Essays Tagged: "ferocity"

The Maori of New Zealand

Zealand, have played a strongpart in the development and success of the small island nation. Their ferocityand determination won the respect of the colonizing English, and to this daythey are esteeme ... n society.When a Maori takes a picture for the outside world, e.g. for a post cardor tourist, their ferocity and determination are shown in their stance andposture. They strike a fighting pose, with o ...

(2 pages) 46 0 3.5 Apr/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Personal Response and analyzation to the poem Dulce et Decorum est by Owen. It identifies literary and rhetorical devices used.

read, the words frightened me. Every piece of literary work I have read about WW1 can not match the ferocity of Owen's words. The first paragraph drew me in and I can literally feel the suffering of t ...

(1 pages) 32 0 1.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Tone: "Out, Out" By Robert Frost

phere that the speaker was describing. "The buzz saw snarled and rattled" in the first line depicts ferocity as if he was trying to foreshadow the saw's role in the poem. The speaker goes on to descri ...

(3 pages) 20446 0 4.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Biography of the zepplins during the 1st world war

ry accounts of the Zeppelin air raids on England during the first world war seem to depict the true ferocity and unmatched air superiority early in the war. The chapter specifically addresses the who, ...

(4 pages) 23 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Causes of the American Revolution including background to mercantile policies and the immediate causes of the revolution.

mpire marked a turning point in the European dominated imperial world. Inspired by the boldness and ferocity of their patriotic fervor, revolutions would spring up in France followed by, in rapid succ ...

(12 pages) 295 5 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

The Role of the Pope and the Vatican in the Holocaust

many tears and many prayers, that a denunciation of the Nazis from the Vatican might further rouse ferocity of the Nazis and result in more, rather than fewer, deaths."I do blame the church authoriti ...

(2 pages) 34 0 2.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Fer de lance

,000 square meters, is jungle king.Legend has it that the snake guards its forest realm with brutal ferocity. Real life has responded with a Brazilian navy ban forbidding anyone to set foot on the isl ...

(2 pages) 21 0 4.3 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

"Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo: The Conflict of Life and Death

had the right to say this, faced with the horrors of war throughout his career. Eisenhower knew the ferocity of war inside and out, from the vantage point of both a soldier and Commander in Chief. He ...

(7 pages) 30 0 0.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

San Diego Firestorm Recovery (Persuasive Essay)

perienced in San Diego County. Local fire fighting teams were unprepared and under-equipped for the ferocity of these fires. The weather was a critical aspect in battling the flames. When the fires be ...

(3 pages) 52 0 3.7 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

How effective was terror in controlling the people of the USSR in the period 1929 to 1941?

t the tortures, executions, arrests, imprisonment and many other atrocities. The height of Stalin's ferocity hit in the early 1930's when he began a series of purges on the army, police and the wider ...

(10 pages) 40 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Letter to John Howard the Australian Prime Minister

omes veracity then will the aliens attack us like the Europeans attacked the Aboriginals? With such ferocity and treating them like inferior beings just because they had not heard of the term "technol ...

(1 pages) 32 2 4.5 Aug/2006

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe Series review

series have a range of useful and important themes from, loyalty, bravery, patriotism, friendship, ferocity, pride, strategy and hope. The author takes a great risk and presents ferocity as one of hi ...

(2 pages) 1474 0 5.0 Apr/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Manhood-poem

infested fields came a brown swarm of charging men, Swinging rifles at all angles with animalistic ferocity.He suddenly lost concern for himself in the heated battle, He became not a man, but a membe ...

(1 pages) 986 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Unmasking the mr. cunningham i

themselves that caught Scout off-guard. Scout, a young girl of eight years old, was puzzled at the ferocity of people and constantly asked her father about why her familiars acted so unfairly. How wa ...

(3 pages) 1272 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

Lord of The Flies - Savagry

e attitude. Jack attempts to maintain a civilized life style when he arrives on the island, but his ferocity overcomes him with the thoughts of killing. Jack's savagery begins to come out when he brea ... any value for human life. Jack's loss of self-control proves that civilization is no match for his ferocity. As the boys are left on the island longer and longer, they also show signs of savageness. ...

(3 pages) 1910 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

An essay on the Sydney hailstorm, 1999

ey. It affected more houses andpeople than any other natural disaster in Australia'shistory. With a ferocity that shocked theunsuspecting residents and in the space of only45 minutes, more than 500 00 ...

(2 pages) 3348 0 1.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Black Saturday Bushfires

ong eastern flanks of the fires to become massive fire fronts that burned with incredible speed and ferocity towards towns that had earlier escaped the flames.This picture contains not only black Satu ...

(2 pages) 22 0 4.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History