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- 3771: History Of Music
- ... Queen Elizabeth had a great impact on England when she died in 1603, aside from the grief of her country. When she died the composers in England had stopped composing and singing their music. Her death caused a great slump in Englands music. After the death of Queen Elizabeth when King James II came into power the music world changed forever. His rule over England made the music world come alive with new songs and old songs. The reason why is ...
- 3772: Braveheart
- ... his people to have their freedom that they deserved. A deal was offered to William from the king. Just say the word MERCY! and all the pain will stop and he would die a painless death. As Wallace was going through his torture even the people that hated him were chanting for him to say mercy. Secretly, Hamish and Stephan were watching his death and they were totally expecting him to say it. Then out of nowhere William Wallace yelled FREEDOM! Everyone was shocked including the king. He was really mad to see William die like that. In the ...
- 3773: Maria Mitchell
- ... suns surface. She also studied solar eclipses, double stars, nebulas, and the satellites of Saturn and Jupiter. Maria Mitchell died on June 28, 1889 in Lynn, Massachusetts. Even when she was sick before her death she kept her sense of humor. Throughout her long life, Maria was continually uplifted spiritually by her study of the heavens. That she never failed to recognize the close connection between her work and her ... of Science, and to the American Philosophical Society (founded by her distant relative Benjamin Franklin. She received honorary degrees, including one from Columbia College. A crater on the moon was named after her. After her death, Maria was given still more honors. A tablet inscribed with her name was put in the New York University Hall of Fame and her name was carved on a frieze over the front of the ...
- 3774: Michelangelo, Renaissance Man
- ... of strong feeling was unprecedented in monumental marble sculpture of the Renaissance. The only earlier works of this nature were from the Hellenistic period of classical antiquity" (Encyclopedia Britannica, p.7). "Pope Julius II's death in 1513 cut off most of the funds for his tomb. Pope Leo X, his successor, a son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, had known Michelangelo since their boyhood's. He chiefly employed Michelangelo on projects ... had left incomplete, his decision to never return was influenced by the hostility of Duke Alessandro de Medici. In Rome, Michelangelo could count on the esteem and protection of Pope Clement VII. Shortly before his death, Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint the fresco of the Last Judgement on the Sistine Chapel. As was his custom, Michelangelo portrayed all the figures nude. "Even before its official unveiling, the Judgement became ...
- 3775: Malcom X
- ... blacks behind closed doors. Malcom Little grew up as poor and did not have much parental support. His father was run over by a street car when he was six. Soon after his father's death, his mother was put in a mental hospital. He grew up in East Lansing and Boston. He was a pimp, a hustler, drug user, and a drug dealer. He worked in the Harlem underworld and ... never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon... Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad." After many death calls from irritated Whites, The Nation of Islam started to distance themselves from Malcom. There was already friction between The Nation of Islam and they did not want the Nation of Islam to get a ...
- 3776: Oliver Cromwell
- ... side of the English Civil War vs. Charles I, Cromwell helped bring about the overthrow of the Stuart monarchy, and he raised his country's status to that of a leading European power since the death of Queen Elizabeth I. Being a man with strong character made him one of the most remarkable rulers in modern European history. Although he was a convinced Calvinist he believed deeply in the value of ... moment, Cromwell, finally accepted Charles's trial as an act of justice. He was one of the 135 commissioners in the High Court of Justice and, when the King refused to plead, he signed the death warrant. (Smith, 1991) After the British Isles were declared a republic and named the Commonwealth, Oliver Cromwell served as the first chairman of the Council of State. However, during the first three years he was ...
- 3777: John Coltrane
- ... been Sidney Bechet), and in so doing led a generation of young musicians, from Wayne Shorter to Keith Jarrett to Jon Gibson, to explore the instrument. The work remained Coltrane's signature piece until his death (of liver disease) despite bizarre stylistic metamorphoses in the next five and a half years. Coltrane signed with Impulse Records in April of 1961 and the next month began rehearsing and playing the long studio ... hours a day, besides a number of performances that included a tour of Japan during the summer. It was just after returning from Japan that he died prematurely on July 17, 1967. The cause of death was liver cancer but it was probably a combination of overworking and alcohol. Coltrane remains the most influential jazz musician of the past 40 years. His expeditions on tenor saxophone stand as testament to his ...
- 3778: 1984
- ... World War II. The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having bad thoughts about the government of Oceania, a crime punishable by death. By employing literary devices such as diction, foreshadowing, and symbolism, Orwell composes a novel "1984" which proves to be a gem in Orwell's collection of novels against totalitarianism. Orwell wrote 1984 as a political ... them as Party loyalty." Orwell uses relationships to represent another element of the ordinary life which the totalitarinistic government, "The Party," takes away. For a woman to make love to a man was punishable by death. The act of sexual intercourse was seen merely as a physical action that was necessary at given intervals. Orwell infers that sex, part of everyday life, is controlled and pleasure, desire, along with feelings are ...
- 3779: Mother-Daughter Tradition in The Joy Luck Club
- ... thought that she was trying to make her become a child prodigy like Waverly, but her mother did this because she knew it would benefit June for the rest of her life. Because of the death of her mother, June was forced to take the place of her mother in more than just filling her place at the Maj Jong table. The mother daughter tradition was broken because the lost babies were found after the death of their mother. June's trip to China can be seen as the completion of her mother's promise to return, honoring her sisters by attempting to transfer what she had absorbed from her mother ...
- 3780: A Review on Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg
- ... to hit, waiting for prince charming, waiting for her father to come to his senses. Her father is a highly ranked and respected serviceman who moves his family to a Texas army base after the death of his wife. Katie struggles with the tradgety of her mothers death but handles her pain in a heartwrenching, stoic manner. Her abusive father, on the other hand, handles his sorrow by showing aggression towards his daughters. This is especially difficult for Katie considering that her father ...
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