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…. Today, family members still get together to celebrate the spring festival, the traditional time for honoring their ancestors. In the old days the head of the clan was usually some kind of imperial official. Today only the names are changed. Chinese…

…, Polk sent troops to the Nueces River under the command of General Taylor to defend the southwestern boundary of Texas against a possible Mexican attack. In November Polk wanted to extend the borders of the U.S., so he sent a man by the name of John Slidell…

…brutality was becoming all too common towards these non-violent demonstrators. During a march from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi a white police sniper shot a young black man named James Meridith who was simply trying to encourage other Negroes…

…people desire to live to a ripe old age and would be shocked to have a premature death viewed in a positive light. Yet, this is exactly the driving force behind A. E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young.” In the poem, dying young and at the height of your…

…his old self to his new self. Originally, he was known as “James Gatz –––– that [is] really, or at least legally, his name”(104). He changes his name due to his shameful past of not able to capture Daisy’s heart. He believes that his new beginning can…

…Evil in Young Goodman Brown Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, presents to us a young Puritan named Goodman Brown, who experiences the influences of evil in a journey through the woods. Evil is personified into a man who accompanies Goodman along…

…to be her servant, or at least someone who is willing to do anything for this girl's attention and affection. He says this plainly in the following lines: "I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments…

…of courtly love in "Dead Poets Society" is centered on the character of Knox Overstreet. Knox falls in love with a beauty that belongs to another. His "object of desire" is Chris, a cheerleader who he initially falls in love with at first sight…

…that Pique should stay with Jules, 'Why did you have me?' 'For your own satisfaction, yes. You never thought of him or of me.'         We are aware that Pique needs care and love from both of her parents because Morag cannot fulfill Pique's desire. She…

…to it as “the Badminton game” for the name of his estate and the name stuck. An important part of competitive badminton is the training ground, called a “club.” The first badminton club, the Bath Badminton Club was established in 1877 and developed the first written rules…