Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and his Indian name was Thayendanegea. Thayendanegea meaning he who places two bets. Joseph’s father was a sachem of the Iroquois Confederacy‚ which was to where the Mohawks belonged. Whereas Brant’s mother was not a Mohawk like his father. Brant did become a war chief but never rose to the rank of sachem. His parents were said to live at the Canajoharie castle in New York. Even though his family would have been a consideration and he was the grandson of one of the
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Joseph Conrad grew up in the Polish Ukraine‚ Polish Ukraine is a huge‚ fertile plain between the counties of Poland and Russia. Polish Ukrainewas a divided nation‚ that held four languages‚ four religions‚ and various of different social classes. Many of the families inethis area were Polish-speaking inhabitants‚ including Conrad ’s family. They belonged to the szlachta‚ a hereditary class in the aristocracy on the social hierarchy‚ combining qualities of gentry and nobility. Despite the areas poor
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Reverse Outline ¶ 1 Topic Sentence: In examining Kurt Vonnengut’s Slaughterhouse-Five‚ we can illuminate the faults in Weisenburger’s theory of satire dichotomy‚ as well as illuminate the nature of the satirical qualities of Slaughterhouse-Five itself. Function: This is the thesis of Gil Henkin’s essay “Steven Weisenburger and the Big Scary Normative Value: An Exercise in Postmodern Posturing.” Its function is to provide the main idea which the author will argue thorough the essay. ¶2 Topic
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Catch 22 Essay Catch 22 has many scenes of violence in it that helps to contribute to the meaning of the complete work. The first scene of violence that helps portray the complete meaning of the novel is Kid Sampson being cut in half by McWatt while flying his plane too low to the ground. The second scene of violence was when Yossarian broke Nately’s nose on Thanksgiving while some men were playing around with the machine gun. And finally the last example of violence in Catch 22 the help contributes
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Joseph Conrad: An Innovator in British Literature Joseph Conrad ’s innovative literature is influenced by his experiences in traveling to foreign countries around the world. Conrad ’s literature consists of the various styles of techniques he uses to display his well-recognized work as British literature. "His prose style‚ varying from eloquently sensuous to bare and astringent‚ keeps the reader in constant touch with a mature‚ truth-seeking‚ creative mind" (Hutchinson 1). Conrad ’s novels
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Jazmin Aguilar 1st 3/14/2013 Senator Joseph McCarthy Notes 1. McCarthy was a Wisconsin farm boy that didn’t graduate high school until 21. 2. McCarthy was one of the youngest senator’s in history. 3. He was the most feared politician in that time. 4. American’s worried about communist operating in their government. 5. McCarthy charges Dorothy‚ an old women‚ of being a communist. 6. The community of republicans supported McCarthy. 7. McCarthy attacked anyone who went
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Joseph Stalin dominated the soviet scene to a degree unequaled in the United States by Truman or even Roosevelt. Stalin was born in the Russian empire’s southern province of Georgia in 1879. He began studying for the priesthood but was thrown out of seminary for revolutionary activity and some believe because of laziness. After the 1917 Bolshevik revolution he climbed to prominence in the new ruling communist party thanks to his administrative skills and adroit political maneuvering and building
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Josef Stalin was one of the most important members of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union succeed the Russian empire in 1922 and lasted until 1991. Stalin shaped the country in the 1930s and continued to help it thrive to victory helping to win the Second World War against Nazi Germany. I am going to concentrate on the myths surrounding Stalin during the Stalin era (1928-1941) and after his death in 1953. After Stalin’s death in 1953 there was no clear successor for his role in the Soviet Union
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Joseph Andrewsis a picaresque novel of the road; the title page tells us that it was "Written in Imitation of the Manner of CERVANTES‚ Author of Don Quixote." Despite its looseness of construction‚ however‚ Joseph Andrews does make a deliberate move from the confusion and hypocrisy of London to the open sincerity of the country; one might perhaps apply Fielding’s own words in a review he wrote of Charlotte Lennox’sThe Female Quixote: ". . . here is a regular story‚ which‚ though possibly it is not
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JOSEPH MERRICK‚ dubbed "The Elephant Man"‚ is one of the most famous patients in history‚ not just on account of his frightful appearance while he was alive‚ but also because of the division of opinion amongst the medical establishment after his death over just what disease he had suffered from. Mr. Joseph Merrick‚ The Elephant Man‚ was born on August 5th 1862 - a year after the start of American Civil War - in Leicestershire‚ Great Britain. His mother was slightly crippled but his brother was normal
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