Essays Tagged: "dangerous journey"

What were the motives for European exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries? Which one was the most important?

to European exploration and expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries. They made people confront the dangerous journey to the new colonies, a journey which killed about one half of the people who tried ...

(2 pages) 111 2 3.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

A brief biography of life and explorations of Jacques Marquette.

per Mississippi River and reported the first accurate data on its course. The story of the long and dangerous journey of Marquette and Jolliet is one of the most interesting chapters in the history of ...

(3 pages) 36 0 2.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Lord of the Rings, very short summary and some details about the movie.

by the Dark Lord Sauron and contains terrible powers. Frodo is lead by the wise wizard Gandalf on a dangerous journey towards the land of Mordor to unmake the ring.The hobbits are small, but courageou ...

(1 pages) 32 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Summary of the Hobbit Evaluation of the Hobbit Description of Bilbo Baggins

The HobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien's, The Hobbit is a story about a long and dangerous journey that a group of dwarves and a single Hobbit depart on, in search for their ancesto ... g around the fire sipping tea and talking. So as you can see Hobbits do not normally go on long and dangerous journeys.One beautiful spring morning while our Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins was smoking his pipe ... astest way to get past the Misty Mountains is to travel through them. However that is also the most dangerous; for this mountain range is infested with wild goblins. The only thing goblins do to stran ...

(6 pages) 32 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

American dream.

ourney of the Plymouth Plantation. As the people were hopping to escape from Britain, by taking the dangerous journey they hopped to get political and religious freedoms. Many Americans come to Americ ...

(2 pages) 40 1 3.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Cry The Beloved Country

to rent me a room to stay in whilst in Johannesburg.I gaze back on the beginning of my solitary and dangerous journey to this distant land.... the white run Johannesburg. I can almost see myself like ...

(1 pages) 1018 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Julia Book Report

ious antifascist movements with her own wealth and persuades her dearest friend Lillian to make the dangerous journey to prewar Berlin in order to smuggle in $50,000 which will be used as bribe money ...

(3 pages) 1151 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Hannibal 2

e in 219 B.C., Hannibal raided the city. This began the Second Punic War. Hannibal began a long and dangerous journey, with battle elephants marching at the front of his army (Green 21).Hannibal left ...

(5 pages) 14 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History

The movie, Star Wars is not as difficult to decipher

ot intentionally create it to be parallel a myth. A heroic myth is one, mainly a man, who goes on a dangerous journey to help save another life. The hero typically puts his own life on the line in ord ...

(2 pages) 2223 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology