| Papers [1-15] of 100 :: [Page 1 of 7] | | Go to page : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 —> | Search results on "BENEDICT ARNOLD": |
|
|
Benedict Arnold and Colonial Loyalist Views, 2006.
This paper focuses on the life of Benedict Arnold, a great revolutionary war general, who began as a hero, but ended up a traitor, and how the colonial loyalists came to view this man.
2,040 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 64.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
The author gives a detailed account on the life of Benedict Arnold, from the beginning of his career in 1775 to his sad and lonely death in 1801. The paper also explains how Arnold became one of America's most famous traitors and one of Britain's greatest heroes, while also examining how the colonial loyalists, also known as the Tories, and the British loyalists, felt about Arnold before and after his switch. The paper also hones in on those involved in aiding him in selling out his country, including John Andre and Beverly Robinson.
From the Paper
"So how did he end up or how was it found out that he was a traitor? Well, he changed sides mainly for financial reasons. He married a Peggy Shippen, who was in dept, and stayed in dept. He also didn't help matters any with the social parties he had. So he decided he would profit from the ruin of America. He contacted Sir Henry Clinton and promised to give him West Point and its defenders for 20,000 sterling, which is the same thing as $1 million today. However his British contact, Major John Andre, was captured, and with him there was incriminating documents in Arnold's handwriting, including routes of access to the fort.
After this incident he became a hero for the other side, fighting as hard as he did for America. Again he was awarded brigadier general. Again he led many victories, but this time it was for the British."
| |
|
Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold at Saratoga., 2002.
This paper discusses in great detail the interaction between Generals Horation Gates and Benedict Arnold at the battle of Saratoga.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 53.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
Arnold, a young firebrand, clashed with the stolid, traditional Gates, even though the men were friends. Arnold's "rash, thoughtless" actions may have won the battle whose victory is often attributed wholly to Gates' maneuvers. The contrast between the two tactical styles points up a transition in American military culture from old European formalism to new guerrilla-style tactics, a result of both the character of America's forces, and the generals like Benedict Arnold who commanded them.
| |
|
Benedict Arnold, 1977.
This paper examines the life of Benedict Arnold with emphasis on his reasons for betraying the revolution.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 4 sources, $ 79.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
From the Paper
The purpose of this research is to examine the life of Benedict Arnold with emphasis on his reasons for betraying the revolution.
Arnold is remembered as America's most infamous traitor. One of the Revolutionary War's greatest military heroes and field commanders, Arnold defected to the British side and offered to surrender West Point for money in 1780. The plot was discovered, and Arnold escaped, fought with the British Army and eventually went to England to live.
The reasons for Arnold's defection and betrayal of trust are complex and manifold.
The man who today is remembered in history only as a traitor was born on January 14, 1741, in Norwich, Connecticut. He and his sister Hannah were the only two of their parents' six .. "
| |
|
Matthew Arnold's "The Forsaken Merman", 2006.
This paper discusses the theme of the superiority of secular love and culture over Christianity in Matthew Arnold's poem "The Forsaken Merman".
1,595 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
This paper explains that, on the surface, the subject matter and rhyme scheme of the poem "The Forsaken Merman" by Matthew Arnold appears very similar to Pre-Raphaelite poets of the past decade, but Arnold's poem illustrates contemporary concerns about shifting moral norms. The author points out that Arnold inverts the conventional, moral storytelling function of many nursery-rhyme poems designed for children into a story about a pagan hero, who is cruelly rebuffed by a mortal Christian woman for a religion, which ultimately affords her an unfulfilling and death-driven way of existence. The paper relates that Arnold emphasizes the superstitious component of religion in the poem's reference to religion in terms of bells and books rather than of Christ and eternal life, which might be considered the higher aspects of religion.
From the Paper
"This cruelty of the Christian woman, who spurns the truest lover of the poem, should come as little surprise to persons familiar with the poet Matthew Arnold's own system of beliefs. Matthew Arnold was a professed agnostic. But according to the Victorian scholar David DeLaura, Arnold's attitude towards religion was more complex than this word might suggest. It was not simply that Arnold did not believe, in fact he did think there was a strong value to be found in religion and supported many of his religious friends, like John Henry Newman, an Anglican covert to Catholicism."
| |
|
Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", 2004.
