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- 1471: Robert E. Lee
- ... father was General Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee. He had been a heroic cavalry leader in the American Revolution. He married his cousin Matilda. They had four children, but Matilda died in 1790. On her death bed she added insult to injury upon Henry Lee by leaving her estate to her children. She feared Henry would squander the family fortune. He was well known for poor investments and schemes that had ... graduated with honors in 1829 (Nash 245). His graduation was dampened by a call to the bedside of his ailing mother. When he arrived home he found his fifty-four year old mother close to death. A death caused by struggles and illnesses of her difficult life. Robert was always close to his mother. He again attended to her needs until her death. On July 10, 1829, Anne Lee died with Robert, ...
- 1472: The Old Gringo, By Carlos Fuen
- ... We all have different opinions, but it is a question that all ask themselves while reading The Old Gringo. This novel is told in third-person narrator and at times, different characters in the story. Death is the most popular choice taken in the novel, especially for two of the main characters. It all begins when Harriet Winslow, an American schoolteacher, decides to come to Mexico in 1912 to teach English to the children of a wealthy landowner. What she finds is a general in Pancho Villa s Revolutionary Army and an old American journalist, on a quest for adventure and death. The climax is reached at the death of the old gringo and the Mexican general. The story then ends with the return to the United States made by Harriet Winslow. This story reminds me very much with the story of Pocahontas. ...
- 1473: Poem #640: Interpretation
- ... I could not die—with You— For One must wait To shut the Other’s Gaze down— You—could not— And I—Could I stand by And see You—freeze— Without my Right of Frost— Death’s privilege? Nor could I rise—with You— Because Your Face Would put out Jesus’— That New Grace Glow plain—and foreign On my homesick Eye— Except that You than He Shone closer by— They ... just the Door ajar That Oceans are—and Prayer— And that White Sustenance— Despair— "I cannot live with You", by Emily Dickinson, is an emotional poem in which she shares her experiences and thoughts on death and love. Some critics believe that she has written about her struggle with death and her desire to have a relationship with a man whose vocation was ministerial, Reverend Charles Wadsworth. She considers suicide as an option for relieving the pain she endures, but decides against it. The ...
- 1474: Pocahontas
- Biography of Pocahontas For more than two centuries since the death of the Indian princess Pocahontas, legends and stories of romance have been imbedded into our minds, but her dramatic life was more important to the creation of a segment of American history than legend. Around ... in his General Historie of Virginia...&c. Instead, they were a ceremonious people who greeted important visitors in a formal manner with a large feast and festive dancing. Although they did occasionally put prisoners to death in a public ceremony, it was no more savage than the English customs of public disembowelment of thieves and the burning of women accused of being witches. In May of 1607, English colonists arrived on ... just 21 years of age, far from her homeland. Her body was laid to rest at St. George’s Church. It is unclear why she died at such a young age. The cause of her death is rumored to be pneumonia, although it is also possible that she contracted smallpox or tuberculosis. Any one of the "white man’s diseases" could be at fault in her fate, but unfortunately, it ...
- 1475: King Lear: A Shakespearean Tragedy
- ... hero and that there is exceptional suffering and calamity slowly being worn in as well as it being contrasted to happier times. The play also depicts the troubled parts in his life and eventually his death that is instantaneous caused by the suffering and calamity. There is the feeling of fear in the play as well, that makes men see how blind they are not knowing when fortune or something else ... two daughters as well as the error he has made with Cordelia and Kent. Lear also suffers from rest when he is moving all over the place and the thing that breaks him is the death of his youngest daughter Cordelia. This suffering can be contrasted with other happier times like when Lear was still king and when he was not banished by his two daughters. The feeling of fear is ... a confused old man. At the end of the play Lear has completely lost his sanity with the loss of his daughter Cordelia and this is the thing that breaks Lear and leads to his death. Lear dies with the knowledge that Cordelia is dead and dies as a man in pain. "And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, ...
- 1476: King Lear: Comedy or Tragedy?
