true story of 2 lions in the African city of Tsavo that terrorized workers and delayed the building of the Kenyan-Ugandan railroad. Most of the depictions of in the movie actually happened in real life back then. The movie begins with the young Colonel John Patterson being assigned to build a bridge over a river to extend the African railroad. When he gets there‚ he meets the leaders of the camp‚ like Samuel‚ who keep order and keep the workers working on the railroad. At first‚ the work is going
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“A Rose for Emily” In life people often think that the life they live in is either a good one and do not think that a change would do their life any good. In reality change is good‚ but Emily in the short story “A Rose for Emily” thinks that the life she has lived through is the one to keep and does not want to change it even though to us we might think of her life as a tragic and deprived one. The time frame of Miss Emily Grierson to her was the greatest time era
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The two relationships of a father-son and father-daughter are definitely different. Uncas is the male child of Chingachgook. Uncas and Cingachgook respect one another with mutual admiration and honor. This appears to be a typical father-son relationship because fathers raise their sons to be good and honorable men. Fathers also want to raise their sons to carry on the heritage and traditions associated with respective nationalities. In this case‚ it’s the Mohican heritage. Uncas as a typical son
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Saratoga “…one of the Greatest battles that Ever was fought in America…” Major Henry Dearborn The battle of Saratoga was the major turning point in the American Revolution for the Americans. Most people remember it as the beginning of a new nation born in freedom. In this memory the conflict was quick and easy‚ the adversaries are little more than cartoon-like tin soldiers whose brightly colored uniforms make them ideal targets for straight-shooting American frontiersmen. In actuality
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Douglass’s first master and probably his father. Anthony is the clerk for Colonel Lloyd‚ managing Lloyd’s surrounding plantations and the overseers of those plantations. Anthony is a cruel man who takes pleasure in whipping his slaves‚ especially Douglass’s Aunt Hester. He is called “Captain” because he once piloted ships up the Chesapeake Bay. Colonel Edward Lloyd - Captain Anthony’s boss and Douglass’s first owner. Colonel Lloyd is an extremely rich man who owns all of the slaves and lands where
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Emily’s father was. We see this “horsewhip” symbolize his control over Emily and all aspects of her life. Her father laid the foundation for her reality‚where she held her status higher than the rest. Colonel Sartoris is the one who put the imaginary gears of Emily’s reality in momentum. “Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily’s father had loaned money to the town”(Act1‚p3) This is the lie that let Emily live in this fantasy for so long. It enabled her to do
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school‚ the same school his father attended. Miles dreams of starting anew at his elite Alabama prep school‚ of finding Francois Rabelais’s "The Great Perhaps." At school‚ he becomes instant friends with a rebellious‚ cigarette smoking prankster‚ the Colonel‚ and the beautiful‚ confused Alaska Young. These three main characters provide fertile ground for analysis. Even their names are fraught with metaphor: When Miles introduces himself to his roommate‚ the roommate makes the immediate Robert Frost
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book. Page 327 states: “Marianne‚ beautiful as an angel…” In chapter eight the narrator is describing Mrs. Jennings’ passion for matchmaking Colonel Brandon and Marianne Dashwood: “Colonel Brandon was very much in love with Marianne Dashwood. It would be an excellent match‚ for he was rich and she was handsome. Mrs. Jennings had been anxious to see Colonel Brandon well married‚ and she was always anxious to get a good husband for every pretty girl.” In chapter ten John Willoughby is described as
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The two main characters of this film are Kathy (Jennifer Connelly)‚ a recovering alcoholic who is struggling to maintain her sobriety while being faced with losing the family ’s house that her recently deceased father had worked so hard for. Kathy had neglected the mail after her husband left and didn ’t get the warnings from the state that her home would be repossessed if she didn ’t pay off a delinquent business tax. Her home was put up for auction and sold‚ and now‚ Kathy has resorted to sleeping
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Everyone thought Doc Daneeka died in the plane accident becasue McWatt put Doc Daneeka name down for flight hours but he was really on the ground with everyone else. Yossarian warns him about flying so low but he still decides to fly low to the ground. Colonel Cathcart is so devastated about what happened he made the missions go up even more than it was before. This is how McWatt accidently killing Kid Sampson is important to the
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