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- 2141: The Life of Henry Ford
- ... Arrow" into the air, riding on two wheels and then down with a thud, teetering for balance. The crowd screamed and cheered. (Backlund, 185) Henry made it to the finish line. He had broken the world's speed record, travelling at ninety-two miles an hour. Henry and his car carried headlines all over the country. In the spring, orders piled up faster than they could be filled. Henry had to build a new factory on Piquette and Beaubien streets. The new factory actually made a few of the parts for the cars, but mainly just assembled them. Henry wanted to make all of the parts and make them all the same so they would be ...
- 2142: The Short Life Of Tupac Shakur
- ... my Niggaz," which was an even bigger success. The highlight of Tupac's acting career came when he appeared in "Poetic Justice" besides Janet Jackson. The role made Tupac a household name and showed the world that music may not be Tupac's #1 attribute. In the midst of a role in the movie "Above the Rim" and a Platnum album "Me against the world," Tupac's rising career was snagged. He was brought up on sexual assault charges by a woman he met at a nightclub. Hours before Tupac would be found guilty, Tupac was robbed at gun point ... or three black men inside, opened fire on S about retaliation here. That'll come later." Police still have few clues leading to the gunman, Sgt. Kevin Manning said. Manning said today he had no new information. Marcos, when asked if the assailants would eventually leak information that they shot Shakur, said, "They already have." He declined to say where the purported suspects live, only that "they're not from ...
- 2143: George Orwell
- ... one of the most significant writers of the 20th century, was greatly influenced not only by his English heritage but also by his many life experiences. It was August 1914, right after the start of World War One. Three children were playing in a garden at the end of the summer holidays, on the Oxfordshire side of the Thames River. The children saw a young boy about their age standing on ... mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for failure in everyday life. (32) Orwell wrote his first poem at the age of five, in which his mother wrote down to his dictation. George wrote ... clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown-ups who snubbed you at childhood, etc., etc.... 2. Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. 3. Historical impulse. Desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of ...
- 2144: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... marriage to Albert Price III was also short lived. They were married in 1939 and divorced in 1943 (DA, 2). By the mid-1940s Hurston's writing career had began to falter. While living in New York, Hurston was arrested and charged with committing an immoral act with a ten-year-old boy. The charges were later dropped when Hurston proved that she was in another country at the time the ... was deeply interested in the subtle nuances that voo doo had left scattered throughout Afro-American culture. She also adopted this religion, which contrasted completely with her Baptist up-bringing , because it gave her a new artistic sense. Voo doo freed her from the institutional restraints that she experienced as a black woman in a white oligarchy (Hinton, 4). Her belief in voo doo appeared in almost all of her works ... is raised to uphold the standards of her grandmother's generation; she is taught to be passive and subject to whatever life gives her. But as Janie grows older she begins to realize that the world may not like it, but she has got to follow her desires, not suppress them. The story begins in her childhood, with Janie exalting material possessions and money, two things she has never had ...
- 2145: Bob Marley
- ... son David, better known as Ziggy. This same year Bob met Jonny Nash. The Wailers recorded songs for the record company JAD Records. In 1970 The Upsetters joined The Wailers. The band set up a new label Tuff Gong and the first single on that label was Run For Cover. They made hit after hit after that. In December 1971 Bob went to Chris Blackwell of Island Records and he asked ... considered as highlights of the decade for the band. The shows were recorded live and made it to the charts. The live version of No Woman No Cry became a huge hit around the entire world. In this song, No Woman No Cry, Bob Marley is reminiscing about his days in Trench Town. He talks about spending time with friends by the firelight. Marley shows that he knew that the poor ... Opposite Edward Seaga. Bob arranged a meeting on stage between the two rivals. He also visited Africa for the first time in his life. Later that year Bob got the Piece Medal of the Third World from the United Nations (White 36). A concious effort was made on Bob's part not to be political because of a great distrust for the system and political parties, known to Rastas as ...
- 2146: Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On
- Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On " Born when the world was starting on a technological joy ride, Edison was destined to set its gears 'on high, " writes Mary Nerney, in her 1934 biography, Thomas A. Edison: A Modern Olympian. " With every fundamental invention, he released ... Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847 (Baker). Thomas Alva Edison is my hero. He suffered through hardship, but also came to fame. He devoted his life to find news ways of living, to make this world a more worth wild place. His life went through departure, fulfillment, and return. First, his life starts off as a departure. Thomas was raised in Milan, Ohio, until the age of seven. He then moved ... was reading Gibbon's 'Decline and more books of that nature. He had also begun to do chemistry experiments and had his own laboratory in his father's basement (Day and McNeil 231). Second, the world revolves his fulfillment's. But his fulfillment's didn't come easy. He was newsboy on the Grand Trunk railroad. Between the trips from Port Huron to Detroit he would publish his own paper ...
- 2147: Walt Disney
- ... working there, Walt tried many ways to improve animation and was very successful (Montgomery 30). In the summer of 1923, Walt went to California to join his brother (Montgomery 37). Roy and Walt started a new company together Disney Studios. Walt made many cartoons and lost a lot of money for not copyrighting them (Montgomery 53). On a train ride back from New York Walt came up with a brand new character for a new series of cartoons with a mouse as the star (Montgomery 53). After arguing with his wife, Walt named the mouse Mickey the newest addition to Disney Studios (Montgomery 53). Mickey ...
- 2148: The Secret Sharer: A Summary
- ... silence. The novel proves true these predictions reveling thematic and image patterns directly proportional to them. The opening of the novel further reveals dialectics in the novel. The clash between the private and the public world or man versus society, in other words is the primary dialectic. The journey theme or the rite of passage theme also reveal themselves. We see a young and inexperienced captain grow and explore himself and the world around him, and in the process becoming a functional member of a society. The novella may be only fifty pages long but its words speak volumes. The first indication of a course that a novel ... to a possibility of a good and evil dialectic. The denotation of secret is something kept private, sharing is, however, a public act. This brings to light the dialectic of the public versus the private world. The opening paragraphs bring to life the world of the work. The place where the characters move and have their being is a sail ship in this novel. The laws that define the character ...
- 2149: Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
- ... a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the Nineteenth Century. The Catcher In The Rye is a novel about a young man called Holden Caulfield, who travels from Pencey Prep to New York City struggling with his own neurotic problems. These two novels can be compared using the Cosmogonic Cycle with both literal and symbolic interpretations. The Cosmogonic Cycle is a name for a universal and archetypal ... artists, and helping a runaway slave. He promulgates more experienced from his journey down the river on his raft. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden's Road of Trials takes from Pencey Prep to New York City. Holden deals with his own mental hallucinations, cognative disotience, and his desire to stay innocence, his Peter Pan complex. The author does not end the novel with a happy ending, from analyzing Holden ... of the Cosmogonic Cycle, the flight or flee and the return, can be combined into one instance. After the character completes his obstacles and Supreme Test, he is allowed to return to reality, the real world. Huck and Holden are both social misfits and want to escape civilization. Huck chooses to leave and "light out for the new territory." On the other hand, Holden has nowhere to "light out" to, ...
- 2150: The House of Seven Gables: Symbolism
- ... and he cannot resist the actual physical attempt to plunge down into the surging stream of human sympathy'" (Rountree 101). Dillingham believes that "Hawthorne clearly describes Clifford's great need to become reunited with the world and hints that this reunion can be accomplished only by death" (Rountree 101). However, Clifford inevitably fails to win his freedom, and he returns to the solace of his prison house. Clifford and Hepzibah attempt ... to go to church. They descended the staircase together,
pulled open the front door, and stept across the threshold, and felt, both of them, as if they were standing in the presence of the whole world
Their hearts quaked within them, at the idea of taking one step further. (Hawthorne 169) Hepzibah and Clifford are completely cut off from the outside world. They are like prisoners who after being jailed for decades return to find a world they do not know.(Rountree 101). Clifford is deeply saddened when he says, " We are ghosts! We have no ...
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