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- 1541: The Most Heroic Character In I
- ... all were so close, why you did not go along with them?", what can she say, defend herself, but will the people in the circumstance where they determine the remainder is always "mortally afraid of death" . Will they believe that she has sell all her sisters for a happy life or she has lived painfully and willingly only to pass the message? She has picked the wrong path apparently, if she ... a plant. She can avoid the trap by staying in the town overnight, but does not. She falls into the trap stubbornly, Maria and Patria follow her lead foolishly as usual. That decision determines their death in the nameless road. Should they be admired? Sure, the country revolutionists' spirit must be raised crazily by their braveness against evil and death. However, are they really admirable? Have they accomplished their goal yet? Who will then lead the revolution? And could they face the people who are dying for the revolution in the heaven and tell ...
- 1542: Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... Doyle were married several months later. Louise's nickname was "Touie," one of the names Doyle later used in his famous novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. The marriage lasted from 1885 until Louise's death from tuberculosis in August of 1906. While Doyle was married to Louise, they had one daughter, Mary Louise, born in 1889, and one son Alleyne Kingsley, born in 1902.13 After Louise's death, Doyle never talked about his wife or their long lasting marriage. A year or so after her death, Doyle met a woman by the name of Jean Leckie, who would soon be his second wife. Jean and Doyle met when they ran into each other on the street. In 1907, they were ...
- 1543: Mark Twain 3
- ... James Clemens, was born on November 30, 1835 in the town of Florida, Missouri. Samuel was born two months premature and it seemed unlikely that Samuel would survive the harsh winter but indeed he did. Death would take other children in the family instead: Margaret in 1836, Benjamin in 1842, and Henry in 1858(Miller, 2&3). According to Miller, Samuel remembered his father as: "A proud, a silent austere man ... member of the professional class both by virtue of his birth and by the fact that he studied law. He was Justice of the Peace in Florida and he owned 3 slaves, inherited by the death of his father." Samuel s father was the owner of a 75,000 acre estate in Tennessee--land he had purchased for 500 dollars convinced that he was securing his family s eventual fortune. Despite ... pneumonia leaving behind a family of five. Samuel was 11 and was devastated.(Miller, 4&5) Samuel Clemens was a difficult child. He almost drowned on nine separate occasions. Within a year of his fathers death, Samuel was apprenticed to a local printer, Joseph Ament. He worked for nearly two years for Ament, leaving him in October, 1850 in order to join the Hannibal Western Union, a small weekly newspaper ...
- 1544: Emily Dickinson
- ... sappho.com/poetry/ historical/e_*censored*in.html ] Emily began to write poems at an early age. She had several inspirations in her poem writing. Emily Bronte was a poet, and after her brother's death she stayed home until her death. Bronte's book became a big success after her death. [ 8. http://www.geocities. com/CollegePark/1380/emily.htm] Emily Dickinson life was similar to hers. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an essayist and a poet. [ 5. http://encarta. msn.com/find/concise.asp?ti= ...
- 1545: A Comparison of the Magic in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
- ... had no luck, also had the faith that they did not have. Sadly, his faith killed him. He wanted so much to rid the house of the voices he heard that he drove himself to death from the intense pressure he placed upon himself. When he died, he killed the voices as the spiritual world claimed the only member of the family with luck. "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings ... Elisenda lock up the angel to display him, they still believe he is an angel and cannot kill him when another offers this. They don't have the heart to club the old man to death, though he may be an inconvenience at first. Father Gonzaga doesn't necessarily believe in the angel, but the townspeople and tourists do. They wish for things even when others before them don't have ... of their faith just like in the story. The fact that the poor couple makes money off the angel could be a testament to him being their guardian angel as opposed to the harbinger of death to their child. They continue to make money off this freak of nature until another shows up. The spider girl is just another form of greed in this story. The actual freak is probably ...
- 1546: A Midsummer Nights Dream
- ... I think I am not in the night;" This proves that Helena is a fool because Demetrius does not love her, but she still persists. Lysander is a fool because he persuades Hermia to avoid death and run away with him. Hermia must marry Demetrius or she will be put to death. (I i,line 83-88) Theseus says, "Take time to pause, and, by the next new moon- The sealing-day betwixt my love and me, For everlasting bond fellowship- Upon that day either prepare to ... remote seven leagues." (I i,line 164- 165) "Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night, And in the wood, a league without the town." Lysander is a fool because he convinces Hermia to risk death and run away with him. Hermia is a fool because she risks death for love. Hermia is to marry Demetrius, or be put to death. (I i,line 95-98) Egeus says, "Scornful Lysander, ...
