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- 12671: James Fenimore Cooper and His Writings
- ... more strongly with the emergence of a truly American literature. During this time, as Americans began to understand the meaning of being "American", they also began to grow culturally. This paralleled the time when, the world as a whole was experiencing a change in ways of thinking: there was a move from classical ideas to romantic ones. This change was taking place in all areas of culture around the world, including the arts, education, philosophy, and even science, but it was clearest in literature. Romantic literature became the vessel of thought for most of the American writers at this time. Among them was James Fenimore ... discover this truth, Emerson wrote in The American Scholar (1837), a man must "learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within." The main key to this inner world is the imagination. Man's imagination leads to expression. Our expression makes each of us a unique human. Romanticism became the way of ‘ expressing' for this generation of writers. Among the giants of this ...
- 12672: Charles Manson
- ... a great devotion to the Beatles, who he believed spoke to him across the oceans in their lyrics and songs. Manson saw the 4 Beatles as the 4 Angels that announced the ending of the world in the bible. (Armageddon) On "The White Album" there are two song titles containing the word revolution. These are "Revolution 1" and "Revolution 9." Manson thought the Beatles were talking about a black/white revolution ... frequently said, "He reflects back to you what you want to see." Manson himself said: "You are using us fpr a scapegoat, trying to look past Nixon, and past Vietnam. I am only what your world made me." Another quote of Manson's is: "I hate the world I live in." By the age of thirty, he had fifty convictions against him. Manson believed in free love and experimentation with drugs. Followers of Manson came from all over the globe. They believed ...
- 12673: Shakespeare and His Plays
- ... 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.
- 12674: Dr. Spock
- By: danielle ierardi Benjamin Spock “Dr.Benjamin Spock, hailed as the grandfather of pediatrics, is known as the leading authority on child rearing.” (Gale 1997) Dr. Benjamin Spock was born on May 2 1903 in New Haven Connecticut, The oldest of six children of a lawyer. Spock attended Yale university, where he became a member of the Yale rowing crew that won the gold metal at the 1924 Olympic games in ... for U.S. president as a candidate for the people’s party in 1972. Dr. Spock’s last contribution to this society came out in 1994 in the form of his last book. A Better World For Our Children, which contained recommendations for making America a better and healthier place. This book was published when he was 91 years of age. Spock was quoted as saying “I’ve slowed down a ...
- 12675: Sir Sandford Fleming
- ... of a proposed railway from Queb ec City to Halifax and Saint John. Subsequently built as the Intercoloni al railway. Fleming was its chief engineer. In 1871 he was appoint ed engineer of the proposed new Canadian railway from Montreal to th e Pacific Coast. He was in charge of the major surveys across the p rairies and through the Rocky Mountains. He proposed constructing the ra ilway along a northerly ... Australia, which he believ e would become a vital communications link of the British Empire. The Pa cific Cable was successfully laid in 1902. He was also interested in th e development of a satisfactory world system of keeping time. The railway had made obsolete the old system where every major centre set it s clocks according to local astronomical conditions. Fleming advocated t he adoption of a standard or mean ...
- 12676: Frank Sinatra
- By: Someone Special Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey later became known as Frank Sinatra and one of the greatest entertainers of his generation. American singers - Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, influenced Frank Sinatra. Sinatra then developed a signature vocal phrasing in his ... 1930’s. He then scored his first number one song a little more than a year later, “I’ll Never Smile Again”. Sinatra’s popularity began to rise through airtime as a radio singer during World War II. He soon left Dorsey’s band for a solo career that lead him to several hits and great success in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Young At Heart, All the Way, Witchcraft, Strangers in ...
- 12677: Analysis Of King Lear
- ... brother Edgar in the eyes of their father Gloucester. Edmund is fully aware of his evil nature, and revels in it as seen in the following quotation: "Edmund. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by ... hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes; The good years shall devour them, flesh and fell, Ere they shall make us weep. We'll see 'em starved first." Act V, scene iii lines 22-25 This new carefree Lear is certainly a far cry from the arrogant king we saw at the beginning of the play. His joy at reconciliation with his daughter outweighs any other concerns he might have. Shakespeare has ...
- 12678: Lyndon B Johnson
- ... 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, reclamation, and public power programs. When war came to Europe he backed Roosevelt's efforts to aid the Allies. During World War II he served a brief tour of active duty with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific (1941-42) but returned to Capitol Hill when Roosevelt recalled members of Congress from active duty. Johnson ... especially among young, draft-aged people. Escalation also failed to win the war. The drawn-out struggle made Johnson even more secretive, dogmatic, and hypersensitive to criticism. His usually sure political instincts were failing. The New Hampshire presidential primary of 1968, in which the anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy made a strong showing, revealed the dwindling of Johnson's support. Some of Johnson's closest advisors now began to counsel a ...
- 12679: Albert Einstein
- ... small amount of energy. Einstein used Planck's quantum hypothesis to describe the electromagnetic radiation of light. Einstein's second 1905 paper proposed what is today called the special theory of relativity. He based his new theory on a reinterpretation of the classical principle of relativity, namely that the laws of physics had to have the same form in any frame of reference. As a second fundamental hypothesis, Einstein assumed that ... to make preliminary predictions about how a ray of light from a distant star, passing near the Sun, would appear to be bent slightly, in the direction of the Sun. About 1912, Einstein began a new phase of his gravitational research, with the help of his mathematician friend Marcel Grossmann, by expressing his work in terms of the tensor calculus of Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci- Curbastro. Einstein called his new work the general theory of relativity. After a number of false starts he published, late in 1915, the definitive version of general theory. When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions, Einstein was ...
- 12680: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... the helpless, raping the defenseless, and robbing the penniless. About half-way through the novel, Alex is caught by the authorities. They attempt to reform him from his life of crime by using a controversial new technique that forces Alex to become physically ill at even the thought of violence. In the last chapter of the book, Alex is able to break free of the mental chains that the reform had ... be seen in other books as well. One critic summed it up rather well by saying "His fiction is peopled with lapsed Catholics, failed poets and musicians, ineffective teachers, linguists who cannot adjust to the world as easily as they do to the word, and other intellectual misfits." (Friedman 1). And so, in this manor, Burgess used the setting in which he lived to create the characters of many of his ...
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