Stephen Decatur Essays

  • The First Barbary War

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    The First Barbary War: The United States Takes On “The Scourge of The Mediterranean” From 1778-1783, the Treaty of Alliance obligated France to protect all American shipping endeavors. The dissolution of this treaty after the United States gained its independence left American merchant ships vulnerable to the Barbary pirates. In the 1700s and 1800s, Tripoli, Algiers, Tunis, and the Sultanate of Morocco were semi-independent states under the Ottoman Empire. Government-supported pirate crews from these

  • Mary Chestnut's Civil War

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    Mary Chestnut's Civil War Mary Boykin Chesnut was born on her grandparents' estate at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina on March 31, 1823. She learned early about the workings of a plantation by observing her grandmother. Grandmother Miller rose early to assign the cleaning and cooking duties for her servants. Besides keeping the mansion clean and prepared for the frequent guests, Mary's grandmother also took charge of making and mending clothing for the slaves on the plantation. She spent whole

  • Cinematic Appropriations of The Great Gatsby

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    Montgomery in 1955 and the other with Robert Ryan in 1958.  The controversial 1974 adaptation rings in at number five.  The sixth version of Gatsby is slated to run on the A&E cable network early next year - Mira Sorvino will play Daisy and Toby Stephens will star as Gatsby.  Six!  All lacking.  All critical failures. [1]   So why do they do it?  What is it about the novel that tempts Hollywood producers, directors, and the occasional ingenue? Hollywood screenwriter DeWitt Bodeen wrote in

  • Much of Christina Rossetti’s poetry has a very depressing and rather

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    to produce works based on real landscapes and real models, and paid intense attention to accuracy of detail and color William Holman Hunt, D.G. Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Thomas Woolner and F.G. Stephens founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) in 1849. In some ways it was an impulsive venture, the PRB aimed to produce works that were innovative in style and substance, and expressive of direct, sincere feeling. And behind this lay the persistent

  • Making History By Stephen Fry

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    Making History by Stephen Fry Making History is a novel by Stephen Fry, who was born in Hampstead, London on Saturday, August 24, 1957 as the son of Alan and Marianne Fry. Except other books such as The Hippopotamus Fry also wrote some plays(e.g. Latin! in 1979) and films and the musical Me & My Girl. He also worked as an actor in the famous BBC series Blackadder. Making History was first published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Hutchinson. The book tells a fantasy-science fiction-time travelling

  • The Power of Images

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    Analytical Essay – The Power of Images I believe that pictures are able to capture a single moment, highlighting the important meaning behind every action presented. According to Mitchell Stephens’ “By Means of the Visible: A Picture’s Worth,” images possess “great power - religious, tribal, romantic, pedagogic” (479). Similarly, in Kenneth Brower’s “Photography in the Age of Falsification,” a picture of earthrise is described as having “poetic power, evoking sentiment” (564). When looking

  • Death Penalty is Another Name for Revenge

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    requires repeated attempts be humane? On December 12th, 1984 Alpha Otis Stephens was electrocuted.  The first jolt of electricity, which lasted for two minutes, did not kill him. Officials waited for six minutes to allow Stephens' body to cool, so physicians could examine him.  Upon examination, it was declared that a second jolt was needed.  During the six minute interval, it was reported that Stephens took 23 breaths. -http://www.abolition-now.com/ Donald Eugene Harding

  • Essay on Stephen’s Heroic Quest in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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    Stephen’s Heroic Quest in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ...His mother said: -O, Stephen will apologise. Dante said: -O, if not, the eagles will come and pull out his eyes. This utterance, which comes at the climax of the short first passage that Joyce presents to us, defines the heroic quest that Stephen (and/or his latent identity as mythic Daedalus) must undertake. He is, in this instance, bound by a strict commandment from "above" (from the towering grown-ups above

  • Stephen J. Hawking By Rachel Finck

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    Stephen J. Hawking by Rachel Finck Stephen Hawking was born in January of 1942 in Oxford, England. He grew up near London and was educated at Oxford, from which he received his BA in 1962, and Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics. Stephen Hawking is a brilliant and highly productive researcher, and, since 1979, he has held the Lucasian professorship in mathematics at Cambridge, the very chair once held by Isaac Newton. Although still relatively young, Hawking is already

  • Psychoanalysis of The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

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    grief in his own life. The film also depicts the grieving subjects susceptibility to convert grief and guilt into both blame and monetary gain and the transformation this small community faces after such a devastating event. The motives of Mitchell Stephens, the lawyer trying to file a class-action lawsuit, and of the townspeople are questionable throughout the film. Some in the community feel that attempting to win money in a court case is unnecessary and in fact will tear the town farther apart. Nicole’s