This paper analyzes themes, symbols and images in Arnold's most famous poem.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 23.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
In this article, the writer analyses themes, symbols and images in Matthew Arnold's most famous poem, "Dover Beach." The writer discusses Arnold's sense of isolation, sadness and loneliness. The writer also looks at Arnold's pessimism and his belief that a loss of faith caused the hopelessness of his time.
From the Paper
"In 'Dover Beach' Matthew Arnold introduces the dominant image in the first line of the poem 'the sea is calm tonight'. The sea is both a symbol and a metaphor referencing the eternal note of sadness as well as the Sea of Faith. The poem in essence reflects the religious philosophy and the loneliness and isolation that Arnold is said by critics including John S. Reist, to have experienced Arnold's belief that the human condition in his own era ... "
| |
|
Augustus Toplay and Matthew Arnold, 2004.
A comparison of the thoughts of Augustus Toplay and Matthew Arnold.
828 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
This paper discusses the ideas and works of poets, Augustus Toplay and Matthew Arnold. The paper contends that Toplay, like Arnold, believed that human life was empty and lonely without the presence of the divine and the striving of humanity to understand God and to integrate God into the daily life of humans. The paper examines Toplay's belief that judgment absent of pure democratic will must reign, but unlike Arnold, he was concerned that such a moral regime would be coherent theologically with what Toplay considered true, that is, traditional.
From the Paper
"In Matthew Arnold's prose and poetry, such as his essay "Hebraism and Hellenism," and his patriotic poetic panegyric "Dover Beach," the Victorian intellectual literary critic Arnold stood as an apostle of Englishness, and all that was good about conservative, British values and the British value structure versus mob rule. However, despite this posturing, Arnold was also a devout exponent of the lack of value of the British Empire as an institution and exporter of Englishness. Arnold instead believed that British culture, rather than the British Empire, should be the dominant way that England communicated its schema of values to the world. "Dover Beach" is a melancholy meditation on the long "withdrawing roar" of the "Sea of Faith," in other words, that God has abandoned humanity, because humanity has abandoned God in its line of thought, and human life is empty without God and a seeking-after God as opposed to world riches, as is common when government obeys the populist will and whim towards empire building."
| |
|
John Keats and Matthew Arnold, 2002.
Compares how John Keats and Matthew Arnold viewed their roles as poets in society.
3,082 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
Poets' conceptions of their roles in society can be fairly consistent for long periods of time or may change rapidly in a decade or two. The difference between the idea of a poet's function as conceived by the Romantic era and the Victorian period provides an example of significant change. The paper shows that not all the supposed members of any school of poetry share every aspect of the predominant theory of poetry in their generation. It shows that neither John Keats (1795-1821) nor Matthew Arnold (1822-88) is entirely typical of his era. But, especially because Arnold reacted against Keats--among others--in specific, articulated ways, a comparison of their ideas of their role as poets in this paper demonstrates how such changes take place and the effect they have on the poetry that is written.
From the Paper
"The expression of his experience in the poems relied, therefore, on the intelligent apprehension of the beautiful but necessarily avoided the interference occasioned by philosophical rigor or conventional belief systems. Rather than acting as a scientist who catalogues experience or an overt expressionist who presents her/his feelings in all their immediacy and as an end in themselves, Keats valued the ability to go as deeply as possible into feeling and then to communicate and transform the experience with words that, rather than refining and limiting the experience, conveyed an accurate sense of the ambiguity as well as the nature of the experience. He desired, in other words, a meaningful description of what was conventionally indescribable while avoiding a vocabulary or style that would constrain the sense of feeling he wished to express. It was, in short, a poetry of sensation. His most famous formulation of this aspect of his poetic practice came in a letter written to his friend Benjamin Bailey in 1817."
| |
|
Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", 2003.
An analysis of the literary techniques and the primary themes in Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach."
2,522 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 76.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
This essay provides an analysis of Matthew Arnold's haunting poem "Dover Beach." It examines the way in which the internal structure and rhythm of the poem, literary devices such as anaphora, alliteration, and assonance, and the symbolic images of the land and sea interrelate. The overall result is a profoundly melancholy tone that mirrors Arnold's theme that darker currents of despair flow beneath even the most placid of facades.
