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- 19691: The Life of Benjamin Franklin
- ... amount of praise from the townsfolk. However, his father said his verse was poor, and urged him to become more educated before composing again. After much difficulty with his brother James, Franklin ran away to New York. He could find no work for printers in the city, so he struggled on to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, he found work at an old press owned by a gentleman named Keimer. Keimer loved arguing ...
- 19692: Romero
- ... for what he believed in and lost his life while giving mass. I found the movie to be very depressing, but very good. It made me think a lot about all the injustices in the world that go on without me knowing. I hear what is on the news and in newspapers, but it is never the whole story. During the years 1980 to 1989 60,000 people were killed. Romero ...
- 19693: Andrew Jackson
- ... British. When Andrew refused to clean the muddy boots of an officer, the officer took out his sword and cut Andrew across the fore head and left hand which left him scarred for a lifetime (World Book Encyclopedia, 1976) small pox a very deadly disease, during the times of George Washington, but he survived it (internet) He went to Waxhaw Presbyterian Church because he wanted to be a minister. Later on ...
- 19694: Abraham Lincoln
- ... doing chores leaving very little time for play. Lincolns mother died in 1818 when Abraham was just nine. His father remarried, a year later, a women who had three children leaving Abraham with four new members in his family. Although, Abraham was a smart man and a political genius he had very little formal education. When Abraham was seven, the family moved to southern Indiana, Abraham had gone to school ...
- 19695: Julius Caesar
- ... Caesar really saw himself and saw his people. The basic characteristics of Caesar appeared in a gallant and bold stroke. Caesar seemed to be vain, superstitious dictator who saw himself as the center of the world. He showed many superstitions throughout this play which played a major role in the conflict he would face which was death. One important example of Caesars superstitions was that he reported to Antony that ...
- 19696: Russia
- ... Prize in 1965. There were many performances done in Ballet that were note worthy. The NutCracker was a very popular performance at this time, as was The Stone Flower. Although there were no premieres of new ballets, these oldies kept a great tradition alive at the St. Petersburg Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ballet). A nice work was done in theater as well. The Life of Monsieur de Moliere was published by ...
- 19697: Sahure Ancient Egyptian Art
- On Sunday, November 7th, I took a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Ancient Egyptian Art exhibit that was on display amazed me. One of the most alluring pieces I saw was Sahure and a Nome God, a gneiss high-relief statue which was created ...
- 19698: Scarlet Letter- Judgment
- ... from the renowned novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this novel, Hester commits adultery and bears the child of a man that is not her husband. The book is set in an early New England colony with Puritan values and Puritan views on life. After Hester delivered her baby, she was set up on a scaffold to be ridiculed and humiliated in front of the accusing town. "All men ...
- 19699: Biography of Pocahontas
- ... married, they had a son whom they named Thomas. He was the only child born to them and would later become an important member of the Jamestown society. Sir Thomas Dale, the leader of a new settlement in Virginia, made an important voyage to England to seek financial support for the Virginia Company. To insure publicity, he took Pocahontas with him along with her husband and son. Her arrival was well ...
- 19700: Winston Smith
- ... Ministry of Truth. London is a city in Airstrip One, a Province of Oceania. The Party with Big Brother as its leader rules Oceania, a totalitarian state and one of the great powers of the world. Winston is secretly dissatisfied with his life under the inflexible and paternalistic government and decides to keep a diary of his thoughts. This is considered a crime in Oceania and Winston knows that he will ...
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