crud. You were there... You can tell it. " (The Things They Carried). Two years after O'Brien received that letter, Norman Bowker took his own life. He hung himself with a jump rope inside the locker room at the YMCA after playing an eight hour long game of basketball. He left no suicide note, but Tim O'Brien knew why he did it. In "Notes", O'Brien talks about why he decided to write about Bowker. "Now, a decade a...
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Ny Simon British Army
1,460 words... s attacked in this formation with the left horn almost cutting off some other cavalry units and the right horn going behind the mountain of Isandlwhana to get into the rear of the British camp. The center came straight on towards the British battle lines who were armed with single shot Martini-Henry rifles which fired a big bullet (. 45 caliber) but kicked like Hell! The disciplined British volleys actually started to break the attack of the Zulu center, forcing them to halt for some time an...
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End Of The Story Brick Wall
805 wordsStarting with the narrator's claim that he was going to relate a story about Bartleby, "the strangest [scrivener] I ever saw or heard of, " Melville begins where everything but Bartleby is discussed in some detail. The result causes Bartleby to be discussed more as a causal force than as a human. While the narrator admits he has limited information about Bartleby, he makes little effort throughout the course of the story to discover anything about him. He appears oblivious to Bartleby's slow det...
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Scene Ii Lines Appearance And Reality
469 wordsNo one who can truly understand Shakespeare can be shocked because everything we want and everything we do not want is contained within; it is mans ultimate truth. Shakespeare's work is the ultimate truth for mankind. No utter surprise can come to him who reaches Shakespeare's core; that which we seek and shun is there -- mans final lore. H. Melville was saying that Shakespeare contains the best and the worst in man and shows its truth. William Shakespeare in his piece Hamlet effectively used ch...
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Atomic Bomb Los Alamos
863 wordsRichard Philip Feynman was born in New York City on May 11 th 1918 to a middle class family that lived on the Southern tip of Manhattan. He grew up in a household where both of his parents poured into him their best qualities. His mother, Lucille, instilled in Richard a powerful sense of humor, which would be essential in forming his magnetic personality and eccentric lecturing style. His father, Melville, decided before Richard was born that if he were a boy, he would grow up to be a scientist,...
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Moby Dick Book End One
621 wordsFinishing "Moby Dick" goes up there with my greatest (and few) academic achievements. It was a gruelling read, but -- -in the end -- -completely worthwhile. I've been reading it for 6 months. I started over the summer, during an abroad program in Oxford, and I remember sitting outside reading when one of the professors came over, saw what I was reading, and said: "It's a very strange book, isn't it?" Looking back, that might be the best way to describe it. The blurb from D. H. Lawrence on the ba...
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Moby Dick Whale Oil Life
768 wordsMoby Dick is strictly for adults, which is not to say it's salacious or titillating (which, after all, is really just an appeal to that which is most adolescent in us). No, Moby Dick is a book for people who have experienced something of life, felt the painful disappointment of easy answers, smelled the fear of their own mortality and searched frantically for a solution to the puzzle of being alive. The fact that this book is often assigned to adolescents to read is a crime. It's like assigning ...
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Good And Evil Moby Dick
618 wordsBut the point which drew all eyes was that Scarlet Letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. (Hawthorne, 2000, 12) The author of Moby Dick, Herman Melville, goes to great lengths to show that the color white is everything, including the greatest Evil embodied in Moby Dick. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, emphasizes how Hester is the outcast from society and forced to live on the fringes, on the boundary between the town and the woods the border o...
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Captain Vere Billy Budd
1,628 wordsCaptain Vere, despite having paternal feelings towards Billy Budd, soon realizes the decision facing him. After Claggart's last breathe, " 'Fated boy, ' breathed Captain Vere in tone so low as to be almost a whisper, 'what have you done!' " (350). Vere's paternal feelings can be seen when he says "Fated boy." The fact Captain Vere whispers this implies the emotions he is feeling. He realizes the severity of Billy's actions and reproaches him as a father would a child exclaiming, "what have you d...
