|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 1031 - 1040 of 14240 matching essays
- 1031: A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
- ... as "Anonymous". The following is a direct quote from Franklin's Autobiography. It describes his writing the articles as a boy. "He (Benjamin's older brother) had some ingenious men among his friends, who amus'd themselves by writing little pieces for this paper, which gain'd it credit and made it more in demand, and these gentlemen often visited us. Hearing their conversations, and their accounts of the approbation their papers were received with, I was excited to try my hand ... my hand, and, writing an anonymous paper, I put it in at night under the door of the printing-house. It was found in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when they call'd in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, ...
- 1032: Benito Mussolini
- ... is historically immoral.” After hours of heated debate, the party leaders in the early hours of July 25 voted 19-7 for a motion of no confidence in the aging dictator. On this very same day King Victor Emmanuel III diverted Mussolini of his powers and then later arrested him. “After his arrest, Mussolini was taken to a ski lodge on Gran Sasso d’Italia in the Apennine mountains about 75 miles north-west of Rome. The lodge was accessible only by a railroad and had been built so recently that it was not marked on military maps or ... by the Allies. He lived for almost two years after his arrest. He participated in a series of bizarre and humiliating experiences before finally coming to a gruesome end. Mussolini died on a clear spring day in April 1945. Allies had moved into the northern part of Italy during the same month. Mussolini attempted to flee to Austria. Near the town of Dongo his truck convoy was ambushed by partisans. ...
- 1033: The Dead Sea Scrolls
- ... of dispute between the Pharisees and the Sadducees was the Calendar. "The Sadducees held that the first offering of the Omer (barley sheaf; Leviticus 23: 9-14) was to take place not on the Second Day of Passover, as the Pharisees claimed, but rather on the first Sunday after Passover in accord with Leviticus 23: 11, 'on the morrow of the Sabbath.' To ensure that this Festival was observed on the proper day of the week, the Sadducees adopted a calendar that, like the one known from the Dead Sea sect and the Book of Jubilees, was based on both solar months and solar years. Following this calendar ... Most of the letter includes both the view of the writers as well as their opponents. The letter next makes a statement about its own intent: "These are some of our [legal] rulings [regarding Go]d's [Torah]." The second part of the letter presents the writer's general views on the schism that has happened. The authors state: "[You know that] we have separated from the mainstream of the ...
- 1034: Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power
- ... is historically immoral." After hours of heated debate, the party leaders in the early hours of July 25 voted 19-7 for a motion of no confidence in the agin dictator. On this very same day King Victor Emmanuel III diverted Mussolini of his powers and then later arrested him. "After his arrest, Mussolini was taken to a ski lodge on Gran Sasso d'Italia in the Apennine mountains about 75 miles north-west of Rome. The lodge was accessible only by a railroad and had been built so recently that it was not marked on military maps or ... by the Allies. He lived for almost two years after his arrest. He participated in a series of bizarre and humiliating experiences before finally coming to a gruesome end. Mussolini died on a clear spring day in April 1945. Allies had moved into the northern part of Italy during the same month. Mussolini attempted to flee to Austria. Near the town of Dongo his truck convoy was ambushed by partisans. ...
- 1035: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... had wanted her to receive part of her education in Europe, so granting her daughters wish, Ms. Hall sent Eleanor to Allenswood, a finishing school just outside of London. At the end of her first day, she had already made a big impression on the other girls at the school and the headmistress.®)1¯ ®)3¯At the school everyone was required to speak French. This was no problem for Eleanor, during ... female wage earners. Her only experience with working women being with washerwomen, maids, and cooks; she now traveled with experienced league members to factories and department stores were women worked twelve to fourteen hours a day, six days a week, six dollars a week. Soon she was asked to visit sweatshops were flowers and feathers were made. She was disgusted and scared to death, but she had to do it. She ... dropped from fatigue. In the summer of 1902, Eleanor ran into her fifth cousin, once removed, on the train she was taking to get to her grandmother's country house near Tivoli. Her and Franklin D. Roosevelt chatted for the rest of the train trip. After that they started seeing each other all over. During the Christmas holidays 1902, Franklin invited her have lunch with him in New York. In ...
- 1036: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... problems because some of the things he tells about and observe might not be true, but extremely exaggerated. We are not even sure that he is mentally stabile since the writer of the book J. D. Salinger lets Holden tell the story from a hospital bed. Although the problems the style of writing lets us better understand and get involved in Holdens problems and persona. We also get to know Holden ... they start to go over the cliff, I mean if they're running and they don't look they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I`d do all day. I`d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I`d really like to be."
- 1037: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... meaning in the text. I don't know much about them. But I know one part of it fits in the mouth…If you had to wear this thing between your teeth, I guess you'd catch on in a hurry. When you felt it pull, you'd know it was time. You'd know you were going somewhere ( Cathedral 209 ) Both Marge and Betty both feel the pull of the bit between their teeth. Through communion, however, the woman gain a type of fellowship which helps them ...
- 1038: Jacqueline Kennedy
- Jacqueline Kennedy Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is to this day considered to be one of the most graceful, intelligent, and maternal woman in the history of the United States. She played a great role in society by displaying her firm convictions of family values and ... deal to bring her out of her shell. He used his imagination and sense of fun to restore both of his daughters’ faith (Hall et al. 65). In June of 1942, Janet remarried to Hugh D. Auchincloss. He was a successful lawyer of Scottish ancestry. In later years, Jacqueline said, “He was a wonderful stepfather.” It was difficult at first for Jackie and Lee to accept the new addition. Hugh also ... back reports of her outings to the paper to be published and Mr. J. F. Kennedy read everyone. He couldn’t help but notice all the fun she was having away from him. On the day of her return is when he proposed marriage (Hall et al. 115). The marriage ceremony on September 12, 1953 was grand affair. The day was bright and sunny. Jackie wore the veil of her ...
- 1039: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... world perceived him and how weak he appeared that he consumed his world with fear and anxiety. Heartlessness also arose from his obsession with physical dominance. When his wife and mother died on the same day, he only wrote a journal entry expressing his remorse. After that day he never showed his sadness or loneliness. Roosevelt gave his daughter to his brother to rear, while he headed west to become a cowboy. As long as he kept moving, kept busy, kept building strength ... essence his career was extremely effective because of his aggressive fight for power. He aided the American cause in the Spanish American War, by taking matters into his own hands. While his boss took a day’s absence Roosevelt commanded the navy to prepare for battle off the coast of Hong Kong. Yet his fight for American imperialism did not end with an administrative air, rather TR himself led a ...
- 1040: Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
- ... intricacies of harmony, theory and counterpoint came easily to him and that he had no trouble at all assimilating and elaborating upon the imaginative and unorthodox constructions used by the leading European Impressionists of the day; Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schonberg and Igor Stravinsky, all of whom he later celebrated in many of his own classically-inspired compositions: 'Theme For Sunday,' 'Sunset Tower,' 'Concerto To End All Concertos.' Upon graduation from Bell High School he worked during the day as a rehearsal pianist in dance halls and theaters. At night he paid his dues in a succession of after-hours bars, clip joints and five dollar-a-night speakeasies prevalent throughout the depression-era ... No easy task, " he laughed, "Hell, in one Holman concert arrangement Willis changed time signatures four times! Talk about staying focused for nine and a half minutes; I was afraid to breathe for fear I'd drop a beat and all hell would break loose!" An iconoclast of the first degree, Stan always believed in looking to the future. In fact, one of his often heard comments to the band ...
Search results 1031 - 1040 of 14240 matching essays
|
