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The Kent State University Tragedy
Words: 474 / Pages: 2 .... into the city of Kent's downtown. Broken windows and other damage to a number of downtown businesses prompted fear, rumors, and eventually a call by the city's mayor to the governor for assistance.
The National Guard arrived Saturday night. That day some students assisted with the downtown cleanup. That night some other students set fire to the campus headquarters of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). Sunday morning the governor came to Kent and in the city's firehouse held a press conference saying the University would remain open. After a Sunday of relative calm, an anti-war rally at noon on Monday brought 2,000 to 3,000 people t .....
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Not Only Impeach, Remove From Office
Words: 328 / Pages: 2 .... because he was unfairly accused. Not true. He was formally charged with a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. Kenneth Starr began his investigation and realizes that Bill Clinton has a history of making sexual advances to his employees. As he questioned witnesses, he stumbled across a young woman named Monica Lewinsky. Monica was quickly summoned and gave accurate testimony. Bill Clinton was also examined. When he was interrogated about his and Ms. Lewinsky's relationship, he was quick to lie under oath. This is simply perjury. Others may argue that Mr. Clinton did not actually perjure himself. They believe that he did not honestly feel that .....
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Assassination Of JFK: Conspiracy Or Single-Gunman?
Words: 1383 / Pages: 6 .... limousine through Dallas, Texas. At this time, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck by a sniper. He was then taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Later, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, at a nearby theater. By the next morning, Oswald was booked for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, while he was being moved from the city to the county jail.
At a glance, the above story sounds as if this should be an open-and-shut case. After all, according to the facts above, Oswald must have killed Kennedy. However, you mus .....
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Stanely Kubrick
Words: 2481 / Pages: 10 .... auteurs who broaden the scope of cinema, their bodies of work, style, and world views are vastly different. Kubrick, whose body of work centers around the dehumanization of man, is separated from Lynch whose body of work centers around a character's discovery of self in an amoral world. Thus, it is often found that Kubrick focuses on exterior themes such as man as a symbolic figure, while Lynch focuses on intensely private themes such as a character's discovery of self. Using their films as evidence, let us take a closer look at how these two great directors use their unique sense of style, characters, and auteurship to espouse their world view. .....
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Education System After The Revolution
Words: 1480 / Pages: 6 .... for free thinking or self improvement, but rather conformity. Conformity to understand and obey God's word and the laws. However, the new education system was trying to plant it's roots in soil fertilized with nationalism and patriotism. With this new sense of freedom there was a great love and respect for America, but how to properly bury these roots was a question of great debate. The major cause of debate was how to organize a balance between freedom and order.( Spring p.53) Everyone was in agreement that this new found virtue of freedom was one that had a place in the education system, but with the strong religious beliefs and newfound pol .....
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Battle Of Saratoga
Words: 705 / Pages: 3 .... Clinton to move northward along the Hudson River
and link up with Burgoyne in Albany. The goal of this plan was to isolate
and destroy the Continental forces of New England.
Initially, the British plan appeared to be working. Burgoyne's army
continually pushed back the Americans southward along the Hudson River with
only minor casualties. In an attempt to slow the British advances, the
American General Philip Schuyler detached 1000 men under the command of
Major General Benedict Arnold. This force moved west to thwart St. Leger's
eastward advance along the Mohawk River. Arnold returned with his
detachment after repelling St. Leger in time to serve .....
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Dulce Et Decorum Est
Words: 583 / Pages: 3 .... that dropped behind.
The way Owen describes the trudge back to camp allows the reader to open their minds to the
events that are occurring. This allows them to see the cruel reality that the war was for the
soldiers. I believe Owen’s use of these images are aimed at discouraging the mere thought of
war.
In the second stanza Owen is describing a gas attack on the soldiers as they are trudging
back to camp. Owen describes the soldiers fumbling to get their mask fastened, all but one, a
lone soldier. He is struggling to get his mask on but doesn’t get it fastened quick enough and
suffers from the full effects of deadly gas:
Gas! Gas! Quick .....
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Cassablanca
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and director, and superb production techniques. In addition, it
blends a raging love story with tormenting schemes which makes
it one of ! the best Hollywood movies of all time. Casablanca
was never expected to be a large scale movie. The script was written
on a day to day basis even till the last few moments of the movie but
despite all that, it made it bigger than any other movie in it's time.
The movie took place in 1942 and was based around world war II
which in reality was taking place as they filmed. It was
because of the war that Rick and Ilsa were separated, and this
was an idea that was not so far fetched and somethin .....
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Pythagorean Philosophy And Its Influence On Musical Instrume
Words: 1335 / Pages: 5 .... shop and his ear was caught by the regular
intervals of sounds from the anvil. When he discovered that the
hammers were of different weights, it occured to him that the
intervals might be related to those weights. Pythagoras was
correct. Pythagorean philosophy maintained that all things are
numbers. Based on the belief that numbers were the building
blocks of everything, Pythagoras began linking numbers and music.
Revolutionizing music, Pythagoras' findings generated theorems
and standards for musical scales, relationships, instruments, and
creative formation. Musical scales became defined, and
taught. Instrument makers began a .....
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Romeo And Juliet
Words: 646 / Pages: 3 .... ago with really little things, and then grew into huge fights involving many people. No leader of either household ever though about making peace, they were all too busy to spoil everything for the rival family. Only after the death of their children they realized how wrong they were.
first meet each other at a party at the Capulets’ house. They fall in love with each other at the first sight without knowing that they are from rival houses, and when they do learn about it, it is too late. Juliet says: "My only love, sprung from my only hate!/Too early seen unknown, and known too late!" (I, v, 147-148). Juliet realizes that it was a mistake to f .....
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