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Captain Vere Billy Budd
1,052 wordsBilly Budd By: Herman Melville Herman Melville's Billy Budd is a classic tale of innocence and evil. The main force of innocence is constantly attacked by the force of evil until the innocence falters. Through the use of many literary devices, Melville shows how sometimes the obvious results do not always occur when they are being expected. However, he also shows that the force of all that is good and righteous will triumph over evil at the end, even over death. The protagonist, Billy Budd, is t...
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Moby Dick Killing Moby
651 wordsThe novel Moby Dick is the story of how Ishmael the narrator came to set sail on a fateful whaling voyage. He travels to Nantucket, where he visits the docks to find a ship; he discovers the Pequod. As Ishmael and his friend Queequeg make their way to board the ship, they meet a haggard looking, wild-eyed man who calls himself Elijah. He warns them against sailing with the Pequod, and hints that there might be something to fear about their mysterious captain, Ahab. Although Ishmael has not yet m...
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Moby Dick Captain Ahab
697 wordsMEN GONE MAD Peoples dreams can make them insane. One person can be entirely focused on a particular event that the event soon begins to take over their life and influence others. Captain Ahab's intent is finding and killing Moby Dick, the whale that maimed and disfigured him years ago. His obsession with this whale puts many others in danger, such as Ishmael, Starbuck, and himself. Captain Ahab uses his shipmates as bait for Moby Dick himself. The day the ship leaves the dock on a search for wh...
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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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Post Civil War E L Doctorow
1,145 wordsLiterary Criticisms on The Waterworks by E. L. Doctorow Literary Criticisms (mostly book reviews) on the novel The Waterworks, by E. L. Doctorow focus on different topics. One talks of the author and his style in writing the novel. Another describes Doctorow's love for New York city, which can be seen throughout the pages of his various novels. There is one that discusses the aspects of Utopia in the novel. Also, The New Yorker has an interview with him discussing his work. Ted Solotaroff, in Th...
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Moby Dick White Whale
283 wordsMoby Dick Essay Throughout time, people have associated their problems with with something bad that happened to them. That thing became the center of their problems by causing a lot of suffering to that person. In Moby Dick, Melville has many interpretations of what the white whale symbolizes. Ahab beleive's that the whale is the source of all his problems. For example, Ahab considers the whale to be his wall. Ahab doesnt believe that he can accomplish anything until he has conquered the whale. ...
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Moby Dick Ahab
1,724 wordsEnglish 12 JMZ Moby Dick By Herman Melville The Characters and Plot There are numerous characters in Moby Dick, but only a few of them have any impact on the story. A common sailor named Ishmael is the narrator. The book, however, focuses on Captain Ahab, the one-legged commander of the whaling ship Pequod. Ahab has sworn to kill the gigantic whale Moby Dick, who took away his leg. Starbuck is the first mate of the Pequod. Queequeg, Tashtego, and Daggoo are the three harpooners. The story begins...
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Moby Dick Ahab
510 wordsMoby Dick Innocent or Evil? By Kevin Cook Can the lust for revenge, wealth, or power be so strong in a person that they become so enthralled by this lust that they become a madman? This question could not be more fully answered, nor better demonstrated by the behavior of the captain of the whaling ship, ? The Peqoud? , in Herman Melville? s book, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab becomes so obsessed with killing the whale, Moby Dick, that he becomes utterly insane with tracking it down. The baneful mind, ...
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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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Nathaniel Hawthorne Franklin Pierce
827 wordsNathaniel Hawthorne was the first American writer to gain international critical recognition as a great master of prose fiction. His works are noted for their psychological probing into human nature. His stories and sketches reveal themes central to Hawthorne s imagination. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. His father died of yellow fever when Nathaniel was only four years old, leaving him with his mom and two sisters in financial need. Nathaniel s mother had...
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894 wordsNathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest Anti-Transcendentalist writers of all time. He utilized his writings to express his dark, gloomy outlook on life. Hawthorne, a descendant of a puritan family, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. Some of his ancestors included a judge known for the harsh persecution of Quakers, and another judge who played an important role in the Salem witchcraft trials. Hawthorne? s attitude was molded by a sense of guilt, which he traced to his ancestor? s actions. Aft...
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