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Point Of View Billy Budd
1,123 words... t survived both a military and civil tribunal with his honor intact. However public testimony cast doubt on his sanity. Melville read of these proceedings in the Albany newspapers and received eyewitness accounts of the alleged mutiny from his cousin Get Gansevoort, a lieutenant aboard the Somers who guarded prisoners and assisted at their execution. Gansevoort publicly condemned the captains actions, but privately sided with the victims. Critics surmise that Melville, who had a brush with a...
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Spanish American War U S Military
754 wordsAfrican Americans were not always a major part of the Armed Forces. They were not a big factor in the military until the Civil War, when The Emancipation Proclamation opened the door full-fledged for Blacks to participate in the military. Both black slaves and freemen saw this opportunity to serve in the military as a chance to relinquish their chains and to help the nation develop as a whole. There was widespread resistance by whites on both the Union and Confederate sides in accepting Blacks a...
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Dutch Sailors American Dream
557 wordsEveryone has dreams of being rich and owning a lavish house with maids, butlers, and chauffeurs. This happens to be the American Dream. The dream of making it in society and fitting in with a higher class of people has always been at least some Americans dream. F. Scott Fitzgeralds book, The Great Gatsby, describes the failure of this dream. The antagonist and / or protagonist, Jay Gatsby finds out that social discrimination and the divisions among classes cannot be overcome. Gatsby's dream is j...
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Gray Eyes Night City Wage
1,086 words... unless random impacts required to create a surface like that. The Jarre was decorated in a dated, nameless style from the previous century, an uneasy blend of Japanese traditional and pale Milanese plas- tics, but everything seemed to wear a subtle film, as though the bad nerves of a million customers had somehow attacked the mirrors and the once glossy plastics, leaving each surface fogged with something that could never be wiped away. 'Hey. Case, good buddy... ' He looked up, met gray eyes...
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Illegal Drugs Illegal Substance
1,170 wordsDrug smuggling is on a current up raise and there seems to be no way of stunting it growth. But here a some ways some states are trying to slow the rate of drug smuggling. In Illinois there is a program called "Operation Cash Crop" or the OCC. This is a combine of the ISP and the DEA. It's goal is to locate places where marijuana is grown then destroy all of it's gardens. During the span of 1983 - 88 these "OCC" led to 442 arrest and destroyed over 2 million marijuana plants. And in 1984 there w...
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Fell In Love Returned Home
1,287 wordsThe Odyssey is an epic poem written in a series of 24 books. It is one of two epics written over 2500 years ago by the Western European poet, Homer. This epic joins Odysseus 10 years after the Trojan War. The story follows him as he attempts to return to his home in Ithaca where he reigns as King. I am wiser after having read this book because this story taught me about some of the social practices of the Greeks. It taught me that men were dominant and women played a submissive role in their soc...
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Odyssey Odysseus Eternal Youth
1,692 wordsMystical Caves Used Throughout Mythology The use of caves in mythology to depict darkness and abandonment has branded it as a symbol of chaos. From this perception other associations are made which connect the cave to prejudices, malevolent spirits, burial sites, sadness, resurrection and intimacy. It is a world to which only few venture, and yet its mysticism has attracted the interest of philosophers, religious figures and thinkers throughout history. These myths are exemplified in Homer? s Od...
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Four And A Half Hampton Roads
611 wordsThe battle at Hampton Roads was part of the Peninsula Campaign that lasted from March to August of 1862. There was a total of five ships engaged in the battle. From the US Navy, there were four ships, the USS Congress, USS Minnesota, USS Cumberland, and the USS Monitor. The CS Navy had one ship, the CSS Merrimack. On March 8, 1862, the CSS Merrimack steamed into Hampton Roads. She proceeded to sink the USS Cumberland and then ran the USS Congress aground. Captain Buchanan then set his sights on ...
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Child Was Born Fell In Love
1,974 wordsDionysus was the god of the vine. He invented wine and spread the art of tending grapes. He had a dual nature. On one hand, he brought joy and divine ecstasy. On the other hand, he brought brutality, thoughtlessness and rage. This reflected both sides of wines nature. If he chooses, Dionysus can drive a man mad. No normal fetters can hold him or his followers. Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele. He was the only god to have a mortal parent. Zeus came to Semele in the night, invisible, felt o...
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Number Of Women Women In The Military
1,413 wordsYes, the military does have sexual harassment and discrimination against women in the nineties. Firestone and co-researcher Richard J. Hours analyzed a 1988 DOD Survey of men and women in the military and found that 51. 8 % of men and 74. 6 % of women reported either experiencing or knowing of sexual harassment. Amoung the women surveyed, 70. 1 % had experienced sexual talk or behavior at the work place [that] created an offensive, hostile or intimidating environment. Amoung the men, 36. 9 % gav...
