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Recommended: Impact of the cold war

Tyler Nelson
Mrs. S. Iglesia
ADV English 1 per 7
22 October 2014

OMS Mini-Research Paper

The words “Old Man” are seen everywhere; from books, to movies, to everyday routines. But what might old man symbolize in literature? The “Old Man” is regarded as the age-old wisdom of humanity, the overbearing knowledge being beared by one individual with a substantial amount of life experience.
According to Jung, the “Old Man”, particularly when invested with special powers or prestige, is the symbol of ‘mana’ personality, i.e.
The spirituality of the personality which emerges when the consciousness is overburdened with clarified, apprehended and assimilated matter welling up from the unconscious (Dictionary of Symbols 243). In simple …show more content…

DiMaggio was stationed at Santa Ana Air Base in California. From 1946 to 1951, DiMaggio didn’t play a full season due to repeated injuries,“heel spurs and assorted ailments took their toll” (The Yankee Clipper 107). DiMaggio suffered from bone spurs at the same time a character in one of Hemingway's stories suffered the same, but they both persevered. He left the game early because he claimed he was no longer Joe DiMaggio, as he was not the exceptional player he used to be. Joe DiMaggio showed uniqueness to other baseball players because he held exceptionally high standards for himself, and when he did not meet his own standards, he quit the sport he loved.This showed him as not only a unique baseball player, but a unique individual as well because he strives to set himself standards, and does not put money above his own personal …show more content…

Pulitzer set aside $2 million for the creation of a graduate school for journalism at Columbia University. The Cold War was a war involving nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction that caused a huge scar in history worldwide. The Cold War lasted 45 years, starting when North Korea invaded South Korea on June 26, 1950. Tensions in the war worsened after the Cuban missile crisis involving the United States and the Soviet Union.

The Vietnam War and Afghanistan War were both included in the Cold War. The Cold War involved the U.S. building up a missile defense against the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union doing the same. Biological weaponry was threatened along with weapons of mass destruction. During the Cold War, the great space race began to hype up, and the goal to get a man into space was on its way. The fall of the Berlin wall symbolized the end of the Cold War. There was no real “winner” of the cold war, Ernest
Hemingway was a very interesting person. Hemingway was a world-renowned American novelist who won the Nobel Prize. On top of the Nobel Prize, Hemingway

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