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- 7511: Character Flaws In "Long Days Journey Into Night" and "Death of A Salesman"
- Character Flaws In "Long Days Journey Into Night" and "Death of A Salesman" The dysfunctional American family is portrayed in both “Long Days Journey into Night” by Eugene O’Neil and “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. The character flaws of the father, favoritism, the disillusionment of unrealistic dreams, Guilt ...
- 7512: The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Fall of the House of Usher The father of American short stories, and master of the Gothic is Known to be Edgar Allen Poe. His upbringing has allowed him to delve deeper and deeper into his thoughts. For this particular reason he must leave an ...
- 7513: The Beat Generation
- The Beat Generation The Twentieth century has witnessed several movements which have helped to shape the rise of American culture. Each movement has in some way altered the way we think and act. One of the most influential literary movements of this century has been that of the Beat Generation. The Beat writers were ...
- 7514: Daniel Webster
- ... s leading lawyer and an outstand outstanding orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts. New circumstances enabled Webster to become a champion of American nationalism. With the Federalist party dead, he joined the National Republican party, allying himself with Westerner Henry CLAY and endorsing federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, the dominant economic interests of Massachusetts ...
- 7515: Diana
- ... went to finishing school at the Institute Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. After the Easter term in 1978 she left the school when she moved to Coleherne. There she watched after a child for an American couple, while she began her job as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England school in Pimlice, London. Like most teachers she didn't have a lot of spare time on her hands, but when ...
- 7516: Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
- ... husband, Bessargin. Bessargin had been banished to Siberia because of his political beliefs as a Russian Decembrist, (Decembrists, or Dekabrists as they were known in Russia, were a group of literary men who led a revolution in Russia in 1825.), so he spent most of his time teaching Dmitri the science of the day. From these people, Dmitri grew up with three key thoughts: “Everything in the world is science,” from ...
- 7517: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... com/CapitolHill/Congress/ 8953/poe.html. “Poe, Edgar Allan.” Encarta Encyclopedia. 2000 ed. “Poe,Edgar Allan,” Encyclopedia Britannica. 1995 ed., Vol. 9: 540-542. Poe, Edgar Allan. “Fall of the House of Usher.” Literature: The American Experience. Needham: Prentice Hall, 1996. 194-206. “Poe, Edgar Allan,” World Book Encyclopedia. 1991 ed., Vol. 15: 591-592. Quinn, Patrick F. “Four Views of Edgar Poe.” Jahrbuch Fur Amerikastudien. 1960 ed., Vol. 5: 128 ...
- 7518: Playing with the Younger: Emotional Development of Children in Playgrounds
- ... Planners and All Others Committed to Making Their Cities Laivable. Carnel, CA: International Making Cities Livable Council, 1995. 97-102. Lynch, Kevin. and Alvin K. Lukashok. “Some Childhood Memories of the City.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 22 n.3 (1956): 144-152. Rep. in City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch. Ed. Tribid Banerjee and Michael Southworth. London: MIT Press, 1990. 155-173. New ...
- 7519: Emily Dickinson
- By: Courtney "Emily Dickinson" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet of the nineteenth century. She was one of the greatest masters of the short lyric poem. Not much is known about her life, but what is known is unusual and interesting. Emily Dickinson was ...
- 7520: Conflicts During the 1920s
- ... and was inevitable. A new sense of awareness washed over minorities in our nation, especially blacks who began to realize that they were entitled to their own subculture, pursuit of success, and share of the American dream. This ideal was expressed by Langston Hughes in "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." They were supported by the growing number of young, financially well-to-do liberals who formed the new intelligencia ...
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