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Emancipation Proclamation Louisiana Territory
675 wordsUS History and Government Essay: Presidential Actions Presidential actions have had important results in the United States. Some of these actions are: ? Washington sends John Jay to negotiate Jay? s Treaty? ? Jefferson negotiates Purchase of Louisiana Territory? ? Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation? ? Washington sends John Jay to negotiate Jay? s Treaty. ? George Washington was faced with a large problem with Great Britain. In December of 1793, the British began to seize American ships...
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Ivan Iv Strong Ivan The Iv Russia
668 wordsThe Terrible Greatness Of Ivan the IV The era of Ivan the IV is one that triggers some of the most horrific nightmares to surface. It was a reign that spread a blanket of terror throughout Russia as Ivan the IV took his role as the first tsar to be bloody and tyrannical. Claims of pathological elements in his character cannot be denied as many lives were doomed to the fate of unnecessary death and suffering. Nevertheless, Ivan the IV established a solid foundation that would shape Russia s futur...
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Sea Creatures Feet Long
555 wordsSquid are wild and wonderful. They are believed to be remarkably intelligent because of their apparently complex communication system. They include the Vampire Squid, and the elusive and mysterious Giant Squid. I researched the Giant Squid which is the biggest animals in the sea. The giant squid lives in most of the world's oceans and is among the biggest animals in the sea but it is rarely seen. It hunts smaller sea creatures but larger animals feed on it. It has inspired fantastic tales but th...
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Days A Week Minimum Wage
711 wordsMILITARY DESERVES INCREASED PAY Today s armed forces do more by five am than anyone in the world. Military deserves increased pay because we do more with less, especially during time of war. I am a veteran. I am currently in the United States Navy. I am on call twenty- four hours a day, and seven days a week, including holidays without holiday pay. Today I will share with you some of the reasons why military should receive increased pay. Our men and women of the armed forces are struggling to su...
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Quot Eternal Youth
1,710 wordsThe use of caves in mythology to depict darkness and abandonment has branded it as a symbol of chaos. From this perception other associations are made which connect the cave to prejudices, malevolent spirits, burial sites, sadness, resurrection and intimacy. It is a world to which only few venture, and yet its mysticism has attracted the interest of philosophers, religious figures and thinkers throughout history. These myths are exemplified in Homer? s " Odyssey, " where the two worlds...
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War Of 1812 U S British
288 wordsThe war of 1812 was one of eight that our country has fought in. This war left us with a loss of people, property, and money. It was started over many things. One of the reasons was the British impressment of American soldiers. Impressment is the kidnapping of American sailors. British officials would board American ships and take whomever they pleased. This all started because British soldiers would desert their ships when they docked in America and work on our ships. Some reasons that they wou...
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Man Make Money
1,681 wordsThe writer that I chose is Derek Walcott. The reason that I chose him was because we had never read his poetry in class and we did not cover many black poets in class. After reading much of his poetry I feel that Walcott and me have not only a lot in common but at times the same feelings toward are heritage. Walcott descended from a white grandmother and a black grandmother on both the paternal and maternal sides, he? s a living example of divided heritage between two worlds. For Walcott his her...
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Jay Gatsby American Dream
760 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald emulates the American Dream as something corrupt, and not easy to achieve. The American Dream is made up of a long social ladder, and it is often impossible to be accepted at the top of this social ladder. In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as the epitome of the American Dream. However, there is a fine line between what many of us think is the American Dream, and what Fitzgerald thinks is the American Dream. One must be able to differentiate between Gatsby's ideal...
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Didn T Hadn T
907 wordsNicholas Alexander Bostic Period 2 February 20, 1997 AP English My appeal was overthrown today. At least, that? s what my lawyer said. It doesn? t much matter to me, what? s done is done. I? ve been scheduled to meet my death by beheading this coming Friday, only three days away. I? m not sure if I? m scared, I just pass my time staring out at the sky, really seeing it for the first time. I? m amazed by the colors in the morning, more so by the ones at night. My death sentence has made me morbid...
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Lot Of Things Lot Of People
1,083 wordsPhoenicians were the people who lived in the lands called Phoenicia. These people are famous for being great sailors and traders, and inventing the alphabet. Even though they are very important, we know very little about them. Knowledge about Egyptians, Assyrians, and Chinese was a lot more than the Phoenicians. We got more information about Phoenicians from other colonies than from the Phoenicians themselves. They were known to a lot of people back in the ancient times. One person, called Pompo...
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