  • Stephen's Journey to Maturation in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the author James Joyce uses the development of Stephen from a sensitive child to a rebellious young man to develop the plot of the novel. In this novel, Joyce suggests that through Stephen's experiences with religion, sexuality and education, Stephen not only becomes more mature but these experiences also inspire him to redefine his world and his understanding of his true feelings about art. Religion

  • Mercy in The Wind by Stephens and Eight O'Clock by Housman

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    Mercy in The Wind by Stephens and Eight O'Clock by Housman Does humankind have the same characteristics as nature, or does it merely possess a small portion of nature’s greatness? Nature and humankind can be cruel in their own ways; however, humankind feels guilt for its actions, while nature does not. Both may appear beautiful at times, but nature and humankind can become fierce destroyers when put in certain situations. Humans often feel guilty for their actions and become merciful, while

  • Photos, Photography, and Images - The Superiority of Images Over Words

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    necessary, images are a far better option than words. Mitchell Stephens in “By Means of the Visible: A Picture’s Worth,” Ward Churchill in “Crimes Against Humanity,” and the director of Within These Walls, Mike Robe, concur that images such as gestures, symbols, and pictures have a widespread and profound influence. In truth, “painting is much more eloquent than speech, and often penetrates more deeply into one’s heart” (Stephens 473). Thus, images are more powerful than words because they communicate

  • Bill Gates

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    activities. Gates was an unusual child who spent long periods in his room in deep thought. He loved science and showed great skill in the area of math. In fact he scored a perfect on the math section of the SAT. His high school English teacher Anne Stephens was amazed at Gates' memory. She commented on how Gates had remembered a 3-page soliloquy for a school play in one reading. He read often, tried to take up the trombone, had no interest in philosophy but rather thought of himself as a "scientist

  • The Fenian Movement

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    Irish Republican Brotherhood, and Irish American Brotherhood. The Fenians also had a very strong military force located in Ireland. The reason for a strong army in the society was to gain independence from England. This movement was led by James Stephens from 1825 to 1901. He founded the party, the Irish People, in Dublin 1863. The Fenian Movement mostly appeals to the artisans and agrarians (REF). The reason for this was that the agrarians and artisans were the oppressed class in this society. With

  • School Safety

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    In recent years, tragedies have been visited upon schools across the country. From Kentucky to Oregon to Colorado, the notion of schools as safe havens has been shattered by the sound of gunfire. These acts are not limited to any geographic regions or family backgrounds, nor do they have a single catalyst. Those who have committed such heinous acts have done so for different reasons, at different times, in different schools. But these acts of school violence have at least one thing in common- they

  • Obasan By Joy Kogawa

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    effected them, first Stephen. The Bias Stephen Endured was enough to make him hate himself and his own culture. In Stephens's life the extreme bias towards him caused him to hate himself. He creates games in which the Japanese are weak even if they outnumber their attacker. "There are fifty small yellow pawns inside and three big blue checker kings. To be yellow in the Yellow Peril game is to be weak and small. Yellow is to be chicken."(152) This shows the fact that Stephen truly believes that

  • Brief History of George Strother Gaines

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    No matter how far Gaines got away from Demopolis or St. Stephens, he would always be called upon to serve in dealings with the Choctaw Indians. William Ward, the federal agent with the Choctaw Indian tribe contacted Gaines about another treaty conference that would be held in Macon, Mississippi. William Ward wanted Gaines and his partner Glover to set up camp near the treaty and supply the food and other supplies for the guest. The treaty conference lasted five days with the Choctaw tribe being divided

  • Fear and Redemption in Cry the Beloved Country

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    country because the greater he loves his country the greater will be his pain. Paton shows us this throughout this book but at the same time he also offers deliverance from this pain. This, I believe is the greater purpose of this book. When Stephen goes to Johannesburg he has a childlike fear for "the great city" Johannesburg. Khumalo's fears of his family are exactly the same as every other black person in South Africa. In the train he is afraid of living in a world not made for him. He

  • Stephen Coonts "flight Of The Intruder": Summary

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    Stephen Coonts' "Flight of the Intruder": Summary This week I read Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts. I read from page 1 to page 437 for a total of 437 pages. The book is about an A-6A Intruder (a naval bomber) pilot named Jake Grafton. In the first few pages Jake's best friend and B/N (Bombardier/Navigator) is killed by a Vietnamese soldier's rifle. In this mission their target was a "suspected truck park." Jake goes into despondency (depression, despair) for a days and tries to convince