Frank Stockton’s short story “The Lady‚ or the Tiger‚” the readers are introduced to the daughter of a semi-barbaric king and her lowly lover‚ who was sentenced to go into the King’s arena and choose between two doors: behind one door is a beautiful maiden‚ and behind the other is a savage‚ relentless tiger. In a surprise ending‚ Stockton does not specify which door the lover chose. Instead‚ he poses the question and warns the readers‚ “Think of it‚ fair readers‚ not as if the decision of the question
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reader’s attention‚ but also has endless references to popular fables of and before our time. Citing only a few‚ “Where Have You Been‚ Where Are You Going” not only makes references to Little Red Riding Hood‚ The Three Little Pigs‚ and Death and a Maiden‚ but it also has endless references to the Bible in its depiction of evil and Satan. (Schoomp) The literary works main character Connie is an alluring teenager living in a world of neglect and is easily fooled by someone who she was probably attracted
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General Douglas Haig General Haig was born in Edinburgh‚ Scotland on June 19‚ 1861. He was the 11th child; his dad was a whiskey distiller. He graduated from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. When he first joined the war efforts‚ he started off as an officer. Then he worked his way up and successfully became the commander of the British 1st Army by 1918. He retired in 1921‚ and then he died of a heart attack in London on Jan. 28‚ 1928. Despite his amazing reputation‚ he was human. During
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Renault FT which set the basic designs for tanks‚ with a centered turret and rear mounted engine. Up until the 1930s the interwar period between world war one and world war two the world of armor was rather silent‚ Then the U.S. cavalry adopted the M1 combat car to allow the cavalry units to move with speed and protection‚ it had a twin mounted 7.62 machine guns mounted in the turret which was latter replaced with one 37mm cannon. This tank however never saw combat. The M2 light tank was then manufactured
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The Collision at Cajamarca | | | Jared Diamond --COLLISION AT CAJAMARCA THE BIGGEST POPULATION SHIFT OF MODERN TIMES HAS been the colonization of the New World by Europeans‚ and the resulting conquest‚ numerical reduction‚ or complete disappearance of i1OSt groups of Native Americans (American Indians). As I explained in Chapter I‚ the New World was initially colonized around or before 11‚000 BCE by way of Alaska‚ the Bering Strait‚ and Siberia. Complex agricultural societies gradually
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the girl will marry death and her bridegroom only seeks to kill her‚ cut her pieces up‚ and eat her. As the two prepare to escape‚ the bridegroom and his band of thieves return with maiden [virgin]. The old woman hides the girl behind a large barrel. From her hiding place‚ she whitnesses the thieves give the maiden three glasses of wine to stop her heart. They then rip her clothes off‚ and hack the body into pieces with axes.
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Orwell uses a similie to compare "a mass of Latin words fall upon the facts" to "soft snow"‚ which blurs the outlines‚ and covers up the details. In paragraph 16‚ Orwell compares "his words" to "cavalry horses answering the bugle"‚ which create an analogy that is effective because both words and cavalry horses are powerful. 4: Removing the extensive uses of examples in paragraphs 5‚ 6‚ 7 and 8 weakens Orwell’s argument‚ and makes the passage less interesting and boring to read. The examples also
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The U.S war with Mexico continues to be a divisive topic all through America classes. The American and Mexican war was a 2 year conflict that began in 1846.At the end of end the war the U.S ended up with more land than before. Although the United States war against Mexico maybe viewed as controversial‚‚ the war was just due to Texas needed the U.S‚ Government of Mexico‚ and violence towards Americans. Generally speaking the war was justifiable due to Texas needing the U.S. Texas only had two small
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Upon meeting the damsel and hearing the story of the Fisher King‚ the young man learns that he has made a brutal mistake in not asking about the bleeding lance or the grail and as a result the Fisher King was not able to regain his health and govern his land. Then‚ when the damsel asks him for his name‚ the young man intuitively answers that he is Perceval the Welshman. The damsel‚ who claims to be Perceval’s cousin‚ continues on to inform him of his mother’s death and tells him that her death was
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father‚ Phillip II. Among other things‚ Phillip was responsible for the combination of the phalanx with cavalry and light infantry. This innovation allowed the phalanx to be protected the cavalry and infantry from flanking attacks‚ as well as making similar movements of their own.1 (A variation of such a formation was used in at the Granicus‚ for example‚ where a double phalanx was flanked by cavalry‚ with light troops in front.) Apart from this‚ the army was very well organized (the command structure
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