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- 12611: Shakespeare: Biography
- ... to Stratford in 1613 where he wrote many of his excellent plays. There are many reasons as to why William Shakespeare is so famous. He is generally considered to be both the greatest dramatist the world has ever known as well as the finest poet who has written in the English language. Many reasons can be given for Shakespeare's enormous appeal. His fame basically is from his great understanding of ... nature, Shakespeare had a vast knowledge of a variety of subjects. These subjects include music, law, Bible, stage, art, politics, history, hunting, and sports. Shakespeare had a tremendous influence on culture and literature throughout the world. He contributed greatly to the development of the English language. Many words and phrases from Shakespeare's plays and poems have become part of our speech. Shakespeare's plays and poems have become a required ... love, heroism, comedy, and tragedy have helped shape the attitudes of millions of people. His portrayal of historical figures and events have influenced our thinking more than what has been written in history books. The world has admired and respected many great writers, but only Shakespeare has generated such enormous continuing interest. My source states explanations rather than opinions on why Shakespeare's contributions to literature are so vast. My ...
- 12612: William Shakespeare's Life
- ... the courts of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. After about 1608, Shakespeare's dramatic production lessened and he spent more time in Stratford. There he established a family in and imposing house, the New Place, and became a leading local citizen. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in the Stratford church. Although the precise date of many of Shakespeare's plays is in doubt, his dramatic ... one woman. Hence, from a poor family, Shakespeare emerged as a great playwright. The odds were against him, but he rose to the occasion and wrote over 38 plays which made him famous throughout the world. He is still considered to be the best playwright that ever lived.
- 12613: Smart Cards
- Smart cards are transforming business around the world from reducing fraud and opening up on-line transactions in banking, personalizing services for mobile phone users, to securing access to PCs and corporate networks, and speeding transportation by using electronic ticketing. The most common ... use increase every day. One of the most fast developing areas of smart cards use is Banking and Retail. For business of financial transactions is very competitive and fast-changing, banks are always seeking for new valuable services for their customers. Smart cards give an ability to deploy and manage multiple ap-plications on a wallet-size plastic card. Smart card technology also prom-ises to resolve the security problems through ...
- 12614: A Martyr's Victory in a Spiritual Sense
- ... Don't follow where the path may lead ……go instead where there is no path and leave a trail". When Bishop was young he developed his own idealism. While a student in Cathedral college in New York he took an interest in the Christian Foreign Mission Society, this society was new and had few members. At the age of 20, he became the first seminarian of the Maryknoll Missionaries to go abroad. In time, many followed and the missionaries began a movement to Christianize foreign lands ... who despised him, with-out any comfort or support. His death was martyrdom it's truest sense, despite the isolation and horror he held to his beliefs. Works Cited Funk & Wagnalls. Microsoft Encarta: Bishop Ford. New York: Houghton Mifflin Comp, 1994. Welk, Donald. Asian Missionaries. Minnesota: Patch Publishing, 1981.
- 12615: Adolf HItler
- By: Matthew Pardue E-mail: tj_119@hotmail.com Adolf Hitler (1889-1956) The rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's chancellor 15 years later. He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna ... the favor of influential institutions, so he could draw the greatest possible advantages for his own movement from such old-established sources of power." Hitler later applied this technique in Germany. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he gave up his Austrian citizenship to enlist in the 16th Bavarian infantry regiment. He would not fight for Austria, "but I was ready to die at any time for ...
- 12616: Margaret Hilda Thatcher
- ... she took office, Thatcher promised to put the British economy back on it's feet. She wanted an economic program that would reduce inflation, break the power of unions to disrupt the economy, to create new industry and trade, and to bring the country to a new level of prosperity. She promised to bring about a complete and radical change in the British society by dissolving the welfare state. Thatcher believed in free economy, not a government controlled one. Unfortunately, none of ... extension of the government, but the limitation of it. She believed that if the government was limited to specific roles, it would get stronger. She believed in tax reform, small firm encouragement schemes, help for new technologies, responsibilities and the family, law and order and improvement of the environment. Her "ideology is empirical and instinctive, but not the product of great study or reflection, and it amounts to a rather ...
- 12617: Steven Spielberg
- ... and the classic cult movie Duel. His first feature, The Sugarland Express, was released in 1974, and he was soon offered the chance to direct a thriller about a great white shark terrorizing a small New England beach town. Jaws cost $8.5 million and grossed $260 million. Spielberg followed it up two years later with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, earning a Best Director Oscar nomination and proved to the world that he was one of the best directors of the time. However, he followed Close Encounters with the disastrous Movie, 1941, which was his first attempt at comedy and his first true failure. He didn ...
- 12618: John Paul Stevens: Biography
- ... born on Apr. 20, 1920. Stevens, the youngest out of 4 sons, Stevens was also considered to be the smartest of the 4 . At the age of six, his brother Ernest Stevens noted to a New York Post reporter, ³I guess we always knew he was going to make something of himself. He was always awfully smart....When John was six, he could play better bridge then most adults today>² Stevens ... and then later went to the University its self. In 1941, he left the University with a Phi Betta Kappa key, and a B.A. degree. He joined the navy, after the U.S entered World War 2. Stevens was stationed in Washington D.C, as a intelligence officer on the staff of admiral Chester W. Nimitz. He worked with a group assigned to break Japanese codes. for doing this, he ...
- 12619: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
- ... served on the post Roads Committee and the War Department Expenditures Committee. Lincoln had intense opposition to the extension of slavery into the territories which prompted him to abandon the Whig party and join the new Republican Party in 1856. Lincoln issue toward slavery grew stronger. Lincoln once quoted "There is no reason in the world why the Negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence- the right to live, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Lincoln was elected as president and continued there ...
- 12620: The Philosopher, Aristotle
- ... attacking both Plato and Isocrates."(Collins p. His arguments against his teacher's philosophies were centered on the Platonic theory of Forms. Aristotle started the Realism movement which objected to the idea that the material world is unimportant and a shadow of existence. He disagreed with the belief that the true reality existed through universal ideas, truths, and forms. He had no room in his views for imagination and what he ... back to Athens where another follower of Plato, Xenocrates, had taken over control of the Academy at the death of Speusippus. Aristotle founded and developed a rival school of philosophy in the city using his new influence with the Macedonian empire which had taken control of Athens. His reasoning for opening this school probably were involved with spreading his views to the younger generation and also give him an opportunity to ...
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