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- 3761: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... Age. A period within time which the passive behaviors, beliefs, and purity of the past generations, were tossed aside to create room for the changes America was about to experience! The birth of independent voting rights for women, lavishing parties, and where excitement was to be found in every corner. This was the era in which the people were considered the "Lost Generation," and from this environment emerged a eminent writer ...
- 3762: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The ...
- 3763: Frederick Douglass
- ... mesmerize his listeners at the abolitionist meetings. From 1845 to 1847, Douglas would travel in Great Britain speaking for the elimination of slavery. While in Britain he expanded his view of the struggle for human rights. He spoke in favor of Irish home rule and eventually would speak on behalf of the landless European peasantry, women's suffrage, prison reform, free public school education and universal peace. In 1846 he wrote ...
- 3764: Biography of Katharine Hepburn
- ... acting. In 1932, she appeared in a play called The Warriors Husband. A representative from RKO Studios came to see the play. He gave her a contract. She made three movies in less than year: Bill of Divorcement, Christopher Strong, and Morning Glory. She won her first ever Academy Award in 1933 for her performannces in these movies. In late 1933, Kate made Little Women. This was on of her favorite ...
- 3765: John Gotti: The Man Behind the Mob
- ... New York. Harper Collins, 1993. Dorigo, Joe. Mafia a Chilling illustrated History of Underworld New Jersey. Charwell books, 1992 Gross, Km. "Cold-Blooded King of a Hill Under Siege" . People 12,Nov 1991:76 Hewet, Bill. "Bad Fellas". People 23,March 1992: 40-42 Silverman, Burt. " Hitting the Mafia". Time 29, september 1986:23
- 3766: HG Wells
- ... first tells the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay, attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History. Throughout ...
- 3767: Christopher Marlowe
- ... 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. During the middle ages, culture and government were influenced greatly by the Church of Rome. The Reformation of Henry VIII (1529-39), and the break of ties with that ...
- 3768: Argument For Caesar To Be The King
- Argument For Caesar To Be The King Proposed: Caesar is to be our king, with all rights and privileges of the title; A hereditary position, the final word on all laws and social censorship to be his. Caesar is a great general and he has the support of maybe the whole city ...
- 3769: The Conflict in Chechnya
- ... Caucus.) As the Chechen resistance persisted, official Russian media reverted to the traditional Soviet practices of falsifying information. Yeltsin appeared to be endorsing this practice during his May 1995 summit meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton, when he claimed during a press conference that no fighting was going on in Chechnya at the same time television news reports were showing helicopters bombing Chechen towns. The Russian campaign was a military ...
- 3770: Was the French Revolution Preventable?
- ... came to symbolize the waste and corruption of the entire French government. (Encarta) How could the Government possibly had made this situation better? Why did the government not respond quicker when the peasants wanted more rights? The government was well aware of the problem that they were causing, and the unrest among the peasants, so why did they not stop the taxes and bring peace to the divided nation? It was ...
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