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- 2371: Ride Of The Second Horseman
- ... majority of humans made the transition from wild food to planting and harvesting domesticated crops-a span of only eight and a half millennia in the more than four-million history of our line.’(55) Once more you see the demise of the nomads, the ability to culture nature to how humans want it; it’s just to easy. So why ... Lastly the problem with O’Connell’s argument is that it is extremely unconvincing. While the title promises an explanation of war, he spends most of the time on the history of war and it’s initial outbreaks of warfare around the world, and hardly focuses on the question of war’s death, where he gives us but only one small ...
- 2372: Pocahontas
- ... the Indian princess Pocahontas, legends and stories of romance have been imbedded into our minds, but her dramatic life was more important to the creation of a segment of American history than legend. Around the year of 1595, Pocahontas was born to chief Powhatan, the powerful chief of a federation of Algonquian Indian tribes who lived in the tidewater region of ... never have survived. Her marriage to John Rolfe brought peace between her fellow tribesmen and her fellow Christians. She led a magnificent life and will always have her place in history.
- 2373: Paradise Found And Lost - Critique
- ... accurate it lacks important details, which might paint a different view of Columbus. Boorstin writes favorable of Columbus and depicts him as a heroic and determined figure who helped shape history, but he neglects to include Columbus’ unethical acts committed in the world that was not supposed to exist, the Americas. When Columbus first discovered the New World, he took care ... to see the east and not the magnificent wonders that were waiting in the Americas. Boorstin paints a vivid picture of Columbus and teaches us that the greatest value of history is in the seeking. Through the tenacity of Columbus, the size of the world increased substantiality for Europeans. The great significance of Columbus’ "discovery" was that Europeans were awakened to ...
- 2374: Pain Has An Element Of Blank
- ... Blank" that she introduces in her opening line. In exploring pain, she proposes that this "blankness" is a self-propagating force that is subject to the dynamic forces of time, history and perception, but only to an extent. Her first mention of "Pain" in the first line does not distinguish this particular emotion as being of a particular brand of pain ... for so long, that it has no memory of its inception, but it is unclear whether that is the fault of "Pain's" inability to remember or "Pain's" infinite history. Dickinson also indicates that "Pain" already has a fated future, one that includes only more "Pain." Despite its infinite nature temporally and spatially, "Pain" is not infinite in a sentient ...
- 2375: Our Grandmothers
- "If Othello didn’t begin as a play about race, history has made it one." The Venetian society that Othello is set in is representative of the writers context. The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text are those ... unchaste, and morally frail. Their sexual desires were represented as unnatural appetites. They were also thought to be "unstable sexual creatures, likely to betray men" with "Appetites never satisfied" . The history of the handkerchief also suggests the power of female sexuality over men: "That handkerchief Did an Egyptian to my mother give; She was a charmer, and could almost read The ...
- 2376: Ordinary People
- ... These descriptions add "the eternal note of sadness" to the poem. In the second part of the poem, Arnold uses the same method of writing, however he speaks of human history to further support the mood of the "Sea of Faith" and it's "eternal sadness". Arnold writes of Sophocles hearing the "eternal sadness" on "the Aegean" with it's "turbid ... the naked shingles of the world". In the last stanza, Arnold ties all of the thoughts of the speaker together, while incorporating imagery, to illustrate how by examining nature and history, the reader has reached the reality of the inevitable. Arnold portrays how the speaker bitterly sees "the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams" "hath ...
- 2377: Jane Eyre: Sexism
- ... decisions of characters 150 years ago would be unfair. To a certain extent, people are all free to choose whatever path they want. However, some paths at certain points in history are more difficult than others. The ideas of who is "agreeable" to the opposite sex are similar to the ideas of who is not. Near the beginning of the story ... within everyone is the ability to revolutionize the processes by which we live. The last condition to be taken into account is the idea of a sort of egocentric revisionist history where people in modern times can judge the behavior of people or characters from many years ago living in a different culture. While it is obvious that both novels showed ...
- 2378: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... fiction, while others still dismiss it as feminist literature. The book has been broken into determinants, which are important to the success of the story. These include existential apologia, oral history, speculative fiction, confession, and dystopia. Existential apologia is a defense and celebration of the desperate coping mechanisms by which endangered women survive, outwit, and undermine devaluation, coercion, enslavement, torture, potential ... allowing herself moderate hope for some alleviation of present misery, although Offred never gives way to fantasy of rescue, reunion with her family, and return to her old life. Oral history, the second determinant, is a frequent vehicle of oppressed people who, by nature of their disenfranchisement through loss of personal freedoms, turn to the personal narrative as a means of ...
- 2379: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... may be the only thing that you will ever have. Part VIII For Whom the Bell Tolls is part of the book canon because it is a book that gives history and at the same time informs the reader of the thoughts of people during wartime. I believe that in a hundred years this book will still be part of the ... emotions a human being is capable of and has a universal value that transcends time. It is something that does not changes with time, it remains a constant in human history. This book makes the reader think on the meaning of life and destiny.
- 2380: Flying Home
- ... which was when "Flying Home" was written. Ellison himself was no stranger to the oppression of blacks in the south at the time. Although born in Oklahoma, which has no history of slavery, he did live in a Jim Crow world. The governor at the time, "Alfalfa Bill" Murray was a notorious racist, and Ellison’s mother Ida, had continuously worked to break down racial barriers throughout her life(Busby 9). Ellison was educated at the Tuskegee Institute, which has a history of being on the forefront of African-American civil rights. His road to Tuskegee was a bumpy one however. Ellison became sort of a hobo to get himself to the ...
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