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This paper discusses the major impact that Captain Montgomery had on the men and women that was proven when he was made Commodore for the Reserve Patrol Wing (RPW) in Willow Grove, Penn.

Tags:captain, leader, air

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This paper reviews "O Captain! My Captain!" a free-verse poem written by Walt Whitman after the assassination of President Lincoln. It explains the style in which it is written and discusses some of its metaphors. The writer also includes comments from Helen Vendler, a leading American critic of poetry.

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''In the second stanza, the ship has made it to shore. There's a crowd waiting and crying out to them, eager to see their loved ones off the ship. The speaker takes detailed note of the scene on the docks: "the [American] flag is flung," (ln 10) "bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths," (ln 11) and "the swaying mass" of the crowd whose "eager faces turning" (ln 12) to see the Captain. However, the young recruit does not run to those waiting for him on the docks, but instead goes to the Captain who's lying dead on the deck of the ship, and gently holds him with one "arm beneath your head!" (ln 14). Here, for the first time, the speaker refers to his Captain as "father," helping the reader to understand he had more respect for and a more intimate relationship with the Captain than just that of military rank/camaraderie. That's not necessarily meaning that the Captain was biologically the young recruit's father, but meaning the Captain was more than just a leader to him, someone he loved and admired as he would his own family - someone he trusted enough to follow into war and with his life.''

Tags:poem, Lincoln, analysis

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The paper relates that one of Walt Whitman's most famous poems, "O Captain! My Captain!", was written after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln as a tribute to America's 16th President, who had successfully guided the nation through a fratricidal civil war only to be murdered by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865. The paper discusses how Whitman's poem not only expressed the grief of millions of Americans, but his own personal sentiments as well, for he had met Lincoln on many occasions and had immense respect for him.

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"One of Walt Whitman's most famous poems, "O Captain! My Captain!", was written after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln as a tribute to America's 16th President, who had successfully guided the nation through a fratricidal civil war only to be murdered by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865. Whitman's poem not only expressed the grief of millions of Americans, but his own personal sentiments as well, for he had met Lincoln on many occasions and had..."

Tags:walt, whitman, poem

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This essay focuses on the character of Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. This essay attempts to humanize Ahab by exposing the motivation behind his behavior, and placing him in his environment as a reactor to natural events. The paper looks at Ahab as a mirror reflection of the ugliest parts of humanity. By suggesting that Captain Ahab is in some ways a reflection of humanity, this essay attempts to humanize his monomaniacal characteristics. Ahab is the captain of the Pequod, but this essay also suggests that he is the captain of the novel, steering the fiction from beginning to end.

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"Captain Ahab appears to be a communion of man and man's perception of alterity. Man naturally detests and abhors all adverse characteristics to which he cannot deny he is akin. Captain Ahab seems to be the imperfect reflection that most would rather not acknowledge as their own. He is the modern "Everyman"-molded to encompass the raw nature that makes him human and intrinsically aligned with the industrial, religious, and economic paradigms characteristic of the nineteenth century. Captain Ahab is as mysterious and complex as all humanity, and one can no more hate him than he can hate himself. He is composed of "a thousand bold dashes of character" (Herman Melville's Moby-Dick MD 67) which makes him a virtual collage of human experience. He is a captain, an ever-branching tree of morals and virtues, and a deep mystic ocean many fathoms deep."

Tags:bildad, ishmael, literature, monomaniacal, peleg, pequod, queequeg

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In this paper, although he had been innocent to the Captain and much of the crew, the scapegoating of Billy was a necessary evil to set a precedent about the law and of its enforcement on the high seas. Mutiny was a serious offense in the navy, which certainly did not go in Billy's favor due to Claggart's corruption and lack of responsible behavior. This is essentially the post-trial reason why Captain Vere never swayed from his duty.

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Tags:budd, melville, trial

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This paper provides an analysis of the Francisco J. Lombardi directed film "Captain Pantoja and The Special Services." The analysis focuses on military abuse and hypocrisy and how these issues have a negative impact on the normally fanatically moral Captain Pantoja.

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"Francisco Lombardi's film, "Captain Pantoja and the Special Services" illustrates the abuse and hypocrisies that are part and parcel of the actions of the Peruvian Army. Because of rising assaults on local women by Peruvian soldiers deep in the Amazon, Captain Pantoja, a straight-up moral individual is ordered to create a division of prostitutes to fulfill the needs of the enlisted men. Rutigliano argues the film illustrates the dubious nobility of following orders, which becomes evident when even the married with a..."

Tags:prostitutes, brothel, language, media, Peruvian army, Amazon

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This paper examines the character of Captain Ahab as a tragic hero in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." The author discusses the criteria for a tragic hero and how Ahab fits each criterion. The paper looks at how Captain Ahab's weakness turned him away from success, and how he recognized his personal suffering.

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"Captain Ahab is a man of substance, or outstanding in a positive way. He is also turned aside from success due to his own weakness of character. This weakness of character causes him to suffer which in turn this suffering causes Ahab to find recognition of himself and discover what is happening to him. He also causes the sensitive and intelligent reader to feel a sense of waste. Ahab causes a disruption in a system of order as well. He is classified as a paradoxical figure and shows sign of humanity. With two proofs or more for each of the eight criteria of a tragic hero Captain Ahab proves himself to be a more than adequate tragic hero in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick. "

Tags:dick, herman, hero, melville, moby, tragic, whale

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In this article, the writer notes that the colony of Jamestown in Roanoke, Virginia, often remains a shadowy period of American history in most Americans' understanding of their nation's origins. The writer maintains that if they know anything about Jamestown and its founder Captain John Smith, it likely comes from romantic tales of Smith's rescue from death by the Indian chief's daughter Pocahontas, rather than knowledge about how and why the colony experienced such difficulties during its early years. However, the the writer discusses that historians Thomas and Dorothy Hoobler suggest in their text "Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream" that the ideals, values, and principles of America can be traced back to this early effort of colonization.

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"The Hooblers' thesis is that Jamestown's founder, even though the colony itself was ultimately, famously unsuccessful, was a kind of an early embodiment of the ideal of the self-made man. Smith, in the portrayal of the Hooblers, emerges from the text as both a pirate and a pioneer, and a true, budding entrepreneur even though he was born an Englishman. Smith came to America after living a life more akin to an action hero than an administrator of the Crown. He had battled upon the high seas, and even been sold into slavery. He was born in a seafaring English community where regular maintenance of the dikes was necessary to keep the town, quite literally, afloat. This was an early example of the value of hard work and effort to the young Smith."

Tags:colonization, pioneer, Pocahontas, Indian

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In "Moby Dick", Herman Melville uses Captain Ahab to describe and critique the romantic hero. It shows how Melville establishes Ahab's superiority in several ways and shows how Captain Ahab is the perfect example of a romantic hero.

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"Captain Ahab is the perfect example of a romantic hero. He pursues the whale that in a previous voyage had caused him to lose a leg, with a murderous obsession. He wants only information about the whereabouts of Moby Dick. All civilities and pleasures are dispensed with, as Ahab gives his razor away and even throws his pipe overboard. The quadrant is smashed; and compass and chart are jettisoned, as Ahab, with the instinct of a maddened hunter, makes his own magnet, log, and line and pursues Moby Dick across the Pacific by dead reckoning. As the weeks and months pass, Ahab becomes ever more obsessive."

Tags:pacific

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This paper provides a critical analysis of a quote from Dostoevsky in "Crime and Punishment" concerning affronts. The author examines the reactions of Antigone and Captain Vere to affronts and explains how pride was a common motivating factor.