... war. Whitman starts off each stanza with the same line every time. “Beat! Beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow!” He uses this symbolism of war to show the effects it has on the world. The drums and the bugles are always interrupting things. This is seen clearly in the first stanza. The drums and bugles are interrupting the church and the farmer can't be peaceful. Whitman continues this symbolism throughout the rest of the poem. Whitman also speaks of how he doesn't like the war in other poems of his. He does this in “The Wound-Dresser.” He speaks of the war as his strangest days. They were long days of sweat and dust. The reader can tell by the expl ...
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... from A Concise History of the Russian Revolution, by Richard Pipes (pp. 104) describes the character of both Lenin and Stalin: "He knew of only two categories of men: friend and enemy-those who follwed him, and all the rest." The two agreed on the point that anyone who did not agree with them was an enemy. They both used this as an excuse to kill thousands of people. The reason they were able to do this was because both wanted power and neither were afraid to act on their desires. "Lenin was an activist, indeed a hyper-activist, and it was this which made him such a violent figure." This is also what made Stalin so horrible. In the way Lenin acted on behalf of the ...
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... state. When Heinrich's mother died, he no longer felt he had an obligation to his religion, thus helping him in the decision in turning to Christianity. Karl's childhood was a happy and carefree one. His parents had a good relationship and it help set Karl in the right direction." His 'Splendid natural gifts' awakened in his father the hope that they would One day be used in the service of humanity, whilst his mother declared him to be a child of fortune in whose hands everything would go well. (The story of his life, Mehring, page 2) In High school, Karl stood out among the crowd. When asked to write a report on "How to choose a profession" he took a diffe ...
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... The tomb was to have three levels; the bottom level was to have sculpted figures representing Victory and bond slaves. The second level was to have statues of Moses and Saint Paul as well as symbolic figures of the active and contemplative life-representative of the human striving for, and reception of, knowledge. The third level, it is assumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased pope. The tomb of Pope Julius II was never finished. What was finished of the tomb represents a twenty-year span of frustrating delays and revised schemes. had hardly begun work on the pope's tomb when Julius commanded him to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to complete the ...
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... power he felt that if he didn't like another political figure he would and could have them executed. He started collectivizing agriculture. He also nationalized the industry. In Cuba their was a one party socialist state. Because of this one party socialist state many middle class citizens, along with the upper-class citizens too, would be exiled. Fidel often showed hostility toward the United states. Castro made his government seize all United States owned sugar mills, electric utilities and oil refineries. That decision was a poor one for his country and its economy. As a result of this decision the United States would no longer buy sugar from Cuba. The ...
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... he attended the Albany Classic School and worked as a bookkeeper and clerk at his brother’s fur company. After a series of other jobs and moving around he gets “Fragments from a Writing Desk” published. But went to New York to become a sailor. Melville got a job on the whaling ship Acushnet in New Bedford Harbor but abandons ship at Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. After spending a month as a captive of cannibals in Types, he escapes aboard the Lucy Ann and is sent ashore as a mutineer. He escaped there and ended up working on a potato farm. Later that year he leaves on the whaling ship Charles and Henry and is discharged on the Hawaiian Islands. In 1843 Melville enli ...
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... my sentiments freely and without reserve”(88). Patrick Henry implies that he is going to speak without restraint, he will say what he thinks, and that no one is forcing him to say the things he is going to say. Henry knows that if he does not speak what he thinks he could be held guilty of treason. Henry shows that he is self- confident because he is going to follow through with his beliefs. Henry knows that if he is self confident he can do anything, Henry states; “I have one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience”(88). What Henry is really trying to say is, “I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past, I wi ...
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... papers and residence including whatever assets he had held. Mark Antony gave his famous oration at Caesar's funeral in the forum and was instrumental in turning people against the Senators led by the assassin Brutus. Many people believed Mark Antony's action were not quite as good as the actions of Caesar. In 43 B.C. Octavian, the true heir to Caesar's throne, challenged Antony's rule. When Octavian arrived in Rome, he was left in a difficult position. Antony was unwilling to give up his throne. Later that year, Antony agreed to become a co-ruler with Octavian and Lepidus to form the First Triumvirate. Together, they later murdered many opponents in the Senat ...
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... of the United States (Hudson1). Jimmy Carter rose in power very quickly, was elected as president at a transitional period in the United State's history, and lost most of his power very quickly. Jimmy Carter's beginning was a very simple and typical "American style" start. Jimmy was born James Earl Carter, Jr., on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. His parents were James Earl Carter and Lillina Gordy Carter. His family lived there for the first three years of Jimmy's life, and then moved to Archery, Georgia, just outside of Plains. He lived there until he was seventeen years old, participating in the family's peanut farm. In the year of 1941, Jimmy ...
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... married Susan Delancey. They had five daughters and two sons. In 1826, he added the Fenimore to his name. But it was by accident that James Fenimore Cooper became a writer. He took a dare from his wife to write a better book than the English one he had been reading to her. Precaution was published in 1820. Though I completely understand why it won't be on anyone's nightstand, it does show us some importance to understanding Cooper's writings. We know that he critically observed the manners and morals of Europe during a seven-year tour of England and then upon his return to America, he remained a defender of Ame ...
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