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Order To Make Vietnam War
1,336 wordsThe terms fear and courage played a major role in the life experience of Tim O'Brien. Like most other young males who just graduated college, in 1968 after graduating from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, he sought different opportunities in hopes of becoming independent and gaining a career. Before these hopes of opportunity are realized, however, he receives notice that he has been drafted to the Vietnam War. He acknowledges the tragedies that may occur in war, and fears for his life...
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Atomic Bomb Knocked Unconscious
3,195 wordsThe way the world thinks of war changed forever in 1945. On July 16 in Alamogordo, New Mexico, America exploded the world's first atomic bomb, sending a huge mushroom-shaped cloud high into the sky. The Manhattan Project, which was used to end World War II, was mostly led by German and German-Jewish scientists, who had escaped from Hitler's Germany. In 1939, an American university professor named Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which he outlined the possibil...
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Modern Art Court Ruled
1,497 wordsFor many years, Osakar Schelmmers Bauhaus Staircase in the Museum of Modern Art in New York has commemorated one of the 20 th century's most important art movements and transmission of its ideas to the United States. Schlemmer painted the piece of work in 1932, the year the Bauhaus school in Germany, closed under pressure from the Nazis. Schlemmer painted the Bauhaus Staircase as a visual memorial of the school where he had taught previously. About a year later an architect, Philip Johnson, purc...
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God Does Not Exist Exist In Reality
1,305 wordsSaint Anselm's ontological argument seeks to provide an a priori proof (proposition which can be known or justified independent of experience) of God's existence. However, Gaunilo, a contemporary of Anselm and a fellow Catholic, argued that Anselm's ontological argument is invalid, because an argument of the same form could have true premises and a false conclusion therefore, he introduced perfect island argument which is perfectly parallel to ontological argument. In this paper, I will discuss ...
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Lady Macbeth Tragic Hero
935 wordsSince the name of this play is Macbeth, most people wouldnt think of anyone but Macbeth being a tragic hero in this story. However, if the character of Lady Macbeth is examined we see that she is a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a protagonist, usually of high estate and neither entirely good nor bad. He is perfect except for a Hamartia (flaw), which is the significant factor leading to his suffering, that eventually brings him down in the end. More often than not, the tragic flaw is hubris (arrog...
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War Against Iraq American Foreign Policy
2,735 wordsWar in Iraq (1) Ever since current U. S. administration decided to use force, in order for the Iraq to give up on its weapons of mass distraction in 2003, international community became strongly opposed against it. People throughout the world were raising their concerns about whether it was appropriate to resort to invading an independent country, as the ultimate mean of promoting democratic values, especially on the part of country that officially proclaims its allegiance to the ideals of peace...
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Mark Antony Mistakes Made
421 wordsDecisions, Decisions The theme I picked for Julius Caesar essay is the mistakes made by Brutus. According to Mr. Holtz Brutus was stupid and many mistakes. The first one was him even joining the Conspirators. The second was letting Anthony live and speak at the funeral. The final mistake was his battle plan. Every one does make mistakes sometimes, but mistakes Brutus made where plainly stupid. I feel the first mistake was Brutus joining the conspirators in the first place. His mine was easily ma...
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Made A Mistake Blood Transfusion
398 wordsThe material Im discussing in my contemporary issue is a poem called Lost. It is one of many poems from the book My Country. it is about a person being alienated from the surrounding people and hes got a disease called AIDS. Lost is a poem about a person being alienated because he or her has got a disease. It shows the way people treat you differently when youre different to them. The poem describes how this person made a mistake of trusting people and getting a blood transfusion made the person...
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Ethical Egoism Psychological Egoism
1,868 wordsIn ethics egoism entails that the individual self is either the motivating moral force and is, or should, be the end of moral action. Egoism divides into both a positive and normative ethic. The positive ethic views egoism as a factual description of human affairs, that is people are motivated by their own interests and desires. The normative ethic is that they should be so motivated. Positivist egoism: Psychological Egoism The positivist egoist, whose theory is called psychological egoism, offe...
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Lear And Gloucester Anthology Of English Literature
872 wordsShakespeare's use of parallels (reprinted in Abrams, et. al. The Norton Anthology of English LIterature, Vol I. Sixth ed. [New York: Norton, 1993 ] 891 - 697) is evident throughout King Lear. Once they are deceived, both King Lear and Gloucester place their evil child into power. After losing everything, Lear goes mad and Gloucester is blinded. Both children the come to the aid of their father, after being cast away. Shakespeare goes into great detail in describing the specific parallel between ...
