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King Arthur Versus Zeus
<view this essay>.... to his people and cares about them, while Zeus does not view his subjects as worthy of him and treats them unjustly. An additional difference is Arthur is more mild and not taking harsh action all the time, though Zeus is known for being severe. There are many similarities as well as differences that are attributed to these two mythical characters.
Arthur and Zeus can be noted for their mysterious childhood and ways they were treated at infancy. Both had prophesies of prosperity that led them into adulthood. When Arthur was born, Uther Pendragon, the leader of the Britons, killed a man and married his wife, Igrayne. Uther and Igrayne had one child, but not .....
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Conformity In The 1950s
<view this essay>.... Americans were left in the hands of Harry Truman. Known as an aggressive Cold War fighter, he led Americans against the rise of Communism. Spurred by McCarthyism, he initially began to discharge suspected Communists within the government. Due to fear of being blacklisted, Eisenhower, the proceeding president, was reluctant to confront McCarthy. The Red Scare of the 1950s was thriving and the presidents waged war against foreign Communist powers in order not to be accused of being sympathetic towards the opposition. They conformed to public opinion and shaped politics in America into a Cold War.
The public conformed towards the American Dream. Everyo .....
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Glory
<view this essay>.... foot lead by Shaw, only to be bombarded with cannon shots and gunfire. After the battle he was taken to a hospital where he heard Lincoln would be issuing an emancipation proclamation to free the slaves. At a house party afterwards, Robert sees Gov. Andrew and meets Fredrick Douglas who tells him there is to be an all black regiment of which he would like Robert to be colonel. He asks his friend Kevin to assist him in leading this group. On November 27, 1862, black volunteer soldiers are brought to Readville Camp in Massachusetts. There we meet the main characters of the 54th Mass. Regiment. Rawlins is the future Sergeant Major and is a father figure to .....
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Copper Triangle
<view this essay>.... on to the cottages which started off with only two rooms.
Life during the copper rush was hard on the many families that lived there. Many of the men worked in the copper mines and did not see the light of day. A typical day started at 6:00 am and finished at 6:00pm when they would return home to their wives who looked after the home. Lunch would be a Cornish pasty which was cooked by the "missus". Young boys of ten and over would often join their fathers at the site and pick through the tailings for copper pieces of any value. These boys were often called young "picky boys". The young girls would stay at home with their mother and help with the domesti .....
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Comparison Of Honor
<view this essay>.... is seen in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the honor for one's own beliefs and standards but hope, in the end, overcomes honor.
One major theme of honor in these poems is when honor is put over everything including love or even one's own life. Honor over everything can be interpreted as trying to maintain an honorable public image and keeping a good name for one's self. This can be seen by what other things honor goes ahead of. For starters, honor would go ahead of love that may be in the form of marriage or not. If, in fact, love is in the form of marriage than the word of honor that someone gives to his or her spouse could be put in back of the publ .....
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Henrietta Edwards
<view this essay>.... Edwards. Her husband soon took a job at Fort McCloed. Here she met the other four
women involved in Alberta's "Famous Five Women". The group included Emily Murphy, Nellie
McClung, Irene Parlby and Louise McKinny. With their help Mrs. Edwards began her fight to
change the law on Woman's rights. They began by getting the right and the ability to vote. Once
they achieved this new Democratic power, Nellie McClung called a meeting on how they could
best use it. They decided on the formation of a Provincial Laws Committee where Henrietta Muir
Edwards was elected to be the Chairman and Irene Parlby as Vice Chairman. With her new
re .....
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Magnificent Minds Of The Renai
<view this essay>.... only an artist, but Michelangelo was also a poet, sculptor, and architect. Being gifted in these fields, Michelangelo wrote beautiful poetry and created magnificent sculptures, art, and architectural designs. By the time Michelangelo was sixteen, he produced two sculptures entitled Battle of the Centaurs and The Madonna of the Stairs, and in 1501, Michelangelo began working on his masterpiece "David." The marble statue of David astonished sculptors everywhere, and easily became Michelangelo's most famous sculpture. Michelangelo's painting talent was not so much applied in his canvas paintings, but rather in his gigantic frescoes. Some of his fresco wor .....
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Shoeless Joe And The Black Sox Scandal
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thanks to their two twenty game winners, Eddie Cicotte and Clause Williams.
The White Sox lost the best-of-nine series five games to three. A reporter
for the Cincinnati Tribune thought something was wrong when he found out
that someone had placed a two million dollar bet on the underdog Reds. One
year later, in September 1920, Jackson, Cicotte and Wilson signed
confessions to receiving five thousand dollars to throw the World Series.
Before the trial for Jackson, Cicotte and Wilson, there was a turnover in
the Illinois State Attorney's Office and all the confessions mysteriously
disappeared. The three baseball players then said they didn't sign t .....
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