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- 14041: King Lear 2
- ... word "legitimate" sarcastically when saying, "well, my legitimate," since he does not mean it in a positive way. Again he mentions legitimate negatively saying that he, the base, shall top the legitimate meaning that one day he will exceed his brother. This sarcasm shows the bitterness with which Edmund views all legitimate children. Another way of showing bitterness, which has almost the same effect as sarcasm, is ridiculing. Edmund feels that ...
- 14042: The Wright Brothers
- ... craft at one wing tip. After a 40-foot run the plane was airborne. In the 12 seconds before it touched the ground, the plane flew 120 feet. Wilbur piloted the longest flight of the day, 852 feet in 59 seconds. During 1904 and 1905 the Wrights continued to build and test new planes and engines. An improved Flyer II was flown near Dayton, Ohio, in 1904. In 1905 the world ...
- 14043: The Biography of Ernest Hemingway
- ... joined a volunteer American Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. He was so seriously wounded at Fossalta on the Italian Piave on July 8, 1918, that he recalled life slid from him, like youd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by a corner, almost fluttered away, then returned. It is thought by some literary observers that the experience gave Hemingway a fear of his own fear and ...
- 14044: The Life of Georgia O'Keefe
- ... work displayed bold originality, unlike the work of any American artist of that time. My shows were controversial because my work was seen as inordinately sensual, and many critics, filled with Freudian enthusiasms of the day, were anxious to append elaborate psychological programs to my works. Some protested that I was boldly displaying my sexuality on canvas; others, more ready to accept innovation, recognized that they were present at the birth ...
- 14045: Nostradamus's Prophecies
- ... in search for money. While in the church the soldiers found food and alcohol that they ate and drank. Some people claim that a soldier drank wine out of Nostradamus's skull, and the next day the soldier was shot. Today many still asked the question: Do Nostradamus writings actually predict the death of popes, rise of tyrants, and natural disasters to come? The code in which the prophecies were written ...
- 14046: Jordan Does It All
- ... also named NBA All-Defensive first team for the sixth consecutive season (Sporting News, 1999). During the season, Jordan set a career high for field goals made and attempted. They both were in the same day when he hit 27 of 49 shots (Michael Jordans, 1999). After the season, Michael Jordan announced that he was retiring and was going to play baseball. Michael Jordan suits up in a baseball uniform ...
- 14047: King Lear--a Man More Sinned A
- ... up with him and orders Oswald and all other servants to provoke Lear so she would have a chance to rid of him: Put on what weary negligence you please, You and your fellows. I d have it come to question. (I, iii, 13-14) Goneril s act demonstrates her impatience and her revengeful nature as she wanted Lear to suffer from whatever she had to put up with him before ...
- 14048: Pablo Picasso
- ... manifested itself early. At the age of 10 he made his first paintings and at the age of 14, completed the one-month qualifying examination of the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona in one day. From there he went to the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, returning in 1900 to Barcelona, where he frequented the city's famous cabaret of artists. The years of 1901 to 1904, known as ...
- 14049: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... as "drum major" for justice, peace and righteousness. Although he never gave up on his insistence that nonviolence must remain the essential tactic of the movement or in his faith that all Americans would some day reach racial and economic justice, he did not take for granted the immediate future either of his own leadership or the causes for which he fought. "Well, I don't know what will happen now ...
- 14050: Lord Of The Flies Tracing The
- ... to speak and interprets what he is saying, tells the assembly of boys that he is scared of a snake-thing . He believes that the beast turns into one of the jungle creepers during the day but becomes a snake or beastie at nightfall. Although he tries to comfort the boy, Ralph appears to feel that this is just another childish fear, like a fear of the dark. But towards the ...
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