Essays Tagged: "Slaughter"

Is Hamlet Mad?

elt,Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!Or that the Everlasting had not fixedHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter!'Macbeth wants his flesh to dissolve into a dew ('solid' contrasting with 'melt' in the fi ...

(8 pages) 186 0 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

War poems

if a child could think that someone who killed his father was kind. Or he contrasts 'virtue' with 'slaughter' ('Point for them the virtue of slaughter') and 'excellence' with 'killing.' ('Make plain ... illing'). War may be honorable, purposeful, or necessary, but it is not kind, there is no virtue in slaughter, and there is no excellence in killing.Whitman notes in 'Beat! Drums! Beat!' that when war ...

(2 pages) 84 1 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

"Hitler" by George H. Stein

owered over all the restand became a powerful figure in the shape of the modern world.He caused the slaughter of millions of Jews and others whom heconsidered inferior human beings. George H Stein als ... zi party into a mass movement. For atime he dominated most of Europe and North Africa. He causedthe slaughter of millions of Jews and others who got in his way.In the years between 1933 and 1945 Hitle ...

(3 pages) 53 0 4.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Abortion

). Abortion has two different viewpoints. One view, known as pro-life, sees abortion as the immoral slaughter of innocent life. The other view, pro-choice, considers abortion as an option that must be ...

(8 pages) 177 1 2.8 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

In the story Beowulf there are many monsters. The explanation of what accounts for Grendel's evil can be shown by the author's figure of speech.

out with their bodies, The blood dripping behind him, back to his lair, delighted with his night's slaughter." This passage from the story shows in great detail the imagery used in the story. Even th ...

(2 pages) 42 0 4.6 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Holocaust: As depicted through the movie Schindler's List. How Schindler risked his own life, how was a hero, and how he protected the lives of the innocent

ies. While at the same time, for these families to endure the agony of learning about an attempt to slaughter an entire "race" of people, positively puts them in an even bitter predicament. However, s ...

(4 pages) 77 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Hamlet by Shakespeare

melt,Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,Or that the Everlasting had not fix'dHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter. O God! O God!How weary, stale, flat, and profitableSeem to me all the uses of this world. ...

(5 pages) 51 0 4.1 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

"Spider Woman's Granddaughters" by Paul Gunn Allen: analysis of rhetorical strategies

lly with billboards" however then reveals that the roadside signs mark the sites of "starvation and slaughter". She continues to portray Anglo-Americans as "insidious" and "pernicious". Allen also ill ...

(1 pages) 36 0 3.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

an extensive biography on Adolf Hitler's life as a child, how he worked his way up and his involvement in World War 2

ion and euthanasia measures to enforce his idea of racial purity among German people and caused the slaughter of millions of Jews, Sinti and Roma (Gypsies), Slavic peoples, and many others, all of who ...

(13 pages) 133 2 4.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

"Was Hitler gay?" Discuses the evidence that points to the homosexuality of hitler. includes bibliography

Was Hitler Gay?Today, the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party is remembered not only for its slaughter of millions of Jews, but for its mass imprisonment and extermination of homosexuals under ...

(10 pages) 252 8 3.1 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

Arts and Culture: Art Critique Boyd Webb Darwin.

utionary process that the lesser should give way to the greater. This dogma was used to justify the slaughter of thousands of natives during a time of colonization. It also stated that should a greate ...

(2 pages) 50 0 4.3 Jul/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

This is an oppinionated paper about abortion and why it should be illegal.

ffers the child no choice at all.If you think about it nearly 30 million preborn children have been slaughter in their mother's wombs. Millions of women have been traumatized both mentally and physica ...

(4 pages) 72 2 4.1 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

This essay describes the use of humor in the novel Grendel.

ers are the humans, the Danes, unwitting neighbors of Grendel, forced to stand night after night of slaughter. What is a traumatic and terrifying experience for them, is simply a game to Grendel, and ...

(4 pages) 26 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Andres Captured

, a sound of women screaming and the sudden crack of a bullet - an end of a life, another countless slaughter mirrored in his watering eyes. His mind flashed back suddenly to the moment when he was ca ...

(6 pages) 48 2 4.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Hunting, From Humanistic Tradition to Population Control

hers who claim many contradictions with this solution. People in opposition see hunting as a wicked slaughter of innocent animals that could actually be creating deer overpopulation. Hunting is a natu ...

(6 pages) 69 0 4.2 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

A comparison of two representations of the Bosnian conflict

cts the agonising frustration of young soldiers forced to stand by and witness ethnic cleansing and slaughter as members of the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia. Kominsky interviewed over ninety Britis ...

(5 pages) 46 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study

Alfred Edward Housman

US Civil War was ending.(Donald E. Stanford 214) As a young child, he was disturbed by the news of slaughter from the former British colonies, and was affected deeply. He was also affect by his mothe ...

(4 pages) 31 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World By Faith in the Past

ionwide "ignorance" of and nationalist "indifference" toward its relation of July 10, 1941 Poland's slaughter of 1,600 Jews in Jedwabne. The book was overlooked by the media as another attempt to impl ...

(4 pages) 33 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

What advice would you give an actress playing Juliet regarding her vocal delivery in her "Ah me. What news..." speech?

ging of each unit of action. For example a key change in pace and mood should be line 65 " is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead?" where the dialogue from Juliet should have been fast, staccato, fr ...

(3 pages) 21 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Qualities required for a character to be considered a Homeric Hero

w, and all that you could pour in from the world's end-no, not even then would I stay my hands from slaughter till all you suitors had paid for all your crimes!" (Book 22 lines 64,68 67-68). Odysseus ... bow"..."with virtuous ease" (Book 21, line 56). Again Odysseus proved his superior strength in the slaughter in the hall. Odysseus had already begun to slaughter men, and many of the suitors think th ...

(5 pages) 39 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers