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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. -Thomas Jefferson On a cold, miserable day in the North Caucasus, the only one who does not look dismal is Russian General Mikhail Malofeyev. He is dead. His body is flag draped…

Stifel and Roberval Michael Stifel was a German mathematician who lived in the late fifteenth century and early to mid-sixteenth century. He was born in 1487 in Esslingen, Germany. The exact date of his birth is unknown. Stifel died on April 19, 1567, in Jena, Germany. His father was Conrad Stifel, a well-respected member of…

The RepublicBook One of “The Republic” opens up with a discussion between Socrates and Cephalus, Polemarchu’s father, about old age and wealth. Cephalus conveys to Socrates that he believes being wealthy does not necessarily make you a happier person, but being wealthy makes it simpler to lead a good or moral life. Cephalus is quoted…

In a study of Hebrew poetry, undertaken long ago as a student task, I tried to make out what right that poetry had to its name. A good many authorities rested its claims on the poetical elevation of its ideas. Parallelism passed for a peculiarity of Hebrew poetic thought, and not as an artifice of…

Present Provoking Past “Analyze a characters’ response to the past as a source of meaning in a work” ” . . . the past, no matter what it was like, never becomes a matter of indifference to the present. ” Alexander Tvardovsky In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn portrays one…

“This book tells the story of what happens to men who need, but cannot have, true communication with each other.” How complete do you find this as a description of the text? Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck. The story is set in the rural Salinas valley of California. The…

Comparisons between the relationships that the protagonists had with their parents and how these defined their characters. In the novels, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and The Outsider by Albert Camus, there are many important relationships that help define the protagonists. The protagonist in The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa, and the protagonist from The Outsider, Meursault,…

A Tale of Two Cities” opens in the year 1775, with the narrator comparing conditions in England and France, and foreshadowing the coming of the French Revolution. The first action is Jarvis Lorry’s night journey from London, where he serves as an agent for Tellson’s Bank. The next afternoon, in a Dover inn, Lorry meets…

PremiseWhat would happen if you take an innocent being and place them in the midst of war? Tim O’Brien’s inspiration to write this story came from his own experience. He was drafted into the War and accepted to join the army because of his embarrassment not to, his original plans were to go to Harvard…

Art Deco by grandparents ‘Art Deco’ was an art movement that flourished through the sass’s and sass’s. The decade opened up an extensive variety of original and distinctive styles and still remains to be the foundation of ‘an era so rich and so remote that at times it seems to belong to the unfathomable domain…