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Wrote This Book Views Of Society
990 wordsIs Huck Finn too Mature? Huck Finn knows more than a fourteen year old boy could possibly know. He has the maturity level of one in their twenties at least. Huck's knowledge and decisions in certain situations in the book exceed the intelligence in general fourteen year old boys. When Samuel Clemens wrote this book, he was well into his mature adult years. Huckleberry Finn represents the adventurous, free spirited life that we all would like to have led in our childhood years. Clemens wrote this...
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Tragic Hero Reverend Parris
1,407 wordsA tragedy should bring fear and pity to the reader. A man in this tragedy not should be exceptionally righteous, but his faults should come about because of a certain irreversible error on his part. This man should find a bad or fatal ending to add to the tragedy of the story, for this man in the tragic hero. The protagonist John Proctor portrays a tragic hero in The Crucible; his hamartia of adultery causes great internal struggles, he displays hubris by challenging authority, and he encounters...
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U S Bureau Married Couples
869 wordsDivorce is a problem! Not only for the children and families living through one? or two or three, But for the people growing up in America. The problem is that the message being sent, through Americas increase in divorce rates, is that it is O. K. to make a mistake (which is true for most cases). But when it comes to marriage people should not wait until they are married to realize that mistake. The main reason for this misconception and increase in divorces has a lot to do with the laws, and th...
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King Lear Daughter Cordelia
982 wordsMatt Erde 1 / 2 / 01 Period 6 The Selfish King Lear In Shakespeare's King Lear a king is stripped of his land, wealth, soldiers, and all of his power because he is stubborn, egocentric, and unkind. Other than losing money and power he loses his three daughters as well. Lears pride is so overwhelming that he is unwilling to allow anyone to contradict him. If anyone (besides his fool) even remotely hints that his actions were wrong he gets unnecessarily enraged. King Lear acts very harshly to his ...
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Quest For Knowledge Frankenstein Monster
885 wordsWhen Mary Shelley started writing the story of Dr. Frankenstein, she did not realize the true potential of her work. She was simply writing a short story to pass the time. Shelley had no idea her story would evolve and grow as the years pass. She had no idea it would launch a whole genre of horror stories and an array of movies that have captivated the imagination of every generation including our own. The story of Dr. Frankenstein taps into the darkest crevices of the human condition. Our so-ca...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Daisy And Gatsby
997 wordsThe Great Great Gatsby 1 The Great Gatsby, A Romantic Tragedy F. Scott Fitzgerald constructs his novel, The Great Gatsby, so that it fits the characteristics of romantic tragedy by showing the harsh reality in direct comparison with the romantic American dream. In the novel, the romantic illusion consists of the perfect American dream of a loving wife, large family, and unimaginable wealth. At the same time, Fitzgerald shows the tragic reality of the deceitful, immoral things people are willing ...
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Sun Dance Native American
1,525 wordsComing Home In many Native American cultures, ceremonies of sacrifice and renewal are an annual activity used to promote community and individual well being. In the novel Green Grass, Running Water, Thomas King suggests that when one is able to fully accept ones own self and / or cultural traditions, a renewal celebration or regeneration of the spirit may give the individuals life direction or guidance in previously misguided areas. The Native American Sun Dance is a celebration where the sacrif...
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Lack Of Intelligence Good Of Rome
846 wordsDevelopment of Marcus Brutus Marcus Brutus, from the play Julius C sar, made many decisions. In making these decisions, he showed what kind of a person he was on a moral, intellectual, social, or practical level. Some of these decisions were good decisions and some of them were not. Through all of these decisions, though, it is shown what kind of a person Brutus was. Some of the decisions that Brutus made were not exactly the best decisions. In fact, they may be seen as mistakes. One of these mi...
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Lear And Gloucester Gloucester Blindness
2,275 wordsAlthough it is never too late to learn, those lessons learned in old age are the most difficult and the most costly. In his play KING LEAR, Shakespeare illustrates that wisdom does not necessarily come with age. The mistakes that Lear and Gloucester make leave them vulnerable to disappointment and suffering at a time in their lives when both should be enjoying peace and contentment. Although both Lear and Gloucester achieve wisdom before they die, they pay a dear price for having lived life blin...
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Late Nineteenth Century Portrait Of A Lady
3,563 wordsIt is an unquestionable fact of life that human nature is flawed. Human beings have a variety of weaknesses that may differ from one person to the next. How one deals with this ultimately determines whether it will or will not destroy the person. The faults that humans possess stem from an open field of possibilities that they are able to choose from as they build their own character. However, as much as individual free will is desirable, as all other parts of the natural world, it can include n...
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