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- 7131: James Boswell
- ... this morning. The truth is, the other likewise was received, and I wrote an answer; but being desirous to transmit you some proposals and receipts, I waited till I could find a convenient conveyance, and day was passed after day, till other things drove it from my thoughts; yet not so, but that I remember with great pleasure your commendation of my Dictionary. Your praise was welcome, not only because I believe it was sincere ...
- 7132: James Fenimore Cooper
- ... Natty Bumppo, a uniquely American personification of rugged individualism and the pioneer spirit. A second book featuring Bumppo, The Last of the Mohicans written in 1826, quickly became the most widely read work of the day, solidifying Cooper's popularity in the U.S. and in Europe. Set during the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans chronicles the massacre of the colonial garrison at Fort William Henry and ... declined in his later years as he entered into the nationalistic and partisan disputes of the Jacksonian era, becoming increasingly contentious toward reviewers and the public. Cooper died at Cooperstown on September 14, 1851, one day before his sixty-second birthday. Cooper was, and continues to be, and immensely popular writer, and he is generally considered to be the first major American novelist.
- 7133: A Summary Of Romeo And Juliet
- ... below. He overhears Juliet confess her love for him to the heavens. No longer able to control his powerful feelings, Romeo reveals himself to her and admits that he feels the same. The very next day, with the help of Romeo's friend Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet are secretly married. On the day of the wedding, two of Romeo's friends, Benvolio and Mercutio, are walking through the streets of Verona when they are confronted by Juliet's cousin, Tybalt. Tybalt is out to get Romeo for crashing ...
- 7134: Ben Franklins Autobiography
- ... had a noble public presence in the distant past of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Franklins of old had "great possessions" and served admirably on juries; Chaucer's Franklin was "worthy . . . generous, just, . . . Renown'd for courtesy, by all beloved" (Lemay 1308-09). But this Franklin also finds himself, quite humbly, "the youngest Son of the youngest Son for 5 Generations." Nevertheless, his great-great-grandfather was an ingenious freethinking ... the instrumental means of persuading men, he does so in order to better accomplish ends that benefit society at large, ends that may not necessarily benefit himself. Regarding religion, Franklin notes that he "grew convinc'd that Truth, Sincerity & Integrity in Dealings between Man & Man, were of the utmost Importance to the Felicity of Life" (Lemay 1359). Here Franklin claims that happiness comes not merely through one's own hard work ...
- 7135: Whale
- ... such as the white whale, or beluga, may travel upstream in large rivers. Some species migrate with the seasons; others remain year-round in the same habitats, where they find their preferred food. The present-day distribution and abundance of some species has been greatly influenced by the commercial whaling industry. Whalers eliminated or greatly reduced the numbers of some species of baleen whales in certain oceanic regions where whales once ... sperm whales as endangered species. Therefore, we should take goof care of whale. Works Cited Cousteau, Jacques, and Paccalet, Yves. Whales (W.H. Allen, 1998). Tinker, S.W. Whales of the World (Bess Press, 1997). Day, David. The Whale War (Sierra Club Books, 1997).
- 7136: Battles Of World War One
- ... to resign as first lord of admiralty. Another very important battle of World War One was the battle of Verdun. The French stationed a lot of forces in Verdun, then Germany attacked. On the first day of the assault more than one million shells fell on the French positions. Soon Fort Douaumont an important French defensive position north of Verdun fell to the Germans. The defense of the town was entrusted to Philippe Petain the next day. The defense of Verdun soon became an emblem of French military might. The city itself was of no strategic importance, but losing it would have been politically catastrophic. For this reason, the French insisted upon ...
- 7137: Song Of Myself
- ... to the cosmos, facilitated by a union of the spiritual and the corporal, is then a direct result of the expression of the sexual self. Whitman's choice of the word "reached" in "...And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet," is a powerful image. It connotes not only a physical bridging, which Whitman establishes as a elemental force in its sensual nature, but also a direct application of the will ...
- 7138: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise
- ... lotus", which was three inches long and thought to be both lovely and alluring.[4] It is believed that the origin of the term "golden lotus" emerged in the Southern Tang dynasty around 920 A.D., where the emperor Li Yu ordered his favorite concubine, Fragrant Girl, to bind her feet with silk bands and dance on a golden lotus platform encrusted with pearls and gems. Thereafter, women inside and outside ... became the prevailing style and "golden lotus" became a synonym for bound feet.[5] One notable personality who aided in the spread of footbinding was the famed writer and scholar Zhu Xi (1130-1200 A.D.), whose commentaries on the Confucian classics would form the canon of Neo-Confucianism that would dominate Chinese intellectual and philosophical life for six subsequent centuries. An ardent advocate of footbinding, he introduced the practice into ...
- 7139: Cancer
- ... pain and cost of such a therapy that would inevitably prove unsuccessful. The p53 has also shown great opportunities for progress in treating many types of cancer. Jack Roth of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has made viruses that actually contain sets of healthy p53. These viruses would then be injected into the tumor and could act as the body's own genes, killing and destroying the ... the body. These cells eat antigens and break them down so they can be attacked by the body's defenses. Two of four patients had complete successful remissions, and two more had reduced tumors. M.D. Anderson Kleinerman noted the favored sites to be the lung and liver, where mass amount of macrophages inhibit. But these macrophages will only attack if there is a strong jolt to stimulate them, and Kleinerman ...
- 7140: Dreams
- ... any significant meaning to me. It is my belief that my brain was just processing information as Hobson said. However, we all have strange and bizarre dreams that we can not explain. We may one day be able to fully understand the meaning of these dreams. But until that day We shall have to look at our dreams as a natural phenomenon. Works Cited Dolnick, Edward. What Dreams are (Really) Made Of. The Atlantic Monthly July 1990: 41-61. Faraday, Ann. The Dream Game. New ...
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