- 1547: Camus The Outsider Vs. Bolts A
- ... This truth is as yet a negative one, a truth born of living and feeling (The Outsider, Camus, p. 119). It is this truth that results in Meursault s very strong beliefs. Even faced with death, he is firm in his position that there is no God. He regards the prison chaplain as one who couldn t even be sure he was alive because he was living like a dead man ... in regards to himself affirms his position. "I might seem to be empty-handed but I was sure of myself, sure of everything, surer than he was, sure of my life and sure of the death that was coming to me.Yes, that was all I had. But at least it was a truth which I had hold of just as it had hold of me." (The Outsider, Camus, p. 115 ... because he doesn t play the game...he refuses to lie . Meursault will not play his lawyer s game wherein by stretching the truth on a few points, he could probably walk away without the death sentence. Instead he does not try to hide the fact that he did not cry at his mother s funeral and when asked if he regrets his crime he admittedly replies that he feels ...
- 1548: Change In Heart Of Darkness
- ... s disgust with himself (69). These interwoven senses of uneasiness, shame and lack of conscience are reflected in Marlow s reactions towards the book An Inquiry into some Points of Seamanship, and later towards the death of the helmsman when the ship was attacked. As Marlow flips through his newly discovered book, he feels that it makes him forget the jungle in a delicious sensation of having come upon something unmistakably ... moral confusion a mistiness, [and] a philosophical intangibility (Wilmington 286). The most dramatic example of his being astray from his conscience and morality is perhaps when he cold-bloodedly puts an innocent girl to her death. Later, he places his blame for his lack of humanity on his self-interpreted reality: it was the way we had over here of living with ourselves. We d cut them in half with a ... yelling let s kill em all , also develops by gaining courage to confront the hollow core of darkness at Kurtz s camp in Cambodia with Willard and Lance. Clean is amiable and carefree, and his death while listening to his mother pleading with him to come back home in one piece (Dorall 304) is a most embittered moment in the film. Nevertheless, his death is a direct result of his ...
- 1549: NAZISM
- ... and property. Violence and brutality became a part of their everyday lives. Their places of worship were defiled, their windows smashed, their stores ransacked. Old men and young were pummeled and clubbed and stomped to death by Nazi jack boots. Jewish women were accosted and ravaged, in broad daylight, on main thoroughfares. Some Jews fled Germany. But most, with a kind of stubborn belief in God and Fatherland, sought to weather ... other conquered peoples. Month by month the horrors escalated. First tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands of people were led off to remote fields and forest to be slaughtered by SS guns. Assembly-line death camps were established in Poland and train loads of Jews were collected from all over occupied Europe and sent to their doom. At some of the camps, the Nazis took pains to disguise their intentions ... toward us. They fell right down in front of our eyes and lay there gasping out their last breath." What had begun as a mean little edict against Jewish civil servants was now ending the death six million Jews, Poles, gypsies, Russians, and other "sub-humans" Uncounted thousands of Jews and other hapless concentration-camp inmates were used as guinea pigs in a wide range of medical and scientific experiments, ...
- 1550: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... to the rank of regimental sergeant major. After a while, he got tired of the same daily routine involved in military life. Poe wrote regularly to Mr. Allan. He met with Mr. Allan after the death of Mrs. Allan in February of 1829. With Allan's support, he received his discharge and enlisted in West Point on July 1, l830 (Asselineau 410). While at West Point, Mr. Allan, who had remarried ... Instead of really living, he took refuge from the physical world in the private world of his dreams-in other words-in the world of his tales (Asselineau 413)." In the "Masque of the Red Death", Poe uses his imagination throughout the story (Rogers 43). A plague has devastated the entire country. It takes only half an hour tofor the course of the disease to run. At first one feels sharp pains and dizziness. Then one starts bleeding at the pores. The disease results in death. Prince Prospero has ordered one thousand lords and ladies to the deep seclusion of one of his abbeys. The building was built by the Prince and is filled with his exotic ornaments. It is ...
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