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- 4051: Zora Neale Hurston's: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- ... expected to be the dutiful wife. If she makes a mistake, then she should have known better and therefore should accept her punishment quietly. Joe holds the obvious upper hand in the relationship until his death whereupon Janie inherits a large amount of money and learns to enjoy the freedom of living as her own person. Then Janie meets Tea Cake. Their courtship and marriage involve many different forms of equality ... takes the chance of him infecting her or even killing her. Then, by shooting him to save her life and end his torment, she faces charges of his murder. This could possibly lead to her death. However, she never once regrets shooting him because she knows that he is much happier now. By both risking their lives for one another, they truly exhibit great amounts of love for each other. It ...
- 4052: Pornography
- ... underground 'black' markets. These are ultra violent, 'snuff', and child pornography. Ultraviolet tapes or videos show the actual torture, rape, and sometime mutilation of a woman. 'Snuff' films go even future to depict the actual death of a victim, and child pornography reveals the use of under-age or pre-pubescent children for sexual purposes (17-18). These types of pornography cross over the boundaries of entertainment and are definitely hard ... during the making of the movie, she was hypnotized to suppress the natural gagging reaction, was tortured when caught trying to escape, and also held at gun-point by her boss, who threatened her with death (Itzin 22). Ms. Marchiano did escape and when her story was told, it was repeated by a number of women in the pornography business. According to D'Arcy Jenish many children are lured into the ...
- 4053: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... of her favorite pastimes was the devotion of her time to her horses (the two sisters had eventually acquired over 30). In late January of 1936,(later recognized as the year of three kings),the death of her grandfather King George V brought little Elizabeth's first stage of youth to a close. Under the opinion of the nursery and school-room the King's favorite grandchild was advised not to ... s doting father died peacefully in his sleep during the early hours of February 6, 1952. She was to be crowned Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, just after the death of Queen Mary in March of 1953. As Head of the Commonwealth the Queen serves as an important aspect of the modern nation's identity. Unlike the President of the United States, she does not ...
- 4054: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... such a journey would be detrimental to his health, The president crisscrossed the nation giving three or four speeches a day. He grew emotionally distraught and his health suffered dearly. The president clearly had a death wish. Finally, Wilson suffered a sever stroke and was immediately sent back to Washington. After weeks of near death survival, he recovered. Yet Wilson was permanently paralyzed on his left side. Wilson had lost everything. The Republicans under Lodge held the momentum. Wilson still refused to compromise however. He felt that the country deserved ...
- 4055: Dred Scott
- ... know him today, Dred Scott. Peter Blow decided to move his estate to Alabama and then to the thriving port city of St. Louis. During these years ,Dred married and had a child. After the death of the Blows, Dred was sold to Dr. Emerson, an army surgeon. He and Scott traveled through Illinois and Minnesota. When Dr. Emerson died , Dred Scott was sent back to St. Louis to Mrs. Emerson ... Abraham Lincoln was elected president and Congress prohibited slavery in the territories without judicial restraint. These two things helped the North gain power. People were very upset with the Dred Scott ruling, even after his death. Other cases received similar verdicts and were not judged by the merits of the individual cases, but by the issue of slavery. People were not getting fair trials even though they were insured fair trials ...
- 4056: Life Of Baruch Spinoza
- ... to make the voyage of his life easy but didn’t take them and strived for everything that he received. His works were not looked upon as great pieces until about 100 years after his death. Spinoza died much too young at the age of 45, in 1677, of a lung disease. Baruch Spinoza developed a system in which it is monist, deductive, and rationalistic. His fullest expression was his great ... thinking was not a powerful effect on the community as others, it was recognized as one of the greatest ideas that a philosopher ever had, but wasn’t accepted till 100 year after Spinoza’s death. Another one of Spinoza’s achievements during his life time was his political position on the idea of the social contract. Unlike most of the philosophers Spinoza studied, he visualized a community in which human ...
- 4057: Diversity Of Leadership In Ame
- ... of the constitution of the United States. The famous tribute by General Henry Lee, “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” accurately reflects the emotions that Washington’s death aroused. His ability as a leader shows us that he truly deserved the title “Father of his Country.” Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence. He was considered a very brilliant man ... the United States and was considered one of the greatest men in U. S history. He was a humane, far-sighted statesman in his lifetime, and became a legend and a folk hero after his death. A superb politician, he persuaded the people, with reasoned words and thoughtful deeds, to look at him for leadership. He had a lasting influence on American political institutions, especially in setting an example of using ...
- 4058: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- ... 1942) contain a variety of these verses. Millay was elected to the American Academy of Arts and letters (1940) and received the gold medal of the Poetry Society of America (1943). After her husband’s death, Millay went on living in their isolated house in Austerlitz and died there alone of a heart attack on October 19, 1950. She was buried at Steepletop. She left in manuscript a number of current ... stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that ...
- 4059: Carl Gauss
- ... Gauss's long involvement with the field of astronomy.On October ninth, 1805 Gauss was married to Johana Ostoff. Although Gauss lived a happy personal life for the first time, he was shattered by the death of his benefactor, The Duke of Brunswick, who was killed fighting for the Prussian army. In 1807 Gauss left Brunswick to take up the position of director of the Gottingen observatory. This was a time ... the public the existence of such a geometry. The period of time from 1817 to 1832 was a particularly hard time for Gauss. He took in his sick mother, who stayed with him until her death twenty-two years later. At the same time he was in a dispute with his wife and her family about whether they should move to Berlin, where Gauss had been offered a job. Minna, his ...
- 4060: Andy Warhol
- ... 1969. The name of the magazine was changed to Interview in 1971. He published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again in 1975 and continued to paint portraits until his death in 1987. The shooting incident, ironically enough, was a measure of his success. There have been few other artists with so much celebrity in his or her own time that he or she was a ... Company, Inc. 1997. 2. Hackett, Pat and Warhol, Andy. The Andy Warhol Diaries. Warner Books. 1989. 3. The Andy Warhol Homepage. http://www.imv.aau.dk/~jfodge/. June 1998. 4. Bockris, Victor. The Life and Death of Andy Warhol. Bantam Books. 1989. 5. Pratt, Alan R. (Ed.). The Critical Response to Andy Warhol. Greenwood Press. 1997. 6. Gilbert, Rita. Living with Art (4th Ed.). McGraw-Hill. 1995.
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