From the Paper
"Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" (1851) centers on the image of the moonlit waters of the English Channel, an image that transcends its immediate physical setting to reflect broader themes of human struggle and private grief. In the mind of the poem's speaker, the ebb and flow of the tides come to symbolize much more than simply the pull of Diana's orb on Neptune's waters. The rhythm of the tides reflects the oscillation of the speaker's emotions, which range from peace and tranquility to passion and joy and finally to the overarching sentiments of melancholy and despair. The structure of the poem itself mirrors this ebb and flow of emotional currents, and its symbolic imagery builds throughout to culminate in the theme that for the speaker, all things bright and beautiful in this world merely belie darker currents of destruction, violence, chaos, and sorrow."
| |
|
Sexual Harrassment and Arnold Schwarznegger, 2006.
This paper examines the political motives behind the claims of sexual harassment made against actor and future governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1,669 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 54.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
The writer of this paper discusses the timing of an article published in the "Los Angeles Times" during the midst of a recall election campaign in California, which reported alleged sexual improprieties by one of the major candidates. Just five days before the actual recall election, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was accused on the front page of the "Los Angeles Times" of having groped six women during the period between 1975 and 2000. This paper details the events that transpired after the release of the published article as well as the political motives of the "Los Angeles Times." Reaction from the Schwarzenegger camp was immediate and campaign aides denied the charges. The writer contends that the voters made their decision with all the facts, which is the job of a free press - to provide the public with the facts so that each voter may make his or her own decision.
From the Paper
"Further contributing to the negative perception of the Times' reporting was the timing of the story just five days before the election. Contrasted with this was a 1992 story on sexual abuse allegations involving then presidential candidate Bill Clinton, on the eve of the presidential election, which the Los Angeles Times refused to investigate, calling it "toxic waste." What also didn't help the Times case for impartiality was the revelation that one of the women it quoted was urged to come forward by a woman who was a close advisor to Governor Gray Davis, Democratic activist Jodie Evans. When Times columnist George Skelton was asked why the link to Davis was not disclosed by the reporters, he speculated that maybe they did not know about it. What hurt the Los Angeles Times more than anything was not the publication of the Schwarzenegger story itself, but the perception, based upon past performance, that it was biased. Had it critically covered past indiscretions by Bill Clinton, defenders of the newspaper could have pointed that out as evidence of a consistent approach to covering this type of story. As it was, they could not explain why the Schwarzenegger story was covered, while Clinton received a pass."
| |
|
Arnold Schoenberg, 2007.
An analysis of the background of Arnold Schoenberg and his musical compositions.
1,692 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
This paper discusses the background and achievements of Austrian composer, Arnold Schoenberg. The paper discusses the Schoenberg's controversial methods of composing and describes why some people go as far as not to recognize it as music at all. It describes his life and then focuses on specific pieces that he composed. The paper presents the writer's view of Schoenberg's compositions.
From the Paper
"Few composers during the early twentieth century, let alone any other monumental musical era, had the originality, boldness or intelligence needed to create such a wonderful piece of music Schoenberg was able to craft and formulate. His individualism allowed him to go beyond the norm for composers of his time. With his combination or sheer brilliance and determination, he broke a system of tonal organization that had developed over hundreds of years and had become a landmark of Western music. The fact that his talents did not stop as a composer but furthermore as a teacher, pupil of his profession, painter and more, made him as a unique individual as the world had seen to date. Schoenberg himself expressed the importance of creating your own path, "The artist does nothing that others deem beautiful, but rather only what to him is a necessity." That quote lingers in my head over and over again. The simplicity, in which he states an idea that would take many artists a lifetime to conjure, is simply astounding, and the more one learns about this mans life, the more you find yourself coming to terms with the notion that his intellectual brilliance does not impede there."
| |
|
"Dover Beach" ( Matthew Arnold ) and "God's Grandeur" ( Gerard Manley Hopkins ), 1999.
"Matthew Arnold, in "Dover Beach" (1848?), and Gerard Manley Hopkins, in "God's Grandeur" (1877), are both concerned with the question of the presence of God or religious faith in the world.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 4 sources, $ 79.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
"Matthew Arnold, in "Dover Beach" (1848?), and Gerard Manley Hopkins, in "God's Grandeur" (1877), are both concerned with the question of the presence of God or religious faith in the world.
