Thoreau As A Prophet
.... necessary. We have become a society whose
focus points to materialism.
According to Thoreau, the necessities of life are food, shelter,
clothing, and fuel. (1495) “When he has obtained those things which are
necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the
superfluities” (Thoreau 1496). Thoreau is saying that it is a choice to
obtain more than the necessities of life. We choose to buy excess clothes
and excess technology. What happened to being content with what God has
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Thornton Wilder
.... their son's works greatly. Wilder also had
a sister, Isabel, who was to become a distinguished novelist in her own
right.
Wilder's early education began in Hong Kong, where his father was
serving as American consul general in Shanghai (Goldstone 11). He was then
schooled at Berkeley, California; Chefoo, China; and Ojai, California
before completing high school back at Berkeley in 1915. He studied the
classics at Oberlin College and Yale University, where he received his
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919 ( .....
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Tom Clancy: His Life, His Style, His Books
.... Finally, this author, was the
only one that didn't put me to sleep with a warm cup of milk.
Thomas L. Clancy Jr., son of a mailman and department store credit
employee, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1947. He attended a local
catholic parochial elementary and secondary school. Most of his friends
were interested in sports, and following their favorite teams throughout
the season, but Tom had more important things on his mind like guns, tanks,
and planes. He went to Loyola College, a Jesuit colle .....
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A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
.... this same thoroughness and true
human interest that she captures the life of England's reigning monarch in The
Queen; The Life of Elizabeth II.
Though surveys have revealed that at any one time between 15 and 30% of
the English people claim they would prefer a republic, the majority uphold the
traditional support of the monarchy, as has been the English custom for over a
thousand years. Since 1952 the endeared Queen Elizabeth II has played this role
in her country's politics as an important aspect of t .....
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Christopher Marlowe
.... his short lifetime and it has been suggested that these visits were
related to espionage. In 1589 he was involved in a street brawl which
resulted in a man's death. An injunction was brought against him three
years later by the constable of Shoreditch in relation to that death. In
1592 he was deported from the Netherlands after attempting to issue forged
gold coins. On the 30th of May 1593 he was killed by Ingram Frizer in a
Deptford tavern after a quarrel over the bill. He was only 29 years old.
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The Life And Work Of Washington Irving
.... they wrote "Salmagundi", or,
the "Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff", and others, a series
of essays and poems on New York society. Irving's contributions to this
thing established his reputation as an essayist and wit, and this
reputation was enhanced by his next work, "A History of New York " (1809),
evidently written by Irving's famous comic creation, the Dutch-American
scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker. The work is a account of New York State
during the period of Dutch occupation which .....
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Walt Whitman And His Poetry
.... of contant writing it took him to write the book
Leaves of Grass. The Leaves of Grass basically was his life's work and
contained 400 poems. He is known as a poet for the Leaves of Grass. An
interesting fact: his opening poem in the Leaves of Grass tells about how
he knows he will die soon. It says that “I have walked the roads you will
walk” which is telling about how he once was alive just like us. It is a
peom that remembers him and speaks to future generations.
Indeed, Walt Whitman is a very interes .....
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Why Mark Twain Is The Greatest American Author Of All Time
.... or messing up his hair so he could
feel at home. You can see that he is still a little boy inside who isn't
ready to grow up.
Tom Sawyer is one of those type of friends that everybody has,
crazy enough to get everybody's attention but smart enough to know when to
stop. I read some of the things that Tom had done in the book and some of
the lies he would tell and I thought "man he is crazy for doing that" but
as I thought about it more it seems reasonable to a kid at that age and why
wouldnt he act the wa .....
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William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
.... in his middle class household, his father
provided him with a fertile background in the arts and literature,
introducing him to Shakespeare, Dante, and the Bible (DISC 1). To further
elevate his level of knowledge, Williams attended the University of
Pennsylvania, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Medicine, and later
visited the University of Leipzig, for post-graduate study (Bloom 4338).
Williams fulfilled his parents' lofty standards by becoming a general
practitioner with his degree from Pennsylvania .....
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Bill Gates: Biography
.... -- the MITS Altair.
In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies to
Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a
belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office
desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal
computers.
Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to
the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates is actively involved
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The Life Of Franz Liszt
.... divorced when he was eight years old.For some time he even
lived under a bridge and was hospitalized for a heroin addiction.It was not
entirely unexpected that Cobain committed suicide.He had entered a coma by
overdosing on a mixture of schampagne and tranquilizers on March 4.Also,
Kurt's family history showed that two of his father's uncle's committed
suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of disfuntional
marriages and alcoholism present.During a concert, Kurt would jerk around
as if he .....
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Aristotle Vs. Copernicus
.... the Peripatetic ("walking" or
"strolling") school. Upon the death of Alexander in 323 bc , strong anti-
Macedonian feeling developed in Athens, and Aristotle retired to a family estate
in Euboea. He died there the following year.
His works on natural science include Physics, which gives a vast amount of
information on astronomy, meteorology, plants, and animals. His writings on the
nature, scope, and properties of being, which Aristotle called First Philosophy
( Prote philosophia ), were given the title .....
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Karl Marx
.... jail for being "drunk and disorderly-the only imprisonment he
suffered" in the course of his life. The student culture at Bonn included,
as a major part, being politically rebellious and Marx was involved,
presiding over the Tavern Club and joining a club for poets that included
some politically active students. However, he left Bonn after a year and
enrolled at the University of Berlin to study law and philosophy.
Marx's experience in Berlin was crucial to his introduction to Hegel's
philosophy and t .....
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Joseph Stalin
.... the
Georgia leader not to practice self determination. When the leader does
not agree with what Stalin has to say, Stalin punches the man out and
threaten to kill them all.
Years after that incident Lenin end up dying and Stalin takes over
as the leader of Russia. Because Trotsky was hated by many of the
influential political figures in Russia, Stalin becomes the leader of
Russia even after Lenin's dying last wishes.
1929 was the first of many years in which Stalin stunted Russia's
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Napoleon's Career
.... Moscow, there lay over 600 miles of
hostile barren countryside. Because of lack of supplies and the difficulty
to feed the large army, Napoleon's plan was simple: bring about a battle,
defeat the Russian army, and dictate a settlement. Apparently neither he
nor his soldiers, who cheerfully began crossing the Nieman River, thought
beyond the immediate goal.
Already 300 miles into Russia, Napoleon had not yet found a way to
exploit his advantage. In the Emperor's programming the resources
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