Ulysses

The "Bloody Shirt" Elects Grant For the election of 1868, the GOP chose General Ulysses S. Grant as their candidate. They used him for “waving the bloody shirt” (using the war divisions to rally voters) However, a divide existed between the party bosses and the candidate. The Party wanted military reconstruction to continue in the South, but Grant wanted to maintain peace in the Union. “Let us have peace” The Democrats, while united under one nation, failed to agree on a platform other than…

Kommando, comes down and requests that Levi go with him to pick up soup. As they take the long way to the soup kitchen, Levi decides that he genuinely wants to teach Jean Italian. With only a limited amount of time, he begins to recite the Canto of Ulysses from Dante’s Inferno. Although the passages are becoming unrecognizable, Levi is determined to share with Jean the sudden urgency he feels to tell the story. In a particular section, he states, “…think of your breed; for brutish ignorance……

Dorn in High Tor in 1937, Lilliom in Lilliom(1940), Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World (1946), and Adolphus Cusins Major Barbara(1957). Winterset by Maxwell Anderson was his first debut film in the year 1935. For Broadway staging of Ulysses in Nighttown, he won a Tony Award nomination in 1974. Because of investigation of House Committee on Un-American Activities, Burgess was Hollywood blacklisted and was absent from films for a very long time, but still, he was involved in radio…

The Radical Republicans have had more impact on American society and culture than any other person in history for the three following reasons. They were the main influence for Lincoln to push to end slavery during the American Civil War, they were the reason for the harsh treatment of the South during Reconstruction, and they came up with laws to prevent the effectiveness of the Ku Klux Klan’s terrorism. The first reason, they were the main influence for Lincoln to push to end slavery at the end…

Whenever children are being forced to read Virgil’s Aeneid in English class, they consider the story to be about an intense battle between two strong groups of people; although, what many of us do not understand is that the battle is not just physical, it is mental as well. If you look up the definition of “naive” on Urban Dictionary, you see words relating to it such as “stupid”, “gullible”, and “ignorant”. These words relate to the epic tale called the Aeneid; which, is written by Virgil.…

Atwood earned a master’s degree in English literature from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1962.”(Biography.com) “She's had the same agent since 1971”(cbc.ca) She “only started full-time school at eight”(cbc.ca) In the painting Ulysses and the Sirens by John William Waterhouse, he uses detail and imagery to create a stressful mood to show that the sirens song is…

Winfield Scott is a Civil War hero that led a very long career in the military. He made a great impact on the Mexican-American War, allowing America to win much of Texas and California. Winfield Scott was admired because of his skills as a general, and Ulysses S. Grant considered him to be “the finest specimen of manhood my eyes had ever beheld.” (PBS). Early Life Winfield Scott was born in Petersburg, Virginia on June 13, 1786 ("Winfield Scott."). Winfield studied law growing up, but decided…

Have you ever experienced a war or watched videos of wars in your life? The Battle of Shiloh would have been a very good and interesting war to watch or experience. In the “Drummer Boy of Shiloh” we learn and experience the night before the Civil War battle through the eyes of a young boy. If you experienced the Civil War some people wonder how their life was after the war and what the war was like. Many people hear about wars but they don’t realize how much that it touches people. I believe…

Nordic Religions in the Viking Age provides context to the time period in which Sturluson writes his prose Edda. The ending of “Gylfaginning” is heavily influenced by Christian views that age in time. In his second chapter, DuBois divulges the extremity of Christian views of pagans. Pagan religion was a “real threat, even if it remained inferior to the might of the Christian God” (DuBois 39). Although Christians were confident that their faith was superior, the non-Christians’ commitment to…

would grow too fond of it.” (from Robert E. Lee on history.com) The Union army was led by President Abraham Lincoln who was a superior political and war leader and Ulysses S. Grant who was appointed major general after he took over the Mississippi Valley "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." (from Ulysses S. Grant on the Whitehouse.gov). While it seemed like it would be a quick war considering it was eleven states versus the whole U.S. it was actually a long…