From the Paper
"Matthew Arnold, in "Dover Beach" (1848?), and Gerard Manley Hopkins, in "God's Grandeur" (1877), are both concerned with the question of the presence of God or religious faith in the world. Neither poet actually asks a question, however, as Arnold sees the "Sea of Faith" withdrawing from the world, while Hopkins enthusiastically perceives God's presence in everything around him. Both poets, however, see human failure to appreciate God as part of the problem of their own times. But where Arnold sees the only option as withdrawal from a world with neither "certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain", Hopkins regrets the blindness of human beings who have come to dissociate themselves from God, even though He is always there in the world. A comparison of the two poems demonstrates not only the difference in their views of religion but the manner in which these ..."
| |
|
Matthew Arnold's Poetry, 2002.
An examination of Matthew Arnold's criticism applied to his own poetry.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
This five-page undergraduate paper applies the theories and principles found in three selections of Arnold's criticism of poetry to his own poetry. His longer poetry is excellent; his short poems are often far from what he says poetry should be.
| |
|
Anna Arnold Hedgeman, 2002.
This paper takes a look at the life and achievements of civil rights protagonist, Anna Arnold Hedgeman.
1,750 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 4 sources, $ 56.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
This paper focuses on the life and accomplishments of humanist Anna Arnold Hedgeman. Details about her achievements as a mentor and civil rights leader are provided. The main idea of the paper focuses on race relations among African-Americans and the civil rights movement.
From the Paper
"Anna Arnold Hedgeman was born on July 5, 1899, in Marshalltown, Iowa. She was one of five children born, her father being a son of slaves. Hedgeman was well educated, for she attended high school in St. Paul, Minnesota, and later received a degree in English from the Methodist college of Hamline University. Growing up, Hedgeman became a very articulate, outspoken person. Throughout college, she grew very interested in the social injustices and racial inequality of African-Americans. In the ensuing decades of her life, Hedgeman devoted all of her time and energy to assisting many organizations and administrations that were intent on fighting for the rights of workers and for the better welfare of humanity. She acted as a teacher, consultant, and lecturer to these various groups, and eventually she owned her own consulting firm, Hedgeman Consulting Services. The focus of this paper will be to show how Anna Arnold Hedgeman?s concern for national and global equality led to her eventual involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and the March on Washington."
| |
|
Ruth Benedict, 2008.
A look at Ruth Benedict's life and her achievements in the fields of anthropology and the social sciences.
2,305 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 71.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
The paper describes Ruth Benedict's background, her search for fulfillment and meaning and her attraction to the field of anthropology. The paper discusses her relationship with Margaret Mead and outlines her exploration of various tribes, her interest in religion and life after death and her strong defense of civil liberties.
From the Paper
"She was born Ruth Fulton in New York in 1887 into an upper middle-class Protestant family of Anglo-Saxon descent. As such, the child avoided troubling discrimination common in those times against southern or eastern European immigrants and Jews. Yet, she still felt like "an outsider and observer of American life rather than a participant" (Caffrey 1989 pg 15). Ruth's father died unexpectedly when she was a toddler, a traumatic event which took a significant emotional toll on her mother. Afterward, she was raised in a religious home on her maternal grandfather's farm and, as a child, possessed a vivid imagination which often "put her in conflict with the family emphasis on common sense" (Caffrey 1989 pg 23)."
| |
|
Matthew Arnold: Late Victorian English Poet and Critic, 2002.
This paper discuses Matthew Arnold's critical analysis of English culture and the English nation during late the Victorian period.
1,205 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
»
Click here to show/hide summary
Abstract
The author states the late Victorian period in England was a unique time in that country?s literary history. Both literature and the political culture supported one another by different notions of England?s future. Matthew Arnold addressed directly issues of the purpose of English culture and the English nation.
From the Paper
"Matthew Arnold was a conservative writer in the sense that he was not egalitarian. He feared an intrusion of ?vulgarity? into the culture and of ?Philistine populism.? (Wilson xvii; xvii) But his ideas were more complex than that. Arnold did believe that the essential thrust of English development should not be so much to expand its physical boundaries, but to create a culture of, as he termed it, ?Sweetness and Light.? "
|
|
|
