Essays Tagged: "Autumn"

Aquarius. Viewing and history

ius. There are 1or 2 more but I only needed one. Good Aquarius can be found in the SE sky in autumn, especially October. A dark night is especially helpful because many faint stars make up Aqua ...

(2 pages) 66 0 4.9 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Norway and the world war 2

sTherefore, the Norwegian government had declared Norway's neutrality when the war broke out in the autumn of 1939. There was a broad political consensus for this stance. The military forces were gear ... n units from the fronts in the north, the USSR and Finland, withdrew to Norwegian territory. In the autumn of 1944, the Red Army followed the Germans into Finnmark, where it liberated Kirkenes and the ...

(13 pages) 82 0 4.4 Mar/1997

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

Why is Vatican II so significant in the modern church?

rld. The council was announced by Pope John XXIII on January 25, 1959, and held 178 meetings in the autumn of each of four successive years. The first gathering was on October 11, 1962, and the last o ...

(2 pages) 74 0 3.4 Oct/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

John Keat's "Ode to a Nightingale", "ode To Autumn" and "ode on a Grecian Urn"

his late poetry and is most readily apparent in three of his most famous Odes: To a Nightingale, To Autumn and on a Grecian Urn. In the Ode to a Nightingale, it is the ideal beauty of the Nightingale' ... ction of beauty as art - transfixed and transfigured forever in the Grecian Urn - and in the Ode to Autumn it is the exquisiteness of the season - idealised and immortalised as part of the natural cyc ...

(6 pages) 323 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Bookreport on: "Spring Victory.

. They have a very hard winter, their father is sick in bed from a flu. They had a bad harvest this autumn, and have almost nothing to eat. They are striving to survive; the mother decides to make bas ...

(4 pages) 29 0 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Setting in A Farewell to Arms by E. Hemingway

begins his story of war with a seemingly peaceful portrait of an Italian village in the summer and autumn of 1916. His rich visual images evoke a natural world that appears at first glance to be chan ... arly, too harshly: the trees lose their leaves too soon, the country quickly becomes "dead with the autumn." In particular, keep the rain in mind, for you'll see it repeated throughout the book. This ...

(6 pages) 100 0 4.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay based on the book "Savage Beauty."

ake time to be pretty....Crawl into bed at night too tired to brush my hair--my beautiful hair--all autumn-colored like Megunticook."In this book, Savage Beauty : The life of Edna St. Vincent Millay b ...

(3 pages) 35 0 3.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

English translation to the 9th and 10th song on the mandrin singer Jay Chow's 'Jay' CD.

lingly, you have already left meUnknowingly, unfeelingly, I follow this rhythmLooking back, another autumn has passedLooking back, I should have lived my life betterTrack 10: Reversed ClockClouded and ...

(1 pages) 35 0 1.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Thanksgiving Day

onists. They showed them other crops to grow in the unfamiliar soil and how to hunt and fish.In the autumn of 1621, bountiful crops of corn, barley, beans and pumpkins were harvested. The colonists ha ... Indians had even brought popcorn.In following years, many of the original colonists celebrated the autumn harvest with a feast of thanks. After the United States became an independent country, Congre ...

(3 pages) 79 0 4.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

The misconceptions many people have about gay males.

Myth of the Gay Male On an Autumn trip out of town to Las Vegas, I decided I'd go over to a local coffeehouse I hadn't been to ...

(4 pages) 94 0 4.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

Why was unemployment such a persistent problem in Britain during the inter war years?

ts boomed and consumer's at home capitalised on this, making up for their wartime shortages. By the autumn of 1920 this boom had spent it self and the trends that had become apparent before 1914 began ... ar conditions was wrong.The strains of the 1931 crisis led to the National Government formed in the autumn of that year to take two major steps that cut right across the beliefs that had economic poli ...

(8 pages) 60 1 3.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

This essay is made by Roshan Jeyakumar from MDHS.

m west to east.ClimateCanada consists of four different seasons and they are called winter, summer, autumn, a spring. Winter is the season where the whole of Canada is covered by snow and it turns ver ...

(2 pages) 35 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Marketing strtegies of mercedes to market the S-500

or its success is its cars. One of the leading models is the Mercedes S 500 which made its debut in autumn 1998.Marketing MixProductFeaturesIncludes high-tech innovations like Pre-Safe, pre-crash occu ...

(2 pages) 114 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe's poem "Alone".

torrent, or the fountain,From the red cliff of the mountain,From the sun that round me rolledIn its autumn tint of gold,From the lightning in the skyAs it passed me flying by,From the thunder and the ...

(5 pages) 36420 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Analysis of Beautiful Old Age By D.H. Lawrence. This essay is on the subject matter, form, stlye and theme of the poem.

is over. The spring and summer of their lives have passed and what is left for them is the peaceful autumn before the arrival of the harsh winter (death).When we grow old, we become "richer". Not rich ... ld aged to the "Fragrant like yellowing leaves, and dim with the soft stillness and satisfaction of autumn." Through the vivid descriptions, we are able to picture out autumn and feel the relax and co ...

(5 pages) 73 0 3.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

This essay is a summary of The Venus Throw, by Steven Saylor, and how events and characters in the novel are related to real events in Roman history. Bibliography included.

eve King Ptolemy, who was currently in hiding, of his throne.The delegation arrived in Italy in the autumn of 57 B.C. They stayed the night in the housing and lodging of friends from the Academy in Ne ...

(8 pages) 71 2 4.1 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

I found timelessness

back against the warm brick wall, in happy prospect, I stared abstracted towards the red-orange of autumn on a tree. At the very center of my concentration was a single leaf; a torn yellow-green, not ...

(1 pages) 16 0 2.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Analysis of To Autumn by John keats

Keats wrote 'To Autumn' directly after abandoning 'The Fall of Hyperion', during September of 1819. It is among the ... 9. It is among the last of his poems and it is often regarded as the most achieved of his odes. 'To Autumn' is more abundant than at first glance. It didn't touch me like 'Ode to Psyche', but it left ... about Byron 'He describes what he sees - I describe what I imagine, mine is the hardest task'. 'To Autumn' is certainly evidence of this process. The first stanza though, is building up the landscape ...

(2 pages) 107 3 3.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

New York Baseball Is Hot, Its Climate Is Not

combination must be nirvana for someone of George Will's sensibilities. But "hot" as New York is in Autumn 2000, the Big Apple's climate definitely is not heating up.The October monthly temperature ...

(1 pages) 22 0 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Imagery in "Out of the Mouths"

inch uses nature to emphasize the feeling that this man was well past his prime: "Tattered curls of autumnal mist caught in the low boughs of oak and alder; patches of night still lingered" (92). Autu ... uous trees as winter conquered the land. … He felt his own December approaching" (115-6). As autumn gave way to winter, so Heron's body would give way to death. Imagery was also used to show He ...

(5 pages) 19 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers