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- 7541: Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe Schools and Churches are institutions in society where priests and teachers act as spokespersons to spread a certain set of attitudes, beliefs and values. Similarly, Hollywood is also a very powerful modern day institution, where a star's image can reappropriate, shape and circulate societal myths and ideologies. The construction of a star's image as a commodity of their societal myths and ideologies, has the extraordinary power ...
- 7542: Similarities Between Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... rush at retail; biz talk turns to bands unreleased work. Billboard April 23 1994. Pg. 9 Schoenberg, Harold C. The Lives of the Great Composers. New York, London: WW Norton & CO., 1981 Seidenberg, Robert, The Day the Demons Won. Entertainment Weekly April 7 1995. Pg. 108
- 7543: Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The Myth, and The Morality
- ... born to a prominent family of Virginia tobacco growers. Plantation life is based largely around the work of slaves, so Jefferson was surrounded by them from the time of his birth in 1743 until the day he died. One of the harshest criticisms of Jefferson comes from the fact that, while he vehemently opposed slavery, was indeed a slave owner himself. As historian Douglas L. Wilson points out in his Atlantic ...
- 7544: Life of William Shakespeare
- ... When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to put on pageants and many popular ...
- 7545: Miller's Incident at Vichy
- ... awaiting their sentence, to be set free or to be called a Jew and die. Every one had fear inside of them. But in particular, Lebeau showed his aggression on that very cold and dreary day. The great author brought out the fear of the people awaiting their sentence and how they reacted in the play. Leduc's life was change drastically at the end of the play by Von Berg ...
- 7546: The Lottery: Theme and Irony
- ... The characters talk about the lottery all through the story giving no specific details except that the box, in which the names are drawn from, is black. It is a great, clear and sunny, summer day for a gathering. The children are out of school and relaxing. Everything is appears to be positive in the village. The village gathers together for the drawing of the lottery from the black box, giving ...
- 7547: The Ambitions of Napoleon
- ... end of his reign he was destroyed by his own restless ambition to take over Europe. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15th, 1769. He started school at the age of ten at the College d'Autun. But that didn't last too long. Four months later he entered the Brienne Military School. Napoleon excelled in this school and he was later recommended to the Military School at Paris. Napoleon as ...
- 7548: Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams Contributing to "Selling the Revolution"
- ... choice this matter of factly, the colonists choose freedom above, because of the picture of the depopulated cities and an unorganized country. Paine concludes that If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. This statement alone was inflected deeply into the hearts of the colonists, and instilled that sense of pride. Later Paine published works such as The Rights of Man, and ...
- 7549: William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
- ... Williams encountered his fair share of disbelievers, but in the end they were all proven wrong. Williams' writings were about real life -- the simple things, the things that people thought about and dealt with every day. As Alan Ostrom wrote, "Flowers, says the romantic young man, are the subject of William Carlos Williams' poems; familiar ordinary things, says the critic" (3). Many readers looked for lofty poetry laced with symbolism and ...
- 7550: The Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- ... On March 9, 1864 Ulysses S. Grant was appointed Commander of all the Union forces (WWW Page, 1994). Grant was preparing for his final battle of the Civil War at Fort Stedman. On the same day, Lincoln landed from the River Queen at City Point for a series of conferences with Grant (WWW Page, 1994). Grant sent his troops around the right end of Lee's line in order to force ...
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