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- 13451: Oscar Wilde
- ... while the second trial convicted him guilty on 24 of the 25 counts. He was sentenced to the harshest punishment possible, two years of hard labor, in which he had to work six hours a day on the treadmill, sleep on a bare board and have no personal possessions, only a Bible and Pilgrims Process. De Profundis was written by Oscar while in prison apologizing for his life. It was ...
- 13452: The Internet: It Was To Be the Great Equalizer
- ... the Last Vestige site aren't swimming in profits. They are, however, reaching out to a whole new clientele. Wheatley's six-month-old Last Vestige site, for example, draws about 10 email requests a day, nearly half from outside the U.S., including Japan, Canada and Europe. Ditto for Chuck Haley, the mind behind the Flower Stop site. While the Colorado Springs florist concedes his online effort can't compete ...
- 13453: Candide By Voltaire
- ... goes wrong in our world; that nobody knows his place in society or his duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless quarrels...-it's one unending warfare. By having this character take on such a pessimistic tone, he directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide. In the conclusion (page 1617 ...
- 13454: Masaccio - Innovator Of Perspe
- ... ricks.edu/Ricks/Employee/DavisR/Art/ http://www.televisual.it/uffizi/masacci.html http://rubens.anu.edu.au/imageserve/texts//vasari/vasari.masaccio.html http://www.televisual.it/uffizi/masacci.html Bergin, Thomas G. PH D. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York: Facts on File Publication, 1987. Borland, Bruce, ed, et-al. Civilzation Past & Present. New York. Harper Collins Publishers Inc., 1992. No
- 13455: Canterbury Tales - A View Of T
- ... there is no such thing as just church history; This is because the church can never be studied in isolation, simply because it has always related to the social, economic and political context of the day. In history then, there is a two way process where the church has an influence on the rest of society and of course, society influences the church. This is naturally because it is the people ...
- 13456: Catch 22 And Good As Gold - Sa
- ... Beyond the Waste Lands: A Study of the American Novel in the Nineteen-Sixties. Rpt. in "Heller, Joseph." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1975. 229-230. Peek, C. A., Ph.D. Cliffs Notes on Hellers Catch-22. Ed. Gary Carey. Cliff Notes. Lincoln: Cliff, 1993. Phoenix, James. "Joseph Heller: The Comedian." Atlantic Sept 1987: 47-52.
- 13457: Duke Ellington
- ... the end of his fifty-year career, he had played over 20,000 performances worldwide. He was the Duke, Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy Ellington was born into the world on April 28, 1899 in Washington, D.C. Duke's parents Daisy Kennedy Ellington and James Edward Ellington served as ideal role models for young Duke and taught him everything from proper table manners to an understanding of the emotional power of ...
- 13458: Cather In The Rye - Language
- The passage of adolescence has served as the central theme for many novels, but J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's vulgar language and melodramatic ...
- 13459: Beatlemania In The 1960s
- ... of Beethoven?" "I love him," said Ringo Starr. "Especially his poems." "Don't you guys ever get a haircut?" "I just got one yesterday," retorted George Harrison. Added Ringo: "You should have seen him the day before." There's a little bit of Beatle history. One could say that they did not just come out of nowhere , like many people believe. It took hard, diligent work to go where they went ...
- 13460: A Time To Kill [Movie Analysis
- ... that the principles laid down by this tradition defy civil rights and respect for humanity. In this sense, the old ways of the South do not compliment the rapid changes that occur in society each day. At heart, this realization is the overall theme of "A Time To Kill". The convictions of the South are detrimental to the civility of the human race and yet, remain unchanged after 150 years because ...
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