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Bomb Was Dropped Cats Cradle
1,291 wordsCat s Cradle (I was wrong it wasn t like the song) The narrator of Cats Cradle, John, once set out to write a book, titled The Day the World Ended, about the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. For purposes of research, he wrote to Newt Hoenikker, the midget son of Felix Hoenikker, the Nobel prize-winning physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. He asked Newt to describe what he remembered from the day the bomb devastated Hiroshima. Newt replied to say that he was only six ...
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Spanish Civil War Ernest Hemingway
2,371 wordsFor Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's own experiences in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930 s. Before I delve into the book itself, I thought it would be best to give some background information on Ernest Hemingway and on the Spanish Civil war and the circumstances surrounding it. Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, and the second of six children. His father, Clarence Hemingway, was a physician and his mother was a devoutly religious woman with...
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Circle Of Hell Divine Comedy
602 wordsIn Dantes Inferno, part of The Divine Comedy, Canto V introduces the torments of Hell in the Second Circle. Here Minos tells the damned where they will spend eternity by wrapping his tail around himself. The Second Circle of Hell holds the lustful; those who sinned with the flesh. They are punished in the darkness by an unending tempest, which batters them with winds and rain. Hell is not only a geographical place, but also a representation of the potential for sin and evil within every individu...
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Ernest Hemingway Nobel Prize
1,738 wordsCuba, Ernest Hemingway's haven for writing literature, fishing for marlin and basking in its tropical weather. Cuba played a key role in Hemingway's life and literature. He spent many days and nights writing famous lines and passages for his well known novels such as Old Man in the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Islands in the Stream. Born Ernest Miller Hemingway on July 21, 1899, he was the sixth child of Dr. Clarence and Grace Hall Hemingway. He was named after his maternal grandfather Ernes...
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