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and hearses to one common pool! And since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!'"(135.477). Ahab, with his death at hand, does not let the whale defeat him; only under his terms would he surrender his spear. I will not let my whale conquer me as well. I continue to prosper and subdue my seemingly never-ending struggle to ameliorate my SAT score. All things considered, my strive for acceptance into

(Hemingway 103). Destruction is on a greater scale than defeat-obliteration. Broken beyond repair, some might say. The idea that Santiago was destroyed, would be to say he was completely hopeless. The man began to wish that he “had never hooked that fish,” leading the readers to believe that he had wished that all the work, time, and strength that he had put into the fish had been for nothing. For it was “too good to last” (Hemingway 103). Defeat meant death. The sharks had taken away the man’s luck

Irregular Warfare against ISIS/ISIL Before I commence to identify some of the Irregular Warfare (IW) activities seen in this war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS/ISIL), I would like to briefly define the term Irregular Warfare and describe what ISIS/ISIL really is. Irregular Warfare is described as a violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant population(s). Irregular Warfare is a deviation

created by stories that were orally told and one day, someone or a group of people, wrote the stories down to create one, moving story. Beowulf has to defeat three terrible and frightening monsters throughout the story. He was not, however, told to defeat any of these monsters. In the story Beowulf, the all mighty Beowulf has many motivations to help him defeat these brutal creatures; which include: his duty, becoming a hero, and being forever remembered for his actions. In the story Beowulf feels as though

strategy to divide and attack each army individually in order to defeat their will. Napoleon believed the Allied Forces would lose resolve if separated and not come to the aid of another country.2 Napoleon's assessment proved accurate as the Austrian and Russian Army's did not arrive in time to be relevant, and he was able to split the British and Prussian forces in Belgium. At the Battle of Ligny, on June 16th, 1815 Napolean was able to defeat the Prussian Army commanded by General Gebhard von Blucher;

Beowulf serves as an impressive and almost godlike warrior for the Anglo-Saxons, providing insight into the constituents of greatness for that society. Confident in his abilities and committed to his task, Beowulf voluntarily embarks on a mission to defeat Grendel, the treacherous enemy of the Danish kingdom. Beowulf solidifies his classification as an epic hero as he satisfies his quest for glory, saves a kingdom from destruction, and reveals the values of an era. Beowulf ‘s confidence in his abilities

The film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (Joseph McGinty Nichol) portray three sensual, but crime fighting detectives, supposedly investigating murders from a clan leading to one detective's past coming to the light. However, they discover that the one pulling the strings was an ex-member of the Angels. The film reshapes the crime genre as there is a tendency to display male actors to be the main protagonist as the crime fighting individual, but this film undermines the masculinity code utilizing

of their struggle against their other selves, it can be stated that neither Jekyll or Marlow were born inherently “good,” and struggled to conform with this ideal. In Heart of Darkness, Marlow defeats his darkness with the death of his dark influence, while in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll fails to defeat his darkness and finally succumbs. Marlow, through all his struggles, remains a European man throughout his journey. The Congo, which “moved as a wild and gorgeous apparition of a

What, in the end, truly defeats an enemy? In a story, would it be the hero? Or could it be said villain's own morals and personal traits? In the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, the world class hunter Sanger Rainsford happens upon Ship-Trap island and stumbles into General Zaroff's hunting game. Throughout the story, General Zaroff hunts Rainsford mercilessly in an attempt to kill him. However, in the end, the general is defeated. Now, why was Zaroff defeated? Is it because

Assess the Reasons for the success of the First Crusade The success of the first crusade was due to both Byzantine and Islamic factors. Pope Urban II’s passionate call for arms at the Council of Clermont, the extreme faith and dedication exerted by the crusaders and the disunity between the Muslim leaders enabled the crusaders to attack when the Islamic kingdom was weak, enabling them to capture the most sought after city, Jerusalem. A key defining factor was the disunity amongst the Muslim states