- ... hero and that there is exceptional suffering and calamity slowly being worn in as well as it being contrasted to happier times. The play also depicts the troubled parts in his life and eventually his death that is instantaneous caused by the suffering and calamity. There is the feeling of fear in the play as well, that makes men see how blind they are not knowing when fortune or something else ... two daughters as well as the error he has made with Cordelia and Kent. Lear also suffers from rest when he is moving all over the place and the thing that breaks him is the death of his youngest daughter Cordelia. This suffering can be contrasted with other happier times like when Lear was still king and when he was not banished by his two daughters. The feeling of fear is ... a confused old man. At the end of the play Lear has completely lost his sanity with the loss of his daughter Cordelia and this is the thing that breaks Lear and leads to his death. Lear dies with the knowledge that Cordelia is dead and dies as a man in pain. "And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, ...
- 1477: The Role Of Women In Sir Gaiwa
- ... By positioning The Virgin Mary (as the singular female archetype representing spiritual love, obedience, chastity, and life) against Morgan and Bertilak's wife (who represent the traditional female archetypes of courtly love, disobedience, lust and death) the Gawain poet points out the conflict between courtly love and spiritual love which he, and other critics of the time, felt had drastically weakened the religious values behind chivalry. As such, the poem is ... positioning of Mary on one side representing spiritual love, chastity, obedience and life and Lady Bertilak on the other as the archetype of both courtly love and biblical temptress with associations of lust, disobedience and death. Describing this concept so fundamental to Christianity, Marina Warner says "To this day it is a specially graceful analogue... a great vault thrown over the history of western attitudes to women, the whole mighty span ... to Sir Gawain, excelling Guinevere. To squire that splendid dame, he strode through the chance. (944-46) This scene contains another implicit warning; women may look beautiful, but they can also be the route to death and decay. Strolling down the aisle with the Lady is an older woman and the two are compared, 'For if the one was winsome, then withered was the other" (951). Rather than just representing ...
- 1478: Lord Byron's Euthanasia
- ... is suspected Byron dealt with. He believed it was the one part of him that was untainted. In lines 23 and 24 Byron wrote: "And womens tears, produced at will, Deceive in life, unman in death." Byron didn't trust women or life. Byron had been hurt many times by women. From his mother that was short-tempered and believed to be "slightly abusive" , to his first love, his cousin Mary Chaworth, to his wife, who left him. He knew they were able to deceive man and have tears "produced at will". Byron refers to death multiple times in this poem, even in the title "Euthanasia", which means "an easy mode of death: the act or practice of putting to death painlessly, esp. in order to release from incurable suffering" is a referral to death. Byron was obsesed with death, and this obsession led to many rumors, ...
- 1479: A Critical Analysis of the Poem Entitled "Tract" by William Carlos Williams
- ... voice states that it is giving a "design" for a hearse, it is actually saying there should be no design. The way to the grave should be natural and one shouldn't make more of death than what actually exists. In the third stanza the voice becomes somewhat patronizing and sarcastic. The observer instructs the townspeople to, "Knock the glass out!" (of the hearse). The "I" asks, "For what purpose? Is ... quantity of flowers at the funeral. The voice is stating that this shouldn't be a time to judge the value of the dead one's life, but a time to give dignity to his death. Death should not be dressed up. It should be viewed as it is, an end to the natural culmination of a life. The "I" pleads, "No wreaths please-especially not hot house flowers. Some common ...
- 1480: Hobbes And Sovereignty
- ... things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of people, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." In a state of nature, everyone would be equal but although equal, everyone would want to dominate everyone else. In turn, this generates a ... interest that a sovereign would share with his people would be self-preservation. However, in order for a sovereign to protect himself he must send his subjects into battle against other sovereigns and punish by death any whom disagree with him. Therefore, although the interest may be the same, the method of fulfilling it would generate much conflict between subjects and sovereign. Hobbes belief that a monarch would receive better council ... 2) Subjects cannot be freed from their obligation (3) Dissenters must consent with the majority in declaring a sovereign (4) Sovereign cannot be unjust or injure any subject (5) The sovereign cannot be put to death (6) The right to censor doctrines repugnant to peace (7) Legislative power of prescribing rules (8) Judicial power of deciding all controversies (9) Make war and peace with other nations (10) Choose counselors (11) ...
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